Exploring the Entrepreneurial Mindset through a Political Lens with Paul O'Brien

Brian sat down with Austin’s very own Paul O’Brien. O’Brien is a startup veteran and a seasoned marketer with an early career at Yahoo! and HP. From there, Paul led the early growth of startups such as Outright.com (Acquired by GoDaddy), Zvents (Acquired by eBay’s StubHub), and MicroVentures (Venture Capital). 

Paul works in Venture Capital Economic Development, serving investment in entrepreneurs. With a passion for media innovation and investment, Paul seeded MediaTech Ventures, a media industry venture development.

On today’s episode. Brian and Paul discuss:

• The mindset of an entrepreneur, including How entrepreneurs might look at today’s Political Landscape and the current American gov’t as a whole as an opportunity for improvement
• What makes a city’s economy thrive and flourish 
• Why Detroit’s economy folded when car manufacturing moved out
• Social media, AI, and why you don’t want the US gov’t regulating it, but things we can do instead.

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You can find Paul at https://seobrien.com/paul-obrien

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