One Trillion Dollars, Student Debt and Higher Education: Greg Gottesman at TEDxSeattle

Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, a leading venture capital firm based in Seattle. Greg currently serves on the boards of 10 private companies, as a board member of Startup Weekend and the W Fund, and as President of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association. He founded Rover.com, the Web's largest dog sitting marketplace, and teaches Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington. Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and with honors from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. When not spending time helping to build startups or trying to be a good father to three children, Greg regularly injures himself playing non-contact sports.

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