Kauffman Foundation Podcast and Video: From Apple and Genentech to Adobe and More, Pioneering Investment Banker Bill Hambrecht Discusses Lessons From Underwriting America's Seminal Startups
Hambrecht Shares Insights From a Half Century of Experiences, Including Accessing Public Markets and Working With Entrepreneurs Like Steve Jobs
(firmenpresse) - KANSAS CITY, MO -- (Marketwire) -- 05/03/12 -- Before the advent of the Internet, pioneering investment banker Bill Hambrecht was a leading force in the technology revolution. In a and video released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Hambrecht discusses his life and insights with Kauffman Chief Investment Officer Harold Bradley.
"It's been a wonderful experience," Hambrecht says of his more than half-century experience working with seminal companies at their early stages. "By definition, these are some of the most exciting, unusual companies in the country today."
In the podcast, Hambrecht talks about all aspects of investing in and working with companies at the startup stage, including accessing public markets, working with Steve Jobs and Xerox, creating more successful companies and learning to be an entrepreneur.
Hambrecht is the founder, chairman, and CEO of WR Hambrecht + Co. Previously, he co-founded Hambrecht & Quist and became a disruptive force to the conventional underwriting business. The firm has financed Silicon Valley enterprises to become one of the leading investment banks of the technology revolution. H&Q rode the tech wave, underwriting initial public offerings (IPOs) for clients that would become industry giants, including Apple Computer, Netscape, Genentech and Adobe Systems. Hambrecht's original vision and innovative spirit led to the creation of the OpenIPO, which made the initial public offering process more equitable. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for its IPO in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. In addition, the Foundation focuses on initiatives in the Kansas City region to advance students' math and science skills, and improve the educational achievement of urban students, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a college preparatory charter school for middle and high school students. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. For more information, visit , and follow the Foundation on and .
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