My Best Mistake

Opinion

Joe Chung

December 28th, 2012

[Editor’s note: To tap the wisdom of our distinguished group of Xconomists, we asked a few of them to answer this question heading into 2013: “What was your best mistake?”]

Hmmm—I know what my worst one was. Best one was probably pushing Jascha Franklin-Hodge to go to MIT instead of keeping him full time at Art Technology Group (he worked for us very productively when he was still at Brookline High). He ended up leaving MIT pretty quickly, but became Howard Dean’s webmaster and ended up founding Blue State Digital, which seriously changed the world!

Joe Chung is Managing Director at Redstar Ventures, a company that creates companies, taking them from the earliest stages of ideation and growing them through their first institutional funding rounds and beyond.Joe tweets from @joechung. Follow @joechung