The Venture Capital Alternative: How Matt Moyers Is Fighting for America's Inventors
Matt Moyers joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Venture Capital Alternative: A Blueprint for a Better Patent System — a book idea he sat on for the better part of a decade before deciding, in 2023, that "now is the time."
Matt explains how a career spent valuing intellectual property — including the Nortel bankruptcy, where a patent portfolio first bid in the hundreds of millions sold for $4.5 billion — showed him the same story on repeat: an inventor commercializes an idea, big tech enters with a competing product built on that invention, and the inventor gets crushed.
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