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.

He walks through the Sonos case, why the IP system in America is "a mess," and his blueprint for IP debt and IP equity as an alternative to venture capital.

Then the conversation turns to craft: the Instagram course that got his first draft done in 60 days, the 18 months of editing that followed, the Kaizen 30-minute writing sessions, a dog that got "walked like crazy," and why he shopped a finished draft to publishers everywhere before deciding Scribe's hybrid model — and Scribe's editor — were what he wanted. He's already realized he has three or four more books inside of him.

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