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b"Joining Chris and Neal on the podcast is Sean O'Sullivan, Managing General Partner at SOSV Capital. \\n\\nAfter Sean O\\u2019Sullivan\\u2019s first startup when public in 1994, he founded SOSV in 1995 as a \\u201csuper angel\\u201d. In 2007, based on the success of two dozen investments that had done remarkably well, Sean began aggressively expanding SOSV, transitioning it from a personal investment vehicle into an organization that today has over 110 staff supporting investments in over 150 new startups every year. In 2020, SOSV has 8 general partners operating globally, with SOSV\\u2019s major offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Taipei, San Francisco, New York, Cork, and Tokyo.\\n\\nSean got his entrepreneurial start in 1985 as a founder of MapInfo, bringing street mapping technology to personal computers. MapInfo went on to become a $200 million revenue public company with over 1,000 employees worldwide. In 1996, while at the helm of his second company, NetCentric, he created \\u201csoftware for inside the Internet\\u201d and is credited with co-creating the term \\u201ccloud computing\\u201d alongside George Favaloro from Compaq.\\n\\nSean continued as an entrepreneur and investor, creating and supporting a range of business, humanitarian, and educational endeavors. A major promoter of economic and social development, he founded JumpStart International in 2003. JumpStart was a leading humanitarian engineering organization based in Baghdad and which operated throughout Iraq during the post-war period of 2003-2006. He spent a few years running JumpStart, which for a time had a staff of over 3000, running up to 80 projects at a time in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Najaf. As the benefactor of the O\\u2019Sullivan Foundation, Sean has also been a primary funder of organizations such as the Khan Academy, Mathletes, and CoderDojo.\\n\\nAs the founding Chairman of the Irish Entrepreneurship Forum and founder of Open Ireland, he was a leader and influencer of Irish government policy in fueling economic growth and recovery in the technology sector. Sean was a regular investment panelist on the popular RT\\xc9 TV show Dragon\\u2019s Den and an occasional columnist for Ireland\\u2019s Sunday Business Post.\\n\\nSean holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California."