Friday Q&A: Garrett Melby, CEO of Good Company Ventures
Good Company Ventures' panel in NYC. From left to right: Scott Edward Anderson, aka “The Green Skeptic,” Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jacob Gray of Murex Investments, Roger Ehrenberg of IA Venture Strategies and Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund.
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Last month, at a co-working space in New York City’s Tribecca neighborhood, Philly took over.
There, Good Company Ventures CEO Garrett Melby and COO Christopher Bentley kicked off the incubator’s 2010 class in New York City with a star-studded (for the VC world, anyway) panel about social entrepreneurship that included Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson and Acumen co-founder Jacqueline Novogratz.
The event marked the start of broad campaign by Good Company Ventures to promote their incubator for social entrepreneurs and helped Philly make its case as the country-wide hub of the social entrepreneurs movement.
We sat down with Melby, who spoke at this month’s Ignite Philly, to talk about invading the 67th Ward, the incubator’s future plans and why he only has 70 Twitter followers.
