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Eric Paley

Founder Collective; "fund-returners," anti-overcapitalization essays

Eric Paley is Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development. He is partner emeritus of Founder Collective, a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, and the co-founder and former CEO of Brontes Technologies, a dental technology company acquired by 3M in 2006.

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