Work Is A Verb w/ Mark FitzGerald

Mark FitzGerald built and sold a business, then went on to help build multiple other companies as a private equity investor, before starting his latest venture, the MUKC Fund which is designed to help students, faculty, and alumni of Marquette University find capital to grow their business. This fund is on the frontier of what could be the future of Higher Ed philanthropy.

Despite Mark’s many successes, when he was in college he described himself as a  C student, at best. This gave him a unique perspective on the importance of experiential learning and the value of connecting students to opportunities outside the classroom.

In our conversation, we discuss how he evaluates investment opportunities, why Universities should more actively create a pipeline for ideas that lead to business outcomes, and his philosophy that “Failure is not the opposite of success. It’s part of success”

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