# Sequel Podcast with Open Broadband Founder

Open Broadband CEO and co-founder [Alan Fitzpatrick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanfitzpatrick/) was featured on a sequel podcast last week. [You can listen to it here](https://williambissett.com/2017/12/14/charlotte-angel-connection-episode-036-alan-fitzpatrick-ceo-and-co-founder-of-open-broadband-part-ii/).

Alan talks about:

- What do you look for in terms of customers before you commit to going into an area.
- The best entrepreneurs aren’t extraordinary risk takers
- What has been the most challenging aspect of 2017 for Open Broadband?
- How are they approaching employee compensation and stock options?
- It’s easy to spend money…but it’s hard to generate it.
- What are the benefits of having a Co-Founder?
- At what point does Open Broadband start to think about scaling the company to a national level and/or selling the business?
- What’s it been like for Alan to see the startup scene in Charlotte grow up since 2011 or 2012?
- Does Charlotte need Amazon HQ2?

Listen to the [Sequel Podcast here](https://williambissett.com/2017/12/14/charlotte-angel-connection-episode-036-alan-fitzpatrick-ceo-and-co-founder-of-open-broadband-part-ii/) and the [first Podcast here](https://williambissett.com/2017/12/07/charlotte-angel-connection-episode-035-alan-fitzpatrick-ceo-and-co-founder-of-open-broadband/).

Category: [News](/content/category/news/index.html) [By alanfitzpatrick](/content/author/alanfitzpatrick/ "View all posts by alanfitzpatrick"/index.html) [December 17, 2017](/content/2017/12/17/ "1:39 am"/index.html)