Finance agency, Spencer Trask & Co got its beginning in the 1870s, when Spencer Trask began investing and supporting entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb and his electricity. Listen to this weeks episode as Chairman Kevin Kimberlin discusses the company's ability to recognize technological and medical revolutions, his observations on today’s start-up culture and finding the next Thomas Edison.

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