ROBERT V. BRAZELL

Robert V. Brazell is an American entrepreneur, investor, futurist, writer, innovator and executive. Brazell has founded, acquired, and invested in many recognized companies, including Idea Exchange, Blue Frogg, Delphi, Overstock.com (Founder and Founding Board Member until the company went public in 2002), LiveGlobalBid and VinIQ, Talos Partners, In-Store Broadcasting Network (IBN), and Medical Intelligence™.  He dedicates his time to solving what he considers to be significant issues, while supporting and collaborating with people of vision, passion, and genius. Rob is the Co-Author of the book Idea Economy (1994) and has argued that the most needed innovation is innovation itself. He is an avid reader, deeply committed to exploration, and promotes rigorous thought and experience within interdisciplinary sciences. Rob enjoys most the outdoors, mountaineering, and intelligent, stimulating conversation.

Rob is an avid traveler, collector, and animal lover.

Over the past several years, he had developed a passion for animal advocacy and contributed to several rescues. Rob is a proud parent of several beautiful furries that continue to provide him with sentient comfort and the rewards achievable only through preserving a life of another being.

 

IDEA EXCHANGE

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Idea Exchage, the first intellectual commerce exchange that enabled its clients to browse through existing ideas to buy, solicit ideas from other users, and sell their own ideas for a profit.

Overstock.com

Chief Executive Officer of Overstock.com, now a nearly $3 billion a year online enterprise, originally founded in 1997, as D2: Discounts Direct.

TALOS PARTNERS

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Talos Partners, a private investment firm managed and operated jointly with Senator Robert W. Kasten, Jr.

IN-STORE BROADCASTING NETWORK

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Talos Partners, a private investment firm managed and operated jointly with Senator Robert W. Kasten, Jr.

IDEA ECONOMY

The Idea Economy represents Intellectual Property and Innovation as the primary resources to secure competitive advantage for organizations and individuals in the digital age. This concept was first brought into the mainstream by consultant Roger Hendrix and entrepreneur Rob Brazell in their book The Idea Economy: Why Your Ideas Will Have to Create Personal Wealth & Hope in an Age of Uncertainty published in 1995 where they posited that after the service economy which was the rage at that time, there will be the time of the idea economy where ideas and company’s ability to execute them will become the main stay of the economy. 

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