Five Questions for Mercury Fund Co-Founder Blair Garrou, was published in Xconomy and was written by Angela Shah.
Blair Garrou, Partner at Mercury Fund, talks with Angela Shah about Houston.
Blair Garrou is the kind of guy who prefers juggling a lot of balls at once.
When oil prices cratered in the 1990s, business slowed down at his employer, a mergers and acquisitions firm.
“I had some time on my hands and there was this new organization called the Houston Technology Center so I started volunteering,” Garrou says. “They were looking for someone with financial analyst skills, who could help startups with business planning and financial modeling.”