How to pronounce “foundry” in English

here in Boulder. And I don't know if anybody recognizes, obviously, we have the former governor up here, Brad Feld, a couple of other people from the Foundry Group.And the Foundry Group were really the proponents to bring Defy Ventures to Colorado, that passion for entrepreneurship, that passion of bringing the community togetherto try to solve one of society's problems.

He was a hemophiliac.And he worked in a foundry in East Bay.And a tough guy, you know, a real hard-nosed guy.

Brad is the co-founder of Techstars, an early stage investor and entrepreneur himself since 1987.Prior to co-founding the Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and Intensity Ventures.Brad is active on several boards.

And it's a horrible game, but again, it gets at some early ideas.There's a game called Silicon Foundry.Which is about-- you build ships.

That is the inside of a Vostok, it was called, sphere.And there then comes the opportunity to join the Air Force or to go on with iron foundry work.

Or maybe it once made sense, but it doesn't make sense anymore.Perfect example-- so there's an auto parts, a brass foundry in France called FAVI.And they are incredible at what they do.

That is the inside of a Vostok, it was called, sphere.Well, he actually ends up, after the war, going to study foundry work.

So over the next couple of decades here in the 20th and 21st century, it's not just GE and industrial diamond-making, new companies and new technologiesAnd so I'll sort of juxtapose that with the one on the left, which is from the Diamond Foundry, which is a company that says, this is great.

And part of the reason we love coming out to the community, particularly here in Boulder, to talk with everyone is Defy was very much born out of the passion for innovationhere in Boulder. And I don't know if anybody recognizes, obviously, we have the former governor up here, Brad Feld, a couple of other people from the Foundry Group.And the Foundry Group were really the proponents to bring Defy Ventures to Colorado, that passion for entrepreneurship, that passion of bringing the community together

faces the Porter Square bookstore.Part of that complex, this part right here, the former brass foundry, still exists on the corner of Binney and 3rd Street.

I had no choice, no less than Thomas Jefferson himself told me I had to.Thomas Jefferson, who I think we can all agree, is one of the more foundry of the Founding Fathers and therefore someone we should probably listen to, said to the world back then thatevery Constitution on Earth naturally expires at the end of 19 years.