Before becoming an investor, Tim Hoerr spent his career actually building and running companies—he was a partner at an accounting firm, led a software company, co-founded a biotech instrument company that was later sold to Sony, and served as CEO of a healthcare company—and he traces that work ethic back to growing up in his family's nursery business in Peoria. He also writes and speaks about faith and purpose in business, including a concept he calls Thank God It's Monday about building workplaces with meaningful work and shared success, and outside of investing he's been involved in a college sports fan store, a Jimmy John's franchise group, and producing a film.