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BREAKING: Twitch Founder/CEO Resigns - What I Learned From Him
March 20, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways There are four ways to frame a meeting with a company leader: I am doing this, FYI I am doing this, but I need your approval I am trying to decide between A, B, or C. Can you help me think that through? Remember that thing we agreed on? Here is what happened. Company updates or memos should address “What, Why, and So What?” Fierce nerds are all in on the thing they are pursuing; they do not have a social thing to fall back on, and lack t...
Trae Stephens - Find Good Quests - [Invest Like the Best, EP.319]
March 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBInvest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Many of the high-margin software businesses have no impact on society, and sometimes can even have a negative impact on society Founders in the dynamism category are creating teams that are mission-oriented and interested in more than just making money; they want to build techno-optimist solutions for strategically important problems It is important for society’s best players to choose good quests It is best to lean into your passions an...
20VC: Turning Canned Water into a $700M Media and Health Company, What Makes Truly Great Brands, How Founders Can Build Their Brand From Day 1 Today & How to Create Viral Content with Little to No Budget with Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death
March 10, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBTwenty Minute VC Mike Cessario is the Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death, the man hacking the healthy beverage market with the first hilarious water brand. It is working, Liquid Death's latest valuation was over a staggering $700M and Mike has raised over $200M since founding the company from the likes of Science Inc. Away's Jen Rubio, Dollar Shave Club's Michael Dubin, Swedish House Mafia and Tony Hawk to name a few. Prior to founding Liquid Death, Mike was in the advertising industry at a numb...
EP 36 - Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky Talk Sentience, Ethics, Job Impacts, and the Future of AI
March 06, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBAarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The recent breakthroughs with ChatGPT break the world into two groups: those who can understand exponential growth, and those that sit around and deny it AI hallucinations are evidence that we have apparently solved the problem of computer creativity The real breakthroughs are going to happen when entrepreneurs discard all current assumptions and purely start from scratch “This may be the single biggest financial exp...
#160 TKP Insights: Leadership
March 03, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the Knowledge Project Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org In the third installment in a series of episodes, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from five guests revolving around one theme: leadership. This episode helps put a unique definition on leadership and examines whether or not good leaders are context-dependent, the differences between a great leader and an average leader, how...
EP #30 Venture Capital in 2023 w/ Dakin Sloss
February 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 194 MBMoonshots and Mindsets with Peter Diamandis ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Building something meaningful will be a decade-long process; you might as well build something that is going to meaningfully make people’s lives better The power law of returns describes how the minority of companies you invest in will deliver the majority of your returns If you are a technical founder, the number one mistake you can make when approaching VCs is to only talk about the technology and not the c...
#290 Young Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
February 22, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBFounders ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Young Bill Gates was like Genghis Khan in a Mr. Rogers costume Everything he did, he did to the max Gates’ first interaction with a computer was at Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle where he also met Paul Allen, with whom he co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates became obsessed with computers at a young age to the point where his parents banned his usage of them “You want to maneuver yourself into doing something in which you hav...
#290 Bill Gates
February 22, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBFounders ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Young Bill Gates was like Genghis Khan in a Mr. Rogers costume Everything he did, he did to the max Gates’ first interaction with a computer was at Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle where he also met Paul Allen, with whom he co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates became obsessed with computers at a young age to the point where his parents banned his usage of them “You want to maneuver yourself into doing something in which you hav...
#2 - Tobi Lütke & Kaz Nejatian on Shopify's Country-Sized Economy
February 20, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 241 MBThe Network State Podcast ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the Network State Podcast Episode Page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji review how Shopify rose from tiny startup to $180B+ global economy, with an annual GMV on par with the GDP of New Zealand. In the process they touch on Hayek, the Hanseatic League, merchant cavemen, the history of the corporation, and the optimal level of platform d...
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes
February 01, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBY Combinator Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Almost all the advice that’s written online about hiring is written for post product-market fit companies However, most startups are pre-product market fit They are reading advice for a stage that they are not at now, but odds are they will never be at Michael Seibel believes that the number of employees is one of those fun stats that second-time founders react to differently than the first time Founders have a unique skill set – as a founder, yo...
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
January 29, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBA16z Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Social platforms will become a natural place for product discovery as platforms will ease the friction between inspiration, purchase intent, and completed purchases China is mobile-only, compared to the U.S. which is mobile-first, so China tends to iterate on mobile features much faster than the U.S. In 2019, two-thirds of Americans said they had a favorite local place they went to regularly. Four years later, that two-thirds has decreased to one...
Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More
January 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out My First Million Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Episode 370: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talks to best-selling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and former marketing director for American Apparel, Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday), about how to make money in publishing, creating a masterpiece, and investing in a ghost town. ----- Links: * Ryan Holiday * Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media M...
Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight
December 29, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Boom Supersonic is the first entrepreneurial commercial airliner startup in a century The airliner industry has been taken over by financial types starting in the 1970s, which is one of the reasons why innovation has stalled Don’t dismiss the thing that you actually want to create for the thing you think you’re good at because what you are good at can change with the right motivation and effort “We’re just taking a 787, m...
700: How Rob Dyrdek Fits Family, Real Estate, and $100M Businesses into His Day
December 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBBiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Rob always believed that entrepreneurship was something that he would do in addition to his skating career Rob spread himself too thin in his early days as an entrepreneur and was barely breaking even across his businesses in aggregate After reading the book Start At The End, Rob changed everything about the way he did business; he got rid of all the 13 businesses he was operating and began to better channel his energy...
EP 26 - Steven Sinofsky on leading Office & Windows at Microsoft and the art of writing well
December 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBAarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Steven Sinofsky doesn’t write immediately when he has an idea; he will stew with an idea for days at a time so he can really think about it The Darwinian element of early Microsoft was the ability to do email Microsoft had to realize that TCP/IP was not something it had to make go away, but something that the company would have to pivot around After getting back from a recruiting trip at Cornell, and only three mo...
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
December 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MBLenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Having a podcast is a great excuse to talk to someone interesting for an hour Do not start a podcast if you wouldn’t do it for free in perpetuity Focus on what excites you and not what you think will move the metrics Tim Ferriss did a podcast with a person on how to make violins; 80% of his subscribers probably ignored it but 20% reached out to Tim and told him it was their favorite podcast episode of the ...
20VC: Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut on The Biggest Leadership Lessons Scaling to a $12Bn Acquisition and $1BN+ ARR, The Secret to Happiness, Being a Great Husband and Father & Why 2021 was the Right Time To Sell to Intuit
December 17, 2022 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Mailchimp was kind of an accidental business; it was originally built for just a few customers who were struggling to send out email newsletters The freemium pricing option teleported Mailchimp’s user base from tens of thousand to over a million users within a year of adding it It is not always better to be faster It’s okay to be stressed and have chaotic feelings on the inside, but a calm demeanor is important to convey as a leader “The k...
Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business
December 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out My First Million Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Episode 382: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Kevin Rose (@kevinrose), entrepreneur, founder, VC and CEO of many projects, about creating an online magazine that garners $100M/year focusing on watches, what projects he's interested in, why he loves crypto, and where he invests his money. ----- Links: * Kevin Rose * DIG...
Paul English: How He Built And Sold 6 Companies And Why He Believes Irritation Becomes Inspiration
December 11, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Paul English has sold six companies, most notably Kayak for $2B, and is currently working on his seventh company Paul’s internal rate of return is around 30.5% over the last several years across 60 investments He has some “famous misses”, which include Airbnb, YouTube, Snapchat, and Dropbox “Team first, customer second, profit third.” – Paul English Magical teams create magical products, and magical products tend to create profits After...
Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse
November 30, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBA16z Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways It’s important to differentiate between the singular “metaverse” and plural “metaverses” The metaverse can be an incredibly diverse range of experiences, but Neal understands it to be a singular metaverse with a wide variety of experiences and not multiple metaverses Games are the closest things we have to metaverse-like experiences, such as Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft Controversy in the gaming-crypto nexus arises from friction between the ...
#269: Nik Sharma – Working With MrBeast, Gary Vaynerchuk, & Emma Chamberlain
November 05, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBThe Danny Miranda Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways All else being equal, the person who knows how to write a good cold email will be exponentially more successful than the person who doesn’t Networking is not just about getting contact information; it’s figuring out how to help the person you connect with Spend time with people that give you energy when you are around them Put yourself in a position where you are excited about what you are doing Persistence is required for success;...
Framework Friday: The Secret to Being Lucky
November 02, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Most people think that luck and risk are outside of their control, but that may not be entirely true The four types of luck: blind luck, fortune favors the bold, chance favors the prepared mind and the luck that finds you The four types of risk: mediocrity, safety, eyes-wide-shut, and market-execution-technical risk Mediocrity is the biggest risk for someone that wants to be great Instead of only thinking about putting your personal self ...
20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?
November 02, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes - 21.5 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check Out the 20VC Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in the history of venture capital with a portfolio including Uber, Stripe, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker and many more. From interviewing some of the world's richest married couples, how did gaining wealth change their relationship and marriage? What does Chris ...
Jose Mourinho: Do mind games really work?
October 29, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutesNudge - Marketing Science Simplified✓Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Jose Mourinho is known for his psychological approach to games, using mind games in press conferences and interviews to undermine his opposition and motivate his team A mind game is psychologically manipulative behavior intended to discomfort another person or gain an advantage over them He uses three mind game tactics to improve his team’s chances of success: signaling, reactants, and reframing Signaling: conveying i...
Palmer Luckey on Elon Musk and John Carmack, selling Oculus for $2B and starting defense tech company Anduril
October 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBAarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Virtual Reality (VR) is the final platform because the only step after VR is mind-melding into the Borg; fully-formed VR makes technologies like phones, televisions, and desktop PCs obsolete Palmer Luckey started a national security company because he thought it was the most important problem that he could work on, and one that his peers were not working on Big Tech companies were refusing to work with the military be...
Emad Mostaque — The Future of AI (EP.128)
October 23, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBInfinite Loops Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The majority of companies who have made money on the internet have done so via closed AI; Stability AI is an open source alternative to Big Tech’s closed AI system Open systems are more robust, resilient, and safe than closed systems which often become brittle, fragile, and centralized People are not the same around the world; the moral and ethical conversation around AI improves when more people from all around the world can participate The l...
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
October 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Podcast Notes Key Takeaways It’s an end of an era for Big Tech: they’re transitioning from a phase of unfettered growth into their next phase where they must learn to operate like a cash-cow business When the growth engines of Apple and Google slow, other tech companies don’t have to offer competitive compensation, extra benefits, and extravagant workplace environments to compete for talent as they once did “Nobody is talking about a soft la...
Controversial Business Lessons From Hitler, Napoleon & Edison
October 04, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “You can learn good lessons from bad people.” – Sam Parr Throw away your shame and embarrassment, fully commit to the bit, and you’re going to be really successful Hitler, Napoleon, Caesar, and Jeff Bezos all took tons of resources and focused them on a very small point This was Blitzkrieg for the Nazis and is Blitzscaling for the business world Most successful people have addictive personalities; they are addicted to something, it just so h...
#147 Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
October 01, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways When scaling a company: “You have to be constantly evolving your learning pattern. What got you here, won’t get you there.”– Reid Hoffman Examples: how you organize your management (work vs management duties in each role), go-to-market strategy (how to get new sales), adjusting the cadence of hiring (promoting from within vs outside org) This applies to our lives too, not just business! Want to be a better leader?“Root for better angels on pe...
Expected Returns for Alternative Asset Classes (plus Reading Habits w/ David Senra) (EP.219)
October 01, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBThe Rational Reminder Podcast ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Takeaways Here is a summary breakdown of expected returns for alternative asset classes: Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org The type of assets which usually come to mind when considering investments are stocks, bonds, or cash, but what are the alternatives? And what kind of returns do alternative asset classes offer? In today’s episode, we delve into the returns which can be expected from alternative asset classes such as private eq...
#115 - BRIAN ARMSTRONG
September 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBPod of Jake Podcast Notes Takeaways Brian Armstrong felt like a failure when he was 28: all of his friends were making good money and had careers, and he was a failed entrepreneur All of his “failures” contributed to his eventual successes when looking back with hindsight, but at the moment they only feel like failures A heuristic for entrepreneurs unsure what to do: work on something that is the most interesting and most awesome thing to you Technology is one of the greatest levers to...
We Hosted A "Shark Tank" For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day
September 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Intro Sam Parr (@thesamparr) is an American businessman and podcaster co-hosting the My First Million podcast. He is best known for founding The Hustle Media Production company and selling it to HubSpot for an estimated $27 million. Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) is an entrepreneur, investor, and co-host of the My First Million podcast. He shares insights and frameworks on his website and newsletter, which has +30K subscribers. In this conversation, Sam and Shaan f...
In the Ops Room with Palmer Luckey
September 14, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBMark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds ✓ Claimed Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The United States does not have a great history of exporting things to countries before conflicts happen “The big defense primes are not in the position to build the right things, partly because the government has created the wrong incentives for them to do so.” – Palmer Luckey “The point of high-end defense technology is not to win a war that has already started; it’s to deter that war from happening, to make t...
#519 - Balaji Srinivasan - Legacy Media Is Lying To You
September 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBModern Wisdom Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Have a vector that orients your time, attention, and energy towards achieving your goal, and allow for subroutines to develop off of that vector that get you closer to your goal Design an information diet like you would design your diet with food: this information is good, this information is bad, don’t consume this type of information, only consume this type of media during this specific time of day, etc. Failing restaurants add sugar to their ...
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)
August 28, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE welcomes back go-to-market expert and Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer Mark Leslie for the second of their two-part interview, this time focusing on the role and responsibilities of a CEO and a deep dive into Leslie’s Compass, an essential set of heuristics for every startup founder. Leslie also discusses the value of founders focusing on a five-year plan for their startup, why it’s challenging to make meaningful c...
How Building in Space Will Improve Life on Earth with Delian Asparouhov
August 17, 2022 00:00 - 59 minutesWhere It Happens ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Think of crafting an early-stage startup like you’d create a movie Write the script ahead of time, identify and place the ideal profiles in the appropriate roles, lock everyone in a room for six to twelve months, forge product-market fit, and emerge with the product All other variables held constant, an in-person startup will beat out a remote startup The best way to level the playing field is through our republic democracy via vote...
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)
August 14, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples During the 1990s, Mark co-founded Veritas Systems, which he piloted from nothing to 6,000 employees and $1.5B in revenue in a decade. Now a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Leslie is one of the foremost experts in go-to-market strategy in Silicon Valley, and in the first of this two-part series with Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE, Leslie discusses what strategies he used to make Veritas a runaway success, and the origins fo...
#141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
August 09, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBKnowledge Project My guest is Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Kunal Shah who calls on his decades of entrepreneurial experience to discuss what he’s learned about what motivates people, and how observing trends hiding in plain sight has made him a runaway success in business. We also discuss the many cultural differences between India and the West, what he learned growing up in the family business and how he applies it today, observing reality, why he dropped out of an MBA progr...
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
August 04, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 108 MBArtificial Intelligence Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “We want [Coinbase] to be the way that a billion people access the open global financial system.” – Brain Armstrong All of Brian’s friends thought Coinbase was a dumb idea when he first started building it in 2010; there was a lot of uncertainty around Bitcoin at the time, which was trading at $10 per coin Most of the best leaders are able to contribute a net positive to the world and do not care if they anger a certain percen...
The Next Founders
July 21, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutesHonestly with Bari Weiss ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “The battle for the survival of the United States of America is upon us. It has not come in the form of traditional civil war. There are no uniformed armies, competing flags, or alternate constitutions. The great showdown is not being fought within the physical limits of a battlefield. It is instead happening all around us and directly to us. It defines our culture, sustains our media, and gives new shape to o...
Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
July 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Talent and resources, that would otherwise be unavailable during an economic boom, become increasingly available during a recession A founder must convince talented people to do the “irrational thing” and join their startup Salary is just one vector of value for an employee, and one that people often over-index There are three types of employees: creatives, completers, and collaborators The Trillion-Dollar Venn Diagram of Success: create val...
260 | Marc Andreessen on Everything: The Need to Build, Web3's Value, Political Realignments, Collapsing Trust, U.S. History, and More...
July 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBThe Realignment ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The work that’s gone into building the internet and digital networks over the last 30 years is comparable to the work that went into building the physical networks, like the railroads and highways, during the second industrial revolution period of the 1880s to 1920s Every historical achievement started as speculation Today, society is willing to take digital risks but has become extremely adverse to taking analog risks “Nuclear is by ...
Selling Deodorant for $100M and How to Find Your Best Competitive Advantage with Moiz Ali
May 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways You don’t have to know exactly why your business works until well after it’s launched “You can say ‘I don’t know’ or ‘the same as everyone else’ to all questions as long as you have that one thing”– Shaan Puri Your business is going to change and evolve anyway, so don’t let anything prevent you from getting it started in the first place “I don’t know anything about deodorant, but in six months, I’m going to know everything there is to know”– M...
Building Towards American Dynamism with Chris Power, CEO of Hadrian
April 28, 2022 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBa16z Live Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out a16z Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Katherine Boyle, General Partner at a16z is joined by Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power, Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring, and a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to discuss the opportunity to automate and upskill in the precision parts industry and shore up U.S. manufacturing with new technology.
#71: Heike Schoen - Invitation - How To Rescue Your Clinical Trial When at Risk to Fail
March 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBBeginner's Mind ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Beginner’s Mind Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Did you know that almost 90% of all product ideas fail in clinical trials? The most obvious reason that a clinical trial fails is lack of efficacy. Surprising to me was that lack of efficacy doesn't seem to be the main reason why clinical trials fail in the first place. Other factors are at play, and most of them are manageab...
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
March 28, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutes - 35.7 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If t...
Tim Westergren: How The Band Kept Playing At Pandora
March 06, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Starting Greatness Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Tim Westergren maxed out 11 credit cards, racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and was rejected 348 times for a second round of funding for his revolutionary idea for a music streaming platform. But like any true artist, Westergren remained committed to his vision of creating an aesthetically more beautiful future with...
Lessons of Greatness: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments
March 01, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Starting Greatness Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Your startup will face multiple WFIO moments on the path to greatness...COUNT ON IT. But that doesn’t mean you should let these moments get inside your head. In this lesson of greatness, Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE discusses how every startup team MUST be prepared to take the initiative in the crucible of the WFIO moments they will ...
20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
February 15, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Place your biggest bet on a focused strategy and iterate until it works” – Aaron Levietweet Never hedge your bets as a company – if you have two paths, you have no paths You have limited resources, don’t lower your ceiling with two bets Design and innovation are directly influenced by the architecture of your organization, it’s important to know your identity Amazon: decentralized with an innovation focus Apple: centralized with a design fo...
Sahil Lavingia — From Web 2.1 to Web 3 (EP.87)
January 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBInfinite Loops In this episode of Infinite Loops we have Sahil Lavingia with us. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and author of the book “The Minimalist Entrepreneur”. The rise, and fall, and rise of Gumroad Physical vs. Digital Communities Befriending ‘volatility’ Applications of Web 3 And MUCH more! Follow Sahil on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shl and buy his book from Amazon at amzn.to/2ZnIGOl