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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
December 28, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 112 MBArtificial Intelligence Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The holy grail of orbital rocketry is making a fully reusable rocket This alone would greatly lower the cost of achieving sustainable life on another planet, including Mars SpaceX is trying to do just that… “I don’t care about altruism or pessimism, fuck that, we’re gonna get it done”– Elon Musk Being multi-planetary is like buying life insurance on life itself Given a long enough period of time, the Earth is likely to experien...
#122 — Transformations from Good to Great — Jim Collins
December 28, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 212 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Discover what you think – enter every creative journey with an open/curious mind, let the experience formulate your lens Greatness can be found in studying the actions of founders before they knew the outcomes of their actions “Never let your ambition and ego cloud what you’re really made for”– Jim Collins Personal Hedgehog = Passion + Economic Engine + Encoding (Self-Actualization) Don’t fall into the curse of the competence doom loop Compete...
20VC: John Doerr on Buying 12% of Google for $12M, His Biggest Investing Lesson from 30 Years in Venture & The Climate Crisis: Why Governments are The Biggest Problem and Where the Biggest Opportunities Are in Climate Investing?
December 17, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 29.8 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “This not a new normal, this is a new abnormal. The planet will never will cooler tomorrow than it is today”– John Doerr Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr – The wholesale transition plan for every human activity from a fossil fuel-based system to a renewable-based system: how we produce, consume, transport, and organize Electrify transportation Decarbonize the grid – shift to wind, solar, and safe n...
#194 with Justin Mares - The 4 Types of Side Hustles and how to launch a $100M DTC brand
November 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Strategy 1: Buy an existing asset You need the most upfront money here but there can be an incredible value to capture by simply owning and upgrading an asset better than the current holder Strategy 2: Provide supply to a marketplace with existing demand Find deviations of keywords on google search that lack supply to fulfill the demanded and desired search If you understand what makes supply marketable and what the marketplace algorithms pri...
Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible
November 16, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Ben Horowitz gives a detailed timeline on Loudcloud’s“IPO from Hell” and how it went from $0.35/share to being acquired for $1.65 Billion at $14.25/share In a near-death experience as a founder, it takes a lot of humility and resiliency to make the best choice out of all the horrible choices “If you have the will and the idea, [being a founder] is the best thing you can do with your life” – Ben Horowitz Read the full notes @...
20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “You need just as good business people on your team as you do technology people in order to win” – Brian Singerman Anduril’s team recipe is made for success by having elite technologists and pre-existing relationships with the government We need to control our own destiny when it comes to national security – defense products need to be built on-shore, not outsourced Anduril is creating software (Lattice Platform) and hardware for national defe...
#208 with Steph Smith - Why You Need a Chief Automation Officer
November 09, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Steph Smith and Shaan Puri discuss the multitude of opportunities there are through innovative marketing strategies and product white spaces if you simply look at the world around you “Look for a sea of sameness, that’s your opportunity”– Shaan Puri Look at your local pharmacy, the band-aid aisle will look ironically similar across brands Welly changes this, giving a uniqueD2C (direct to consumer) experience on a boring product brand Why do c...
#220 - 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire
November 04, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Intro Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) give an updated version of Sara’s List, 12 companies with exponential growth potential in lucrative industries that could change your life as a job applicant. Regardless if you’re job hunting or not, these products and services have some awesome consumer applications. Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org In this episode Sam (@theSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) update "Sara's List". This was a list of com...
Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity
November 03, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Moderna prioritizes platform over product. For so long, big pharma has created products with analog solutions. Moderna’s mRNA technology platform is designed to fork and compound on its base knowledgeto create unique and effective therapeutics quickly. “Golden eggs (drugs) are coming out of the goose (mRNA platform)”– Stephane Bancel Moderna is not a one drug company – If you can make one drug work safely, you can make many. ...
#19 — John Andrew Entwistle — Traveling into the future
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBParadox Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Work and life are finally coming into harmony, rather than balance” – John Andrew Entwistle Wander is a network of company-owned smart homes designed to technologically optimize your vacation or a unique work-from-home experience It isn’t a marketplace like AirBnB. Wander owns every part of the experience so they can actively respond to consumer demands and add updates through smart technology At scale, Wander’s goal is to create an affordable...
#224 - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits
October 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “I am human optimization, I’m optimized to be happy. Your goal is not to be happy in pockets, your goal is to be happy every single hour of your life.”– Rob Dyrdek You can avoid all negativity if you constantly live in a state of experiencing, creating or problem-solving Every day for the last 5 years, Rob has written down how he feels about his life, work, and health on a scale of 1-10 He compares this qualitative data to his quantitative dat...
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
October 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “It may be lucky but it’s not an accident” – Chris Sacca Don’t dismiss your success, it will always be an unexpected combo of luck and hard work “Training by way of tragedy. When things are going up you tend to correlate it with talent, when things are going down you tend to correlate it with luck.”– Chris Sacca With more experience, you eventually invert this curve. You learn how to properly self-reflect on your own failures and successes Le...
Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win
October 08, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBA16z Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways It is not a question of “either-or” but “both-and” (public and private cloud), and beyond that- it is about edge computing “There are estimates that say there will be more applications and more data at the edge and it is not all going to come back to the center of the universe,” – Michael Dell The massive shift to SAS (software for statistical analysis and data visualization) could be cloud wars 2.0 Because of AI and ML rise, programmers will have...
#166: Mike Maples Jr. – Why The Robots Are Not Going To Eat Your Job
October 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBThe Danny Miranda Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Ruling institutions often go from being service providers to rent-seekers”– Mike Maples Jr. The ability to exit is what gives your voice its power Bitcoin provides you an exit opportunity from the centralized financial system Covid has digitally separated work from location, creating exit power over local governments Governments are being forced to treat us more like customers again rather than assets because more options emerge fro...
Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using
September 24, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Business products designed around values consistent with ‘play’ rather than ‘work’ lead to increased efficiency and productivitythroughthe benefits of gamificationand targeting human motivation Gamification creates an emotional connection to your work and the design can lead you to an increased capacity for flow states “Emotions are the foundation of our memory”– Rahul Vohra Your emotions can dictate how successful you are i...
#648 A Conversation with Keith Rabois on Everything
August 31, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutesPomp Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways For Keith Rabois to invest in you, your business needs to have a > 1% chance to change the world Founders Fund launchedOpenStore to create a wealth-generation opportunity around starting/growing your own business Almost no businesses on Shopify are venture backable or debt-financeable OpenStore will buy your Shopify business, giving you the opportunity for liquidation and access to life-changing money, which incentivizes continuous business creati...
Marc Andreessen - Making the Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 232]
July 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBInvest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Software is eating the world”– Marc Andreessen We are getting better at making more with less If you want more job creation, you want more technology and productivity growth Chart of the century – provides a great outline on the dilemma we are facing when it comes to this equation System shock – Covid provided a catalyst for many macro level business decisions that wouldn’t have been made “The more detached the legacy system (college & ...
Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet
June 30, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The creation and maintenance of your start-up’s foundational team is critical for success If there is a conflict around responsibilities, you have the wrong founding team The greatest start-ups have a valuable mission and have a team that enjoys working together Inbound recruiting processes are much more valuable to hiring talented and long-term employees Cloudflare utilizes a blog to consistently communicate the company’s ...
One on One with A and Z #9: The Big Questions around Remote Work
June 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBa16z Live Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the a16z Live show notes and episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What was the biggest surprise from the past 15 months of remote work? [5:24] How do you handle conflict and build trust? [10:09] What's the role of offsites? [15:45] Should you adjust compensation for different geographies? [24:02] How do you measure productivity? [34:10] What is the impact of remote work on retention and turnover? [49:17] How do startups ...
Lessons of Greatness: Design your category
June 08, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways 3 traits of legendary startups: Extraordinary teams Breakthrough products that change the future Creating a new category Breakthrough startup founders are time travelers who discover a secret to a radically different future and they must come back to the present and convince early believers to embrace their secret and co-create that new future with them 4 Steps to designing a category: 1) Identify your founding insights a...
Lessons of Greatness: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness
June 08, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Any breakthrough worth pursuing has a high chance of failure By definition, greatness requires the willingness to risk failure 3Advantages of Taking Huge Risks Taking bigger risks is a competitive advantage such most people avoid big risks, thus there will be less competition Since there’s a high chance a risky idea will fail, on the chance that it does succeed, the payoff will be massive Even if your idea fails, if you t...
Keith Rabois on Miami and Company-Building in 2021
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBVenture Stories Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The biggest question for Keith when considering Miami was “Can we build a technology hub?” People who moved to Miami have reported being happier Looking at the history of startup ecosystems you can reverse-engineer some of their common ingredients You need a mix of different skills (investors, designers, coders, and VCs) It is usually a bottom-up dynamic, so you can’t control it from the top You can try putting the ingredients together and se...
Strategies and Secrets From Sara Blakely, Billionaire Founder of Spanx
March 29, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBBusiness Lunch with Roland Frasier Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Every week at dinner, Sara Blakely’s father would ask her to share one thing she failed at that week. Her father wanted her to know failure was okay and that when you take risks, you’re going to come across failure. “What he was doing was just reframing our definition of failure…The only failure for me is not trying” – Sara Blakely As a salesperson, Sara listened to several motivational speakers including Zig Ziglar, Brian Tra...
How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”
February 24, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways By creating new words and terms to frame ideas you change language and thus how people think This memetic spread that all then links back to you will exponentially grow your reach and influence “I’ve done this for every book launch and I often advise startups to do this: look for uncrowded, undervalued channels” – Tim Ferris “If you want to conquer the world, don’t try to do it all at once” – Tim Ferris When first entering ...
#89 — How to 10x Your Chance at Startup Success
February 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways To 10x your chances at startup success: Fix a problem that you yourself have Make a list of 15-20 problems in your life Then rank them by most painful Then try to build a product that solves one of them “Build a company around a problem that you yourself have” – James Beshara Why build a company around a problem you have? You’ll have a familiarity with the problem which will help you design a solution You’ll have knowledge of existing so...
#489: Guy Raz Interviews Tim Ferriss — How I Built This — Key Lessons, Critical Decisions, and Reinvention for Fun and Profit
December 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Tim’s parents didn’t always have the budget for toys, but they always had money for books: “My parents cultivated this love of reading very early on, and as a result, I did well in school” – Tim Ferriss Why did Tim initially join a data storage company? His mentors told him it was better to get a job in a growing industry (like data storage) because he would gain a lot more experience and learn how to scale a company “I wanted to ...
#105 with Avlok Kohli and Xavier Helgesen - Leading AngelList Ventures and Buying Businesses Like Berkshire Hathaway
September 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The VC firms make 7-10x or in some cases 15x returns on their investment It’s really the unicorns (companies worth $1 billion or more) and decacorns (companies worth $10 billion or more) that allow for those kinds of extreme returns Most of the investments in any VC portfolio will fail but you only need 2-3 home runs to earn a great return. Those home runs can return 1,000 or 10,000x your initial investment. “It’s complete power-law dynamics h...
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
August 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The main problem in apparel: finding clothes that fit customers and that customers love “Nobody was solving that core problem of how do I actually identify the clothes on this planet, out of the millions of things out there, that you specifically are going to love” – Katrina Lake Price and speed of delivery are important in the apparel industry, but at the end of the day people want clothes that they like: “Yes, price, speed, and delivery a...
Lessons of Greatness: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile
June 15, 2020 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.06 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Anti-fragile teams actually get BETTER when the environment around them is high-pressure and chaotic. There are 3 key reasons for this: They thrive under chaos Places with uncertainty and risk are where startups should go because established corporations avoid these areas They seize the initiative “They will be aggressive go-getters that make luck happen for them rather than hope things go their way” – Mike Maples They ada...
#DeepDive — How To Become A Startup “Angel” Investor — Brianne Kimmel
May 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways What does Brianne look for when investing in founders? Someone who has built great consumer products Someone who understand the ends user It’s also great to have two cofounder where one is the disruptor and the other has domain expertise in the area “If you want to find investors, especially if you want to find great investors, deserve great investors” – James Beshara Be thoughtful about the product, distribution, your vision, your competitive...
Startups Didn’t Have to be Good at Accounting Until Software Ate the World
May 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.83 MBSpearhead with Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi Podcast Notes Startups Didn’t Have to be Good at Accounting Until Software Ate the World | Episode #38 “A pure software business has perfect gross margins and unit economics because all of the cost is in creating the first copy of the software—the variable cost of producing additional copies is zero” – David Sacks However, with hybrid software-physical world businesses, unit economics has become an important factor in their accounting eval(ez_w...
#62 — DeepDive — How To Become A Startup “Angel” Investor — Brianne Kimmel
May 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways What does Brianne look for when investing in founders? Someone who has built great consumer products Someone who understand the ends user It’s also great to have two cofounder where one is the disruptor and the other has domain expertise in the area “If you want to find investors, especially if you want to find great investors, deserve great investors” – James Beshara Be thoughtful about the product, distribution, your vision, your competitive...
Yancey Strickler — This Could Be Our Future: Flyover Tech, Bentoism, Generosity and Other Lessons Learned from Being a Rock Critic to Co-founding Kickstarter
May 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBConscious Creators Show — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your SoulClaimed Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Yancey Strickler, founder of Kickstarter, didn’t quit his job at a record label until Kickstarter had been live for 2-3 months; he found it difficult to risk abandoning his job stability having come from a family with little money “Both knowing to stick with it and then also making that choice to commit, those were massive existential questions at the time” – Yancey Strickler...
Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19
May 12, 2020 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The world around us is about to change dramatically “This is not a recession it’s a mass extinction event for a good number of businesses and industries” – Steve Blank However, in crisis comes opportunity “For founders and employees who fight the good fight, there will be a morning after, the sun will come up” Look at the top 5 things your company is buying to survive and what things you cut out from your budget You want y...
#274: Alexis Ohanian on Building and Investing in the Modern Digital World
April 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourPomp Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Co-founders need to have more than just complimentary skills, their values and world view have to be aligned “All companies have problems all of the time, what’s important is that they are good at triaging the most important ones as fast as possible” – Alexis Ohanian When it comes to automation and developing software, repetitive and tedious tasks take priority (e.g. generating reports or managing deal flow) Initialized Capital uses an internal so...
SLP162 Matt D’Souza - Bitcoin Halving Analysis: Bullish for Competitive Miners
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 53.7 MBStephan Livera Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Anyone can have a high conviction in Bitcoin and change their mind later, but not miners, they commit by investing capital “You have Billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure, electricity spending, facility spending, to secure the Bitcoin network, that is a network effect, that is power” – Matt D’Souza Interesting mines are being sprung up by VC funds that raise a ton of capital. They pay for electricity in cash and hold the bitcoins, ...
Paradox Podcast: #9 — Jeff Morris Jr. — Investing in a post-COVID19 future
April 01, 2020 16:26 - 54 minutes - 100 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways A small compliment can change the course of someone’s life Build consumer SaaS products for people in Kansas City, not San Francisco For monetization to fall into place, you HAVE to pick the right product category If you’re a founder or entrepreneur, consider seeing a therapist. Mental health is of the utmost importance. Remembering names is a superpower Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Subscribe to the Paradox Podcast Podcast Jeff Morris Jr. (@j...
Paradox Podcast: #9 — Jeff Morris Jr. — Investing in a post-COVID19 future
April 01, 2020 14:00 - 54 minutes - 100 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways A small compliment can change the course of someone’s life Build consumer SaaS products for people in Kansas City, not San Francisco For monetization to fall into place, you HAVE to pick the right product category If you’re a founder or entrepreneur, consider seeing a therapist. Mental health is of the utmost importance. Remembering names is a superpower Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Subscribe to the Paradox Podcast Podcast Jeff Morris Jr. (@j...
#9 — Jeff Morris Jr. — Investing in a post-COVID19 future
April 01, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 100 MBParadox Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways A small compliment can change the course of someone’s life Build consumer SaaS products for people in Kansas City, not San Francisco For monetization to fall into place, you HAVE to pick the right product category If you’re a founder or entrepreneur, consider seeing a therapist. Mental health is of the utmost importance. Remembering names is a superpower Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Jeff Morris Jr. (@jmj) is a full time angel i...
Business Casual: Mark Cuban on COVID Responses: Perfection Is the Enemy of Progress
March 26, 2020 20:47 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways Whether giving $1200 to every qualifying American helps the economy or not doesn’t matter. People need help. They’re scared. If you’re an entrepreneur, think about what the world might look like post-COVID-19—what companies can you start? “Whatever idea you may have, now is the chance to put together your thought process and business plan for the world you see on the other side” – Mark Cuban “When things are FUBAR, that’s when the heroes are made. Th...
Mark Cuban on COVID Responses: Perfection Is the Enemy of Progress
March 26, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBBusiness Casual Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Whether giving $1200 to every qualifying American helps the economy or not doesn’t matter. People need help. They’re scared. If you’re an entrepreneur, think about what the world might look like post-COVID-19—what companies can you start? “Whatever idea you may have, now is the chance to put together your thought process and business plan for the world you see on the other side” – Mark Cuban “When things are FUBAR, that’s when the her...
Starting Greatness with Mike Maples: Reid Hoffman: The Network Philosopher King
March 12, 2020 09:55 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways Most of the time, you don’t need people with on-the-job experience; you need fast learners and team players Every entrepreneur needs an investment thesis—a clear set of articulated beliefs about the way the world is becoming, the role of your product or service in that world, and what you’re going to do to enable that role successfully “The rule for consumer internet—and the general rule for most businesses—is: while the entrepreneurial instinct is to build the...
Reid Hoffman: The Network Philosopher King
March 12, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBStarting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Most of the time, you don’t need people with on-the-job experience; you need fast learners and team players Every entrepreneur needs an investment thesis—a clear set of articulated beliefs about the way the world is becoming, the role of your product or service in that world, and what you’re going to do to enable that role successfully “The rule for consumer internet—and the general rule for most businesses—is: while the entr...
Knowledge Project: #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
March 04, 2020 19:05 - 1 hour - 218 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways Successful startups are born from insights about the future Startups aren’t companies; they’re a group of people with a set of proprietary insights that are a result of them living in the future “I think startups are so impossible that if you’re not 100% committed, you almost have no chance” – Mike Maples Great founders can easily answer the question, “Why is now the perfect time for your startup?” Great entrepreneurs: Are like artists—they move people beyon...
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
March 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 218 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Successful startups are born from insights about the future Startups aren’t companies; they’re a group of people with a set of proprietary insights that are a result of them living in the future “I think startups are so impossible that if you’re not 100% committed, you almost have no chance” – Mike Maples Great founders can easily answer the question, “Why is now the perfect time for your startup?” Great entrepreneurs: Are like artists—they...
Moment with Brian Koppelman: Ben Horowitz - 02/25/20
March 01, 2020 09:56 - 1 hourPodcast Notes Key Takeaways You can’t say yes to what you want to do if you don’t say no to what you don’t want to do “Do you believe in statistics, or do you believe in calculus? As an entrepreneur, you have to believe in calculus. You don’t believe you have an 8% chance of succeeding; you believe there’s an answer, and you’ll find it. If you don’t have that attitude, don’t start a company.” – Ben Horowitz Every organization should make an effort to diagnose and deal with their “kimchi ...
Ben Horowitz - 02/25/20
March 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourMoment with Brian Koppelman Podcast Notes Key Takeaways You can’t say yes to what you want to do if you don’t say no to what you don’t want to do “Do you believe in statistics, or do you believe in calculus? As an entrepreneur, you have to believe in calculus. You don’t believe you have an 8% chance of succeeding; you believe there’s an answer, and you’ll find it. If you don’t have that attitude, don’t start a company.” – Ben Horowitz Every organization should make an effort to diagnose ...
Business Casual: You Might Be Sore Tomorrow: Fitness Gets the Tech Treatment
February 09, 2020 10:25 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways What’s Mirror? An interactive home gym that’s quite literally in the form of a mirror, controlled by a companion app (they offer personal training AND fitness classes!) How much does a Mirror device cost? $1,495 (with a necessary $39/month subscription piled on top) Mirror has big ambitions: “We have aspirations to be the place you turn to for all interactive, immersive experiences. Fitness is one segment of our market, and I think we could build ...
You Might Be Sore Tomorrow: Fitness Gets the Tech Treatment
February 09, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBBusiness Casual Podcast Notes Key Takeaways What’s Mirror? An interactive home gym that’s quite literally in the form of a mirror, controlled by a companion app (they offer personal training AND fitness classes!) How much does a Mirror device cost? $1,495 (with a necessary $39/month subscription piled on top) Mirror has big ambitions: “We have aspirations to be the place you turn to for all interactive, immersive experiences. Fitness is one segment of our market, and I think...
Business Casual: You Might Be Sore Tomorrow: Fitness Gets the Tech Treatment
February 09, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways What’s Mirror? An interactive home gym that’s quite literally in the form of a mirror, controlled by a companion app (they offer personal training AND fitness classes!) How much does a Mirror device cost? $1,495 (with a necessary $39/month subscription piled on top) Mirror has big ambitions: “We have aspirations to be the place you turn to for all interactive, immersive experiences. Fitness is one segment of our market, and I think we could build ...