#034 - Rational Musings: Lack of Authenticity EVERYWHERE, & Applying Wall Street DNA to Venture Capital
Release Date: 11/15/2021
#055 - Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every podcast episode we explore a Timeless book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join thousands of readers by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . Free digital version of Poor Charlie's Almanack: Timestamps: (00:00) Intro chit...
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#054 - The Bed of Procrustes: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join 3,000+ others by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . A rare episode where we invited guests to join us, in this case due to the book being a unique format and also wrapping up our entire 5-episode...
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#053 - Skin in the Game: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join 3,000+ others by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (08:16) Core Concepts (12:10) Important Prologue One (29:10) Important Prologue...
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#052 - Antifragile: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join 3,000+ others by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (11:39) Antifragile definition (19:13) Introduction to the core concepts...
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#051 - The Black Swan: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every podcast episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join 3,000+ curious minds and avid readers by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / chit-chat (09:26) Structure of the show...
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#050 - Fooled by Randomness: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeking Worldly Wisdom. Join 3,000+ others by subscribing @ to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of this episode click . Timestamps: (00:00) Intro / chit-chat (20:11) Randomness & Luck (24:46) Monte Carlo Simulation...
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#049 - The Podcast Is Pivoting And Rebranding!
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** Apologies for the audio quality, it's been a while! New audio set-up. The audio will be significantly better from the next episode. In this transitionary episode we discuss our pivot, after 49 episodes our podcast is continuing, albeit in a much different direction, and rebranding. From the next episode (ep. 50 it will be in the new format and all changes will be reflected then). We discuss all the changes (and our view on the podcasting space) in this short transitionary episode. Video version of episode: "the rational letter" - For free you can join 3,000+ seasoned...
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#048 - Jim O'Shaughnessy (OSV.LLC): Becoming a More Nuanced Thinker
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Jim O'Shaughnessy is one of the greatest thinkers of our time. A curious mind, Wall Street legend, Venture Capitalist (OSV.llc), best-selling author, previously founder of OSAM (sold to Franklin Templeton), podcaster (infinite loops), father, grandfather, and the list goes on. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: Jim's Twitter: O'Shaughnessy Ventures: Jim's Podcast: 00:00 Teaser 01:05 Intro 03:30 The Great Reshuffle / investment in Odin 11:01...
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#047 - Jonny Blausten: Sprout CEO, democratising venture capital, from consulting to running startups, content creation and future of VC
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Jonny is the CEO and Co-Founder of : an investment platform curating access to Venture Capital deals for private investors. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: Jonny's LinkedIn: Jonny's personal Twitter: Jonny's GunnerPunner Twitter: Sprout website: 00:00 Teaser 01:18 Intros 04:19 Jonny's background 05:50 Jonny's early startups 12:32 Jonny's parents & real estate 16:02 Corporate life is charlatanism? 33:26 Sprout intro 36:39 Sprout in depth - the problem of access to the...
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#046 - Ben Awad: Becoming the Internet's Most Impactful Programmer
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Ben Awad is a YouTuber, software engineer, and the founder of VoidPet.com. He has 500k YouTube subscribers, 800k TikTok followers, and is known for his legendary coding tutorials and humorous and authentic videos. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: Ben's YouTube: Ben's TikTok: Ben's Twitter: Ben's startup: Ben's GitHub: Ben's Discord: Ben's programmer outfit: 00:00 Teaser 00:40 Intro (Guest & Co-host) 03:40...
info_outlineCyrus and Iman discuss their thoughts on authenticity in life, tech, and VC. They also discuss having purpose and performing deep work, whether elite university degrees are becoming a bad investment, applying the Wall Street DNA to Venture, and how Twitter activity influences VC funding outcomes.
You can also watch this in video format on our youtube channel to see supporting material: https://youtu.be/2O7Ugp_kmDQ
Materials referenced:
James Lo post on authenticity: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yfjame...
Rob Henderson on university degrees: https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/sta...
Sar Haribhakti on Tiger Global applying Wall Street DNA: https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/...
Ethan Mollick on Twitter influencing funding: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1...
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