4.7 From Chalk Board to Board Room
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Our guest today is Angela Smith, an investor at Origin Ventures. Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital (VC) firm investing in software and marketplace businesses in the digital native economy. Angela walks us through what is VC, how she worked her way into VC (after being a middle and high school teacher), the current state of VC investing, and her thoughts on being a women in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
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4.6 Optimizing One's Career & Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
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This episode dives deep into how one can think about optimizing one's career while acknowledging the trade-offs with such optimization. When should one switch jobs? How should one think about work-life balance, about wealth creation? What does optimizing in a job look like? We also discuss what entrepreneurship through acquisition looks like with a personal experience of becoming an owner-operator. Our guest this episode is Matt Phillips. Matt graduated from BYU's MBA in 2019. Matt shares his insights on these topics while addressing his highlights and stresses of being an owner-operator.
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4.5 Living in a Post Roe v Wade World
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Back from my little sabbatical to have an interesting discussion regarding Women's Rights, abortion, pornography and other cultural issues. Our guest for this episode is Nicole Wawro, founder and President of Fluence. Fluence is a social media platform dedicated to covering Women's Issues from a non-woke perspective. Fluence currently has over 19K followers on Instagram and over 400K followers on TikTok.
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4.4 Biden Presidency: 1-Year In
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How has President Biden done in the estimation of one of his supporters? We are a year into his presidency - what have the been the major wins and major surprises for his supporters and for the rest of us? This episode discusses these questions and more with Stuart Johnson. Stuart is a repeat guest who previous came on during the 2020 election to discuss why he was voting for Biden. Stuart gives his perspective on the administration so far as well as what issues he thinks are top priority. This episode is a bit longer and different than previous episodes as we spend more time discussing and...
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4.3 Search Funds & Poker
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Do you fold on Ace and Seven or do you play it out? When should you go all in? How do you balance risk and reward? As in poker, entrepreneurship also faces similar type questions. Does one try to start a business from scratch? Or does one go all in on an existing business? What about bringing on partners? What about doing a search fund instead of working for a startup?
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4.2 BYU Football, College Athletics & Capitalism
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We are finishing up our NIL policy series with a discussion about how the new policy is affecting college athletics and the athletes themselves. Are you also wondering if BYU Football is still worth watching? Or if the Cowboys have a chance to win the Superbowl? In this episode, we touch upon these questions and more including viewing the new NIL policy through economic lens to see how money is actually distributed (hint: more widely than initially thought).
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4.1 College Athletics, NIL & Life Lessons
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Have you ever been on a sailboat? Have you ever raced a sailboat? What impact will the new name, image and likeness (NIL) policy have on college athletics? What lessons can sports teach us?
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3.10 Afghanistan: A Veteran's Experience
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Have we already moved on from Afghanistan? Has the implications of our actions already happened? The rest of the world seems ready to move on from the region but I am not sure the region is done with us. What about the many men and women who served in Afghanistan? What are their thoughts and feelings? We are coming up on the twenty year anniversary of 9/11 - it will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the next couple of years.
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3.9 US Foreign Policy & Afghanistan
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The ground is shifting beneath our feet with the US decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Perhaps the pullout will not have any secondary effects but US allies and US adversaries are taking notice. What did the 20-year Afghanistan war accomplish? What should be the guiding policy for US foreign intervention?
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3.8 Fundamental Investing & Fox News
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Robotics? Energy independence? Mass movement of people inland? Automation? Are these the waves of the future? How much does Fox News influence Americans and elections? We discuss all these topics and more in this episode.
info_outlineWelcome back. In this episode, we will be talking to Shawn Watkins, founder of Taabl. Taabl is a startup which helps employees participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) as well as helps employers administer these plans to their employees. Taabl is currently in the pre-revenue stage but has raised money from investors and is looking to launch their product and sign customers in the next couple of weeks. We discuss how Shawn came up with the idea, how he validated the idea, how he found his partner and what next steps for Taabl look like. Let's get started!