rational vc
Every episode we explore a Lindy book, and find ideas you can use in business and life. rationalvc.com. Learn from history's greatest intellectuals, investors, scientists, and founders. “Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one’s own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time… And in my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time – none, zero.”—Charlie MungerPodcasts
#049 - The Podcast Is Pivoting And Rebranding!
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 34 seconds
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#048 - Jim O'Shaughnessy (OSV.LLC): Becoming a More Nuanced Thinker
Published: May 24, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 34 seconds
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#047 - Jonny Blausten: Sprout CEO, democratising venture capital, from consulting to running startups, content creation and future of VC
Published: May 3, 2023, 5:05 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 15 seconds
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#046 - Ben Awad: Becoming the Internet's Most Impactful Programmer
Published: March 22, 2023, 10:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds
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#045 - Jack Raines (YoungMoney.co): The Fastest Growing Finance & Money Blogger On The Planet Right Now
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 43 seconds
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#044 - Luke Burgis: Author of Wanting, Mimetic Theory in Business, Investing, Life and Relationships
Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds
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#043 - Rational Musings: Start a VC Fund or a Syndicate?
Published: Aug. 1, 2022, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 56 seconds
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#042 - Michael Safai of Dexterity Capital: Trading Between $2 Billion and $4 Billion in Crypto Per Day, And Why Volatility Is Great
Published: July 5, 2022, 11:36 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 46 seconds
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#041 - Rational Musings: Antifragile Principles for Investing and Life
Published: May 3, 2022, 3:21 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds
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#040 - Eric Jorgenson: Navalmanack, Leverage, Building Wealth & Judgement, Angel Investing, Web3, Publishing Content, & Productising Yourself
Published: March 30, 2022, 8:47 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 46 seconds
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#039 - Rational Musings: Principles for Anti-Mimesis and Living a Counter-Cultural Life
Published: March 14, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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#038 - Mac Conwell ("Mac the VC"): RareBreed.VC, From Homeless to Launching a $10million Fund
Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds
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#037 - Odin: Founders Paddy Ryan & Mary Lin discuss access to venture, community building and Europe vs US
Published: Jan. 10, 2022, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 47 seconds
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#036 - Andrew Gazdecki: MicroAcquire.com, Building 3 Successful Companies & What Makes a Great Founder
Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 8:53 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 3 seconds
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#035 - Rational Musings: Principles for Investing, Business, Life and Learning: How to Approach Building Your Personal Principles with Rational VC
Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 5:26 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 56 seconds
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#034 - Rational Musings: Lack of Authenticity EVERYWHERE, & Applying Wall Street DNA to Venture Capital
Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 39 seconds
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#033 - Samir Kaji: Allocate.co, The Future of VC & Angel Investing, Emerging Managers, Market Valuations & More
Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 45 seconds
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#032 - Rational Musings: The Generational Shift Within VC, Mimetic Desire, & Hiring Struggles
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 3:25 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 53 seconds
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#031 - Rational Musings: a16z Vs. Sequoia, Future of Expertise, & Content Creation
Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 35 seconds
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#030 - Rational Musings: Angel Investing, Y Combinator Valuations, Due Diligence, Portfolio Allocation & Investment Inertia
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 51 seconds
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#029 - Rational Musings: Hacker Homes, Tesla's Artificial Intelligence, Space Race, Climate Change, & OnlyFans
Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds
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#028 - Will Bruey: SpaceX Veteran Raising $50MM+ from Founders Fund, Khosla, Naval Ravikant and Pioneering Space Manufacturing (Varda.com)
Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 26 seconds
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#027 - Rational Musings: Emerging VC Managers, Space Race, Self-Aware Founders, & Fundraising Records
Published: July 26, 2021, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds
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#026 - Rational Musings: James Anderson, Startup Boom, Woke Culture In Big Tech, Microsoft Moves, & Investing In Nvidia
Published: July 5, 2021, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds
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#025 - Rational Musings: Unicorns, VC Risk Appetite, Tiger Cubs, Babylon SPAC, & EU vs US Business
Published: June 14, 2021, 1:03 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds
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#024 - Rational Musings: Learnings From Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting 2021
Published: May 26, 2021, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds
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#023 - Rational Musings: Bitcoin Crash, Now What? Revisiting Pros and Cons, Plus the State of European VC
Published: May 21, 2021, 10:07 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds
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#022 - Rational Musings: Doordash, Crazy Valuations, Apple the New King of M&A, Death of SPACs, & Hiring Forever Changed
Published: May 12, 2021, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds
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#021 - Kiyan Zandiyeh: The World's Leading Tech Investor In Frontier Markets (SturgeonCapital.com)
Published: May 3, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds
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#020 - Dr. Cameron Sepah: Founder, Investor, Professor, Harvard Psychologist, & Exec Coach to Elite CEOs & VCs
Published: April 19, 2021, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 46 seconds
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#019 - Giri Sreenivas: Raising $4MM From Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian To Take Back Control Of Personal Data (thehelm.com)
Published: April 5, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds
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#018 - Special Ep: What Cyrus Learned From Peter Kaufman on The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
Published: March 22, 2021, 11:24 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds
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#017 - Amir Nooriala: From Executive At Europe's Most Valuable FinTech To Joining Accel-Backed Callsign
Published: March 16, 2021, 11:03 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes
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#016 - Ruben Harris: Educating 1-Billion People and Raising $10MM from Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan
Published: March 1, 2021, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds
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#015 - Building the Largest Community for Women in Tech & VC: Sarah Nöckel - Femstreet and Northzone
Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds
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#015 - Sarah Nockel: Building the Largest Community for Women in Tech & VC (Femstreet and Northzone VC)
Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds
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#014 - Go Tech or Go Extinct, and Why Value Investing Is Dead: Paul Cuatrecasas - aquaapartners.com
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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#014 - Paul Cuatrecasas: Go Tech or Go Extinct, and Why Value Investing Is Dead (aquaapartners.com)
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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#013 - Sean Seton-Rogers: Leaving the US and Taking Over European VC (PROfounders Capital, Ex-Benchmark)
Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 11:44 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 59 seconds
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#012 - From Founder to Setting Up a VC & PE fund: Bart Macdonald - Bloom Venture Partners
Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
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#012 - Bart Macdonald: From Founder to Setting Up a VC & PE fund (Bloom Venture Partners)
Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
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#011 - Cyrus and Iman's talk at the McKinsey Early Stage Investor Conference: Startup Scaling
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 11:45 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 19 seconds
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#010 - Starting a Company in a Pandemic & Raising VC Funding: Michael Ginzo - Hofy
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 1 second
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#010 - Michael Ginzo: Starting a Company in a Pandemic & Raising VC Funding (Hofy.co)
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 1 second
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#009 - SPACSMAS SPECIAL: Everything You Need to Know About Investing in SPACs
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 5:21 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds
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#008 - Leading UK FinTech VC Talks Key Criteria for Investing: Andi Kazeroonian - Outward VC
Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 13 seconds
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#008 - Andi Kazeroonian: Leading UK FinTech VC Talks Key Criteria for Investing (Outward VC)
Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 13 seconds
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#007 - Raising $70 million from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, YC: Matteo Franceschetti - Eight Sleep
Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 45 seconds
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#007 - Matteo Franceschetti: Raising $70 million from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, YC (Eight Sleep)
Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 45 seconds
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#006 - Go-To-Market & Effective Product Management
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 9:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 seconds
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#005 - Rolling Funds Are Changing Venture Capital
Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 5:52 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds
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#004 - Where Would You Invest and Why? A 20-Year View
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 3 seconds
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#003 - Breaking Into Venture Capital: Advice for 18-35 Year Olds
Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 12:03 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 41 seconds
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#002 - Venture Capital is a Game
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 6:54 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 5 seconds
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#001 - Introduction
Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds
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