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Favorite Podcast Clips 🎙️⭐️

My favorite podcast clips from the world of startups, venture capital, and investing

Playlist@mattwilson

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Favorite Podcast Clips 🎙️⭐️

My favorite podcast clips from the world of startups, venture capital, and investing

Playlist@mattwilson

How to evaluate risk units vs nominal returns image

How to evaluate risk units vs nominal returns

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Questions LPs should ask when GPs raise larger funds image

Questions LPs should ask when GPs raise larger funds

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Top Traits of Successful Venture Investors image

Top Traits of Successful Venture Investors

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How to think about AI wrappers as an entry wedge to build a durable business image

How to think about AI wrappers as an entry wedge to build a durable business

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

LPs: Ask this critical question when doing GP/VC reference checks image

LPs: Ask this critical question when doing GP/VC reference checks

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

Why startups shouldn’t hire high-priced execs from large established corporations image

Why startups shouldn’t hire high-priced execs from large established corporations

This Week in Startups

What VCs look for when deciding to invest image

What VCs look for when deciding to invest

This Week in Startups

How to discover great business & investment ideas image

How to discover great business & investment ideas

My First Million

How to ask a founder for liquidity image

How to ask a founder for liquidity

This Week in Startups

How to properly price your product image

How to properly price your product

My First Million

VC ROI: Contrarian + Right vs Consensus image

VC ROI: Contrarian + Right vs Consensus

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

Must-have KPIs for growth-stage software companies image

Must-have KPIs for growth-stage software companies

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How to position your cap table ahead of an IPO image

How to position your cap table ahead of an IPO

This Week in Startups

Steph Curry’s Secrets to Success: You’re Rewarded in Public for What You Practice in Private image

Steph Curry’s Secrets to Success: You’re Rewarded in Public for What You Practice in Private

My First Million

Attributes VC LPs look for in Emerging Manager GPs image

Attributes VC LPs look for in Emerging Manager GPs

This Week in Startups

Characteristics of Top Founders image

Characteristics of Top Founders

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How to communicate with LPs when a portfolio company shuts down image

How to communicate with LPs when a portfolio company shuts down

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Handling Critics, Naysayers and Keeping It Real image

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Handling Critics, Naysayers and Keeping It Real

Founders

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Master the Basics image

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Master the Basics

Founders

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Greatness Attracts Greatness image

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Greatness Attracts Greatness

Founders

How institutional LPs evaluate new emerging managers image

How institutional LPs evaluate new emerging managers

"The Limited Partner" with David Weisburd and Erik Torenberg | Examining the LP and VC Ecosystem

What key attributes institutional LPs look for when choosing to back emerging managers image

What key attributes institutional LPs look for when choosing to back emerging managers

"The Limited Partner" with David Weisburd and Erik Torenberg | Examining the LP and VC Ecosystem

How an Effective Board should handle Down Rounds, Dilution and reaching a Market-clearing Price image

How an Effective Board should handle Down Rounds, Dilution and reaching a Market-clearing Price

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

The Importance of a Prepared Mind when assessing Emerging AI Companies image

The Importance of a Prepared Mind when assessing Emerging AI Companies

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

The Optimal Quadrant for VC Investing: Bottom Third of Pricing + Early in a Super Cycle image

The Optimal Quadrant for VC Investing: Bottom Third of Pricing + Early in a Super Cycle

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How to track OKRs as a VC GP image

How to track OKRs as a VC GP

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

7 Human Hijacks to 100x Your Sales image

7 Human Hijacks to 100x Your Sales

My First Million

Continuation Vehicles: How GPs and LPs can generate early DPI in VC funds image

Continuation Vehicles: How GPs and LPs can generate early DPI in VC funds

Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures

How the process of an LP secondary works image

How the process of an LP secondary works

Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures

The difference between LP Secondaries vs Direct Secondary selling image

The difference between LP Secondaries vs Direct Secondary selling

Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures

Customer Experience is your competitive advantage image

Customer Experience is your competitive advantage

This Week in Startups

Why Smaller Funds Produce Better Returns image

Why Smaller Funds Produce Better Returns

"The Limited Partner" with David Weisburd and Erik Torenberg

How to Write Proper Investor Updates image

How to Write Proper Investor Updates

My First Million

Invest in Animals: characteristics of successful founders image

Invest in Animals: characteristics of successful founders

My First Million

Mistakes WILL happen, so optimize for Fast Fixes to maintain NPS image

Mistakes WILL happen, so optimize for Fast Fixes to maintain NPS

My First Million

Why Rob Dyrdek believes you should go to business school image

Why Rob Dyrdek believes you should go to business school

My First Million

Understanding key intricacies of QSBS image

Understanding key intricacies of QSBS

This Week in Startups

How to Get a Mentor image

How to Get a Mentor

My First Million

How Chris Sacca uses ChatGPT to build financial models & value companies image

How Chris Sacca uses ChatGPT to build financial models & value companies

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Chris Sacca: How Confirmation Bias Kills VC Deals image

Chris Sacca: How Confirmation Bias Kills VC Deals

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

How VCs think about Market Size image

How VCs think about Market Size

This Week in Startups

Why VCs prefer having a Lead Investor image

Why VCs prefer having a Lead Investor

This Week in Startups

MUST LISTEN for founders struggling to gain traction & move the needle image

MUST LISTEN for founders struggling to gain traction & move the needle

This Week in Startups

VC Playbook: How Management Company Structure impacts Firm Partner Economics image

VC Playbook: How Management Company Structure impacts Firm Partner Economics

This Week in Startups

VC Playbook: How to Create Top-Quartile LP Reporting Packages image

VC Playbook: How to Create Top-Quartile LP Reporting Packages

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

Why the Canadian VC ecosystem has failed to become a self-sustaining industry image

Why the Canadian VC ecosystem has failed to become a self-sustaining industry

The BetaKit Podcast Channel

How Pomp leverages haters to juice distribution & grow his audience image

How Pomp leverages haters to juice distribution & grow his audience

My First Million

Growth vs Profitability: What’s more important? How to assess PMF image

Growth vs Profitability: What’s more important? How to assess PMF

This Week in Startups

VC Playbook: How to assess VC referrals & what to look for in a great startup image

VC Playbook: How to assess VC referrals & what to look for in a great startup

This Week in Startups

VC Playbook: How to request updates when Founders aren’t sending them image

VC Playbook: How to request updates when Founders aren’t sending them

This Week in Startups

Founder Playbook: How to test PMF for B2B/Enterprise Companies image

Founder Playbook: How to test PMF for B2B/Enterprise Companies

This Week in Startups

Founder Playbook: How to test PMF for Consumer Companies image

Founder Playbook: How to test PMF for Consumer Companies

This Week in Startups

VC Playbook: How to maintain pro-rata when a VC wants the whole round image

VC Playbook: How to maintain pro-rata when a VC wants the whole round

This Week in Startups

How to effectively raise via 506c by using social leverage image

How to effectively raise via 506c by using social leverage

This Week in Startups

Founder Test: How to get intros to VCs image

Founder Test: How to get intros to VCs

This Week in Startups

How to clean up a cap table with preference stack overhang image

How to clean up a cap table with preference stack overhang

This Week in Startups

How to keep management teams incentivized with preference stack overhang image

How to keep management teams incentivized with preference stack overhang

This Week in Startups

CEO Playbook: Deciding who to RIF in a downmarket image

CEO Playbook: Deciding who to RIF in a downmarket

This Week in Startups

The Top 3 Key Attributes of Successful Startup Founders image

The Top 3 Key Attributes of Successful Startup Founders

This Week in Startups

3-piece Communication Framework: What, Why, So What? image

3-piece Communication Framework: What, Why, So What?

My First Million

4 Ways to Effectively Communicate with any Leader / CEO image

4 Ways to Effectively Communicate with any Leader / CEO

My First Million

Is running an Airbnb a good investment? Breaking down the ROI image

Is running an Airbnb a good investment? Breaking down the ROI

My First Million

How Ryan Hoover structured & raised Weekend Fund III image

How Ryan Hoover structured & raised Weekend Fund III

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

Know when to shut down your startup image

Know when to shut down your startup

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

How to Properly Price Enterprise Software: cost vs valued-based pricing

The Logan Bartlett Show

What type of background makes for the best VC? image

What type of background makes for the best VC?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Will Generative AI and ChatGPT creat job loss?

The Logan Bartlett Show

There is no smart money in VC… image

There is no smart money in VC…

My First Million

How LPs evaluate a new GP: Quality Dealflow, Sourcing, Winning, (Not Picking) image

How LPs evaluate a new GP: Quality Dealflow, Sourcing, Winning, (Not Picking)

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How to properly calculate COGS and Gross Margin image

How to properly calculate COGS and Gross Margin

This Week in Startups

What makes an early-stage company investable for VCs?

The Logan Bartlett Show

How first-time GPs messed up VC in 2021 image

How first-time GPs messed up VC in 2021

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Elon’s Secrets to Success: why the RATE of decision making supersedes accuracy image

Elon’s Secrets to Success: why the RATE of decision making supersedes accuracy

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

The TOP 3 metrics to include in every investor update image

The TOP 3 metrics to include in every investor update

This Week in Startups

How to generate alpha via quantitative & systematic portfolio construction image

How to generate alpha via quantitative & systematic portfolio construction

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

3 top LP questions for GPs currently raising a VC fund image

3 top LP questions for GPs currently raising a VC fund

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Determining private market valuations in today’s market image

Determining private market valuations in today’s market

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Is this inflationary cycle really that different? No, here’s why image

Is this inflationary cycle really that different? No, here’s why

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

How rising interest rates impact asset prices image

How rising interest rates impact asset prices

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

How VCs decide which companies to bridge image

How VCs decide which companies to bridge

This Week in Startups

The 5 Types of Bridge Rounds & How they Work image

The 5 Types of Bridge Rounds & How they Work

This Week in Startups

How Overfixation on Loss Aversion can Detroy Venture Returns image

How Overfixation on Loss Aversion can Detroy Venture Returns

Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

How LP capital calls can negatively impact VCs and Founders image

How LP capital calls can negatively impact VCs and Founders

This Week in Startups

How LP capital calls work in VC image

How LP capital calls work in VC

This Week in Startups

Investing in GP stakes vs. Funds image

Investing in GP stakes vs. Funds

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Venture Deals: Stock Warrants EXPLAINED image

Venture Deals: Stock Warrants EXPLAINED

This Week in Startups

Generalist vs. Specialist Investor: What’s Better?

The Logan Bartlett Show

Tom Brady’s Secrets to Success: Grit beats natural ability image

Tom Brady’s Secrets to Success: Grit beats natural ability

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: How to manage others who don’t have your same founder mentality and high standards image

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: How to manage others who don’t have your same founder mentality and high standards

Founders

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Imitation Precedes Creation image

Kobe’s Secrets to Success: Imitation Precedes Creation

Founders

What VCs look for when hiring a Junior Investor image

What VCs look for when hiring a Junior Investor

The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

Jason Calacanis’ Ultimate Networking Playbook image

Jason Calacanis’ Ultimate Networking Playbook

This Week in Startups

Why ESG is a scam image

Why ESG is a scam

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

How to empower employees to think like owners image

How to empower employees to think like owners

The Logan Bartlett Show

Why VCs don’t invest in feel-good companies image

Why VCs don’t invest in feel-good companies

This Week in Startups

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