๐๐พ Hi friends!
As the podcast continues to scale (knocking on the door of 10k subscribers now ๐คฏ ) Iโm continuing to try and ensure that the quality of the content grows with it.
This week we have the second part of a two part episode I recorded with Fred Destin and itโs a banger.
Hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording it!
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Now letโs get down to businessโฆ
“๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป’๐ ๐ณ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป.”
Check out this incredible second part to my two part interview with Fred Destin, Founder at Stride.VC on Nothing Ventured – out now ๐ฅ
Here are just a few of the things Fred had to say in this episode, I cannot recommend listening to it enough ๐ฅ
One of the most human, thoughtful conversations I’ve had with a VC in a long time ๐
Just some of the truth bombs Fred had to share…
๐ก “You can be a generalist, but you can’t be generic.”
๐ “You drop the worst fucking advice on the planet.”
๐๐พ “I really want to be seen to be helpful by my founders.”
๐ฆธ๐ป “I do not want to be your legend.”
โค๏ธ “It is the love of the craft that drives you rather than necessarily just the outcome.”
๐ “Real-time for me is a bug, not a feature.”
๐คทโโ๏ธ “The algorithm will do whatever the fuck the algorithm is going to do ultimately.”
๐ช “Check your biases at the door, confirmation biases, pattern recognition, super dangerous, your past experience is not always a good guide.”
๐ญ “The art of listening, the art of thinking about what you’re saying rather than saying what you want to say.”
๐ฅฑ “So all this labeling and simplification, so all of it’s lazy thinking.”
๐คฏ “Venture’s fucking hard. People forget how hard it is to build value sustainably.”
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Stay liquid ๐
Aarish
