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13.1: Focus on your strengths — Reshma Sohoni
Nov 9 • 33:52
Reshma Sohoni is a partner at Seedcamp, a top seed fund in Europe. They invest early in founders solving problems with technology in large, global markets.
In part 1 we talk with Reshma about:
Why doubling-down on your strengths helps you be happy
How exposing yourself to many things helps you professionally
Why it’s easier to excel by combining skills than trying to be the be...
In part 1 we talk with Reshma about:
Why doubling-down on your strengths helps you be happy
How exposing yourself to many things helps you professionally
Why it’s easier to excel by combining skills than trying to be the be...
13.2: Superpowers and happiness — Reshma Sohoni
Nov 9 • 21:58
Reshma Sohoni is a partner at Seedcamp, a top seed fund in Europe. They invest early in founders solving problems with technology in large, global markets.
In part 2 we talk with Reshma about:
Why doubling down on your strengths helps you be happy
Where she stands on making decisions with gut and intuition
Why you need to leave your comfort zone to build a superpower
Subscribe...
In part 2 we talk with Reshma about:
Why doubling down on your strengths helps you be happy
Where she stands on making decisions with gut and intuition
Why you need to leave your comfort zone to build a superpower
Subscribe...
2.1: How I Work — Azeem Azhar
Oct 12 • 25:02
Azeem Azhar writes the Exponential View, a newsletter about accelerating technological change and its consequences.
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azeem not about what he knows but how he knows:
How does he work?
How do the tools we use shape our results?
Being a generalist vs a special...
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azeem not about what he knows but how he knows:
How does he work?
How do the tools we use shape our results?
Being a generalist vs a special...
2.2: How I Work — Azeem Azhar
Oct 12 • 25:18
Azeem Azhar writes the Exponential View, a newsletter about accelerating technological change and its consequences.
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azheem about how he researches to aggregate information and turn it into such sharp insights:
Is there value in reading material you don’t...
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azheem about how he researches to aggregate information and turn it into such sharp insights:
Is there value in reading material you don’t...
11.1: Why Shazam was too risky — Dhiraj Mukherjee
Mar 16 • 27:19
11.2: How to succeed — Dhiraj Mukherjee
Mar 16 • 34:44
10. Have a clear priority — Sunnie Groeneveld
Mar 2 • 20:00
9.1: How to build a bank — Anthony Thomson
Feb 16 • 30:11
Anthony Thomson is a serial banking entrepreneur. He’s raised over $1bn in capital over his career to start 2 banks — and currently chairs a third bank.
We talk with Anthony about:
What is trust, and how there are different forms of trust
Why chasing profits have made big banks vulnerable
How he uses his marketing background to have an edge in banking
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We talk with Anthony about:
What is trust, and how there are different forms of trust
Why chasing profits have made big banks vulnerable
How he uses his marketing background to have an edge in banking
Get on the email list at
9.2: Are there rules for success? — Anthony Thomson
Feb 16 • 19:14
Anthony Thomson is a serial banking entrepreneur. He’s raised over $1bn in capital over his career to start 2 banks — and currently chairs a third bank.
This second part is about
We talk with Anthony about:
How he raised $100m during the financial crisis
Why there are no set rules for success — and what that means for you
Serendipity and decision-making
Get on the email list a...
This second part is about
We talk with Anthony about:
How he raised $100m during the financial crisis
Why there are no set rules for success — and what that means for you
Serendipity and decision-making
Get on the email list a...
8.2: How Not to Be Stupid — Adam Robinson
Feb 1 • 41:54
This might be the most insightful interview we've had — don't risk missing it.
Adam shares his secrets on how not to be stupid.
We talk about:
- What is stupidity?
- What drives stupidity — and why are we all at risk?
- What skills can help us not act stupidly?
It’s hard to describe Adam because he’s brilliant. Among other things, he is an:
- Advisor to multi-billion dollar hedge...
Adam shares his secrets on how not to be stupid.
We talk about:
- What is stupidity?
- What drives stupidity — and why are we all at risk?
- What skills can help us not act stupidly?
It’s hard to describe Adam because he’s brilliant. Among other things, he is an:
- Advisor to multi-billion dollar hedge...
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