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rational vc

by Cyrus Yari and Iman Olya
51 EPISODES
Jan 2025
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#055 - Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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#054 - The Bed of Procrustes: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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#053 - Skin in the Game: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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#052 - Antifragile: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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#051 - The Black Swan: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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#050 - Fooled by Randomness: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)
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#049 - The Podcast Is Pivoting And Rebranding!
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#048 - Jim O'Shaughnessy (OSV.LLC): Becoming a More Nuanced Thinker
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#047 - Jonny Blausten: Sprout CEO, democratising venture capital, from consulting to running startups, content creation and future of VC
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#046 - Ben Awad: Becoming the Internet's Most Impactful Programmer
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#045 - Jack Raines (YoungMoney.co): The Fastest Growing Finance & Money Blogger On The Planet Right Now
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#044 - Luke Burgis: Author of Wanting, Mimetic Theory in Business, Investing, Life and Relationships
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#043 - Rational Musings: Start a VC Fund or a Syndicate?
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#041 - Rational Musings: Antifragile Principles for Investing and Life
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#040 - Eric Jorgenson: Navalmanack, Leverage, Building Wealth & Judgement, Angel Investing, Web3, Publishing Content, & Productising Yourself
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#039 - Rational Musings: Principles for Anti-Mimesis and Living a Counter-Cultural Life
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#038 - Mac Conwell ("Mac the VC"): RareBreed.VC, From Homeless to Launching a $10million Fund
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#037 - Odin: Founders Paddy Ryan & Mary Lin discuss access to venture, community building and Europe vs US
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#036 - Andrew Gazdecki: MicroAcquire.com, Building 3 Successful Companies & What Makes a Great Founder
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#035 - Rational Musings: Principles for Investing, Business, Life and Learning: How to Approach Building Your Personal Principles with Rational VC
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#034 - Rational Musings: Lack of Authenticity EVERYWHERE, & Applying Wall Street DNA to Venture Capital
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#033 - Samir Kaji: Allocate.co, The Future of VC & Angel Investing, Emerging Managers, Market Valuations & More
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#032 - Rational Musings: The Generational Shift Within VC, Mimetic Desire, & Hiring Struggles
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#031 - Rational Musings: a16z Vs. Sequoia, Future of Expertise, & Content Creation
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#030 - Rational Musings: Angel Investing, Y Combinator Valuations, Due Diligence, Portfolio Allocation & Investment Inertia
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#029 - Rational Musings: Hacker Homes, Tesla's Artificial Intelligence, Space Race, Climate Change, & OnlyFans
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#028 - Will Bruey: SpaceX Veteran Raising $50MM+ from Founders Fund, Khosla, Naval Ravikant and Pioneering Space Manufacturing (Varda.com)
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#027 - Rational Musings: Emerging VC Managers, Space Race, Self-Aware Founders, & Fundraising Records
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#026 - Rational Musings: James Anderson, Startup Boom, Woke Culture In Big Tech, Microsoft Moves, & Investing In Nvidia
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#025 - Rational Musings: Unicorns, VC Risk Appetite, Tiger Cubs, Babylon SPAC, & EU vs US Business
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#024 - Rational Musings: Learnings From Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting 2021
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#023 - Rational Musings: Bitcoin Crash, Now What? Revisiting Pros and Cons, Plus the State of European VC
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#022 - Rational Musings: Doordash, Crazy Valuations, Apple the New King of M&A, Death of SPACs, & Hiring Forever Changed
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#021 - Kiyan Zandiyeh: The World's Leading Tech Investor In Frontier Markets (SturgeonCapital.com)
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#020 - Dr. Cameron Sepah: Founder, Investor, Professor, Harvard Psychologist, & Exec Coach to Elite CEOs & VCs
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#018 - Special Ep: What Cyrus Learned From Peter Kaufman on The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
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#017 - Amir Nooriala: From Executive At Europe's Most Valuable FinTech To Joining Accel-Backed Callsign
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#015 - Sarah Nöckel: Building the Largest Community for Women in Tech & VC (Femstreet and Northzone VC)
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#014 - Paul Cuatrecasas: Go Tech or Go Extinct, and Why Value Investing Is Dead (aquaapartners.com)
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#013 - Sean Seton-Rogers: Leaving the US and Taking Over European VC (PROfounders Capital, Ex-Benchmark)
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#011 - Cyrus and Iman's talk at the McKinsey Early Stage Investor Conference: Startup Scaling
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#010 - Michael Ginzo: Starting a Company in a Pandemic & Raising VC Funding (Hofy.co)
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#009 - SPACSMAS SPECIAL: Everything You Need to Know About Investing in SPACs
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#008 - Andi Kazeroonian: Leading UK FinTech VC Talks Key Criteria for Investing (Outward VC)
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#007 - Matteo Franceschetti: Raising $70 million from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, YC (Eight Sleep)
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#006 - Go-To-Market & Effective Product Management
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#005 - Rolling Funds Are Changing Venture Capital
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#004 - Where Would You Invest and Why? A 20-Year View
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#003 - Breaking Into Venture Capital: Advice for 18-35 Year Olds
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#002 - Venture Capital is a Game
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