Venture capital firms notoriously embrace risk and take big swings, hoping that one startup will become a monster hit that pays for many other failed investments. This VC approach scares established companies, but it shouldn’t. Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Ilya Strebulaev says that VC firms have proven best practices that all leaders should ... Show More
Nov 20
Future of Business: Walmart’s CEO on AI, Jobs, and Managing Rapid Change
In uncertain times, leaders at all levels can learn from what the world's best CEOs are doing to protect themselves and forge a path ahead. In this Future of Business series, IdeaCast hosts Alison Beard and Adi Ignatius sat down with four leading CEOs who manage across different ... Show More
31m 12s
May 2024
143. Adopt a VC Mindset: Achieve More by Thinking and Communicating Like a Venture Capitalist
<p>In choosing who to date, what job to pursue, or how to invest our money, most people are just looking for a reason to move forward. But according to Professor <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/ilya-strebulaev/">Ilya Strebulaev</a>, we should be looking for something ... Show More
23m 40s
Sep 2022
20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/wquist">Will Quist</a> is a Partner @ <a href="https://slow-prod.herokuapp.com/">Slow Ventures</a>. Over the last decade, the team at Slow Ventures have invested in the earliest rounds of over 500 companies including Ro ... Show More
45m 53s
Jun 2024
688: How VC Shapes Startups (with Benjamin Shestakofsky)
Welcome to an interview with the author of Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality, Benjamin Shestakofsky. This book draws on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, and examines how t ... Show More
49m 10s
Feb 2021
"Don't eat the pizza" and other bits of investment wisdom
<p>Capital Group's collegial culture shines through, as three equity portfolio analysts — Mark Casey, Lisa Thompson and Chapman Taylor — share details of a recent "lessons learned" session involving the entire investment team. Hear the compelling, at times quirky, lessons that ha ... Show More
39m 18s
Jun 2024
454: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 454, featuring an interview with the author of <em>Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality</em>, Benjamin Shestakofsky. This book draws on nineteen months of participant-observation research i ... Show More
50m 48s