The Overton Window Is Shifting | Anthony Pompliano
Gm! This week we're joined by Anthony Pompliano to discuss the current state of markets, the economy & politics. We deep dive into the rise of populism, why tariffs are not actually inflationary, how to build a great business, advice for founders & much more. Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:58) Globalism, Populism & The Rise Of Technology
(11:04) Ads (ZKsync & Geodnet)
(13:06) The State Of Politics In America Today
(20:00) Are Tariffs Inflationary?
(29:23) Ads (ZKsync & Geodnet)
(31:25) The Trump Impact
(33:50) The Overton Window
(39:56)Berkshire Hathaway Is A Meme
(47:48) Ads (Aptos, Bitwise, Wallet Connect)
(50:07) The Rise Of Retail Investors
(57:24) How To Build A Great Business
(01:04:19) Advice For Founders
(01:08:00) How To Live An Extraordinary Life
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Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin, Portfolio for 2024, Institutional Adoption & Crypto Tribalism
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0:00 Intro 6:25 Bitcoin Halving 12:07 Institutional Adoption 24:08 Bitcoin ETF Aftermath 34:02 Institutional Dangers 41:49 Bitcoin Evangelism 49:44 Culture Wars 1:03:47 US vs Crypto 1:13:46 Bear Market Learnings 1:16:35 Pomp’s Focus 1:23:04 Pomp’s Portfolio 1:27:48 Lightning Round 1:31:59 Closing & Disclaimers
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The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
Episode 567: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Anthony Pompliano ( https://twitter.com/apompliano ) about Michael Saylor’s $900M bet on Bitcoin, invisible blue-collar businesses he’s buying, plus 10 tech startups that could 10x your income and your reputation.
Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5
Listen to the first episode of MoneyWise here - https://tinyurl.com/7m5ff3rt
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(00:25) Bitcoin going up?
(5:26) Michael Saylor's bet-the-company, burn-the-boats strategy
(14:18) Pomp's take: genius or insane?
(16:42)Product manager to people manager to money manager
(20:35) Pomp's weird side businesses
(28:51) The truth about buying blue-collar businesses
(30:01) You can't put rocket fuel in a car
(35:06) The prolific ownership of Philip Anschutz
(36:35) Pomp's List: Startups You Should Work For
(38:58) 10X reputation: Anduril or OpenAI
(43:37) Shaan interviews at Facebook
(50:35) 10X Potential: Eight Sleep, Varda, Figure.ai, Traba, Placer.ai, Rainmaker, Galvanick
(1:04:45) How Pomp thinks about trade positions
(1:10:28) A simple thesis on Solana
(1:11:22) Being early on Andrew Tate
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Links:
• MicroStrategy - https://www.microstrategy.com/
• Out Where The West Begins - https://tinyurl.com/4v5mc8y5
• Figure - http://figure.ai/
• Eight Sleep - https://www.eightsleep.com
• Varda - https://www.varda.com/
• Traba - https://traba.work/
• Placer - https://www.placer.ai/
• Rainmaker - https://www.makerain.com/
• Galvanick - https://www.galvanick.com/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Pomp Shares 3 Non-Obvious Business Ideas with Massive TAMs
Episode 524: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) are joined by Anthony Pompliano about what secret sauce makes for the most successful investors, billionaires you’ve probably never heard of, plus three 10/10 business ideas.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:20) Meeting hedge fund legend Julian Robertson
(10:00) What makes a master investor
(13:00) Pomp's $1M bet
(20:00) Warren Buffett: Finance's first influencer
(26:00) Idea 1 - Real estate content platform
(32:00) Navigating the idea maze
(35:00) How Nikita Bier engineers virality
(40:30) 7X billionaire Brad Jacobs
(46:30) Idea 2 - Persistent Patrol Companies
(53:00) Idea 3 - AI agents
(59:00) Pomp's business portfolio
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Links:
• Tiger Management - https://www.tigerglobal.com/
• ResiClub - https://www.resiclubanalytics.com/
• “How to Make a Few Billion Dollars” - https://tinyurl.com/ybtrwxey
• Jakob Greenfeld’s list - https://tinyurl.com/yjn52dek
• Upwork - https://www.upwork.com/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Part 2: Pomp On His Businesses, Young Rock Star Employees, And The Internet Entrepreneur Hero
Episode 434 Part 2: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to explain his businesses, how he gets rock stars on his side, and what internet entrepreneurs that stand out right now.
Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.
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Links:
* Mark Jenney
* Daniel Gross
* Pomp Crypto Jobs
* The Crypto Academy
* Pomp Investments
* @pompglobal (Instagram)
* @pompofficial (TikTok)
* The Pomp Podcast
* Anthony Pompliano
* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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Show Notes:
(02:35) - How Pomp makes money
(30:05) - How to get young rockstars on your side
(50:20) - Who's the one internet entrepreneur you think has figured it out?
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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Additional episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Part 1: Pomp On Balaji's 90 Day Bitcoin Bet, Digital Catastrophes, And Failing Banks
Episode 434 Part 1: In part one of today's show, Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to talk about the failing banks situation, Balaji Srinivasan's Bitcoin bet regarding banks, and digital catastrophes.
Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.
SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com
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Links:
* Pomp substack
* @balajis
* Pomp Crypto Jobs
* The Crypto Academy
* Pomp Investments
* @pompglobal (Instagram)
* @pompofficial (TikTok)
* The Pomp Podcast
* Anthony Pompliano
* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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Show Notes:
(07:00) - Who is Pomp?
(07:45) - Balaji bet
(17:20) - Failing banks
(25:15) - Balaji's Reply to Shaan
(37:35) - Digital catastrophes
(45:45) - What are you doing in 90 days
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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Additional episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Brains: Talking Money with Anthony Pompliano and Sam Parr
How do you make a ton of money on the internet, and how do you manage it once you've got it? In this crossover episode from the Brains podcast, we have a fun discussion about money with Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) who's a Bitcoin 9-figure millionaire and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) who sold his startup The Hustle for a reported $27 million. Whether you enjoy this crossover episode or not, tweet me and let me know! I'm @csallen on Twitter.
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#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:54) – Army
(16:35) – Iraq
(24:14) – Will there always be war?
(31:27) – Bitcoin maximalism
(39:56) – Money is a belief system
(42:27) – Bitcoin
(46:03) – Censorship
(50:35) – Bitcoin as main currency
(59:27) – Scarcity creates value
(1:01:08) – Money is time
(1:09:34) – Eric Weinstein vs Bitcoin Community
(1:23:23) – Ray Dalio
(1:40:31) – Bitclout
(1:43:43) – How to get Bitcoin
(1:54:28) – Investing
(2:05:05) – Volatility
(2:18:08) – Philosophy of the meme
(2:28:03) – Dogecoin
(2:37:33) – NFTs
(2:43:21) – Virtual reality
(2:48:17) – AI
(2:54:18) – Bitcoin resources
(2:58:44) – Book recommendations
(3:01:22) – Can money buy happiness?
(3:03:16) – Meaning of life
#100 with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano - The "Export Framework" to Business Creation
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to hear about his time at Facebook and kick around a few ideas. In today’s episode Pomp talks about his experience at Facebook and Snapchat (4:05), Pomp gives the background on how he got into tech after a career in the Army (11:25), Sam expounds on the book Tribes and the impact he thinks it can have on businesses looking to build camaraderie (18:50), Pomp pitches how to reinvent dating apps to be more authentic (24:25), all three of the guys talk about how to get customers to "hook" to your product (33:05), Shaan talks about the future of automation (41:05), the group talks about how good training programs can be huge recruitment tools (50:00). - https://twitter.com/APompliano: Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano - Investments Pomp’s made: https://www.imperfectfoods.com/ (Pomp invested at $12m valuation), https://www.everlywell.com/ (Pomp invested at a $15m valuation), https://cubcoats.com/ - Book recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381 - https://lunchclub.ai/: Helps you make professional connections - https://thehustle.co/04212020-silicon-valley-clubhouse/: Audio-only social network - https://muzmatch.com/en-US/: Dating app for muslims - https://dilmil.co/: Indian dating app - https://launchdarkly.com/: Another example of an “export business”. LaunchDarkly is a “feature management” tool whose origin was within Facebook. - https://amplitude.com/: Helps companies boost engagement by analyzing data to show what signals to look for. - https://twitter.com/sweatystartup: Storage investor and service business advocate. - https://www.healthstream.com/: Teaches medical personnel latest procedures. An example of a - https://www.eagletransfer.com/: Commercial moving business owned by Sam’s father-in-law. - https://pos.toasttab.com/: POS restaurant system - https://bit.ly/2XR7sSY Convo between Kevin Systrom and Matt Cohler, on selling Instagram to Facebook This episode is presented by Tempo! Check them out at tempo.fit and use code "TempoHustle" for $100 off. Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion.
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E1078 Pomp Podcast Crossover: Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano on most exciting crypto projects, Hey vs. Apple, Robinhood/Barstool traders, Zuck vs. Bezos, Jason’s Bitcoin position & more!
Pomp Podcast x TWiST crossover
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Anthony Pompliano - Full Tilt Investing- [Invest Like the Best, EP.74]
My guest this week is Anthony Pompliano. Pomp began his career in the military, and has since been a successful entrepreneur, worked as a head of growth at Facebook, and started Full Tilt Capital, an early stage investing firm in North Carolina.
This conversation has three memorable sections. Early on, we discuss the four traits Pomp looks for in founders, which we cover in detail. These double as traits that are important when hiring anyone. Next, we discuss his unique take on cryptocurrencies, where he is excited about the prospects for tokenized securities. Finally, we explore a unique media company, Bar Stool Sports, and what makes it such a powerful brand.
Please enjoy our somewhat abbreviated discussion and know we will continue the conversation soon.
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Links Referenced
Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports’ Secret Billion Dollar Plan
Books Referenced
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Show Notes
2:06 - (First Question) – Recap of Anthony’s military career
4:07 – Most memorable experience while deployed
5:27 – Transition out of the military and how it shaped his investing philosophy
11:19 – investing philosophy of Full Tilt, starting with deal economics
10:00 – Attributes of an ideal founder
13:50 - Where you actual learn the attributes that make you a good founder
14:40 – Time that Anthony has taken the biggest risk in life
16:45 – What is the viewpoint that Full Tilt has today that gives it Alpha in the market
18:47 – Why tokenized securities could be advantageous for investors in a company
19:51 – Anthony’s explanation of a tokenized security and what needs to happen for this idea to be fully realized in the market
22:22 – What could be the impact on the markets of making liquidity in venture so readily available
24:39 – What are tokenized securities actually invested in in the real world
27:42 – What does Anthony think about the commodity risk
29:04 – Describing Standard American Mining, a company they incubated
29:58 – Exploring the shift from a CPU world to a GPU world
31:49 – Getting involved in places where we haven’t caught up with the rest of the world
33:05 – Anthony’s interest in Barstool Sports
33:11 – Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports’ Secret Billion Dollar Plan
37:09 – Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
39:02 – What lessons from Full Tilt world would Anthony share with others in the more traditional business world
40:35 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Anthony
Learn More
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20VC: Why Cheque Size & Follow On Decision-Making Does Not Matter, Why Intelligence Is Overrated & Why You Should Do Everything You Can To Make Other People Successful with Anthony Pompliano, Founding Partner @ Full Tilt Capital
Anthony Pompliano is the General Partner @ Full Tilt Capital, the firm that wants to reinvent friends and family investingby democratizing access to opportunity for the thousands of founders who are underserved. They have done 22 deals in just 90 days and shows no signs of pulling back. Prior to VC, Anthony lead the growth team at Snapchat and before that ran product and growth teams @ Facebook.
In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Anthony made his way from leading startup exec with Facebook and Snapchat to being General Partner @ Full Tilt Capital?
2.) Anthony has previously said that he likes to 'prioritize the founder over the company', is this any different to the traditional 'founder-friendly VC'? How does Anthony like to stress test the founder's ability to withstand stress *& establish comfort with unpopular decisions?
3.) How does Anthony respond to suggestions that 39 investments in 9 months is 'spray and pray'? Why does Anthony believe that cheque size and follow on allocation does not matter?
4.) How does Anthony differentiate between 'picking' and 'building' investments? Why do most VCs go wrong with their thesis around this and the belief in the 'J Curve'? Is it possible that the traditional J curve does not correspond to outsized returns?
5.) How does Anthony respond to Hunter Walk's thesis around the presence of 'dark deal flow'? With such a growing portfolio, how does Anthony scale his ability to add value with the ever scaling portfolio number?
Items Mentioned In Today's Show:
Anthony's Fave Book: Rich Dad Poor Dad
Anthony's Fave Blog/Podcast: Polina Marinova: The Profile
Anthony's Most Recent Investment: Everly Well
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