Stealing Fire: how to harness flow states for performance
June 7, 2022 · < 1 min read
The consensus has been that extreme performance requires the vaunted 10,000 hours of deliberate practice which require tremendous grit and determination. Authors Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal take us on … Continue reading “”
WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture
May 9, 2022 · 2 min read
I had the pleasure of chatting with Harry Stebbings of 20VC about the current macro environment. In this far ranging conversation we discuss why a recession is the most likely … Continue reading “”
Episode 33: From VC to Web2 to Crypto with Mark Lurie
April 14, 2022 · 2 min read
Mark Lurie is the CEO and co-founder of Shipyard Software. Shipyard Software builds decentralized exchanges (DEX) for specific types of trades, traders, and instruments, starting with Clipper, a DEX with … Continue reading “”
Episode 32: Building a shipping unicorn with Laura Behrens Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Shippo
April 7, 2022 · 2 min read
Laura Behrens Wu (@LauraBehrensWu) is the co-founder and CEO of Shippo. Shippo is an API-first company focused on building shipping for 21st-century e-commerce. When Laura Behrens Wu launched her own … Continue reading “”
My conversation with Mark Peter Davis of Interplay
March 30, 2022 · 47 min read
I had a fun conversation with Mark Peter Davis of Interplay about my love of marketplaces and all things FJ Labs. The discussion was peppered with lots of entrepreneurial advice … Continue reading “”
Why?
March 21, 2022 · 8 min read
This week I was in Finse, Norway training for an upcoming polar expedition. The training involved skiing up to 25 km per day while pulling a 130-pound sled in blizzard … Continue reading “”
The Great Unknown
March 11, 2022 · 13 min read
A year ago, in Welcome to the Everything Bubble, I argued that an unprecedented combination of loose monetary and fiscal policies was fueling a bubble in every asset class. We … Continue reading “”
Episode 31: From Start-up to Grown-up with Alisa Cohn
February 17, 2022 · 2 min read
Alisa Cohn (@AlisaCohn) is a prominent startup coach who has advised founders and executives at Venmo, Etsy, DraftKings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Bloomberg. She’s one-time startup CFO, strategy consultant, … Continue reading “”
Episode 30: A Conversation with Thomas Plantenga
February 8, 2022 · 2 min read
Thomas Plantenga is the CEO of Vinted. He was born and raised in the Netherlands. Thomas was previously a Venture Partner at FJ Labs and an early member of OLX. … Continue reading “”
Episode 29: The Latest Marketplace Trends
January 31, 2022 · 4 min read
In episode 27, I took a stab at which categories investors and entrepreneurs should focus on for the coming 5 years. In today’s episode, I wanted to cover the themes … Continue reading “”
My conversation with Ted Seides on Capital Allocators
January 24, 2022 · < 1 min read
I had a fantastic and far ranging conversation with Ted Seides on Capital Allocators about my path to entrepreneurship and investing, my love of marketplaces and all things FJ Labs. … Continue reading “”
2021: Best Year Ever!
January 11, 2022 · 8 min read
The world remained mired in the personal and economic cost of the continuing pandemic, but my life reached a new pinnacle with the birth of my son, François Olivier Jean-Paul … Continue reading “”
Episode 28: What’s the deal with crypto?
November 29, 2021 · 6 min read
When Satoshi Nakamoto famously wrote the Bitcoin white paper on November 13, 2008, it proposed to solve the Byzantine Generals problem. The Byzantine Generals Problem is solving the puzzle of … Continue reading “”
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