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Jerry Yang on China, Yahoo!, and Early-Stage Investing Oct 31, 2019

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Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, joined us in downtown San Francisco to be interviewed by Village Global co-founder and partner, Ben Casnocha.
They talked about stories from the early days of Yahoo! and lessons learned from the experience, what American entrepreneurs can learn from China, and his strategy for early-stage investing.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Elites, Decentralization, and Economics as Technology with Arnold Kling Oct 29, 2019

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Arnold Kling (@KlingBlog), author and economist, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- The future of elites.
- The charter city movement.
- His thoughts on Austrian economics.
- How he would approach regulating finance.
- Negative interest rates.
- How to solve the problem of high healthcare costs in the US.
- Universal basic income.
- What an Elizabeth Warren presidency might look like.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

The Future of Governance with Wolf Tivy Oct 27, 2019

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Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy), founder and editor of Palladium Magazine, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- The liberal order, including what it specifically entails and the evolution of it over time.
- Why what really defines the liberal order is a public story around what is acceptable and not.
- The superstructure of non-elected power in society.
- Potential alternative systems for order.
- Why even in free societies, there is a small bubble of acceptable ideas that forms an orthodoxy around what one can say and do.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Designing and Developing New Tools For Thought with Andy Matuschak Oct 24, 2019

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Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak), joins Erik on this episode. He is a technologist, designer and researcher.
They discuss:
- The key thread throughout his work and what he’s trying to accomplish.
- Why people read books despite remembering little of what they read.
- What books should look like and the features they should have in the digital age.
- Why spaced repetition is so powerful.
- His requests for startups in the space.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

The Revolt of the Public and Silicon Valley with Martin Gurri Oct 22, 2019

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Martin Gurri (@mgurri), author of The Revolt of The Public, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- Martin’s advice for Silicon Valley elites.
- How to restore trust in democracy.
- Why and how politicians became performers.
- The history of information.
- What will end the techlash.
- The results of government colliding with digitization.
… And much more.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Digital Identities For Physical Things: The Path To a Zero-Waste Economy with Vinay Gupta Oct 20, 2019

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless), CEO of Mattereum, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- The effects of overconsumption on the environment.
- The breakdown of humanity’s carbon footprint.
- Why we need to optimize waste in the same way that we optimize investment and production.
- How to reduce the perceived fragility of life for those living in poverty.
- Buckminster Fuller’s ambitions and why we’re living in the world that he wanted us to avoid.
- Why Vinay “never trusted the decentralization framework.”
- Why the vast majority of problems caused by poverty can be fixed with half a dozen simple machines but that market capitalism is not able to provide them to those in need.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

How To Make Friends on Twitter with Visakan Veerasamy Oct 19, 2019

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Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) joins Erik on this episode for a conversation about friendship, Twitter as a global brain, online communities, fame, how we can better relate to others, and more.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

The Roots of Progress with Robert Tracinski and Jason Crawford Oct 17, 2019

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Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) and Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) join Erik on this episode. Robert is an author and creator of The Tracinski Letter. Jason is an entrepreneur and runs Roots of Progress, a blog about the ascent of mankind, from the caves to computers and beyond.
They discuss:
- The idea of a “capitalism appreciation society” akin to an art appreciation society.
- The backward perspectives that people have on economic progress.
- Their answers to the critiques of capitalism as unsustainable.
- How society has changed from biological sources of resources to artificial ones over time.
- Whether automation will mean that people work less in the future.
- Growth and its relationship to democracy.
- The role of business in ensuring the welfare of people in a country.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

What Bret Weinstein Thinks About Basically Everything Oct 15, 2019

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Erik is joined on this episode by Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein). He is a biologist and evolutionary theorist.
They discuss:
- His start in the field of evolutionary biology and how he realized that the big questions everyone thought had been answered actually only seemed that way because the big questions had stopped being asked.
- Why two characteristics of a given creature or object cannot be maximized at the same time, and why thinking in terms of trade-offs explains virtually all of biology and society.
- Why he says “any utopian is not welcome at the adult table to discuss modern civilization.”
- Why we need to get over the idea that we can blueprint a society that works.
- Why markets are excellent at telling us how to do things but terrible at telling us what we should want.
- Game B and some of the stubs of that idea that exist today that could be built out.
- Why “no honorable person would choose to do what natural selection wants us to do.”
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

What Bill Janeway Thinks About Basically Everything Oct 13, 2019

Show notes

Bill Janeway (@billjaneway) joins Erik on this episode. Bill is a venture capitalist and economist and is the author of the classic book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy.
They talk about:
- Bill’s keen interest in the interface of markets and government and how that thread has weaved its way through Bill’s career.
- Why financialization has gone too far.
- The fact that Bill “lived through the last AI hype cycle” and what that means for this one.
- The difference between productive and non-productive bubbles.
- Why free marketeers should “be careful what you wish for.”
- The possibilities for global cooperation on climate change.
- Why it’s important that disruptors take time to understand how the world they’re disrupting came to be.
Remember to apply for the winter vintage of our Network Catalyst accelerator! It is a personalized program that features masterclasses from some of the best in Silicon Valley and a dedicated network leader focused on making the introductions you need to turbocharge your company. You can participate in-person in San Francisco or virtually from anywhere around the world.
Find out more and apply at villageglobal.vc/networkcatalyst.
Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.
Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.
Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

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