My guest today is Howard Lindzon. It’s impossible to summarize Howard’s resume, but he’s best known for founding StockTwits and as a private and public market investor. We start this conversation with a hilarious story of his early career at CBS. We then talk about a variety of other topics, like saying no when Fred Wilson brought him the Twitter deal, his investing philosophy, the degen economy, and a lot more. Please enjoy this conversation with the one and only Howard Lindzon.

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Show Notes

(00:00:00) Welcome to Making Markets

(00:01:48) First Question - He explains the acquisition of WallStrip to CBS

(00:04:27) How he was phantom fired from CBS  

(00:04:58) Comedy and his career path background 

(00:07:41) Why he likes comedians  

(00:09:49) How he plays the social media game well

(00:11:15) Fred Wilson and the early days of Youtube

(00:12:13 Going from TheStreet to Twitter

(00:16:28) The trade off of sharing investment pros and cons publicly on Stocktwits 

(00:18:45) His public investment process versus his private investment process

(00:21:31) He explains how the market is rigged

(00:23:58) Passing on the opportunity to invest in early Twitter 

(00:26:38) The Cabal and the investment process 

(00:29:32) Founder scenarios that keep him from making deals  

(00:35:10) Network effects amongst sharing venture capital and how it works  

(00:38:41) Advice he has for new founders looking for venture capitalists

(00:42:24) Support and advice for his family wanting to found startups 

(00:44:18) Challenges and joys in private and public investing 

(00:47:58) He explains the rich man, angry man, degenerate man investment theme

(00:51:17) Sports betting and it’s market effects 

(00:53:18) His view on crypto investments and Mt. Gox 

(00:57:19) The Luckin Coffee fraud and his opinion on market opportunities  

(01:00:49) His optimism for the future 

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