The goal is to find new talent and fund it in a very non rocratic way. Our application is about a page, we don't ask for c vs or letters of recommendation. We're willing to take chances on ambitious people with new ideas. That's emergent ventures. Regular emergent venturers has funded a bit over 170 people. There's a separate ranch, not run by me, emergent venturous india,. which has funded somewhat below a hundred people but is growing rapidly.
How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, as it makes you better at what you already do. Perhaps more than anything else, he believes, it's practice that divides middle managers from founders, and mere good hires from the creative obsessives who end up transforming the world. Join Cowen and EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a conversation about Talent, Cowen's new book on how (and how not) to identify the talented. Hear Cowen explain why, for high-level positions, unstructured interviews are important, why stamina is usually preferable to grit, and why credentials are largely a relic of the past.