Coburn Ventures Podcast #196: Building Great Investment Teams -- Investment Meetings
Aug 1, 2024
Discover the secrets to transforming investment meetings into hubs of collaboration and insight. Learn how cognitive diversity can enhance decision-making and spark unique ideas. Delve into strategies for navigating power dynamics, ensuring every voice is heard. Explore engaging techniques like the 'Greatest Hits' approach, which fosters inclusivity and energizes discussions. Get inspired to design meetings that not only improve teamwork but also lead to significantly better investment outcomes.
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False Assumptions About Meetings
- Many people wrongly assume they know how to conduct effective meetings without training.
- Success depends on designing meetings that foster uncommon, uncorrelated investable insights through collaboration.
A Memorable Bad Meeting
- Brent recalls an investment meeting with 18 people and terrible energy lasting only 25 minutes.
- Despite the group size, the meeting failed to engage and unlock insights, highlighting poor meeting design.
Wired for Collaboration and Conflict
- Humans are wired for social collaboration but also for fight-or-flight responses.
- Meeting success hinges on setting conditions that activate collaboration, not defensiveness or conflict.