Village Global Podcast

Tyler Cowen on Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Jun 3, 2022

50:48

Creator website

Episode guests

Daniel Gross

Tyler Cowen

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Field Building on Talent Identification, Talent Cultivation

02:00

Is There a Social Capital in Investing?

01:44

elon is the best engineer in the company

01:50

Are You the Leader?

01:32

Introduction

2min

Is There a Field Building on Talent?

2min

How Do You Seem to Be Evaluating Talent?

2min

Is There a Social Capital in Investing?

3min

Should There Be More Structures for the 16 Year Oldyean An?

2min

Are You a Super Fan?

2min

Are You a Twitter Based Public Intellectual?

2min

How to Pick the Right Hierarchies

2min

Are You the Leader?

2min

10.

Stamina in Young People

2min

11.

How Do You Evaluate Motivations?

2min

12.

Late Bloomers - What Do We Not Know Enough About?

2min

13.

How Much Is This Person in Knucklehead?

3min

14.

How to Match Founders and Ideas O Craters?

2min

15.

Is There a Future for Writing?

2min

16.

Emerg Ventures - I Wish I Had Hired Who?

3min

17.

Will Twitter Be the Most Influential Thing Elon Does?

2min

18.

Organizing the World's Ambition

2min

19.

You Don't Have to Be a Black Person to Write a Book

2min

20.

Are You a Venture Capitalist?

2min

21.

The Future of Emergent Ventures

2min

22.

How Do We Raise Aspirations?

3min

23.

What Is the Equivalent of Musical Scales?

3min

24.

Do You Have a Next Book Already Picked Out?

2min

Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) is an economist, professor, and best-selling author. His latest book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, written with co-author Daniel Gross, is available now. Tyler discusses how to discover undervalued talent, the importance of stamina, the best interview questions, peer ratings, late bloomers, and more.

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