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ANGEL: Surviving a down market, early VC stories & more with four-cycle investor Geoff Yang | E1676

Feb 11, 2023

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How to Survive in a Downturn

03:45

What Was It Like Trying to Break Into Venture Capital?

03:15

First Republic Bank - Your Financial Partner for Life

03:09

Introduction

2min

Red Point Venture Capital

2min

What Was It Like Trying to Break Into Venture Capital?

3min

What's Your First Deal?

2min

LinkedIn Jobs - The Best Way to Find the Best Candidates

5min

What Are the Companies That Survived the Internet Bubble?

5min

How to Survive in a Downturn

4min

First Republic Bank - Your Financial Partner for Life

3min

Great Entrepreneurs Understand Risk and Reward, Right?

4min

10.

I Think This Shake Out, if You're Not Building Stuff Here, Please Leave

4min

11.

The ShakeOut of Capital Allocators: Is It Going to Be a Hard Land?

2min

12.

Investing in High Performance Networking

4min

13.

Entrepreneurship - I Can't Believe It's Working

3min

14.

Investing in VCs

6min

15.

I've Been Buying Disney and Warner Bros.

3min

16.

Are You Thinking About Retiring From Red Point?

2min

17.

Chat GPT - A Seminal Moment

5min

18.

Is There a Future for UX Design?

2min

19.

The AI Ethics Around It

2min

20.

What's Going to Be Really Scary for People?

5min

Four-cycle investor and Redpoint Ventures Co-Founder Geoff Yang joins to discuss his early years in VC (1:45), what it takes for a founder to survive in a down market (11:47), what makes CEOs like Frank Slootman and David Zaslav stand out, and more! (43:35)

(0:00) Jason kicks off the show

(1:45) Geoff Yang’s experience cracking into VC

(10:26) LinkedIn Jobs - Go to https://linkedIn.com/angel and post your first job for free.

(11:47) Surviving and thriving in a down market

(22:35) First Republic Bank - Discover what a long-term financial relationship can do for you. Visit https://firstrepublic.com today to learn more.

(23:29) Being flexible and understanding risk as an entrepreneur

(30:00) Accomplishing the most with the least

(34:05) ProsperStack - Take 10% off your subscription by mentioning TWIST at https://prosperstack.com/twist

(35:17) Geoff’s favorite investments

(43:35) Working with David Zaslav

(50:57) What’s next for Geoff + Generative AI

FOLLOW Geoff: https://twitter.com/geoff_yang