
Coburn Ventures Podcast
Conversations on investing, change and decision making.
Latest episodes

Aug 13, 2020 • 35min
#16 JP Rangaswami: “ESG: Stewardship vs. Monetization”
Data scientist and business leader JP Rangaswami expands on the impact of starting from a point of view of stewardship vs. monetization; how he expects the quality of investment metrics associated with ESG to improve, and the conditions required to act with real stewardship in business governance.

Jul 30, 2020 • 22min
#15 Tools to Study Change #4: “The Five Stages of Grieving”
Continuing our series of tools to assess change, we apply Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief to managements ability to assess reality and lead through periods of massive change.

Jul 24, 2020 • 32min
#14: Corey Loftus: “Living in the Bardo”
A deeper dive with Corey, Pip and Brynne into Coreys piece Living in the Bardo.

Jul 17, 2020 • 11min
#13: Tools to Study Change #3: “The Change Function”
Part 3 in a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.

Jul 13, 2020 • 9min
#12 Accelerating Changes: “Omnichannel on the Way to Fulfilling its Broader Possibilities”
“Omni” means all, but we have used the term omnichannel to describe retailers who compliment brick and mortar with e-commerce and mobile. In this mini-cast, we start an examination of how omnichannel is accelerating and what forms it is taking on with regard to how we work.

Jul 8, 2020 • 19min
#11 Dr. Morris Pickens: “Where is Your Locker Room?”
Adversity comes every day. What can we do to mentally prepare for it and handle it in the moment it arrives? Dr. Morris Pickens is back to explain his “locker room” process that he uses with his clients, some of the best professional golfers on the tour.

Jun 26, 2020 • 17min
#10: Tools to Study Change #2: “Seven Questions for Forecasting Change”
Part 2 of a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.

Jun 26, 2020 • 18min
#9: Tools to Study Change #1 :”Glenn Lowenstein’s Grid”
Part 1 of a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.

May 19, 2020 • 19min
#8: Rudy Karsan: “Making Decisions from the Gut”
What does it mean to “trust your gut”?We explore this question with investor and former CEO Rudy Karsan. Rudy gives examples of how he has learned to identify the many facets of gut decision-making, but also expands on the practices he uses to continue to refine his ability to trust it.

May 14, 2020 • 18min
#7 Glenn Lowenstein: “Accelerating Changes in Real Estate”
What is considered a healthy building or community in a world that was already increasingly remote? Glenn Lowenstein discusses a changing calculus in how buildings are valued, which long-held customs and rules may be fractured , and whether defining communities and buildings by productivity is missing the whole picture.