Coburn Ventures Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

Giving ourselves clean time to think is a surprisingly counter-cultural activity. In this conversation, Mo describes why it’s so important, and Mo, Pip and I discuss a variety of modalities to support this practice.

In this mini-cast, we discuss one quick insight with cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken.

Pip and I are in conversation with Lenley Hensarling on accelerating changes in sales and development strategy.

This is the first in our series of 5 to 7 minute mini casts designed to give you a quick process insight and get you on your way.

Right now we are in the midst of the COVID-19 virus arriving in Europe and the United States, and as leaders we are called to quickly reorient to managing and leading with confidence during this time.  To help navigate this, we called up Morris Pickens, or “Dr. Mo” as his golfers call him, and to us, “Mo”, for his take. Mo is a sports psychologist and Performance Enhancement Specialist at Sea Island Golf, and personal sports psychologist to many PGA golfers. Mo’s job is to help golfers understand their emotions, refine their practice, and design a preparation routine for the best performance possible. As you might expect, he has a few thoughts on leadership in this particular time that applies to all of us: investors, business owners, entrepreneurs and family members.... In this conversation, I hope you’ll listen for a few gems from Mo, like “talk like a grand-dad would”, and “attitude is contagious, its just a matter of whether yours is worth catching”. At the end, there’s a special bonus on one of the ways Mo is adapting for his golfers as they now find themselves in the midst of an unwelcome off-season.

From Coburn Ventures, a conversation with Brynne Thompson and Pip Coburn on what Type II Error Avoidance Behavior is, what to do to identify it in your work and how to use investment process and to mitigate it.