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Thinking Is Cool

By: Kinsey Grant
  • Summary

  • What if we all stopped to think a little harder? To have conversations with each other? What might the world look like? I’m Kinsey Grant and together, we’re gonna find out.

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Episodes
  • Get in, we're disrupting venture capital (and there's nothing Marc Andreessen can do about it)
    Aug 26 2022

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    Meet Steph Mui, the founder and CEO of PIN, a startup innovating the venture capital model through community funds. Where Andreessen Horowitz zigs, Steph and PIN zag. Because the incentive model for venture is clearly not working (looking at you, Adam Neumann).

    So how do we rewire the money? Steph Mui has an idea or two.

    1:20 meet Steph and PIN

    3:53 how has VC traditionally worked?

    6:33 venture's competitive landscape

    8:11 the c word (community)

    13:47 community investing has risks

    17:13 rage against the money machine

    21:55 the future of VC

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    25 mins
  • How Betches beat the odds
    Aug 12 2022

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    Today, you'll hear from Sami Sage, cofounder and chief creative officer of Betches, the digital media brand behind some of your favorite podcasts (like U Up? and The Betchelor and many many more), newsletters, meme pages, and now canned cocktails.

    We talk about weathering the many storms of digital media this last decade, from the first pivot to video to the second pivot to video. Also TikTok, Instagram sucking, etc. Also? Creativity, the fallacy of determination, and more.

    Listen! Learn! Live! Laugh! Love!

    1:36 meet Sami and Betches

    5:37 the world is changing...does that mean you should too?

    9:50 pop culture & current events (Elon Musk x Ramona Singer)

    15:21 the evolution of Betches content

    Check out Sami's Morning Announcements here: https://betches.com/podcast-channel/m...

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    18 mins
  • Meet the next Nancy Meyers: Naomi Shah's founder story
    Aug 5 2022

    Presenting: Naomi Shah. Naomi is the CEO and founder of Meet Cute, the storytelling incubator breathing new life into rom-coms. We talk about her founder journey, her ambition to out-Disney Disney, and the challenges and advantages of operating in "modern" media.

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    1:01 meet (cute) Naomi

    4:10 in defense of rom-coms

    6:30 on disruption

    7:19 audio, video, and both

    11:41 modern storytelling, decoded

    16:17 defying expectations (self-set and otherwise)

    21:08 Naomi's biggest founder lessons

    28:57 watch out Disney

    Learn more about Meet Cute: https://www.meetcute.com/

    Follow Naomi: https://twitter.com/naomicshah

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    See you soon!

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    31 mins

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