Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors

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In Episode #107, we deconstruct Howie Schwab's peak performance playbook—from their favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on their life. Howie is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Growth of Driehaus Capital. We cover regime shifts in the market and obsessing over failures. “In terms of how we invest, I think integrating and overlaying macro as well as behavior...

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In Episode #106, we explore building a travel search engine and a trusted global brand. We’re joined by Alex Simon, Elude’s Co-Founder and CEO. We cover why the travel industry is a startup graveyard, the importance of being the merchant of record, and the difficulties and rewards of entrepreneurship. “It's not who you know, it's who knows you.” – Alex Simon EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AN...

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In this replay episode, we deconstruct Ben Boyer's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Ben Boyer is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of R-Zero and Managing Director at Tenaya Capital. We cover investing through market cycles and how to be a great board member. “I don't think you can over-network. I think it is very much a c...

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In this Replay episode, we explore how failure can be your key to success. We’re joined by Brian Scudamore, Author & Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. We cover embracing competition, bouncing back from struggles, and turning down a buyout offer. “A brand is a selection of promises that we make and keep.” – Brian Scudamore EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AND BOOKS MENTIONED) https://www.danielscrivne...

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In Episode #105, we deconstruct Gokul Rajaram's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Gokul is an angel investor and Product and Business Helper at DoorDash. We cover crypto, international investing, and habits and routines. “I always believe the hierarchy of anyone, any individual should be health, then family, then work. Why...

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In Episode #104, we explore emerging markets and the great pendulum shift. We’re joined by Howie Schwab, Lead Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Growth at Driehaus. We cover the lure of emerging markets, a behavioral focus on investing, and the impact of shifting voting demographics. “I think it's true everywhere, but data shows it's particularly true in emerging markets, which is that the per...

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In Episode #103, we deconstruct Andrew Jamison's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Andrew Jamison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Extend. We cover building diverse and cohesive teams and the definition of success. “It's about trust in the people—because you run through walls for people, you don't run through walls for a compa...

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In Episode #102, we explore the super angel on speed, small teams, product management, and the S.P.A.D.E. decision framework. We’re joined by prolific angel investor Gokul Rajaram. We cover the product analyst role, and focusing on controllable inputs, and editing vs. managing a product.  “The best product leaders coach people across the company, not just in their team, and help develop them into...

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In Episode #56, we deconstruct Vivek Sodera's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Vivek is the Co-Founder of Superhuman. We cover identifying great founders, opportunities for growth, and having accountability partners for health. “I'm trying to optimize for happiness. I'm not trying to optimize for ego.” – Vivek Sodera EPIS...

In this Replay episode, we explore building the world's first crypto hedge fund and growing to $6B in AUM. We’re joined by Joey Krug, Co-Chief Investment Officer of Pantera Capital. We cover lessons from investing in volatile markets, DeFi and the future of prediction markets, and branding in crypto. “When you're investing and you have a position that you think you have conviction in, where you th...

In Episode #101, we deconstruct Alex Rubalcava's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Alex Rubalcava is Partner at Stage Venture Partners. We cover the coming energy transition and advice for founders and investors. “No one in the world has an urgent problem that will get solved by investing in some random guy's venture capit...

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In Episode #100, we explore the power of virtual cards, building two-sided products, and selling into enterprises. We’re joined by Andrew Jamison, co-founder and CEO of Extend. We cover starting from scratch in the payment space, building software in a startup environment, and the differences between working in a large corporation and in a startup. “Nothing good really happens with cash.” – Andrew...

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Eric Markowitz shares his journey from being an award-winning journalist to the Director of Research at Worm Capital—leading all of the research that informs Worm’s concentrated, long-only, technological disruption investment focus. Eric shares why investing is all about making good calculated bets, the important of slowing down the research process, how he avoids making behavioral mistakes, and s...

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