Marvin Liao, 500 Startups & Yahoo: ​​Don't be a businessman, be a business, man

Startup Dads

Today’s guest was a partner at 500 Startups, investing in 400+ companies during his time there. Before this he was an executive at Yahoo, building teams in sales and marketing, as well working in his own Startups.

As you’ll hear today, Marvin has a gift for distilling big ideas and vast swathes of information into its first principles. This ability means he made one hell of a guest!

This discussion with Amrit looks into the future of work and how we can adapt to succeed (turns out Jay Z has it sussed), transformation of education through technology, and Marvin looks back over his 20+ years of experience as a ‘Silicon Valley Startup Guy’, to tell us about some things he’d do differently.

Books mentioned in today’s episode:

• 80/20 by Richard Koch
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian
• The Sovereign Individual by William Rees-Mogg
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Read Marvin’s blog, see his keynote speeches and generally keep up with what he’s doing at:

https://www.marvinliao.com/

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This week’s Startup Shout Outs:

• Theneo - automated api documentation https://theneo.io/

A Fascinate Production.