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

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.