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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alex Mittal – Early Stage Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.119]
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My guest this week is Alex Mittal, co-founder of Funders Club. Following past guest Jeremiah Lowin, Alex is my second elementary school friend to appear on the podcast—a trend I hope continues.
Funders club is a unique venture firm, because it is build around a network of investors and entrepreneurs who submit deals for consideration and invest together. But as you’ll hear, Alex and his co-founder Boris aren’t just building an open platform for early stage investing: they also then take a very traditional venture approach, making investing decisions themselves when it comes to building a centralized portfolio.
Our conversation is about what Alex has learned investing in almost 300 early stage companies over the past 7 years.
Please enjoy.
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Show Notes
(First Question) – Inception of the Founder’s Club
– Jeremiah Lowin Podcast Episode
– How the process of their platform works
– Role of the network in Founders Club setup and success
– What he has learned from all of the data he has access to
– Early stage investing and finding the sweet spot
– What makes a really intriguing bad idea
– Why he remains so excited about Ethereum
– More bad ideas
– Apoorva Mehta on How I Built This Podcast
– Thoughts on retail and logistics and how they fit his Venn diagram of boring and crazy
– Chip and electronic design
– Companies that are not just increasing efficiencies but actually making foundational changes
– Energy and Civilization: A History
– What does he look for in founders
– Pivot or Fail
– Kindest thing anyone has done for Alex
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag
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