VC Books/podcasts
What are the best books/podcasts to look into for breaking into VC or to learn more about specific industries?
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Try these podcasts: 1. Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman. 2. Invest Like the Best. 3. The Wall Street Lab. 4. Meb Faber Show (Not consistent with quality). 5. HBR Ideacast (Not exactly a venture capital focusing podcast, but you'll pick up a few things here and there).
Invest like the Best has some of the most profound interviews on investing, I have ever listened to.. Masters of Scale will give you a good flavour of scaling businesses; sometimes the added sound effects sound very amateur, given the subject matter is so interesting in itself.
Also, check out a16z on YouTube; they often post decent videos.
Check out Softbank interviews - you can learn a lot from those stellar investors lol
20 Minute VC is a great podcast for a newbie. Interviews with hundreds partners across all the top firms and some of the best founders you can think of. The host Harry actually broke into VC by starting the podcast in college I think and is now a partner at a seed stage fund. Must listen for anyone interested in VC imo
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Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future by Hemant Taneja - My recommendation for current industry trends within VC and the theses behind them.
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson - If you'd like to learn more about VC deal structuring and terms.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz - Has insight on entrepreneurship and tough decisions faced when building a company, more from the CEO's perspective than the investor's.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel - Dives in to unconventional thinking and driving innovation.
I am not sure about material on breaking in but in terms of early-stage investing I'd agree with the above recommendation for Venture Deals. It's a terrific book that covers everything you need to know on the structuring/terms side and what is/isn't common, etc... Plus Brad Feld is literally the nicest guy ever. Cold emailed him and he replied to me...around Christmas time!
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