Podcasts Archives: Recent Episodes
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Anthony Zhang is the co-founder of Vinovest.co, a platform and marketplace for investing in wine and whiskey as an asset class. Anthony explains in this podcast how to add wine and whiskey to your portfolio and takes us through the origin story of his startup. This is an interesting business model, with one part […]
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What is the difference between ‘intent’ based marketing and ‘discovery’ based marketing when growing your online business? Listen to this solo episode as I break down these two very important online marketing concepts. Enjoy the episode. Yaro
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Brian Nichols in 2014 had an offer to work at Facebook, Twitter or Lyft. He chose Lyft. This was just one of the early startups he worked out, many of which turned into great experiences, but no big financial gains. This lead Brian to realize he’d rather have a small piece of lots of […]
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Several years ago I became frustrated with the label of ‘blogger’. I was frustrated because I felt the skills a person develops by writing a successful blog are really ‘Content Marketing’ skills. Not only that, you learn ‘Search Engine Optimization’ (SEO) and ‘Copywriting’ skills too. You learn how tell stories to engage people and build […]
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Matheus Riolfi Co-founder & CEO of Tint.ai, an AI powered insurance solution for companies to embed insurance as part of their product offering. A good example is Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, which requires custom insurance for each part of the world it enters. Matheus previously worked as the head of international expansion at Turo, which gave […]
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Krish Ramineni is the co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, a meeting assistant and voice intelligence platform. In this interview Krish shares the story behind his two previous startup ideas — a drone delivery company and an AI chatbot, which he built along with his co-founder. These companies are directly connected to what Fireflies is today, […]
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Yoav Vilner is the co-founder and CEO of Walnut.io, a SAAS platform creating an entire new category of no-code, cloud-based, product demonstration technology. Walnut gives sales and marketing teams the ability to create stable interactive product demos and collect insights on their usage. They are growing very fast, as you will hear in this interview […]
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Yahya Mokhtarzada, along with two of his brothers, founded Truebill, which was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion. We dived into Yahya’s background, exploring his first two companies, one started with his brothers that he left (but did enjoy a big exit of over $100 million) and an advertising company that was a true […]
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Michelle Tascoe is based in LA and has one of the longest running private one-on-one financial advice coaching practices. She’s now earning over half a million a year, but it wasn’t always like this. It’s been a long and steady journey to become a seven figure coach. The numbers break down like this – Year […]
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This is Vested Capital episode 32, featuring Thomas Smale, the founder of FE International, a leading M&A firm. I first interviewed Thomas 9 years ago. At the time his company had helped to facilitate over $5 Million in deals. Now that number is over a billion dollars in business acquisitions. I asked Thomas what led […]
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This is a solo podcast episode recorded at the start of 2022 to recap recent investment performance, including crypto, property and angel investing. I also explain why I made the decision at the start of the year to close down my flagship course, Blog Mastermind 2.0. Given 2022 started out with dramatic falls in the […]
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Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran. Mikkel runs a consultancy to help high net worth individuals move overseas, providing guidance on tax structure, visas, […]
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Arthur Menard is the CEO and co-founder of Lambs, a clothing brand that blocks 99% of EMFs (cellphone, 4G, 5G, Wifi, Bluetooth radiation) as well as 10x the amount of UVs compared to traditional clothing. His company is doing 8-figures in sales, having got their start selling men’s underwear online — which I actually purchased […]
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David Ciccarelli is the CEO and founder of Voices.com. Based in London, Canada, Voices.com provides an online marketplace, facilitating transactions between business clients and over two million voice over professionals. In this interview David shares the origin story of Voices, how they first launched their platform, secured a great domain name, attracted new customers and […]
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Teddy Kyres is the founder of Groupe Orbis, a Montreal based mortgage brokerage firm, with over 60 brokers following the system Teddy created for succeeding as a mortgage broker. Teddy is also my mortgage broker and helped me secure finance for investing in Montreal when I didn’t have much of a tax history in Canada […]
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Joshua Scigala knows a lot about crypto (thus this is a LONG episode!). He was there when Satoshi first released Bitcoin and he was unfortunately there as well when the first major exchange, Mt. Gox, collapsed. Today Joshua is leading a new Defi project called The Standard, a decentralized lending platform run by a DAO […]
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Collis Ta’eed with his wife Cyan started out with an idea — they wanted to create a marketplace where digital media producers could sell their creations to customers. They began with the then popular Flash file format and later expanded into things like WordPress themes, music, video and code. Each type of media had a […]
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Gabriele Musella is a well-educated, well-traveled, co-founder of Coinrule.com, a company where you can build or copy sets of rules for automatically trading cryptocurrencies. The company recently raised $3M+ from MKB Bank, Urban Innovation Fund, Zilliqa and many Business Angels (Kayak Co-founder, EightSleep Founder). Before that they also successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, […]
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Kison Patel is the founder of DealRoom.net, a SAAS platform for managing the lifecycle of mergers and acquisitions. Kison spent ten years of his life running his own boutique M&A advisory firm, participating in some way with 363 asset sales. During this career, Kison noted how many processes of deals were handled with very ‘old’ […]
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Russ Heddleston is the co-founder and former CEO of DocSend, which was acquired by Dropbox for $165 Million in early 2021. Russ currently works at Dropbox continuing the vision he had for DocSend. During this interview we hear how Russ went from studying at Stanford, to working at a startup called Greystripe, then as an […]
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Sara Mauskopf is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie.com, a marketplace platform that connects parents looking for childcare and preschool providers with over 250,000 centres around the USA. To date, Sara and her team have raised $15.5 Million in venture funding over three rounds, with the most recent $9 million series being led by Rethink […]
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I’m resurfacing this interview from 2016 because recently (2021) the team at MacGyver HQ has been sharing this interview on their social media, so I thought it would be a great time to share it with those new to Vested Capital. It was quite a thrill to see the actual MacGyver twitter account tweet out […]
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It’s hard to summarize all the success of Wil Schroter. He’s founded so many companies. Today he’s founder of Startups.com, a business education site and suite of tools and resources for entrepreneurs, some of which were previous startups by Wil (Fundable, Bizplan) and some were acquired (Zirtual, Clarity). Wil got his start early online, initially […]
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Tim Ferriss needs no introduction. Author, lifestyle design pioneer, angel investor (Wealthfront, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Shopify, Duolingo), peak performance bio hacker, accelerated learning leader and of course, podcast host. Tim first appeared on my original podcast all the way back in 2007 when few people knew his name and he was talking about his […]
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Sonya Petcavich is the founder and CEO of Meowtel.com, an ‘Uber for cat sitting’ service where a vetted cat sitter will come to your house and look after your kitties for as long as you need them to. Full disclosure: I am an angel investor in Meowtel and Sonya via the Jason Calacanis syndicate. When […]
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