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Finding “Home Run” Investments Motley Fool Money

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Venture capitalists don’t mind strike-outs, so long as they get their home runs. What can stock investors learn from that approach? 

Ricky Mulvey talks with Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang, co-authors of “The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth,” about:

The benefits of building an “anti-portfolio”

Why it pays to get outside of your own four walls

Lessons from a piggy bank auction


Strebulaev is also the founder of the Venture Capital Initiative and a Professor of Private Equity and Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Dang is a CEO, technology executive, and advisor who’s worked with Amazon, McKinsey, and across Silicon Valley.

Companies discussed: CRM, AAPL, IBM

Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guest: Alex Dang, llya Strebulaev
Producer: Mary Long
Engineers: Tim Sparks, Heather Horton
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Venture capitalists don’t mind strike-outs, so long as they get their home runs. What can stock investors learn from that approach? 

Ricky Mulvey talks with Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang, co-authors of “The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth,” about:

The benefits of building an “anti-portfolio”

Why it pays to get outside of your own four walls

Lessons from a piggy bank auction


Strebulaev is also the founder of the Venture Capital Initiative and a Professor of Private Equity and Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Dang is a CEO, technology executive, and advisor who’s worked with Amazon, McKinsey, and across Silicon Valley.

Companies discussed: CRM, AAPL, IBM

Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guest: Alex Dang, llya Strebulaev
Producer: Mary Long
Engineers: Tim Sparks, Heather Horton
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

37 min

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