23 episodes
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You need a superpower to succeed. Build your own by listening to how others did it.
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13.1: Focus on your strengths — Reshma Sohoni
Reshma Sohoni is a partner at Seedcamp, a top seed fund in Europe. They invest early in founders solving problems with technology in large, global markets.
In part 1 we talk with Reshma about:
* Why doubling-down on your strengths helps you be happy
* How exposing yourself to many things helps you professionally
* Why it’s easier to excel by combining skills than trying to be the best at one
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13.2: Superpowers and happiness — Reshma Sohoni
Reshma Sohoni is a partner at Seedcamp, a top seed fund in Europe. They invest early in founders solving problems with technology in large, global markets.
In part 2 we talk with Reshma about:
* Why doubling down on your strengths helps you be happy
* Where she stands on making decisions with gut and intuition
* Why you need to leave your comfort zone to build a superpower
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12.1: How I Work — Azeem Azhar
Azeem Azhar writes the Exponential View, a newsletter about accelerating technological change and its consequences.
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azeem not about what he knows but how he knows:
* How does he work?
* How do the tools we use shape our results?
* Being a generalist vs a specialist
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12.2: How I Think — Azeem Azhar
Azeem Azhar writes the Exponential View, a newsletter about accelerating technological change and its consequences.
Azeem’s new book is phenomenal — Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do.
We talk with Azheem about how he researches to aggregate information and turn it into such sharp insights:
* Is there value in reading material you don’t understand?
* What’s the non-ergodicity of scientific progress?
* What does perceptive technology writing have in common with social justice?
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11.1: Why Shazam was too risky — Dhiraj Mukherjee
Dhiraj Mukherjee founded Shazam, the app used by billions and sold to Apple.
We talk with Dhiraj about:
* How “losers” warned him Shazam was too risky — and realizing they were right
* Why it’s personally risky to focus on outcomes
* How to manage hyper growth
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11.2: How to succeed — Dhiraj Mukherjee
Dhiraj Mukherjee founded Shazam, the app used by billions and sold to Apple.
We talk with Dhiraj about:
* Why it’s important for the ambitious to find balance
* How Dhiraj’s family and cultural background influenced him
* Why ruthlessness and focusing on money is short-sighted
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit buildyoursuperpower.substack.com