54 min
[REWIND] Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures // early stage investing through a syndicate [CC058] upside
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- Entrepreneurship
Interview begins: 5:16
Debrief: 43:55
This week we’re revisiting CC058, a coffee chat with Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures. In this episode, we explored syndicate investing.
Unpopular Ventures is led by Peter Livingston, whose experience is almost entirely in startups – as both an operator and investor. He was the first engineer at iRhythm (IPO 2016) and was the founder/CEO at Lifesquare (backed by Kleiner Perkins).
He has been angel investing since 2013, made >150 investments to date, and has produced investment returns well within the top decile of VC industry performance.
Peter founded Unpopular Ventures to keep investing in startups – but with a bigger family, bigger checks, and bigger impact.
We discuss:
- Disagreeing about corporate VCs (9:11)
- Syndicate Model (13:37)
- Investors and the syndicate (16:13)
- Not following the traditional fund (26:35)
- Building trust (31:25)
- Edification (39:23)
Learn more about Unpopular Ventures: http://unpopular.vc/
Follow Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/unpopularvc
Follow Peter’s Syndicate: https://angel.co/unpopularvc/syndicate
Follow upside on Twitter
https://twitter.com/upsidefm
Advertise with an upside classified
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Interview begins: 5:16
Debrief: 43:55
This week we’re revisiting CC058, a coffee chat with Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures. In this episode, we explored syndicate investing.
Unpopular Ventures is led by Peter Livingston, whose experience is almost entirely in startups – as both an operator and investor. He was the first engineer at iRhythm (IPO 2016) and was the founder/CEO at Lifesquare (backed by Kleiner Perkins).
He has been angel investing since 2013, made >150 investments to date, and has produced investment returns well within the top decile of VC industry performance.
Peter founded Unpopular Ventures to keep investing in startups – but with a bigger family, bigger checks, and bigger impact.
We discuss:
- Disagreeing about corporate VCs (9:11)
- Syndicate Model (13:37)
- Investors and the syndicate (16:13)
- Not following the traditional fund (26:35)
- Building trust (31:25)
- Edification (39:23)
Learn more about Unpopular Ventures: http://unpopular.vc/
Follow Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/unpopularvc
Follow Peter’s Syndicate: https://angel.co/unpopularvc/syndicate
Follow upside on Twitter
https://twitter.com/upsidefm
Advertise with an upside classified
https://upside.fm/classifieds
54 min