The Prompt Barry Winata

Ray is an analyst at a secondaries venture fund based in Los Angeles, focused on growth-stage companies across enterprise SaaS and consumer tech. Prior, Ray worked as an investor at an early-stage life science VC in Seattle. He is also an active angel investor.
In this episode, we talk about marketing paradigms in this new era of the creator economy. What are vibes when it comes to creating a brand, what does this all mean for the TikTok generation, dissecting interesting marketing frameworks to better understand what we’re seeing across social media, and much more.
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TBA
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Substack:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-che/
Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/raymondche_
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About Me / Newsletter:
https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube:  @barrywinata
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/
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Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
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FOR FOUNDERS:
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Get funded:
https://metagrove.vc
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ABOUT ME:
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I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
Argon Labs:
https://argonlabs.xyz
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Chris Anselmo lives with an adult-onset neuromuscular disease called limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B. Chris is the author of a newsletter called ‘Hello, Adversity’, where he writes about what to do when adversity knocks. Every week, he shares tools and strategies to help cultivate resilience in everyday life, informed by his personal journey.
In this episode expect to learn how Chris’ journey led him to start opening up about his personal story on adversity, strategies on how to deal with tough life moments, understanding what exactly is The Vise, how we shouldn’t shy away from life’s challenges, how founders and entrepreneurs can learn about resilience and much more…
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00:00 Coming up
01:05 Chris' LGMD2B journey
08:14 Starting Hello, Adversity
11:24 Agency: Not playing the victim anymore
17:51 You are not alone
24:49 Strategies to cope with adversity
34:28 Panic attacks
43:03 Biggest lessons learnt
49:07 Future plans
54:25 Outro
55:20 Connecting with Chris
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Substack: https://helloadversity.substack.com/
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CONNECT WITH ME:
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About Me / Newsletter: https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube:  @barrywinata
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/
X: https://x.com/barrywinata
RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/258746.rss
Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
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FOR FOUNDERS:
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Get funded: https://metagrove.vc/
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ABOUT ME:
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I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
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Shawn Tsao was the co-founder of Caviar. They sold it to Square for $100M. DoorDash then bought it from Square for $400M.
In this episode, expect to learn how the idea of Caviar came from a failed business, their unique partnership strategy that allowed to scale fast, the interesting discovery that made their customers loyal, why he would do it all over again (with a few tweaks), how the Square acquisition went down and much more…
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00:00 Coming up 01:15 Starting a company out of college 04:34 The fall of Groupon and business failure 07:01 Being an accidental founder 10:27 The value of being able to sell 12:56 Being influenced by your environment 16:06 Starting Caviar 18:32 Lessons learnt 22:04 Partnership strategy 23:47 Marketing 25:34 Scaling 28:25 Recruiting 31:20 Competition 34:06 Height of Caviar 35:31 High Retention 38:07 Square takes notice 43:09 Selling to Square 46:12 Continuing to build 48:00 DoorDash steps in 49:04 Would you do it all again? 50:37 Would you change anything? 52:05 Mental health 54:44 What's happening now 56:12 Routine 57:05 Connecting with Shawn
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-tsao-9361142a/
CONNECT WITH ME:
About Me / Newsletter:
https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube:  @barrywinata
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/
X: https://x.com/barrywinata
RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/258746.rss
Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
FOR FOUNDERS:
Get funded:
https://metagrove.vc
ABOUT ME:
I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
Argon Labs:
https://argonlabs.xyz
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https://affiliate.notion.so/the-prompt-ai


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Peter Buckingham leads the software organization at SambaNova Systems. SambaNova produces accelerated solutions for AI.
In this episode, expect to learn why Peter moved to Silicon Valley, how he managed to get his first job, why he’s now involved in building AI chips, what the future of AI looks like, the tug-of-war between open and closed source AI, the path towards technology leadership, how to hire strong engineers and much more…
#ai #agi #leadership
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00:00:00 Coming up
00:01:28 Peter's start in Silicon Valley
00:06:43 Job hunting in the Valley
00:13:09 How Silicon Valley has changed over 20 years
00:20:19 SambaNova
00:27:17 Going against NVIDIA
00:32:55 AI ecosystem
00:36:33 Doubling down on Gen AI
00:40:24 Open source vs. Closed source AI
00:46:09 Startups vs Scale-ups
00:56:42 Becoming a leader
01:03:31 Hiring great engineers
01:07:16 Recommended books/podcasts
01:11:34 Mental Models
01:13:41 Daily Routine
01:16:39 Connecting with Peter
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Peter’s LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fifors
Peter’s Twitter: @pmb232
Fave Books:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- High Output Management, Andy Grove
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About Me / Newsletter: https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube: @barrywinata
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/
X: https://x.com/barrywinata
RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/258746.rss
Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
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FOR FOUNDERS:
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Get funded: https://metagrove.vc
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ABOUT ME:
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I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
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Instead of making decisions on gut feel all the time, here's one method and framework to help make tough and hard decisions easier for every aspect of your life, from deciding to start a business (startup), or moving jobs to relationships and personal growth.
Learn how to break down the benefits and costs into worst-case, most likely, and best-case scenarios.
This is the perfect video for those being faced with an important and potentially life-changing decision.
#decision making #leadership #personal growth #mindset
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00:00 Introduction
01:04 High-level example decisions
02:15 Traditional: benefits / cost
03:07 Worst, most likely, best-case scenarios
03:47 Probabilities
04:36 Example: Moving Jobs
07:45 The Decision Algorithm
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About Me / Newsletter: https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube:  @barrywinata 
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/ 
X: https://x.com/barrywinata 
RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/258746.rss
Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
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FOR FOUNDERS:
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https://metagrove.vc/ 
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ABOUT ME:
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I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
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Zach is currently the Head of Solutions Engineering at Rippling. Previously, he was the VP of Solutions Engineering at Slack, and has led solutions engineering at Optimizely and Box. 
In this episode, expect to learn how startups can build out a solutions engineering team the right way, why the SE function is different to customer success and sales, the powerful and measurable benefits SE can have on a business, the impact AI will have on this space, the ups and downs of working with early-stage companies, advice for founders and people thinking about entering this field and much more…
#startup #solutionsengineering #business
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Solutions Engineering 101
03:10 Benefits of having SE in your organization
05:25 Differences between SE and non-SE organizations
07:36 Creating a SE pipeline and process
10:07 The benefits of ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)
14:13 How to build a strong SE team
16:50 Hiring great solution engineers
19:52 The ups and downs of a startup
22:35 Understanding Customer Success
27:06 Advice for founders
30:05 Impact of AI on the SE space
34:10 Recommended podcasts/books
35:47 Mental models/decision making
36:56 Daily Routine - selfcare
38:35 Connecting with Zach 
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Zach’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zlawryk/  
Recommended Podcasts: Daily Rundown, Invest Like the Best
Recommended Books: Going Infinite (FTX Scandal)
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CONNECT WITH ME:
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About Me / Newsletter: https://barrywinata.ck.page/
YouTube:  @barrywinata 
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@barrywinata/podcasts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrywinata/ 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.prompt_/ 
X: https://x.com/barrywinata 
RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/258746.rss
Patreon Support: https://www.patreon.com/barrywinata
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FOR FOUNDERS:
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https://metagrove.vc/ 
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ABOUT ME:
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I'm an engineer, founder, and investor. I've worked across Silicon Valley with hundreds of founders and early-stage companies. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work alongside amazing founders and entrepreneurs. This channel is to help support the next generation of leaders.
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AFFILIATES:
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Riverside: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_2&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=theprompt


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