20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC

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🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Colonna is a Founder @ Reboot, the coaching company that helps some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and investors with the internal ups and downs in their life and support the growth they need to improve their performance. Prior to Reboot, Jerry was a Partner @ JP Morgan. Before that Jerry was a VC, having launched Flatiron partners in 1996 with his partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became on the of the most successful early stage investment firms in New York with investments in the likes of Geocities, Gamesville and The New York Times Digital.

In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How did Jerry enter the world of VC and then make the transition to be the ultimate CEO/VC coach, aka, 'The CEO Whisperer'?

2.) What is Jerry's first step for anyone looking to self-evaluate in what Jerry calls, 'radical self-inquiry'?

3.) Once self-evaluated, how can one look to be their true self in a world that is not necessarily accepting of such vulnerability, compassion and emotion, for example, VC and startups?

4.) How does Jerry evaluate the current crop of VCs in terms of them being their inner self to the external world? Why is Jerry so optimistic?

5.) Questions from Brad Feld: 1.) What should VCs be spending more time on? 2.) If Jerry could give one piece of advice to VCs what would it be?

Items Mentioned In Today’s Episode:

Jerry’s Fave Blog: Fred Wilson: AVC, Brad Feld: Feld Thoughts, The School of Life

Jerry’s Fave Book: When Things Fall Apart

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the 20 minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings, and you can add me on Snapchat
0:03.9	at H. Stebbings with 2Bs. I'd absolutely love to see you there. But to the show stay, and my word,
0:09.0	do we have a very different Founders Friday for you today. It's probably one of my favourites,
0:12.9	as it's probably the most real, most deep and thought-provoking. So joining me for this very
0:17.6	special episode is Jerry Colonna. Now, Jerry is without a doubt one of the most interesting guests I've had on the show. Jerry, or sometimes known as the CEO Whisperer, is a founder at Reboot, the coaching company that helps some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and investors with the internal ups and downs in their life and support the growth they need to improve their performance. And prior to reboot, Jerry was a
0:38.2	partner at J.P. Morgan. And before that, Jerry was a VC, having launched Flatiron partners in 1996,
0:44.1	with his partner Fred Wilson. Flatiron then became one of the most successful early stage
0:48.0	investment firms in New York, with investments in the likes of GeoCities, Gainesville, and the New York
0:53.1	Times Digital. Now, before we meet the main
0:55.0	man that is Jerry, Jerry told me to be as real and true to myself as possible in life. So I thought
1:00.0	I'd apply that to this sponsor today with Luma. Now, for those that don't know, Luma is the
1:04.5	world's first ever surround Wi-Fi system. And before I had Luma, man, the Wi-Fi in my house sucked. It's a tool townhouse and there are always blind spots. So I got Luma and it came with three routers. I placed one in the living room, one in the kitchen, and one on the top floor. The setup was super simple. I think it took me less than 10 minutes to do all three routers and then download the app as well. Now, I can see who is on my network, what they're doing on the network,
1:28.3	and also people can do a ton with the network itself. We've got people streaming movies in the
1:32.8	living room, gaming in the games room to me, skyping in my office. So to join me in this Wi-Fi
1:37.4	heaven, simply head over to getluma.com, Best Buy.com, Amazon.com, Home Depot.com. Even head into a Best Buy store and buy it in person.
1:45.9	It really is the best addition to my house in years. However, enough of me trying to do that
1:49.9	unscripted. I'm now delighted to handover to Jerry Colonna, founder at Reboot.
1:55.7	Three, two, one, zero.
2:03.4	You have now arrived at your destination.
2:06.0	Jerry, welcome to the 20-minute VC.
2:08.1	It's so great to finally have you on.
2:11.2	I've heard so much from Brad, and a huge thanks to Brad for the intro,
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