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The Kevin Rose Show

Andy Rachleff, Building Wealthfront and Benchmark Capital (#44)

The Kevin Rose Show

Kevin Rose

Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Andy Rachleff is one of the most influential and successful Venture Capitalists of all time. In this episode, we discuss the traits of successful entrepreneurs, what makes a good idea, product-market fit (a term Andy coined), building Wealthfront, how to hire, doubling down on what's working, day trading vs index investing, tax-loss harvesting, bitcoin, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Kevin Rose here. Welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose show.

0:04.8

In hosting this podcast, I feel very fortunate that I've had some pretty awesome guests on

0:09.6

the show, some pretty inspiring guests.

0:11.9

These would be some of the brilliant leaders and thinkers. and

0:15.0

pretty inspiring guests. This would be some of the brilliant leaders and thinkers. People that come to mind would be of course Elon Musk,

0:18.0

Jack Dorsey from Twitter and Square, Michael Pollen.

0:22.7

I could name a whole slew of folks

0:24.5

that were definitely fantastic people

0:26.6

to have on the show and interview.

0:28.4

Today's guest is right up there.

0:30.2

Andy Ratcliffe, he's brilliant in a way that at times as someone that's doing the interview,

0:36.2

it just kind of stuns you.

0:37.2

Like it just, some of the things that came out of his mouth, they just fly in the face

0:40.9

of what I know to be true.

0:43.0

And when that happens, it's a little frustrating

0:46.0

because you're doing the interview

0:48.0

and you have to pause to almost just soak it all in

0:51.0

and then come up with the next question. a very good way. I thought this this interview had me wanting

0:57.1

More knowledge from Andy so much so that I even asked him to write a book. I don't think he has the time to do that.

1:04.2

But it was a really fun interview.

1:07.0

For those of you that don't know Andy Radcliffe,

1:09.5

Andy is the co-founder of Benchmarketal,

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