Ep. 565: Anthony Tjan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Anthony Tjan, the author of “Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters.” He is CEO and managing partner of Cue Ball and has a successful track record as an entrepreneur, principal investor and strategic advisor. He leads his firms overall direction and is involved in activities across the board with Cue Ball.

The topic is his book Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Competency is not enough
Winner take all mentality
Mentorship
Value centric organizations
Pessimism vs. optimism

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Tony Chan.
0:35.5	He is a New York Times best-selling author of Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck.
0:41.4	His newest book, Good People, the only leadership decision that really matters.
0:46.9	Tony brings a world of experience to this topic. He is the CEO and managing partner of Kewball.
0:53.1	He has a successful track record as an entrepreneur,
0:55.9	principal investor, and strategic advisor to Kubal. He leads the firm's overall direction and
1:00.8	is involved across deal development activities, including ongoing guidance and mentorship
1:05.8	to the leadership of Kibol's portfolio companies. I always feel fortunate to bring great guests from outside of my circle to this show.
1:15.9	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Tony Chan.
1:23.3	So Tony, I want to go back in time a little bit with you to set the stage, to let people
1:33.0	understand your fiber, what has brought you to the place that you are today, somewhere
1:38.7	in the Boston area, involved in venture capital.
1:41.6	But if I go back a long time, you have some perspective that starts with as a young guy,
1:48.8	you know, starting going through Indonesia, Taiwan, making it to Canada, now the U.S.,
1:55.3	give for the audience some perspective of that.
1:59.4	Because that shapes. And look, I'm a guy who spent basically the last
2:04.0	four years in Asia but I would love for you to kind of paint that picture of that progression for
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