Ep. 946: Suneel Gupta Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Suneel Gupta, a faculty at Harvard University where he teaches students how to be Backable. His ideas have been backed by firms like Greylock and Google Ventures, and he has invested in startups including Airbnb, Calm, and SpaceX.
The topic is his book Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- What Makes People Take a Chance on You
- Filmmaking
- Backable People
- Making Ideas Come Alive
- Share Earn Secrets
- Don't Just Google It
- Take Action
Jump in!
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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.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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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 Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | Now this is a topic today that I just love. |
| 0:37.8 | It's so appropriate, so perfect timing for today's world. |
| 0:44.1 | The title of the book, Backable, The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance |
| 0:50.5 | On You, The Author, Serial Entreprene entrepreneur, and on the faculty at Harvard University, |
| 0:56.9 | Sineal Gupta. Sineal makes the case. No one makes it alone. But there's a reason some people can |
| 1:04.5 | get investors or bosses to believe in them while others can't. Guess what? That reason has little to do with experience, pedigree, |
| 1:12.9 | or a polished business plan. You see, backable people seem to have a hidden quality that inspires |
| 1:20.0 | others to take action. So here's the next question. Is this innate? Are you born with it? Or can you learn it? Now, anyone that knows something |
| 1:32.3 | about my background and something about my belief set and something about how I have been |
| 1:36.6 | influenced knows damn straight that I come down on the side of you can learn it. So look, at the end of the day, everyone wants to be backable. |
| 1:48.0 | Everyone wants to have the support to go make something happen. |
| 1:52.1 | I give Sineal a lot of credit, a great title, a great idea to go down this path. |
| 1:58.9 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into Sineal's lessons, lessons that he's |
| 2:03.9 | pulled from hundreds of the world's biggest thinkers. |
| 2:07.4 | Because let's face it, if we can all save a little time because some bright guy has done |
| 2:13.5 | the work for us and we can learn without having to learn it ourselves. |
| 2:18.9 | Damn. |
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