I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company | Christina Cacioppo from Vanta

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Episode 646: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Vanta founder Christina Cacioppo ( https://x.com/christinacaci ) about quitting her job and betting on herself. — Show Notes: (0:00) Stumblehustling into USV (4:36) Betting on the left side of your email address (8:30) The art of fear (11:47) Making bad art (13:30) The marshmallow test (17:26) Startup advice to beware of (18:16) The idea for Vanta (21:00) The only question that matters (22:30) Managing your mind (27:47) How to pick an idea to chase (29:03) The real origin of Vanta (31:00) Building a flywheel (36:06) Controversial opinions (40:49) Pushing past the no (46:17) Not flinching during negotiations — Links: • Vanta - https://www.vanta.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	And at the time my email was Christina at usv.com.
0:03.3	And it was like the right side that usv.com is way more powerful than the left side.
0:07.0	And now you're giving that up.
0:08.6	And so what are you?
0:09.5	You're betting on the left side.
0:10.3	You're betting on the left side.
0:11.4	And like, why would you do that?
0:12.8	And like, what do you think will happen here?
0:15.3	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:17.5	I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off.
0:22.8	On the road, let's travel.
0:24.2	Never looking back.
0:25.8	Do you know what?
0:26.5	You, Katie Perry and Serender Williams have in common?
0:29.9	I've got nothing.
0:31.0	You're all on the Forbes self-made women list.
0:34.3	I hate that list.
0:34.7	And you are ahead of them.
0:36.0	Is that kind of amazing?
0:37.0	I would have preferred that list never existed. Yes. You have that Midwest modesty?
0:41.5	Yes. You're like, nothing good will come from that list. Yeah, yeah. Those lists are
0:45.6	they're sort of made for the wrong type of people. Yes. Or jail time later or something.
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