James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
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🗓️ 4 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books including the recent WSJ Bestseller, "Choose Yourself!" (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter). He has started and sold several companies for eight figure exits. He's on the board of a billion $ revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, he's run several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and is a successful angel investor, having invested in over 30 startups alongside Silicon Valley's Top VC's.
In today's conversation Harry and James discuss how to continuously come up with great ideas, what tasks activate the 'idea muscle', what tactics have produced the greatest investing returns for James, what traits do great founders have, how has James' investing strategy developed, what is the future for Uber, the scam that is University and much more...
Items Mentioned in Today's Show:
Alternatives to College and Careers: Learn to Become an iOS Developer, Learn to Become a Web Developer
James Altucher: Choose Yourself!
Tim Ferriss: AngelList Syndicate
Shyp: The Easiest Way To Ship Your Stuff
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, what a week we are having here at the 20-minute VC. On Monday's episode, we had the legendary Jason Calacanis, and I'm so thrilled to welcome James Altichut to the show today. |
| 0:10.6 | James has started and sold several companies for eight-figure exits. He's on the board of a billion-dollar revenue company. |
| 0:18.3 | He's written for the Financial Times, The New York Observer. He's run several |
| 0:22.7 | hedge funds, venture capital funds, and is a successful angel investor in technology, energy and |
| 0:28.8 | biotech. If that wasn't enough, he's also the writer of 11 books, including the recent |
| 0:34.5 | Wall Street Journal bestseller, Choose Yourself. Before we dive into the interview with James, I'd like to say a special thank you to HiringSreen, |
| 0:42.3 | who helped me with the hiring of my lovely assistant, Jackie. |
| 0:46.3 | They really are the smartest and fastest way of finding relevant candidates for a job. |
| 0:50.3 | Jackie is doing an incredible job for me, and I couldn't have done it without the amazing |
| 0:55.0 | algorithm and team behind hiring screen. But enough from me, so without further ado, here is James |
| 1:01.2 | Altiture. 3.2.1.0. You have now arrived at your destination. |
| 1:12.5 | James, welcome to the 20-minute VC. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 1:16.7 | Harry, I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you for inviting me on. |
| 1:22.0 | I love the idea of just the concept of the 20-minute VC. |
| 1:23.2 | Well, exactly. |
| 1:25.1 | We like to get a snapshot nowadays, |
| 1:26.8 | and we're all very busy, |
| 1:28.5 | and that was kind of the thought behind it. i'd love then to start off with hearing about you've often cited your numerous jobs |
| 1:34.4 | in your career so far i'd love to hear about those jobs and a little snapshot of your career |
| 1:39.0 | sure so um gosh i don't really know where to begin because one thing that has sort of defined my career is the fact that I've had many, many careers. |
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