MI275: Thiel Fellowship & Startup Investing w/ Michael Gibson
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.3 | On today's show, I chat with Michael Gibson, who's the founder of 1517, a venture capital |
| 0:08.5 | firm that supports college dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists with investments |
| 0:13.6 | at the earliest stages of their companies. |
| 0:16.7 | Michael has a unique background as he was a philosophy student who landed a job working for |
| 0:20.7 | Peter Thiel at his hedge fund, and was one of the minds behind the Teal Fellowship, which is a |
| 0:25.7 | very successful program. |
| 0:27.4 | Michael's venture fund also became an early investor in Luminar Technologies, a now publicly traded |
| 0:32.7 | company that builds LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles. |
| 0:36.8 | In this episode, Michael shares his thoughts on why the education system is flawed |
| 0:40.6 | and how his fund seeks to change this. |
| 0:43.3 | He also discusses some of his greatest success stories as an early investor |
| 0:46.9 | and the challenges he's faced along the way. |
| 0:49.5 | We also talk about Luminare Technologies, his outlook for the company, |
| 0:53.0 | and we talk about the competition |
| 0:54.3 | it faces from companies like Tesla and Google. Michael's insights into the startup world and the |
| 0:59.5 | characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is truly inspiring. And now a quick but very important |
| 1:06.0 | housekeeping note that I want to share with you guys is we are hiring. So at TIP, we are hiring for a new podcast host, |
| 1:13.7 | and actually it's going to be the host of this show. If you are interested in working at TIP |
| 1:20.0 | and being a podcast host, you can find all the information at the investors podcast.com slash careers and look for the option that says |
| 1:31.2 | millennial investing host. There, it says how to apply. It gives you a bunch more information about |
| 1:37.0 | the role, answers a lot of frequently asked questions. And I just want to cover quickly a couple |
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