Peter Livingston, Unpopular Ventures - All My Best Investments Were The Ones I Couldn’t Get Anyone Else To Do | #199

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Management, Investing, Business

4.8 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In episode 199 we welcome our guest, Peter Livingston. Peter and Meb spend some time on Peter’s background and his experience as an engineer and a founder. They then dive into venture capital investing and Peter’s thoughts on the corporate VC model. That leads right into Peter’s early investment experience in private companies and trying to raise a fund of his own. Peter explains that trying to raise a fund led him to a unique place and a perspective on the traditional VC model that ultimately was the origin behind his firm, Unpopular Ventures. He spends time explaining why he feels the syndicate model is superior to the VC model, and the rapid pace of growth he’s experienced since launch. Meb then asks Peter to get into some of the investments he’s made. As the conversation winds down, Peter touches on his thoughts for the future. All this and more in episode 199. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Medfavor Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Met Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.3	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambria's funds on this podcast.
0:27.2	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of
0:31.2	Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit cambria Investments.com.
0:36.4	Welcome podcast listeners.
0:41.5	We have a great show for you today our guest is an angel
0:45.4	investor and is the founder and general partner of unpopular ventures his
0:50.6	experience is almost entirely in startups.
0:53.2	He was the first engineer at IRytham and later founder and CEO of Life Square.
0:59.1	He has been investing as an angel since 2013, has made over 150 investments to date and has produced
1:06.8	investment returns well within the top decile of VC industry performance.
1:12.4	In today's episode, we get into startups and
1:14.9	angel investing. We cover syndicates and the approach our guest has adopted to try to
1:20.2	improve upon the traditional venture capital model.
1:23.8	We discuss the all important topic of building a network of deal flow.
1:27.9	We even walk through some of unpopular ventures investments and why finding opportunities that are off the beaten path and
1:34.3	unpopular is the driving force behind the investment process.
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