Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent
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Conversations with Tyler
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
How can one identify and predict talent? On a search to answer this question and others like it, Tyler Cowen joined venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross to explore the art and science of finding talent in their new book Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. In a panel discussion hosted by Shruti Rajagopalan, Cowen and Gross discuss the applications of their new book, particularly how lifestyle characteristics can indicate an individual is capable of great creativity and talent.
Daniel and Tyler also discuss undervalued talents and skills, what talents they look for in the start-up and investment world, why there is no good chocolate ice cream to be found in San Francisco, what their exercise preferences indicate about their personalities, how they approach identifying talent in different countries and industries, how immigration impacts entrepreneurialism, the short-comings to Zoom interviews, what a messy desk reveals about a person, and more.
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Recorded June 29th, 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, |
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| 0:28.0 | Welcome everyone, it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi Tyler, hi Daniel. |
| 0:31.3 | So I'll start right away. |
| 0:32.6 | What is a talent that you think you possess that is underrated by everyone else? |
| 0:39.0 | Daniel, I think that's for you first. |
| 0:43.7 | Well, pausing before answering a question is definitely a rare skill these days, |
| 0:48.1 | but I think something that's been helpful for me that I've kind of realized I have |
| 0:51.6 | that I think many people have. |
| 0:53.1 | I don't know if it's totally ubiquitous is in the process of an interview, |
| 0:57.8 | which you do in venture a lot, like hundreds and thousands of times a year, |
| 1:02.7 | being able to sort of build a grid of the person who's talking to you, |
| 1:08.5 | who they most kind of remind you of and the outcomes that those people have had, |
| 1:13.2 | is I think a pretty important skill. |
| 1:14.9 | And I think it's a pretty important skill for anyone searching for talent, |
| 1:18.3 | but certainly in the venture world, that's kind of what you're doing. |
| 1:21.0 | When you meet these early stage businesses, |
| 1:22.8 | is you're kind of trying to build like some type of search map in your head |
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