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This Week in Startups

Telling founders "no," Board meeting etiquette (VC School), + Michael Luciani | E1516

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For today's VC Sunday School, Jason talks about saying "no" to founders (1:20), and Molly asks about board meeting etiquette (20:12). Then, for This Week in Climate Startups, Molly speaks with Michael Luciani of Climate Capital (37:18).

(0:00) Jason intros today’s show

(1:20) VCSS: Saying “no” to founders

(9:20) Brave - Download today at https://brave.com/twist to browse faster, search privately and so much more

(11:01) Some VCs give a “no” to gauge a founder’s tenacity

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(20:12) Board meeting etiquette

(36:02) OpenPhone - Get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at https://openphone.com/twist

(37:18) TWiCS: Michael Luciani of Climate Capital

(1:02:40) Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Sunday show of this week in startups first up,

0:03.7

VC Sunday School, as we do every Sunday. Molly and I are going to talk about first board meetings

0:09.2

and all of her questions around those then. She talks with Michael Luciani, a managing partner

0:14.1

at Climate Capital. It's going to be a great show, so stick with us.

0:18.4

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0:25.3

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0:33.7

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0:40.4

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0:45.9

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0:55.8

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1:01.6

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1:06.2

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1:18.8

six months. All right, everybody, it is Sunday and everybody loves Sunday so much, not just because

1:24.6

you get to rest, but because you have great content waiting for you. And that great content

1:29.1

takes two forms every Sunday. You get VC Sunday school where Molly and I talk about her first year

1:35.1

adventure into investing. It's been wonderful for me to watch her learn these new skills and get

1:41.4

to mentor her on the margins. And then of course, Molly interviews somebody doing something awesome

1:46.4

in climate. So Molly, yes, here we are another Sunday. It's July. We're in the second half of

1:53.2

your first year. How are you feeling as an investor? Let me start there and then I'll take your

1:56.6

question. How are you feeling, you know, confident, enthous, what, what emotions, what feelings do you

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