The Process: Avoiding the Hype of Silicon Valley (Ep.2)

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kairos Managing Partner Alex Fiance shares they’ve made a new investment in a company called iBeat, a smartwatch that continually monitors your heart rate, oxygen levels, and blood flow for life-threatening emergencies.

Topics discussed include why they chose to invest, their process for determining if a company is the right fit, what Alex believes are the most important traits for an entrepreneur to have and answers a few questions from the Finding Mastery Tribe.

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0:00.0	And the All right, welcome back to the process and I hope you enjoyed the last conversation we had with Alex
0:25.1	fiance, the founding partner of Kyros.
0:28.0	And in this episode we're going to dive deep into the weeds to better understand what makes an
0:32.2	entrepreneur and these are questions that have been emerging. dive deep into the weeds to better understand what makes an entrepreneur.
0:33.0	And these are questions that have been emerging from the tribe.
0:35.9	We want to better understand, like, how do you create a company?
0:39.1	And when you strip it all down, what makes a great founder?
0:41.6	What makes a market opportunity and how Alex goes about
0:46.0	developing cultivating and selecting companies that he thinks and his team thinks will work
0:51.0	so Alex great to be with you.
0:52.6	Great to be here again, Mike. What's been going on? How you doing?
0:55.8	Yeah, I was going to ask the same thing. Like, you know, bring us up to speed and
1:00.8	and I'll go first, certainly is that we've been in kind of a great time for our development of our company and building and we're working on being able to find the right opportunities and structure deals in the right way.
1:14.1	So behind the scenes it's been a blast and then with Seattle Seahawks it's been it's been a lot of
1:20.2	selection stuff and we just got back from the combine recently working on
1:24.0	trying to better understand the right fit for our culture, the right talent and so
1:28.0	we're just kind of in the thick of it if you will from that frame and so yeah a lot going on in the side, but more importantly, what's happened since last we spoke with you?
1:38.0	Everything's good. We made an investment, and we hosted a big event in New York this week that was really focused on what is the
1:47.6	responsibility of startups and tech companies to think about the implications of what they're building at scale before they start a company.
1:55.0	You know, it's a very timely and relevant topic because there's been a lot of recent backlash around some of the companies like Facebook, specifically for not thinking
2:05.8	ahead about the implications of some of these hot topics like data security.
2:09.9	So I guess I would say we're continuing to invest, we made an investment, and we're also continuing
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