Venture Capital Investing: Wall Street’s Secret Club They Don’t Want You To Join

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Money Tree Investing Podcast

Stockmarket, Valuestocks, Investing, Finance, Passiveincome, Wealth, Business, Personalfinance

4.6 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We interview venture capital investing expert Carey Ransom about why you should consider venture capital in your portfolio and why you shouldn't.

It's not just for the wealthy. We discuss, why venture capital investing is broken, how to value investments, why due diligence is important and more.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/venture-capital-investing-carey-ransom

Today's Panelists:

Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.
0:10.9	Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. Welcome to this week's episode. My name's Kirk Chisholm,
0:16.3	and I am going to be your host today. So today we have Kerry Ransom joining us. How you doing today,
0:21.6	Carrie? Doing great, Kirk. Thanks for having me. Yeah, well, glad to have you on the show. We've actually
0:25.8	had a lot of feedback from our audience. People are really wanted to understand more about venture
0:30.4	capital. As we all know, the stock market is acting a little crazy lately. So people are looking to find ways to invest outside of the stock
0:40.7	market. So we really appreciate you coming on the show so we can talk a little bit more about
0:45.2	that. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background. Sure, happy to. And I happy to talk
0:50.7	about this topic, as you sort of alluded to this next best
0:54.4	alternative type of view that I think a lot of folks are having right now in this weirdly
0:59.4	low interest rate yet high asset price environment in so many areas.
1:04.6	So, you know, at my core, I'm an entrepreneur.
1:08.1	I grew up in a family business, family, and I got into the technology world
1:14.3	almost 25 years ago and really just got enamored by how things like software were capable of such
1:23.6	profound change in businesses and in people's lives and had such scalability.
1:30.2	And if you could build a piece of software and, you know, when I got into it, you could
1:34.3	ship it off in things like floppy disks and CDs and then eventually deliver it through
1:39.7	a web browser and obviously in more recent years, things like apps that have shown up on our mobile
1:46.6	devices that enable us to do things like talk to each other today like we are. And so that's been
1:52.1	my background as really what I would call an operating investor. So most of my career, I have
1:59.2	worked in operating businesses, but really approached it from an
2:03.2	investment standpoint and would invest my own capital into many of these businesses alongside
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