Venture Capitalist Brad Feld on How Nietzsche Empowers the Entrepreneur | This Must Be Done Daily

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Venture Capitalist and Author Brad Feld about his new book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, the common misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and life, why entrepreneurs have to focus attention inward toward self-improvement, and more.

Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. Feld began financing technology startups in the early 1990s, first as an angel and later an institutional investor. Feld was an early investor in Harmonix, Zynga, MakerBot, and Fitbit. He is also the author of several books including Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist and The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight
0:24.3	here in everyday life and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy
0:31.9	well-known and obscure
0:33.9	fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them
0:39.1	Become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives
0:44.7	But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:51.1	This must be done daily
0:53.1	A successful day for a Stoic is simple. It's not about having made more money or having gotten more famous or dazzled more people with your accomplishments
1:02.1	It's whether or not you got better
1:05.1	Specifically, it's whether you got better at life more prepared for the troubles for the temptations for the opportunities that lay ahead as
1:12.1	Seneca wrote to Lucilius the prescription for Stoicism is simple each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty
1:20.1	Against death indeed against all other misfortunes and after you have run over many thoughts select one to be thoroughly
1:28.5	Digested each day you may notice how well this fits with the idea of the one-page a day model of the daily Stoic with over a million
1:36.1	Copy sold this daily email over
1:39.1	350,000 daily subscribers that the daily Stoic podcast over 55 million downloads worldwide
1:45.7	All of us are engaged in that crucial task together acquiring what we need to be fortified for the twists and turns of fate
1:54.7	acquiring the skills and the insights and the ideas that make us better better humans better citizens better athletes better parents
2:02.7	Better whatever's if we can accomplish that in the morning no less in the days of success
2:08.7	It's not always going to be easy, but it is at least straightforward. It's the work of a lifetime measured day by day
2:16.7	And look if you know anyone that might benefit from this email from this podcast please forward to them give us a recommendation
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