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71: Startups, VCs and Homeschooling | Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner at 1517 Fund
Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship.
We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of OYO and Figma and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DStrachman
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellestrachman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dstrachman
OUTLINE
(0:00) Origin story
(6:55) The right way to homeschool kids
(14:38) How to build your own school
(26:05) How should parents should convince their child to study
(29:35) How did Danielle join Thiel Fellowship
(36:40) How to become a Thiel Fellow
(45:20) Superpower of Peter Thiel
(50:00) Betting on founders of OYO & Figma
(56:10) Investing in Loom
(59:40) Role of Venture Capital in today's world
(1:09:32) The Bootstrap mindset
(1:12:54) Managing ego & arrogance as VC
TOP EPISODES
#68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
#62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
#45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
#10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
#2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
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Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship.
We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of OYO and Figma and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DStrachman
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellestrachman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dstrachman
OUTLINE
(0:00) Origin story
(6:55) The right way to homeschool kids
(14:38) How to build your own school
(26:05) How should parents should convince their child to study
(29:35) How did Danielle join Thiel Fellowship
(36:40) How to become a Thiel Fellow
(45:20) Superpower of Peter Thiel
(50:00) Betting on founders of OYO & Figma
(56:10) Investing in Loom
(59:40) Role of Venture Capital in today's world
(1:09:32) The Bootstrap mindset
(1:12:54) Managing ego & arrogance as VC
TOP EPISODES
#68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
#62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
#45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
#10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
#2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.