Figuring Shxt Out

Ep. 56 - Serial Venture Capitalist Pedro Moore


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Flacs & King speak with serial venture capitalist Pedro Moore! Pedro comes by the podcast and drops some gems on the venture capitalist world and what you should be looking for when investing or buying into businesses. 

00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Intro of Pedro Moore 01:42 - Figuring Shxt Out Moment 04:38 - What is a Venture Capitalist? 06:40 - So whats the risk like? 07:57 - Is weathering the business storms apart of being a good VC? 08:42 - Evolution of podcasts 10:14 - Are investments tax write offs a postivie thing?? 12:57 - What is one thing you see from successful VC endeavors? 14:55 - Zuckerbegs Meta Fail 16:45 - Some Ideas just have to make sense 17:27 - Apple created an industry and forced it on the public, META failed 21:59 - Meta overplayed their hand with the Metaverse 23:39 - What has the IT factor, the entreprenuer or the product/service? 25:07 - Separating emotions from being a business owner 27:39 - What's the mindset of the buyer of businesses? 29:47 - Buying systems that self manage without a certain individual 32:07 - Buying distressed Little Ceasars aka buying "garbage" businesses 34:20 - Pedro's first attempt in buying an established business 42:45 - Are you looking into AI right now? 47:47 - How to make your business idea attractive to VCs? 49:45 - VC is not the holy grail of startups 51:47 - Patent and Trademark before presenting for investors? 52:50 - Utility patents are most beneficial 54:41 - Super Soaker gun story 58:10 -  Can a mobile phone app have utility? 1:00:12 - Gesture motion for phones and utility 1:01:29 - Drag n Drop feature guy is insanely rich 1:04:55 - Business movie suggestions (Blackberry & The Billion Dollar Code) 1:06:43 - Where to find Pedro Moore 1:07:56 - What are you trying Figure out right now?

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Figuring Shxt OutBy Bunee Flacs & King Arthur