The Weird Club

The Weird Club episodes:

• 07.15.2023

  Network Effects - Sameer Singh

  A conversation with Sameer Singh, angel investor, venture partner at Speedinvest and founder of Breadcrumb.vc about network effects - the phenomenon that is arguably the main thing that makes modern technology companies so valuable, and so powerful

  
• 07.06.2023

  Consumer, community & the creator economy - Hugo Amsellem

  A conversation with Hugo Amsellem, former director at investment firm the Family and VP of Community at Jellysmack about building & investing in consumer companies, the creator economy and the power law distribution of creators, community and much more.

  
• 04.15.2023

  Building Science Companies - Devika Thapar

  This is a conversation with Devika Thapar, cofounder of Wilbe. Wilbe is a science-focused education and investment firm. They work with leading scientists across the UK to create companies based on groundbreaking scientific research. We cover: Why building hard science...

  
• 01.20.2023

  Building and investing in games companies - Joakim Achren

  Mary and Paddy catch up with Joakim Achren. Joakim is an experienced game developer and gaming entrepreneur, who has been in the industry for over 20 years. His second games company, Next Games, IPO’d on on the Nasdaq First North exchange...

  
• 10.17.2022

  Bootstrapping vs. Raising VC - Max Fleitmann

  A conversation with Max Fleitmann about his journey as an entrepreneur, from bootstrapping & selling an online game at 16, to scaling an edtech with venture funding and becoming an operator-investor.  We cover his upbringing in the German Mittelstand, his first...

  
• 01.16.2022

  Rational VC x Odin Podcast

  In this long-form discussion, Iman and Cyrus from Rational VC talk to the Odin founders Mary and Paddy about their backgrounds, childhoods, Odin's origin story, Odin's future, community building, improving access to private markets, education and much more.

  
• 12.12.2021

  Minimalist Entrepreneurship - Sahil Lavingia

  Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a service that helps creators get paid for their work—over $400 million paid out to date. They raised money from Kleiner Perkins, First Round, Naval Ravikant, Chris Sacca, and others. He wrote...

  
• 11.14.2021

  Tribes - Mary Lin

  A very special episode of the podcast with my friend, cofounder and all round awesome human being Mary Lin. The key theme of the conversation is tribalism, community and the future of how we organise and govern ourselves as humans. This...

  
• 10.30.2021

  New Finance - Mike Kelly

  Today a conversation with Mike Kelly, general partner at New Finance VC.  Mike is building an exciting firm investing in platforms facilitating a more efficient, fairer financial ecosystem and reshaping our world for the better. Sometimes this means Web3, sometimes it is...

  
• 10.17.2021

  Biosphere Consciousness - Jordan Wolfe

  Back in August I got together with Jordan Wolfe. We discussed: Jordan's thesis on investing at the interface of life sciences, financial services and climate technology; Lessons from building and exiting a real estate development business; How the public sector and...

  
• 07.26.2021

  DeFi - Dermot O'Riordan

  I sat down with Dermot to discuss DeFi, which his firm Eden Block invests in.  In this conversation we covered a fair bit of ground. The key idea? Web3 and crypto will allow us to redesign the base infrastructure of the...

  
• 04.17.2021

  Investing in Space - Jeff Crusey

  Something special is happening in the aerospace industry at the moment. Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are pushing the envelope of what is possible. New missions to the moon have been announced. And you can’t spell space without SPACs....

  
• 02.25.2021

  Nicolas Colin - The Family

  I sat down with Nicolas to talk about his experiences as a civil servant, a founder and an investor with French incubator The Family.  We discussed the theme of "ecosystem toxicity" in tech in Europe, and how to counter it.

  
• 02.25.2021

  Parin Shah - Lego Ventures

  I sat down for a conversation with Parin to talk about what areas Lego's corporate venture arm is investing in and why.  They have a big focus on "learning through play", investing in what Parin describes as educational stuff that "doesn't...