Unreasonable

Unreasonable

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Unreasonable episodes

  • E9 What's unreasonable about winters, crossover funds, value corrections, sunshine and rainbows?
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.28 Introductions
    13.28 Crossover funds in SEA
    20.40 Startups, valuations and raising
    28.06 Startup founding, growing and exiting in down cycles
    38.40 What to do as a founder now?
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    44 min
  • E8 What's unreasonable about diverse career experiences, web3 investing and community, BNB Chain and improv?
    With unreasonable guest Gwendolyn Regina, Investment Director at BNB Chain.
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.00 Introductions
    0.42 Gwen Introduction
    2.40 Gwen’s career
    6.48 The ecosystem - startup and crypto
    11.14 Power of diverse experiences and a common thread
    23.23 Breaking into the web3 community
    28.58 BNB Chain
    34.57 Key web3 themes
    44.22 Emergence and complex systems
    45.44 Life outside web3 for Gwen
    47.29 Unreasonable does improv
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    53 min
  • E7 What's unreasonable about founding and exiting a company, the life that follows and a remote control surfboard?
    With unreasonable guest, Cameron Priest.
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.42 Introducing Cameron Priest and TradeGecko
    3.56 The early startup scene in 2012
    7.11 Knowing you've got product-market fit and scaling
    9.04 Hire fast, fire fast and working with family
    10.54 Ups and downs of the exit process and growing pains
    16.50 The hardest things about being a founder and choosing the right B2B customers
    21.22 From being a founder to being a small cog in a big machine
    24.10 The benefits of voracious reading
    26.06 Web3 and why it is unreasonably positive
    28.24 Supporting the TradeGecko mafia (or Ecko's)
    31.27 The pressure of outperforming your first success
    33.00 A singularly unnecessary post-exit purchase
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    35 min
  • E6 What's unreasonable about Vishal's career choices and the mental strain on founders, fundraising, VCs?
    Happy Lunar New Year 2022
    SHOW NOTES
    0.00 Intros and the joy of a dinner
    1.06 Vishal's origin story; from lawyer to venture capitalist
    21.00 The mental strain on founders (incl. Hian's experience)
    44.10 The pressures on venture capitalists
    52.50 Closing out with catching Pokemons and a Happy Lunar New Year
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    54 min
  • E5 What’s unreasonable about disconnecting, 2022 trends, laziness and cricket?
    Happy New Year!
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.00 Christmas travels, disconnecting and burnout
    10.36 Trends for 2022
    19.13 Web3.0
    26.31 China3.0
    36.52 Angel List as a true VC innovation
    31.03 Quick commerce & Southeast Asia
    41.03 Conclusions
    44.09 Airplane films and cricket
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    47 min
  • E4 What's unreasonable about VC fundraising, Sequoia's new model and cheeky monkeys?
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.00 Reflections, NFT exhibitions, cricket, Hian says’ cheeky monkey.’
    6.08 VCs and fundraising
    25.52 Thoughts on Sequoia and their new fund structure
    37.01 Angel List as a true VC innovation
    42.42 What's coming up for the Unreasonables
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    45 min
  • E3 What's unreasonable about choosing founders, investing in founders, attracting talent and Meta?
    SHOW NOTES:
    0.00 Introductions, flying and the UAE
    1.24 Hian and the Openspace origin story
    11.21 What we look for in a founding team when they pitch to us
    25.16 How we've seen founder's attract the right talent
    37.24 Quick reflections on the Facebook/Meta rebrand
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    42 min
  • E2 What's unreasonable about failure, underdogs, Southeast Asia investing and Myanmar?
    Show Notes:
    00:00 Reflection on the last pod, the cease and desist
    01:31 Failure, startups and investors
    11:19 Why we like the underdog startups
    16.40 Michael Blakey’s story, dyslexia and playing the system
    19.22 Investing beyond Indonesia
    37.08 Myanmar, startup experiences and the ASEAN summit flex
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    49 min
  • E1 What's unreasonable about Evergrande, cryptocurrency, Singapore COVID and James Bond?
    Show Notes:
    0:00 Introducing the unreasonable 3 members and their stories.
    17.14 Talking about Evergrande, the situation in China and what it might mean for Southeast Asia
    34.28 Crypto-currency hype, China regulations, the DUPG framework, and a high-performing trading hamster
    44.49 Singapore COVID, families and managing restrictions
    51.27 James Bond, shaken or stirred?
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    53 min

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Three leading venture capitalists and dinner pals based in Asia, Hian, Vishal and Michael sit down to discuss the unreasonable things that move the world – covering economics, politics and ongoing…