Selected - The Sesamers Podcast

• "America. Land of the free, home of the wtf?"
• Don't it make my brown eyes blue
• Fame is a choice
• "We don't do any edits here"
• Julia Vogl
• Emma learned French. And a bunch of other things
• I haven't charged these batteries in 18 months
• The Jackson 5 corp?
• Cut
• The Limitless 5G Duet
• A message from Mom
• Is there still a place in the world for creatives?
• Let's spar
• Universal Credit
• The 5Gs: Get it, Got it, Good, Great, Grrrr
• Oliver Kibblewhite
• Ahhh the money!
• The Observer
• The Lightning Round!

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• The NATO alphabet
• ADHD in the workplace
• Caves to Pyramids
• Working for The Man
• Agile Working
• Hyperfocus
• Grace Jones and Robert Downey Jr.
• What entrepreneurs can be doing to foster team members with ADHD
• Dignity
• Reframe the anxiety
• Neurotypicals
• Husband and Wife, both with ADHD
• Airtags
• So many questions for your mom
• Get a support network in place
• Diversify
• evj.af
• Bonus material

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Topics Discussed:

• Q5 2020
• 26 years. THAT is impressive
• Hirsch Tailoring
• The Rave Cave
• Tenor sax. Because playing jazz is just cooler
• Net-zero
• Amadeus Captial Partners
  • Part-time VC, I recommend it
• Deeptech focused?
• Under the table texting and I got a qubit here
• What is later stage investment?
• What is holding Europe back from growth stage funding?
  • Do you want to play with China and East Asia, or with the U.S. and everybody else?
• 92% of VCs say they offer value beyond capital; founders reply, “mmm yeah no”
• A quantum computer in the wild!
• Hands-on, or hands-off?
• The Lightning Round!

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• Aaaaaaaaaaaand we're back
• SPACs ta-da!
• "Deregulation at its best (?)" - Raph Crouan
• The IPO process  - too hard?
• The Shell, the merger, and the forward-looking statements
• How it started, how it's going
• 0% interest rates
• Ferraris and Guitars
• Why did Europe not get first dibs?
• Wirecard ... doo dee dooo ....
• Volker's forward-looking statements

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Topics Discussed:

• Monty's boy is all grown up
• Monty's all backed up
• The MOST colourful opening we've ever had
• Sending the son an invoice
• Switzerland man, not Miami
• Breaking into Bollywood
• Where the demeanour comes from
• You look at the tree, of course
• Taught to speak in Punjabi
• The blooper reel
• Monty's advice on where and how to split your crypto-investment
• Sienna, not Sierra.
• Travel back in time with us
• You can't swing a dead cat and not run into either Prince Philip or Coinbase
• $99.6 billion valuation. What the actual fuck?
• It was a public listing
• Tulip Mania
• Coinbase = highway robbery?
• Coinbase = The Gateway Drug
• Makin' Shekels
• People buy rubbish
• Bits of Buddha
• Scammed out of £40k
• >>Monty's security tips<<
• The Lightning Round!

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• DeFi. What the hell is it? Break it down for me
• Etherium is something. You can do things with it
• NFTs
• Building financial products
• Hijacking transactions
• What Sienna is trying to do
• Is this a new way for me to buy my drugs?
• Token Generation Event (TGE)
• 800% oversubscribed
• If you've got enough money, you can pay however you like
• I'm tired of being poor
• Dan gets some tokens!
• Why Switzerland? Tougher Regulations?
• I have asked at least two good questions. Good enough for my book.
• Why is your dick so big?
• Travel
• Got back out into the world. But be cool.
• "That was very good fun Dan, that was very good fun."

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Topics Discussed:

• Bindi is a nuclear reactor
• Rumours is a great album by Fleetwood Mac
• Bindi cooked a lot
• Bindi and I discuss what you can blowtorch
• What's up with the Canadian ecosystem?
• Strange Brew
• The Leafs and The Canadiens join forces
• Draper Esprit's model
• Business Intelligence
• Disclaimer. Don't sue either one of us. Or Draper Esprit
• Numbers. Lots of Numbers.
• The brutal reality
• Women outperform men
• Board (of) Approval
• Keep asking
• The Lightning Round!

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• Venture Captial and how it can change the world
• Investors know about you
• Monday Meetings
• Bindi's metrics
• Sheel's basically got it right
• Taproom Buddy!
• High growth times
• Chernobyl?
• "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
• Bindi IS on TikTok
• The New York Rangers
• Alright, bye!

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Topics Discussed:

• The Grateful Dead
• World Exclusive: Partner of a new female-led syndicate focused 100% on positive impact investing with Joanne Bradford (President of Honey) and Zem Joaquin (Founder of the Near Future Summit)
• Podcasts are chronicles of history.
• This is not a political podcast
• AVG/Towerview Ventures
• Nancy is never retiring
• J&J - one shot
• AstraZeneca - 48 hours, 24 hours of sleep
• "I'll get to Japan one day"
• All you can do is laugh, otherwise you'd cry
• SXSW
• This ain't no SaltLick
• "Hey, that's Elon Musk!"
• Waddup with Flight Ventures?
  • Deploying 1 to 2  deals/week
  • So cool, we don't need a website
  • "I can give you a decision in the next 5 minutes if you can tell me X, Y, and Z"
• Notion boards as a website
• Nancy is in the minority
• Why are there so few women in VC
• Men make less money. For VCs.
• There are fewer female founders because:
  • There are fewer role models
  • 3% of venture-backed companies are female-led
  • Females tend to choose a more stable career path
• Pitch decks
• Balancing the scales, I'm good with that
• Dogs, Speeding Cars, and Airplanes
• What are the biggest challenges you face as a female in the venture world?
• 10 years ago vs. now
• Mislead
• Stats. Lots of stats
• Why should I be investing in men?
• Investing in minorities
• Nancy and SPACs. No. Just ... no
• What can we do to get more women founding more companies?
• Are you doing any mentoring in the venture world?
• Harlem Capital
• The Lightning Round!

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• How is venture capital going to change the world?
  • It's not
• How do you do at the horse track?
• Nancy has ridiculously high returns
• You're going to want to run those numbers again Nancy
• The mushrooms in Bali are pretty good I hear
• AVG - The most active fund most people have never heard of
• No, I said SPACs
• Raising funds and deploying funds every year
• Non-stop fundraising
• VC hasn't changed since the 1960's
• AVG. We follow, we don't lead. Which means we can do more deals
• What does world positive mean to you?
• Who should I be investing in right now?
• We're live right now
• Databento
• I'm not falling asleep - I'm lamenting what I've done with my life
• Stole. No no no, that's "brought her friends with her"
• Ellipsis Health
• What are you looking for in a pitch?
  • Team
  • Hook
  • Product / Solution
  • Customers and Traction
  • Market Size
  • Competition / Differentiator
  • Details / Roadmap
  • Other investors and what the terms are
• Gut instinct
  • Taproombuddy!
• Voiceover on the deck
• Get a DATA ROOM!
• FAQ for investors
• Gimme a piechart and a breakdown
• Make friends with a photographer before you approach a VC
• Nancy's gotta go move $300 million out the door
• Nancy's other
• Excited to be back in the U.S.
• Off to the Galápogos
• My mom and a couple of other people
• Make friends with investors
• TikTok and a Spring Chicken

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Topics Discussed:

• Guinness!
• Leaving France? Ha!
• Cycling to Brighton
• Into a lul
• Guvment money? Ain't got none.
• Makin' Bagels
• Fixin' Dryers
• Good wine and cheese
• Smith Corona FTW
• All The President's Men
• Has digital stripped the ethics out of journalism?
• Standards have changed
• The Washington Post; their fair share of clickbate
• Journalism vs. Marketing. It's the funnel
• The state of media post Tee rump
• Blood pressure is down
• The largest paper in Silicon Valley
• Seth Meyers and comedic journalism
• That's Pee Ence.
• The Lightning Round!
• BREAK

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• Journoin' ain't easy
• This show, brought to you by Guinness
• The narrowing of focus at Venturebeat
• Dan, now the News Desk Editor at tech.eu
• I love PR people, but I hate PR people. I love startups, but I hate startups
• How to get a  journalist's attention
• Email isn't gonna work
• Inbox zero
• The bigger the number ...
• A $50 million round? Oh. Ok. Good for you. Next
• Who, what, when, where, and how much?
• Google. Apple. Open
• Build the relationship
• DigitalK
• It's about speed
• Not even looking at email until after noon
• Email is a black hole
• The association of pig insemination
• The French Tech Journal
• No one in the valley is reading Les Echos
• Ethan Pierce, Mr. Crypto
• This is the last episode of this podcast
• No to no editing
• Ben pulls Chris to Ghost
• Get out of your head, dive in, and Just Do It
• Stumping a journalist

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Topics Discussed:

• Pre-roll announcement
• Vaccination, BOOKED!
• Fauci Ouchie
• Self written bio
• Copy/paste
• Guinness!
• You're a prick
• George, Gracie, doesn't matter
• Exclusive artwork
• GO TO SELECTED.SESAMERS.COM and sign up for the newsletter. 
• A bogey in your nose, something stuck in your teeth, and your glasses are fogged up
• It is what it is
• The pause has been needed
• In Japan we always say, "If you're going to fall over, fall forwards and never backwards."
• 8/10ths prepared
• Autumn in New York
• Over policing
• 2020's. Off the f*cking hook!
• I'm the 8-10 or 4-6 guy
• The Rake's Progress
• Choppin' Broccoli. He's choppin' Broccoli.
• Wabi-Sabi
• "I'm a great guitar player"
• Well, funny you mention the guitar ...
• "This is not clubhouse!"
• Cello was the very first instrument I learned to play
• The Eastman School of Music
• (Southern) Comfort
• The pandemic is Shingy's car
• We're only looking at the bonnet
• Delicious and crisp
• Nostalgia
• "I'm totally out of control"
• "That was Ben & Jerry's actually"
• The man who evangelised de-friending
• Less Connection
• Humans want to be closer
• Size 32? Size 34?
• Walking away
• Zoomitis
• I'm not wearing any pants
• I wanted to be the student
• Neil Peart / Gene Krupa
• The future of Shingy
• Booze to Biotech - and therein lies the problem
• I got a little chip in there
• How do you keep up with the speed of culture
• I AM the ding!
• THE LIGHTNING ROUND

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• Aaaaaaand we're back!
• Uomo Universale
• The FUTURE arrives
• Kids? No way. Says the dad.
• London barks
• Shingy is a great dad

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Topics Discussed:

• The world's most impressive bio
• The smell of Las Vegas
• Dan and seeing Queen with Freddie Mercury at age 5. Thanks Mom!
• Dan's girlfriend is in love with Harper
• "What's your pandemic plan?"
• Discipline? Punishment? Cause and Effect
• Zebra striping the car and the parents reaction
• Laying the groundwork to sell to PayPal
• Just for the Hack of It
• Cooking with Harper
  • "How MUCH IS A LITTLE BIT?"
• "I'm sorry, what were we talking about?"
• Harper and the House of Cards story
• The Obama Work
• "Rewarding" work
• Tools used against us
• Would you do anything differently?
• Ad Agencies, "Oh no, we never actually did any of that stuff. You guys actually did it."
• "Pandora's box was cracked open, we  just happened to be the ones that opened it all the way."
• "We put too much weight on founders to have a strong perspective on the ethical stance of their thing."
• But ... VC's want to hear conviction(?)
• Jim, McCoy, Spock and the crew of the NCC-1701
• Responsible for Brexit?
  • Red voters
  • Talking shit about the EU, this is not a surprise result
• A whole boatload of racism
• "I'm not sure my absentee ballot arrived in time."
• "My shit was in the post MONTHS ahead of time."
• "Sex, Politics, Religion and Money."
• Listening to the other side
• Veiled racism? I don't have time for it.
• Identity politics
• "When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression." - Franklin Leonard
• "When I looked at my historic returns, the women I invested in had much greater returns  than then men."
• The LIGHTNING ROUND
• BREAK

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• Aaaaaaand we're back!
• Zooooom.us
• Galactic.io. Go get in on this shit NOW!
• Hopin. "They're not screwing around"
• The return of Anna. Again.
• My castle
• Dan's recorded an audio book. NDA's damn. Coming soon ...
• Dressing in black
• "I don't miss airport security"
• Harper and Community
• Gen X. Me and Al Gore
• What is a community?
  • You want to be a good actor in
  • You can trust me
• Establishing trust
  • Authenticity
  • The accidental dissolution of trust
• Harper's adult body
• The antithese answers the question
• I didn't split the episode. If Joe Rogan can go 3.5 hours a day, let's see if YOU stick around for an hour and a half
• Harper's COVID work
  • "I was bored. I needed something to do."
• People peopled
• I have to start wearing a hat
• Dress like Harper Reed Glasses day
  • The photo didn't do it justice
• Read bitches!
  • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Harper's in the basement
• "All of my friends getting the COVID vaccine. It creates hope."
• I'm priority "The End"
• You bes' check yoself befo' you wreck yo'self

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Topics Discussed:

• Weather in Dubai. Not quite hot shit. Yet.
• You won't find a pour this good outside of Dublin.
• Dan's gonna take some time off. 
• Ray's been vaccinated!
• What is the UAE doing right that the rest of the world is doing wrong?
• "It's like a factory."
• Ray's other.
• Ray's all over the place.
• And in Texas, pre-Biden!
• Austin is like mini-California.
• A lot of Ribs and Brisket.
• Stepfeed
  • What is it/was it?
  • Where's it going now?
• VICE of the Middle East.
• Newsletters are where it's at!
• "Things are much worse now with Substack."
• Human are inherently good.
• What's up with the weather in Riyadh?
• The Lightning Round!

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• Aaaaaaand we're back!
• Stepfeed is free.
• "I live in Europe, and it's always f*cking cold here in March."
• Step Conference 2021.
• "We were better than others."
• Mate!
• "You're not supposed to mix a lot of things with alcohol."
• Getting people to meet and network at virtual events.
• The return of Anna Pelova! #onlinesex
• Dan's covering trade shows for Agricultural Products.
• Flying in the face of everything you've just said.
• Entertainment and booze usually fuel meaningful connections.
• Taking screenshots.
• 10 pitches. Oye Vey!
• The webcam or microphone industry.
• Logitech's financial disclosure.
• Step and Ray and Clubhouse.
• Ray's first thing to do when landing on Mars.
• Chelsea vs. Arsenal!
• Subscribe!

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Topics Discussed:

• COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fast
• Prince Jazz Funk Sessions 1977 Instrumental
• $75 MILLION dollars!
• I got some loans to pay off.
• "Sheel, that's your cue"!
• 1 bedroom cardboard box.
• Our meeting part 2 (Sheel's Selected Salon Session).
• No Beach Boys.
• ADD? ADHD? HD? Diagnosed?
• "I'm totally monopolizing the conversation".
• Sheel and Dan are BOTH music video stars!
• The origins of the Zoom Bachelor.
• Scooter Braun, manager to Ariana and The Beebs.
• "Stuck WIth U" 2 mintes in.
• Dan: Man #1 on bus: Macy Grey's "I try".
• 9 hours for 3 seconds.
• "The loser from one gets to be the person for the next."
• Dan's typical weekend.
• The Zoom Bachelor effect.
• "Part of being a venture capitalist is just having people think of you."
• "I'm super busy when people call. If you're not callin', I'm not super busy!"
• Are VC's in need of pitches?
• "There's a number issue ... there's a quality issue."
• "Every day there are 30 people that reach out to me."
• "What is a quality pitch?"
• "Overall there are six things."
  • Team
  • Technology (advantage)
  • Trends / TAM (Total Addressable Market)
  • Traction
  • Terms
  • Taproom Buddy
• "This is my bullet point list."
• The four richest Latvians.
• Tap Room Buddy!
• Pitching Sheel
  • Fintech service
  • Send a beer
  • We're using:
    • AI
    • Big Data
    • Artificial Intelligence (twice, clearly)
    • Machine Lurging
      • Lurging Against the Machine
    • Augmented Reality AND Virtual Reality
  • Facial Recognition
  • Blockchain pays for the beverage of choice
  • Google's Automated Car.
  • #micdrop
• Send me the MONEY SHEEL!
• We're done with this podcast.
• Tangentialize.
• Sheel's Other. (Hint: The Lockdown Cook Book is coming soon!)
• Cooking with Marijuana.
• Calling your dealer for Paprika.
• "What is it with you VC's and SECRET SAUCE?"
• "Everybody's going to see your naked body again."
• "Can I see YOUR naked body Sheel?"
• Noisily is going ahead.
• Loud thumping music.
• "I'm unfattening right now."
• "What do you miss the most and the least about being an entrepreneur?"
• Making the leap from entrepreneur to VC is like taking a GIANT Prozac.
• In order to be a successful VC, do I need to be an entrepreneur first?
• How do I step up and become a VC?
• "Not this podcast with me. This is junk. This is absolute shit."
• Due Diligence.
• Business idea number 2!
• The Origins of The Pitch.
• Sheelbi-wan Kenobi.
• How to sell out.
• Chris Sacca nails it.
• The Shark Tank, The Zoom Bachelor
• "I do the shittier version of something that's on TV."
• A towel with a hole in it.
• What's 5k amongst friends?
• "Hi, here's the holy grail. Sorry, what's the holy grail?"
• "We didn't grow up, but we wised up." - Mike D.
• Why Fintech?
• "Financial Services Suck!" - Sheel Mohnot
• "Research, muthafucka!" - Dan Taylor
• Loan sharking is EXPENSIVE!
• Isn't Fintech just another way of saying, "We want to be your bank?"
• Flip it material.
• Not every Fintech is a bank, but every bank has components of Fintech.
• I'm winging it.
• Klarna is getting into the "we want to be your full on bank" in the U.S.
• Why do we still need banks?
• Dan's mom's head explodes!
  • He's sending his money to a Nigerian Prince.
• The symbiotic relationship between Banks and Fintech.
• Is the Fintech industry simply chum for the sharks?
• The LIGHTENING ROUND!

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• Aaaaaaand we're back!
• Sheel's journey to VC. (Hint: He gambled his own money.)
• Soup to salad? Salad to soup? Nuts to bolts?
• "These guys are awesome. They've got the money, they tell me what to do."
• The fake fund called 500 Fintech.
• "You ask rich people for money."
• "We raised 75 Million bucks, and here we are."
• Bravo, Brava, and Bravi.
• Bravia, it's an excellent car.
• "Bitch, please. Opera singer, ok?"
• Nessun Dorma / Heidenröslein (Want more? Here you go).
• Sleeping in a park. Across the street from the hotel.
• Atlanta has a LOT of conferences! In July.
• Bearish or Bullish?
• Technology has done really well.
• A lightning-ette round
  • Wisest?
  • Stupidest?
  • Craziest?
• Sheel is one helluva barber.
  • I'll bring the clippers!
• Dan's girlfriend gets the vaccine!
• Sheel forces a beer down his throat.
• August 27th, 2021.
• Dan's phone number.
• Francis Underwood. Bill Clinton.
• Sheel's gotta go close a $25m deal.
• From Nick: "How will you ensure your portfolio companies are making tomorrow better, and not worse?"
• From Ramit (via email): "Blockchain.com just raised $120m. They say 65m wallets have been created. And yet India and Nigeria are moving to ban Bitcoin and other private crypto’s. Sheel, in your opinion, where is all this going?"
• Old tweets from Sheel. He's not a good fortune teller.
• Sheel, I was singing.
• "If I had bought FIVE bitcoins. Which would have been $3.50". $270,000 today.
• "How did you get so DAMN GOOD LOOKING?"
• Jack's beard.
• "Any last thought?" "No."
• You're really good at this.
• Sheel is hitched. Not HITCHED. Don't run for the hills! Unavailable.
• She said NO!
• The pandemic has been rough. I'm desperate.
• One helluva movie script.
• Give me a Kiss to Build a Dream On.
• Hire this man!
• Sheel ... take us out.
• 1.2 million followers on Clubhouse!
• The Pittsburgh Steelers.

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