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Fully Vested

by Jason D. Rowley, Graham C. Peck

Undersubscribed chats about tech and venture with Jason D. Rowley & Graham C. Peck

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  1. Back to the 90s

    Is Generative AI disruptive or sustaining? A quick recap of Clayton Christensen's conceptual framework of disruptive and enabling innovations... Disruptive Innovation Disruptive Innovation: This refers to a process where a smaller company with fewer resources successfully challenges established...

  2. The Case of Cat Modeling

    Many of the core technologies behind Generative AI are not exactly brand new. For example, the "Attention Is All You Need" paper, which described and introduced the Transformer model (the "T" in ChatGPT), was published in 2017. Diffusion models—the backbone of image generation tools like...

  3. Might Go Down

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Markets Retrace Their Steps Throughout January 2022, US stock market indices gave up nearly a year of gains. The tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite index closed on January 28th at 13,770, down nearly 14% from…

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  4. What Goes Up

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Stating the Obvious about the Increase 2021 was a crazy year for the VC market. Top-line numbers: CB Insights reports that venture investment reached $621 billion in 2021, up 111% from 2020 levels.…

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  5. Stingers at Ten Paces

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. The present and future of work The first cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by a novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, were identified near Wuhan, China as early as November 2019. A few months later, in...

  6. Let's Call It Ebullient

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Reading list The Q3 2021 Global Venture Capital Report: Record Funding Trend Held Strong (Gené Teare for Crunchbase News) Tiger Global And SoftBank Vision Fund Vie For Top Slot As Q3’s Biggest Startup...

  7. Blow Up or BLOW UP!

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. How To Raise A Venture Capital Round? Basic Steps / Outline Section begins at 8m25s. Determine if the business you're working on is, in fact, a startup! Decide how much of your company you're willing to…

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  8. I'm not an expert, but HUGE

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Some definitions "Startups" are hard to define, but many different definitions point toward similar themes: "A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and...

  9. Full Derp for Crypto

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Overview Cryptocurrency markets have seen their biggest bull run yet. After a pretty docile couple years since the last bubble in late 2017. Crypto prices began picking up in Q4 2020 as more institutional...

  10. Constipated Capital

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Major trends Each one of these could probably get its own episode of Fully Vested, but it's important to mention them briefly here. It's hard to believe all these mechanics were at work all in the first...

  11. Risk is Part of the Game

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Disclaimers Neither Jason Rowley nor Graham Peck are financial advisors or tax professionals. We're just a couple of friends talking about our opinions of money and tech stuff on the internet. Fully Vested...

  12. ZIRPity Do Dah

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. ZIRP Has Been Eating The World ZIRP explains the world More about ZIRP Market Edges Toward Euphoria, Despite Pandemic’s Toll (Matt Phillips for The New York Times) How Do Interest Rates Affect the Stock...

  13. In Short, We Like the Show!

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Topic: Valuations of Public Markets and the Recent Short Squeeze of Gamestop and Others A note from your hosts Neither of us are registered financial professionals and all information discussed on Fully...

  14. Re: The Right of Pro Rata

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Topic: Pro Rata Rights General guides How Pro Rata Works In Venture Capital Deals (Jason D. Rowley for Crunchbase News, September 2017) Pro rata rights (Holloway Guides) What all Entrepreneurs Need to Know...

  15. Stale Good News! (Good COVID News #2)

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Companies Which Raised Money During Covid Times Run The World Based in Mountain View, California, Run The World is a startup founded in July 2019 which builds software tools to help conference organizers...

  16. Stacked Benches (Good COVID News #1)

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Cashdrop's $2.7M Seed CASHDROP, a Chicago-based contactless payments and mobile-first e-commerce platform company founded by Mexican immigrant Ruben Flores-Martinez, announced that it raised $2.7 million in...

  17. Firms of a Feather

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Links about VC scout programs General stuff about deal sourcing LP Corner: How VCs Source Deals OpenLP: When Money Isn’t Enough: How to Distinguish Yourself as a VC in a Crowded Market What Scout Programs…

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  18. Don't Tread on My App

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes Hey App Dispute with Apple Apple Doubles Down on Its Right to Profit from Other Businesses (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch) Why Apple's App Store is under fire (Kif Leswing for CNBC) Hey's Own Page…

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  19. Goat Rodeo of a Roadshow

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes: Quarterly VC Data Q2 2020 Global Venture Report: Funding Through The Pandemic (Gené Teare for Crunchbase) Also for Reference Pandemic Survey Finds Founders Less Worried (Gené Teare for Crunchbase)...

  20. Black Lives Matter

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes: Related to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery What Happened For roughly nine minutes on Memorial Day 2020, white police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck…

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  21. Pronounced G as in Gif

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes Facebook Buys Giphy On Friday, Axios broke the news that Facebook was going to acquire popular Gif-sharing and search platform Giphy, reportedly for $400 million. Giphy is going to retain its branding...

  22. Yikes Indeed

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes Layoffs According to Layoffs.fyi as of 2:18 PM on May 13th, 408 startups have laid off roughly 46,000 people since March 11. Uber laid off 3700 employees via a 3-minute zoom call and were given no...

  23. Denture Vet

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes A couple of books mentioned: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez VC: an American History by Tom Nicholas Articles we discussed: Venture capital investors should harpoon…

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  24. My Version of the Google

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Notes Jason interviews AikoAI, r2c, and SLAppForge Mary Meeker, on Wikipedia The "Our New World" Report, on BondCap.com "Bull Trap" on Investopedia Why April was Wall Street’s best month in decades –…

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  25. Literally Hit the Fan

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Links Distributed Bio Payroll Protection Program fact sheet Small-Business Rescue Shows Not All States Are Created Equal (Bloomberg) 8 Startups that have raised since the COVID-19...

  26. Blood Sacrifice to the Economy

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice. Links Out Of Office: 65+ Startups Helping You Work From Home (CB Insights) COVID-19 proves we need to continue upgrading America’s broadband infrastructure (Blair Levin for the Brookings Institution)…

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  27. Internet Scavenger Hunt

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or your podcast app of choice. Links Affiliation in the Context of SBA Loans Guidance for Venture Capital Investors(NVCA, as of March 27, 2020) New guidance on SBA loans means most startups are still excluded from $349 billion stimulus (Jonathan...

  28. The First One Where We Talk about Coronavirus

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Links About COVID-19 Golden.com's COVID-19 knowledge cluster has a lot of information about the disease, including studies on its treatment, lists of equipment manufacturers, and other related topics Johns...

  29. That's Just Hashtag Capitalism

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Big Funds Section starts at 10m0s Here's the Form D rss feed Jason follows: Raw feed from the SEC Ribbit Capital Targets $420M For Its Sixth Flagship Venture Fund Ribbit Capital VI, L.P. (SEC filing) Bullfrog...

  30. Interesting and Insanely Complex

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co, or find it in your favorite podcasting app. Summary In which Jason and Graham discuss the ins and outs of liquidation preferences, one of the more complicated features of private company finance. The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Liquidation...

  31. Switch Out Your Eyeballs

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Surveillance Culture Section starts at 10m 35s The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Kashmir Hill for the New York Times) What Will Happen In The 2020s (Fred Wilson) Graham mentions Wilson's...

  32. Comfort Food Entertainment

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Quarterly VC Data Section starts at 4m58s The Q4/EOY 2019 Global VC Report: A Strong End to a Good But Not Fantastic Year (Jason Rowley for Crunchbase) Also for Reference North American Venture Funding was Below...

  33. The Yada, Yada Side

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Followup on Vice Section starts at 4m10s Cannabis is now legal for recreational use in Illinois The Trump administration instituted a partial ban on flavored vaping products Venture Returns Section starts at…

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  34. Big Potato Energy

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Venture Debt Section starts at 6m25s SaaS Focused Scaleworks Spins Out Debt Fund (Mary Ann Azevedo for Crunchbase News) Lighter Capital WeWork Debt Update Section starts at 27m30s Goldman Sachs to Extend $1.75B...

  35. Bad Outcome

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: Neither of us are lawyers, and we don't play them on the internet. We have not personally reviewed the evidence which led the DOJ to make its decision to file charges against Outcome…

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  36. Bulletproof Trapezoid

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Front Matter Huldufólk, the elves of Iceland WeWork founder worked on Kushner's Mideast peace plan: report (John Bowden writing in The Hill) Tesla Cybertruck Section starts at 13m10s Tesla's Cybertruck Elon Musk...

  37. Tip Top Tapping Typist

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. iOS 13 Keyboard Section starts at 6m10s Web Summit Section starts at 9m48s Web Summit Web Summit's Crunchbase Profile WeWork Turnaround Section starts at 26m50s The Best Slides from SoftBank's WeWork Focused...

  38. Lake in the Rake

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Congratulations to Crunchbase on it's $30MM Series C Section starts at 5m13s $30M Series C: Looking Forward to the Future at Crunchbase (Jager McConnell CEO of Crunchbase) Google's Acquisition of Fitbit Section...

  39. Juicy Shoe

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. WeWork & SoftBank (Update) Section starts at 11m45s WeWork.com WeWork's Crunchbase Profile SoftBank.jp SoftBank's Crunchbase Profile Fair.com Fair's Crunchbase Profile Fair, the SoftBank-backed car subscription...

  40. Impromptu Maraca

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Silicon Valley Adopts Profitability Mindset Section starts at 8m15s Q3 Global Venture Capital Report Section starts at 21m10s and 53m55s The Q3 2019 Global Venture Capital Report: Seed Stage Deals Increase While...

  41. Kooky Little Add-Ons

    Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Open Source Software (OSS) Section starts at 4m5s Open Source: From Community to Commercialization (Peter Levine and Jennifer Li of Andreessen Horowitz) Deck as source for the above article SaaS Benchmark Report Section...

  42. The Midas Touch of CEO Firings

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. WeWork (Update) and JUUL (update) Section starts at 6m WeWork.com WeWork's Crunchbase Profile JUUL.com JUUL's Crunchbase Profile JUUL Replaces Its CEO with Tobacco Executive (Sheila Kaplan, Matt Richtel and Julie...

  43. The Mystery Meat Metric

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. WeWork (Update) and Airbnb (Update) Section starts at 10m15s WeWork.com WeWork's Crunchbase Profile Airbnb.com Airbnb's Crunchbase Profile $31B Airbnb Announces Plan to go Public in 2020 (Steven Tweedle and Aaron...

  44. Small Red Flag

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. WeWork (Update) Section starts at 4m45s WeWork.com WeWork's Crunchbase Profile WeWork Makes Sweeping Corporate Governance Changes Ahead of IPO(Annie Palmer for CNBC) WeWork's IPO Spells Rough Landing for CEO...

  45. The Stuff You Can Dab

    General Subscribe to Fully Vested on SimpleCast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Recorded on 9/8/2019 Fyllo Section starts at 4m50s HelloFyllo.com Fyllo's Crunchbase profile Press release announcing Fyllo's seed round BuiltIn's writeup of Fyllo's seed round WeWork Section starts at 21m37s...

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