Crazy Wisdom
Episode #375: Investment Strategies for a Tech-Driven Future with Leo Polovets
- venture capital
- tech investing
- public speaking
- personal development
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- Investment Shift to Deep Tech: Leo Polovets highlights a significant shift in the investment landscape from software-centric ventures to deep tech and hard tech sectors. This transition is driven by the maturation of software, reduced barriers to entry, and the growing potential of physical-world technologies like hardware, bio labs, and advanced materials.
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I don't have any ads on the show. I've never done ads. I always really focus on the quality of the conversation and exchanging value from the guest to the audience and then to myself, to you all. All different directions. But today, I wanted to share something special. After a long, long journey into the abyss, I have finally found a way that I can deliver value to people in a way that really lights me up in a way that is actually really valuable. What I'm doing is I'm essentially doing crazy wisdom off the record. So Crazy wisdom. I've noticed a long time ago that a lot of guests, when they come on, they're very nervous, they don't know how to speak in public. And there's this sort of existential dread that comes from speaking in public, which makes sense. That's actually why I start. One of the reasons why I started this podcast many years ago was so that I could get over that, my own fear. And what I learned in that process is that existential dread is essentially based on nothing. I mean, it is based on something important ancestrally in terms of if you said the wrong thing in the jungle environment, you could, you know, end up bad. And that still can happen today, but it's much less likely to happen. So there was a real risk saying something, particularly if you said something true in times of delusion.
And, you know, that's avoidable too, because I can teach you how to not say those things as well. And that's really what crazy Wisdom off the record is, is a way that people can learn how to do public speaking and really refine their public speaking. But we would do it in a private setting, completely off the record. We would record and we could use that recording for posterity as well. So if there's something that you're working on that you think your family or, you know, people down your ancestral line will find really valuable to make sure that's recorded and for me to draw out the most important lessons. I'm actually doing this with my dad right now, where we're just. I'm just interviewing him about his past and getting all these little great anecdotes that are probably somewhere, but probably pretty hard to find. But all this to say, I would love to offer this service to anybody listening to this episode. So if you want to come and do a crazy Wisdom off the record, we can do a 15 minute demo for free. Just send me a DM on Twitter, Stuart Allsop III. Or you can just email me. Stuart Allsop III mail.
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