{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"upside","title":"[REWIND] Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures // early stage investing through a syndicate [CC058]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3265,"description":"Interview begins: 5:16\r\nDebrief: 43:55\r\n\r\nThis week we’re revisiting CC058, a coffee chat with Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures. In this episode, we explored syndicate investing.\r\n\r\nUnpopular Ventures is led by Peter Livingston, whose experience is almost entirely in startups – as both an operator and investor. He was the first engineer at iRhythm (IPO 2016) and was the founder/CEO at Lifesquare (backed by Kleiner Perkins).\r\n\r\nHe has been angel investing since 2013, made >150 investments to date, and has produced investment returns well within the top decile of VC industry performance.\r\n\r\nPeter founded Unpopular Ventures to keep investing in startups – but with a bigger family, bigger checks, and bigger impact.\r\n\r\nWe discuss:\r\n- Disagreeing about corporate VCs (9:11)\r\n- Syndicate Model (13:37)\r\n- Investors and the syndicate (16:13)\r\n- Not following the traditional fund (26:35)\r\n- Building trust (31:25)\r\n- Edification (39:23)\r\n\r\n\r\nLearn more about Unpopular Ventures: http://unpopular.vc/\r\nFollow Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/unpopularvc\r\nFollow Peter’s Syndicate: https://angel.co/unpopularvc/syndicate\r\n\r\nFollow upside on Twitter\r\nhttps://twitter.com/upsidefm\r\n\r\nAdvertise with an upside classified\r\nhttps://upside.fm/classifieds","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qhlBwGFVyVQpTQUPz91SL_FZ9LxsieuifdWQEs8peZY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzkxLzE2MDU2MzQx/MjktYXJ0d29yay5q/cGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}