Interview begins: 5:16

Debrief: 43:55

This week we’re revisiting CC058, a coffee chat with Peter Livingston of Unpopular Ventures. In this episode, we explored syndicate investing.

Unpopular 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).

He 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.

Peter founded Unpopular Ventures to keep investing in startups – but with a bigger family, bigger checks, and bigger impact.

We discuss:

• Disagreeing about corporate VCs (9:11)
• Syndicate Model (13:37)
• Investors and the syndicate (16:13)
• Not following the traditional fund (26:35)
• Building trust (31:25)
• Edification (39:23)

Learn more about Unpopular Ventures: http://unpopular.vc/

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