Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.118]
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Finlay is a debt capital management software that I wish I had during my private credit days. It's a company that's solving a pain point near and dear to my heart. In my credit days, we spent way too much time coordinating diligence trackers, the internal versions, the external versions, the banker versions. And our borrower management operations always felt like they were the same as they probably were in 1996. And I know it wasn't specific to us. Regardless of what other funds we were working with on these projects, it was always the same. Just ask around, and you'll find that nearly every o
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My guest this week, Eugene Wei, has one of the most interesting backgrounds of anyone I've had on the podcast. He worked at Amazon early in its life, was the head of product at Hulu and Flipboard, and head of video at Oculus. Our conversation is about the intersection of technology, media, and culture. We discussed Eugene's concept of invisible asymptotes. Why growth slows down for both companies and people, and how some can burst through. I'd list more of the topics, but we covered so much that you should just listen. Finally, I'll say that after spending a day with Eugene, including a wildly
It was inspired by, a podcast I had heard about this book, Cuisine and Empire. You know, I had just realized that, you know, when I was younger, music really felt like it was the heart of culture in America. Music was where young kids turn to express their sense of rebellion, to protest things like the Vietnam War. You know, his music was, you know, like punk rock and all of that was just the way that people sort of would choose bands and music to express their point of view on the world. And I realized that now, you know, food has sort of become that for a variety of reasons. One is, you know
It reminds me of another interesting thread that you were pulling on, which is your impressions from watching the documentary, The Defiant Ones, about Jimmy Iovine and Beetz and doctor Dre. Would love kind of the the key takeaways there because one one of the things I wanna spend a lot of time on is is this notion of scarcity, marketing identity, signaling, etcetera. So what what were your primary takeaways from the Defy Once?
Well, one meta
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