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Playlist Playbook is your go-to source for bite-sized weekly tips on how to get your music featured on playlists and make the most of your music marketing efforts. Whether you’re an independent artist or a seasoned pro, each episode delivers actionable insights to help you navigate the ever-changing music industry. Tune in every week to level up your playlist pitching game and unlock new opportunities for your music.
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The Trajectory Africa is a “pop-up” podcast exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa. With the unique African landscape—market characteristics, business environment, goals, and culture—as a starting point, The Trajectory Africa aims to identify a destination for African tech, as well as the sign posts that signal direction of travel. It’s modeled on the concept of a mixtape, in which each episode, or “track” will feature a conversation with a “ ...
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Write of Passage Podcast Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but did you know that Sam Altman is an avid writer? As one of today’s most successful entrepreneurs, Sam champions the tremendous value of writing: how it clarifies your thinking, expands your ideas, and level…
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways “The founder has to be accountable for the story. The founder holds this secret knowledge and vision that other people do not.” – Lulu Meservey Go Direct: If the founder’s secret has to go through seven layers of filtering before it is shared with the world, then it will become something that is already familiar t…
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How to Take Over the World The story of how John Wooden won ten national championships on the way to becoming the greatest coach of all time. ----- Sponsors: Vesto Gains In Bulk - Use code Ben for $20 and a free shaker. How to Take Over the World Premium - For all endnotes, takeaways, and bonus episodes subscribe for only $7/month. ----- Writing, p…
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The Trajectory Africa’s first principles series was inspired by a desire to understand the drivers and assumptions underlying investable opportunities in key sectors hypothesized to be the engine of African VC, starting with fintech. Across 11 episodes, we explored the opportunities for, and limits of, ubiquitous digitalization and the role of fint…
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways “Every tap on a mobile app is a miracle for you as a product developer.” – Nikita Bier Teens see each other everyday; this is one of the most important factors for why teen consumer apps have a higher probability of going viral If you are building a product with network effects and that…
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Founders✓Claim The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigre from Sweden, Immanuel Nobel, who was an…
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Write of Passage Podcast Key Takeaways Writing invokes clarity of thought; it forces you to ensure that every you say is actually correct Productive writers are always thinking about the topics they write about, even if they are not sitting in front of their computer The goal of writing is not to convince the reader that you are right, but to force…
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My First Million Key Takeaways The nine non-obvious lessons that Shaan Puri has learned while building an audience: 1. Forget the numbers 2. Find your inner nerd 3. Build a magnet, not an audience 4. The First, Last, Best, Worst, Weirdest framework 5. Use the Five D’s 6. Nothing is too long, only too boring 7. Don’t worry about style or production …
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In Episode 1 of this series, Abraham Augustine, Research Partner of trendsAf and Comms and Programs Lead at Norrsken warned against “long arm, no mouth” syndrome and the risks of digitalizing one part of a system (distributed solar energy, for example) without considering where the barriers and effects might materialize (think missing payment rails…
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In the debut episode of Playlist Playbook, we dive into the importance of targeting the right playlists for your music. Learn how to research playlists, connect with curators, and tailor your pitch to maximize your chances of getting featured. Tune in for essential tips to kickstart your playlist pitching strategy! Free Playlist Submissions https:/…
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways The keys to creating a business culture of excellence: Have a small number of people who are elite in their field Compensate them very well Ensure that compensation and promotion are perfectly tied to performance Ruthlessly minimize bureaucracy Celebrate people who do big things with the fewest number of people po…
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Back in Episode 7 of Trajectory Africa’s first series, Barbara Iyayi, CEO & Founding Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital made a strong statement about the ubiquity of financial services, arguing that every company should be a fintech company. Because as long as financial inclusion is a huge problem, every company should be able to offer financial ser…
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Infinite Loops Key Takeaways Investing is a service-based business; focus on the karma! “The four horsemen of the investment apocalypse are fear, greed, hope, and ignorance. And only ignorance is something that you can address.” – Jim O’Shaughnessy Take actions that increase the surface area of your luck Ironically, in a changing world, playing it …
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh…
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Twenty Minute VC Key Takeaways “Extraordinary careers, when you are junior in venture, do not get built sitting behind a desk in an office behind a laptop. You have to be willing to go meet with founders in person, figure out how to understand their business and how to convince them to even spend time with you when you are not one of the big genera…
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In the previous episode of The Trajectory Africa, we explored the art and science of community lending to microbusinesses. In this episode, we turn from business lending to consumer savings, but as an antidote to a consumer lending model called buy now, pay later, or BNPL. BNPL emerged as a global trend in the wake of COVID-19 and the tough macroec…
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rational vc Key Takeaways Check out the Rational VC website Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of di…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan The greats do not cower when they are slighted; instead, their determination only grows further “I never asked any of my teammates to do something that I wasn’t willing to do myself. If you don’t want to play…
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Rory Sutherland is widely regarded as one of the most influential (and most entertaining) thinkers in marketing and behavioral science. He’s the vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, the author of Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious …
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In the previous episode of the Trajectory Africa, we heard from Kiiru Muhoya and Judith Bogonko at Fingo about the importance of cultivating Africa’s youth as the next generation of retail consumers of financial services. In this episode, we’ll hear how Femi Iromini, Co-Founder and CEO of Moni, and his team, have created a community lending model f…
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Modern Wisdom Key Takeaways The emotion that we do not want to feel is often the emotion that we invite in the exact way that we try to avoid it The spiritual path for so many is just another way to say, ‘I am not good enough yet You are not going to get to where you want to go by being a really sh*tty boss to yourself Enjoyment is a state of mind …
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Founders✓Claim What I learned from reading The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone. --- EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy with the Pod 3. Get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/ --- One of the best podcasts I've heard this year: Listen to Invest Like The Best #336 …
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition and i…
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My First Million Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to. — Show Notes: (0:00) The h…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways Check out Ben’s website Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org "When I was a child, my mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope. Instead, I was a painter And became Picasso." What made Picasso such a great artist? And what made him such a…
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According to research by global consultancy Simon-Kucher in 2022, fewer than 5% of neobanks were profitable. A recent update suggests that most are still loss-makers, although a path to profitability is emerging. Also in 2022, Tech Cabal’s reporting on Kuda Bank’s NPLs (non-performing loans) sparked a discussion about what levels make sense for com…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways Following your curiosity is the best approach for making scientific discoveries Some of Ben Franklin’s favorite quotes: “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” “Lost time is never found again.” “Love your enemies for they te…
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Founders✓Claim Key Takeaways Support David Senra and get access to the world’s most valuable notebook for founders Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What I learned from reading Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by Vance Trimble. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on d…
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Conversations with Tyler Intro One person’s freedom is another person’s unfreedom Unanimity theorem, also known as the Stiglitz-Greenwald theorem, posits that in the presence of incomplete markets and imperfect information, the competitive equilibrium is generally not Pareto efficient Sharecropping can create poor incentives for tenants to work har…
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Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show✓Claim Show Notes: (0:00) Audio issue (0:51) Introduction (3:40) Deals are long-term relationships (6:02) Facebook-WhatsApp acquisition story (12:04) The most important part of deal-making (16:44) Don’t come off as desperate (19:35) Maintaining momentum during a deal (25:53) Know everything about the person you’re …
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Key Takeaways Hardship will show you who your real friends are; don’t eat with people that you wouldn’t starve with On evolving: You do something for awhile, you do it at the highest possible level for you, and then at some point you pivot and start supporting the young talent that eventually emerges For certain indi…
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Modern Wisdom Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. George is one of my favourite writers and probably delivers the highest insights-per-minute of anyone on Twitter. Today we get to go through some of my favourite ideas from him over the last few months…
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This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Yele Oyekola, Co-founder and CEO of Duplo, a company on a mission to streamline financial operations for African businesses. We’re diving deep into the world of digitizing financial operations, from payables and expense management to reconciliation and reporting. Africa’s $1.5T B2B payments market repr…
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On this special episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’re featuring “someone you should know”—David Ogundeko, Founder and Chief Vision Officer for Funema, a last-mile, impact-focused, alternative investment company. David has spent the last 7 years creating a model to engineer and invest in problem solving, impact creating, high growth SMEs. In the p…
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Infinite Loops Key Takeaways “Uncertainty is the only certainty.” – John Paulos People use terms like millions, billions, and trillions as if they are the same thing; when in reality, these are vastly different amounts! “We live in a probabilistic world, and yet we remain deterministic thinkers.” – Jim O’Shaughnessy The Law of Large Numbers is a fu…
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Knowledge Project Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Succeeding in both life and business is very difficult. The skills needed to scale a company often clash with those required to cultivate a thriving home life. Yet, Brent Beshore seems to have cracked the code—or at least he's actively working on it. I…
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways Leaders must “work up” through osmosis; do not assume that your messages are distributed throughout the company without intention and effort Most organizations tell the leadership team what they want to hear; this can prevent the executive team from actually understanding what is happening within their own company…
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org My guest today is Adam Sandow. Adam is the chairman and CEO of SANDOW Companies and the executive chairman and founder of Material Bank. He has built an entire ecosystem of businesses and brands that have brought him into the game of media, material…
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Founders✓Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What I learned from reading about Hans Wilsdorf and the founding of Rolex. ---- Build relationships at the Founders Conference on July 29th-July 31st in Scotts Valley, California ---- "Learning from history is a form of leverage." — Charlie Munger. Founde…
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On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’re talking to Ola Oyetayo, Co-Founder and CEO of Verto, the first "all in one" cross-border payments platform for corporate treasuries in emerging markets. He’ll help us understand the mechanics of cross-border payments, why they're so expensive in Africa, how to improve price transparency and manage vol…
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On the previous episode of The Trajectory Africa, Wiza Jalakasi, Africa Market Development Director at EBANX suggested that infrastructure-building consumer payments businesses create value because of the sheer number of payment methods available, from mobile money to bank transfers and cards. With all these options, businesses taking consumer paym…
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On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’ll hear from Wiza Jalakasi, Director for Africa Market Development at EBanx, a payments processor headquartered in Brazil. He’ll shed some light on why building payment rails in Africa is deceptively hard work—from why some payment methods work better in some places than others to whether infrastructure-…
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On this episode of The Trajectory Africa’s current series, "The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles", we’re laying the foundation for a deeper exploration of fintech by stepping back to understand the system(s) that fintech creates and operates in. For that, we’re chatting with Samora Kariuki, Founder of the Frontier Fintech new…
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This is the first episode of Part 1 of a new series on The Trajectory Africa —The Engine of African Venture, A Return to First Principles. This series will explore what powers fundamental value creation and investability in sectors that drive the bulk of African VC opportunities. Part 1 is focused on fintech, and this episode with Abraham Augustine…
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The Trajectory Africa’s second series, The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles, is a two-part exploration of what powers fundamental value creation and investability in sectors that drive African VC opportunities. The first part is focused on fintech, starting from the premise that digitizing African economies is the African inv…
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Welcome to Episode 5, the next to last of Dans les Coulisses, a series exploring VC and tech entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, brought to you by Impact Hub Dakar and The Trajectory Africa. For this episode, we have two guests: Birame Sock and Madji Sock. Birame Sock is a technology expert with over 20 years of experience as a tech entrepreneu…
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Welcome to Episode 4 of Dans les Coulisses, a series exploring VC and tech entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, brought to you by Impact Hub Dakar and The Trajectory Africa. This episode’s guest is Tijan Watt. Tijan is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Wuri Ventures, a pan-African venture capital fund focused on pre-seed and seed opportunities…
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This episode I talk about the joy and awkwardness of going back to your hometown for the holiday's. Yes, uncomfortable run-in's will happen, but just remember how exciting it will be to reconnect with your friends, family, and the place you grew up. P.S. Those awkward run-ins with people you never expected to see again, are awkward for everyone.…
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Welcome to Episode 2 of Dans les Coulisses, a series exploring VC and tech entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, brought to you by Impact Hub Dakar and The Trajectory Africa. Impact Hub Dakar is a Dakar-based incubator that supports early stage startups in Senegal, with a mission to help investors meet scalable, early stage startups in Francophon…
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