by Nick Patrick
The Lake Tahoe area is highly concentrated with a wide range of intelligent and successful people. This podcast dives into many of their stories, explores their careers, and offers discussion centered around business, entrepreneurship, and career advice from an impressive array of guests. -- Please share with your friends if you enjoy the episodes, and FOLLOW the podcast for more deep dives into interesting careers!
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6/17/2024
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August 20, 2024
<p>In episode #10 of Tahoe Minds, Duane Andrews, the Co-Founder and CEO of Clear Capital joins me to discuss his career in real estate technology. After starting REOnetwork.com and attending USC Marshall, he built and grew Clear Capital into a 9-figure revenue business in his 20 years as CEO.</p> <p>We discuss business strategy in the real estate industry, finding large opportunity in saturated markets, risk tolerance and preparing for black swan events like 2008, acquiring businesses versus releasing competitive products, how to hire a great team, and much more. My favorite part is discussing unfair advantage and Duane's strategy to maintain market control. Duane is also a big car guy, and has a 10 car collection so we discuss our shared passion at the end of the episode. </p> <p>Timestamps:</p> <p>00:00-Introduction 00:42-Waking up early and Duane's childhood 03:45-Introduction to real estate & starting REOnetwork.com 10:17-MBA's and starting Clear Capital 21:47-The power of Lake Tahoe & Leveraging Data 29:49-Doubling Clear Capital in 2008 & navigating setbacks in 2021 42:03-Acquiring businesses to maintain market control 52:31-Cars talk! 57:28-For the 20 Year Old's</p>
August 5, 2024
<p>In episode #09 of Tahoe Minds, Brett Wilson, former CEO of TubeMogul and General Partner at Swift Ventures joins me. He walks me through his successful career as a consultant, how getting his MBA at Berkeley Haas helped boost his career, and his entrepreneurial journey.</p> <p>He has lots of good insights on everything that goes into starting a company: Building a great culture, what types of people to hire, tips on fundraising, and what changes when you take a company public. His company was built by maintaining an equal "do : say" ratio, and he talks about how being self aware and constantly evolving to solve a larger problem is one of the keys to building a successful company.</p> <p>The camera stopped around 35 minutes... unfortunate as the last 15 minutes were my favorite to record. </p> <p>Timestamps:</p> <p>00:00-Introduction 01:03-Early Career consulting for Accenture 07:30-The beginning of entrepreneurship & Berkeley Haas 14:21-Taking TubeMogul from an idea to an IPO 33:50-Public vs. Private company & Sale to Adobe 43:50-Life after selling a company 47:00-Swift Ventures and a better work/life balance 51:51-For the 20 year old's</p>
July 30, 2024
<p>In episode #08 of Tahoe Minds, Matt Nordby, the former President of Playboy Enterprises and Managing Partner at Flume Ventures joins me to talk about his meandering career, starting as a young sales executive at Sun Microsystems, working for and exiting a $500M startup, becoming President of Playboy enterprises and much more.</p> <p>We discuss the impact of Scott McNealy and Sun Microsystems, the benefits of naivety in a young career, working for a fortune 200 company versus a startup, his time at Playboy, and his investment thesis behind Flume Ventures, all revolving around authentic relationships.</p> <p>The overarching theme of the episode is the importance of these relationships, and how Matt's success has stemmed from this mindset.</p> <p>Timestamps:</p> <p>00:00-Introduction </p> <p>01:01-Working as a Young Executive at Sun Microsystems </p> <p>04:32-Leaving Sun to work for a startup </p> <p>10:24-Working at Playboy, International Licensing & Reinventing yourself </p> <p>20:52-Moving to Buy-Side, PE & VC </p> <p>27:15-Starting Flume Ventures and building a great team </p> <p>34:11-Matt's Investment Strategy & Value Add </p> <p>43:00-Authentic Relationships and giving back to Nevada</p> <p>50:36-For the 20 year old's</p>
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