DeepSummary
Emilio Diaz Barosa, a partner at Bold Capital venture fund and author, is interviewed on the LA Venture podcast. He discusses Bold Capital's investment focus on deep tech, biotech, and transformative innovations. Emilio also shares his background running family offices and his early entrepreneurial experiences.
Emilio reflects on lessons from failures, such as not getting too attached to outcomes and maintaining joy in the process. He emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, taking responsibility, and separating information from emotional baggage. Emilio encourages founders to be vulnerable and not pretend to have everything together.
The conversation touches on Emilio's book 'The Mystery of You' and his perspectives on personal growth, flow states, and alleviating human suffering through addressing mental health challenges. He advises focusing on creating value over avoiding losses and being open to talented team members.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Maintain a creative, joyful mindset and focus on creating value rather than avoiding losses when investing or building a business.
- Practice self-awareness and take responsibility for patterns in your life instead of blaming external circumstances.
- Embrace vulnerability and humility as an entrepreneur rather than pretending to have everything figured out.
- Look for founders who demonstrate responsibility, vision, and execution willingness when investing.
- Technological progress alone won't solve deeper human challenges around mental health and inner peace.
- Separate factual information from unhelpful emotional baggage to make better decisions.
- Find activities that induce a state of flow and presence to nurture mental well-being.
- Forgiveness is powerful and distinct from condoning harmful behavior - let go of grudges.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Forgiveness is so powerful, and we think that somehow, if we forgive, it's the same as condoning. It's very different.“ by Emilio Diaz Barosa
- “You don't have to pretend to have it all together. Humility and vulnerability are assets and qualities in the journey.“ by Emilio Diaz Barosa
- “I invested in the moment. It's people that just have this what we've been speaking of, this capacity to take full responsibility for how they show up and they have a vision and they have the willingness to go and execute it.“ by Emilio Diaz Barosa
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Episode Information
LA Venture
TenOneTen
2/8/23
Don't let the joy get sucked out of investing.
Investor Emilio Diez Barroso reminds us to remain focused on the joys of creativity and creating value. Emilio invests from his own family office and as a partner at Bold Capital, a Series A fund with a focus on frontier tech, biotech and innovations that have the potential to transform humanity.