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Carpool.vc — Carpool with Ludlow Ventures (new web series)
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For the past 10 months or so I've interned with these two. To say that these guys are not your traditional VC's would be a huge understatement. These episodes do an amazing job of capturing how goofy and approachable Jonathon and Brett are. Their personalities couldn't complement each other more.
@blakeir To say Blake it not you traditional intern is an understatement. Brought so much value to the team from day one. Plus he has the deepest and silkiest smooth voice.
@blendahtom thanks! There are a lot of good people on the way! Stay tuned...
Thanks @eriktorenberg for posting this. We're excited to share with the PH community carpool.vc, a new project we've been working on at Ludlow Ventures. Brett and I carpool to work every day. Most days begin dropping my kids off at school. I'm pretty sure the crossing guard thinks we're dating.
We thought it would be fun to start recording our commutes and the people we talk to along the way. We have some great upcoming guests (Eric Ries, Jesse Genet, Mark Suster, Jason Calacanis, Clark Valberg and more). The audio is less than ideal right now, but we're upgrading our gear.
Please share thoughts and feedback. A specific ask to the PH community; we want to have 1-3 standard questions that we ask everyone who chats with us. The goal is to stay away from the "who do you admire?" "what do you like about your job?" questions and conjure up things that will make people share more personally and vulnerably. Have any awesome questions to add to that list? We'd love to hear them.
Thanks!
@jtriest sounds like a fun project. some questions: what are your on-going challenges? what inspires to go to work every day? if you weren't driving to work, where would you be?
@jtriest I love that you're doing this. I think you're on to something insanely fascinating, but I have a ton of feedback.
I'd like to see more a mission statement behind it. Just saying you're recording because you guys drive together isn't enough. That's a gimmick that gets us watching, but doesn't sustain. I know you well enough to know you have one. Talk about it on camera.
And when you bring Clark on tell us who he is and why he matters for your mission.
If you call your dad, don't cut away just as you're talking to him. That's a personal moment that you should show. Maybe ask him how he felt you crashed his car as a teenager or sold his shirts on ebay when you were growing up. Or something that shows us who you were.
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@andrewwarner Thanks Andrew. New at this. Excited for all good things ahead.
@kepano no joke Stephan. You need iron-ons at lumi.com live immediately. The one we tested on my bag hasn't worn at all!
@clarkvalberg Lots of love going on in this thread. Clark, thanks for being our guinea pig. Our cute, lovable guinea pig.
This is incredible. How about a guest passenger that wants to commute to work in the car with you guys?
Seems like the VC / startup version of Seinfeld's comedians in cars getting coffee
@eawharton yeah I'm a big fan of that show and it was definitely an inspiration, the only difference is we carpool every day for the last three years whether we film or not
@brettdem @eawharton @jtriest IMO, the magic of the show is that it doesn't feel like a forced interview. It seems like a conversation between friends. I'm looking forward to checking this out!
@eawharton Thanks Eddie, that's the goal. The second it becomes forced we're done.
@4nkush Thanks Ankush. You need to join us and tell everyone how you got the Try.com URL. Best story ever.
This is very cool guys. What's the weirdest conversation you have had while pooling?
What about asking guests what they do on their commute? I'm always interested in the range of audio books -> podcasts -> Top 100 hits (guilty)
I also think you need the occasional signature gag (ie. http://www.elvisduran.com/media/...)
Tip for the AngelList / Tinder world out there... if you want to marry a founder, you have to be "in full beast mode". Also, where is the email capture? Scale! So good, thanks guys :)
@weinberg81 Doh! Content marketing 101. How did we forget that? Fix on the way. Thanks!
@weinberg81 we are such boneheads! thanks! updated with a pretty subscribe button!
@andrewfarah Thanks Andrew! We really focus on being authentic. We tried getting a blog off the ground for years and end up reducing each blog post to a tweet. We took a step back and stopped forcing it. This is a much more comfortable medium for us to express ourselves. We'll leave the masterful blogging to @hunterwalk, @msuster, @ezramogee and others.
(disclosure - we love you)
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