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Measure It at the Source (opens the original)
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Max Darsonval spent twelve years in the SEAL teams, most of it as a combat medic, and left on what he calls a 50.01% decision. He’s now founder and CEO of Velocity AI, building a sensor and a coaching app that take velocity-based training - the tool every D1 and pro weight room already has - out of the facility and onto anyone’s barbell. He and Neal get into why 22-week strength programs break the moment real life happens, how drone IMUs turned into a wearable, why the SEAL Future Foundation bec
Your Startup Will Not Go as Planned - The Acquirable Podcast (opens the original)
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Most startup stories sound linear in hindsight.Someone has an idea, builds a company, finds customers, raises money, grows, and eventually exits. Put it into a short bio and the whole journey can seem almost inevitable.Living through it feels nothing like that.I recently joined the Acquirable Podcast to talk about my path from aerospace engineering to founding, pivoting, and eventually selling Portfolium. We discussed the decisions that changed the company’s trajectory, the things I misunderstoo
A Different Person in Every Game (opens the original)
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Cody Germain spent seven years at Riot - leading competitive games on League of Legends, with the Valorant and Legends of Runeterra launches in between - then moved to San Diego in 2022 for Psyonix and Epic. Now he’s co-founder and CEO of Bear Infinite Games, building Spark, a personalization layer for competitive play, and Project Grizzly, a game designed so no player can buy an advantage. He and Neal get into why the industry’s walled gardens strip players of identity, why San Diego’s gaming t
Teams Don’t Exist in Business (opens the original)
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Larry Coval spent nearly four decades leading organizations at AT&T, Global Crossing, and Cox Business, and came out the other side convinced that most of what gets taught about leadership is wrong. He joins Neal to talk about his new book, Misled , and the argument at its center: “team” is the wrong unit of analysis for business, leadership was never a soft skill, and the fundamentals got skipped while the keynote circuit sold platitudes. He also makes the case for the smoked marlin taco at Osc
Pitching a Venture Fund in Layers (opens the original)
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