Navigating Extreme Ambition | VC Founder Braxton Bartlett

About this episode

Braxton Bartlett discusses the realities of extreme ambition and the importance of setting boundaries for financial success.

Braxton Bartlett is the CEO of Paladin Capital LLC, Managing Director of The Bartlett Group, Partner at the KB Collective, and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. Confronting the physical limits of his athletic career with total honesty, he started his entrepreneurial journey by fixing and flipping real estate while still completing his college education. Now he is the founder of his own VC firm. In this episode, we discuss the heavy reality of extreme ambition, exploring the vulnerability of failed business ventures and the absolute necessity of defining clear boundaries for financial success. We also detail his highly practical daily productivity habits and share why forcing yourself into unfamiliar situations is the most effective way to discover what genuinely makes you feel alive.

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Panitch, Parker Yablon

Guest: Braxton Bartlett

Topics covered

• extreme ambition
• entrepreneurship
• productivity habits
• vulnerability
• financial success

Keywords

• entrepreneur
• VC firm
• real estate
• productivity
• business ventures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Paladin Capital LLC, The Bartlett Group, KB Collective

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