About this episode

David Zhou interviews Earnest Sweat and Alexa Binns about their experiences in venture capital and podcasting.

The holiday season has always been a great time to celebrate the movers and shakers in our world. This season we're celebrating my personal favorites in the LP world. To start this mini-holiday series off, Earnest Sweat and Alexa Binns runs one of the most popular podcasts on venture capital limited partners, Swimming with Allocators. I was also fortunate enough to be on their podcast as well as a bonus crossover episode. You can find Earnest on his socials here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/earnestsweat/ X / Twitter: https://x.com/EarnestSweat You can find Alexa on her socials here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexabinns/ X / Twitter: https://x.com/alexabinns OUTLINE: [00:00] Intro [02:09] Alexa's earliest relationship with money [03:28] Earnest's earliest relationship with money [04:45] Earnest's first major purchase [06:41] Alexa's first major purchase [08:25] The difference between public speaking and interviewing [12:19] Memorable guests on the SwA podcast [14:46] To do or not to do in-person interviews [18:05] Evolution of YouTube titles [20:04] Why err towards evergreen content? [22:30] Was SwA designed for LPs or GPs? [24:12] How did Earnest and Alexa…

People in this episode

Host: David Zhou

Guests: Earnest Sweat, Alexa Binns

Topics covered

• venture capital
• limited partners
• podcasting
• money management
• interviews

Keywords

• venture capital
• limited partners
• podcast
• money
• interviewing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Swimming with Allocators

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