Successful Founders Are Naive Fast Learners

<p>Schwark Satyavolu, a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, shares lessons from his many years of experience as a founder, operator, technology executive, and now an investor. Schwark talks about unwillingly getting into FinTech when he was building Yodlee, and how he got into investing in crypto startups. He also gives an interesting explanation as to why he likes investing in naive fast learners.</p><p><i><strong>In this episode, you’ll learn:</strong></i></p><p><strong>1:52</strong> The 2000 bubble burst forced me to (unwillingly) get into FinTech - Schwark</p><p><strong>6:19</strong> A similar thing that happened to FinTech is happening to crypto</p><p><strong>19:31</strong> Why naive fast learners succeed in building big companies</p><p><strong>22:57</strong> Should you pause your startup building until the prevailing macroeconomic volatility eases?</p><p>The non-profit organizations that Schwark is passionate about: <a href="https://ashanet.org/?utm_source=the-sure-shot-entrepreneur-podcast&utm_medium=Episode-88&utm_campaign=naive-fast-learners">Asha,</a> <a href="https://prathambooks.org/?utm_source=the-sure-shot-entrepreneur-podcast&utm_medium=Episode-88&utm_campaign=naive-fast-learners">Pratham</a></p><hr /><h3>About Guest Speaker</h3><p>Schwark Satyavolu is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. A decades-long financial services insider, Schwark is a serial entrepreneur and inventor with 15 patents. He focuses on fintech, AI and security startups that are laying the fundamental building blocks for the technology-based ecosystems of the future.</p><p>Before joining Trinity, Schwark co-founded two fintech companies, Yodlee (YDLE) and Truaxis. He also ran a $200 million division of Mastercard and served as a public company executive at LifeLock (acquired by Symantec).</p><hr /><h3>About Trinity Ventures</h3><p><a href="https://www.trinityventures.com/?utm_source=the-sure-shot-entrepreneur-podcast&utm_medium=Episode-88&utm_campaign=naive-fast-learners">Trinity Ventures</a> is a Silicon Valley-based venture