358: Design and Venture Capital

This week, we caught up with Bobby Goodlatte and Josh Williams, two designers-turned-investors who recently announced Form Capital, an early-stage venture fund. In this episode we talk about the path to starting a fund, whether founders should live in the Bay Area, and share advice to designers who are interested in starting their own company someday.

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In this week's Sidebar, we ask bonus questions at the end of the interview:

• What is the most under-rated skill for founders?
• What is the most over-rated skill for founders?

• Marshall has recently crossed 100 episodes and two years of co-hosting this podcast! Boy, oh boy, how time flies - thank you Marshall, it's been a fun two years!

• Bobby Goodlatte on Twitter, and his email is bobby at formcapital.com.
• Josh Williams on Twitter, and his email is jw at formcapital.com.
  • Josh appeared on episode 200 of Design Details.
• Form Capital is Bobby and JW's new early stage venture fund.
• Pauh Graham's essays have a wealth of startup advice.

• Brian shared Timecrimes, a low-budget, internally-consistent time travel movie.
• Marshall shared the Scott Pilgrim Table Read on YouTube.
• Josh snuck in two recommendations this week:
  • The AWB OneSky Telescope.
  • The Segway Ninebot Electric GoKart.
• Bobby shared the 2021 Ford Bronco.
  • The UI is buck-wild.

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