storytelling
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2015 by Alan Jones · across every show →
Everything said about storytelling, oldest first
Jun 15, 2015
Pitching Requires Emotional Storytelling, Not the Standard VC Metrics Template
“So we need to become great storytellers, and that never, never, never Fits the templates that the VCs want to see. Why? Because the VCs want to punch all the metrics into a spreadsheet and judge you coldly and rationally. The best thing that we can do is grab …”
Feb 18, 2023
Aloe Blacc: Effective storytelling induces a flow state in listeners
“That's what a story will do. It draws you in, and it keeps you there, and it's almost like the artist was probably in flow state when they wrote it. If they can get you into flow state where you forget about everything else. Dude, that's magic.”
May 16, 2025 positive
Yamashita: Great PMs must frame routine tasks as existential missions
“A PM is really great at motivating something incredibly boring as existential, and so whenever I'm interviewing PMs, you know, I just ask, okay, well, what are some projects you've led, and whatever, and if they can't make it sound interesting to me, no matter…”