![]() And I just had Well, we had this company called Lightspeed, and we just sold it to Cisco and they’re not going to use the name so why don’t why don’t we use Lightspeed. And they, they came up with all these fancy names, and this was in 2000. Turns out it was a company in our portfolio that we sold to Cisco, and we were trying to come up with a name and we hired a marketing consultant. Well actually why don’t you weigh in on that. So I assume that, you know, that’s why you call it lightspeed. You know, that’s what, that’s what you called it, because presumably, in working with Silicon Valley companies where speed is literally a competitive advantage, even a little faster than your competitor can make a huge difference in your innovation cycles. I mean, just one point of overlap, you don’t call a company lightspeed without thinking about it. Because I think when you when you are at peak performance, you do things a lot more efficiently. And so I’d love to see your next book address, sort of brain health and how to be at peak performance. If I fast, then if I eat a big breakfast. I find in the morning that if I fast in the morning, I’m really a lot sharper. And I try to try to do it more, right, obviously, getting a lot of sleep. So, I do spend time thinking about the things I do that make my brain sharper, make me more articulate, creative, all those kinds of things. And so what can you do to have good brain days versus bad brain days, and maybe I guess you could have it when you’re young too, but it just didn’t seem to be so obvious to me back then. Yeah, to a place more recently, where I’ve, you know, understood that, you know, as you get older, your brain isn’t always, you know, you know, clicking on all cylinders. And that’s taking me on this journey of how I sort of managed my day to day execution or action items, whatever you want to call it. Because I’m always trying to figure out how to do things better and faster at the same time. And I’m sort of a, I guess I would call myself an efficiency junkie. In reading your book, I was struck by the fact that here’s someone who’s writing a book on stuff I’ve been trying to figure out for 58 years. You were talking about having done some personal experiments with when you are most energized, how did you put that? But you said something just before we went live. And maybe we’ll get onto some of those themes. I know you have multiple books, but you sent me after less than I read it. Barry, Welcome to the What’s Essential podcast Or though forward slash team forward slash Barry. You can find Barry on LinkedIn and Twitter at Barry Egger. He holds a BA in Economics and Business from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University, my own alma mater. Barry has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas list of top venture capital investors, meaning that everything he touches turns to gold. More recently, he was the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, where he successfully guided the NVCA and its members through the pandemic, set up the VC community to lead the recovery. But prior to lightspeed Barry was at Cisco Systems, establishing several of the company’s largest distribution channels and developing the initial merger and acquisition process. He’s a founding partner at lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the premier funds on you know, really from the last decade, homerun investments including Snapchat, Affirm, Mulesoft and Nutanix the Stitch Fix. My guest today is Barry Eggers, venture capitalist and Silicon Valley pioneer with a long history in its tech and venture scene.
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