Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology
00:26:19 · Hector Mason, Alan Chang
[00:26:19] S2: Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. I'll be signing up. It's a fascinating company with a with a huge ambition and vision and and one that is kind of inevitable, and and let's hope that you're you're the team who can can accomplish it. So lots of great anecdotes, some interesting insight in your... Into your time at at Revolut and and some of the inside workings of of that company and also how you're kind of using the learnings from there to build company and and culture and a high performing team at Tesseract. So we could have carried on speaking for hours, but we don't have hours. So it'd be great to move on to the dinner party guest scape, which is where we ask you who would you invite to a dinner party if you could have three guests and they can be they can be dead or alive. [00:27:03] S1: Yeah. So I'll start off two... Maybe two answers where most people is in most people's list. As for Elon and Steve, Steve Jobs. I think Elon's the obvious one. And Steve for building awesome consumer products. I just love to understand how he thinks about the travel, right? How he thinks about building products. The third one is probably for me, Enzo Ferrari. I think it's another great product company. He has... In terms of how many cars he sells versus the brand, how great that product is, it's just it's just fucking awesome. [00:27:39] S2: That's such a good one. I... I'm a massive car nut, and I hadn't thought about Enzo Ferrari, but, yeah, couldn't agree more about the product side of things. I mean, they're a piece
00:27:39 · Hector Mason, Alan Chang
[00:27:39] S2: That's such a good one. I... I'm a massive car nut, and I hadn't thought about Enzo Ferrari, but, yeah, couldn't agree more about the product side of things. I mean, they're a piece [00:27:49] S1: of art. Exactly. Cars do not need to be, you know, if you build a car in a spreadsheet, you get a Ford. If you build a car with, you know, beautiful, great design, you get a Ferrari with it. That is both functional and beautiful. So that's... We... Probably one of the greatest products of all time. [00:28:08] S2: What a great note to end the podcast on. Yeah. Great to chat, and thanks for all your insight. Really, really great getting [00:28:13] S1: to know you. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
00:28:13 · Alan Chang, James Pringle
[00:28:13] S1: to know you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. [00:28:15] S0: Thanks, Alan. That's it for this week. Thanks very much for listening. To stay up to date with the latest episodes, please follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. We also have a newsletter called Reading Unicorns, which is another great way to get every episode direct to your inbox. Please tell your friends about it and engage with us on social media, and we'll see you on the next episode. This episode is sponsored by Seapoint, the business account built for startups. If you're a startup founder fed up with finance admin, you need Seapoint. Seapoint is different to neobanks because it connects all your bank accounts and your Stripe account to see your cash position, burn, and runway instantly. It automates bookkeeping by pulling invoices and receipts from your whole team's inboxes, so you just sync the whole lot to Xero and pay outstanding bills with a click. Plus, it has a 3.51% yield on treasury and real human customer support. Find out more at seapoint.co. That's seaprint.co. Use code unicorn for a free month. Seapoint offers money market funds managed by BlackRock. Rate recorded at 10/01/2026. Rates are variable and subject to change. Capital at risk.