Brett Bivens: What Makes Companies Like Shopify and Nike Great

Brett Bivens is an investor and researcher at Tech Nexus. He also writes the popular Substack Newsletter, Venture Desktop. I was thrilled to get Brett on the show because I wanted to pick his brain on his most popular articles.Brett's essays span wide-ranging topics, including:

• Bottoms-up investing
• The Metaverse of healthcare
• Empowerment Loops
• Complexity Investing
• Enablers vs. Growers

We spend over an hour discussing these topics and the intricacies of companies like Shopify, Spotify, Facebook and Twitter.Here's the time-stamp:

• [0:31] Intro Questions
• [3:00] What is TechNexus?
• [7:00] Brett's Role at TechNexus
• [11:20] Merits of Bottoms-Up Investing
• [15:15] Don't Invest In What's Trending
• [20:23] Complexity Investing
• [25:43] Metaverse of Healthcare
• [38:14] Empowerment Loops
• [47:45] Enablers vs. Growers
• [55:05] How To Find Underrated Markets
• [67:10] Examples of Underrated Markets
• [77:00] Closing Questions

If you want to learn more about Brett Bivens, check out these links:

• Brett's Newsletter Venture Desktop
• Brett's Twitter @brettbivens

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