Beginner's Mind
Blueprints for Builders and Investors
Hosted by Christian Soschner
From pre-seed to post-IPO, every company—especially in deep tech, biotech, AI, and climate tech—lives or dies by the frameworks it follows.
On Beginner’s Mind, Christian Soschner uncovers the leadership principles behind the world’s most impactful companies—through deep-dive interviews, strategic book reviews, and patterns drawn from history’s greatest business, military, and political minds.
With over 200 interviews, panels, and livestreams, the show ranks in the Top 10% globally—and is recognized as the #1 deep tech podcast.
With 35+ years across M&A, company building, board roles, business schools, ultrarunning, and martial arts, Christian brings a rare lens:
What it really takes to turn breakthrough science into business—how to grow it, lead it, and shape the world around it.
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- Founder & Investor Blueprints: How breakthrough technologies scale from lab to IPO
- Historical & Biographical Frameworks: Timeless playbooks from the world's great builders
- Leadership & Communication Mastery: Tools to inspire, persuade, and lead at scale
Whether you're building the next biotech success, investing in AI, or leading a climate tech company through hypergrowth—this podcast gives you the edge.
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Beginner's Mind
#73: Bharat Kanodia - How to Value Unique Assets
Do you want to know how to value a company and what Julia Roberts has to do with it? Then listen to Bharat Kanodia in this episode number 73.
Valuation is one of the most difficult exercises in the startup world. How can you put a price tag on a company that doesn’t exist yet? Get help from an expert:
Bharat Kanodia has valued over 2000 businesses and signed off on assets worth $2.6 trillion in value. He has appraised unique assets like the Golden Gate Bridge, Atlanta Airport, Uber, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Brooklyn Bridge, Mirage Casino LV, among many others. Bharat is the Founder of Veristrat, a company that helps startup founders and VCs by telling them what their companies are worth. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his family and enjoys sailing, golfing, skiing, and horseback riding.
In this episode number 73 we are talking about:
➡️ The History of Entrepreneurship in San Francisco
➡️ Failure Culture
➡️ Julia Roberts
➡️ NFTs
➡️ And much much more...
Books mentioned in the Podcast:
Epic Businesses: https://amzn.to/3vMZI4E
Atomic Habits: https://amzn.to/3LtSlpb
Do you want to reach out to Bharat Kanodia:
LINKEDIN:
INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/whatsitworthtv
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/whatsitworthtv
WEBSITE: http://www.veristrat.com
FACEB00K: http://www.facebook.com/whatsitworthtv
TEDx Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGCnM8Hag
📝 Shownotes: tbd
🎙️ Youtube: https://youtu.be/w5_IXnNQSRU
🕒 Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro Bharat Kanodia
(04:00) History of Entrepreneurship in San Francisco
(07:08) Failure Culture on the West Coast
(08:40) The Startup Reality – 9 out of 10 attempts fail
(10:10) Veristrat – Corporate Valuations
(11:30) The Nature of Valuations
(15:31) How to Deal With Valuations in the Startup World?
(20:00) Valuating Companies on a Pitch Deck Basis
(26:50) Beeple’s Everydays NFT – How to Put a Price Tag on It
(32:00) The Valuation of Cryptocurrencies
(35:34) How to Put a Price Tag on Early Stage Drug Development Companies
(40:00) When Should Founders Start to get Professional Support for evaluating the company and their products?
(43:35) How to Put a Price Tag on Landmarks like the Eiffel Tower
(45:10) Life Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
(47:00) Atomic Habits
(49:15) How to Reach Out to Bharat Kanodia
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