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Shaan Puri: belief

9 Sept 2020 Acquired Special: Acquired x My First Million

“I think a SPAC index fund is interesting, and I want to know how you create an index fund.”

— Shaan Puri

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Speaker
Shaan Puri
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Sept 2020
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yeah, we’re talking some ultimate irony. Exactly, no quick MVP. Just a landing page with smoke and mirrors. There's no product behind it. You can't do that. Eric Ries will be in jail telling people about The Lean Startup in there. But anyway, I think the whole idea of stock exchanges is a very interesting thing. I think a SPAC index fund is interesting, and I want to know how you create an index fund. I also like the idea of an angel list, but for creating private equities instead of venture funds. Somebody out there is just doing a SPAC newsletter right now. Just taking advantage of all these SPAC keyword searches and probably has built a 50,000 person—pretty valuable email list. There is. Spacresearch.com. The founder is an Acquired community member. It's a paywalled business. It’s either some sort of trial or some sort of premium thing. But yeah, he's building a real business on it.…

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