The Vampire Squid

The Vampire Squid


Latest Episodes

TVS 048 – Women in Finance (with Valerie Wong)
April 16, 2017

Women in Finance! One of the topics that I have been wanting to cover for a long time on TVS, and finally had the opportunity to do so with Valerie Wong. Today’s episode focuses a lot on the cultural biases that dominate the workspace,

TVS 047 – Diversity in Finance – International to the United States (Valerie Wong)
April 09, 2017

I’m very excited for this week’s episode with Valerie Wong, who is the president of Latinos in Finance and an employee of MSCI. We talk about two very important topics including being international and breaking into the United States for a finance role...

TVS 046 – Trading Gold and Silver (with Peter Hug)
April 03, 2017

Today’s episode is on trading precious metals, specifically gold and silver! I’ve always been interested in learning about what drives the prices of gold and silver and how to add it to my portfolio. This episode was extremely informative for me and ho...

TVS 045 – Finimize (Co-Founder Scott Tindle) Part II
March 26, 2017

Today is Part II of the episode with Scott Tindle, co-founder of Finimize! This episode dives a bit deeper into how Finimize is performing in addition to learning more about what people have the most difficulty understanding in terms of concepts in fin...

TVS 044 – Finimize (Co-Founder Scott Tindle)
March 20, 2017

*If you have experience with mobile graphic design, please reach out to me alan@thevampiresquid.com* Please welcome a special guest for this week, Scott Tindle, who is the co-founder of Finimize, an easy to understand newsletter of financial news that ...

TVS 043 – Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (with Jacob Mullins from Shasta Ventures)
March 13, 2017

I’m very excited about today’s episode because it is on two of the most fascinating emerging technologies out there, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. Today, we have on Jacob Mullins from Shasta Ventures who focuses on these types of emergin...

TVS 042 – Shasta Ventures with Jacob Mullins
March 05, 2017

We have a great interview for you guys today with Jacob Mullins from Shasta Ventures! Jacob has a strong entrepreneurial background and has founded multiple companies before he joined and rejoined Shasta Ventures where he now focuses on emerging techno...

TVS 041 – Aswath Damodaran (NYU Finance Valuation Expert) Part II
February 25, 2017

We continue our conversation with Aswath Damodaran where we dive into the technology industry, great books to get read if you want to learn about finance, and Aswath’s thoughts on the market. I hope you enjoy!

TVS 040 – Aswath Damodaran (NYU Finance Valuation Expert)
February 19, 2017

Wow, I had to bring on an incredibly special guest for the 40th episode of The Vampire Squid! Today’s episode, we have Aswath Damodaran, who I’m sure many of you know well in finance. He is considered the go-to expert for valuation and has taught at NY...

TVS 039 – Patrick Curtis (Founder of Wall Street Oasis) Part II
February 12, 2017

Welcome back to Part II of the episode with Patrick Curtis, founder of Wall Street Oasis. In this episode, we dive into Patrick’s experiences in Buenos Aires, his favorite wall street oasis stories, how he deals with “fake news”, and much more.