#404: Wes Barton on Venture Capital in Middle America

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Wes Barton is co-founder and Managing Partner of Third Prime. He started his career as a tobacco farmer, spent time on Wall Street, and now is focused on venture capital. Third Prime is a venture capital firm that likes to invest in entrepreneurs shaping a better future for humankind. In this conversation, we discuss what is happening in Middle America, the current income disparity, Nashville and other emerging geographies for VC, and Wes' thesis around health and wealth. ============================== Diginex is the first company with a cryptocurrency exchange to be listed in the US. That exchange, EQUOS, has been built to institutional standards, but is available to everyone. You can trade Bitcoin and Ethereum spot, as well as Bitcoin perpetuals, and get a 5% discount on all fees, by signing up using equos.com/pomp ============================== Choice is a new self-directed IRA product that I'm really excited about. If you are listening to this, you are likely part of the 7.1 million bitcoin owners who have retirement accounts with dollars in them, but not bitcoin. I was in that situation too. Now you can actually buy real Bitcoin in your retirement account. I'm talking about owning your private keys and using tax-advantaged dollars to do it too. Absolute game changer. https://www.retirewithchoice.com/pomp ============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:10.9	Wes Barton is co-founder and managing partner of Third Prime. He started his career as a tobacco farm, spent time on Wall Street, and now is focused on venture capital.
0:21.5	Third Prime is a venture capital firm that likes to invest in entrepreneurs shaping a better future
0:25.6	for humankind. In this conversation, we discussed what is happening in middle America, the
0:31.4	current income disparity, Nashville and other emerging geographies for VC, and Wes's thesis around
0:37.3	health and wealth. I really enjoyed this conversation for VC, and Wes's thesis around health and wealth.
0:38.7	I really enjoyed this conversation with Wes, and I hope you do as well.
0:43.3	Before we get into this conversation, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:47.5	First up is DigenX.
0:49.5	They're the first crypto exchange to be publicly listed, and they're going to do it on the NASDAG. DigenX is the
0:57.5	proud owner of an exchange called EQOS, EQUOS, and it's been built to institutional standards,
1:06.5	but it's available to everyone. You can trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Spot, as well as Bitcoin Perpetuals,
1:12.2	and you'll get a 5% discount on all fees by signing up using Equos.com slash pomp.
1:18.2	Again, DGinex is the first cryptocurrency exchange to be listed in the United States.
1:23.0	To listen to the NASDA, they've got an exchange called Equos.
1:25.7	And if you go to equos.com slash pomp,
1:29.4	you can sign up and get a 5% discount on all trading fees. Go check them out. If you want to talk
1:36.9	to our second sponsor, you probably have a retirement account. Choice. There are new self-directed
1:42.2	IRA product that I'm really excited about. Right now,
1:45.4	most of you listening who have a retirement account probably haven't looked at it in a while.
1:49.9	My guess is that they've got you in some sort of quote unquote safe portfolio, which is a 60-40 type
1:57.2	exposure. The problem is that 40% in bonds, it's now a zero rate interest environment.
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