About me
👋, I’m Jared.
I’m an investor at Costanoa Ventures focused on early-stage fintech & crypto. I used to be a product manager at BlockFi, Blispay, Millennial Media, Bill Me Later, and PayPal (twice).
You can get in contact with me on LinkedIn or Twitter @jsfranklin221.
I’m an ISTJ (borderline INTJ) who values my wife, dogs, health, authenticity, self-awareness, pragmatism, judgment, progress, intellectual honesty, and curiosity.
Here are some of my Favorites
Books
Product Management | Inspired | highlights | podcast |
Business | Built to Last | highlights |
Business | The Age of the Platform | highlights |
Business | Grinding it Out | highlights |
Personal Finance | Stop Acting Rich | highlights |
Personal Finance | I’ll teach you to be rich | |
Personal Finance | Stay the course | Highlights 1, 2 |
Personal Finance | Millennial Money | highlights |
Personal Finance | The Millionaire Next Door | |
Investing | The Intelligent Investor | highlights |
Investing | Mastering the Market Cycles | highlights |
Investing | The Four Pillars of Investing | highlights |
Investing | The Elements of Investing | highlights |
Investing | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | highlights |
Investing | The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles | highlights |
Blogs, Posts, Memos, Vids, and Emails
Product Management | Blog: SVPG Silicon Valley Product Group * Product Management – Start Here * Product Success * Behind Every Great Product * Good Product Team / Bad Product Team * The Product Manager Contribution * The Four Big Risks |
Product Management | Post: Crossing the Canyon: Product Manager to Product Leader |
Product Management | Post: Product Work Beyond Product-Market Fit |
Product Management | Post: Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager |
Product Management | Blog: Black Box of PM * PM Mental Models |
Product Management | Shreyas Doshi: * n+ Tweet threads * How to Improve your Product Sense |
Product Management | Anthony Cintron Series: * Responsibilities of a Product Strategists * Responsibilities of a Product Manager |
Product Management | Mini Thangaswamy (Braintree PM): What it Takes to Succeed as a Payments PM. * Podcast * YouTube vid * Slideshare |
Product Management | Blog: Jackie Bavaro * How to Hire Great Product Managers Part 1, 2, and 3 |
Product Management | Blog: Adam Nash |
Product Management | Blog: Ken Norton |
Product Management | Blog: Sachin Rekhi |
Product Management | Resources: The Ultimate Product Management Guide |
Business | Blog: a16z |
Business | Blog: Benedict Evans Essays and Presentations |
Business | Essays: Paul Graham Essays |
Business | Memo: Sequoia’s Investment Memo on YouTube |
Business | Memo: Brad Garlinghouse Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto |
Business | Memo: Slacks Stewart Butterfield We Don’t Sell Saddles Here |
Business | Email: Howard Schultz The Commoditization of the Starbucks Experience |
Business | Letters: Amazon Shareholder Letters |
Personal Finance | Blog: The Irrelevant Investor |
Personal Finance | Blog: A Wealth of Common Sense |
Personal Finance | Blog: Of Dollars and Data |
Markets & Investing | Essays: Eric Peters One River Asset Management Weekend Notes |
Markets & Investing | Research: Vanguard Research |
Markets & Investing | Research: Federal Research Economic Data |
Markets & Investing | Blog & Letters: Eric Cinnamond of Palm Valley Capital |
Markets & Investing | Letters: wknd notes by Eric Peters of One River |
Markets & Investing | Letters: Howard Marks / Oaktree Memos |
Markets & Investing | Letters: Alta Fox Capital |
Markets & Investing | Blog & Letters: Crescat Capital |
Markets & Investing | Letters: Hedge Fund Letters |
Podcasts
- Animal Spirits
- Panic With Friends
- Invest Like the Best
- Meb Faber Show
- Masters in Business
- Capital Allocators
- The Twenty Minute VC
- Business Breakdowns
- a16z
- Venture Stories
- ARK For Your Innovation
- Macro Voices
- The Drive
- A bunch of Crypto podcasts
Companies
Movies & TV
Products (personally impactful)
- Personal Capital
- Evernote
- Peloton (referral code: 3TWTMH)
- Apple Watch & iPhone
Activities
- Walking. Biggg walker.
- Spinning
- Biking
- Working
Quotes/Mantras
- Luck favors the persistent & relentless.
- It could always be worse.
- Whatever the fuck it takes.
- All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If your plan is clear, it will be easier for you to stay on plan. Malkiel, Ellis
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Einstein
People
Tweet Threads
- Mine with 100+ Personal Finance tips and recommendations
- Kevin Dahlstrom on Stepping off the hamster wheel
- Jason Evanish on Product Management
- Tom Redman on Product Manager decision making
- Shreyas Doshi on Product Management Career Skills Map
- Shreyas Doshi on Product Management Career Management
- Jackie Luo with anonymized startup compensation outcomes
- Michael Rihani on Why Bitcoin