Below The Line with James Beshara

A podcast that dives deep into the real journeys, the unspoken perspectives, and the psychological side of creating, founding, and leading.

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Everything you see visually about an iceberg — above the waterline — is there because of the mass below. In an interview with a founder or leader, in a business blog post or magazine article, we read and listen to 10% of the story (the successes, the big moment, the vision). But what is going on below the waterline — the 90% that may only get a by-line in an article or a footnote in the biography?

What if we flipped that ratio and observed what was really there, what was foundational to their success and their story?


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Below The Line with James Beshara

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A podcast that dives deep into the real journeys, the unspoken perspectives, and the psychological side of creating, founding, and leading.


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Below The Line with James Beshara

A podcast that dives deep into the real journeys, the unspoken perspectives, and the psychological side of creating, founding, and leading.


Meet the host

James Beshara is an angel investor, advisor, founder, and general startup-helper in San Francisco, California. He has started three companies, sold one (Tilt; acq by Airbnb), and angel invested in multiple billion-dollar startups in his career. And now he's talking openly and honestly with others about what's going on "below the line" in their worlds... the things that have made them who they are and the things they really think about each day — the 90% of the story you don't read about or hear about anywhere else.

Listen to James introducing Below the Line podcast in this very first episode on what began as an idea for a compilation and potential book of interviews from the best founders, leaders, and life in general.

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