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Capital Allocators #477 · December 15, 2025 · 48m

Matthew Dicks - Storytelling Mastery

Matthew Dicks — bestselling author, award-winning storyteller, and 58-time Moth StorySLAM champion — teaches Ted Seides why storytelling is a learnable skill, not a gift, and how institutional investors can use storytelling to communicate with boards and stakeholders more effectively.

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Dicks argues that anyone can become a compelling storyteller. The skill isn't innate. The only real barrier is the courage to be vulnerable — to share real stories with real stakes.

Highlights

Institutional investors underperform at communication because they rely on data instead of narrative
Dicks observes that investment professionals have the worst communication skills of any high-performing group he's worked with. They bury insights in data instead of framing them in stories that board members can remember and act on.