The Cambridge entrepreneur and angel investor Peter Cowley is a well-known face in the world of UK venture capital, and he's dying. He has a third book out, but the author of the startup best seller "The Invested Investor", is writing not on business but his personal story. "Public Success, Private Grief" charts Peter's struggles through alcoholism, the loss of two sons to suicide and now a terminal cancer diagnosis in his final book - one in which he puts his business career into perspective.Caroline Hepker went to Cambridge to meet Peter Cowley for a conversation about loss, the VC business and living your best life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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