The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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The TechSurge: Deep Tech VC Podcast explores the frontiers of emerging tech, venture capital, and business trends, with conversations tailored for entrepreneurs, technologists, and investment professionals. Presented by Celesta Capital, and hosted by Founding Partners Nic Brathwaite, Michael Marks, and Sriram Viswanathan. Email feedback and show ideas to [email protected]. Join us as we examine the next major tech cycle, uncover emerging global tech hubs, and analyze where VC investment d ...
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The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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A podcast by venture capital firm Lux Capital on the opportunities and risks of science, technology, finance and the human condition. Hosted by Danny Crichton from our New York City studios.
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Grit explores what it takes to create, build, and scale world-class organizations. It features weekly episodes highlighting the leaders who are pushing their companies to make a difference. This series is hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, go to market operating partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm investing in history-making founders.
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In each episode of "Goldman Sachs Exchanges," people from the firm share their insights on developments shaping industries, markets and the global economy.
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Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com
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Running Through Walls is a Venrock podcast featuring candid conversations between investors and entrepreneurs. Each episode, we offer a behind-the-scenes look at the breakthroughs, challenges and nuttiness associated with building and growing companies. Venture capital firm Venrock has been investing in entrepreneurs across technology and healthcare since 1969.
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Riding Unicorns is the go-to podcast for anyone interested in venture capital and high-growth startups. Hosted by VCs James Pringle and Hector Mason, the show explores what it takes to build and back successful tech unicorns. Each episode features candid conversations with top founders, operators, and investors—unpacking the strategies, challenges, and insights behind scaling category-defining companies. From fundraising and product-market fit to hiring, growth, and beyond, no topic is off-l ...
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Host Mike Maples Jr. from venture capital firm Floodgate offers lessons from the rare startup super performers — BEFORE they were successful. Pattern Breakers features interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most legendary entrepreneurs and thought leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger, business maverick Mark Cuban, and Shopify co-founder Tobi Lütke.
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Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast—the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy. Hosted by Sage Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides, each episode dives into candid conversations with technical founders, investors, and GTM experts. You’ll get real talk, proven playbooks, and no-fluff advice on how to land your first customers, build ...
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Marketing and leadership tips on growing your startup or small business, plus interviews with successful entrepreneurs. From consulting with 30 of the Fortune 500 to launching a successful marketing agency and Fractional CMO firm, Diane Moura speaks with founders and industry experts who share lessons and tips on making your own venture a success. Connect with Diane on LinkedIn @dianemoura
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Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets
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Alt Goes Mainstream podcast is the place to turn to for interviews with some of the brightest and most experienced minds in the world at the intersection private markets and wealth management. AGM dives into investment strategies like private equity (PE), private credit, venture capital (VC), secondaries, GP stakes, infrastructure, real estate, wealth management, and comprehensively covers tools and frameworks for approaching private markets, such as asset allocation, evergreen funds, model ...
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Building in the Wild is a podcast and video series hosted by Roman Villard, CPA and Stacey Feldman, CPA, who are building their company - Full Send, and helping build startups and growth companies through elevating financial data. Listen in to hear about how they are building their company, how their startup clients are building their companies, and how they're bringing more personality to accounting and finance for growth-minded startups. Give us a follow: Website: https://www.thefullsend.c ...
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On Turpentine VC, host and venture capitalist Erik Torenberg delves deep into the art and science of building successful venture firms through conversations with the world’s best investors and operators. Hear about insider strategies on decision-making, investment theses, and building firms for the long term—from the ground-level, VC to VC. Guests in season 1 include Ben Horowitz of a16z, Mamood Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins, and Alfred Lin of Sequoia.
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"More Equity" takes you inside the world of Harlem Capital. In each podcast, we discuss the startup and venture capital landscape with founders, investors, and top industry leaders. Harlem Capital is a New York-founded early-stage venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years. We are focused on investing in minority and women founders in the United States, LatAm, and Africa. We want to hear from you! Sen ...
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This podcast series explores the intersections of business, organizational culture, and talent through conversations with leading thinkers – and doers – around the world. Learn more at: https://www.heidrick.com/ Heidrick & Struggles serves the executive talent and leadership needs of the world's top organizations as a premier provider of leadership consulting, culture shaping and senior-level executive search services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Family Office Podcast: Billionaire & Centimillionaire Interviews & Investor Club Insights
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The Family Office Podcast released 3-7 episodes a week of interview mandate interviews, private investor strategies, innovative investment structures, and wealth management related insights. We use this podcast to interview billionaires, centimillionaires, investors, and family offices and help founders, entrepreneurs and investors scale their platforms and invest more effectively.If you are looking to grow your business, get sharper at investing and scale you are in the right place. Our pro ...
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Welcome to The Transaction. The #1 Go-To-Market podcast on the planet. Hosts Craig Rosenberg and Matt Amundson, two legendary go-to-market leaders in their own right, talk weekly with the best sales, marketing, operations, and product leaders in the B2B SaaS world to understand what's working in the new playbook of the post-ZIRP market. But Craig, Matt, and their guests don't just talk theoretically, they share the stories and actionable tips, tactics, and strategies behind what's driving re ...
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Outsider Inc. is dedicated to visionary leaders breaking the mold of tech entrepreneurship. Hosted by Ian Hathaway—co-author of The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and co-founder of seed-stage venture capital firm FOVC—each episode delivers exclusive interviews and insider insights from exceptional founders building generation-defining companies. Join us for an in-depth exploration into the real-life stories of entrepreneurs from unexpected places and backgrounds ...
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Forward Thinking Investors is a podcast where Mat Sherman interviews the world's brightest up and coming investors, as well as many who have already proven themselves as the best. Topics will range from portfolio construction theory to what makes a good market, and everything in between. The goal of this podcast is to help popularize the concept of investing with the public and get them familiar with how investors think. Listening to this podcast will make you a better investor and a better ...
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Garibay Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, TX. It raises capital and provides consulting services to both startups and established companies. Garibay is also an angel investor and has invested in over 200 companies, including some of the most successful startups in Silicon Valley.
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Vestigo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in early-stage technology companies focused on financial services. Its team members, including advisors from academia and the corporate world, are entrepreneurial, highly experienced, and deeply grounded in financial services, asset management, behavioral finance, and growing start-up companies. The complementary strengths of its team members uniquely position Vestigo to identify, make and mana ...
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The Origin Ventures podcast discusses all things tech, startup, and venture capital with startup founders and executives, experts in our network, and other investors. Origin Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture capital firm investing across the United States and Canada. Visit originventures.com for more details about us, to sign up for our newsletters, and other content!
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Shibolet & Co. is one of Israel’s largest full-service corporate law firms in Israel and is widely regarded as a powerhouse for business-oriented legal service, expertise, and insight, with a prominent High-Tech and Venture Capital practice.In 1973, Shibolet’s original founders recognized a simple truth: a single person, no matter how skilled or professional, can never compare to the extraordinary capabilities of a cohesive team. This essential philosophy has led us to bring together more th ...
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Midven is a Venture Capital firm in the West Midlands (UK). This series will delve into into current affairs and interviews with portfolio companies and investment directors.
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The Founder's Formula Podcast is designed to bring current founders, co-founders, founding CEOs, and aspiring entrepreneurs alike the latest and greatest insight from founders who have "been there and done that".
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We believe creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. NFX is a venture firm exclusively focused on pre-seed & seed stage startups.
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This is BioCulture, a regular look into the early stage bioscience start up scene. Know everything that you need to about how to transition from idea to business, where ever in the world you are or want to go. Brought to you by RebelBio (www.rebelbio.co), the world's first life-science accelerator, and owned by global venture capital firm SOSV (www.sosv.com)
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Artesian is a global alternative investment management firm specialising in public and private debt, venture capital and impact investment strategies. On this podcast, we share ways to tap unrecognized value and deliver sustainable performance in challenging environments as investors and innovators.
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Welcome to Capitalist Culture, the podcast where we dive deep into the heart of what makes our economy thrive—free-market enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the unwavering belief in the freedom to invest and build. Each episode is a celebration of the patriotic spirit that drives individuals to turn ideas into enterprises and profits. Join us as we engage with the most innovative and successful investors and entrepreneurs who aren’t just investing in businesses but in their people. These are ...
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The venture capital investment process is a series of steps that a venture capital firm goes through to identify and fund promising startups. Here Paulo Brignardello shares the process of venture capital investment
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FirstMark is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We provide the world’s most inspired entrepreneurs with the capital, connections, and expertise to build large and meaningful businesses. Our mission is to partner with companies working on non-obvious ideas, who are creating completely new markets or redefining existing markets. We’re proud to work alongside the tireless founders of companies like Pinterest, Shopify, Riot Games, InVision, and dozens more. Visit us in N ...
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Become an EMPOWERED INVESTOR. Survive and thrive in today's economy! With over 2,000 episodes in this Monday, Wednesday, Friday podcast, business and investment expert Jason Hartman interviews top-tier guests, bestselling authors and financial experts including; Steve Forbes (Freedom Manifesto), Tomas Sowell (Housing Boom and Bust), Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent), Jenny Craig (Health & Fitness CEO), Jim Cramer (Mad Money), Harvey Mackay (Swim With The Sharks & Get Your Foot in the Door ...
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Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing in early-stage startups.
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The Flagship Podcast brings you inside stories from the Canadian technology ecosystem. You’ll hear from founders, investors, builders and learn about their triumphs, hardships and hard earned lessons. You’ll learn about strategies and tactics and about the human side and what it takes to build a thriving technology company which will hopefully help you on your journey.
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Renew Capital is an investment firm for Africa. We connect impact investors to small and growing African businesses.
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9-5 jobs are the most common method of earning money. But, of course, the best way to build wealth is to go beyond the corporate setting and grow your finances as you sleep. You can achieve that by investing. If you are thinking about giving S&P 500 a try, it's time to widen your perspective to see a much more lucrative option – real estate investing. Welcome to Real Estate Investing Demystified, your friendly guide to exploring everything about real estate. Discover what opportunities await ...
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The Robert Ventures podcast encourages thought-provoking conversations from the top names in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. We interview founders of today's leading companies and give you insights into their projects, innovations, and successes. Joe Robert is your host and CEO of Robert Ventures an investment firm that provides accredited investors with simple and straightforward exposure to top-tier digital assets. Visit Us at: RobertVentures.com *Not financial advice
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A place to talk about startups, venture capital and tech. For a full download, double-click on sandhillroad.io
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A show about leaders who move fast. Hosted by Peregrine Badger at Fifty Years. Fifty Years is a venture capital firm backing founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. We back founders working on climate change, health, free speech, affordable housing, and other global problems. When you’re working on problems like this, there’s a particular sense of urgency. Shipping faster means saving lives, preventing extinctions, and creating a future worth living for. We interview ...
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Atento Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on unlocking unsung potential. From our offices in Tulsa and NW Arkansas, leading markets for innovation in the heartland, we identify high-potential ideas and individuals and then invest the early-stage funding and human capital needed to take ventures from 0-1 and 1-10. The BeAtento Podcast explores the founders, partners, funders, and systems that work together to transform the heartland into the nation’s most equitable tech hub.
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Tune into the Beyond Capital Podcast to discover how the C-Suite thinks about social impact as a business grows. Learn about how social values and causes integrate into a company's operations, product, culture - and ultimately - its success. Eva and Ed have built, scaled and sold companies worth millions. We are active early-stage investors with more than 20 current investments. We sit on private and public-company boards, and we believe strongly in business as a force for good. From the CEO ...
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Product Decoded podcast brings you advice and best practices on how to build and scale great products from the world’s top product experts. This podcast is produced by Spero Ventures and Product Leader Summit. Spero Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is helping entrepreneurs build a future that belongs to everyone. Product Leader Summit’s mission is to create a community for product leaders and founders to learn from one another.
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We interview business leaders and people of influence in Metro Detroit to discuss their journey to a position of influence in their industries. The times where they had to draw on their reserves of self belief and the solutions they found are investigated with them. Overall, you will get to know our guests on a human level and understand the individual qualities they have that helped shape their behavior and choices on their journey.
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Welcome to Joint Ventures, a look inside the ecosystem of one of the top advisory firms in the cannabis industry. Each week we will be joined by investors and operators who share their unique perspectives on the budding industry. The Panther Group is an advisory firm and Ecosystem founded to solve business problems that impede growth for companies in the cannabis industry. They provide core solutions essential to growth marketing, business improvement, and capital raising. The Panther Ecosys ...
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Ben Higgins has come a long way since his “Perfect Ben” days on The Bachelor, and now he wants to take you along as he explores being an entrepreneur! He’s enlisted the help of venture capitalist Jesse Draper, whose firm has helped with early stage investing in female founded startups, like Carbon 38 and Sugarfina. She combines her background in comedy and entertainment with her vast business experience to provide an accessible and relatable approach to the board room. Each week, they’ll sit ...
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The New World of VC and Building a Durable Firm with Category Ventures' Villi Iltchev
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Welcome to another episode of Venture Unlocked. In this episode, I had the pleasure of welcoming Villi Iltchev, founder and managing partner of Category Ventures. Villi has had a long history in tech, both in operating roles at c…
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Lincoln Financial's Jayson Bronchetti - the role of insurance companies in private markets
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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode is with the CIO of an insurance company responsible for more than $300B in assets and a major focus on private markets. Lincoln Financial EVP and CIO Jayson Bronchetti and I sat down recently at Lincon Financial’s headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania to discuss the increasing involvem…
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Blueprint for an AI Future: OpenAI Chief Economist on How AI Will Shape the Global Economy
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Will AI displace more jobs than it creates? How can the U.S. win the AI race? How can AI benefits be evenly distributed across businesses and society? We explore these questions and more as Sriram Viswanathan sits down with Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist at OpenAI, for an in-depth exploration of AI's economic impact and policy implications. Ronn…
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How Goldman Sachs’ John Waldron is navigating “a more uncertain time”
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In a difficult environment for corporate decision makers, how is Goldman Sachs advising clients and managing risk? John Waldron, President and Chief Operating Officer, sits down with Allison Nathan to discuss. This episode was recorded on June 2, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Defining the traits of a successful venture capital leader and founder: A conversation with Lior Susan, founder and managing partner of Eclipse
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In this interview, Heidrick & Struggles’ Scott Bae and Alexis Hennessy sit down with Lior Susan, the founder and managing partner of Eclipse Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs, transforming industries that are critical to people's lives and national economies, such as manufacturing, supply chain, transportat…
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20VC: Is Chamath Right: Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters | Does OpenAI Even Matter | Mary Meekers AI Report: The Analysis| IPO Breakdown: Chime, Circle & Thoma Bravo's New Fund
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Agenda: 00:00 – The Most Unfiltered Episode Ever Begins 03:30 – Does OpenAI Even Matter? Sam Lessin Says Maybe Not. 05:45 – TVPI Is Bullshit? 09:20 – Asset Gatherers vs Real Investors: Who Actually Wins? 12:15 – The Death of the Billion-Dollar VC Fund? 16:00 – Mid-Tier VC Funds Are Getting Annihilated 21:00 – Chime: Great Exit or Missed Opportunity…
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2311: Investing Like Warren Buffett | Unlocking Wealth Through Boring Real Estate
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Jason talks about the increase in customs revenue under Trump's policies, highlighting a significant rise from $4 billion in 2015 to $22.3 billion, though he noted it would not solve government debt issues. He predicted a likely decrease in interest rates due to the disappearance of the inflation threat, which could lead to a surge in home buyers, …
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The Billionaire Blueprint: Deal negotiation Insight, structures & strategies
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Send us a text In this episode, Richard C. Wilson, founder of the Family Office Club, shares his valuable insights on successful investing, decision-making, and business strategies, drawn from his extensive experience working with high-net-worth individuals and billionaires. Richard emphasizes the importance of conducting due diligence, the benefit…
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Fei-Fei Li: World Models and the Multiverse
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What if the next leap in artificial intelligence isn’t about better language—but better understanding of space? In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg moderates a conversation with Fei-Fei Li, cofounder and CEO of World Labs, and a16z General Partner Martin Casado, an early investor in the company. Together, they dive into the concept…
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Building voice-AI infrastructure and scaling go-to-market globally with Carles Reina, GTM @ ElevenLabs & Angel Investor
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In this episode of Riding Unicorns, we’re joined by Carles Reina, Go-to-Market Lead at ElevenLabs, an AI Audio research and deployment company that tripled it's valuation to $3.3BN in January, after confirming a new $180M funding round. From starting out as a banker in Barcelona to scaling Uber’s first European team, and now investing in over 70 st…
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Krilogy's John McArthur - charting an RIA's growth path by building out private markets capabilities
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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode digs into how the CIO of a growing multi-billion dollar wealth management firm thinks about customization and differentiation by building out private markets capabilities. We sat down with John McArthur, Senior Partner and CIO at $3.6B AUM Krilogy. Founded in 2009, Krilogy provides co…
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A US trade court ruling has put the legal fate of President Trump’s tariffs in limbo. But will this actually change the course of US trade policy – and what could it mean for the economy and for investors? Alec Phillips, chief US political economist with Goldman Sachs Research, discusses with Allison Nathan. This episode was recorded on May 29, 202…
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How AI is delivering value in an integrated supply chain: A conversation with James Borzi, EVP and chief supply chain officer at Baxter International
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James Borzi is the executive vice president and chief supply chain officer at Baxter International, a healthcare company; he joined Heidrick & Struggles’ Fabrice Lebecq to discuss how AI is helping leaders of the supply chain function across industries deliver value. Borzi shared how AI was rolled into the function at Baxter, as well as his perspec…
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From Juice Stands to Saving Medicaid: Scott Schnell’s Ironman Journey to Fixing Healthcare
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I’m beyond excited to share our latest podcast episode with you. This time, I had the pleasure of chatting with Scott Schnell, the co-founder and CEO of Med Z. Scott’s journey is nothing short of inspiring, and I can’t wait for you to hear all about it. Here’s a sneak peek into what we discussed: 🚀 Key Takeaways from the Episode: Scott’s Entreprene…
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AI for Family Offices, founders & Investors: Revolutionizing Investment Decisions
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Send us a text In this episode, Richard C. Wilson, founder of the Family Office Club, shares his expertise on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the investment landscape. Drawing from insights gathered at the AI mastermind event hosted earlier this year, where top decamillionaires and centimillionaires discussed how they are leveragin…
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Marc Andreessen: What We Got Right—and Wrong—About the Future of Tech
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What does it take to build a venture firm from scratch—and scale it across multiple waves of technological and cultural change? In this special episode recorded at the a16z LP Summit, Marc Andreessen joins Erik Torenberg for a conversation on the origins and evolution of Andreessen Horowitz. From raising Fund I during the depths of the 2008 financi…
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Bret Taylor’s Journey Leading Salesforce, Sierra & OpenAI
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Over the past two decades, Bret Taylor has quietly helped shape the arc of Silicon Valley. From co-creating Google Maps to steering Facebook, Salesforce, and OpenAI, he’s been behind some of the most consequential products in tech. Now, with his new company Sierra, he’s starting from zero—again. In this conversation, Bret opens up about how founder…
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20VC: Windsurf Founder on Will Model Companies Own the App Layer | Why Moats Do Not Exist in a World of AI | Why the Notion of Single Person $BN Companies is BS | Lovable vs Bolt & Cursor vs Windsurf ...
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Varun Mohan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Windsurf, the leading AI-native IDE, which has over a million users and generates over 50% of all committed software across thousands of companies. Prior to Windsurf, Varun graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science from MIT and led a team at Nuro focused on large-scale deep learning infrastructure for au…
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Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
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What happens when two of the biggest tech waves—AI and crypto—start to converge? In this LP Summit conversation, a16z General Partners Chris Dixon and David George explore how stablecoins are creating a new global financial layer, why generative AI is reshaping market structures, and how the next tech giants will be built. From network effects to n…
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2310 FBF: Creation vs. Evolution with Dr. Geoffrey Simmons of the Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture
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This Flashback Friday is from episode 210 published last April 24, 2011. Jason talks with Dr. Geoffrey Simmons, a physician who is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Disaster Medicine. He has a B.S. in Zoology and has completed the course work for a Masters degree in Microbiology. Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/Jaso…
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$1 Billion Allocators: Insights Directly from Family Offices and Investment Firms
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Send us a text In this exclusive episode of The Family Office Club Podcast, top billion-dollar allocators share invaluable insights into their investment strategies and real-world experiences. Hosted by John Latter, founder of Fabridge Asset Management, the discussion features a panel of seasoned family office executives and investment firm leaders…
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For America, is big or open best for AI models?
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Since the launch of Project Stargate by OpenAI and the debut of DeepSeek’s V3 model, there has been a raging debate in global AI circles: what’s the balance between openness and scale when it comes to the competition for the frontiers of AI performance? More compute has traditionally led to better models, but V3 showed that it was possible to rapid…
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20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best ...
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Kyle Norton is the Chief Revenue Officer at Owner.com, where he scaled revenue from $2M to $40M ARR in under 3 years while selling to one of the toughest markets: SMB restaurants. Before Owner, Kyle led sales at Shopify, where he helped architect one of the most operationally elite GTM orgs in SaaS. Agenda: 00:00 – From Shopify to $40M ARR at Owner…
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Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
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In this episode a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with legendary music producer and bestselling author Rick Rubin to explore the origin of his unexpected new creation: "The Way of Code"* Blending ancient philosophy and modern AI, The Way of Code reimagines the 3,000-year-old Tao Te Ching for the age of artificial intelligen…
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20VC: OpenAI's $6BN Jony Ive Deal | YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart—and Has Officially Won | Builder.ai Implodes and Hinge IPOs: Who Wins & Who Loses | Seed Is Easy. Series A Is Brutal & The Dirty Truth ...
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Agenda: 00:00 – Why “Fund Returners” Are a Myth in Late-Stage VC 05:02 – Builder.ai Implodes: $500M Gone & Fraud Allegations Begin 11:40 – The Dirty Truth About Late-Stage Venture Math 15:57 – The Hinge IPO: Who Won, Who Lost, and Why It’s a Game Changer 23:03 – The Chime Bombshell: Late-Stage VCs Forced to Crystallize Huge Losses 27:14 – Why YC Is…
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2309: Strong Rental Market Demand, The Age of Bitcoin and the Coming Ai Disruptions with Mark Moss
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Jason provides insights into the current real estate market conditions and investment opportunities, particularly noting trends in rental rates and the potential for note investments. Jason examines the impact of economic uncertainty on rental trends and predicts future pressures on rental prices due to increased demand and institutional investor i…
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Navigating Impact Investing, Technology Integration, and Multi-Generational Wealth
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Send us a text In this episode, the panel of family office experts and investors discusses the impact of emerging technologies like AI and data analytics on business practices and communication. The conversation touches on the integration of AI tools in real estate, the shift to remote work, and how these innovations are shaping the future of famil…
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Turning Food Waste into Fertilizer Gold - With Sam Baker
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Meet Sam, a chemist-turned-entrepreneur transforming food waste and plastics into powerful, eco-friendly fertilizer using earthworms. In this episode, he shares how a personal loss sparked a mission to fight Red Tide and restore soil health—leading to the creation of an award-winning startup making real change for farmers and the environment. Conne…
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The Outsider Who Sparked New York’s Tech Ecosystem and Backed Multiple Billion Dollar Outcomes w/ Kevin O’Connor, Co-Founder of DoubleClick, fmr CEO of Graphiq, and Founder & GP at ScOp Venture Capital ...
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In this episode of Outsider, Inc., host Ian Hathaway interviews Kevin O'Connor, co-founder of DoubleClick, former CEO of Graphiq, and Founder and General Partner at ScOp Venture Capital. Kevin shares insights from his remarkable career, starting from his early curiosity in electronics to forego a career as a research scientist and instead spearhead…
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Building the universal integration layer for modern products and raising a Series A from GV with Romain Sestier & Guillaume Lebedel, Co-Founders @ StackOne
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In this episode of Riding Unicorns, we're joined by Romain Sestier and Guillaume Lebedel, the co-founders of StackOne, a rapidly growing startup that’s building the universal integration layer for modern SaaS and AI products. Hot off the back of their $20M Series A led by GV, the duo joins us to share their journey, insights, and lessons from the t…
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Where Value Will Accrue in AI: Martin Casado & Sarah Wang
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AI’s breakout moment is here - but where is the real value accruing, and what’s just hype? Recorded live at a16z’s annual LP Summit, General Partners Erik Torenberg, Martin Casado, and Sarah Wang unpack the current state of play in AI. From the myth of the GPT wrapper to the rapid rise of apps like Cursor, the conversation explores where defensibil…
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Inside the CPO Mind: Culture, Capital, & the Psychology of Peak Performance
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I’m thrilled to share some incredible insights from our latest podcast episode featuring the brilliant Felicia Shakiba, founder and CEO of CPO Playbook. Felicia’s journey and expertise in industrial organizational psychology offer a treasure trove of wisdom on leadership and organizational culture. Here’s a sneak peek into our conversation that you…
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New Mountain Capital's Steve Klinsky - building a business that builds businesses
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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode is with a private equity pioneer who has seen the industry evolve in the forty plus years he’s spent in private markets. We sat down with Steve Klinsky, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of New Mountain Capital, which he started in 1999, and has grown to over $55B AUM with an in…
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AI in the marketing function: A conversation with Chris Koehler, CMO at Twilio
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In the first of our interview series exploring AI and its impacts on leaders across functions, Heidrick & Struggles’ Lindsay Leach and Hugh Marshall were joined by Chris Koehler, the chief marketing officer at Twilio, a customer engagement platform that drives real-time personalized experiences for leading brands. Chris discusses the ways in which …
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20VC: The Most Insane Story in Startups: Airwallex: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN | The Fund That Pulled a Term Sheet & Lost $1BN | Rejecting Stripe's $1.2BN Offer | Scaling to $1BN in Revenue ...
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Airwallex is the most insane story in startups: The best angel investment ever: The angel that turned $1M into $1BN. One of the world's best VCs pulled a term sheet and lost $1BN. The company turned down a $1.2BN offer from Stripe. The company scaled to $1BN in transaction volume in 9 months. The company has never not grown 100% in a year. Jack Zha…
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How AI, tariffs, and the energy transition are reshaping infrastructure investing
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AI, the energy transition, and geopolitical tensions are reshaping the global economy and markets — they are also transforming the landscape of infrastructure investing. Tavis Cannell, global head and co-CIO of infrastructure at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, looks at the megatrends driving opportunities and the outlook for the sector. Learn more abou…
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Reshaping Workflows with Lisen Kaci, CEO & Founder @ Discrepancy AI
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In this episode, we spoke with Lisen Kaci, the founder behind Discrepancy AI. Lisen talks about his journey from working as an AI engineer in document processing to founding his startup based in Toronto. He identifies key industry limitations with legacy OCR technologies and explains how Discrepancy AI is leveraging AI tool-chaining to convert any …
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Crafting an Exceptional Event Marketing Strategy with Amy Holtzman - Ep 56
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B2B marketers keep making the same mistakes when it comes to events, only to end up asking why they didn’t see any ROI. Thankfully, we knew just the right person to help you improve your field marketing game… Amy Holtzman is the Chief Marketing Officer of CHEQ, the leader in go-to-market security, and one of the best B2B marketing leaders in SaaS, …
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Next Generation Leadership: Effective Communication and Family Office Strategies
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Send us a text In this episode, we explore the importance of communication across generations within family offices. Uli shares his experience of managing multi-generational communication through biannual family governance retreats, creating an environment that fosters open dialogue and alignment. He emphasizes the significance of both financial an…
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Inside Aurora’s Push to Make Autonomous Trucking Real | Chris Urmson
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Chris Urmson has spent the last 20 years pushing the limits of autonomous driving—first at Carnegie Mellon’s DARPA Grand Challenge team, then as co-founder of Google’s self-driving car project, now Waymo. On this week’s episode, the Aurora CEO retraces that journey—from building robot cars in the desert to leading a public company pioneering driver…
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Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
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What happens when AI stops being just infrastructure—and becomes a matter of national identity and global power? In this episode, a16z’s Anjney Midha and Guido Appenzeller explore the rise of sovereign AI—the idea that countries must own their own AI models, data centers, and value systems. From Saudi Arabia’s $100B+ AI ambitions to the cultural st…
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2308 FBF: Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris and The Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near Collapse of Bank of America with Author Greg Farrell
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This Flashback Friday is from episode 257 published last May 1, 2012. Jason Hartman is joined on this episode by Greg Farrell, author of Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, The Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near Collapse of Bank of America, for a discussion of the economic crash and the resulting bailouts, as well as some of the inside dealings wi…
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