I talk all things in the heavy/desert/stoner rock genre. From interviews, recommendations, and concert reviews. Discover a whole new world of rock music with me, your host, Dan Sierras. And remember, keep digging and you’ll find the underground!
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A podcast about finding or remembering yourself along the path of life. No matter the cause of pain, recovery is possible. These are stories that illustrate hope and resilience on the journey back to our true selves. Recovery is possible. You deserve it. www.SpeakWithSierra.com/ Creative Producer: Sierra Frost [email protected] Audio/Sound Production Autumn Jeremiah: [email protected] Original Music by Daniel Charles Donovan II: [email protected]
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As a business owner Dan Seider has an interest in meeting other smart business owners and fascinating entrepreneurs in the Sierra. When he started to reach out to these people, and started talking to them, he realized others needed to hear their stories too. These were experts in their respective fields, smart and intelligent, not to mention, many had discovered unique ways to impact the lives of their customers, clients, and patients. So he asked, “Why not share these stories? Why not inter ...
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”Fatal Blend” is a podcast hosted by Jay and Tee, we share a passion for two things: coffee and true crime, particularly stories about serial killers. We are unfiltered and direct, but our goal is to educate and entertain our listeners with engaging stories. Join us on this fascinating journey and explore the darker side of human behavior.
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A podcast of the new electronic musical XIMER! When a celebrity DJ loses her brother in a homophobic hate crime, her pain awakens a power within that connects her with four of her past lives, who fight to help avenge him. Stepping backwards through time, looking into queer struggles throughout history all tied to a modern hate crime. A new hero is born from the darkness - Justice - fighting to protect the queer community. Explore the world of XIMER through this four part podcast series. XIME ...
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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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Hey there, it’s Bubba, AKA Olivia, your friendly bookworm buddy! Join me on a super-duper adventure to discover the coolest, most awesome stories ever in my magical book world. Each week is a new journey filled with fantastic tales. And don’t miss the special treat at the end of each story – my awesome brother Daniel shares a fun fact that’s sure to amaze and delight. Tune in to our family podcast and let your imagination soar! 📚🌟
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Conversations with friends (sometimes in english and sometimes in spanish) to learn about their world, their careers, their stories, current projects and future plans. I include myself in the group of people that want to do so much in live but many times don't even know where to start or how world works. Follow on social media @JavierEastman.Conversaciones con amigos (algunas veces en espanol y otras en ingles) para aprender acerca de sus mundos, sus carreras, sus historias, sus proyectos ac ...
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Welcome to the "Speaking of Wealth" podcast showcasing profit strategies for speakers, publishers, authors, consultants, and info-marketers. Learn valuable skills to make your business more successful, more passive, more automated, and more scalable. Your host, Jason Hartman interviews top-tier guests, bestselling authors and experts including; Dan Poynter (The Self-Publishing Manual), Harvey Mackay (Swim With The Sharks & Get Your Foot in the Door), Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior) ...
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20VC: Scale, Surge, Turing, Mercor: Who Wins & Who Loses in Data Labelling | Is Revenue in Data Labelling Real or GMV? | Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Go and What Happens Then? | Why SaaS is Dead in a ...
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1:08:16Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $350M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by M…
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20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency ...
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1:08:30John McMahon is widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise-software sales leaders of all time. He's the only person to have served as Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies: PTC, GeoTel, Ariba, BladeLogic and BMC Software. He helped scale BladeLogic from a startup into a public company — ultimately leading to its ~$880M sale…
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20VC: Anthropic Raises $30BN from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Core Business Threatened by TPU | Sam Altman's "War Mode" Analysed | Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justifies $10BN Price? | Lovable Hits $200M ARR ...
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1:30:09AGENDA: 04:06 Anthropic's $30BN Investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA 07:01 Google vs. OpenAI: Sam Altman's "War Mode" Memo 15:27 NVIDIA's Customer Concentration: Bull or Bear 22:12 Is "War Mode" BS: Does Hyper-Aggressive Ever Work? 36:12 Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justify $10BN Price? 46:14 Implementation is the Biggest Barrier to Enterprise AI Growth …
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In this episode, we explore the case of Harold Shipman, one of history’s most prolific serial killers. A trusted general practitioner in England, Shipman used his position and medical authority to murder an estimated 215+ patients over decades. We walk through his early life, medical career, how he concealed his crimes, the investigation that final…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast The Path to Planet Desert Rock Weekend continues as I welcome Tripp Shumake and Eric Garcia of The Heavy Eyes, who will be performing at next year’s fest. Tripp and Eric talk about their influences, the scene in Memphis, their upcoming European tour in 2026, and possibly a new album coming up next year as well! We …
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Ross Westerbur, Kevin Roberts and Mike Alonso of the band Winds of Neptune. Winds of Neptune dropped its debut self-titled album on November 21st and it is flat out amazing! We dig into their influences, their history in the music industry before they formed Winds of Neptune, their backstory of jamming in…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast The Path to Planet Desert Rock Weekend continues as I welcome Daniel Rice and Cody Tarbell of the band Westing (formerly known as Slow Season), who will be playing at next year’s fest. Daniel and Cody talk about their influences, the backstory of the band, some of the side projects they’ve been involved with, their…
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20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit ...
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1:11:43Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. AGENDA: 00:05 – 00:10: How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill S…
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20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster ...
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1:19:22Max Altman is Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Saga Ventures, a US$125 M early‑stage fund. Before Saga Max was an investor with Apollo Projects, Hydrazine Capital and Altman Capital (where he helped deploy over US$500 M) into breakout names such as Rippling and Reddit. AGENDA: 03:55 – Venture Capital Is FULL of Tourists With Single-Digit IQs 06:20 …
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Joe Narducci guitarist, vocalist and founding member of the Toronto based band Verona Florrist to the show. These guys just released their self titled, debut album on October 1st, and it is amazing! Joe talks about starting this new band after being with another band for several years, about the creative …
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In this episode, we explore the chilling case of Rory Conde, a Miami-based serial killer whose crimes in the mid-1990s terrorized the city. Known as The Tamiami Strangler, Conde targeted vulnerable individuals, leaving a trail of victims along the Tamiami Trail. We break down his background, the timeline of his murders and his eventual capture, Lov…
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20VC: Cursor Raises $2.3BN: Who Wins the Coding War | Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: Analysed | Why Venture Capital Will Hit $1TRN and the Opening of Retail | Why Stripe and the Best Companies Will ...
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1:22:38AGENDA: 04:47 Cursor Raises $2.3BN at $29BN Valuation 11:36 What Gemini 3 Means for Lovable, Cursor and Replit 30:54 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: The Bubble Bursting? 48:54 Oracle Credit Default Swaps: The Risk is Increasing 01:07:22 Stripe Does Tender at All-Time High: Why the Best Companies Will Never IPO 01:19:18 Why Retail WIll Cause a…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Shane Murray, co-founder of the Midwest Doom Coalition (MDC). The MDC was the brainchild of Shane and Lance Kük Collier to bring together bands in the heavy underground to make it easier for them to get out there to play shows and help promote their music. Shane talks about his influences, his stories of …
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20VC: Andrew NG on The Biggest Bottlenecks in AI | How LLMs Can Be Used as a Geopolitical Weapon | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI? | Is Defensibility Dead in a World of AI? | Will AI Deliver Masa Son ...
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1:02:53Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI. He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera. As a pioneer in machine learning Andrew has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2023, he was named …
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20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify ...
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1:11:23Carl Rivera is the Chief Design Officer at Shopify, where he previously led both Merchant Services and the Shop App as VP of Product. Before joining Shopify through its acquisition of Tictail, Carl was the co-founder and CEO of Tictail, the "Tumblr for e-commerce," where he built one of the most beloved design-forward commerce platforms of its era.…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Rolf Hansen, Jens Krebbenhøft, and Kaspar Madsen of the Danish stoner rock band Supercollider. Their debut EP, Soundwaves, was nine years in the making and was #12 on the September Doomcharts. We delve into that, their influences and what’s on the horizon for this great band, including some possible new m…
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Thierry Paulin - The Monster of Montmartre
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37:16In this episode, we travel to 1980s Paris to uncover the horrifying crimes of Thierry Paulin, a charismatic nightclub performer who became one of France’s most notorious killers. Behind his glamorous persona lurked a cold-blooded predator who targeted the city’s most vulnerable residents — elderly women living alone. Join us as we explore The Monst…
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CONTENT WARNING! XIMER A New Musical podcast dives into content of violence, death, hate crimes, religious trauma, sexual content, blood and gore. There will also be situations of hate speech, slurs against the queer community and graphic audio sounds that include violence. Listener Discretion is advised. Act 1, Part 2 When a celebrity DJ's younger…
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20VC: Sequoia's Leadership Transition | Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir | Gamma Raises $100M at $2BN | Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI | Datadog Surges as Duolingo Plummets: What is Happening ...
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1:15:50AGENDA: 04:22 Sequoia's Leadership Transition 09:46 Michael Burry's Big Short on Nvidia and Palantir 17:41 Gamma Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation 32:34 Does Defensibility Exist Today When Copying is Easy 40:31 Should All Funds Be Way More Diversified 47:12 How to Run a Fundraising Process & What Not To Do 57:57 Datadog Surges 20% and Duolingo Crash…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Igor Sydorenko of the band Stoned Jesus to the show. Stoned Jesus released its latest album, Songs to Sun, on September 19th and it placed #4 on the September Doomcharts. We talk all about that, playing in Australia and Mexico for the first time, and he also gives us his personal Top 5 albums among so muc…
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Joey Troupe, James May & JJ Young - M.E.L.T.
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45:34Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Joey Troupe, James May & JJ Young of the band M.E.L.T. They released their latest album, Innervate/Obliterate, on October 3rd, that placed #17 on the October Doomcharts. We talk all about that, their influences, their record shop finds on a recent trip to a local record shop, and much more. A great bunch …
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20VC: Benchmark's Newest General Partner Ev Randle on Why Margins Matter Less in AI | Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns | OpenAI vs Anthropic: What Happens and Who Wins Coding | Investing Lessons ...
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1:25:43Ev Randle is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the best funds in venture capital. In their latest fund, they have Mercor ($10BN valuation), Sierra ($10BN valuation), Firework ($4BN valuation), Legora ($2Bn valuation) and Langchain ($1.4Bn valuation). To put this in multiples on invested capital, that is a 60x, two 30x and two 20x. Before Benchm…
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20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
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1:09:13Chad Peets is one of the greatest sales leaders and recruiters of the last 25 years. From 2018 to 2023, Chad was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Chad has worked with the world's best CEOs and CROs to build world-class go-to-market organizations. Chad is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Lacework and Luminary Cloud and on…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Todd Severin, head and founder of Ripple Music. Ripple is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and will be having a big celebration on December 5th & 6th in San Francisco that we talk about. Todd also gives us the history of Ripple music, and lots of great stories that involve Tony Reed, Mothership …
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In this episode, we dive into the disturbing crimes of Joseph Edward Duncan III, a convicted serial killer, rapist, and child molester whose horrific acts spanned decades and left a trail of devastation across multiple states. We explore his early life and the shocking series of events that culminated in one of the most haunting cases in modern Ame…
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20VC: Navan IPO: Winners, Losers and is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC Today | Harvey Raises $150M at $8BN Price | Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell | Meta Down 10%, Is Zuck Struggling?
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1:16:23AGENDA: 04:27 Navan's IPO: Winners, Losers and 20% Crater 12:55 Harvey Raises $150M at an $8BN Valuation 35:36 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Snap at Brad Gerstner 41:25 Why GOOG is a Buy and Amazon is a Short 47:43 Meta Down 10%, Buy or Sell? 51:12 If You Have Not Accelerated with AI, You Are Dead 01:05:20 Why Now is the Best Time for Series A and Worst …
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I recap some of the many great releases that came out during the month of October. New albums from the bands M.E.L.T., Beach Cruiser, Soul Blind, Malkasian, Bone Church, and many more! It was another outstanding month for new music in the heavy underground and I give you a little taste from each album! Make sure to…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Jon Cosky and Jude Sisk of the band Stone Nomads to the show. They have a new album dropping on November 21st, via Ripple Music titled Empires of Stone. We dig into that, their influences, the story of how their current drummer, Ben Wozniak (The Blizzard of Woz) joined the band and much, much more! Plus, …
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20VC: Cohere's Chief AI Officer on Why Scaling Laws Will Continue | Whether You Can Buy Success in AI with Talent Acquisitions | The Future of Synthetic Data & What It Means for Models | Why AI Coding ...
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57:34Joelle Pineau is the Chief AI Officer at Cohere, where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI Research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta AI's Montreal lab. A professor at McGill University, Joelle is renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, rob…
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20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
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1:31:49🎧 20VC x Tim Ferriss — Full Episode Timeline 00:00 – "How Do You Stay True to Yourself When You Have to Perform for the World?" 06:00 – "Why Tim Ferriss Refused to Go All-In on YouTube" 09:00 – "You Don't Need 10 Million Fans—You Need 1,000 True Believers." 12:00 – "The Internet Is Not a Relevance Machine—It's a Sensationalism Machine." 15:00 – "Mo…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Sheafer McOmber, the man behind the band Redwood. Redwood is a one man project of Sheafer that released its latest album Cloud Colony on October 24. We talk about how he goes about the creative and recording process for his albums, his influences, we talk a little bit about his other project Deer Lord, an…
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20VC: a16z Raises $10BN in New Funds | Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation | OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses | Why IRR is a BS Metric and Three Ways to Win in VC Today
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1:24:09AGENDA: 05:17 OpenAI's Restructuring: Winners and Losers 17:17 Andreessen Horowitz's Raise $10BN in New Funds 26:38 Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation 43:08 Spray and Pray: Does it Work: Data Breakdown 47:04 The Role of Option Checks Venture Capital 48:36 The Three Ways to Win in VC Today 54:26 Why IRR is a BS Metric and What Matters More 01:…
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This week is a special one. Join Jay and Sierra as they talk about serial killers and what intrigues them.By fatalblendpodcast
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CONTENT WARNING! XIMER A New Musical podcast dives into content of violence, death, hate crimes, religious trauma, sexual content, blood and gore. There will also be situations of hate speech, slurs against the queer community and graphic audio sounds that include violence. Listener Discretion is advised. Act 1, Part 1 When a celebrity DJ's younger…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Tyler Balthazar, Nico Martinez and Erik Larson of the band Mordbear, out of Portland, Oregon. They released an awesome EP earlier this year in June that we talk about. Along with their influences, how they got together, what their plans are for 2026 and much more! Tune in and subscribe!…
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Rob Leishman Returns - Owner of Bully’s Studio
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59:45Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome back to the show Rob Leishman, owner of the venue/studio Bully’s in New West, British Columbia. It has been quite an eventful several months since I last talked with Rob, with him having to make some tough decisions about whether to keep the venue opened, to a minor disaster, to him celebrating his 50th b…
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20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins ...
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1:14:23David Cahn is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and one of the world's leading AI investors. At Sequoia David has led investments in Clay, Juicebox, Sesame, Kela, Stark, etc.. Before Sequoia, David was a General Partner @ Coatue where he led investments in Notion and Hugging Face. AGENDA: 00:00 We Are in an AI Bubble 05:04 Why Building Physical Data Cen…
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20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and ...
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1:16:18Sandy Diao is one of the most exceptional growth leaders of the last decade. Sandy has scaled products to over 200M+ users and led growth teams at Descript, Meta and Pinterest. She is also a prolific writer all on things growth here. AGENDA: 03:59 Biggest Growth Lessons from Pinterest 08:01 What is a Good vs a Bad Growth Hypothesis 11:11 Common Mis…
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20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their ...
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1:28:58AGENDA: 04:50 Benchmark's New Partner: Everett Randall 10:19 Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation: Another Loss for Public Markets? 28:39 Why Today is as Bad as the Hype of COVID in 2021 32:10 Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad VC Investment Today 36:14 Why Everyone Investing in Legal SaaS Will Lose Money 44:16 Why King Making is More Real Than Ever 55…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Pete Koretzky, Chuck Snyder and Dave Van Auken of the heavy stoner rock band The Crooked Skulls to the show. They released their debut EP Hivemind in December of 2024 and earlier this year, they released a single, Iron Smile, that featured Bob Blach of Fu Manchu. We talk about that, their influences, how …
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In this episode, we explore one of Arizona’s most terrifying true crime stories — the serial shootings that gripped Phoenix in fear during the mid-2000s. Between 2005 and 2006, two men, Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman, embarked on a violent spree of random shootings targeting people and animals alike. What started as thrill-seeking turned into one…
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20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions ...
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1:15:23Alex Bouaziz is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Deel, the $17BN global payroll juggernaut that just last week announced their latest $300M fundraise led by Ribbit, a16z and Coatue. Deel has been on the most insane journey, they do $1BN+ in ARR, they just had their first $100M revenue month and they have been profitable for over 3 years. AGENDA: 03:38 Anno…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Roderick Pink, drummer of the band Red Beard Wall. Roderick has been involved in the scene in Texas for years, even before Red Beard Wall, and we talk all about that and his influences that include Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, and… Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem! He also has a big 50th birthday bash comin…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast I welcome Justin Potter, lead singer and bassist for the band Sons Of Gulliver. Sons Of Gulliver released their self-titled debut EP in May of 2024 and are looking to release their first full length in 2026. We talk about that, Justin’s influences, how he met his drummer through a Craigslist ad, and much more! Tune…
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20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth ...
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1:13:49Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp, the next-generation developer terminal reinventing how engineers build and collaborate. Warp has raised over $70M from top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, GV, Dylan Field, and Elad Gil. Before founding Warp, Zach was Principal Engineer at Google, where he led development of Google Docs, and later…
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Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast The Path To Planet Desert Rock Weekend continues as I welcome Dan Sefcik of the band Bone Church, who will be playing at this coming year’s festival. Bone Church also has a new album, Deliverance, coming out on October 24 via Ripple Music, and it is gonna be on A LOT of year end lists. We talk all about that and mo…
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20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI
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1:19:54AGENDA: 03:44 Rory Is So Old He Worked with Arthur Rock!!! 07:28 Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M 16:37 Thinking Machines Co-Founder Raises $2BN and Then Leaves for Meta 29:36 SoftBank Goes for $5BN Leverage Against ARM Stock To Buy More OpenAI 39:35 More Data Centres Than Offices: Are We In a Bubble 43:28 Where is the Alpha in Ve…
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In this chilling episode, we explore the disturbing life and crimes of Dennis Nilsen — one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Known as “The Kindly Killer,” Nilsen’s outwardly quiet and polite demeanor masked a dark obsession with control, companionship, and death. Between 1978 and 1983, Nilsen lured at least 12 young men to his London flat…
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John Gist - Path To Planet Desert Rock Weekend
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1:28:27Today on The Heavy Desert Podcast The Path To Planet Desert Rock Weekend begins with the man behind the festival, John Gist. John will be putting on his sixth Planet Desert Rock event from January 29-February 1 of next year and we dig deep in to it. We chat about how it originally came to be, the bands playing next year, where to find tickets and m…
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20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike ...
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1:03:16Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, the $50BN software giant behind products like Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Since founding the company in 2002, he has scaled it to over 300,000 customers globally, generating more than $5BN in annual revenue. Atlassian now employs over 10,000 people across 13 countries and is one of th…
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