Best Madrona Ventures Podcasts (2024)

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Legalities of scraping data to build LLMs, a conversation w/ Adam Shevell, partner at Wilson Sonsini 45:12

1h ago45:12

45:12

Many of the large language model providers have built their LLM models by scraping data from websites and open source sites. Some have licensed the content like Open AI has done with Reddit. Nonetheless, many of these LLM providers have been sued for illegally copying data for which they have no permission. In this podcast, Adam shares his thoughts…

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Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured’s Brian Raymond 23:03

1h ago23:03

23:03

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru hosts Brian Raymond, founder and CEO of 2024 IA40 winner Unstructured. Unstructured turns raw, messy, unstructured data into something AI tools can actually process — a typically expensive and time-consuming process for companies hoping to save money with the tools themse…

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Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio 40:21

21d ago40:21

40:21

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter and Venture Partner Patrick Ennis host Chris Diorio, co-founder and CEO of Impinj, the pioneer and world leader in RFID technology. Patrick and Chris have known each other for more than 24 years — since Madrona and ARCH Venture Partners co-led Impinj's first round of financin…

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How Louisiana is driving innovation, A Conversation with Josh Fleig, CIO for the State of Louisiana 54:43

29d ago54:43

54:43

You may not think of the State of Louisiana as a software innovation hub but it is doing a lot to attract startups to its state. It has a $100 million seed capital fund to match VC investment dollar for dollar. It is willing to rebate 25% of your software development dollars for software development done in its state. It is also providing sales tax…

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Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM 43:15

1M ago43:15

43:15

In the latest episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter hosts Pradeep Rathinam, a seasoned software executive with over three decades of leadership experience. Paddy was the Founder and CEO of Madrona portfolio company AnswerIQ, which Madrona invested in back in 2017. It was one of the early machine learning applied to SaaS …

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Moderating foreign accents using AI, A Conversation with Soundwave team, winners of the TiE Young Entrepreneur competition 33:31

2M ago33:31

33:31

These days you will often call into customer service for a company whose product you are using and will be connected to an agent with a foreign accent. For many Americans, this can be a challenging experience as they cannot understand what the agent is saying because of their accent. Foreign agents have also complained that it can be a dehumanizing…

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From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson 31:20

2M ago31:20

31:20

Today Madrona Managing Director Karan Mahandru and Scott Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Deepgram, a foundational AI company building a voice AI platform providing APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. From medical transcription to autonomous agents, Deepgram is the go-to for developers of voice AI experiences, and they're already working w…

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Using Gen AI in a startup environment, A conversation with Jay Bartot of Madrona Venture Labs 59:48

3M ago59:48

59:48

On our one year anniversary, we are releasing this terrific episode with Jay Bartot, partner at Madrona Venture Labs (MVL). Jay talks about the model that MVL uses to work with startup founders and vet startup ideas. Like many technology entrepreneurs, over the last 18 months, Jay has been deeply immersed in Generative AI technology, building exper…

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Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications 35:27

3M ago35:27

35:27

Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar hosts Temporal Co-Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev in studio. Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an open-source microservices orchestration engine project but is the result of a more than decade-long partnership between the two co-founders that spanned their time working on different iterations of th…

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Developer Joy through Generative AI. A conversation with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian 49:24

3M ago49:24

49:24

Rajeev embarked on his career at Microsoft as a developer after a sabbatical from his Ph.D. to build upon his internship experience in Seattle the previous summer. In this episode, he delves into how his journey and interactions with various leaders have influenced his own leadership style as the CTO of Atlassian. The theme of ‘Developer Joy’ has r…

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Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders 16:47

4M ago16:47

16:47

In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Partner Chris Picardo for the latest Investor Spotlight. With degrees in math and English, Chris shares his unique journey into venture capital. Chris highlights the importance of cross-disciplinary skills in understanding and communicating complex concepts and what h…

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Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot’s Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming 34:13

4M ago34:13

34:13

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Venture Partner Len Jordan sits down with Sean Muller, Founder and CEO of iSpot, to talk about the company's evolution in measuring TV advertising for both conventional and streaming platforms. Sean delves into strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and the rise of ad-supported streaming. They discuss the…

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Gen AI from a VC perspective, A conversation with Vivek Ramaswami from Madrona Ventures 52:51

4M ago52:51

52:51

Generative AI has taken the industry by storm as we all know. Besides Open AI. a number of players like Meta, Google and Anthropic have announced new foundation models. In this episode, we get Vivek's perspective of the competitive landscape and how it will likely evolve. Will open source models start to match Open AI's GPT 4o in terms of capabilit…

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Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications 11:26

4M ago11:26

11:26

In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Investor Sabrina Wu for the latest Investor Spotlight. These two discuss Sabrina's transition from private equity to venture capital and the learnings that translate to building successful VC-backed startups, Sabrina’s focus on intelligent applications, and the charac…

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Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair 41:46

5M ago41:46

41:46

Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts Dev Rishi and Travis Addair, co-founders of 2023 IA40 Rising Star, Predibase. Predibase is a platform for developers to easily fine-tune and serve any open-source model. They recently released LoRA Land, a collection of 25 highly-performant open-source fine-tuned models, and launched open-source LoRA eXchange, …

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Ensuring Data Transparency for Gen AI models. A Conversation with Jai Jaisimha and Rob Eleveld, The Transparency Coalition 59:05

5M ago59:05

59:05

Artificial intelligence has the potential to be a powerful tool for human progress if properly trained, harnessed, and deployed. Policies must be created to protect personal privacy, nurture innovation, and foster prosperity. The Transparency Coalition (https://www.transparencycoalition.ai/). a non-profit, is focused on creating tools, systems, and…

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Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents 37:47

5M ago37:47

37:47

In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts David Shim, founder and CEO of Read AI. These two have known each other for over two decades, having worked together at Farecast and then Placed, which David founded in 2011. They came together again in 2021, when David started Read AI, which delivers AI solutions that make meetings, em…

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Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont 26:02

6M ago26:02

26:02

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Steve Singh and Christal Bemont, CEO of Direct Travel, Madrona's newest portfolio company, delve into the acquisition of Direct Travel and its pivotal role in revolutionizing the $1.4T corporate travel ecosystem, along with @Spotnana , Troop, and Center. Full Transcript: https://bit.ly/…

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Gen AI in the Enterprise with iCertis, a conversation with Sudarshan Chitre, SVP Product 57:00

6M ago57:00

57:00

Enterprise SaaS solutions are rapidly adopting Gen AI technology to solve business problems. Learn about iCertis, a leader in Contract Lifecycle Management and how they are deploying Gen AI technology to offer a number of CoPilots to allow enterprises to gain intelligent insights into their contracts and to perform risk assessments. Sudarshan Chitr…

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Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond 31:01

7M ago31:01

31:01

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Paul Goel and Neon Co-founder & CEO Nikita Shamgunov dive into the database market and the importance of creating a killer developer experience while balancing that experience with performance and reliability. Nikita also shares just how bullish he is on AI, his excitement for AI agents like Dev…

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Gen AI - the past, present and future with leading industry expert Joseph Sirosh - ex- VP Amazon and Microsoft 1:09:35

8M ago1:09:35

1:09:35

2023 was a dramatic year for AI with the emergence of Gen AI and ChapGPT. Learn about the evolution of Generative AI from industry leader and expert Joseph Sirosh. Understand how enterprises will deploy Gen AI technology to make their workers more productive. Learn about how Joseph's new company CreatorsAGI will leverage Gen AI to enable creators a…

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How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing 33:23

8M ago33:23

33:23

Investor Sabrina Wu hosts Bobsled Co-founder and CEO Jake Graham for the latest episode of Founded & Funded. Jake is revolutionizing data sharing across platforms, enabling customers to get to analysis faster directly in the platforms where they work. Madrona co-led Bobsled's $17 million series A last year, which put the company at an $87 million v…

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How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise 27:52

8M ago27:52

27:52

Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer, a 2023 IA40 winner. Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise. In this episode, May shares her perspective on founding a GenAI company before the ChatGPT craze, building an enterprise-grade product and go-to-market motion with 200% NRR, whether RAG…

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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Soma Somasegar 13:43

9M ago13:43

13:43

Hear from Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of 27 years at Microsoft. He shares invaluable insights about what he looks for in a founder, the importance of passion in founders, the state of cloud technology, and the future of AI and Startups. Tim also shares Madrona's core principles, his fa…

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Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work 36:46

9M ago36:46

36:46

Madrona Partner Jon Turow hosts Gabriel Hubert and Stan Polu, the co-founders of a 2023 IA40 winner, Dust, which enables information workers to create LLM-based agents that help them do their own work more efficiently. They discuss the broader AI/LLM ecosystem, the merits and potential of horizontal vs vertical solutions, limitations of AI assistan…

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From B2B to B2C and Gen AI, a conversation with Seattle serial entrepreneur Vikram Chalana 44:05

9M ago44:05

44:05

Follow the journey of Vikram Chalana, a Seattle based entrepreneur who started his entrepreneurial journey with an enterprise product called Win Shuttle that allowed MS Excel users to exchange data with SAP. He grew the company to significant revenues and ultimately sold the company to a Private Equity firm. More recently, he has started a Gen AI c…

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2024 Annual Investment Outlook 1:04:10

10M ago1:04:10

1:04:10

Listen to our 2024 Annual Investment Outlook Panel with four top VCs based in Seattle and the Bay area. Get their perspective on the investment climate in 2024 and their plans to invest specifically in AI/ML based startups. Tim Porter, Managing Director, Madrona Ventures Tim joined Madrona in 2006 and invests in B2B software companies in the Pacifi…

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From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie 34:20

10M ago34:20

34:20

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter talks to Craig McLuckie, who’s most known as one of the creators of Kubernetes at Google. Madrona previously backed Craig’s company, Heptio, and was excited to back his latest company — Stacklok. Stacklok is a software supply chain security company that helps developers and o…

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The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain 30:07

10M ago30:07

30:07

Madrona Investor Palak Goel talks with Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean, which has raised about $155M since launching in 2019 and was named a 2023 IA40 winner. It should be no surprise that Glean is touted as the search engine for the enterprise because Arvind spent over a decade at Google as a distinguished engineer, where he led teams in Goo…

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Special Holiday Episode: Fireside Chat with Sunny Gurpreet Singh 42:33

11M ago42:33

42:33

Enjoy this exclusive Fireside Chat with Sunny Gurpreet Singh, Founder of Roundglass, moderated by Akhtar Badshah. Sunny Gurpreet Singh is an entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Seattle, US. He is the founder of Roundglass, a global Wholistic Wellbeing organization established in 2014. Through his experience in the US healthcare system, Sunny r…

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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Tim Porter 17:19

11M ago17:19

17:19

Hear from Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of mechanical engineering and Microsoft. He shares invaluable insights about what he looks for in a founder, the importance of customer focus, and the high priority he places on integrity. Tim also shares Madrona's core principles, his favorite books f…

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Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance 16:08

11M ago16:08

16:08

In this episode, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar and General Counsel Joanna Black discuss the fundamental role of a board in a startup's growth and development. They touch upon the importance of aligning strategic views with board members, managing disagreements, and effective governance to ensure that the organization is run efficiently. Th…

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Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership 27:48

12M ago27:48

27:48

This week, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru hosts Madrona Operating Partner Anna Baird. The operating partner role is a new one for Madrona, and we're excited to have her on the team to advise our founders. Before transitioning to board positions in the last couple of years, Anna was most recently the CRO at Outreach. Before that, she was t…

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The story of mega-successful exits with Chronus and Ally.io, A conversation with Seattle serial entrepreneur Vetri Vellore 47:34

1y ago47:34

47:34

When Vetri Vellore was given the responsibility to turn around the Systems Management Server business at Microsoft, it was a failing business. In fact, at a business review, Bill Gates famously threw his deck back to him telling him to shut down the business. But Vetri persisted and completely turned it around. Soon Vetri embarked on a remarkable e…

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Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source 26:15

1y ago26:15

26:15

Madrona Partner Aseem Datar hosts Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni. Tigera is in the business of preventing and detecting security breaches in cloud-native applications, and its open-source offering Calico is one of the most widely adopted container networking and security solutions out there. Aseem and Ratan dive into whether or not you should open sour…

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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle 11:02

1y ago11:02

11:02

Get to know Madrona Investor Maria Gilfoyle. Learn how she pivoted from wanting to become an artist into venture capital, her design-first mindset focus, what she looks for in founders, and what she enjoys doing outside the office.By Madrona

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Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter 33:35

1y ago33:35

33:35

Today, managing director Steve Singh sits down with Troop Travel Co-founders Dennis Vilovic and Leonard Cremer. Madrona invested in Troop and its corporate travel meeting management platform in 2021. These three talk about looking for the right problem to solve, to launch a company, and how you decide if it's the right time. They also discuss when …

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Ego Dissolution with Raj Kapoor. How to work with acquirers to create outcomes for investors. 44:31

1y ago44:31

44:31

Raj has a common theme with his startups Snapfish and Fitmob. Both of them needed to be pivoted and focus on survival. He found buyers for both and his mantra to founders is to dissolve the ego and make sure your company sees another day to battle. He spent several years at Mayfield and invested early in Lyft and led the autonomous driving strategy…

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Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru 18:16

1y ago18:16

18:16

Get to know Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, what he thinks founders should look for in VC partners, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:00) Madrona Managing Partner Karan Mehandru's background (00:01:33)…

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Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI 35:35

1y ago35:35

35:35

Today, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar talks with Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji, who spent 20 years at Microsoft and Facebook before launching Statsig as a way to bring the powerful tools he was used to using inside Facebook to all builders. Statsig experimentation platform and automated AB testing helps companies make product decision…

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The founding of Rover and the business model behind Pioneer Square Labs, a conversation with Greg Gottesman 56:43

1y ago56:43

56:43

In 2011, Greg Gottesman had a bad experience leaving his dog for the weekend at a local Kennel. That experience led him to pitch the idea for Rover at a Startup Weekend which he won. That led to the formation of Rover and the rest is history. In our second podcast episode, Gowri Shankar and I explore the foundation of Rover as well as the business …

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NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets 31:01

1y ago31:01

31:01

In this week's episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts NYSE Group President Lynn Martin ahead of our Intelligent Applications Summit on October 10th and 11th. Lynn will be speaking at the Summit, but we thought it would be great to have her on the show to talk more about her background, the NYSE, capital markets, …

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Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production 39:08

1y ago39:08

39:08

This week, Vivek Ramaswami talks with Chroma Co-founder and CEO Jeff Huber. Chroma is an open-source vector database, and vector databases have taken the AI world by storm recently, with Chroma quickly emerging as one of the leading offerings in the space. Jeff's background is in machine learning, and for him and his co-founder, starting Chroma was…

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Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops 21:51

1y ago21:51

21:51

In this episode, Madrona Partner Jon Turow and Cohere CTO and Co-founder Ivan Zhang dive into the world of foundation models for the enterprise. Cohere was founded in 2019 — a time when even the most passionate believers did not realize how soon the world would be struck by the capabilities of foundation models. The company announced a $270 million…

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The founding of OfferUp, a conversation with OfferUp founder Nick Huzar 51:04

1y ago51:04

51:04

Today, we have invited Nick Huzar, the co-founder and former CEO of OfferUp for more than a decade. He is currently operating as a board director, brand evangelist, and advising the CEO on strategic projects. Nick's experience lies in building two-sided marketplaces from the ground up. Through this, he has raised over $380M in financing from leadin…

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Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs' 34:34

1y ago34:34

34:34

This week we have the pleasure of having former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia on the show again. Bob is an active investor and sits on the boards of many next-generation data platform companies, and more recently, he launched his first book — "The Datapreneurs." Given the long history between Bob and Madrona Managing Partner Soma, we had to have Bob joi…

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Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition 37:49

1+ y ago37:49

37:49

This week, investor Aseem Datar is possibly making app dev and product development history with his guests. We've got former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson and James Phillips, the former president of Microsoft who drove the creation of many of the company's most successful products, including, of course, Tableau's number one competitor — Power BI. James w…

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Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy 42:07

1+ y ago42:07

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In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar talks with Typeface Founder and CEO Abhay Parasnis. Typeface combines generative AI platforms with its own brand-personalized AI, so all businesses can create content that is multimodal and on-brand. Typeface just announced $100 million in new funding, and Madrona couldn’t have been happier …

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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami 15:19

1+ y ago15:19

15:19

Get to know Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, where he focuses, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:00:15) Vivek Ramaswami’s background (00:00:55) Why venture capital (00:02:47) What Vivek looks for in founders (00:04…

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Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell 35:37

1+ y ago35:37

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In this week's IA40 spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Investor Sabrina Wu talks with Airtable Co-founder and CEO Howie Liu. Airtable is a low-code platform that enables teams to easily build workflows that modernize their business processes. The company launched in 2012 and has been on a product-led journey since then. Last year, Airtable rank…

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