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Bishop Sand, Evan Cresswell, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay

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A show about Americans who care about a north London football club called Arsenal and our weekly quest to understand our fandom.
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In the absence of *that* elusive manual that we're all still searching for, here is a podcast of experiences & insights so that you don’t feel quite so alone in the extraordinary highs, excruciating lows and everything in between that motherhood throws at you.Jess & Helen - friends of over 20years and mothers at different phases of our motherhood journeys - reflect on their own experiences, alongside guest experts, and have frank and honest conversations about all things motherhood. Expect b ...
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Lux Radio Theatre

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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live ...
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Topics include: Uses for last season's hi-viz ødegaard shirt Systems that stifle people (Raz at Chelsea and advisors in academia) An extensive breakdown of the injustice dispensed upon Declan Rice including: Twitter reactions catharsis: psychology paper we all read norm violation: 2001 paper on injustice perspective from the first year of teaching …
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Topics include: Evolutionary considerations of proper microphone techniques Projecting a workweek onto the game and John McGinn Ball missile tactics An ode to ødegaard The takeaways from a lively but stultifying game that kept Arsenal invincible. Send us a textBy Bishop Sand, Evan Cresswell, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay
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Topics include: The joys of an early morning EPL game The types s---housery that are annoying and the types that are light assault. How Evan got punched in the face during a recent game Love for Ray Hudson's commentary The takeaways from a game that threatened to slip away, but always veered back into control for Mikel and the Arsenal Send us a tex…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kshitij Grover, co-Founder and CTO of Orb (www.withorb.com), a billing platform provider that solves usage-based billing needs. The SF based startup has to date raised a total of c. $19.1 million across its Series A ($14 million led by Menlo) and seed ($5.1 million led by Greylock).…
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This episode is part of our Mothers in Business (MiB) series: short 20 minute interviews with women who’ve established businesses as a result of recognising a gap in the market or issue they’ve faced as a parent. Dina is the founder of award winning website and blog Kensington Mums. The website has been running for over 12 years and, among other th…
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Will holidays ever be the same again?! This episode explores holidaying as a parent, with all its challenges (and joys!). Expect anecdotes of stressful holiday experiences, top tips for planning and enjoying your family holiday, as well as the chance to hear Jess design her perfect family holiday with a round of quick-fire questions from Helen! We'…
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This episode is part of our Mothers in Business (MiB) series: short 20 minute interviews with women who’ve established businesses as a result of recognising a gap in the market or issue they’ve faced as a parent. Anita is the founder of a Manchester Media City based children’s entertainment brand called Green Bean Studios. They produce content for …
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TW: this episode includes discussion about all types of pregnancy and baby loss. In this episode, we're joined by Head of Bereavement, Rowena Pailing, from pregnancy and baby loss charity Sands, as we discuss questions such as 'how should you feel if you've experienced loss', 'what's normal when it comes to grief', 'how can I support someone who's …
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Fed up of being asked “are they sleeping through yet?” So are we. On this episode we welcome our first expert guest, sleep consultant Fern Bishop, onto the podcast where we talk frankly about the realities of sleep with babies and children. We ask Fern about the the rise of ‘sleep consultants’ and the risks of assuming expertise and experience of t…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Gen Isayama, co-founder and CEO of World Innovation Lab, a Palo Alto and Tokyo based venture firm investing in growth-stage companies and serving as a bridge between startups and Japanese corporations.00:00​​ Intro01:30 World Innovation Lab04:10 From Japanese lawyer to Silicon Valley VC09:10 From DCM to…
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TW: This episode contains some upsetting content relating to loss. Pregnancy even without complications, isn't always a wonderful 'instagrammable' experience. But when complications occur, it can be a real roller-coaster of emotions. For this episode, we focus on our own experiences of 'complicated pregnancies'. By doing so, you'll learn a lot more…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Dan Ahrens, founding partner at Left Lane Capital, a New York based venture capital and early growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses. 00:00​​ Intro 02:43 Consumer vs. enterprise tech 05:09 Getting into venture 07:54 Raising Left Lane I 10:35 Investing …
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Divyang Arora, founder and CEO of Byte Kitchen about cooking up the future of digital food halls with Byte Kitchen founder Divyang Arora. 0:00 Intro 1:24 2 minute elevator pitch 4:27 Going all in 8:07 Business Model 14:52 The Byte Kitchen playbook 18:52 Optimal Partner Restaurant Profile 25:39 End custo…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Michael Crandell, CEO Bitwarden about scaling open-source password manager Bitwarden. 00:00​ Intro 00:50 What is Bitwarden 03:22 From side hustle to venture-backed 06:36 Joining a Bootstrapper at Series A 09:58 Open-source GTM 13:25 Open-source defensibility 15:35 Community vs. enterprise edition 17:37 …
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If you could've read a manual before having a child, what would it have said? In this brief introductory episode, we (Jess & Helen) introduce ourselves, tell you a little bit more about why we've decided to jump on the podcast bandwagon and share some of the things mums we know wish they'd read in that mythical manual before jumping into parenthood…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kyle Harrison, general partner at Country about everything from the economics of whale hunting, the venture product offering to his recent joining of Contrary. 00:00​ Intro 01:11 Way into venture 04:58 Time of reflection 07:24 The under-innovated venture model 10:46 Your fund size is your strategy 16:16…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Doug Ludlow, co-founder and CEO of MainStreet, which helps startups and small businesses uncover tax credits. 00:00​​ Intro 01:05 Hipster 05:09 Happy Home Company 07:10 Starting MainStreet 11:22 The nature of Tax credits 16:03 The Path Act 17:52 The MainStreet Product 19:14 Customer success stories 20:4…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kelsey Bishop founder and CEO of Candor, which is a nexgen, authentic social network. 00:00​​ Intro 01:02 What is Candor 03:25 Single player mode 03:56 Kelsey’s background 06:19 Employee-culture fit 08:31 Getting started 10:31 Migrating from bubble 11:38 Raising the Seed 12:42 Getting pre-empted 13:50 R…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Abhishek Nayak the co-founder and CEO of Appsmith, which is an open-source, low code internal tool builder. 00:00​​ Intro 03:15 Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel 05:52 Third time at the Rodeo 09:55 Validating a startup idea at his wedding 11:38 Built for Internal facing apps 13:48 The Appsmith Customer…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Chon Tang, the founding GP of the Skydeck Fund. Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He was formerly founding partner and Managing Director of Junzi Capital Engineering, a leading quantitative hedge fund investing in the commodity space. He has been actively investi…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Richard White, the serial entrepreneur behind Uservoice and Fathom.video. Richard is a design engineer and product visionary who has been in the first YC batch with Justin Khan and Emmett Shear for Kiko (YC S05) and most recently came back to the YC W21 to see how startup kids are doing the tricks today…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Shmulik Fishman, founder and CEO of Argyle, about raising the Series A through an investment memo and the firm’s mission of making user-permissioned employment data ubiquitous and reinvent credit decisioning for lenders and consumers. 00:00​​ Intro 00:56 What does Argyle do? 03:17 Experiencing the pain …
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Drew Oetting, founding partner of 8VC, about building a multi-billion venture firm from the ground up with Joe Lonsdale. 00:00 Intro 01:05 Operation Mask 06:33 Resilience 12:54 Views on Venture 20:06 Building 8VC / Addepar 26:30 Raising the maiden fund 30:48 8VC Investment Thesis 40:01 Drew as a VC 50:5…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Seth Sternberg the co-founder and CEO of Honor, which is a managed marketplace for in-home care that has recently announced a USD 370m Series E led by Baillie Gifford. 00:00​​ Intro 01:19 Elevator pitch 02:19 Original inspiration 05:28 The Meebo experience 08:06 Serial founder problems 09:06 Getting the…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kimberly Shenk of Novi Connect, B2B marketplace to help brands build and manufacture transparent products, which recently announced a $10.3M Series A led by Greylock00:00​​ Intro 02:04 Getting started with Naked Poppy 04:09 From Naked Poppy to Novi Connect 05:17 Sustainable Chemicals Market 07:30 Kimber…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners, a venture firm that invests in early-stage consumer technology startups operating in heavily regulated markets. 00:00​​ Intro 01:39 Investment thesis 2022 02:36 Lithic 05:02 Tusk Venture Partners 08:46 Meeting Bradley Tusk 12:52 Regulatory investment thesis 14:58 The…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Casey Fenton, founder of Couchsurfing and Upstock, about the early days for Couchsurfing when Casey was pioneering what has since become known as the “sharing economy” and how is is now bringing the sharing economy to the cap table with Upstock. 00:00​​ Intro 01:13 The Couchsurfing proof-of-concept 02:4…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andrew Gazdecki, founder of MicroAcquire. The episode was recorded when MicroAcquire was still a fully bootstrapped one person company. A few weeks later MicroAcquire announced that it had raised a $6.3m Seed round led by Bessemer Ventures. 00:00 Intro 01:09 What is MicroAcquire? 02:55 Buying a micro-Sa…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Queenly co-founders Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou about building a consumer marketplace and tackling the formalwear industry. 00:00 Intro 00:56 The Queenly Elevator Pitch 01:52 Launching Queenly during lockdown 04:04 The pageant dress market 08:06 Formal wear resale market microstructure 10:16 The Quee…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Didomoi co-founder and CTO Jawad Stouli about building consent management platform Didomi for the perfect privacy wave. 00:00 Intro 00:46 Early days of Didomi 03:29 Fighting a US patent troll 08:14 Building the Didomi MVP 12:18 Developer-centric platform approach 14:46 Early costumers: self-service vs. …
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00:00 Intro 00:24 Welcome to Miami 01:08 Operators Podcast 03:21 Finding the right guests 06:54 Delian’s founder/operator 08:22 Cohort analysis with Keith at Square 10:30 Nightingale 12:24 Operating experience at Teespring 14:24 Varda Space 17:45 Splitting time between Varda and FF 19:45 Varda Space incubation 23:50 Delian as an investor at Founder…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Remote.com founder Job van der Voort about building the future of remote work. 0:00 Intro 00:49 The first two years of Remote 02:19 Preparing for the perfect Storm at Gitlab 06:17 Leaving Gitlab 10:47 Business model 14:10 Legal war chest 15:20 Fintech-payment layer 16:20 SaaS layer 17:52 Pricing 19:47 C…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures about his journey as a founder, angel investor and co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures. 00:00 Intro 01:11 Guest appearance on a Justin Bieber/Ariana Grande music video 03:16 The “pronoia” mindest 03:16 The “pronoia” mindest 05:04 Sheel’s background…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Reeves Wiedeman, author of "Billion Dollar Loser: the epic rise and fall of WeWork". 00:00 Adam's intro 01:11 Intro 01:38 Adam Neumann 04:11 Adam's art of persuasion 05:41 Book title 08:10 Writing process 13:01 WeWork evolution and business model 16:21 Tech vs. real estate company 19:25 WeWork community…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kyle Lui, Partner at DCM, about the recent IPO roll that DCM has been on. The Menlo Park-based firm has generated a 61x return on investments that have gone public in the past two years. Kuaishou is the standout, with its market cap to entry valuation at 2,000x. 00:00​​ Intro 00:50 Who is Kyle Lui 01:33…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Russ Heddleston, founder of Docsend. The episode was recorded one month before the announcement that DocSend would be acquired by Dropbox for $165m. 00:00​​ Intro 00:37 What is Docsend 01:51 Selling Pursuit to Facebook in a talent acquisition 04:12 Leaving Facebook and starting Docsend 07:03 Product ide…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Ali Tamaseb, partner at DCVC, about his recently launched book "Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups". 00:00​​ Intro 01:00 Who is Ali? 03:02 Spark of motivation for the Super Founders book 05:49 Primary data collection 08:13 Data set: timeframe and selection criteria 10:28 The…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Vivek Saraswat, who has been a venture investor at Mayfield at the time of the recording and previously a product leader at Docker/VMware/AWS. Since recording this episode, Vivek has joined Immersa as a founding VP of product. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Who is Vivek? 03:12 Joining Mayfield 05:07 Portfolio compan…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm about his journey as a mega maker, bootstrapping his podcast hosting and analytics platform to $1m+ in ARR in less than 3 years. 00:00​​​ Intro 01:55​​ Getting Real 04:30​ Business is like surfing 7:43​ Selling ice cream on a busy beach 11:33​ Why your busines…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Garry Tan, co-founder of Initialized Capital about his journey as a content creator, founder and managing partner at Initialized Capital. 00:00 Intro 02:02 Garry's Twitter game 06:00 Keeping up the content cascade 08:12 Getting started on YouTube 10:50 Paying it forward at scale 14:45 Respecting the aud…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs about building a database unicorn backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture firms, incl. Benchmark, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. After recording the episode, Cockroach Labs raised $160m on a $2bn valuation in January 2021, reflecting the …
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sean Henry, co-founder and CEO of STORD about building a digital warehouse and distribution startup backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture firms, incl. Susa Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund from Atlanta, Georgia. 00:00​ Intro 01:11 Announcing the Series B led by Founders Fund 02:57 Wh…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andy Johns (@ibringtraffic), Partner at Unusual Ventures about his growth journey at Facebook, Twitter, Quora and Wealthfront. 00:00​ Intro 00:37 Growth at Facebook 03:50​ Growth at Twitter 05:31​ Growth at Quora 09:25​ Growth at Wealthfront 12:11​ Unusual Ventures 16:25​ A balanced approach to growth 2…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner and Cameron Weibel are joined by Joey Parsons, founder of effx to talk about moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture. 00:00 Intro 03:05 From rockstar engineer to found 06:02 Building early social network PicRave $07:30 Taking the plunge with wife 5 months pregnant 09:00 Founder focus as a young fathe…
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is joined by Caroline Winnett, Executive Director at UC Berkeley's accelerator and incubator SkyDeck. 00:00 Intro 01:51 What is SkyDeck? 02:57 Demo days during Covid-19 03:35 Caroline's founder journey at NeuroFocus 05:24 Joining SkyDeck and setting up the SkyDeck Fund 07:23 Berkeley SkyDeck carry split 08:35 Berkele…
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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). …
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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). …
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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). …
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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). …
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Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). …
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