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Grit

Joubin Mirzadegan

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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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Join your hosts Leone D'Antonio, Trevor Shand, and Lauren Shand as they bring you discussions and interviews covering all things horror! Our guests are not only icons from your favorite horror and genre films from in front of and behind the lens, but also artists, actors, musicians, authors and personalities inspired by horror and dark entertainment. A truly unique experience that has something for everyone.
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Guests: Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Together AI; and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins No one knows for sure whether the future of AI will be driven more by research labs and AI-native companies, or by enterprises applying the technology to their own data sets. But one thing is for sure, says Together AI CEO and co-founder Vipul …
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On a brand new episode of your Boo Crew, a celebration of the creative genius that is Richard and Anastasia Elfman! These innovative and inspiring storytellers have, both together and separate, been delivering shockingly original and fun experiences in the cinematic, music and visual arts for years. Come along with us to this quick q n a we recorde…
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Guest: Andrew Bialecki, CEO of Klaviyo Whenever the marketing platform Klaviyo is hiring, says CEO Andrew Bialecki, “we sort of don't care so much what skills you have.” Instead, the company looks for “high slope” individuals who are curious and able to continually learn new things. “A big turnoff for me is [when] somebody says, ‘Oh, well, I was ne…
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It's almost here! LONGLEGS is in theaters everywhere July 12th! Pre-game with your Boo Crew and the absolutely magnificent, Maika Monroe! Oz Perkins has created a masterpiece and Maika's performance therein is nothing short of virtuosic. Come along with us as she breaks it all down for you in this fun and inspiring, spoiler free convo! Hear about t…
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Guest: Niraj Shah, CEO and co-founder of Wayfair Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah caught the entrepreneurship bug in his mid-20s, when he and his longtime co-founder Steve Conine sold their first company just a few years out of college. They left the acquirer and independently realized “we absolutely wanted to start something else,” Niraj recalls. “Once you’…
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The Boo Crew tears your soul apart on an all new episode 425! We solve the lament configuration and summon this HELLRAISER panel recorded live at Monsterpalooza 2024 in Pasadena! Trevor takes the stage with the stars of the original 1987 classic, Ashley Laurence, Andrew Robinson and Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley! They let you in on everything from …
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Guest: Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman, and founder of Zscaler Much of the media coverage of Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry is quick to identify him as the wealthiest Indian-American person, with a net worth of $10.8 billion. But to hear Jay himself tell it, that number has never been very important to him: “My family had no money,” he says of his childhood …
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On an all new episode of your Boo Crew, we take you back to the Pasadena Convention Center for Monsterpalooza 2024, for our TERRIFIER panel, recorded live! Join creator and fx master, Damien Leone, stars Catherine Corcoran and Jenna Kanell..and Art The Clown himself, David Howard Thornton! We talk about the inception of a new slasher icon and every…
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Guest: Bill Magnuson, CEO and co-founder of Braze The deployment of smartphones around the world was more impactful than any other technology to date, says Braze CEO Bill Magnuson — and that has big implications for emerging fields like generative AI. “If we get to the point where they [LLMs] really can be useful, human-like companions ... they wil…
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The Boo Crew returns for a SECOND all-new episode this week! It's the movie everyone is talking about, LONGLEGS, in theaters everywhere July 12th! The brilliant filmmaker, Oz Perkins makes his return to the Speakeasy Studio to dive into it with you in this exclusive conversation. LONGLEGS is extraordinary. You haven’t experienced one quite like thi…
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The Boo Crew is back, baby! After a few weeks hiatus, we return to take you along with us on some spooky shenanigans! This week, returning guest to the show, the incredibly cool, Ryan Simpkins stops by! They crawl into our crypt to tell you all about their awesome and unique new take on the possession sub genre, THE EXORCISM, in theaters June 21st!…
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Guest: Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI In 2020, Clara Shih quit Hearsay, the company she founded and ran for 11 years; in hindsight, she says “I probably should have quit a little bit sooner.” But at the time, she cared a lot — too much — about what everyone else thought. “There's a lot of guilt around leaving initially and feeling bad for feeling…
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Guest: Marissa Mayer, CEO and Founder of Sunshine and former CEO of Yahoo When Marissa Mayer was first hired as the CEO of Yahoo, the company had lost nearly a quarter of its workforce in the preceding six months. Early on, she was chatting with employees in the cafeteria and one of them got her attention by smacking her tray. “Is it go time?” he a…
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Guest: Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor Sarah Friar has worked with some of the top leaders in Silicon Valley, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Block CEO Jack Dorsey, and most recently Nextdoor founder Nirav Tolia, who just replaced her as CEO in May. And one of the things that sets top performers apart from the …
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Guest: Stanislav Vishnevskiy, CTO and co-founder of Discord For many years, the conventional wisdom was the gaming was not social because it was something you usually did at home. “But people who play games are often the most social,” says Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. “They’re spending 10, 20 hours with other people online, hanging out.” As a…
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Guest: Eoghan McCabe, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Intercom “We are not ready for the degree to which our world is going to change,” says Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe, “in insane and incredible ways.” When he co-founded the company in 2011, the Irish-born entrepreneur was making it easier for companies to offer human customer service to their cus…
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Guest: Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and costar, Shark Tank “I just love to compete,” says Mark Cuban. “And the day I stop is the day I’m dead.” Previously the co-founder of MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, Cuban is probably best known to the public today for competing with the likes of Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran on the reality …
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Stop on by The Boo Crew diner for a slice of our famous rhubarb pie on a brand new episode 421! It’s a celebration of the phenomenal crime thriller that everyone is talking about, THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY! Writer / director Francis Gallupi, producer and horror clothier extraordinaire Local Boogeyman and stars Jocelin Donahue, Jim Cummings and S…
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Campaign for office with The Boo Crew in an all new episode with our new running mate, writer / director Erik Bloomquist! Erik’s new film FOUNDERS DAY is now available on VOD and digital! Find out how he elected Alterian to make this awesome mask, Timothy Williams who’s known for his work on PEARL, BRIGHTBURN, and GET OUT to do the score and the pr…
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Guest: Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed One day when he was 13, Taylor Francis walked out of the movie theater, and he was pissed off. He had just seen Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and internalized a “generational call to arms, that my parents had screwed our generation” by causing the climate crisis, he says. 14 years later, …
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Guests: Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia; and Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner Perkins When Victor Riparbelli wants to learn something, he’ll start with a YouTube video or a podcast: “I maybe buy the book on Amazon as like the fifth step,” the Synthesia CEO says. His company is trying to change the text-first (or text-only) way info…
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Guest: Kat Cole, COO of Athletic Greens You can’t make smart decisions if you don’t know the truth — the “true truth,” as Athletic Greens COO Kat Cole puts it. “As you get bigger and you have success, innovator’s dilemma, you end up talking to yourself instead of really being rooted in what’s going on.” That’s why she has embraced the anxiety of th…
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On all new episode, you Boo Crew gets together to celebrate what continues to be an absolutely bonkers year of horror! From Immaculate and The First Omen, to Late Night With The Devil, Sting and Blackout, needless to say, we are all getting spoiled rotten..and lovin' it! We catch you up on recent watches and discoveries including History of The Occ…
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Guest: Anne Raimondi, COO and Head of Business at Asana Asana COO Anne Raimondi feels pressure to perform in her job “every day, all the time.” But that pressure doesn’t come from her fellow executives; she imposes it on herself, trying to think carefully about how much each of her decisions will impact her team. “I have a lot of privilege and choi…
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It’s a Boo Crew Creature Double Feature! In the second of two all new episodes, we go from werewolves to giant spiders, in Australian indie-filmmakers genre love letter, STING, in theaters now! We take you to the Landmark theater in Westwood where Bloody Disgusting recently held an advance screening. If you were thank you SO much for coming out to …
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It’s a Boo Crew Creature Double Feature! In the first of one of two all new episodes, things get a little “hairy” as indie horror legend, Larry Fessenden stops by with his incredible new werewolf flick, BLACKOUT, in limited theaters and VOD / digital now! Join us for a celebration of Larry’s highly influential work. We talk about his reverence for …
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Guest: Sanjay Beri, CEO and Founder of Netskope “You can be waiting your whole life to do something, and then your life’s over,” says Sanjay Beri. After nine years at Juniper Networks, he left his comfortable job, moved his family to a house with a pricier mortgage, and launched the cloud security firm Netskope. His entrepreneurial story would make…
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This brand new episode of Bloody Disgusting's Boo Crew is "all for you!" In theaters everywhere as of Friday, April 5th, it's Arkasha Stevenson's absolutely enthralling, THE FIRST OMEN! We can't say enough incredible things about this film. It really is a stunning experience. A masterfully directed vision, you've got the score from Mark Korven, the…
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Guest: Scott McNealy, former CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems & co-founder of Curriki Scott McNealy never wanted to be CEO of Sun, and in his 22-year tenure before selling to Oracle, he knows there were times he failed to execute, or to rein in the once-iconic Silicon Valley firm’s worst impulses. But like his pro golfer son, Maverick, Scott …
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Guest: Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness Cisco bought Jyoti Bansal’s first company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, making him a very wealthy man. But after two African safaris, a week of Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, and more adventures all around the world, he realized that spending his money didn’t truly make him happy. After some soul…
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Guest: Clint Sharp, CEO and co-founder of Cribl New employees are joining the remote data platform Cribl every week, and as the staff grows, CEO Clint Sharp has noticed a problem: He can’t file a bug report without a lot of caveats. When there were a handful of users, no one would bat an eye at the CEO posting a bug on Slack, but now he has had to …
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Guest: Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent Before he was CEO of Transcarent, Glen Tullman presided over the biggest digital health merger of all time: His previous company Livongo was acquired in 2020 by Teledoc for $18.5 billion. Over his decades of experience in health tech, he has developed saying: Hire low, fire high. When one of his friends was o…
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The Boo Crew are back to pump you up for the upcoming horror flicks on the way this Spring including, LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, IMMACULATE, THE FIRST OMEN and more! Lauren reveals her new fear of being abducted by aliens as a result of binging ufo docs, ALIEN ABDUCTION:TRAVIS WALTON and SHOCK DOCS:THE VISITORS. Trev is too scared to get up off the…
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Guest: Filip Kaliszan, CEO and co-founder of Verkada Great founders try to grow personally at least as fast as their companies do — but sometimes, says Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan, that’s just not possible. By the time the company had about 200 employees, he says, “the scale of the business and the rate of the growth of the business ... outpaced my …
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Guest: Wade Foster, CEO and co-founder of Zapier When Wade Foster and his co-founders launched Zapier, he was 24, and doubted himself constantly. He consulted mentors like Paul Graham and Jay Simons, studied entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, and also took inspiration from an unlikely source: Actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. “[He] had…
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Guest: Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How To Work Together Better After her first management book Radical Candor became a worldwide bestseller, Kim Scott found herself giving talks to all kinds of companies about how they could apply her advice and build a stronger, kinder cu…
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COME GET SOME!....on an all new Boo Crew podcast episode 414! The Boo Crew returns with an invite for you to spend some time with us and the tremendously cool actor Lily Sullivan! The star of Evil Dead Rise, Dark Place and a bunch of other awesome projects, has a new one out February 16th called MONOLITH. Lily stops by to talk all about the film an…
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