Best Venture Capital Podcasts (2018)

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35- Effective Altruism – A Better Way to Judge Charity Work with Isabel Arjmand of GiveWell50:05

6h ago50:05

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Isabel Arjmand is a research analyst at GiveWell (@givewell), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of charity worldwide, ie Effective Altruism. GiveWell is focused on finding the most impactful giving opportunities and publish the full details to help donors decide where best to give. Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely ...…

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20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande ...31:41

26m ago31:41

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Amol Deshpande is the Co-Founder and CEO at Farmers Business Network, the farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network improving the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. To date, they have raised a whopping $193m in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, T Rowe, GV, Temasek and more. As for Amol, prior to FBN, he wa ...…

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171. Sports Tech and the Future of eSports (Wayne Kimmel)42:51

2h ago42:51

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Wayne Kimmel of SeventySix Capital joins Nick to discuss Sports Tech and the Future of eSports. In this episode, we cover: Talk about the investment focus and approach of your firm When did Ryan Howard start working w/ you and how did he become a part of the leadership team? Talk a bit about sports tech has evolved over the past decade. All the ...…

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Tech Talks 1 – The Future of Ecommerce & Shopping22:08

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How To Build An Enduring Partnership43:59

7h ago43:59

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Jessica Rolph, Rod Morris and Jenna discuss the different layers of creating and nurturing a successful partnership. We dive into important topics such as how to help each individual develop their identity within your company, the importance of being vulnerable and having honest conversations, especially when difficult, and consistently ensurin ...…

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How To Live Your Healthiest And Happiest Life48:55

10h ago48:55

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Amanda Haas and Jenna discuss her journey rising from an associate at Williams Sonoma to becoming their Culinary Director. We dive into Amanda’s mission to help people eat healthier and feel their best, her bestselling cookbook, The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook, and simple shifts we can make to build healthy habits. We then delve into Amanda’s 12 ...…

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Building Better Product Driven Companies with Catherine Ulrich of FirstMark Capital

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Catherine Ulrich is the Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, invests in a broad range of consumer and enterprise start-ups. She has a deep passion for and expertise in health and wellness, consumer AI, and behavior change. Prior to joining FirstMark, she was the Chief Product Officer at Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK), which she joined after servi ...…

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34 – How Graphene Transforms the Industries of the Future and Why the Time is Now with John Lettow of Vorbeck51:15

6h ago51:15

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John Lettow is the co-founder and President of Vorbeck (@vorbeck), a high tech graphene materials startup that’s raised over $20.7M to bring the promising future of graphene to today. Today they have several product lines focused on antennas, RFIDs, wearables, conductive ink and of course composites. NOTE: Vorbeck’s proprietary graphene materia ...…

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20VC: Lessons Learned Scaling PillPack from Seed to Amazon Acquisition, Why Investors Should Spend More Time Assessing Human Capital Risk Taken by Founders & The Right Way To Think About Capital Efficiency ...33:06

1h ago33:06

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David Frankel is Managing Partner @ Founder Collective, one of the leading seed funds of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, PillPack, Coupang, Hotel Tonight, Venmo, Buzzfeed and many more incredible companies. David himself sits on the board of PillPack, Olo, Adhawk and SeatGeek. Prior to founding Founder Collective, ...…

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20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder ...35:21

2d ago35:21

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Howard Lerman is the Founder & CEO @ Yext, the company that allows you to control your brand experience across the digital universe. Due in part to Howard's incredible leadership of the firm, Yext went public in April 2017 with an opening price of $11 a share, today the stock price sits at $26.85 and a market cap of $2.65Bn. Prior to the IPO, Y ...…

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33 – The Ultimate Guide to Nanotechnology with Steve Burgess of Foresight Institute46:13

2d ago46:13

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Steve Burgess (@steveburgess01) is the president of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit think tank that researches technologies of important to the future of humanity, focusing on nanotechnology, cybersecurity, and AI and rewards grants to lead scientists and safety initia tives. Steve is a nanotechnology activist, tech writer & speaker, startup m ...…

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From The Dish Room To The Board Room32:08

5d ago32:08

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CEO and founder of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants (CMR), Cameron Mitchell joins Moe Abdou to discuss his unrelenting path towards entrepreneurial success.

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32 – The Future of Biotech & Humanity Livestream Panel – Exploring Gene Editing, Longevity, Clean Meat and More…56:17

6d ago56:17

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Are you interested in space travel, genetic engineering and other futurist tech trends transforming our world/society? If so you will love this.

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gorjana Founders On Using Change As A Catalyst45:05

6d ago45:05

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Gorjana, Jason Reidel and Jenna discuss how being adaptable gives us greater agency to create our desired outcomes, navigating the transitionary phase of change, and the importance of setting and respecting human expectations for ourselves. We also chat about why happiness is like a shooting star and its relationship to presence and success.…

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20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner ...32:27

6d ago32:27

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Shabih Rizvi is the Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures, Google’s new AI-focused venture fund, which will invest in and connect early-stage startups with Google’s resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. Prior to Gradient, Shabih was a Partner at KPCB, where he was actively involved with investments in TrueCa ...…

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Investor Stories 95: Why I Passed (Kaden, Hardiman, Simoudis)11:18

9d ago11:18

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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Rebecca Kaden James Hardiman Evangelos Simoudis Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.

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20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density ...29:33

9d ago29:33

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Andrew Farah is the Founder & CEO @ Density, the startup that measures real-time occupancy of every room in your office. To date, they have raised over $16m in funding from some great friends of the show in the form of Founders Fund, Mark Suster @ Upfront, Ludlow Ventures, Jason Calacanis, Hiten Shah and Arjun Sethi, just to name a few. As for ...…

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31 – Overcoming Existential Risks by Redesigning Civilization with Daniel Schmachtenberger of Neurohacker Collective1:19:49

9d ago1:19:49

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Daniel Schmachtenberger (@theneurohacker) is the co-founder and director of Research and Development at the Neurohacker Collective, where he is focused on developing processes and technologies for advancing medicine and human optimization and hosts a podcast exploring those topics. Daniel is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequa ...…

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How Home Cooking Inspires Community and Connection53:12

10d ago53:12

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Euncie Byun and Jenna discuss Material’s mission to create “beautiful tools to inspire beautiful memories." Eunice highlights the importance of empowering home cooks and celebrating being them by focusing on the joy of cooking rather than striving for mastery. We chat about walking through open doors in life and being patient enough to reflect ...…

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Tender Greens CEO On Embracing Your Uniqueness43:16

11d ago43:16

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Denyelle Bruno and Jenna discuss how Tender Greens is creating a new niche for fast-casual healthy restaurants and planting seeds to empower people to make health a habit. We walk through Denyelle’s innate desire to question norms and her own beliefs and why she always asks for the promotion before she’s ready.Denyelle also highlights why our u ...…

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20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry ...30:18

12d ago30:18

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Barry Eggers is a Founding Partner @ Lightspeed, one of the world’s leading venture funds with a portfolio that includes the likes of Snapchat, Mulesoft, Affirm, StitchFix, AppDynamics, Nutanix and many more incredible companies. Barry himself has led investments in Snapchat, Metasolv Software (acquired post-IPO by ORCL), Calista Technologies ( ...…

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Science Fiction54:15

13d ago54:15

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Joe Haldeman is a famed American science fiction author best known for his novel The Forever War (1974). That novel, and other of his works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.[2] Joe was awarded the SFWA Grand Master for career achieveme ...…

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Internet of Things41:06

13d ago41:06

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Kyle Ellicott is the Founder and Chief Labs Officer of ReadWrite / ReadWrite Labs (formerly known as Wearable IoT World, Inc.), a San Francisco-based Media and Ventures company dedicated to creating the social fabric for businesses around Wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. The company is focused on connecting technological ex ...…

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29 – Why We Are Entering a New Space Race and Where We Go from Here with Fraser Cain of Astronomy Cast53:28

16d ago53:28

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Fraser Cain (@fcain) is the founder of Universe Today, one of the most popular space and astronomy sites on online with over 3 million space focused visitors a month. In addition to Universe Today, Fraser co-hosts Astronomy Cast, a fact-based weekly journey through the cosmos which offers discussions about astronomical topics ranging from plane ...…

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20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team29:08

16d ago29:08

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Philip Krim is the Founder & CEO @ Casper, the global sleep company that launched in 2014 offering perfect mattresses directly to consumers. Since then they have raised over $239m in funding from the likes of NEA, Lerer Hippeau, IVP, Norwest Venture partners and even include Leonardo Di Caprio on their cap table. As for Philip, he is a serial e ...…

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20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation ...33:55

20d ago33:55

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Daniel Gross is the Founder @ Pioneer and the Head of AI @ Y Combinator. Taking them in turn, Pioneer is the home for ambitious outsiders of the world where they are building a community of creative young people working on interesting projects around the globe. YC is obviously the world’s most successful accelerator with alumni that includes th ...…

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Artificial Intelligence54:02

20d ago54:02

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Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University with a doctorate in social science from CalTech, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has spent nine years as a research programmer, a ...…

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28 – Cory Doctorow on The Future of Surveillance Capitalism and How to Solve It43:23

20d ago43:23

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Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) is a best selling science fiction author, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing), a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in ...…

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170. Go-to-Market Fit, Tidal Waves, Category Leadership & Split-Personalities (Tae Hea Nahm)38:11

23d ago38:11

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Tae Hea Nahm of Storm Ventures joins Nick to discuss Go-to-Market Fit, Tidal Waves, Category Leadership & Split-Personalities. In this episode, we cover: You’ve been very successful with exits- is there a framework you apply to identify these? With your expansive experience in Venture, do you believe are changes necessary in the silicon valley ...…

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20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv29:10

23d ago29:10

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Heather Fernandez is the Founder & CEO @ Solv, the startup that simplifies everyday healthcare by providing access to high quality, last-minute care. To date, Heather has raised over $23m in funding from some of the great of the world of venture including Bill Gurley @ Benchmark, Theresia @ Aspect, James Slavet @ Greylock and Pete Flint @ NFX. ...…

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Nuclear Fusion50:31

23d ago50:31

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Bernard Bigot is the Director-General of the ITER Organization (@iterorg), an international fusion science and technology research facility based in France. Bernard has been closely associated with ITER since France’s bid to host the project in 2003 and Mr Bigot was delegated by the French government to act as High Representative for the implem ...…

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How Food Network Helps Us Turn Meals Into Memories46:49

23d ago46:49

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Deb Puchalla and Jenna discuss Food Network and the Cooking Channel’s intention to inspire and empower home cooks with the insights and tools they need to gather their loved ones around a delicious meal. Deb shares a glimpse into her process of identifying great talent, why the chefs who become household names are the ones you want to share a m ...…

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A Beginner's Guide to Meditation44:35

24d ago44:35

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Headspace Chief Science Officer Megan Jones Bell and Jenna discuss how meditation empowers us to show up as the people we aspire to be by increasing our sense of presence and compassion and decreasing feelings of anxiety and stress. Megan walks us through simple ways to build our own meditation practices, shares what we should really expect whe ...…

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Genetic Engineering55:43

27d ago55:43

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Ashwin Seetharaman is a molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level. He is currently focused on unraveling genetic interaction networks underlying human disease using the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, ie examining and fightin ...…

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20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in ...31:01

27d ago31:01

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Avichal Garg is the Managing Partner @ Electric Capital, one of the leading crypto asset management firms today investing in both liquid and illiquid tokens that are emerging stores of value and rooted in novel technology. Prior to Electric they personally invested in Coinbase, Bitwise, Basecoin and more. As for Avichal as well as Electric, he ...…

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To Pixar and Beyond32:29

29d ago32:29

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Lawrence Levy - handpicked by Steve Jobs to lead Pixar's business - joins Moe Abdou to discuss turning a $50M money pit into a seven plus billion dollar sale to Disney.

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20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal30:27

1M ago30:27

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Dylan Serota is the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service. They recently raised a phenomenal $13m Series A with some of the world's most renowned names including Lightspeed, KPCB, Craft, Thiel, Atomic and Jerry Yang just to name a few. As ...…

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Artificial Intelligence41:59

1M ago41:59

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Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and collaborative cognition. In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, “Robots Should Be Slaves” and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has al ...…

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Investor Stories 94: The Strange & Unusual (Ramanujam, Turner, Leitersdorf)8:56

1M ago8:56

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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Madhavan Ramanujam Guy Turner Yoav Leitersdorf Each investor describes the most unusual situation or pitch that they've encountered as an investor. To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow u ...…

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Augmented Reality55:07

1M ago55:07

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Brad Waid (@techbradwaid) is an international speaker, influencer and educator with over 15 years of classroom and industry experience. Brad is an industry leader in the fields of educational technology, 21st century learning, culture and innovation and has been name a top 15 influencer/thought leader in Augmented Reality. Brad is a consultant ...…

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Aging41:23

1M ago41:23

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Aubrey de Grey (@aubreydegrey) is Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation ...…

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20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding ...38:00

1M ago38:00

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Jeff Fagnan is Founding Partner @ Accomplice, one of the East Coast's leading early-stage funds with a portfolio including the likes of AngelList, PillPack (acq by Amazon), Freshbooks, Hopper, Secret Escapes and many more incredible companies. Accomplice is also unique as it is a platform builder creating incredible initiatives such as Spearhea ...…

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20VC: Why Founding Your First Company Is Like Learning Through A Thousand Paper Cuts, The 3 Core Phases to Product Adoption and Why Valuation Obsession Must Change In The Valley with Armon Dadgar, Founder ...29:51

1M ago29:51

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Armon Dadgar is the Founder & CTO @ Hashicorp, the open-source software company that provides consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect and run any infrastructure for any application. To date, Hashicorp has raised over $74m in VC funding from many friends of the show including Scott Raney @ Redpoint, Glenn Solomon @ GGV, Semil Shah, Tr ...…

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Robotics44:11

1M ago44:11

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Prof Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and chair of the University’s Robotics Portfolio Program. He is also the President, COO, and co- ...…

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Investor Stories 93: Lessons Learned (Zuberi, Coelius, Galbut)9:53

1M ago9:53

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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Bilal Zuberi Zach Coelius Elizabeth Galbut Each investor illustrates a critical lesson learned about startup investing and how it's changed their approach. To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, ...…

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Wisdom at Work37:05

1M ago37:05

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A bold & visionary leader, Chip Conley rejoins Moe Abdou to chronicle his experience as the Elder Statesman at Airbnb.

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Changing The World One Steak At A Time50:12

1M ago50:12

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Chris, James and Jenna discuss how Porter Road is radically improving the meat industry by controlling the entire supply chain, setting and upholding strict quality standards, and revitalizing the sense of community of your local butcher shop.We chat about how to respond when life throws you curveballs, the importance of waking up every day wit ...…

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AI56:19

1M ago56:19

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Amir Husain(@amirhusain_tx) is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and author based in Austin, Texas. He was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 Award, has been named Austin’s Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, and received the Austin Under 40 Technology and Science Award. Husain is the founder and CEO of SparkCogn ...…

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Life Sciences29:57

1M ago29:57

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Nathan McDonald is a Managing Partner and CEO of Keiretsu Capital. Nathan brings a unique entrepreneurial business and organizational development background developed during many years of hands-on, active leadership and operational experience. As one of the Northwest’s leading organizers of entrepreneurial and investor relations-focused media a ...…

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Seed Wants To Introduce You To Your Microbiome53:58

1M ago53:58

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Ara Katz, Raja Dhir and Jenna discuss how Seed is redefining health by helping us utilize our microbiome as a lens to not only improve our health but to recognize our interconnectedness with each other and the planet.Ara and Raja give us a primer on what we need to know about our microbiome, the impact its wellbeing has on our health, and share ...…