Best Cherry Ventures Podcasts (2024)

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Founder Coaching: Tips for your AI Journey 37:41

3h ago37:41

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For the first time ever, Lutz Finger, venture partner at Cherry Ventures, hosted a live founder coaching session for three pioneering startups looking to revolutionise neurological care with artificial intelligence (AI). Taking place at Cornell Tech, a graduate school and research center based in New York City, the session brought together three pr…

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Cherry's Investment Thesis on AI 40:09

19m ago40:09

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Podcast: The Edge by Cherry Ventures Episode: Season 2 Episode 3 Welcome back to another episode of The Edge by Cherry Ventures, a new seasonal podcast rebranding ourselves as we discuss new, edgy topics about the future and AI. We’re joined today by Lutz Finger and Jasper for a live and uncut conversation. To begin, Lutz and Jasper outline their a…

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Housing Crisis | Revolutionizing Build-to-Rent Development, with a16z-backed Mosaic CEO Salman Ahmad 50:19

10h ago50:19

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Salman Ahmad is the CEO and Co-founder of Founders Fund & a16z-backed Mosaic, a construction technology company that builds software that makes homebuilding more scalable and efficient. Mosaic was founded in 2017 by Salman and Sep Kamvar, whom were two computer scientists working together at MIT and Stanford developing machine learning algorithms a…

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A reality check on AI 32:01

3d ago32:01

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for decades, yet we find ourselves in a new wave of AI hype, one that holds a genuine promise to reshape how we live and work. What sets this era apart? While it might seem like nothing much has changed, there’s both a technical evolution and a shift in accessibility that are driving the current shif…

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Housing Crisis | The Rise of Home Equity Investments, with Point Co-founder Eoin Matthews 38:03

25d ago38:03

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Eoin Matthews is the Co-founder at Point, a home equity investment company making home equity wealth accessible to homeowners without creating a monthly debt obligation. Homeowners get upfront funds from Point in return for a portion of your home’s future appreciation. Point recently announced an oversubscribed $141M securitization, which marked it…

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Climate Tech | Sustainability & Economic Benefits From Decarbonizing Real Estate, with Cortex CRO Lisa Rockefeller 35:18

2M ago35:18

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Lisa Rockefeller is the Chief Revenue Officer at Cortex Sustainability Intelligence, the decarbonization platform built for commercial real estate, where she's driving the go-to market strategy. Cortex's advanced AI helps CRE teams amplify operational effectiveness, make informed decisions about capital investments, and tactically address regulatio…

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20Angel: Philipp Moehring: Co-Founder of Tiny VC on Giving Founders Permission to be Extreme, Becoming Europe's Most Active Investor & How Large Pre-Seed Rounds Can Lead to Disaster 38:12

2M ago38:12

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 17 features Philipp Moehring, Co-Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (Tiny), One of Europe's most active pre-Seed investor with 350+ investments. His portfolio includes companies such as Sorare, Synthesia, 11x.ai, Amie, Wayve and many more . Previ…

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20Europe: UK: Julien Bek (Sequoia Capital), Georgia Stevenson (Index Ventures) & Finn Murphy (Nebular VC) on the UK Punching Above its Weight, Why a $100bn Business Can't be Built in Europe, and Lighting ... 38:53

3M ago38:53

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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 3, we profile the UK. I was join…

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The New Generation of Real Estate Tech Venture Capital, with RE Angels GP & Founder Alon Gorbonos 44:25

3M ago44:25

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Alon is the Founder and General Partner of RE Angels, a real estate technology angel fund solely composed of real estate experts with deep and diverse industry expertise focused on early stage startups. Alon also owns and manages several multifamily portfolios throughout the southeast (FL, NC & VA). Alon was the co-founder and managing partner of D…

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Did our predictions hold true? 36:19

4M ago36:19

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We are back! In this episode, we revisit our 2023 predictions. What happened? What did not happen? Dive into topics like the state of MLOps or the hardware evolution. Tune in and we are very happy to welcome you back for the 2024 season of Lutz & Jasper!

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Future of Office | Coworking is Dead, Long Live Coworking: The New Flex Office Generation, with a16z-backed Codi CEO Christelle Rohaut 36:10

4M ago36:10

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Christelle Rohaut is the Founder and CEO of Codi (backed by a16z), where she's building the walk-to-work revolution. Codi offers turnkey, private office spaces with the most flexible terms on the market. In a matter of days, any company can find a space for their team, with full and part-time options, outsourced office management, and flexible leas…

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20Europe: France: Roxanne Varza (Station F), Jonathan Userovici (Headline) & Reza Malekzadeh (Partech) on the French AI Revolution, Why French Founders Win on Product and Suck at Sales, The Fight for Top ... 36:20

5M ago36:20

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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 2, we profile France. I was join…

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A New Way to Finance Tech-Enabled Real Estate Co's & Lessons from the Proptech Boom Cycle, with Cherry Lawn Capital Managing Partner Robert McDonald 41:08

4M ago41:08

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Robert McDonald is the Managing Partner at Cherry Lawn Capital, on a mission to provide businesses with the real estate capital necessary to scale and the operational capital needed for a successful next venture round. Robert joins Edward, Jeff and Zach to also discuss lessons and takeaways from the previous Proptech boom cycle, and how should foun…

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Climate Tech | How to Solve Real Estate's Greatest Challenge, with Measurabl CEO Matt Ellis 45:33

4M ago45:33

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Matt Ellis is the CEO of Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG solution for real estate. Customers use Measurabl to measure, manage, report, and act on ESG data on more than 15 billion square feet of commercial real estate across 92 countries. Measurabl empowers customers to optimize ESG performance, assess exposure to physical climate ris…

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Future of Office | The Boring Building Amenity That Makes CRE Investors Money, with Stuf CEO Kat Lau 30:29

5M ago30:29

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Katharine Lau is the CEO and Co-founder of Stuf, a self storage startup delivering modern, tech-enabled storage to consumers and businesses. Stuf partners with real estate owners to monetize basements, garages, and other spaces in commercial buildings as storage, creating new cash flow opportunities for landlords while providing neighborhoods with …

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20Europe: Germany: Filip Dames, Co-Founder of Cherry Ventures & Dom Wilhelm, Partner at Headline on why Germany is the top tech ecosystem in Europe, why multi-stage funds are dangerous for seed companies ... 37:37

5M ago37:37

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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused more generally on the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 1, we profile …

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Housing Crisis | Unlocking 2% Mortgages, with Roam Founder & CEO Raunaq Singh 33:56

5M ago33:56

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Raunaq Singh is the founder & CEO of Roam, the platform for purchasing a home with an assumable, low-rate mortgage included. Prior to founding Roam, Raunaq spent a decade in various product and operations roles across Uber, Opendoor and Culdesac. He received a Bachelor's degree in Political Economy from NYU and currently resides in New York City. (…

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Future of Office | Convene CEO Ryan Simonetti: Building the Largest Office Experience Provider, WeWork's Bankruptcy & Office Predictions for 2024 35:49

6M ago35:49

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Ryan Simonetti is the CEO and co-founder of Convene, a global hospitality company that owns and manages premium Meeting, Event & Workplace locations around the world. His unique expertise in real estate acquisitions, development, and finance has helped catapult Convene to become a pioneer in the commercial real estate industry. Ryan is also the co-…

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Housing Crisis | Jeff Bezos-backed Real Estate Company Allows Regular People to Invest in Rental Homes, with Arrived CEO Ryan Frazier 44:44

6M ago44:44

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Ryan Frazier is the Co-founder and CEO at Arrived Homes, the Real Estate tech company that Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff invested in to make the wealth building potential of owning rental homes & vacation rentals more accessible. Ryan and the Arrived team believe they can do that by simplifying the process, and lowering the cost to get started. With …

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Housing Crisis | The Lawsuit That Will Change Real Estate Forever & Reimagining the Home Buying Experience, with Aalto CEO Nick Narodny 38:35

6M ago38:35

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Nick Narodny is the Founder and CEO at Aalto, a real estate marketplace that lets people buy and sell homes online. Nick previously co-founded Grovo, a microlearning company for real estate agents that was acquired by Cornerstone on Demand. Real Estate runs in the family for Nick, after being raised and inspired by his real estate agent mother and …

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Fundrise CEO Ben Miller on Real Estate & VC Investment Strategies, Macro Trends for 2024 & Building the Online Blackstone 51:58

6M ago51:58

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Ben Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, the largest direct-to-consumer alternative asset manager in the US. Under his leadership, Fundrise has grown to over 2 million active users and over $3 billion in real estate private equity, private credit, and growth-stage venture capital. Ben also serves as Chairman of the Board of three publicly-…

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Future of Office | WeWork, Adam Neumann, & the Great Startup Delusion, with WSJ Best-seller Author Eliot Brown 46:00

7M ago46:00

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Eliot Brown is the co-author of The Cult of We (with Maureen Farrell), a WSJ best-selling book, and winner of the Financial Times, Fortune, and NPR Best Book of the Year Awards. Eliot covers startups and venture capital for The Wall Street Journal in London. He joined the Journal in 2010, when he was hired to cover commercial real estate in the wak…

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How Multifamily Investors Can Decarbonize Buildings Profitably & Avoid Fines, with Kelvin Founder & CEO Marshall Cox 28:29

7M ago28:29

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Marshall Cox is a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and the Founder and CEO at Kelvin, winner of the MIT Clean energy prize, the Popular Science Innovation Award, and the Verizon Powerful Answers award. The Kelvin team has developed a system that eliminates overheating in pre-war buildings. The system, called the Cozy, is a wireless, low-cost, and eas…

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State of Short-term Rentals & Airbnb Regulation, with Hostaway Founder & CEO Marcus Räder 36:30

8M ago36:30

36:30

Marcus Räder started his first company when he was 11 years old. Since then, he's been learning about the world of business, growing up in an environment where global communication and connectivity gets better each day. With 10 years of experience in EdTech and online marketing at various startups, he decided it was time to help others. By founding…

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20Angel: Joakim Achren: Co-Founder of Next Games (Acq. Netflix) on How To Build an Angel Syndicate, What Data to Study When Investing in Gaming & The Stress & Loneliness When Building a Startup 32:57

8M ago32:57

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 16 features Joakim Achren, angel investor & co-founder of Next Games, acquired by Netflix in 2022. Joakim also built Elite Game Developers, an online resource that helps entrepreneurs in starting their first games company. The newsletter and podcast have a com…

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Cannabis Real Estate Opportunities & Challenges, with Zoned Properties CEO Bryan McLaren 36:28

8M ago36:28

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Bryan McLaren is the Chairman & CEO at Zoned Properties, providing regulated Cannabis Real Estate and knowledge since 2014. Cannabis is now legal across 37 US states, and NYC's recent roll-out has put the industry under scrutiny. In this episode, Edward Cohen & Zach Aarons explore the opportunities for Commercial Real Estate investors and retail ow…

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Bridging the Gap Between Short-Term Real Estate Lenders, Borrowers & Investors, with Groundfloor Co-founder Nick Bhargava | Tangent @ Blueprint 8:58

8M ago8:58

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Groundfloor is a private real estate lending marketplace open to non-accredited investors. Groundfloor opens the door to short-term, high-yield returns backed by real estate. Their platform brings together individual investors looking for short-term lending investments and borrowers looking for short-term financing for their specific real estate pr…

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How to Maximize Multifamily Performance with Renter Analytics, with RCKRBX CEO Michael Broder & COO James Moore 51:01

9M ago51:01

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RCKRBX is the first real estate SaaS platform that puts the voice of the renter at the Multifamily developer's and investor's fingertips, including across key investment, development, marketing, leasing, and management decision points. The platform delivers actionable intelligence around the preferences, priorities, attitudes, and viewpoints that d…

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The Easiest Way to Integrate Multifamily Property Management & Proptech, with Propify CEO & Co-founder Remen Okoruwa | Tangent @ Blueprint 12:16

9M ago12:16

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Remen Okoruwa is product-minded leader who's working to unlock data for the property management industry. Remen and his co-founders met while they were working at Hubspot, and are now bringing their deep expertise about integrations to streamline Multifamily property management operations for all stakeholders. Propify (YC W23) recently raised $3.3M…

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20Angel: Paul Forster: Co-Founder of Indeed.com on Building a $7bn Revenue Business, Why Founders Are The Best Angels, Why he Said no to a Deal Led by Sequoia & Why he Passed on a $2.5bn Company at Seed ... 25:28

9M ago25:28

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 15 features Paul Forster, angel investor & co-founder and former CEO of Indeed, the #1 job search and recruitment service worldwide, now with 12k employees and $7bn in revenue. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and Master’s degrees from Cambridge & Oxford Universiti…

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State of the Self Storage Market, On Demand Storage Models & Creating Value with Social Media Content, with DXD Capital Co-founder Cory Sylvester 55:11

9M ago55:11

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As the Co-Founder of DXD Capital, Cory Sylvester brings 14 years of Real Estate & Finance expertise to revolutionize the Self Storage industry. Passionate about utilizing data and technology, Cory is building the largest platform for building and buying self storage facilities in the US. His Self Storage journey began with co-founding Radius+, a su…

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Solving the Construction Labor Shortage with Mobile Micro-Factories, with Cuby Co-founder Aleks Gampel | Tangent @ Blueprint 5:57

9M ago5:57

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Aleksandr Gampel co-founded Cuby Technologies with Aleh Kandrashou in 2021 to tackle the construction labor shortage. After 200,000 engineering hours, Cuby is setting the stage to commercialize hundreds of mobile micro-factories (MMF's) on or near construction sites to enable developers, general contractors and local partners to build better buildi…

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CoreLogic CIO John Rogers on 22K Data Sources to Power Real Estate, Affordable Housing Development & Mitigate Climate Risk | Tangent @ Blueprint 9:21

10M ago9:21

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John Rogers is the Chief Innovation Officer at CoreLogic, leading R&D on the biggest asset class in the world - the US Real Estate Economy, and driving new product development to market via an iconic property & location intelligence platform called Discovery. This platform allows clients that rely on data, insights, models and answers to drive grow…

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Zillow Co-Founder Spencer Rascoff on the New Proptech Wave, Democratizing Access with Housing Innovation, & LA Tech Ecosystem 14:07

10M ago14:07

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Spencer Rascoff co-founded and ran Zillow for a decade as its CEO. Spencer is also the co-founder at Pacaso and, through his startup studio and VC firm, 75 & Sunny, is an active angel investor in more than 100 companies and is incubating several more. Rascoff is a NYT’s best selling author based in LA who focuses on Proptech, the future of work and…

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20Angel: Finn Murphy: Announcing Europe's Latest Solo GP, Why Backing Google Is The Only Thing That Matters, Why European Companies Need To Raise In The US & How The Deal Process Is Like Texas Hold'em 33:08

10M ago33:08

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 14 features Finn Murphy, angel investor & previously a Partner at Frontline Ventures, where he made 24 fund investments and 8 angel investments in his 4 and half year tenure. In that time, he has seen 3 companies through to exit with Workvivo selling to Zoom, …

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Housing Crisis | It's Not a Mortgage, It's Not Renting, It's Acre, with Acre Homes CEO & Co-founder Mike Schneider 38:14

10M ago38:14

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Mike Schneider is the CEO & Co-founder of Acre Homes. Acre combines the ease of renting with the financial upside of owning. Acre is available in Raleigh-Durham, and will be launching in Atlanta and Nashville soon. Previously, Mike served as the VP of Technology Strategy at RE/MAX, and Co-founded First, a real estate tech company that leveraged mac…

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20Angel: Marc McCabe: Ex Airbnb Exec & Angel Investor on Why Operator Experience is Essential For an Angel, Passing on Coinbase at Seed, Punchy Y Combinator Valuations, & The Best Way to DD Investments ... 32:47

11M ago32:47

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 13 features Marc McCabe, angel investor & solo GP of Nomad Capital, a seed stage fund focused on B2B software and marketplaces. Prior to starting Nomad, Marc worked at Google, SV Angel and was an early employee at Airbnb where he led numerous projects includin…

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The synergy between LLMs and knowledge graphs 34:14

11M ago34:14

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Sounding intelligent doesn’t equate to actual intelligence. This is a challenge with generative AI. While LLMs might pass the Turing test, they don’t always possess factual knowledge. In this episode, we’re delving deeper into how startups and enterprises can leverage generative AI effectively in our conversation Mike Dilinger, a leading expert in …

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Housing Crisis | Using Robots to Build Homes Faster & Cheaper, with BotBuilt CEO Brent Wadas 40:23

11M ago40:23

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Brent Wadas is the CEO at BotBuilt, a Y-Combinator Construction technology company based in Durham, NC that is revolutionizing building homes with robots to address the labor shortage and housing affordability crisis. Brent served in the US Army in Afghanistan after 9/11, where he fulfilled his patriotic calling. BotBuilt employs a methodology that…

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20Angel: Steve O'Hear: Ex TechCrunch Editor on The Unspoken Misalignment Between Investors & Founders, Turning Story-Flow Into Deal-Flow, & The Best Portfolio Construction Advice From Tom Blomfield, Founder ... 31:54

12M ago31:54

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 12 features Steve O'Hear, CEO and Founder of strategic communications agency, O'Hear & Co, and an executive at Zapp. Previously, Steve spent over 15 years as a technology and business journalist, including more than 10 years reporting for TechCrunch, covering …

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Large Language Models: one interface to rule them all? 41:52

12M ago41:52

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Learn how LLMs can be used as a unified UX interface in this deep dive with Tariq Rauf, founder of Qatalog, as we jump into the product and technical challenges of using generative AI on top of enterprise products.

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20Angel: Mark Cummins: Why AI is as Important as The Wheel, How He Helped Canva Before They Raised a Round, Selling Two Companies to Google, And Experiences With Bad Angel Investors 30:36

12M ago30:36

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 11 features Mark Cummins, a 2x exited founder and long-time angel investor. He was the CEO and Co-Founder of computer vision company Plink, which became Google's first ever UK acquisition back in 2010. He then went on to co-found Pointy, a retail search compan…

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Creating Pro-housing Ecosystems, with Ivory Innovations' Chief Innovation & Strategy Jenna Louie 46:03

12M ago46:03

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Jenna Louie leads partnerships and strategic outreach at Ivory Innovations, and was previously an investor with the Urban Development Deal Team at Stanford. Ivory Innovations' mission is to catalyze innovation in housing affordability by promoting the most compelling ideas in housing by convening industry experts, inspiring students to tackle housi…

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20Angel: Jens Lapinski: Co-Founder of Angel Invest, 100+ Portfolio Companies 34:39

12M ago34:39

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 10 features Jens Lapinski, one Europe's most active angel investors. He is the Founding Partner of Angel Invest, an angel fund which has invested in 100+ companies. Formally, he was an MD at Techstars, Partner at Forward Labs (now Forward Partners) and co-foun…

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You asked, we answered 34:10

1y ago34:10

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We're always thrilled to see your burning questions and this time we decided to answer them on air. Curious about how AI use cases differ for frontline workers vs. high-skilled knowledge workers? Or wondering about the VC hype and the massive investment flowing into AI? We've got it covered.

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The Real Deal's Amir Korangy on the Future of Real Estate Media, Building Hybrid Real Estate Communities & AI Opportunities & Threats 57:48

12M ago57:48

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Amir R. Korangy is an Iranian-American publisher and film producer, who founded the business magazine, The Real Deal, about real estate and finance news. He also produced the PBS documentary, "Building Stories", about architect Costas Kondylis. Amir Korangy is also an adjunct associate professor of media and real estate at New York University where…

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Are we one step closer to using LLMs in practice? 28:01

1y ago28:01

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LLMs + vector search = RAG.In this episode, we introduce you to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and how it might allow us to better and more easily implement LLMs in our day-to-day work. We believe current LLMs are best used as an interface, and if we want to make enterprise search useful, RAGs can be the solution.…

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20Angel: Roxanne Varza: Director of Station F, Sequoia Scout 32:43

1y ago32:43

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 9 features Roxanne Varza, Director of Station F, the world's largest startup campus, located in Paris. She is also an angel investor, Sequoia Scout and previously had roles at Techcrunch and Microsoft. Some of her angel investments include Figures, Claap, Folk…

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Housing Crisis | Transforming Housing Development with Workforce Creation & Political Innovation, with Inherent L3C CEO Tim Swanson 46:26

1y ago46:26

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Timothy Swanson is the President & CEO of Inherent L3C, a Chicago-based low profit LLC focused on enabling and empowering long term affordable homeownership and generational wealth creation through modular housing development, workforce platform and a smart home marketplace for future homeowners. 💚Learn more: ➡️Inherent L3C (site) - Transforming li…

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20Angel: Johan Brand: Co-Founder of Norwegian Unicorn, Kahoot! and Co-Founder of We Are Human 27:56

1y ago27:56

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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 8 features Johan Brand, Co-Founder of Kahoot!, a Norwegian online game-based learning platform that has raised over $500m, and as of July '23, is valued over $1.3bn. Johan is also the Co-Founder of We Are Human, which builds and invests in technology enabled c…

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