Best Kshitij Grover Podcasts (2024)

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E52 Pricing strategies for generative AI with Orb co-founder and CTO Kshitij Grover 34:50

5d ago34:50

34:50

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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Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht: Not just latency, but velocity 30:59

9d ago30:59

30:59

In this episode of Tractable, Orb CTO Kshitij Grover interviews Dane Knecht, the SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation at Cloudflare. Together, they explore Cloudflare's innovative approach to infrastructure, AI integration, and developer platform. The conversation spans a discussion on their custom-built infrastructure as well as an upcoming p…

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Axiom CEO Neil Jagdish Patel: No more sampling 44:59

2M ago44:59

44:59

In this episode of Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover interviews Neil Jagdish Patel, the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom, a serverless logging tool used by companies like Prisma, M1 Finance, and Cal.com. Neil talks about Axiom's flexibility and trade-offs, focusing on its efficiency in data ingest, storage, and query execution, also Axiom's potential to…

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Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors - Production, revisited 40:32

3M ago40:32

40:32

In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover is joined by Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to discuss Observability 1.0 and 2.0 and the critical shift from fragmented data sources to a unified source of truth for more efficient debugging and problem-solving. From identifying signs of organizations entrenched in '1.0 thinking' to the need for short…

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Felt CTO Can Duruk: A New Direction for Maps 37:36

4M ago37:36

37:36

On the latest episode of the Tractable podcast, cofounder and CTO of Orb, Kshitij Grover, sits down with Can Duruk, co-founder and CTO of Felt, the world's first collaborative mapping tool. From the technical complexities of map rendering to the broad-reaching impact of their software, this episode highlights how Felt has changed the way we visuali…

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Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: Scalable on-demand compute for the cloud 37:59

5M ago37:59

37:59

In this episode of the Tractable podcast, Kshitij Grover, the cofounder and CTO of Orb, interviews Eric, the founder and CEO of Modal. They discuss Eric's technical background, his experience building a music recommendation system at Spotify, and his journey to founding Modal. The conversation delves into the challenges faced in the early days of S…

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Render VPE Uma Chingunde: The Future of the Cloud 43:58

6M ago43:58

43:58

In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover sits down with special guest Uma Chingunde to explore the intricacies of managing and optimizing complex technical platforms. Uma delves into the critical importance of constant investment in AI to ensure reliability and staying ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. The discussion also dig …

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WarpStream CEO Richard Artoul: reinventing an infrastructure primitive 41:25

6M ago41:25

41:25

In this episode of Tractable, Orb's podcast with engineering leaders, Kshitij Grover dives deep on Warpstream. Warpstream is a cost-effective Kafka-compatible streaming platform built to be simpler to manage than traditional Kafka solutions, built on top of Richie's previous experiences managing large-scale data systems at both Datadog and Uber. Wa…

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Sentry CTO David Cramer: Running Sentry at Scale 46:10

7M ago46:10

46:10

In this episode of the Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover, CTO at Orb, interviews David, the CTO of Sentry. Sentry, known for industry leading error and performance monitoring, has become one of the world’s most admired developer tools. Sentry is the tool of choice for over 90,000 companies including developers at Atlassian, GitHub, and Disney+. Dav…

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Materialize CTO Nikhil Benesch: Making data operational 54:34

9M ago54:34

54:34

Nikhil Benesch, CTO at Materialize, joins me to discuss the evolution of Materialize from its origins at Cockroach to a production-grade system powering companies like Ramp and General Mills. Nikhil shares the the origin story of Materialize, the progress from Streaming Data Warehouse to Operational Data Warehouse, and the the challenges of offerin…

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Robust Intelligence VP Marco Sanvido: Securing LLMs 39:41

10M ago39:41

39:41

In this episode, Marco, VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence sketches out his journey in various facets of technology, ranging from autonomous vehicles, virtualization, solid state drives, and Kubernetes. He shares insights on the constantly changing tech trends and how they relate to AI today, emphasizing the necessary balance between tech hyp…

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Airplane founder Joshua Ma: The inverse Cloudflare 42:56

10M ago42:56

42:56

Josh is the founder and CEO of Airplane, the developer platform for internal tools. We discuss Airplane's latest releases during the company's first Launch Week, including new tools like Airplane Pages and Cloud Workspaces as well as a PostgreSQL offering. Josh shares the dynamic architecture and security challenges his team navigates to ensure sea…

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SingleStore VP Robbie Walzer: SQL Ubiquity 41:19

11M ago41:19

41:19

Robbie Walzer, VP of Engineering at SingleStore, talks through SingleStore's journey and its evolution as a distributed SQL database. We discuss the technical architecture and optimizations of SingleStore, formerly MemSQL, and how it handles both transactional and analytical workloads simultaneously. Robbie sheds light on the challenges associated …

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Stytch CTO Julianna Lamb: Securing the Enterprise 34:23

12M ago34:23

34:23

In this episode, I chat with Julianna, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, a platform for authentication and identity management. Julianna shares her journey from studying computer science at Stanford to working at Plaid and co-founding Stytch. She discusses the challenges in securing customer data and scaling a mission critical platform, especially acro…

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E51 Raising $1bn to bringing entrepreneurship to Japan with World Innovation Lab founder and CEO Gen Isayama 53:07

1+ y ago53:07

53:07

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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E50 Establishing a growth equity firm with Left Lane Capital founding partner Dan Ahrens 41:02

1+ y ago41:02

41:02

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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E49 Cooking up the future of digital food halls with Byte Kitchen founder Divyang Arora 35:36

1+ y ago35:36

35:36

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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E48 Protecting passwords through open-source software with Bitwarden CEO Michael Crandell 39:21

1+ y ago39:21

39:21

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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E47 Your fund size is your strategy with Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary 47:35

1+ y ago47:35

47:35

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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E46 Uncovering tax credits (aka free money) for startups with MainStreet founder and CEO Doug Ludlow 39:55

2y ago39:55

39:55

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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E45 Building a nextgen, authentic professional social network with Candor founder Kelsey Bishop 27:49

2y ago27:49

27:49

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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E44 Shipping an open-source, low code enterprise tool builder with Appsmith founder Abhishek Nayak 45:53

2y ago45:53

45:53

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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E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang 46:47

2y ago46:47

46:47

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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E42 Taking Zoom meetings like a pro with Fathom (YC W21) founder Richard White 51:02

2y ago51:02

51:02

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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E41 Replacing credit bureaus one API integration at a time with Argyle founder Shmulik Fishman 44:43

2y ago44:43

44:43

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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E40 The world is broken, let's fix it with 8VC founding partner Drew Oetting 54:30

2+ y ago54:30

54:30

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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E39 Trailblazing the silver tech category with Seth Sternberg co-founder of home-care unicorn Honor 37:51

2+ y ago37:51

37:51

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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E38 Helping brands build sustainable products with Novi Connect found Kimberly Shenk 35:47

2+ y ago35:47

35:47

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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E37 Finding regulatory moats at the Series A with Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners 41:53

2+ y ago41:53

41:53

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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E36 Running the world's largest trust experiment with Couchsurfing founder Casey Fenton 36:16

2+ y ago36:16

36:16

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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E35 Launching a startup acquisition marketplace with MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki 40:26

2+ y ago40:26

40:26

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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E34 Tackling the formalwear industry with Queenly co-founders with Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou 41:27

3y ago41:27

41:27

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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E33 Catching the perfect privacy wave one consent at a time with Didomi co-founder Jawad Stouli 44:00

3y ago44:00

44:00

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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E32 Incubating a space factory at Founders Fund with Delian Asparouhov 40:07

3y ago40:07

40:07

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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E31 Building the future of remote work with Remote.com founder Job van der Voort 41:07

3y ago41:07

41:07

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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E30 Fintech investing with Better Tomorrow Ventures co-founder Sheel Mohnot 43:50

3y ago43:50

43:50

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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E29 "Billon Dollar Loser" author Reeves Wiedeman on the epic rise and fall of WeWork 41:23

3y ago41:23

41:23

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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E28 Inside DCM’s Record IPO Streak with Kyle Lui, Partner at DCM 31:05

3y ago31:05

31:05

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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E27 Replacing PDF attachments one Docsend at a time with founder and CEO Russ Heddleston 45:03

3y ago45:03

45:03

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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E26 Deciphering Super Founders with author and DCVC partner Ali Tamaseb 39:26

3+ y ago39:26

39:26

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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E25 Bottoms-up product and go-to-market strategy with product leader and investor Vivek Saraswat 35:04

3+ y ago35:04

35:04

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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E24 Bootstrapping from zero to $1m+ in ARR with Justin Jackson, mega maker of Transistor.fm 56:20

3+ y ago56:20

56:20

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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E23 Insights from building a VC firm in public with Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan 33:08

3+ y ago33:08

33:08

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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E22 Engineering the atomic cockroach of databases with Cockroach Labs co-founder Spencer Kimball 1:04:36

3+ y ago1:04:36

1:04:36

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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E21 Building a distributed warehouse network one parcel at a time with STORD co-founder Sean Henry 56:48

3+ y ago56:48

56:48

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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E20 Unpacking growth with Andy Johns, Partner at Unusual Ventures 38:49

3+ y ago38:49

38:49

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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E19 Moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture with effx founder Joey Parsons 49:08

3+ y ago49:08

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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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E18 Looking for the next Cal moonshots with Caroline Winnett of UC Berkeley's SkyDeck 20:30

3+ y ago20:30

20:30

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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E17 Migrating lawyers to the cloud with legal technologist Richard Mabey, co-founder of Juro 31:17

4y ago31:17

31:17

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Richard Mabey, co-founder of London-based legaltech startup Juro, backed by Union Square Ventures. 00:00 Intro 02:01 Magic circle years at Freshfields 03:35 Catching the entrepreneurial bug 05:15 Transitioning to legaltech via LegalZoom 07:26 Meeting co-founder Pavel Kovalevich 08:43 The Juro Minimum Vi…

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E16 Unpacking marketplaces and modern food delivery wars with Mike Ghaffary from Canvas Ventures 45:12

4y ago45:12

45:12

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Mike Ghaffary, GP at Canvas Ventures. 00:00 Intro 02:21 Swiss army knife of education 04:04 Business school after Dotcom bubble burst 05:06 Founding Stitcher 06:14 Focusing on news 08:03 Becoming CEO of Eat24 09:39 Growing Eat24 to $700m top line 10:45 Food delivery wars 11:55 Grubhub Partnership that n…

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