TBD (To Be Discussed) is a podcast on topics we don’t discuss but want to. We NEED to. Real topics that are not typically up for discussion. A podcast for the people. Unpack with the host May Wu and all the phenomenal guests who join on TBD. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tobediscussed/support
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Caution! Listening to this weekly show about technology and culture may cause the following symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, onset confusion, chronic empathy, and heightened awareness. Listen at your own risk! Hosted by Brianna Wu, Georgia Dow, Steve Lubitz, and Mikah Sargent.
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Hi there, This is Jane! I'm an English teacher working in Waldorf Schools. Here're some stories in English. You may share them with your kids. Hope you all enjoin it! Please give me some feedback, if you have time. Thank you! 大家好, 我是Jane,是一名華德福英語教師,這裡我用全英文朗讀一些故事,您或您的孩子可以藉此練習英語聽力,希望您喜歡! 也歡迎多多給我回饋,感謝您! Jane Powered by Firstory Hosting
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A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.
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A podcast about the mundane and the beautiful. An attempt to capture just a few of the ordinary, every day. A roadmap for meeting people right where they are, living stories that may never make headlines, but do make us feel deeper for and nearer to our neighbors. We believe the ordinary houses the extraordinary. Ordinary Story is brought to you BitterSweet and produced by Angela Wu, Carolina Soto, Obi Okolo, Robert Winship, and Kate Schmidgall. Sound design, mixing, and editing by Robert Wi ...
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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their ...
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"There is always a method to my madness" - "Follow the method not the madness." "I paint with passion, and not with precision." "In jail I was drawing giant murals with a number two pencil." Realistically, there are so many variations on who a person is, and what they believe in. However, to be honest. we all have common systems of beliefs. Truthfully, the first thing I recommend is realizing one may be wrong. Then figuring out the right to get. - LeeLee. This is a diary, and at this point I ...
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Hip-Hop Hidden Gems is all about celebrating the music that has shaped a generation (or two). The show, hosted by TheMoJoKing & Willie Freeman (AKA Vision) will focus on the artforms undervalued and underappreciated. Each episode will be dedicated to a song that didn't receive it's proper shine upon its initial release. Mo and Willie will revisit each track, and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. They also will provide interesting tidbits of information about the songs and the artists beh ...
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I have always dreamt of traveling and sharing my experiences and views. Follow me as i share my experiences even though they may be crazy. This podcast is about my view on sports, rap, entertainment, and my travel experiences. I listen to rap almost every day and am a die hard fan. I break down albums and review them. I also attend sporting events frequently. Listen to my views while i try not to be biased even though my favorite teams are the Colts and Thunder. You will occasionally listen ...
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Bookings: cybergrooveam.com Contact & Links: https://linktr.ee/mizeyesis Mizeyesis is a dj & producer from the Northeastern United States, she resides in Boston. She's also US Manager and Founding Member of the US Chapter for DNB Girls. Her whole life she was engulfed in expression from being a former professional dancer who studied with Alvin Ailey, to visual art, to learning & studying music at an early age. Her start began in 2004 in where she started to dj, throw events and co-founded a ...
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Why the state may need to spend $700 million to help the new owners of Steward's hospitals
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David Williams, president of Boston consulting firm Health Business Group, joins WBUR's Weekend Edition to help unpack what it means for the industry.By WBUR
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Where the Steward hospitals sale and seizure agreements stand
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Health reporter Martha Bebinger joins WBUR's Morning Edition to unpack the negotiations and legal twists of the Steward hospital deals.By WBUR
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Wu brings Boston's concerns to the Democratic National Convention
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Wu said she and other mayors are highlighting the challenges surrounding housing affordability at the convention, and that she's hoping for more federal support for Boston and Massachusetts in the related crises around immigration and homelessness.By WBUR
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18-year-old Massachusetts delegate talks about how young voters see the Harris campaign
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Eighteen-year-old Massachusetts delegate Ella Hogan joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Harris' campaign and how young voters are thinking about the election.By WBUR
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Mass. teachers union president and DNC delegate sees hope in Harris-Walz ticket
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Jessica Tang, president of AFT Massachusetts, says Walz's experience as a teacher, and his and Harris's commitment to public education and labor unions, will mean good things for educators and students.By WBUR
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Champagne wishes and caviar dreams with 'The Queen of Versailles'
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The Broadway-bound musical reunites Kristin Chenoweth and musical composer Stephen Schwartz, who previously worked together on “Wicked.”By WBUR
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Mass. delegate sees an 'energized' party at the Democratic National Convention
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Longtime Democrat Darnell Williams is a Massachusetts delegate at the convention. WBUR's Josie Guarino spoke with Williams ahead of the DNC to talk about the party's mood and platform.By WBUR
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Healey: State to take control of St. Elizabeth's, tentative deals reached for other Steward hospitals
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says the state will take over bankrupt Steward Health Care's St. Elizabeth's Medical Center by eminent domain, and facilitate the transition of the hospital to a new owner.By WBUR
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A big job on a tight deadline: Transportation Funding Task Force appears to get scaled back
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Gov. Maura Healey created the task force to deliver a detailed plan. Officials appear to be dialing down expectations, while members forge ahead.By WBUR
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School maintenance takes no summer break: The staffers behind every fresh start
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For some school services staff, summer break is their busy season. Here's how they're preparing schools for the new year.By WBUR
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Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications
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Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar hosts Temporal Co-Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev in studio. Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an open-source microservices orchestration engine project but is the result of a more than decade-long partnership between the two co-founders that spanned their time working on different iterations of th…
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What a Trump or Harris presidency could mean for the EPA in New England
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The upcoming presidential election could have profound effects on America’s climate and environmental policies that will trickle down to New England. It all depends on who takes office.By WBUR
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Activists and workers press the state to keep Steward's Carney Hospital open
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WBUR's Morning Edition talks two community activists to hear about why they are pressing the state to keep Steward Health Care's Carney Hospital in Dorchester open.By WBUR
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Overflow shelter operator says families aren't being evicted to streets as 5-day limit takes effect
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Danielle Ferrier, CEO of Heading Home, says none of the 10 families who received eviction notices at the overflow shelter her organization is running are being forced to leave as the 5-day limit goes into effect.By WBUR
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Mountain lions in N.H.? Some locals believe the big cats still roam the Granite State
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Dozens of mountain lion sighting reports are filed each year in New Hampshire. Fish and Game officials say none of them have proven the presence of the animal in the state.By WBUR
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Activists mobilize to find migrants shelter as state restrictions begin
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Small-scale efforts to help migrants are happening all over the Boston Area, from churches and activists opening up spaces to Haitians lending a hand to compatriots who arrive with nothing.By WBUR
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New Hampshire Democrats are energized by the Harris-Walz presidential ticket
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Three recent polls show Harris with at least a 5-point lead over Trump in New Hampshire — evidence that the Democratic ticket is enjoying something of a honeymoon swoon.By WBUR
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Calls grow for Gov. Healey to end 5-day cap on overflow shelter stays
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Medical providers, homelessness prevention workers and immigrant advocates rallied at the State House Thursday to call on state leaders to reverse a controversial cap on stays in overflow shelters. Dr. Lara Jirmanus, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity, discusses her group's opposition to the state's policy.…
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Local Venezuelans organize, and pray, to support democracy back home
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Migrants have been fleeing Venezuela's political and economic turmoil, and many settling in the Boston area are hoping for an end to the Maduro government.By WBUR
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Rep. McGovern: Tim Walz is a 'regular guy,' who champions causes for children, working families and civil rights
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Congressman Jim McGovern served with Walz during Walz's six terms in Congress and calls him a personal friend.By WBUR
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For Harris, economic worries pose challenges to presidential campaign
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Presidents can't fix inflation; that's the Federal Reserve's job. Still, if the election comes down to a referendum on the economy, polls show Trump has an edge.By WBUR
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Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Partner Chris Picardo for the latest Investor Spotlight. With degrees in math and English, Chris shares his unique journey into venture capital. Chris highlights the importance of cross-disciplinary skills in understanding and communicating complex concepts and what h…
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Mizeyesis Guest mix on Swamp Sessions on The Underground Lair - 7.13.2024
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TracklistPod x Tamen - SubvertLO - 854 Loxy & Resound - Silent Knight (Overlook Remix) Teebee - The VoidHolsten - UnderstandAdam F - MetropolisLoxy & Resound - VibraniumDeadly Silence - Your Soul Is MineUniversal Project - Born KillaMarvel Cinema - Endless EnergyGoldie - Jah (J Kenzo Tribute Remix)Holsten - One Step CloserJon Cross - Retrocause Pod…
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Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot’s Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Venture Partner Len Jordan sits down with Sean Muller, Founder and CEO of iSpot, to talk about the company's evolution in measuring TV advertising for both conventional and streaming platforms. Sean delves into strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and the rise of ad-supported streaming. They discuss the…
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Mizeyesis for Danger Chamber Digital Takeover on The Underground Lair - June 22 2024
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Tracklist: 01. World View - Nazca Lines02. Outrage VS Nomine - Infinite Self03. Fada - Controlled Freedom (Polska Remix)04. Outrage vs Nomine - Trespass05. Pod x Tamen - Ino06. Type - Sprinter 07. Park Shadow - Microsleep08. Holsten - Stallion09. Forest Drive West - Neptune10. Section X Surface - Derelict11. Loxy & Resound - Vibranium12. Deadly Sil…
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Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Investor Sabrina Wu for the latest Investor Spotlight. These two discuss Sabrina's transition from private equity to venture capital and the learnings that translate to building successful VC-backed startups, Sabrina’s focus on intelligent applications, and the charac…
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Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
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Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts Dev Rishi and Travis Addair, co-founders of 2023 IA40 Rising Star, Predibase. Predibase is a platform for developers to easily fine-tune and serve any open-source model. They recently released LoRA Land, a collection of 25 highly-performant open-source fine-tuned models, and launched open-source LoRA eXchange, …
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Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
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In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts David Shim, founder and CEO of Read AI. These two have known each other for over two decades, having worked together at Farecast and then Placed, which David founded in 2011. They came together again in 2021, when David started Read AI, which delivers AI solutions that make meetings, em…
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Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Steve Singh and Christal Bemont, CEO of Direct Travel, Madrona's newest portfolio company, delve into the acquisition of Direct Travel and its pivotal role in revolutionizing the $1.4T corporate travel ecosystem, along with @Spotnana , Troop, and Center. Full Transcript: https://bit.ly/…
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Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Paul Goel and Neon Co-founder & CEO Nikita Shamgunov dive into the database market and the importance of creating a killer developer experience while balancing that experience with performance and reliability. Nikita also shares just how bullish he is on AI, his excitement for AI agents like Dev…
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Skru Ft Mizeyesis - Dreams & Control (clips of two tracks) - Sea Jah EP (Hexagon Digital 2016)
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Two tracks I collabed with Skru on for his SEA JAH EPhttps://hexagondigital.bandcamp.com/album/sea-jah-e-pBy Drum & Bass and Jungle by Mizeyesis
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How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing
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Investor Sabrina Wu hosts Bobsled Co-founder and CEO Jake Graham for the latest episode of Founded & Funded. Jake is revolutionizing data sharing across platforms, enabling customers to get to analysis faster directly in the platforms where they work. Madrona co-led Bobsled's $17 million series A last year, which put the company at an $87 million v…
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How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise
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Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer, a 2023 IA40 winner. Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise. In this episode, May shares her perspective on founding a GenAI company before the ChatGPT craze, building an enterprise-grade product and go-to-market motion with 200% NRR, whether RAG…
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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Soma Somasegar
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Hear from Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of 27 years at Microsoft. He shares invaluable insights about what he looks for in a founder, the importance of passion in founders, the state of cloud technology, and the future of AI and Startups. Tim also shares Madrona's core principles, his fa…
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Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
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Madrona Partner Jon Turow hosts Gabriel Hubert and Stan Polu, the co-founders of a 2023 IA40 winner, Dust, which enables information workers to create LLM-based agents that help them do their own work more efficiently. They discuss the broader AI/LLM ecosystem, the merits and potential of horizontal vs vertical solutions, limitations of AI assistan…
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From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie
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In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter talks to Craig McLuckie, who’s most known as one of the creators of Kubernetes at Google. Madrona previously backed Craig’s company, Heptio, and was excited to back his latest company — Stacklok. Stacklok is a software supply chain security company that helps developers and o…
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The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain
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Madrona Investor Palak Goel talks with Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean, which has raised about $155M since launching in 2019 and was named a 2023 IA40 winner. It should be no surprise that Glean is touted as the search engine for the enterprise because Arvind spent over a decade at Google as a distinguished engineer, where he led teams in Goo…
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Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Tim Porter
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Hear from Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of mechanical engineering and Microsoft. He shares invaluable insights about what he looks for in a founder, the importance of customer focus, and the high priority he places on integrity. Tim also shares Madrona's core principles, his favorite books f…
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Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance
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In this episode, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar and General Counsel Joanna Black discuss the fundamental role of a board in a startup's growth and development. They touch upon the importance of aligning strategic views with board members, managing disagreements, and effective governance to ensure that the organization is run efficiently. Th…
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Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership
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This week, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru hosts Madrona Operating Partner Anna Baird. The operating partner role is a new one for Madrona, and we're excited to have her on the team to advise our founders. Before transitioning to board positions in the last couple of years, Anna was most recently the CRO at Outreach. Before that, she was t…
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Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source
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Madrona Partner Aseem Datar hosts Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni. Tigera is in the business of preventing and detecting security breaches in cloud-native applications, and its open-source offering Calico is one of the most widely adopted container networking and security solutions out there. Aseem and Ratan dive into whether or not you should open sour…
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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle
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Get to know Madrona Investor Maria Gilfoyle. Learn how she pivoted from wanting to become an artist into venture capital, her design-first mindset focus, what she looks for in founders, and what she enjoys doing outside the office.By Madrona
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Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter
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Today, managing director Steve Singh sits down with Troop Travel Co-founders Dennis Vilovic and Leonard Cremer. Madrona invested in Troop and its corporate travel meeting management platform in 2021. These three talk about looking for the right problem to solve, to launch a company, and how you decide if it's the right time. They also discuss when …
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Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru
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Get to know Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, what he thinks founders should look for in VC partners, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:00) Madrona Managing Partner Karan Mehandru's background (00:01:33)…
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Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI
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Today, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar talks with Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji, who spent 20 years at Microsoft and Facebook before launching Statsig as a way to bring the powerful tools he was used to using inside Facebook to all builders. Statsig experimentation platform and automated AB testing helps companies make product decision…
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NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets
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In this week's episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts NYSE Group President Lynn Martin ahead of our Intelligent Applications Summit on October 10th and 11th. Lynn will be speaking at the Summit, but we thought it would be great to have her on the show to talk more about her background, the NYSE, capital markets, …
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Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
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This week, Vivek Ramaswami talks with Chroma Co-founder and CEO Jeff Huber. Chroma is an open-source vector database, and vector databases have taken the AI world by storm recently, with Chroma quickly emerging as one of the leading offerings in the space. Jeff's background is in machine learning, and for him and his co-founder, starting Chroma was…
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Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
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In this episode, Madrona Partner Jon Turow and Cohere CTO and Co-founder Ivan Zhang dive into the world of foundation models for the enterprise. Cohere was founded in 2019 — a time when even the most passionate believers did not realize how soon the world would be struck by the capabilities of foundation models. The company announced a $270 million…
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Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'
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This week we have the pleasure of having former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia on the show again. Bob is an active investor and sits on the boards of many next-generation data platform companies, and more recently, he launched his first book — "The Datapreneurs." Given the long history between Bob and Madrona Managing Partner Soma, we had to have Bob joi…
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Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition
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This week, investor Aseem Datar is possibly making app dev and product development history with his guests. We've got former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson and James Phillips, the former president of Microsoft who drove the creation of many of the company's most successful products, including, of course, Tableau's number one competitor — Power BI. James w…
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