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Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist
$160B Market Cap, $5.48B Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head: Inside AppLovin’s Profit Engine
$160B Market Cap, $5.48B Revenue, $10M EBITDA Per Head: Inside AppLovin’s Profit Engine
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race?
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race?
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota
Demis Hassabis: Why LLMs Will Not Commoditize & Why We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws
Demis Hassabis: Why LLMs Will Not Commoditize & Why We Have Not Hit Scaling Laws
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong?
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong?
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan
99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman
99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman
Inside Figma's $1B ARR Machine | Shaunt Voskanian
Inside Figma's $1B ARR Machine | Shaunt Voskanian
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI
Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral
Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock
Lucas Swisher on How Mega Funds Can Still Do 5x Returns & Why Big Markets are the Most Important
Lucas Swisher on How Mega Funds Can Still Do 5x Returns & Why Big Markets are the Most Important
Who Wins the AI Coding War? | Codex Product Lead
Who Wins the AI Coding War? | Codex Product Lead
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World
Klarna CEO on AI reshaping SaaS, banks, and workforces
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble?
AI won’t kill SaaS; it rewires moats, markets, and pricing
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Oren Zeev challenges AI hype, VC growth myths, and LP dynamics
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day & $200M Raised | Is Anthropic Crushing OpenAI?
Legora’s legal AI blitz: platform war, model shifts, scaling, consolidation
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady
Harvey CEO on scaling AI SaaS, enterprise adoption, mega-deal strategy
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture
Alex Rampell on venture scale, founder traits, and enduring moats
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough
Alan Chang on ruthless speed, extreme ownership, and fixing energy
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers
Why AI deployment fails: Invisible’s CEO on data, FDEs, trust
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI?
a16z’s David George Defends Big Funds, AI Bets, And Flow
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud
Kalshi CEO on $1B Raise, Polymarket Rivalry, and Regulated Bets
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear
Turing CEO predicts AI agents will automate nearly all knowledge work
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS
Vibe Coding, Vertical Moats, And Why AI Won’t Hit Pause
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI?
Andrew Ng on AI Infrastructure, Geopolitics, Talent, and Sustainable Moats
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns
Benchmark’s Everett Randle Dismantles Mega-Funds, AI Metrics, and Moats
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data
Joelle Pineau on scaling laws, RL, enterprise AI and risk realism
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook
AI Bubble, Compute Wars, and Defense: Sequoia Partner Maps Winners
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation
Deel’s Alex Bouaziz: Profitable Hypergrowth, Wartime Leadership, And Smart M&A
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble
Atlassian CEO: AI Hype, Overvalued Markets, And Enduring Ambition Explained
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth
Cerebras CEO: Beating NVIDIA, Billion-Dollar Bets, And AI’s Future
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN
Groq’s Jonathan Ross: Compute, Chips, and Energy Will Dictate AI’s Future
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM
Hemant Taneja on scaling GC, AI’s impact, and venture’s future
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months
Mercor’s 22-Year-Old CEO On Building A $500M AI Data Rocket
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup
ElevenLabs’ meteoric rise: Europe’s voice-AI rocket to $200M ARR
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice
Cohere’s Nick Frosst: Pragmatic AI, Enterprise Focus, Not AGI Hype
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS
Byron Deeter on AI Supercycles, Venture Scale, and Trillion-Dollar Bets
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt
Lovable CEO Anton Osika on AI Apps, Talent, Models, and Moats
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory
Inside Index Ventures: Betting Big on Founders, Not Fund Size
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity
Inside CMU’s Endowment: Why Most LPs Should Avoid Venture Capital
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China
AI Supercycle, Open Source Risks, and Venture Bets in Uncertain Times
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding
Bootstrapped to Billions: Edwin Chen Redefines Data, Funding, and Focus
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale
Inside Cognition’s Blitz Deal for Windsurf and AI Coding’s Future
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not
Windsurf’s AI Saga: Winners, Losers, and Wildcard Grok Emerges
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI
Robinhood’s $85B Rebirth: AI, Tokenization, and Owning Wall Street’s Future
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell
Meta’s AI Talent Landgrab Reshapes Venture, PE, and Tech Careers
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH
Scott Galloway Explores Money, Power, Dating, and the Crisis of Men
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging”
Figma’s IPO, Melio’s sale, and AI’s brutal new venture math
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR?
KKR’s Philipp Freise on Discipline, Liquidity, AI, and Europe’s Future
GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank
From Student Side-Project To SoftBank Unicorn: GetYourGuide’s Wild Ride
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft
From Trailer Park To Tech Titan: G Squared’s Wild Ride
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!"
Fiverr CEO: Adapt To AI Now Or Be Left Behind Forever
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date!
Windsurf’s Varun Mohan on pivots, speed moats, and agentic AI
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN
From Lemon Factory To Fintech Unicorn: Jack Zhang’s Relentless Ascent
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education
Duolingo CTO on AI Tutors, Motivation Engines, and Future of Work
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund
Mercury’s Immad Akhund Launches $26M Fund, Redefines Founder-Led Investing
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed
Bucky Moore Explains Mega-Platforms, AI, And Why Seed Still Matters
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds
Founder-VC Taavet Hinrikus Attacks Misaligned Venture Models, Backs Deep Tech
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time
From SPAC Crash To AI-Powered Comeback: Dave’s Neobank Rebirth Story
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have
Benchmark’s Vitor Lazarte Reveals AI’s Future and Founder Superpowers
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem
Fixing UK Tech: Capital, Talent, and Lessons From Jensen Huang
Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back
Carvana’s Ernie Garcia on risk, resilience, and ruthless public markets
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott Explains AI’s Future, Agents, And China
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange
Julia Hoggett dismantles London Stock Exchange myths and rebuilding strategy
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken
Lead Edge’s Mitchell Green: Discipline, Liquidity, And Why VC’s Broken
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance
Cerebras CEO on Beating Nvidia, AI Inference, and Future Architectures
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company
Immigrant founder on Drift regrets, AI agents, hiring grit, legacy
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt
Inside Baillie Gifford’s Growth Bets: Discipline, Misses, Anduril, ByteDance
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce
HubSpot CEO on AI, Mid-Market Focus, and Beating Salesforce Differently
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race
Delivery Hero’s Niklas Östberg on Greed, Resilience, and Sustainable Scale
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions"
Emergence GP Reveals Zoom Playbook, AI Bets, And Venture Discipline
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires
Julian Teixeira Reveals How Elite CROs Build High-Performing Sales Teams
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT
Lovable’s Explosive AI Growth: 2M ARR Weekly With 85% Retention
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265
Mike Krieger on where AI value emerges: products, partners, not models
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264
Ramp VP George Bonaci Reveals Scientific Playbook Behind Hypergrowth Success
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263
From €100K Seed to €2.3B Exit: Glovo’s Relentless Rise
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262
Google’s Compute Advantage: Why It Wins AI, NVIDIA Loses Margin
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261
Mercor Builds AI-Powered Global Labor Marketplace, Redefining Recruiting And Work
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260
Groq’s Jonathan Ross Redefines AI Inference, Chips, and Global Power Dynamics
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259
Billionaire Odoo Founder Rejects IPOs, Hierarchies, and High Prices
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258
Snowflake CEO on AI moats, OpenAI’s dominance, and relentless leadership
Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257
Brian Tolkin Reveals How To Build, Prioritize, And Hire Product Teams
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap
Max Levchin on hiring brilliance, hard truths, and learning from failure
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255
Nabeel Hyatt: Why Venture Must Abandon Playbooks To Win In AI
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254
Monzo CEO TS Anil on Rebuilding, Mission, and Scaling to Profitability
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253
DeepSeek’s Sputnik Moment: Open Source AI, China, and Global Power
Wayne Ting, CEO @Lime: From Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA | E1252
Lime’s CEO on Surviving Crisis, Mastering Ops, and Beating Cars
Carlos Delatorre, CRO @Harness: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation | E1251
Carlos Delatorre: Why Elite Sales Reps Must Own Pipeline Generation
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250
Hebbia’s George Sivulka: Beyond RAG Toward Agentic, Enterprise-Grade AI
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248
Why Hoxton Bets Big: Contrarian Seed, AI, And European Ambition
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247
From DaPulse to $1B ARR: Monday.com’s Playbook for Relentless Scale
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246
Synthesia CEO on AI Bubble, Content’s Future, and London’s Edge
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245
Shervin Pishevar Reveals Inside Story Behind Travis Kalanick’s Ouster
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244
Suno CEO Predicts Interactive, AI-Powered Music Will Eclipse Streaming
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243
Carvana CPO Dan Gill on Grit, Product Discipline, and 99% Crashes
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242
Mike Maples Explains How Seed VCs Really Win, Not Just Invest
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241
Rippling CRO Reveals How To Design A Relentless Enterprise Sales Engine
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240
UiPath’s Daniel Dines On Agents, RPA, And The Second Act
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239
Reid Hoffman on Trump, Elon, AI, defense cuts, and nuclear bets
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238
Bootstrapping Lemlist: Content, Sales, and Discipline to $30M ARR
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237
Helsing’s Founder on AI Warfare, European Sovereignty, and Relentless Talent
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236
Marc Benioff Bets Salesforce’s Future On Agentforce And Digital Labor
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235
Zachary Bookman Exposes Venture Capital Myths, Vertical SaaS Truths, Timelines
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234
Grindr’s CEO On Lean Teams, Gay Super-App Ambitions, And Free Cash Flow
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233
Revolut’s Founder on Hyper-KPI Culture, Global Banking, And Rational IPOs
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232
Guy Podjarny Dissects AI Hype, Developer Futures, and Venture Excesses
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231
Klaus Hommels Rejects Venture Orthodoxy: Portfolios, Pricing, and Defense
Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230
Discord’s Jason Citron On Founder Mode, Focus, And 200M Users
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229
Datadog CRO Dan Fougere: Discipline, Pricing Power, And Sales Culture
Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228
Inside UiPath’s $2.1B Win And The Craft Of True Seed Investing
Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail | E1227
Alain de Botton Dissects Status, Meaningful Work, Meritocracy, and Modern Angst
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226
Inside Perplexity’s Growth Engine: Retention, Partnerships, And Measured Bets
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225
From Rejected Teen Founder To $2B Bolt: Frugal Hypergrowth Saga
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224
Anduril’s Matt Grimm on Trump, China, AI Warfare, and Defense Capitalism
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223
Sam Altman Warns Founders: Bet With AI Progress, Not Against It
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222
Vlad Tenev on GameStop, risk, and AI’s wealth-management future
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221
Karri Saarinen on quality growth, dilution discipline, and real PMF
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220
Founder Declares SaaS Dead, Warns of Global Cold War for AI
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219
Inside Chemistry: Fixing Broken VC Decisions And Founder Misalignment
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118
AJ Tennant Reveals How To Build Scalable, High-IQ Enterprise Sales Teams
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217
Mamoon Hamid on AI’s boom, venture discipline, and market creation
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216
Revolut’s CGO: Why CAC Misleads, Growth Is Relentless Optimization Warfare
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215
Zach Perret warns founder-mode hype, champions grind, discipline, nuance
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214
Seed Investing, Reserves, and LP Liquidity in a Post-ZIRP World
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213
Intercom CEO on AI, startups, free speech, and unapologetic leadership
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212
Sequoia’s $9B AI-Focused Equities Fund Bets Big on Themes
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211
Poolside’s $600M Bet: Synthetic Code Data And Compute For AGI
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210
Maria Angelidou Reveals Hard-Won Product, Hiring, and Leadership Lessons
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209
Bret Taylor Explains AI Bubbles, Agents, And Why Models Commoditize
Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208
Inside SHEIN: On-Demand Fashion, Glocal Expansion, And Radical Accountability
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207
HubSpot’s Jeetu Mahtani on Scaling Sales and Smart Global Expansion
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206
Eric Vishria on AI Value, Venture Discipline, and Founder Insight
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205
Potato Fields to Femtech Unicorn: Flo Health’s Relentless, Simple Focus
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204
Building Durable Consumer Subscription Growth: Loops, Pricing, And Retention
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203
Notion COO Akshay Kothari Redefines Hiring, Sales, Fundraising and Boards
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202
Why Power Laws, Not Averages, Should Drive Every VC Decision
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201
Mike Hudack Reveals How Top Tech Companies Consistently Ship Great Products
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200
From Seagull VCs to ServiceNow: David Schneider Redefines Value-Add
Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199
Sean Rad Reveals How Relentless Focus Turned Tinder Into A Juggernaut
Nicholas Chirls: Why Big VCs Ruin Startups, VC is a Ponzi Scheme Today & Most VCs are Bankers |E1198
Nicholas Chirls Explains How Mega VCs Distort Startups And Incentives
Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter Dissects Data, Safety, and AGI Futures
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196
Inside Uber’s Playbook: Cold Starts, City Launches, and Relentless Hustle
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195
AI’s Real Limits: Data Bottlenecks, Smaller Models, and Missed Products
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194
Imran Khan Explains IPO Myths, Valuation Reality, And Public Market Power
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193
Chad Peets Explains Why Modern Sales Orgs Fail And Reps Stagnate
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192
Aman Narang Reveals How Toast Scaled Relentlessly While Staying Scrappy
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191
Aidan Gomez Explains Foundation Models, Data, and AI’s Real Future
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190
Inside CapitalG: Laela Sturdy on Growth, Second Acts, And Power Laws
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189
Inside Shopify: Building Enduring Software, Culture, And Contrarian Company Practices
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189
Shaun Maguire: Iran, Trump, Free Speech, and Western Decline Unpacked
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188
Bootstrapped To A Billion: Lightspeed’s Slow-Burn SaaS And Profit Pivot
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187
Alexis Ohanian Reveals Angel City’s Playbook For Women’s Sports Dominance
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186
Servers, Steel, Power: David Cahn Dissects AI’s Industrial Revolution
Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185
Ben Fiechtner’s 12-Week System to Predictable, High-Performance B2B Sales
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184
Ethan Mollick: AI’s Machine-God Race, Real-World Gaps, And Risks
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183
Inside Founders Fund: Aristocracy, Space, and Reinventing Venture Capital Strategy
Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182
Wise CPO Nilan Peiris Reveals Real Growth Levers Beyond Marketing Hacks
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181
Jason Lemkin Dissects Wiz’s Rejection, CrowdStrike Meltdown, And Venture Delusion
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180
Kevin Hartz on Talent, Venture Discipline, and Missing Airbnb’s Seed Lead
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179
Inside Canva: Product Craft, AI Bets, And Delighting 190M Users
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178
Brex’s Pedro Franceschi On Focus, Bottlenecks, And Mental Resilience
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177
AI Bubble, Overpriced Series B, And Why $1M ARR Misleads Investors
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176
Mark Roberge Reveals How Startups Should Really Scale Enterprise Sales
Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175
Ara Mahdessian on ROI Obsession, Customer Success, and Relentless Leadership
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174
Sequoia’s Pat Grady Dissects Great Founders, Venture Craft, And Desperation
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173
Avi Eyal Reveals Monday.com Windfall, Venture Discipline, And Zionism
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172
Matt Clifford Dissects AI’s Future, China’s Challenge, and UK’s Opportunity
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171
Young Unicorn Founder Exposes Vise’s Hyper-Growth Regrets and Resets
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170
Bootstrapped To IPO: Klaviyo’s Quiet Powerhouse Behind Ecommerce Growth
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169
AI’s Next Era: Vertical Integration, Smarter Agents, and Chip Wars Ahead
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168
Inside Revolut’s Rocketship: Referral Loops, Relentless Hiring, Relentless Truth
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167
AI Bubbles, Regulation, and Why Most VCs Won’t Get Liquidity
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166
Danny Rimer on focus, founders, and learning from billion‑dollar misses
Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165
Janie Lee Reveals Core Product Skills, Talent Density, and Enterprise Shifts
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164
Alex Wang: Data, Not Compute, Now Limits AI’s Next Breakthroughs
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163
Reid Hoffman on AI’s Future, Power, Politics, and Platform Dominance
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162
Building Elite SDR Teams: Hiring, Onboarding, Metrics, and Motivation Playbook
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161
Aravind Srinivas on AI Reasoning, Model Commoditization, and Perplexity’s Bet
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160
SaaS Turbulence: PE Wipeouts, Slowing Giants, But New Winners Rising
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159
Matt Lerner Explains How To Truly Hire And Enable Growth Leaders
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158
Former Meta CTO explains leadership, climate-tech investing, and the energy future
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157
Jason Lemkin Dissects Broken Seed Investing, Dilution, and Founder Grit
Sam Altman, Arthur Mensch and more discuss:Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI?|E1156
AI Models Commoditize While Application Layer Becomes True Value Engine
Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155
Aaron Levie on AI Agents, SaaS Business Model Shifts, and Incumbents
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155
Nikesh Arora on conviction, competition, and compounding product advantage
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154
Scorecards, Strategy, And Speed: JZ’s Playbook For Modern Product Teams
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153
Dan Siroker Explains Smarter Fundraising, Hiring, And Second-Time Founders’ Edge
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152
Tom Blomfield on YC, brutal fundraising, AI, and founder reality
Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151
Larry Shurtz Reveals How Elite Sales Leaders Build High-Performing Verticals
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150
Tom Hulme Dissects Venture Craft, Founder Psychology, and AI Hype Cycles
Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149
Sarah Tavel on AI, Venture Discipline, and Foundation Model Oligopolies
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148
Building Ramp: Operational Mastery, Talent, And AI-Powered Finance Efficiency
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147
Mark Suster Predicts Private Equity-Dominated Exits After Unicorn Bust
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146
Mistral CEO on Efficient AI, Open Source, and Europe’s Bet
Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145
Adam Gross Redefines PLG, Growth Mindset, And Modern SaaS Playbooks
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144
Why Zip’s Founder Bets On Inexperience, Speed, And Relentless Repeatability
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143
From Romanian Poverty To UiPath: Daniel Dines Redefines Work, Risk, Life
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR
From Broken TV Claim To $597M ARR: Girish’s Playbook
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142
From $9 Seats To $597M ARR: Freshworks’ Global SaaS Playbook
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141
Sequoia’s Vickie Peng Explains Why Great Product Leaders Build Less
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140
Sam Altman warns: OpenAI will steamroll shallow AI startups worldwide
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139
Sam Blond Reveals Why Startup Outbound Fails—and How To Fix It
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138
Kevin Ryan on Venture Discipline, Incubation, and Ignoring Ownership Fetishes
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137
From Hacking Dial-Up to Postmates’ $5B Uber Deal and Beyond
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136
Founder Survives 94% Stock Crash, Redefines Leadership, Money, Resilience
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135
Trae Stephens on conviction, competition, and defense tech’s venture future
Billy Hult: 27 Years of Compounding Growth Leading to the Market Leader with $1.4BN in Revenue|E1134
Billy Hult on ego, grit, and scaling Tradeweb into a giant
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132
Chris Dixon on Venture’s Future, Crypto’s Promise, and Beating Big Tech
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131
Veteran LP Debunks Myths On Fund Size, Power Laws, And Liquidity
Bryan Johnson: Why Humans are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs | E1130
Bryan Johnson argues algorithms must replace humans in steering civilization
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Build Movements, Ship Relentlessly, Kill Planning Theater
Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128
Inside Cyberstarts: Gili Raanan’s ruthless focus on people over products
Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127
Luca Ferrari on Humility, Acquisitions, and Building Bending Spoons’ Empire
Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126
From Facebook Analytics to Sequoia: Building High-Impact Growth Machines
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125
Joe Lonsdale on wokeness, frontiers, China, TikTok, and accountability
Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124
Brendon Cassidy Redefines Early-Stage Sales Hiring And Go-To-Market Models
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123
Veteran VC Peter Wagner On Discipline, Founders, And Venture Cycles
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122
Nicolai Tangen on Long-Term Investing, Urgency, and Radical Transparency
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121
Frank Quattrone Dissects Tech Bubbles, M&A Cycles, and AI’s Future Impact
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120
From IPO High To Existential Crisis: Sami Inkinen On Meaning
Justin Ishbia: The Three Traits Required to Succeed in Private Equity | E1119
Private equity success: hustle, discipline, and building people-first systems
Scott Williamson: Hiring the Best Product People in Five Steps, Why the Best PMs are Writers | E1118
Scott Williamson’s Five-Step Playbook For Hiring Elite Product Managers
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117
Roger Ehrenberg Dissects Broken LP Incentives And Shrinking VC Returns
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116
Founders and VCs Reveal Hard-Won Lessons From $1.3B Raised
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115
How PLG Startups Really Scale to Enterprise Without Killing Users
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114
How Vinted Reinvented Resale: From Near-Failure To European Giant
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113
Bootstrapping Chess.com: Mission-Driven Growth to $100M Without VC
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112
Seed Investing’s Messy Truth: Gut Decisions, Human Relationships, Not Spreadsheets
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111
Snapchat veteran shares hard-won product lessons on people, process, AI
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110
Dave Kellogg Redefines SaaS Efficiency: CAC, Forecasting, CS, and AI
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109
Inside MIT’s Endowment: How Ryan Akkina Selects and Backs VCs
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108
Kraken CEO Slams SEC Strategy, Defends Crypto’s Real-World Utility Future
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107
Sean Murray Explains Why Discovery Is Dead And Enterprise Sales Evolved
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106
Adam Fisher Explains Why Niche Markets Beat Hyper-Growth Moonshots In VC
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105
Inside Duolingo’s TikTok: Scrappy Creativity, Sitcom Lore, and Real Impact
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104
Palantir CTO Exposes How Broken Defense Procurement Stifles Innovation, Security
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103
Brian Halligan on quitting HubSpot CEO, happiness, and scaling wisely
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102
Keith Rabois Explains Return to Khosla, Seed Strategy, And Venture Edges
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101
Venture Reset: Overfunded Startups, Broken M&A, and Tougher IPO Bar
Crypto Roundtable with Nick Tomaino & Kyle Samani: US Elections, NFTs, and Trump | E1100
Crypto’s Future: Speculation, Solana vs Ethereum, Elections, and Authenticity
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099
Jason Lemkin Dissects Venture Reality: SaaS Saturation, Decacorns, Trump, 2024
Dave Powers: The Meteoric Rise of Hoka Running | E1098
How Hoka and UGG Became Billion-Dollar Powerhouses Inside Deckers
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097
Spotify, Adobe, LinkedIn Reveal How AI Redefines Product, Design, Strategy
Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096
Why Today’s LP Landscape Favors Agile Backers Of Emerging Managers
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095
Purpose-Driven Founder Builds Cotopaxi While Rejecting Wealth-First Entrepreneurship
Steve Goldberg: Core Questions All CFOs Ask Today When Buying | E1094
CFO-Driven Sales: Solving Real Problems, Not Pushing More Software
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093
Sam Corcos: Fundraising, Transparency, And Intentional Living For Founders
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092
Samsara CEO on product-market fit, scaling, and long-term allocation
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091
Geoff Charles Reveals How To Build High-Velocity, Customer-Obsessed Product Teams
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090
From Dyslexic Carpenter To Procore’s Patient, Billionaire SaaS Visionary CEO
Dominik Richter: You Only Have Two Options With VC Funding | E1089
HelloFresh CEO Dominik Richter on Hard Businesses, Funding, and Scale
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088
Former Founder Growth Hires, Low CAC, And Wild Experiments That Scale
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087
Olympian Work Ethic: Building Trillion-Dollar Startups Through Extreme Commitment
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085
AI Titans Debate Models, Moats, Business Models, And Big Tech Futures
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085
OpenAI, Infrastructure, and Execution: Jeff Seibert on AI and Startups
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084
Eight Sleep CEO Reveals Playbook for Hiring, Velocity, and Sleep Tech
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083
VC Titans Debate Seed Valuations, AI Hype, and Venture’s Reset
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082
Des Traynor on AI Moats, Thick Wrappers, and Surviving OpenAI
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081
Ryan Petersen: Building High-Velocity Companies Through Discipline, Culture, Direction
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080
Snowflake CRO Chris Degnan Redefines Early-Stage Sales and Hiring Strategy
Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079
From BBC boss to VC: Danny Cohen on talent, storytelling, disruption
Joey Zwillinger: From $4.1BN to $142M Market Cap;Why Public Markets Have Written Allbirds Off |E1078
Allbirds CEO on Collapse, Comeback Strategy, And Building Enduring Brands
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077
Founder-led funds, dual-role CEOs, and the evolving venture playbook
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076
Why Great Product Managers Aren’t Born in Product Roles at All
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076
Nick Tomaino on NFTs, FTX’s perception fraud, and disciplined crypto VC
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076
Ed Sim Dissects Hyper-Competitive Seed, Jumbo Rounds, And VC Discipline
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075
Ely Lerner Explains Startup Advisors, Compensation, Strategy, And Growth Levers
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074
PhotoRoom’s Founder On Focus, Capital Efficiency, And AI-First Design
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073
LPs Rethink Venture: Power Laws, Liquidity Crunch, and Misaligned Incentives
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072
Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince On Vision, Co‑Founders, And Avoiding Slogs
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072
Israeli Founders Describe War, Grief, And Extraordinary National Resilience
Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071
Top VCs Debate Growth, Valuations, IPOs, and the AI Hype Cycle
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070
Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar on scaling, AI bets, and remote work
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069
Guillermo Rauch: Saying No, Product Sequencing, And The AI Future
Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068
Why Big-Company Sales Leaders Fail Startups, And Who To Hire Instead
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067
Phin Barnes: Why Venture Services Fail And How Founders Win
Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066
Kevin Niparko Reveals How Great Product Teams Hire, Ship, and Lead
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065
Founder burnout, brutal tradeoffs, and redefining work with AI automation
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064
Marc Benioff on AI, San Francisco, Philanthropy, and Personal Leadership
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063
Snowflake’s Christian Kleinerman Dissects AI Moats, Data Power, Adoption Reality
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062
Venture Capital’s Identity Crisis: Pricing, Bubbles, and Real Company-Building
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061
Miles Grimshaw Redefines Venture, AI Copilots, And Founder Partnership
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060
Dubsmash’s Rise, Reinvention, And Reddit Exit In TikTok’s Shadow
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059
Nubank’s David Vélez on AI, Fintech Disruption, and Relentless Culture
Doug Adamic: Why Discounting is BS; How to Reduce Sales Cycles and Create Urgency | E1058
Doug Adamic Dismantles Discounting Myths And Redefines Modern Enterprise Sales
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057
Why Small Funds Win, Product-Market Fit Rules, And AI Falters
Mudassir Sheikha: The Meeting that Led to $3.1BN Buyout: The Battle Between Uber and Careem | E1056
From Karachi Friction to Careem’s $3.1B Uber Deal and Beyond
Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055
Noam Shazeer on Scaling Character.ai, Cheap Training, and Billion Use-Cases
Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054
Runway’s Founder on Creative AI, Outsider Grit, and Relentless Learning
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053
Airtable’s Howie Liu on AI, Enterprise GTM, and PLG’s Next Act
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052
How Mark-to-Market Incentives Broke Venture Discipline and Founder Behavior
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051
Nick Huber on generational wealth, real delegation, and real parenting
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049
Brian Balfour Reveals Real Mechanics Behind Startup Growth and Channels
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048
Tim Urban on Curiosity, Creative Freedom, AI, and Media’s Future
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047
Seed Investing’s Factory Era Is Over: Back To Bespoke, Brutal Reality
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046
Jason Lemkin Predicts IPO Surge, Slams Seed Hype and VC Complacency
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045
Vinod Khosla on AI’s Disruption of Jobs, Health, Energy, Geopolitics
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044
Bootstrapped Pizza Tech: From Tiny Macedonian Town To US Powerhouse
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043
Lori Jiménez Reveals How To Build, Hire, And Scale Sales Teams
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042
Bicycle: Betting Big on Latin America’s Overlooked Growth-Stage Gap
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041
From Candy Crush To Coaching: Stéphane Kurgan’s Playbook For Scale
Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040
Why Great Growth Requires Focus, Failure, and Letting Some Fires Burn
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039
Adam Mosseri on Instagram’s Evolution, Messaging Surge, and Threads Gamble
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038
Plaid CTO on hiring, firing, and building durable product advantage
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037
Lauryn Isford Reveals How World-Class Products Engineer Compounding, Sustainable Growth
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035
Fintech VC Sheel Mohnot On Fund Sizes, Pivots, And Metaverse Weddings
Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036
Dave Clark on Stretch Leadership, Customer Obsession, and Real Balance
Kevin Egan: Biggest Lesson on Managing Sales Teams at Slack and Atlassian | E1034
Kevin Egan Reveals How to Build and Scale Elite Sales Teams
Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032
Data Over Parameters: Rethinking AI Models, Moats, Risk and Regulation
Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031
Jennifer Hyman on Reinventing Fashion, Leadership, and Sustainable Subscription Growth
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030
Tripledot’s Rise: Debunking Startup Myths and Redefining Gaming Scale
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029
Rob Go Reveals Candid Playbook For Raising And Scaling Venture Funds
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028
From Fumbling Intern To Duolingo Growth Chief: PR-Driven Hypergrowth Playbook
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027
AI Pioneer Alex Lebrun Slams EU Rules, Reinvents Doctors With Assistants
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026
Noah Weiss on renewing product-market fit and scaling product-led growth
Rishi Sunak: The UK's New High Potential Visa; Rishi's £100M AI Task Force | E1025
Rishi Sunak bets on AI safety, talent visas and education reform
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024
Larry Summers on Fed Mistakes, Debt, Taxes, Trump, and Dollar Dominance
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023
Rich Liu on scaling modern sales: urgency, hiring, PLG vs enterprise
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022
From Small-Town Pharmacy Kid To Amazon’s Billion-Dollar PillPack Exit
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021
From Garden-Hose Prototype To Global Brand: On Running’s Ascent
Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020
Pre-seed discipline, reputation, and thematic focus in modern venture
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019
LinkedIn’s CPO on AI’s Future, Product Craft, and Reinventing the Feed
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018
From Snyk’s $7.4B Rise to 7 Powers: Building Enduring Startups
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017
Nico Wittenborn Bets Big On Consumer Subscriptions And Solo GP Model
Ryan Wiggins: Scaling WhatsApp from 0-100M; How to Build a Growth Team; Mercury Neobank | E1016
From WhatsApp’s Billion Users To Mercury: Building Real Growth Systems
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015
Emad Mostaque Predicts AI Supremacy, National Datasets, And Massive Upheaval
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014
Yann LeCun Predicts AI Renaissance, Dismisses Doom, Champions Open Source
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013
Clem Delangue Explains Open AI Ecosystems, Startup Moats, And Fundraising Reality
20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family; Work-Life Balance; Parental Leave | E1012
Top women CROs share candid truths on motherhood, sales leadership, leave
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011
Chris Paik Dissects Venture Capital Incentives, Markets, and Moats
Alex Rodriguez: From MVP to CEO; Business Lessons from Warren Buffett & Magic Johnson | E1010
Alex Rodriguez on Reinvention, Ownership, and Purpose Beyond Sports Stardom
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009
Why Thrive Backed OpenAI: Inside Vince Hankes’ High-Conviction AI Bet
Mark Carney: First Republic Bank Fails; Will Interest Rates Rise? Global Warming's Net Zero | E1008
Mark Carney Dissects Bank Turmoil, Interest Rates, And Net Zero Transition
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007
Sarah Guo Explains Conviction, AI’s Future, and Venture’s Next Era
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006
Snap’s Jack Brody on AR, Product Science, and Designing for Humanity
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005
AngelList CEO Dissects Venture Downturn, AI Leverage, And Beating Carta
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004
VC Tomasz Tunguz Builds Theory: Concentrated Bets Amid AI Upheaval
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003
From Wine Sales to Ramp: Mark Goldberger’s Enterprise Sales Playbook
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002
Scooter Braun on Success, Self-Worth, Faith, and Redefining Winning
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001
David Marcus on PayPal, Libra’s Demise, Crypto’s Future, and AI
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000
Yoast Founder on Freemium, SEO Fundamentals, and AI’s Real Threats
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999
Rob Lacher on building Visionaries, smart VC partnerships, and Europe’s edge
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998
Bootstrapping ButcherBox: From Hobby Idea to $600M Meat Empire
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke On Constraints, Truth-Seeking, And Remote Work
Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996
Jackie Reses on Grit, Fintech Disruption, and Rebuilding Modern Banking Infrastructure
Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995
From Google’s Credentials To Nubank’s Customer Love: Scaling Fintech Relentlessly
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994
Dara Khosrowshahi on rebuilding Uber, owning mistakes, and impact
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993
Mike Maples on Crisis-Proof Startups, Financial Agility, and Dollar Risk
Frank Fillmann: How I Boosted Revenue by $500M at Salesforce; Tips for Hiring Salespeople | E992
Sales Leader Frank Fillmann Reveals Enterprise Playbooks, Hiring, And Negotiation Secrets
Bill Ackman: SVB Collapse, Biden vs Trump, How I Lost $400M on Netflix, Bill's 10-Year Long
Bill Ackman on risk, resilience, politics, and fixing capitalism’s flaws
Ophelia Brown: How We Raised $432M in a Pandemic; What's New in European Venture Capital | E990
Ophelia Brown Reveals Blossom’s Concentrated, No-FOMO European VC Playbook
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989
Inside Uber’s Hypergrowth: Real Growth Is Mindset, Not Headcount
Jackie Reses & Kris Dickson: What Happened with SVB? Are VCs to Blame? | E988
Inside SVB’s Collapse: Risk, Rumors, Regulation, And Venture Capital Fallout
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987
Amjad Masad on misfits, AI’s future, and rejecting mediocrity worldwide
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986
Shopify’s Product Chief On Beating Amazon, PM Frameworks, And Storytelling
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985
Meta CMO Alex Schultz on Reels, retention, and redefining Facebook’s future
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984
Ring’s Jamie Siminoff: Fear, Mission, And A Billion-Dollar Exit
David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983
David Tisch Redefines Seed Fundraising: Price, Partners, and Persistence
IAC CEO Joey Levin: Why Value Investing is BS; The Most Insane Element of SPACs | 20VC #982
IAC CEO Joey Levin On Markets, SPAC Madness, And Real Value Creation
Zach Lawryk: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Engineering | E980
Sales Engineering Redefined: Buyer-Led Journeys, Sense-Making, and Scale
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978
Scaling Growth Systems: Stitch Fix Lessons, Loops, and Paid Pitfalls
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca: What Went Wrong with the Chelsea FC Acquisition | 20VC #976
Celtics Owner Steve Pagliuca On Discipline, Sports, and Sensible Risk
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975
Ariel Cohen Predicts AI Super Apps Will Kill Legacy Enterprise Software
Orlando Bravo: Raising Kids as a Billionaire; VC vs PE; Is Warren Buffet Wrong? | 20VC #974
Billionaire Orlando Bravo On Pricing, Parenting, And Beating Market Cycles
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973
Deel’s $12B Rise: Remote Hypergrowth, Global Compliance, Relentless Execution, Trust
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972
Why Homebrew Ditched LP Money And Rethought Seed-Stage Venture Economics
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971
From Perth Yearbooks To Global Design Giant: Canva’s Relentless Ascent
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970
From Pro Gamer to CRO: Stevie Case Redefines Modern Sales Leadership
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969
Albert Wenger on climate, crypto, inequality and rebuilding our attention
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968
How Liquid Death Turned Punk Humor Into a $700M Beverage Powerhouse
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967
From Experiments To Engines: Building Startup Growth Teams That Scale
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966
Jeff Jordan Reveals How Winning Marketplaces Scale, Monetize, And Survive
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965
Jason Lemkin Explains the Brutal New Reality of Venture Capital
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964
ZoomInfo CEO on Hard Work, Culture, Sales Headwinds, and Happiness
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried: We Banned Talking Politics and 1/3 of our Team Quit | 20VC #963
Jason Fried On Profit, Politics, And Letting Go Of Basecamp
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962
Barry McCarthy on Winning Markets, Turnarounds, and Talent Density
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961
From War-Torn Tehran To Tech Titan: Hadi Partovi’s Playbook
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960
Maggie Hott Reveals How To Hire And Build Elite Sales Teams
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959
Mailchimp’s Accidental Rise: Misfit Founder on Leadership, Money, and Meaning
Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958
From Small-Town DJ to Media Visionary: Bob Pittman’s Playbook
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957
Marty Cagan on true product risk, empowered teams, and anti-process dogma
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956
From Founder to VC: Martine Casado Redefines Scaled Venture Capital
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955
From Plaid To Column: Rewiring Banking Inside The Regulatory Perimeter
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954
Jason Lemkin Reveals Cold Email Secrets, Founder Mistakes, VC Truths
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953
Miki Kuusi on ruthless focus, Wolt’s near-death, and $8B exit
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952
Katzenberg and Jaswa on hiring, pivots, Quibi, and culture shifts
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951
Semil Shah Reveals Hard Truths About Scaling a Seed VC Fund
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950
Raising the Bar: How Founders Should Demand More From VCs
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949
Cathie Wood Defends Disruptive Innovation, Active Investing, And ARK’s Future
Martin Escobari: How to Invest During a Recession; Negotiation Tips; Developing Markets | 20VC #948
Investor Martin Escobari Explains Surviving Downturns, Fair Deals, Global Ambition
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947
Hugo Barra Reveals Hard-Won Lessons From Building Iconic Hardware Products
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s Failed NFT Launch, Thoughts on SBF & FTX, Crypto Winter | 20VC #946
Brian Armstrong on ambition, crises, crypto winters, and conscious leadership
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945
Michael Mauboussin Reveals How Investors Misread Luck, Skill, and Process
GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944
GoPuff CEO Reveals Path to Profitability Amid Delivery Shakeout
Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943
Brian Singerman on Upside-Obsessed Venture, Pricing Discipline, Anduril Bet
Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942
From Zynga To Reddit: Building High-Impact Growth Teams Without Burnout
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet | Full Interview
Rishi Sunak on Startup Government, Talent Visas, and UK Ambition
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941
Inside Uber’s Biggest Deals: Emil Michael Reveals High-Stakes Negotiation Playbook
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940
Venture Capital’s Future: Differentiation, Community, and the Death of Mediocrity
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939
Lauren Schwartz Reveals How to Hire And Ramp Elite Sales Talent
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on Founders, Failure, and Beating Tech Giants
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937
Tristan Handy on Slow-Moats, Community Power, and Decision-Light Leadership
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936
Spotify CTO on macro winds, product bets, and music’s evolving future
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935
Brad Gerstner on Power Laws, Purposeful Wealth, and Essentialist Investing
Kevin Weil: Lessons from Leading Product at Instagram & Twitter | 20VC #934
Kevin Weil on decisive product bets, mission, and humble leadership
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933
Inside Bedrock’s $200M Bet on Rippling and Compound Startups
Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932
From Zenefits Ouster to Rippling: Parker Conrad’s Relentless Redemption Play
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931
Kalshi CEO on ruthless focus, hiring killers, and regulatory moats
Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930
HubSpot CMO Explains Why Smart Marketers Bet Like Venture Capitalists
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison Plans Comeback Through Intimacy, Not Hype
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928
From Hypergrowth Collapse To LatAm VC: Julio Vasconcellos’ Hard Lessons
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927
From Bump to Google Photos: David Lieb’s Playbook for Product Mastery
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926
dLocal’s CEO on Luck, Frugality, Hard Markets and Relentless Execution
Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925
Scaling Retool’s Sales: Hiring Street Fighters, Blending PLG, Hitting $50M
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924
Will Quist Explains Why Real Venture Capital Is Rare And Misunderstood
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923
From Anchor to Lightspeed: Mike Mignano on Social, TikTok, VC
Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921
Calendly CPO Annie Pearl on PLG, Enterprise, and Hiring Product Leaders
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920
Logan Bartlett Dissects Growth-Stage Venture, Valuations, and Boardcraft Realities
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919
Wesley Chan on backing two‑gigabyte founders and timeless companies
Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918
Why Salespeople Fail And How To Build Winning Sales Playbooks
Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917
Fintech VC Sheel Mohnot On Discipline, Missed Unicorns, And Markets
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916
Kieran Flanagan on Growth Hiring, PLG, Community, and Media Moats
Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915
Mo Koyfman Reveals Why Small, Focused Venture Funds Outperform Giants
Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914
Cambly CEO on capital efficiency, retention, and global English learning
Shreyas Doshi: The 6 Product Metrics You Need To Know; The 3 Types of Product Leader | E913
Shreyas Doshi Reveals Core Product Metrics And Leader Archetypes
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912
Kirsten Green on scaling Forerunner, staying authentic, and beating doubt
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911
Jim Lanzone Reveals Yahoo’s Turnaround Playbook and Leadership Philosophy
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910
Tony Fadell: Why Founders Need Co-Founders, Mission, And Grit
Kyle Samani: Why Bitcoin is Not a Hedge Against Inflation | 20VC #909
Kyle Samani Explains Tokens, Network Effects, And Crypto Investing Discipline
Sam Taylor: How I Became VP of Sales at Loom; Lessons from Dropbox | 20VC #908
From PLG Roots to Enterprise Sales: Loom VP Sam Taylor’s Playbook
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907
Des Traynor on Intercom, product focus, and ruthless startup clarity
Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907
Philosopher-Investor Redefines Long-Term Growth Beyond Venture Capital Boundaries
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906
Shopify’s Luc Levesque Reveals How to Hire Elite Growth Leaders
Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905
Matt Mullenweg on leadership, longevity, vulnerability, and building WordPress
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904
Building Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios With Discipline, Empathy, And Focus
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903
Founder Daniel Yanisse Reveals Hiring, Firing, and Boardroom Mistakes
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902
Sonali De Rycker on Cycles, Founders, and Building Accel London
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901
From Harlem Kitchen Table to $134M Fund: Henri’s Venture Playbook
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900
Miro CRO on PLG, enterprise timing, and hiring transformative sales leaders
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899
Gary Vee on Luck, Sacrifice, Self-Belief, and Angel Investing Origins
Nick Jones: How I Founded Soho House; Brand Marketing Tips; Hiring Advice | 20VC #898
Nick Jones on Soho House: Persistence, People, and Global Lifestyle Hospitality
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897
From Lyft to Patreon: Adam Fishman’s Playbook for Product-Led Growth
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896
Dharmesh Shah on culture as product, humility, and bold bets
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895
From Facebook Engineer To DAO Innovator: Ruchi Sanghvi’s Venture Playbook
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894
Kayvon Beykpour Reveals How Great Product Reviews Drive Iconic Products
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893
Ian Lee Predicts DAOs Will Transform Venture Capital and Web3
Q-Commerce in Emerging Markets with the CEOs of Airlift, JOKR, & Zepto | 20VC #892
Emerging Market Q‑Commerce: High Density, Fresh Focus, Profitability Pathways Explained
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891
Keith Rabois Dissects Venture Cycles, Woke Culture, And Silicon Valley’s Decline
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890
Aydin Senkut Explains Building Felicis From Scrappy Solo to $900M
Oliver Jay: How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook | 20VC #889
Oliver Jay Explains Building Agile Sales Playbooks For Product-Led Startups
Oren Zeev: How I Raised $1 BILLION in 12 Months | 20VC #888
Solo VC Oren Zeev Explains Billion-Dollar Fundraising And Contrarian Strategy
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886
Fabrice Grinda Maps Three Futures For Tech Amid Global Uncertainty
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC
GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Remote Work, Leadership, and DevOps Platforms
Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein On Love, Leadership, And Growth
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview
From Zero to 500K: Sahil Bloom’s Content, Capital and Consistency
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview
VC Legend John Doerr Maps Venture-Backed Plan To Solve Climate
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