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Joe Lonsdale on AI, Defense, and American Optimism | Ep. 51
Joe Lonsdale on AI, Defense, and American Optimism | Ep. 51
Tobi Lütke – Building Shopify and the Future of AI | Ep. 50
Tobi Lütke – Building Shopify and the Future of AI | Ep. 50
How AI Is Rewriting Seed Stage Investing with Kevin Hartz & Bennett Siegel | Ep. 49
How AI Is Rewriting Seed Stage Investing with Kevin Hartz & Bennett Siegel | Ep. 49
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on The Case for Prediction Markets | Ep. 48
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on The Case for Prediction Markets | Ep. 48
Instacart Co-founder Max Mullen on Building a $10B Consumer Marketplace | Ep. 47
Instacart Co-founder Max Mullen on Building a $10B Consumer Marketplace | Ep. 47
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on the Future of AI | Ep. 46
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on the Future of AI | Ep. 46
SV Angel’s Ron Conway: Silicon Valley’s Relationship Broker | Ep. 45
SV Angel’s Ron Conway: Silicon Valley’s Relationship Broker | Ep. 45
Building an AI-Native Software Company With Legora CEO Max Junestrand | Ep. 44
Building an AI-Native Software Company With Legora CEO Max Junestrand | Ep. 44
Bret Taylor on AI and the Future of Software | Ep. 42
Bret Taylor on AI and the Future of Software | Ep. 42
The Benchmark Partnership: Peter Fenton, Eric Vishria, Chetan Puttagunta, Ev Randle | Ep. 41
Benchmark’s small, founder-first partnership model and AI investing philosophy
Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois on Building and Investing in Enduring Companies | Ep. 40
Khosla and Rabois on founder judgment, AI waves, and principles
The Future of AI Software Security | Ep. 39
AI-driven security and building Depthfirst to defend software ecosystems
Ben Horowitz on How a16z Built a Venture Machine | Ep. 38
Ben Horowitz explains how a16z scaled venture, platform, and brand
Greylock’s Saam Motamedi on How Venture Firms Endure | Ep. 37
How Greylock stays durable: ethos, apprenticeship, depth, and reinvention.
Pat Grady & Alfred Lin on the Tactics of Great Venture Investing | Ep. 36
Sequoia’s new stewards on conviction, craft, and outlier investing tactics
Anduril & Founders Fund’s Trae Stephens on Choosing Good Quests in the Age of AI | Ep. 35
Trae Stephens on AI quests, defense tech, and VC strategy
Inside the Mind of the Investor Who Backed Josh Kushner, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen | Ep. 34
Inside the Mind of the Investor Who Backed Josh Kushner, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen | Ep. 34
Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev on AI, Prediction Markets, and the Future of Trading | Ep. 33
Vlad Tenev on democratizing finance with AI and prediction markets
The Breakthrough For Home Robots with Kyle Vogt, CEO of the Bot Company | Ep. 32
AI-driven robotics makes practical, affordable home robots suddenly achievable now
Figma's Dylan Field on the Future of Design | Ep. 31
Dylan Field on AI, design craft, and building Figma’s future
The Chainsmokers: Stories Behind the Songs, AI’s Impact on Music, and Venture Investing | Ep. 30
The Chainsmokers on songwriting magic, AI tools, and venture mindset parallels
Former CAA Talent Agent Turned Investor with $70B in AUM on AI and Venture Strategy | Ep. 29
Coatue’s Thomas Laffont on AI cycle, venture strategy, and founders
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha on Decision Making, AI, and the Next Trillion Dollar Market | Ep. 28
Roelof Botha on stewardship, rigorous decisions, AI economics, future markets
Concentrating in Winners | Vince Hankes, Partner at Thrive Capital | Ep. 27
Thrive Capital’s playbook for concentrated, conviction-led venture investing at scale
Pixar’s Golden Age, Twitter through IPO, and Building YC’s Growth Fund | Ali Rowghani | Ep. 26
Ali Rowghani on miracle factories, Twitter scale, and startup saplings
Helping Founders Go Direct in a New Era of PR & Comms with Lulu Cheng Meservey | Ep. 25
Lulu Cheng Meservey on narrative arcs, aura, and founder-led comms strategy
Balaji Srinivasan Breaking Down Modern Politics and Starting a New Country | Ep. 24
Balaji maps four-way politics and argues for network-state exit strategy
Inside a16z’s $1.25B Infra Bet | Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z | Ep. 23
Martin Casado on scaling VC, AI infra value, open source debates
From BoxGroup to Benchmark and Back | Greg Rosen, Partner at BoxGroup | Ep. 22
BoxGroup’s Switzerland venture strategy: win by seeing more, earlier
The Future of Crypto | Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase | Ep. 21
Coinbase’s everything exchange vision, regulation battles, and frontier bets ahead
The Future of Code Generation | Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel | Ep. 20
Code generation shifts bottleneck from writing code to landing outcomes
AI, Learning, and Podcasting | Dwarkesh Patel | Ep. 19
Dwarkesh Patel on AI timelines, learning habits, and podcasting craft
The Craft of Early Stage Venture | Peter Fenton, General Partner at Benchmark | Ep. 18
Peter Fenton on Darwinism, AI disruption, and early-stage venture craft
Building the Leading Company in a Competitive Space | Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta | Ep. 17
Vanta CEO on winning amid competition, AI shifts, and scaling culture
The Next Generation of Software | Mamoon Hamid, Partner at Kleiner Perkins | Ep. 16
Mamoon Hamid on AI investing, VC cycles, and Kleiner’s revival
Vinod Khosla Predicting the Future | Ep. 15
Vinod Khosla on AI abundance, disruption, and venture-first principles ahead
Inside the Mind of a University Endowment Manager | Dan Feder, University of Michigan | Ep. 14
Dan Feder explains how endowments choose managers and venture exposure
Sam Altman on The Future of AI | Ep. 13
Sam Altman predicts AI science breakthroughs, robots, and societal lagging adaptation
Marc Andreessen on The Future of Venture Capital | Ep. 12
Andreessen explains venture’s barbell future, AI upheaval, and cultural power shifts
Why the US Needs Nuclear Energy | Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares | Ep. 11
Nuclear’s slowdown, resurgence, and microreactors for defense and space
Seed Investing at Scale | David Tisch, Managing Partner at BoxGroup | Ep. 10
How BoxGroup scaled collaborative seed investing without changing its model
Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Hard Tech Company | Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition | Ep. 9
Applied Intuition CEO on hard tech, culture, and defense markets
How To Make Money in Venture | Josh Kopelman, Co-Founder of First Round Capital | Ep. 8
Josh Kopelman on venture returns, scale, cycles, and discipline now
Running Y Combinator Like a Founder | Garry Tan | Ep. 7
Garry Tan on founder-mode leadership, YC strategy, AI, politics insights
How To Navigate Your Career | Elad Gil | Ep. 6
Elad Gil on careers, optionality, networks, and investing longevity principles
Investing with Conviction | Sarah Guo, Founder of Conviction | Ep. 5
Sarah Guo on building venture firms, brand, and AI investing
High School Dropout Turned Unicorn Founder | Adam Guild, CEO of Owner | Ep. 4
High-school dropout Adam Guild on building Owner through grit, inbound, talent
Agents in the Enterprise | Aaron Levie, CEO of Box | Ep. 3
Aaron Levie on enterprise AI agents, pricing, and platform neutrality
