[Array] Podcast

Episodes

1. 21

   Roland Reynolds from Industry Ventures discusses managing $3.5B to successfully invest across the entire venture ecosystem

   Roland Reynolds started one of the early fund of funds investing in emerging managers in 2007. He then joined forces with Industry Ventures in 2009 to land their fund of funds initiative. Industry ventures as a firm started in 2000 now manages $3.5B in assets under management. They invest across...

   Oct 1, 2018

   33m
2. 20

   Hollywood's Blye Faust produces the movie Spotlight that wins an Oscar

   Blye Faust is an academy award winning producer of the movie Spotlight about the Boston Globe investigation of the Catholic church for allegations of abuse. She has also co-produced The Queen Latifah Show and started an interior design firm byblye With her co-founder Nicole Rocklin, Blye started…

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   Aug 16, 2018

   38m
3. 19

   Jonathan Abrams founder of Nuzzel and Friendster on how to win in a crowded market

   A Canadian implant in SV Jonathan Abrams is now a founder of 4 SV startups: Socializr, Friendster, HotLinks and most recently Nuzzel with backing from Marc Andreesen, Naval Ravikant, Homebrew, SoftTech and Lowercase just to name a few. Jonathan has first hand experience on how timing matters for...

   Jul 31, 2018

   24m
4. 18

   Rory O’Driscoll founder of Scale Venture Partners discuss the in and outs of enterprise investing, taking companies public, AI, and building a long lasting VC firm.

   Today on our podcast we have Rory O’Driscoll, cofounder and partner at Scale Venture Partners. Scale Venture Partners just raised their 6th fund of $400m managing over $1.5 billion in assets under management. Scale had interesting beginnings as a firm; they were an in-house VC fund inside Bank of...

   Jul 30, 2018

   43m
5. 17

   Billionaire Tim Draper on investing and predicting future of crypto, evolution of venture capital, and why he wants to split California

   Tim Draper is the founder of venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Draper Associates. He also built the Draper University built to empower entrepreneurs take risk and build confidence. He is author of the book How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs…

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   May 10, 2018

   48m
6. 16

   Ryan Hoover, CEO of Product Hunt: How some startups launch on this largest online community and PH's acquisition by Angellist.

   Ryan Hoover is a founder of Product Hunt, place to discover your next favorite thing. Product Hunt was funded by investors like a16z, Greylock, Slow Ventures, and Alexis Ohanian. Product Hunt was recently acquired by, Angellist a company where the world meets startups. Ryan is one of the most...

   Mar 25, 2018

   25m
7. 15

   Paul Martino, Bullpen Capital: How do you differentiate your fund?

   After founding several successful start-ups, Paul Martino (https://twitter.com/ahpah), Duncan Davidson (https://twitter.com/duncandavi), and Rich Melmon (https://twitter.com/RMelmon) decide to start a different kind of company, a venture capital fund - Bullpen Capital (http://bullpencap.com)....

   Jan 15, 2018

   29m
8. 14

   Roy Bahat: Starting a new VC fund? Listen to Roy's thoughts on setting it up for success

   Roy Bahat is one of the founder of Bloomberg Beta. I met Roy through my friend Shivon Zilis who is also a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Shivon was in one of our earlier podcasts on Array talking about AI. Bloomberg Beta is one of my favorite firms to work with and not only because they are also an…

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   Dec 4, 2017

   26m
9. 13

   Brad Feld founder of Foundry Group and Techstars shares how he invests in companies and funds

   Brad Feld is a legend in the venture industry. Brad started out as a founder of Feld Technologies then became an angel and institutional investor and recently also expanded his firm, Foundry Group, into fund investments. Amongst the many things he is known for Brad started Techstars and was an...

   Sep 19, 2017

   40m
10. 12

    Michelle Zatlyn founder of Cloudflare on becoming a unicorn in span of 8 years

    It’s amazing how Cloudflare a company that was a mere dream 8 years has become core part of the internet infrastructure today making websites more secure and scalable. Cloudflare sees all kinds of traffic and attacks from Neo Nazis, largest phasing attacks, political campaigns before you know…

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    Aug 29, 2017

    55m
11. 11

    TK Kader founder of ToutApp gets acquired by Marketo and discusses how to survive when competitors proliferate and market crashes how do you survive?

    If you look up the word hustle in wikipedia, You might find a section on today's founder, Tawheed Kader (TK). TK shares his honest thoughts on how he successfully sold his company ToutApp to Marketo in 2017. This did not come without challenges. Even while he was growing fast and at $5m in...

    Jul 31, 2017

    38m
12. 10

    Shivon Zilis discusses how she became part of the machine intelligence movement

    On our podcast from a few weeks ago on All things AI we heard from Lucas Baker of Google Deepmind on his perspective on current state of AI. Today we chat with Shivon Zilis who is an investor at VC firm Bloomberg Beta and gives an investment perspective on AI. Shivon became somewhat of a…

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    Jun 27, 2017

    30m
13. 9

    Tim Campos former CIO of Facebook discusses strengths of an open and honest culture

    Tim Campos, former CIO of Facebook talks about importance of culture at a company, impact of a life coach on his career and challenges he faced as a CIO of two Fortune 500 companies - Facebook and KLA Tencor

    Jun 5, 2017

    42m
14. 8

    Lucas Baker a AlphaGo expert at Google Deepmind talks All about AI

    With a breadth of experience unusual for a young engineer, Lucas Baker has traveled a winding path through the tech industry leading from Stanford through Square, Y Combinator, Pinterest, Google, and most recently DeepMind. Find out what he's learned along the way and what he thinks about the...

    May 1, 2017

    32m
15. 7

    Leslie Miley makes it against all odds. Life story of director of engineering at Slack.

    In this podcast we'll hear the story of a college dropout, but not the glamorous Steve Jobs-type story you might expect. Learn how Leslie Miley worked his way up through engineering roles at Walmart, ODesk, Apple, Google, Twitter, to become director of engineering at Slack, one of Silicon…

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    Apr 17, 2017

    50m
16. 6

    Lukas Biewald founder of Figure8/Crowdflower on how bigger companies use AI

    Lukas Biewald, founder of Crowdflower, will be talking about the Future and problems in AI, training data sets, and how AI is used at bigger companies.

    Apr 10, 2017

    26m
17. 5

    Justin Kan discusses selling Twitch to Amazon for one billion dollars

    In the space of nine years, Justin Kan pivoted from aimless post-collegiate soul-searching to a massive exit on his company, Twitch, which he sold to Amazon for $1B. Before that he sold his company Kiko Software on ebay! Justin went from being a partner at Y-Combinator to starting his own…

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    Mar 27, 2017

    36m
18. 4

    Auren Hoffman gives unconventional wisdom on how he sold LiveRamp for $310 million to Acxiom

    Auren Hoffman is a founder of Safegraph and previously LiveRamp. LiveRamp was acquired by Axiom for $310m in 2014. Auden shares his views on why smart people make wrong decisions with optionality, how focus in life important, and how to pick markets for your new venture. Auren twitter:...

    Mar 20, 2017

    37m
19. 3

    Esther Dyson is an angel investor in hundreds of companies, wants to see a reform in healthcare, and talks about her training to live on space and retire on Mars

    Esther Dyson trained to be in space and wants to retire on Mars. Esther's global perspective has made her an effective investor and valued board member. A medical scare led her to start Way to Wellville (http://waytowellville.net), a health intervention program for American health system to get...

    Mar 13, 2017

    47m
20. 2

    Sean Byrnes founder of Flurry gets acquired for $300m+ after nearly going insolvent 3 times

    Sean Byrnes is currently a founder of OutlierAI. Previously, he was a founder of Flurry. Flurry was founded during a recession and almost insolvent 3 times until 2014 when it was acquired by Yahoo for $300-$350m. Sean is now a CEO of Outlier.ai which helps businesses make better decisions using…

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    Mar 13, 2017

    36m
21. 1

    OpexEngine founder Lauren Kelley shares SaaS benchmarks

    Lauren Kelly is the CEO of Opex Engine (https://www.opexengine.com) where they benchmark metrics for SaaS companies. Lauren tells us what metrics should companies track depending on who they are selling to.

    Mar 13, 2017

    32m