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Money Issues
by Scott Kitun
A podcast hosted by Scott Kitun featuring the people and platforms reshaping private markets.
Episodes
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Robinhood Drops a Nuke, Republic Reinvents The Forward Contract, and Rocket Dollar Founder Henry Yoshida On Self-Directed Private Investing
In this episode of The Scott Show, Scott sits down with Henry Yoshida, founder of Rocket Dollar and now head of Retired.com, to talk about the massive wave of innovation coming to the $18 trillion retirement market. From launching Rocket Dollar to help everyday investors use their IRAs to invest…
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The Business of Buying Businesses with Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki
In this episode of The Scott Show, Scott sits down with Acquire.com founder and CEO Andrew Gazdecki to explore the fast-growing world of micro acquisitions. From his early Twitter rise to landing the premium domain Acquire.com, Andrew shares how he built a breakout marketplace where anyone—from...
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Retail Private Markets Mini Series Plug and US Open Week with Venmo Joe Koziol
Scott’s back with golf betting consigliere Joe Koziol to preview the 2025 US Open at Oakmont, the hardest test in golf—and the most honest major to bet. The guys break down who can survive the brick-wall greens, brutal rough, and USGA sadism, then roll through their top plays, longshots, and the...
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PGA Championship Storylines, Value Picks and Errant Takes with 'Big Kit & Venmo Joe'
Scott's back with his golf wagering pal Joe Koziol to break down this week's PGA Championship and whether or not Quail Hollow is just "Rory McIlroy Country Club". The two discuss a few emerging storylines such as; will Jordan Spieth sneak into the elite Grand Slam club? Who has the tastiest odds...
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Why Jeff Bezos, Coatue Launched a New Billion Dollar Private Fund For Individual Investors
This week, something seismic happened in private markets. Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, and Coatue’s Philippe Laffont announced a $1B tech fund that’s now accessible to individual investors — with minimums starting at just $50K. Let that sink in. The floodgates are opening. What used to require...
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RIP Venture Factory and The State of VC 2025 with Sam Lessin
Scott sits down with venture capitalist, essayist, and Slow Ventures GP Sam Lessin for a candid, high-signal conversation about the state of venture capital—and why the old playbook is officially dead. Sam unpacks the ideas behind his viral VC25 manifesto, including why the startup conveyor belt...
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Surviving The Grift Economy with Pop Culture Journo John McDermott
Scott sits down with longtime friend, journalist, and cultural critic John McDermott for a no-holds-barred conversation on the rise of the grift economy. John and Scott re-trace the evolution of modern hustle culture to unpack the cult of tech founders, the blurred lines between personal branding...
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Craig Kilborn's Gorgeous Life, All-Time Sandwich Rankings, and Scott's Masters Weekend Recap
In this episode, Scott sits down with legendary host and comedic trailblazer Craig Kilborn for a wide-ranging conversation on life after late night, creative independence, and what it really means to stay above the fray. From his iconic runs at ESPN, The Daily Show, and The Late Late Show, Craig...
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The Masters Edition featuring Scott's Friend "Venmo" Joe
A different tradition unlike any other... Gambling on golf. Welcome to Scott Show: Masters Week Edition. Scott is joined by local legend and friend Joe Koziol to dive deep into one of the year’s most beautiful, chaotic, and bank-breaking sports weekends, The Masters 🏌️♂️ A few highlights: - Why...
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Markets Tank, Stop Listening to Noise, “Private Equitification” of Venture and the New Media Universe with Eric Newcomer
In this episode, Scott sits down with journalist-turned-operator Eric Newcomer for a wide-ranging conversation about building in public, the evolution of venture capital, and what it’s really like to run a media business. Eric shares the backstory of launching Newcomer, from a solo Substack to a...
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Darren Marble on Going Public, Market Convergence, and the Retail Renaissance
In this episode, Scott sits down with Darren Marble — the creator of Going Public and founder of Issuance — for a wide-ranging conversation on the rise of retail investors, the evolution of equity crowdfunding, and why he believes the best days of this industry are still ahead. Darren shares the...
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Scott Has a New Show, Republic Launches "True Retail" Private Equity Fund w/ Hamilton Lane and Why Tokenize Private Equity w/ Republic Founder Kendrick Nguyen
In the inaugural episode of The Scott Show, host Scott Kitun welcomes his good friend and Founder of Republic, Kendrick Nguyen, to break some BIG news and to discuss the game-changing shift towards retail happening across private markets. Key Takeaways: → Republic’s Major Announcement – A new...
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From Mechanical Engineering to Studio Head: Jeff Annison's Legion M Story
In this episode of the Technori podcast, host Scott Kitun interviews Jeff Annison, the co-founder and president of Legion M. They discuss Annison's journey from mechanical engineering to entrepreneurship, highlighting his experiences in various startups, including a streaming mobile television...
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Taylor Lorenz on Being Extremely Online in an Internet World
Scott Kitun sits down with acclaimed journalist and author Taylor Lorenz to set the record straight regarding internet history, the premise of her book, "Extremely Online," (available now). She discusses the evolving landscape of the tech world, the importance of strong social safety nets, the...
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The Crowdfunding Revolution: A Conversation with StartEngine's Howard Marks
Scott Kitun talks to StartEngine co-founder Howard Marks. The conversation starts with Kitun's curiosity about Marks' early involvement in crowdfunding, despite having been an entrepreneur (founder of Activision) for a long time. Marks recounts his journey from investing in entrepreneurs in Los...
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Alts, investing and the promise of fine art with Masterworks CEO Scott Lynn
Scott Lynn, founder and CEO of Masterworks, joins Scott Kitun on the show. As a long time art collector and enthusiast, Lynn saw a massive space in the market for fine art - which includes many pieces that are valued in the millions of dollars - to be invested in fractionally but art lovers and...
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Bored Elon Musk on Elon, startups, crypto and pseudonym life
Bored Elon Musk, a pseudonymous influencer, joins Scott Kitun on the pod. Bored has built his following over most of the past decade on Twitter. What started out as a joke account gradually - alongside the growing notoriety of Elon Musk - into an influencer account with over a million followers....
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Harper Reed on making tech more accessible
Harper Reed, founder and CEO of Galactic, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Reed, the former Head of Commerce at Braintree and President Obama's CTO during his re-election campaign, is a longtime tech entrepreneur (and Technori supporter) working to make technology work better for everyone. Like...
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Getting more out of your education minus the debt sentence
Milan Kordestani, founder and CEO of Audo, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Audo is a career building platform that combines e-learning and job opportunities that fit the skills you learn. Scott and Milan dig into the changes coming to education, the value of college and avoiding debt. They also...
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Changing the culture around investing with StartupStarter co-founder Lorel Scott
Lorel Scott, co-founder and COO of StartupStarter, joins the show with Scott Kitun. StartupStarter is launching the first ever in-person Equity Crowdfunding Week (ECW), a showcase and awards show for equity crowdfunding startups and investors to come together for a 3 day celebration of a growing...
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Backstage Capital GPs on the present/future of VC and new partnership with KingsCrowd
Brittany Davis and Christie Pitts, general partners at Backstage Capital, join the show with Scott Kitun. Brittany and Christie talk about the present day investing landscape and why the future of VC will trend towards inclusiveness (or lose). The group shares their thoughts and experiences with...
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Creating futuristic vehicle concepts with VonMercier
Mike Mercier, founder and CEO of VonMercier, joins the show with Scott Kitun. They talk about how changing what we can do with vehicles, starting with the idea of VonMercier's electric hovercraft Arosa. Mike dives into his 10-year founding journey with late nights and weekends dedicated to coming...
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Showplace is your one-stop shop for outfitting short-term rentals
Justin Miller, founder and CEO of Showplace, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Showplace aims to be a one-stop shop for people looking to rent out their properties with the supplies, design, furnishings and everything else you need to set up a short-term rental. Justin shares the company's hefty…
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Improving shift work everywhere with Deputy CEO Ashik Ahmed
Ashik Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Deputy, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Deputy is a company focused around simplifying work life for the shift worker. As an employee management platform, Deputy specializes in timesheets, scheduling, tasks and workplace communication. Ashik shares the founding...
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S.I. Container Builds: Building ADUs with affordability and conservation in mind
Rory Rubin, co-founder and CEO of S.I. Container Builds, joins Scott Kitun on the show. S.I. Container Builds offer customizable ADUs (accessory dwelling units) using shipping containers that are affordable, simple and environmentally conscious. Rory shares with Scott the origin story for…
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Providing next-gen online safety through your router with Gryphon CEO John Wu
John Wu, CEO of Gryphon, joins the pod with Scott Kitun. Gryphon is a wireless router built around online safety, privacy and protecting the central point of your digital life at home. John first starting thinking about the idea for the router after watching his young daughter access the internet...
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Digital estate plans and catching up with Trust & Will CEO Cody Barbo
Cody Barbo, founder and CEO of Trust & Will, comes back on the show with Scott Kitun. Cody catches up with Scott after three years of growing the Trust & Will business from a seed round CF raise on Republic to a $15 million Series B and recent venture round led by UBS. They talk about the journey...
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Ivee: Improving the car passenger experience
Alex Giannikoulis, founder of Ivee, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Ivee is a "mobility as a service (MaaS)" platform that adds a suite of apps and experiences that elevate your time as a passenger in commute. The Ivee dashboard connects your phone to a 10" tablet in the backseat to access...
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Bringing back at-home care with Tomorrow Health
Vijay Kedar, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health, joins Scott Kitun on the show. Tomorrow Health is a health tech company that aims to restore at-home care as the primary & preferred destination for patients of all ages. Vijay dives into how Tomorrow Health streamlines healthcare processes and...
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Addition Wealth CEO Ana Mahony creating tangible financial wellness
Ana Mahony, founder and CEO of Addition Wealth, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Addition Wealth is a fintech platform that offers a suite of tools, resources and financial advisors to help employees make better financial decisions. Ana shares how she decided to jump into entrepreneurship after...
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Navigating the early fundraising stages with Foundersuite CEO Nathan Beckord
Nathan Beckord, founder and CEO of Foundersuite, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Foundersuite offers a suite of software tools, templates and education to help founders and CEOs execute more efficiently. Nathan comes back on the pod to talk about the Foundersuite journey, lessons he's learned…
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Building affordable tiny homes with Boxabl founder Galiano Tiramani
Galiano Tiramani, CEO and founder of Boxabl, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Boxabl makes ADUs (accessory dwelling units) that can ship anywhere as a giant box that unfolds onto your plot of land. Galiano dives into his entrepreneurial journey with startups in the trendy spaces such as Bitcoin…
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Hadley Harris and the new era of VC
Hadley Harris, cofounder of Eniac Ventures, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Hadley humors Scott on one of his favorite topics - dealing with venture capitalists. Scott and Hadley dig into the rise of VC competition and why VCs can't afford to be as dismissive or authoritative in the new...
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Invisible College: The making of a Web3 academy
Nick deWilde, co-founder of Invisible College, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Nick comes on to talk about the colorful but often opaque world of Web3. Everyone seems to be talking about it but what is Web3 and how do you become a participant? These are just some of questions Nick set out to...
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Behind Genius with Paige Finn Doherty
Paige Finn Doherty joins the show with Scott Kitun. Paige is a founding partner of Behind Genius Ventures and author of a children's book - for adults! - about investing called Seed to Harvest. Paige talks about her journey into venture and her realization that you don't need to come from...
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Going BigTime with CEO Brian Saunders
Brian Saunders, founder and CEO of BigTime Software, joins the show with Scott Kitun. BigTime provides turnkey billing software solutions for professional service firms and consulting services that makes it easy to capture billable hours, allocate and manage project resources and consolidate key...
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Meet Pincho: The Athleisure of Restaurants
Otto Othman, founder and CEO of Pincho, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Pincho is a street-food inspired burger and kebab shop based in Miami, Florida. Otto, a former UX designer, talks about the origin story of how he and his cousin originally came up with a plan to sell his mom's pincho kebab...
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Saving startups cash with MainStreet's Doug Ludlow
Doug Ludlow, co-founder and CEO of MainStreet, joins the show with Scott Kitun. The greatest need for any startup is almost always a combination of time and money, often more money to buy more time. MainStreet aims to help solve the problem by working with startups to save on operating costs…
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Selling in the "Age of the Hustle" with Stable.work's Clarence de Silva
Clarence de Silva, CSO at Stable.work, joins the pod with host Scott Kitun. Sales is often considered one of the most crucial components of a business, but also the first to go when times are tough. In the era of the gig economy, remote, seasonal sales professionals are an increasingly appealing...
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The truth about the return to office with Deskpass CEO Sammy Rosen
Sam Rosen, co-founder and CEO of Deskpass, joins the pod with Scott Kitun. Every year, even every few months we start seeing the "when are we going back to the office?" trend on the timelines and wonder if this will be the time the legions of white collar workers return to an office-centered...
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Facet Wealth secures $100 million to make financial planning more accessible
Anders Jones, co-founder and CEO of Facet Wealth, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Facet Wealth is a fintech company offering personalized financial advice and wealth management services. Today, Facet announced a $100 million Series C round led by Durable Capital Partners LP to fuel its growth…
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How to recruit top talent with Hirewell CEO Matt Massucci
Matt Massucci, co-founder and CEO of Hirewell, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Hirewell is a recruiting platform that connects employers with prospective talent nationwide. The company just received a $21 million strategic investment from global investment firm Pyrtek. Matt shares some of the...
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Automate your financial planning with FitBUX
Joe Reinke, founder and CEO of FitBUX, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Joe gives the the pitch on FitBUX, an automated software solution to financial planning. From student loans to stocks, FitBUX measures your financial data and provides easy-to -understand analysis for you to make money...
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Harlem Capital's Gabby Cazeau
Gabby Cazeau, Principal at Harlem Capital, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm with a core mission to invest in a thousand diverse founders (including Chicago's very own CASHDROP) over 20 years and change the faces of entrepreneurship. Gabby shares her…
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Defining the future of alternative assets with Alt founder Leore Avidar
Leore Avidar, founder and CEO of Alt, joins the show with Scott Kitun. As cryptocurrencies have exploded in popularity so has the rise of other forms of alternative assets like NFTs, wine and sports cards. Alt is one of the platforms leading the charge in making trading cards an investable...
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Pek Pongpaet on technology + design
Pek Pongpaet, founder of impekable and longtime Technori alum, joins the show with Scott Kitun. impekable provides UX design services to tech companies, including work with Adobe and Twilio among many others. Pek talks about his journey from Chicago to the Bay Area (and back again), how design…
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Pandora to Grabango - Will Glaser's blueprint to business success
Will Glaser, founder and CEO of Grabango, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Prior to founding Grabango, a check-out free technology for grocery stores and convenience stores, was the co-founder of Pandora, one of the pioneers in digital music streaming. As the son of a college professor and a...
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Turn your purpose into elite business performance with Pete Wilkins
Pete Wilkins, Managing Director at Hyde Park Angels and author of Purpose + First Entrepreneur, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Over the course of his career, Pete has worked with all kinds of business leaders, young founders and everyone in between. One of the main drivers of success (and...
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Make wine a part of your portfolio with Vinovest
Anthony Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Vinovest, a wine investing platform, joins the show with Scott Kitun. The age of retail investing and collecting is upon us and never before have so many people been able to invest in everything from baseball cards to NFTs. Why not fine wines? Anthony answers...
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Defining the role of the investor with DCM's David Cheng
David Cheng, Principal at DCM Ventures, joins the pod with Scott Kitun. The role of VC isn't the same as your father's, or even your grandfather's VC anymore. No longer is venture capital only about getting a check once and being hands off otherwise. As we've started to see with a16z and rolling...
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