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Smart Venture Podcast
by Grace Gong
The best information diet for future CEOs. Subscribe to our video podcast on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/GraceGongSmartVenturePodcastHost Grace Gong talks to the most influential people in business, venture capital, and tech. From executives to billionaire founders, Grace helps you get smarter one episode at the time.SVPpro.com LinkedIn: @GraceGong IG/Tw: @GraceGongGGFB: @SmartVenturePodcast
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#161 Acrew Capital's Founding Partner Lauren Kolodny, Alumni Ventures Independent Board Director
Lauren Kolodny is a Founding Partner of Acrew Capital. Lauren leads the fintech thesis area at Acrew. She has made investments in companies including Chime, Clara, Divvy, Gusto, Klar, Papaya, Pie, & Plaid. Prior to co-founding Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. Previously, Lauren...
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#160 StepStone Group Partner Seyonne Kang
Seyonne Kang is a Partner at StepStone Group. As of September 30, 2024, StepStone was responsible for approximately $682 billion of total capital, including $176 billion of assets under management. She is a member of the private equity team, focusing on venture capital and growth equity...
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#159 Olaplex Inc. (Nasdaq: OLPX)'s ex- President and CEO, Moroccanoil's ex - Global CEO, JuE Wong
JuE Wong is the former President & CEO/ Executive Board Director of Olaplex Inc. (Nasdaq: OLPX). Prior to Olaplex, she was the Global CEO/ Executive Board Director of Moroccanoil, the President of Elizabeth Arden, and an Independent Board Director of The Red Door by Elizabeth Arden. Other notable...
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#158 Cisco's EVP & Chief Product Officer, Box's ex-CPO & CSO, JLL & Equinix Board Member, Jeetu Patel
Jeetu Patel is Cisco's Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class…
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#157 Intuit Ventures' Managing Director, ex- M12 Microsoft's Venture Fund Partner Adam Coccari
Adam Coccari is the Managing Director of Intuit Ventures, Intuit's Venture Capital team responsible for overseeing Intuit's investment in startups around the world. Prior to Intuit, Adam spent 8 years at Microsoft where he was most recently a Partner at M12 – Microsoft's Venture Fund. You can…
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Sponsor spotlight: LG Electronics' EVP, Sokwoo Rhee
Sponsor spotlight: Welcome to the Smart Venture Podcast's sponsor spotlight, where we highlight the companies making our show possible. We're thrilled to feature LG Nova. Sokwoo Rhee is Corporate Executive Vice President for Innovation at LG Electronics and Head of LG NOVA, LG Electronics'…
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#156 Intel Capital's Senior Managing Director Mark Rostick
Mark Rostick is a Vice President & Senior Managing Director located in Raleigh, NC. He is a voting member of Intel Capital's investment committee. He joined Intel Capital in 1999. Mark also co-manages our Cloud domain investment activities and portfolio. He has deep investment experience in cloud...
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#155 True Ventures' Partner Puneet Agarwal
Puneet Agarwal brings a strong mix of operational and investment experience to his partner role at True. He began his career as a product manager at CrossWorlds Software, an early startup focused on software integration, which was sold to IBM. He then spent time in technology investment banking…
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#154 Greycroft's Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Ian Sigalow
Ian Sigalow is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Greycroft. He has over 20 years of experience in seed-to-growth venture capital, investing in and supporting innovative companies across multiple sectors, including fintech, consumer marketplaces, enterprise software, healthcare, insurance…
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#153 Slipstream Investors' Founder and GP, QED Investors' former COO & General Counsel Alex Edelson
Alex Edelson is the Founder and General Partner of Slipstream Investors. Before starting Slipstream, he worked at QED Investors, a top fintech-focused venture capital firm with $4.3 billion in assets under management. Alex joined as Nigel Morris's Chief of Staff and became the Chief Operating...
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#152 Trust Fund's Managing Partner, Nasty Gal's founder, Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso is the founder and managing partner of Trust Fund, an early-stage venture fund focused exclusively (yet broadly) on investing in tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses. Trust fund's investors include Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, David Sacks, Jason...
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#151 Orangetheory Fitness CEO and Co-Founder Dave Long
Dave Long is the CEO of Orangetheory Fitness. He leads the company's franchise model, regional development, and product development strategy. After founding the company in 2010 with two partners, Dave has led the brand through countless pivotal achievements, including launching two apps, creating…
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#150 Ballistic Ventures' General Partner, former Managing Director at Lightspeed, Jake Seid
Jake Seid is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a VC firm focused on early-stage cybersecurity and security-related venture investments, with a debut fund of $300M. Before working at Ballistic, Jake was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners and founder and...
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#149 Roble Ventures' Founding Partner, Sergio Monsalve
Sergio Monsalve is the Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs building human enablement technologies. Before founding Roble Ventures, Sergio was a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners and the Board Member and Investor of Udemy. He also...
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#148 Maverick Ventures' Managing Director, Ambar Bhattacharyya
Ambar Bhattacharyya is the Managing Director at Maverick Ventures. During his venture capital career at Maverick Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures, Ambar has led or been actively involved in investments resulting in 16 IPOs & acquisitions, with six companies achieving...
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#147 Afore Capital's Managing Partner Gaurav Jain
Gaurav Jain is the Co-founder of Afore Capital, one of the top venture funds ($300M AUM) dedicated to pre-seed investments. Some of the investments Gaurav and/or Afore have been involved in include Modern Health (leading mental health platform), Hightouch (leader in data infra), Cruise Automation...
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#146 Canvas Ventures's Co-Founder and General Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Rebecca is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Canvas Ventures where she leads early-stage investments in Fintech, Healthtech, and AI. Rebecca has been named to the Forbes Midas List five years running, a Woman to Watch: Senior Deal Maker by the Wall Street Journal, and a Top Woman VC by the New...
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#145 OkCupid's Co-Founder, ex-The Match Group's CEO, Corazon Capital's Managing Director, Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan is the co-founder and Managing Director of Corazon Capital, a leading Chicago-based Seed and Series A venture fund. Their portfolio includes companies like SpotHero, Songfinch and Stellar, among others. Prior to Corazon, he served as CEO of ShopRunner and led its 2020 acquisition by…
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#144 MasterClass' CEO David Rogier
David Rogier is the founder and CEO of MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects. Instructors include Anna Wintour, Serena Williams, Gordon Ramsay, Chris Voss (our former guest), and more. With MasterClass at Work, companies…
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#143 Norwest Venture Partners' General Partner, Dave Zilberman (Portfolio: Slack, DocuSign)
Dave Zilberman is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Norwest Venture Partners manages more than $12.5 billion in capital. They have invested in over 600 early-to-late-stage companies, with more than 200 currently active. Dave primarily focuses on early to late-stage investments in...
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#142 M13's Managing Partner, Karl Alomar, ex-COO of DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN)
Karl Alomar is the Managing Partner at M13, a consumer technology venture capital firm with a $400 million fund to invest Seed and Series A startups offering Software and Services into the future of work, commerce, health, and money. M13's portfolios include Daily Harvest, Matterport, Ring,...
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#141 Lead Edge Capital's Founder & Managing Partner, Mitchell Green (Portfolio: Alibaba, Spotify)
Mitchell Green is the founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth-stage investment fund with over $5B AUM investing $25 million to $300 million across public and private tech companies globally. Their portfolio companies are across the internet, software, consumer, and…
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#140 Kindred Ventures' Founder & Managing Partner, Investor of Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Steve Jang
Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. An early-stage VC firm raised $312 million across two new funds in 2022. Over the past 14 years, Steve has backed over 100 companies across different theme areas, including Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Tonal, Color Health, Humane,...
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Sponsor Spotlight: ft. Alumni Ventures' CEO Mike Collins | How to invest in startups as individual investors?
Sponsor Spotlight guest: Alumni Ventures' CEO Mike Collins Welcome to the Smart Venture Podcast's sponsor spotlight, where we take a moment to highlight the companies making our show possible. We're thrilled to feature Alumni Ventures. Alumni Ventures, offers individual investors access to…
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#139 Science's CEO, investor, and board member of Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Michael Jones
Michael Jones is the founder of studio and venture fund Science Inc., where he helps founders scale highly profitable and successful businesses. Mike's portfolio includes Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Myspace, DogVacay, Goodreads, and Maker Studios, to name a few. Prior to Science, Mike served...
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#138 Google's Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping Matt Madrigal
Matt Madrigal is the Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google. In this role, Matt leads the product and engineering teams that build Google Shopping's tools, partner integrations, and infrastructure to help businesses and merchants grow and thrive. Bringing an extensive...
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#137 Wing Venture Capital's Founding Partner, Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner is a Founding Partner of Wing Venture Capital, where he focuses on the Modern Enterprise, an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI. Peter has led investments in dozens of early-stage companies, including Snowflake, Gong, and many others, which have gone on to complete IPOs…
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#136 Precursor Ventures' Managing Partner Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, a classic seed-stage investment firm focusing on B2B software applications, B2C software and services, and connected hardware. Charles also serves as the Board Chair at the National Venture Capital Association and is a lecturer at the...
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#135 Lerer Hippeau's Managing Partner, Ben Lerer
Ben Lerer is the Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, a prominent early-stage venture capital fund in New York City. Lerer Hippeau has a portfolio that includes Allbirds, Glossier, Thrive, BuzzFeed, Warby Parker, Casper, Mirror, and more. Besides his role at Lerer Hippeau, Ben is renowned for...
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#134 Cruise's Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Daniel Kan
Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise, a leading self-driving car company sold to General Motors for over $1 Billion 2 years after its founding. Before building Cruise, Daniel co-founded EXEC with his brother Justin Kan, the founder of Justin.tv (which later became...
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#133 Pear VC's Founding Managing Partner, investor of DoorDash, Mar Hershenson
Mar Hershenson is Pear VC's Founding Managing Partner. Pear VC's portfolio includes DoorDash, Gusto, Affinity, among others. After earning a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Mar co-founded three startups in mobile/e-commerce, enterprise software, and semiconductor...
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#132 Founders Fund's Partner, Brex's ex - CRO, Sam Blond
Sam Blond is a Partner at Founders Fund, a top Venture Capital firm founded by Peter Thiel and other Co-Founders of PayPal. Founders Fund's total assets under management are around $11 Billion (according to TechCrunch 2022), and their portfolio includes SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Facebook, Airbnb,...
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#131 PayPal's VP, ex- CMO of REVOLVE, Co-Founder of Happy Returns, David Sobie
David Sobie is a Vice President at PayPal, and he is also a co-founder of Happy Returns. Happy Returns is a Los Angeles-based software and reverse logistics company that works with online merchants to handle product returns. Their clients include Gymshark, Everlane, Levi's, and Revolve, among…
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#130 Coatue's General Partner, Atlassian's ex-CTO, Sri Viswanath
Sri Viswanath is a General Partner at Coatue, where he leads AI and enterprise investments in private companies. Prior to joining Coatue, Sri served as Atlassian's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), where he oversaw Atlassian's cloud-native journey – assuming responsibility over the building and...
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#129 Tome, AI Storytelling Tool Backed by Lightspeed, Coatue, Greylock Co-Founder & CEO Keith Peiris
Keith Peiris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tome, the AI-native storytelling platform that unlocks your best work. It lets users generate full visual presentations in seconds using simple prompts. In January, Tome became the fastest productivity tool to reach 1M users. Since, it raised a $43…
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#128 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 2 | How to negotiate a brand deal
Casey Rosenberg is a popular TikTok creator with over 3M+ followers and over 500 million views. As a creator, Casey has worked with multiple brands, including Honey, Notion Labs, and ABC, among others. Beyond working as a creator, Casey is also an attorney focusing on business law. You can learn...
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#127 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 1 | How to go viral on TikTok
Casey Rosenberg is a popular TikTok creator with over 3M+ followers and over 500 million views. As a creator, Casey has worked with multiple brands, including Honey, Notion Labs, and ABC, among others. Beyond working as a creator, Casey is also an attorney focusing on business law. You can learn...
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#126 1 Million+ TikTok followers, Noah Jennings, Founder of Compound Creative
Noah Jennings is a popular content creator with over one million followers on TikTok. He is a designer with previous clients, including popular e-commerce brands and top Youtube Creator like Glamnetic (505k+ on IG), Fanjoy (493k+ on IG), Sniperwolf (33M+ on YouTube), and has recently launched his...
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#125 Chapter One's Managing Partner, ex-VP of Tinder, investor in Dapper Labs, Jeff Morris Jr.
Jeff Morris Jr. is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, an early-stage fund backed by Sequoia, Marc Andreessen, and Chris Dixon, among others. Portfolio including Dapper Labs, The Graph, Compound Finance, Moonpay, and many others. Before starting his own fund, Jeff was Tinder's VP,...
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#124 NextVeiw Ventures Co-founder & Partner investor of thredUP, Attentive, TripleLift David Beisel
David Beisel is a Co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, where he invests in technology-driven companies that are redesigning the Everday Economy. Some of his past portfolios include Attentive, TripleLift, Code Climate, Parsec (acquired by Unity for $320M), BookBub, thredUP (IPO'ed)…
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#123 General Catalyst's Managing Director, Investor of Discord, Snap, Audius, Niko Bonatsos
Niko Bonatsos is a Managing Director at General Catalyst where he invests in early-stage companies. Niko focuses his investment strategy on finding first-time technology founders with strong product instincts, a robust appetite for learning, and a desire to create innovations with the potential…
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#122 MasterClass's Investor Board Member Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners Alex Gurevich
Alex Gurevich is a Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners, an early-stage VC fund with portfolio companies like MasterClass, Thumbtack, Carbon Health, Niantic Labs, and many more. Alex serves on multiple boards of startups such as MasterClass, Thumbtack, Pair Eyewear, Mythical Games, and...
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#121 Substack(valued $600M+)'s Co-founder, Hamish McKenzie
Hamish McKenzie is a Co-founder of Substack, a platform that makes it simple to start a paid newsletter. Substack is currently valued at $650 million, and has raised over $80 million dollars from a16z, YC among other top funds. Prior to founding Substack, Hamish is a journalist and former lead...
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#120 M13's General Partner and Investor, Latif Peracha and Mark Grace
Latif Peracha is a General Partner at M13, a venture capital firm with over $900 AUM focused on early-stage consumer technology companies. Latif leads the Web3 strategy for the firm which has invested in Lightning Labs, Stepn, and Nori among many other companies and networks. The broader M13...
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#119 Austin Evans, 5.34M+ subscribers and 1.26B+ views on Youtube (Creator Special)
Austin Evans is a successful American YouTuber and social media influencer who creates videos of technology, from console reviews to comparisons between old and new tech and everything in between. Since starting his channel in 2009, Austin's main channel has gained 1,265,270,681 video views and…
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#118 Kong Pham, 2.4M + on Youtube, Jumpcut (YC backed) & Blu Yam's CEO & founder (Creator Special)
Kong Pham is a YouTuber and video creator with more than 2.4 million subscribers and more than 125 million video views. In his channel, he creates innovative, clever, and fun videos such as social experiments, entrepreneurship advice, and pranks. He is the founder of Jumpcut, a startup that…
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#117 Polo Ralph Lauren's ex-VP, Melissa Cohen
Melissa Cohen is a former Vice President at Polo Ralph Lauren, where she was in charge of production for their iconic Childresnwear line. She later moved to managing production for Chaps Mens and RTW. Prior to that she led production teams at Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ann Taylor, among other...
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#116 SignalFire Partner, ex-Google, McKinsey, KPCB, Wayne Hu
Wayne Hu is a Partner at SignalFire, a multi-billion dollar fund that operates as a technology company comprised of data scientists, engineers, and investors trained at Google, Meta, Slack, General Catalyst, KPCB, and A16z (Andreessen Horowitz). Their portfolio includes Uber, Alchemy, Frame.io…
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#115 Sino Global Capital's Founder and CEO Matthew Graham
Matthew Graham is the founder and CEO of Sino Global Capital, a $200 Million fund with backing from FTX. His prior investments include FTX, FTX.US, Solana, and Polygon, to name a few. Before founding Sino Global Capital, Matthew served as a Managing Director for international business at...
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#114 Index Ventures's Partner Rex Woodbury
Rex Woodbury is a Partner at Index Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage and growth investments in consumer technology businesses. He mainly focuses on online communication, Gen Z, commerce, marketplaces, and the future of work. Before Index, Rex was an investor at TPG Growth and The Rise…
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The best information diet for future CEOs. Subscribe to our video podcast on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/GraceGongSmartVenturePodcastHost Grace Gong talks to the most influential people in business, venture capital, and tech. From executives to billionaire founders, Grace helps you get smarter one episode at the time.SVPpro.com LinkedIn: @GraceGong IG/Tw: @GraceGongGGFB: @SmartVenturePodcast
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