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Spotlight On is a business podcast hosted by Accel. It has 62 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Spotlight On is a podcast about how companies are built, from the people doing the building. We take you behind the scenes to hear from founders and builders about what they did, what they learned… and what they’ll never do again. This series is produced by Accel, a global venture capital firm. Learn more at Accel.com/SpotlightOn.

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BONUS: Armadin's Kevin Mandia | On Redefining Security in a New Age of Threats

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Q&A with Zhenya Loginov: the Euro founder flywheel, 2025 IPOs, and leveling up from PLG

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Bonus Episode: n8n’s Jan Oberhauser on building the Excel of AI

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VBSR 1.07: Education's Big Transformation

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VBSR 1.06: AI Leaves the Chatbox

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Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang

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VBSR 1.04: Lovable, talent wars, and the changing $100m milestone

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Bonus: Anton Osika on how Lovable’s creating a world of builders

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VBSR 1.03: Scale, Circle, and Exits 101

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Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on translating bold visions into operational excellence

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Veza’s Tarun Thakur on excelling at go-to-market at every stage

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VBSR 1.02: The geography advantage + customer anthropology + a taste for taste

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True Anomaly’s Even Rogers on failing forward to achieve mission success

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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on the security arms race

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Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on bold visions for the future delivered incrementally

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*Live from Accel’s 2025 People Summit* Behind the Netflix Culture Deck with Patty McCord and Jessica Neal

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VBSR 1.01: RTO is back (again) + data moats dry up + Sara vibecodes

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Tines’s Eoin Hinchy on rejecting the playbooks

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Supabase’s Paul Copplestone on the difference between “playing startup” and strategy

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*S3 Feature* Transcend’s Kate Parker on putting data back into the hands of users in an AI-driven world

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*RSA Preview* CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company

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*RSA Preview* 1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape

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Corelight’s Brian Dye on What He’s Learned About Scaling

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Graphite’s Merrill Lutsky on Revolutionizing Code Review for the AI Era

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G2’s Godard Abel on How the “Yelp for Software” is Adapting to AI Buying and Discovery

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Speak CEO Connor Zwick on Building the Next Great Language Learning App

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Nebius’s Arkady Volozh on What it Takes to Build Infrastructure Needed for the AI Era

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It’s Time to Build a Better Internet, with Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun

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How Decagon Dominated the B2B Agentic AI Market in Just Two Years

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How Laravel’s Taylor Otwell Builds Products and Community that Drive Organic Growth | S3E2

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What VSCO’s Joel Flory Has Learned About Leadership, Scaling, and Building Generational Companies | S3E1

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Spotlight On Season 3 Trailer

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How Sentry's David Cramer Turned an Open Source Side Project into a $3B Business | S2Bonus2

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How Linear’s Karri Saarinen is Redefining What Scale Looks Like | S2Bonus

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1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape | S2E14

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Wonder’s Marc Lore on blending vision and execution | S2E13

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Chainalysis’ Jackie Burns Koven on building trust in new technologies | S2E12

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Netskope’s Sanjay Beri on aspiring to be an iconic company through controlled innovation | S2E11

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ConductorOne’s Alex Bovee on the critical ingredients of a high-growth startup | S2E10

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Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses on creating a playbook for a product that’s never been built before | S2E9

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Gamma’s Jon Noronha on how early-stage startups can challenge industry incumbents | S2E8

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Remote’s Marcelo Lebre on the future of the global workforce | S2E7

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Accel’s Amit Kumar and Ivan Zhou on being an effective startup partner when things don’t go according to plan | S2E6

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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company | S2E5

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Sysdig’s Suresh Vasudevan on embracing a “challenger mindset” | S2E4

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Syrup’s James Theuerkauf on building an AI-powered product that cuts through the noise | S2E3

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Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin on the biggest lessons learned from bootstrapping and raising capital | S2E2

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Klaviyo’s Andrew Bialecki on proving a tech startup can be built anywhere | S2E1

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Spotlight On Season 2 | Official Trailer

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Accel’s Vas Natarajan, Sara Ittelson, and Casey Aylward share insights and predictions from this season of Spotlight On: AI | S1E13

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