All Episodes

Found: Taking on Nvidia and betting on transformers with Gavin Uberti from Etched

Aerospace Corp's CEO talks literal moonshots and Space Agenda 2025

The AI industry's 'next big bet,' and should we just buy Chrome?

Building trust in crypto with Jonathan Levin of Chainalysis

Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the LVMPD - and why it matters

Marc Benioff says it’s ‘crazy talk’ that AI will hurt Salesforce

Trump's election throws tech regulation a curveball

How startups can get a foot in the door of government contracts, according to Dcode Capital

Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck's vision for the space industry's future

Equity Live: Bret Taylor’s $4.5 billion startup and Waymo’s $5.6 billion round

Stripe's biggest acquisition yet, and what's a16z doing with all of those Nvidia GPUs?

The race isn’t over for European AI startups, according to Accel Parther Philippe Botteri

Investor FOMO is back, and what's happening with WordPress and WP Engine?

Tesla’s bot non-disclosure and why humanoid robots are taking off

AI ‘no one wants’ and Google’s potential breakup

Investors are betting on user-generated content, and Gamebeast's founder explains why

YC takes a bite out of PearAI, and French startups have a new home

Found: Has Rippling won? with Parker Conrad from Rippling

Green flags for defense tech and Silicon Valley's longevity obsession

The hydrogen plateau and IRA funding crutch with Toyota Ventures' Lisa Coca

'Super weird' is the best way to describe this startup's pivot

JP Morgan's head of startup banking says 'Founder Mode' won't get you a unicorn

AI's tween years, who's taking over climate tech, and the latest for Fearless Fund

AI illusions and navigating The Money Trap with Alok Sama

Equity Shot: Here's what you missed at Apple's 'Glowtime' event

The AI secondary shares market is giving Beanie Babies economics

Inside startup shutdowns with the creator of Layoffs.FYI (re-run)

Telegram founder's arrest, and who's using acqui-hires to tip-toe around antitrust

Are Google's monopoly cases 5 years too late or 2 years too early?

AI talent managers, technocapitalist college towns, and a rise in defense tech acquisitions

Is there a right way to regulate AI? (w. Helen Toner)

AI for landlords, Grok-2 unleashed, and the latest attempt at AI regulation

Found: Getting realistic about AI’s potential with Nick Frosst from Cohere

Maybe it's a good thing that we're not seeing too many AI unicorns

Flourish Ventures on repeat founders, emerging markets, and when not to hop on the AI bandwagon

AI Friends, deepfake foes, and which Tiger Global partner is leaving now

Global startup funding is picking up with AI still in the spotlight

Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition, and why is Twitch still losing money?

Alphabet is clearly looking to buy, so who's selling, and why did Wiz say no?

Cracking the AI and consumer code with early Zoom-backer Maven Ventures

CrowdStrike’s fallout, where Harris stands on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes

Silicon Valley's impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin

If the music stops, what startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners' co-founders are finding out

Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue

There's always something happening to OpenAI's board

Floodgate's Mike Maples says startups that people 'don't like' may be the best ones to back

A new trend for Seed VCs, and the scariest part about OpenAI's data breach

Jon McNeill on VC 2.0 and creating startups in house

AI-powered drug development, VW teams up with Rivian, and DEI is 'bad'

Y Combinator sets its sights on D.C. with Luther Lowe

The EU's DMA is coming for Apple, and X bots are on the loose

Ilya Sutskever's new AI venture, and time to BeReal about bankruptcy

Do co-CEOs make sense?

Black founders are tailoring the ChatGPT experience, and crypto makes a comeback

Musk v. OpenAI, and how can startups compete with Apple Intelligence?

NEA’s Vanessa Larco says generative AI will change the SaaS pricing model - and that’s a good thing

Byju's valuation shakeup and what's ahead for WWDC

Robinhood's crypto bet, AI-powered healthcare, and more on the fall of Fisker

Every startup has AI in their pitch deck and they should according to Forerunner Ventures' Eurie Kim

Inside the demise of EV startup Fisker, and X's new rules allow adult content

Who's (not) IPO-ing and what's going on with BaaS?

Peering into the 'Series A chasm' with Everywhere Ventures' Jenny Fielding

Musk’s xAI raises fresh capital while Synapse’s bankruptcy could impact millions

The new Equity crew on a proposed AI 'kill switch' and why it's rough out there for VCs

Here's how startups can crack the US market, according to Australian VCs

Maven takes the clout-chasing out of social media as Reddit teams up with OpenAI

AI's busy week, and why the heck are so many VCs leaving their firms?

Newchip's bankruptcy is a cautionary tale for founders

OpenAI gears up for a big announcement, and Apple Store workers authorize a strike

Acquisitions are heating up, and Mercury eyes the fintech crown

$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups

Dorsey leaves Bluesky, tech giants do more with less, and the next IPO

Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech

A new venture capital supergroup is forming

Musk’s xAI shows there’s more money on the sidelines for AI startups

Good news for Rubrik, bad news for TikTok, and encouraging news for Early Stage startups

The TikTok ban clears key hurdle while Perplexity AI continues to shake up search

Salesforce's silly deal dies as we keep our eyes on Ibotta and Rubrik

Notable Capital's Hans Tung on the state of VC and the upside to down rounds

Tesla’s busy week, and is fintech having a moment?

An $11B bonanza for space startups, and where is all that a16z money going?

OpenAI plans new Tokyo office as Tesla layoffs arrive

Beeper acquired by Automattic, fintech's decline and YC's lack of LatAm founders

A $60M venture fund with a twist, and more startup-on-startup acquisitions

Spotify’s new AI playlists, the US’s latest chip deal, and a shot at data privacy

What we've learned from the women behind the AI revolution

From YC to IPO: Winter 2024 Demo Day, Rubrik and Ibotta

Nvidia might be clouding the funding climate for AI chip startups, but Hailo is still fighting

Ads on Discord, AT&T passcode resets, and podcast changes for Android users

SBF's sentencing, Databricks' GPT rival, and who's investing in the "underdog" founders

Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay

Spotify throws its hat in the edtech ring

A $700M SAFE, more IPOs, and how one venture fund is transcending borders

Astera Labs going public and the Inflection-Microsoft AI saga

LinkedIn wants a piece of Wordle’s success

How to avoid all the IPO work without annoying investors

Startups are hiring fewer workers and paying out less in equity comp

Musk’s Grok goes open-source and Reddit updates its IPO filing

How many startups shut down last year compared to the year before? A lot.

What's the Deel with Remofirst, and why are VCs playing musical chairs?