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Fireside with a VC — 141 episodes · page 1 of 2
E136 — Are We in an AI Bubble? OpenAI, Anthropic & Higgsfield’s #3 in the world to hit $1B
E135: Category Creators—The Secret to Venture Success | Eric Ver Ploeg of Tunitas Ventures
E134 Partnering with VCs on Pro Rata Equity Rights - Sharing Economics with VCs on their best deals
E133: Exploring Sports Tech & Founders' Relationships with Chris Wilkerson of 51 Ventures
E132 INFORMATION RIGHTS: The Clause That Saves Founders | Arthur Bavelas + Andrew Romans
Building the Future of Manufacturing with AI – Insights from Tyson Tuttle (former CEO of $8B acquisition of Austin’s Silicon Labs)
E130: VC Secondaries — ROFRs, SPVs, Fees, and How Not to Get Blocked
E129 — Silicon Valley Real Estate – Selling Google their first building - Barry DiRaimondo, CEO, SteelWave
E128 — Biju Ashokan (CEO, Radius): AI-native operating system for real estate brokers
E127 AI-native all-in-one CRM | Simo Lemhandez, CEO, Folk on Fireside with a VC
E126| Fabrice Grinda, General Partner, FJ Labs | AI valuations angel at scale
E125 | Arvin Grover, General Partner, Digital Health Venture Partners – AI in Healthcare
How VC Fund of Funds (FoF) Work
How Venture Capital Funds Work
E124 | John Frankel of ff Venture Capital on AI Point Solutions (AIPS), Energy, Manufacturing & Fund Size Strategy
EE123 7BC’s Fund of Funds + Cherry-Pick Direct VC Strategy + Invitation to 7BC VC-LP-Startup Events
E122 Fireside Chat at Global VC Demo Day London June 2025 with Neil Foster & Scott Smedresman
E121 Mark Terbeek, Partner at Greycroft, Founder-Investor-Fit on Fireside with a VC
E120 Future of finance, banking, payments w/ Greg Kidd, legendary Silicon Valley investor & founder
EE119 – Terzo: AI Startup Selling into the Fortune 500 with Brandon Card
E118 Voice AI with Phonely.ai CEO Will Bodewes on Fireside with a VC
E117 How to Develop Business Relationships w/ CEO of 4Degrees
E116 Nada CityFunds a new way to own real estate w/ Tore Steen
EE115 Intel Capital, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) putting the silicon back in Silicon Valley
E114 How Antler became the most active VC globally so quickly
E113 AI for VC Fund Admin, Compliance, Tax & Portfolio Construction: pay less perform better
E112 K&L Gates Navigating Term Sheets
E111 Breakup big tech monopolies? Nava VC & Stanford Prof Manish Patel
E110 Austin, TX Venture Capital, ATX Ventures Chris Shonk
E109 Pre-Seed VC RSCM, 2k+ investments since 2012
E108 Morgan Stanley Funding African American, Latino & Woman Startups
E107 Scenario Planning for China & Asia, Silicon Valley & China
E106 Ex-Head of Eric Schmidt’s Family Office, CFO of Sybase, Excite@Home, Siebel, Fortinet, Yahoo!
#105 Ex-President of TiE Silicon Valley, Chair of TiE Global, founder of Monta Vista Capital, Seed VC
#104 Tax secretes for founders & tech execs RSUs, AMT, ISO, 83(b) elections
#103, Cut costs, grow revs, raise or not raise more VC – Canadian episode!
#102, Revolution Ventures, Tige Savage cofounded w/ Steve Case
#101, Andrew Romans on American Dreams Show with Alen Olsen
#100, Calculating valuations & how much capital to raise, Vibhor Rastogi, Global Head of AI investments at Citi Ventures
#99, Using retirement IRA accounts to invest in VC funds w/ Matthew Calhoun at Equity Trust
#98, How much funding to raise at what valuation with Eric Ver Ploeg, Founding Partner, Tunitas Ventures
#97, The future of AI with Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon $159m VC funding
#96, Legal terms, governance & valuations for up, flat & down rounds with Fenwick’s Kristine Di Bacco
Episode #95, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Peter Berg, Managing Director
Episode #94, Business with China now and in 2024
Episode #93, VC Panel Part Questions from Audience @7BC San Francisco Event Nov. 14, 2023
Episode #92, VC Panel Part I @7BC San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023
Episode #91, VC Panel Part II @7BC San Francisco event Nov 14, 2023
Episode #90, Down rounds & pay-to-pay provisions, raising at a lower valuation
Episode #89, Jarred Kessler, CEO, EasyKnock fintech, real-estate tech
#88, QSBS not paying tax on capital gains
Episode #87, Lessons from new book “Smart Startups” interviews w/ Blue Apron & 17 other VC backed startups
Episode #86 Flint Capital investing in Israeli startups coming to the USA
Episode #85 Building startups on SalesForce – Place RevOps automation and connectivity
#84 Flipping Your Business into the United States w/ Roger Royse
#83, Aiden software automation & cybersecurity SaaS company for enterprises
#82, Understanding pre & post SAFEs, convertible notes vs priced rounds with Daniel Zimmermann, Partner, WilmerHale
#81, Sway Ventures, Brian Nugent, Founding General Partner
#80, neonVest – how to instantly get Zooms with VCs & Superchargers
#79, Band of Angels - Round table discussion with one of Silicon Valley’s most active angel groups
#78, Jack Guedj, Band of Angels, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest & most active angel groups
#77, Andrew Romans talking startup valuations and the current environment for VC financings w/ generative AI w/ US Angels Group
#74, Charles Hudson, Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures on Generative AI
#76, Claus Skaaning, CEO of DigiShares tokenizing real estate assets
#75, Hadley Harris, cofounder, ENIAC Ventures, NYC Seed Fund
Episode #73, VC Insight Panel, 7BC Event NYC March 7 2023
Episode #72, Krishna Srinivas, cofounder, LiveOak Venture Partners
Episode #71, Andrea Lamari, General Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)
Episode #70, John Frankel, cofounder, ff Venture Capital in New York, Poland & Ukraine
Episode #69, Martin Tobias, founder, Incisive Ventures in Seattle on Fireside with a VC
Episode #68, Steve Brotman, Managing Partner, Alpha Partners & Advisor to the Pritzker Family Office
Episode #67, Mike Smerklo, cofounder, Next Coast Ventures, $600m+ Austin-based VC
Episode #66, Mark diTargiani, explaining Venture Debt & Relationships, Pacific Western Bank
Episode #65, Alex Moore, Partner at 8VC, 1st employee at Palantir, Defense focused VC
Episode #64, Greg Coquillo, latest trends in Generative AI, AI/ML & 160k LinkedIn followers
Episode #63, Dan Harvey, Vice Chairman of CBRE, WaaS - Workplace as a Service
Episode #62, Brandon Metcalf, CEO of Place, challenges for SaaS companies today
Episode #61, Kyle Kling, Head of MDI Ventures, the CVC of Telekom Indonesia, 4th largest country in the world by population @Chapman University
Episode #60, Chuck Newhall, cofounder of NEA, author of Dare to Disturb the Universe, A Memoir of Venture Capital
Episode #59, Arthur Bavelas, Family Office Insights, recession, secondaries, LPs in the VC process
Andrew Romans talking VC and presenting Fund III with old friends in DC
Episode #58, Early Stage VC in Africa with Marsha Wulff, cofounder of LoftyInc Capital Management
Episode #57, John Vitti, CEO of Versus Game on campus at Chapman University
#56, Update on the war in Ukraine from the front lines in Kiev with Eric Kadyrov, Founder at Private Tech Network.
Episode #55, Secondaries & VC performance metrics
Episode #54 Brian Laung Aoaeh, GP @REFASHIOND Ventures on Fireside with a VC
Episode #53 Nathan Beckord, CEO @Foudersuite on Fireside with a VC
Episode #52 Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures on Fireside with a VC
Episode #51 Kelly Perdew, MP of Moonshots Capital on Fireside with a VC
Episode #50 Alan Patricof, founder of Greycroft, Apax & Primetime Partners and Abby Levy on Fireside with a VC
Episode #49 Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, CEO and General Partner BootstrapLabs, AI focused VC on Fireside with a VC
Episode #48 John Vitti, founder & CEO of VersusGame, a prediction game of culture on Fireside with a VC
Episode #47 Niran Shrestha, founder & CEO of Kwant AI, NYC SaaS for construction industry
Episode #45 Zach Coelius, brutal war story with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
Episode #45 Ryan Welsh, CEO & cofounder of Kyndi, Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI company, raised $43m in funding from 7BC Venture Capital, Dick Kramlich, Pivot North, Darling Ventures
Episode #44 Brad Feld, MD, Foundry Group, VC fund with nearly $3 billion of AUM
Episode #44 Brian Cohen, General Partner, New York Venture Partners (NYVP), Chairman Emeritus, New York Angels
#42 Masterclass on M&A for investors and VC-backed startups with Yuri Rabinovich, MD at Tribe V
Episode #41 LD Mangan CEO, Confiant, leader in cybersecurity malvertising - Fireside with a VC
Episode #40 Jonathan Fish, CEO of QSBS Expert, how to pay zero taxes on your QSBS gain up to $10m+