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Innovation with Mark Peter Davis — 150 episodes
The Rise of Private Credit: How $1T in Capital Is Reshaping Finance
Defying Gravity: A Lookback At 2025 & Deep Dive Into The Macro Forces Shaping 2026
Saving Healthcare: How Meroka Is Empowering Doctors To Stay Independent
The Power of Suggestion: Inside the Psychology of High-Stakes Selling
The Gold Standard for Seed VC: Inside Primary
2026 Predictions Episode
ROI Driven Philanthropy with Mark Gerson
Building Ethical Businesses and Raising Conscious Leaders
David vs. Goliath: Winning When You're the Underdog
Scaling Smart: Unlocking Startup Growth with Outsourcing
How to Know If Your Startup Idea Is Big Enough to Win
Garry Tan of Y Combinator: How Innovation Is Changing
The Legal Blueprint for Startups: What Founders Must Know Before Incorporating
China 2025: The Big Picture & On-the-Ground Insights
Art or Science? The Secrets & Methods Behind Seed-Stage Startup Valuations
Shoveling $h!t: Startup Cheat Codes & New Book from Serial Founders Kass & Mike Lazerow
Tackling Taxes: What Every Startup Needs to Know
2025 Predictions Episode
How to Fund Your Startup: Navigating the Full Spectrum of Investor Options
Reimagining Storytime: Wendy's Mission to Reinvent Reading for Kids
How Much Equity Should You Give Early Employees? A Guide to Structuring Your Startup’s Cap Table to Fuel Growth and Attract Investors
Future of Warfare: How Rapid Innovation is Affecting Military Strategy
Decoding Startup Funding: The Art and Science Behind Determining Your Raise
Fighting Business Fraud: How BizDefender Protects Small Companies
Apple's Big AI Reveal + A Breakdown of Pay-to-Play
Global Market Recap: 2024 Mid-Year Analysis
Building Your B2C Customer Base: A Step-by-Step Guide
Diversification Demystified: Creating a Balanced Portfolio
The Human Factor: How Hiring Shapes Your Organization
A Deep Dive Into Vertical Software
The Downstream Effect of Reddit's IPO, Implications of the Residential Realtor Settlement, and What Boeing's Struggles Means for American Industry.
Impact of AI Across Real Estate and Various Sectors: A Discussion at The Annual Columbia Business School Real Estate Symposium
Doing Things that Don't Scale: Unpacking An Important Concept for Startups
Are We Having a Soft Landing on a Minefield?
How to Effectively Test Your MVP
The Impact of Conflict on Israel’s Startup Ecosystem
Using Space To Make Life Better On Earth with Dylan Taylor of Voyager Space
2024 Predictions Episode
Are Rate Cuts Coming? Breaking Down this Week's Big Fed Announcement.
Level Up Your Life: A List of Helpful Apple Features, Apps, Software and Must Reads
Entrepreneurial Essentials: The Pillars of Founder Success
Unraveling Market Mysteries: A Deep Dive with Chris Zhang on Fed Influence and Global Turbulence
Mastering Pricing Strategy: Unveiling the Art of Business Positioning
Creating Value for Real Estate Investors by Creating Value for People with Amy Rubenstein of Clear Investment Group LLC
The Boardroom Blueprint: Maximizing Investor Relationships for Entrepreneurs
What a lackluster IPO market means for the venture ecosystem + insights on the changing VC landscape
Our 100th Episode! How to pivot your startup and why it’s important / shouldn’t get a bad rap.
Navigating the Changing Financial Landscape: A Conversation on Interest Rates, Politics, and Market Outlook
Prepare Your Mind: Nutrition for Mental Wellbeing and Hygiene with Zak Williams of PYM
Is a VC market upswing coming? Plus, how to hit the ground running after the summer slow down & how to craft a compelling value proposition.
Summer Survival Guide for Founders: How to Navigate the Lull, Fundraising Tactics and Useful Parenting Strategies
The Secrets to Managing Distributed Teams with Adam Nathan of Almanac
How to construct a team and make your first hires + has the initial AI hype bubble burst?
The importance of KPIs and how to avoid analysis paralysis
Effects of the recent debt ceiling resolution, the dichotomy of the stock market and bond market, and the butterknife problem
Approaching Venture Capital with Intention w/ Seth Levine of Foundry
Ethics in the portfolio/VC relationship + a step by step guide for iterating your MVP
Unlocking Capital: The Power of Venture Debt for Startups with Billy Libby of Upper90
The ultimate guide to bootstrapping your startup + a conversation about the recalibration of Series C valuations
China Has Arrived: A Deep Dive Into China's Tech Surge and Increased Standard of Living with Chris Zhang, Partner & CIO of Interplay Family Office
The Secret to Building A Killer Minimum Viable Product + How to Bank Without the Panic: A Brainstorm on How to Stop Bank Runs
How the AI horse race will impact the future of search, validating your MVP, is the dark cloud of the FTX scandal gone and an update on the inflation battle
Solving the Multi-Generational Wealth Puzzle with Taylor Adams of Belief Partners
How & when to build your startup’s sales team, a discussion about the open governance opportunities that come with crypto, and a deep dive into the modern tech-enabled restaurant industry with Vivian Wang of Landed
The game theory of a bank run, navigating advisor relationships, and bond laddering explained
Banking Madness: A before and after analysis of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, plus what really happened with Silvergate
Tax tips for startups, content checkin including our go to sources for news, and indexing against sandbagging
How to Build & Develop a Venture Capital Firm with Peter Hebert of Lux Capital
A breakdown of the tech innovation cycle, Tesla’s recall, the importance of customer support, Brett is back with a state of crypto and blockchain update, and spy balloon madness
VC pace is picking up, messy earnings results, and Startup Tip of the Week: How startups land partnerships Part 2
The power of partnerships for startups, Q1 tech earnings, surprise January jobs data + interview with Tomer Biger of Noble about embedded finance
The new Series A is the old Series A… again, the institutionalization of venture capital, B2B pricing strategies, the strength of USD, and households are starting conserve capital
2023 Predictions & How Founders Should Navigate The Near Future
Is AI going to replace us, Co-Founder relationship management, China’s updated Covid policy, and Russian oil price cap
VC deal flow is down and insider rounds are up, Apple’s in-app purchase policy and what it mean for mobile blockchain adoption, China’s zero Covid policy protests, and community building startup advice
Twittertainment, social media strategies for startups, how to use crypto principles to avoid another FTX + interview with Jehan Luth of Banyan
Partner Meeting: Are tech layoffs an indicator of what’s to come, CPI data that’s not bad news, FTX and the ensuing crypto mayhem, and how to build marketplaces
The danger of overcapitalizing a startup, Reddit releases NFTs, pricing strategies + interview with Alon Talmor of Ask-AI
Doing Good Can Make You Money with Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Partner Meeting: What founders should do when deals aren’t getting done, China’s 20th National Congress results and what it means for the global economy, Q3 earnings start to roll in, OFAC sanctions in crypto, and should you have a co-founder
The Fintech VC Powerhouse & Penetrating the LATAM Market with Mike Packer of QED Investors
Partner Meeting: Resetting the bones of the economy, work-life integration, interoperability and Cosmos, and the importance of customer insights
Reimagining Surrogacy with Dr. Brian Levine of Nodal
Partner Meeting: VC’s current pace, corporations and NFT adoption, BOE's intervention attempt & Interplay’s Superman Analysis
Growth Hacking With PR with Gregory Galant of Muck Rack and The Shorty Awards
FICO Scores: A Complete Breakdown with Freddie Huynh
LATAM Awakening as a Tech Hub | Jose Bonilla, Co-Founder & CEO of Chiper
Summer Break 2022 Announcement
Next Gen Sports Media with Dan Porter of Overtime
Making Crypto Accessible to the Masses with Michael Sonnenshein of Grayscale Investments
Democratizing Machine Learning to Predict the Future with Richard Harris of Black Crow AI
How to Sell Your Startup with Andrew Gazdecki of MicroAcquire
Solving The Admin Nightmare For Private Markets with Ryan Eisenman of Arch
20% of Children Have Learning Differences, This Startup Is Here to Help | Diana Heldfond of Parallel
The Contrarian VC with Jeremy Levine of Bessemer Venture Partners
The Inside Scoop on the US Healthcare System with Chas Sanders of MARGIN
The Secret to Raising Capital for Your Company or VC Fund with Jason Kirby of Thunder.vc
NFT 2.0: Creating Real Value with Sterling Campbell of Minotaur
The King of Marketplaces with Fabrice Grinda of FJ Labs
Using Tech to Cure the Opioid Epidemic with Zack Gray of Ophelia
How To Get A Job In VC with John Gannon of The VC Careers Blog and GoingVC
From ConnectU to SumZero, The Journey of Divya Narendra
Tovala: Building a Subscription Unicorn with David Rabie, Co-Founder & CEO of Tovala
Blitzscale or Die: A How to Guide For Startups & Founders with Chris Yeh of Blitzscaling Ventures
Helping Homeowners Access Trapped Home Equity with Jarred Kessler of EasyKnock
The Ultimate Personalized Journey For Customers with Vivek Sharma of Movable Ink
Winter Break Announcement
Emotional Learning Products for Kids… and Their Parents with the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Slumberkins
Reimagining The Furniture Industry with Stephen Kuhl of Burrow
Helping Renters Get Into Homes with Michael Rudoy of Jetty
Debt Financing & Venture Capital: An Unlikely Synergy with Ali Hamed of CoVenture
How do we teach 2B children? Democratizing Access to Tutors With AI | Nhon Ma of Numerade
Killing Debt With Tech To Save Americans w/ Jason Saltzman of Relief
Operator Turned VC: How Eniac Ventures Acts Like A Startup Player-Coach w/ Nihal Mehta, Co-Founder of Eniac Ventures
What WeWork Taught Us & The PR Playbook w/ Maureen Farrell of The New York Times and The Cult of We
The Next VC Frontier & Inside Silicon Valley w/ Sam Lessin, GP at Slow Ventures & Co-Founder of Fin
US-China: Tech, Politics and Avoiding War w/ Zheng Huang of Committee of 100
VC Lessons From A VC Founder and Professor at Columbia Business School | Angela Lee of 37 Angels
New Orleans: A Blossoming Tech & Innovation Hub w/ Hal Callais of Callais Capital
How New York State Is Becoming the CleanTech Capital with John Lochner of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
The Playbook for Starting A Food Company w/ Mike Tarullo of Banza
Summer Break Announcement!
Meet My Mentor: Lessons From Veteran Venture Capitalist & Entrepreneur Jed Katz of Javelin VP
How to Profit from NFTs & Redefining Professional Networking w/ Alex Taub, Co-Founder & CEO of Upstream
What LPs Wish GPs Knew According To One Of The Best LPs In The Industry, Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners
Online Ordering Software for Restaurants w/ Noah Glass of Olo
Tech-Enabling Children's Healthcare w/ Darius Monsef, Founder & CEO of Brave Care
Digitizing the Lottery: How to Partner With The Government w/ Peter Sullivan, CEO of Jackpocket
VC School Is In Session! Valuable VC lessons from a Harvard Business School professor Jeff Bussgang
The Real Estate Tech Revolution with David S. Rose, Founder & CEO of US Real Estate Market
Building A $30B AUM Unicorn with Jon Stein, Founder of Betterment
The Midwest Startup Boom w/ Nick Moran of New Stack of Ventures
You Should Start Your Company In Atlanta | A convo with David Cummings of the Atlanta Tech Village, one of the country's largest innovation hubs
Techstars: Behind the Scenes of their Global Venture Capital Operation with Founder & Chairman David Cohen
The Future of Healthcare: In-Home Medicine w/ Zeel Founder & CEO Samer Hamadeh
Innovation in Los Angeles & Using Social Media as a Business Professional w/ Upfront Ventures Managing Partner Mark Suster
The Empathic VC: Supporting Founders & Giving Startups Time To Develop w/ Josh Stein of Threshold
This is how to win in venture capital with Greycroft Co-Founder & Partner Ian Sigalow
How VCs Get Money: The Capital Behind Venture Capital
Saving Earth by inventing new materials with Andras Forgacs, Co-Founder & CEO of Modern Meadow
Legal Cannabis in America with Ryan G. Smith, Co-Founder & CEO of LeafLink
The truth about wine with Philip James, Founder & CEO Penrose Hill / Firstleaf
Teaching the world how to code with Codecademy Co-Founder & CEO Zach Sims
Why Israel innovates faster & the role of community with Yaron Samid serial entrepreneur & Founder of TechAviv
Inside a Mega VC & University Entrepreneurship with Partner Peter Boyce II Partner at General Catalyst
Tech-enabled parenting, marketing wizardry and activating communities with Lisa Barnett Co-Founder, President, and CMO of Little Spoon
Winning in the enterprise space & the future of work with Jeff Wald Founder of WorkMarket
The truth about the space industry with Max Haot CEO of Launcher
Rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11, office space in a COVID shaped future, and the #1 investment to make in life with Tal Kerret of Silverstein Properties
Innovation with Mark Peter Davis