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Sand Hill Road — 193 episodes

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Jack Leeney of 7GC: Why IPOs Are Optional Now

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Entrepreneurs First: Investing Before the Idea

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Rudina Seseri Knew AI Was Cool Before You Did

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Adeo Ressi: Why the World Needs More Venture Capitalists

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Who Wins When ChatGPT Does the Searching?

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Brewing Medicine: Christina Smolke and the Race to Reinvent Drug Manufacturing

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Dr. Ed Engleman: Vivo Capital’s Cancer Hacker

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The Fastest Startup in Tech: Maria Palma on Lovable

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Design First, Lean Always: The Gamma Playbook

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Physics & AI: N47’s TJ Rylander Is Reimagining Engineering

11

Rewiring the Special Relationship with the UK's AI Minister

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Eugene Malobrodsky's Bet on Immigrant Founders

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Christina Farr: The Storyteller's Advantage

14

Abhinav Asthana: Building for Developers, Not Headlines

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Katelin Holloway's Billion-Dollar Box Scores

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Ireland’s Big Bet on Silicon Valley

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NEA's Aaron Jacobson on Robotics, AI Startups and Defense Innovation

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Steven Lee: From Last Kid Picked Up to Earliest Money In

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Rehan Jalil's Four Wins and a Vision

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The Meme is the Message: Kanyi Maqubela on Crypto, Culture, and the Future of Value

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Heavybit Announces Its Largest Raise Yet: $180m

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2025 Summer VC Reading List

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The Systems Leader vs The Lone Wolf with Robert Siegel

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From MySpace to Liquid Death: Mike Jones on Building Brands People Love

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Practicing Venture Not Performing It: Joseph Alalou’s Outsider Ethos

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Biotech and Bold Bets with Jessica Owens, Inititate Ventures

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Masha Bucher Day One Ventures

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Lori Rosenkopf's Unstoppable Entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurship through the eyes of Navin Chaddha

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Larry Gadea's startup journey

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Bobby Franklin’s unkillable movie monster

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How AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape

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Diagnosing diseases and saving lives with AI

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AI 's role in developing category killer therapeutics

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Fungus among us? 'Canadian values' in the Bay Area VC market

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Why does Steve Vassallo of Foundation Capital choose to invest early?

37

A $40 Million Investment in Exploding Kittens

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Bay Area Venture Market Remains King

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San Francisco's Death is Greatly Exaggerated

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Mike Schroepfer is Saving the World, One Big Step at a Time

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Brian Cho is Ready to Play

42

Michael Marks of Celesta Capital

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Rob Smith of M13

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Mike Maples Jr. on Pattern Breakers

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James Joaquin's World Positive Outlook

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"Astounding and Inevitable": SVB's Second Act

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Friends & Family Capital

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Scott Beechuk is Bullish on SF

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2024 VC Reading List

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GV's Frédérique Dame's "win win win approach"

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Samyr Laine's Celebrity Investments

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Liquid Death and Dollar Shave Investor Mike Jones

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The Godfather of Israeli Cybersecurity

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Elad Gil: The Most Sought-After Angel Investor in the Valley

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Bornstein's Rule of 30

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The Skinny With TPB's Bharat Vasan

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Network Effects with James Currier

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Frederik Groce of Wellington Access Ventures

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Ganesh Bell: Responsible AI Agreement

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Makena's Lara Banks

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IVP's Somesh Dash Goes to Washington

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Accel Invests in Tailscale

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Microsoft M12's Michelle Gonzalez

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John Roa: Get Rich And Die Trying

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A 30,000 Foot View of Venture With Brian Schettler

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Techstars Maëlle Gavet

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Raising Series B: The Q3 Crunchbase Report

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From Bomb Shelter to Venture to CEO

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Hooman Radfar's Mom Doesn't Need to Worry

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Immigrants Unshackled

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Hey Senator! Listen to This Before the AI Meeting

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Rajeev Dham: Make Sure the Emperor Has Clothes

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Anshu Agarwal Brings Women-Led Converge to Silicon Valley

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Behind the Doors of a Silicon Valley Layoff

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AI Exit: Casetext Sells For $650 Million

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"Take Big Swings"

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Playground Global's Jory Bell

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One to Grow On

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Crypto and Dad Jokes

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2023 VC Reading List

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Managing Energy: Amit Chaturvedy

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Please Don't Drink the Alternative Asset

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Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha on Risk

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Tomasz Tunguz Can’t Find a Bank

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Allison Baum Gates: Breaking Into Venture

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Deus Ex Artificialis Intelligentia

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Kristina Simmons on Startup Stress

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What to Do When Your Balance Sheet Doesn't

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"If we could measure moxie, we would"

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Navigating a Downturn

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Big, Sudden Changes in China

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Peter Levine's Biggest Climb

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China, America and Our Shared Future

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Hangry: A Startup Journey

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SC Moatti on Great Products

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Exit Path: Winning the Startup Game

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The Accidental VC

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"A woman, a man, a dog or a rock"

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NVCA Chair Emily Melton

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Will Glaser: Take the Cookies, Leave the Data

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Maryam Haque Welcomes Your Questions

102

Shaan Gandhi is Not Copernicus

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Goodyear Ventures' Erin Spring

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B Capital's Sheila Patel

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CPI: The Price is Wrong

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Plexo Capital's Lo Toney

107

Summer Reading List

108

Erica Brescia's Worldwide Reach

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Investing in the Whole Burrito

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Inside the Deal With Accel’s Nate Niparko

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Berkeley SkyDeck

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Hum Capital's Blair Silverberg

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A Secret Just Out of Stealth: Satellite Bio

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Tony Hsieh: Happy at Any Cost

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Lotti Siniscalco of Emergence Capital

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Brian Greenberg: I Will Probably Die Having Not Solved This Problem

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What Does it Take to Become a Venture Capitalist?

118

Tim Draper Wants His Nickel

119

“People of Zero Economic Value”: Bill Davidow Ponders the Uncertain Future

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You Have a Fund — But Do You Have a Buelteman?

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Impossible Investments: Samir Kaul

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NEA’s Rick Yang: No Analogies

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OMX (as in Genomics)

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The Pitch With Nicole Quinn

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Annie Lamont - Oak HC/FT

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Glean Comes Out of Stealth

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Venture Creative - Amy Nauiokas

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Scale Venture Partners' Rory O’Driscoll Will Not Attend Your Networking Event

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Bessemer’s Mary D'Onofrio Counts Clouds

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VC's Tweet is "A Gut Punch"

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Be Bold and Be Right

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Thiel, Tech and Trump

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Smart Cities: Rethinking Rules to Attract a Digital Generation

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Playground Global's Jory Bell

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Brains and Brawn

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Back to Emergence

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"We Are Outta Here"

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Investing in Games

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Stay at Home, Start a Company

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“Over-Mentored and Underfunded”

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Jonathan Abrams of 8-Bit Capital

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Joanna Rees is On-Brand

143

What Does it Take to Become a Venture Capitalist?

144

Wisdom's Gary Griffiths Has a Lot of Hoodies

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Jake Saper of Emergence Capital

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Todd Klein on Tuning In

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A January SPAC-tacular

148

Inside SoftBank Vision Fund’s New Billion Dollar Bets

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Airbus Ventures Looks to Space

150

Jen Grant: Ordering Up Another Round (of Funding) in a Pandemic

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Gene Frantz With Alphabet’s CapitalG

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John Roa: Get Rich And Die Trying

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Orchestrating Diversity: Bias vs. Blind

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Jyoti Bansal: H-1B to IPO

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Adam Struck of Struck Capital

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Shawn Carolan of Menlo Ventures

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CRV’s Kristin Baker Spohn

158

Christal Bemont Leads From the Dining Room Table

159

Dear Class of 2020: We're Sorry

160

“People of Zero Economic Value”: Bill Davidow Ponders the Uncertain Future

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The One About Coronavirus

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Don’t Move Fast and for Goodness Sakes Don’t Break Things

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Bryan Roberts Tries to Prove Himself Wrong. So Far, He’s Been Very Right.

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"Every Board I am on is Inherently More Diverse"

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Tess Hatch of Bessemer Venture Partners

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Chris Farmer’s Super Secret 'Beacon'

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Gotta Get a Gulati (Comcast Ventures)

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Indy Guha is Comfortable on the Outside Looking in

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Scale Venture Partners' Rory O’Driscoll Will Not Attend Your Networking Event

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Zack Bogue of Data Collective

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Dr. Buno Pati of Centerview Capital and Nexus Venture Partners

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Grand Rounds CTO Wade Chambers

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In the Elevator with Salesforce Ventures' Matt Garratt

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Trae Vassallo of Defy Partners

175

Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures

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Jenny Lefcourt of Freestyle VC

177

Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz

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Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund

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John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

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Dave Welsh of KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth Fund

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Serial Entrepreneur Jay Chaudhry

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Merci Grace – Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Emergence Capital’s Santi Subotovsky

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Microsoft Chairman John Thompson

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Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko

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Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy

187

The World According to Tim Draper

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Maynard Webb: Do Bold Things

189

Keith Krach on Leadership, Valuation and Healthy Self-Deprecation

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Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst on Venture Capital 101

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What the Duck? Answers From an iPhone Engineer

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Randy Komisar Gives Directions to Sand Hill Road

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Introducing Sand Hill Road