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Spooky News: California's Billionaire Tax is on the Ballot!

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David Tisch (BoxGroup): Cursor Exits at $66 Billion — Still Hunting the Next One

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Is Silicon Valley Over Burning Man? (Replay)

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Better Tomorrow Ventures' Sheel Mohnot Passed on Robinhood -- Then Built a Fintech Investing Powerhouse

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Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures: Los Angeles' VC Powerhouse on Why LA is Dominating Space, Hard Tech, and National Defense

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Uncork Capital's Andy McLoughlin: Silicon Valley's British Invasion and Building a Great Seed-Stage Venture Firm

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Will a "Billionaires Tax" Destroy California?

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HotelTonight Founder: How Sam Shank Built & Sold a $400M Travel App (And What He's Building Next)

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Lee Edwards of Root VC: "Let's get Technical!" -- An Engineer Becomes a VC

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1517 Fund: The Maverick VC Betting on Teens to Outbuild Ivy Leaguers

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Frank Rotman: The Midas List Veteran on Building Fintech Empires at Capital One and QED Investors

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Eric Ries: The Lean Startup Revolution in an AI-Driven World

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Kobie Fuller: Upfront Ventures Partner's High-Speed Sprint from Track Star to Venture Capital Powerhouse

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David Anderman: Space (Investing) is Big. Really Big. From Lucasfilm's Star Wars to SpaceX to…The Final Frontier

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Cyan Banister: The Future is Cool Again / Falling in Love with Technology / A Brush with Star Wars

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Roger Ehrenberg: From IA Ventures to Eberg Capital – A Top Silicon Valley Investor Turns to Sports

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Mark Scianna: From Palantir Engineer to Venture Capitalist / Inside Palantir's Early Days / VC Discovers Defense Tech

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Winter Mead: How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund (and more!), From Coolwater Capital's Founder

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Max Altman and Ben Braverman: Returning to Tradition with Saga Ventures

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Alexis Gay: Silicon Valley's Favorite Comedian Makes her "Unprofessional" Debut

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Adeyemi Ajao: A Founder Turned VC on Building Base10 Partners, and the Abundance Mindset

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Ignition Partners' Nick Sturiale: Reflections on a Life in Venture

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Founder Collective's Eric Paley on Empathy and Execution in Venture Capital

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Homebrew's Hunter Walk and Satya Patel: The Power of a Partnership

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Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell and Dr. Leah Hanes Have a (Better) Plan for Educating America

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Richard Socher: Exploring AI with the Visionary AI Scientist, Entrepreneur and Investor

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Hadley Harris: Building Eniac Ventures with 3 Friends / Investing in AI

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Samir Kaji: Building Allocate; The State of the Venture Market; Banking Meltdown (SVB/FRB) Post-mortem

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Darian Shirazi, General Partner at Gradient Ventures (Google's AI Fund): Unleashing AI's Investment Potential

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Anthony Soohoo: Bringing the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Walmart

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Nnamdi Okike on Building 645 Ventures, Bias in Fundraising, and Being a Boston Sports Fan in New York

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Coindesk's David Z. Morris: The Wild Story of FTX and its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried

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Elad Gil: "A Startup is An Act of Desperation" and Other Wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's Best Investors

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Adrian Fenty: From Mayor of Washington DC to…Venture Capitalist

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Michelle Tandler: An Entrepreneur's "Growth Path", and "What's the Matter with San Francisco?"

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Max Chafkin on Peter Thiel: "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power"

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Howard Morgan: From RenTec to First Round Capital, and Beyond

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Jenny Lefcourt: Freestyle Capital Partner's Path from Entrepreneur to VC

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Joe Hudson: The Man Behind Silicon Valley's Unicorn CEOs

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Eliot Brown on the Crazy Life and Wild Times of We Work Founder Adam Neumann

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Brad Feld: "Friedrich Nietzsche is the Patron Philosopher of Today's Entrepreneurs"

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165 Auren Hoffman -- Silicon Valley's Hyper-connected Founder, CEO and Investor Shares his Wisdom

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164 Nicole Taylor: Silicon Valley Community Foundation's CEO On Giving in Silicon Valley; Responding to Black Lives Matter

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163 Avi Loeb -- Extraterrestrials in our Solar System: What Happened in October of 2017?

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162 Jamie Ducharme on her Book "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul"

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161 Ryan Nece of Next Play Capital: From the NFL to Venture Capitalist

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160 Ali Tamaseb – "Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion Dollar Startups"

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159 Suneel Gupta on The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance

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158 David Bohnett -- GeoCities Founder Turned Philanthropist and Social Activist

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157 Kara Nortman: Upfront Venture's co-Managing Partner on Becoming a Leader of a Major VC Firm, and Co-owner of Angel City FC

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156: Is "Working Backwards" the Most Important Business Book Ever? Lessons from Amazon

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155 Amy Nauiokas: The CEO of Anthemis Group's Journey from the Peace Corps to Managing Nearly $1 Billion

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154 Vern Howard: Hallo's CEO is NOT Your Deliveryman

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153 -- 2020 Thank You-cast Extravaganza!

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152 Stacey Bishop of Scale Venture Partners On Ascending the Venture Ladder and the Rise of "All Raise"

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151 Fortune's Jeff John Roberts on "Kings of Crypto" and the Rise of Coinbase

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150 Hooman Radfar: The Rise of the 'Business-of-One'

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149 Fabrice Grinda: 4 Incredible Stories from the OLX and FJ Labs Co-Founder

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148 Jaclyn Hester: Foundry Group's New Partner!

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147 Sarah Leary: Nextdoor's Co-founder Becomes a VC

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146 Trae Vassallo: Defying Gravity in Silicon Valley

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145 William Davidow: "Civilization is Going Through Its Third Phase Change"

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144 Rob Chesnut: Airbnb's Former Chief Ethics Officer on Intentional Integrity

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143 Deena Shakir of Lux Capital on her Amazing Journey, The Post-COVID Future

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143 Deena Shakir of Lux Capital on her Amazing Journey, The Post-COVID Future

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142 Wag's CEO Garrett Smallwood on Pets in the Time of COVID-19

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141 Domm Holland: The Fast CEO on Guiding a Rocket Ship Through a Pandemic

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140 Brad Feld: Thoughts on Startup Communities in a Post-COVID-19 World

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139 Parker Conrad: Rippling's CEO on His Entrepreneurial Journey

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138 Scott Simpson: From Amazon to Apple to Comedy -- A Comedian's Take on the Future of Comedy

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137 Promise Phelon: A Growth Warrior's Trajectory from BEA to CEO to Venture Capitalist

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136 Codepath's Michael Ellison: How Black CS Students View Silicon Valley / The Daily Reality For a Black Man in San Francisco

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135 VC Monique Woodard is NOT "Doing Fine"

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134 IVP's Somesh Dash: In Divisive Times, Is Silicon Valley Doing Enough?

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132 Lyft's Raj Kapoor: World Without Covid

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131 Covid-19, China and Silicon Valley with Kaiser Kuo

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130 Joe Garofoli of the San Francisco Chronicle: COVID Hits Politics, California and Silicon Valley

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129 Mike Stutz: COVID Hits Hollywood

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128: Matt Hulett: Rosetta Stone's President Connects the World Through Language Learning

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127 Paul-Henri Ferrand: Brex's COO on Why Immigrants Build Great Companies and How Brex is Transforming Finance

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126 Brianne Kimmel: A Venture Capitalist Makes Work More Human

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125 Jeff Macpherson: Tiki Bar TV's Dr. Tiki Explains Why We Stream Video But Download Podcasts

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124 REPLAY Keller Fitzsimmons -- Startuplandia author on Mental Health in Silicon Valley

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123 Marco Zappacosta: Thumbtack's CEO on Building a Billion Dollar Company and Helping People "Get the Job Done"

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122 Chris Douvos: Ahoy Capital's Founder is One-of-a-Kind

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121 Mike Maples:, Jr: A Master Seed Investor Shares his Wisdom

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#120 David Hornik: "The Lobby" Creator and Ringmaster

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#119 Joe Garofoli: San Francisco Chronicle Senior Political Writer Takes Us Inside Politics

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#118 Ryan Petersen: How Flexport is Transforming Shipping to Create a Better World

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#117 Josh Felser: A Freestylin' Conversation with Josh

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#116 Dan Scheinman: Zoom's First Investor on Finding Outliers, Ageism and More

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#115 Ba Minuzzi: First Latina to Starta a Silicon Valley Venture Fund

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#114 Jerry Colonna: Break your Heart and Keep it Open

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#113 Maha Ibrahim: Canaan Partner, The RealReal Investor, All Raise Member

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#112 Esther Wojcicki: How to Raise Successful People

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#111 REPLAY: Silicon Valley goes to Burning Man

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#110 Alison McCauley: Falling down the Blockchain Rabbit Hole (and why you should too)

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#124 REPLAY E. Keller Fitzsimmons: The Darkness in Silicon Valley – Anxiety, Depression and Suicide in Startuplandia

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#108: Adriana Gascoigne: Tech Lady Boss - How to Startup Disrupt and Thrive as a Female Founder

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#107 Anne Dwane: From Startup to Public Company To VC -- Her Journey