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Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast — 201 episodes

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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

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#106 Chris Michel's Extraordinary Path and Wise Life Advice

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#105 Julian Guthrie: Taking on Silicon Valley's Male Culture with Alpha Girls

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#104 Charles Hudson – Charles Builds a Venture Fund

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#103: Michael Tchong on 8 Ubertrends Crashing into our Future

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#102: Scott Kupor: Secrets of Sand Hill Road

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#101 Ellen Pao: Ellen Changes the Game

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#100: Pete Alcorn -- Democratizing Publishing

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#99 Eric Lagier: The Nordic Unicorn Factory

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#98 Jay Adelson: Jay Builds the Internet

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#97 Po Bronson -- The Future According to Po

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#96 Monique Woodard, Venture Capitalist

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#95 Alan Eagle on Bill Campbell, "Trillion Dollar Coach"

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#94: James Currier -- The Soul of Silicon Valley

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#93 Miyoko Schinner's Entrepreneurial Journey

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#92 Carter Cohen -- Gen Z Up Close

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#91 Ryan Bethencourt -- Wild Earth Founder on Meatless Dog Food and More

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#90 Codepath's Michael Ellison -- Racism, poverty and Silicon Valley

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#89 -- Silicon Valley Goes to Burning Man

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#88 Rick Marini of Protocol Ventures 2 of 2

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#87 Rick Marini of Protocol Ventures 1 of 2

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#86 The Future of Transport with Nick Heyman

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#85 SF Chronicle's Joe Garofoli

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#84 Jim Scheinman of Maven FULL Episode

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#83 Jim Scheinman of Maven 2 of 2

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#82 Jim Scheinman of Maven Ventures 1 of 2

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#81 Sexual Harassment In Silicon Valley -- 2017 Lookback

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#80 Neil Cohen talks Tech Bubbles 2 of 2

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#79 Neil Cohen -- Tech Bubbles 1 of 2

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#78 Mike Stutz Hacking the Media/Useful Idiots P. 2

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#77: Mike Stutz: Hacking the Media w/Useful Idiots

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#76 Jonathan Abrams Talks Startup Friendster p. 2

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#75 Jonathan Abrams talks Startup Friendster

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#74 Startup Mexico's Marcus Dantus

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#73 Sharon Goldstein -- Women in Silicon Valley

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#72 Victor Echevarria: From Sharing Economy To Healthcare

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#71 Carter Cohen: Generation Z

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#70 Neil Cohen 2017 Marketing Trends 2 of 2

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#69 Canadian VC and Startups w/Lylan Masterman

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#68 Neil Cohen on 2017 Marketing Trends

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#67 Antonio Garcia Martinez 2 of 2

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#66 Antonio Garcia Martinez talks Silicon Valley Politics 1 of 2

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#65 Mike Stutz (un)Reality TV 2 of 2

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#64 Mike Stutz talks Reality TV and Politics

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#63 Sarah Marie CEO of Spec.fm 2 of 2

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#62 Joe Garofoli of the SF Chronicle Election Special

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#61 Sarah Marie of Spec Network (1 of 2) -- The Entrepreneur's Journey

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#60 Chaos Monkeys' Antonio Garcia-Martinez 2 of 2

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#59 Chaos Monkeys Author Antonio Garcia-Martinez 1/2

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#58 -- Sexism in Silicon Valley with Rachel Fairbanks

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#57 Microsoft Bought his Company!

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#56 Microsoft Acquires AI tool Genee

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#55 Burning Man with Michael White Replay

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#54 Peter Berger 2 of 2

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#53 -- Peter Berger Part 1 of 2 -- The Entrepreneur's Journey

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#52 Racism, Jackie Robinson and the Number 42

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#51 Jonathan Abrams Part 2 of 2

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#50 Jonathan Abrams talks Silicon Valley

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#49 Michael White -- Why Silicon Valley will rule Sports 2 of 2

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#48 Silicon Valley Sports with Michael White

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#47 Shaun Tai of Oakland Digital -- Full Episode

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#46 Shaun Tai of Oakland Digital part 2 of 2

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#45 Oakland Digital -- Shaun Tai

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#44 -- Transgender Kids in Silicon Valley -- Full Episode

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#43 2/2 Transgender Kids in Silicon Valley

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#42 Allison White - Transgender Kids in Silicon Valley 1 of 2

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#41 Ian McFarland Part 2 of 2

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#40 Ian McFarland 1 of 2

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#39 Ben Cheung -- The Entrepreneur's Journey

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#38 "2015 Pridecast"

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#37 Daniel Carucci -- "Global Health"

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#36 Neil Cohen - "Get a Job" Part 2 of 2

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#35 Neil Cohen -- "Get a Job"

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#34 Charlie Recksieck 2 of 2-- Tech and Music

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#33 Charlie Recksieck -- Music and Tech 1 of 2

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#32 Preet Anand -- The Entrepreneur's Battle 2 of 2

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#31 Preet Anand -- The Entrepreneur's Battle

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#30 Neil Cohen talks Marketing in Silicon Valley

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#29 Neil Cohen Talks Mexico Entrepreneurship

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#28 Holiday Replay Vincent Robinson on Being Gay in Silicon Valley

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#27 Peter Shanley Talks Lean Startups in the Enterprise

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#26 Jim Egbert 25th Epi-versary Part 2

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#25 Jim Egbert 25th Epi-versary

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#24 Peter Shanley 1 of 2 -- Housing and Social Issues in San Francisco

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#23 Jim Egbert 2 of 2 Globalization of Engineering Talent

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#22 Jim Egbert -- 1 of 2: Tech Talent Abroad

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#21 Michael White -- Silicon Valley goes to Burning Man

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#20 Tim Rosenblatt -- The Internet is a Series of Tubes

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#19 Linda Kelly -- Grateful Dead and Astrology.com

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#18: Mike Stutz Part 2/2 Reality of Reality TV

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#17 Mike Stutz -- Part 1/2: Reality of Reality TV

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#16 Gay Issues in Silicon Valley

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#15 Sexism in Silicon Valley, Part 2

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#14 Sexism in Silicon Valley, Part 1

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#13 Libraries in the Age of Google

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#12 Rachel Fairbanks -- Software Exec Talks Culture and Hipsters in SF

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#11 Mike Stutz --- Silicon Valley goes to Hollywood

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#10 Me

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#9 Vincent Robinson talks about African-Americans in Silicon Valley

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#8 Eric Hall of Dolby discusses Corporate Life in The Valley

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#7 Michael White and Kent Talk TV -- The HBO Show Silicon Valley

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#6 Nick Heyman -- Facebook's First Ops Guy

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#5 Michael White and Kent Talk Sexism in Silicon Valley

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#4 Michael White, Silicon Valley Attorney, Talks Control

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#3 Eric Hall of Dolby Talks Sound

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#2 Kristallnacht and Google Buses

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#1 Why