All Episodes

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

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

Is Silicon Valley Over Burning Man? (Replay)

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

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

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

Will a "Billionaires Tax" Destroy California?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Soohoo: Bringing the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Walmart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

153 -- 2020 Thank You-cast Extravaganza!

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

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

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

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

148 Jaclyn Hester: Foundry Group's New Partner!

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

146 Trae Vassallo: Defying Gravity in Silicon Valley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135 VC Monique Woodard is NOT "Doing Fine"

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

132 Lyft's Raj Kapoor: World Without Covid

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

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

129 Mike Stutz: COVID Hits Hollywood

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

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

126 Brianne Kimmel: A Venture Capitalist Makes Work More Human

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#117 Josh Felser: A Freestylin' Conversation with Josh

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

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

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

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

#112 Esther Wojcicki: How to Raise Successful People

#111 REPLAY: Silicon Valley goes to Burning Man

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

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

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

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