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Spotlight On — 63 episodes

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BONUS: Nebius’s Arkady Volozh on building in the agentic era

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BONUS: Armadin's Kevin Mandia | On Redefining Security in a New Age of Threats

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Q&A with Zhenya Loginov: the Euro founder flywheel, 2025 IPOs, and leveling up from PLG

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Bonus Episode: n8n’s Jan Oberhauser on building the Excel of AI

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VBSR 1.07: Education's Big Transformation

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VBSR 1.06: AI Leaves the Chatbox

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Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang

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VBSR 1.04: Lovable, talent wars, and the changing $100m milestone

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Bonus: Anton Osika on how Lovable’s creating a world of builders

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VBSR 1.03: Scale, Circle, and Exits 101

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Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on translating bold visions into operational excellence

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Veza’s Tarun Thakur on excelling at go-to-market at every stage

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VBSR 1.02: The geography advantage + customer anthropology + a taste for taste

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True Anomaly’s Even Rogers on failing forward to achieve mission success

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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on the security arms race

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Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on bold visions for the future delivered incrementally

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*Live from Accel’s 2025 People Summit* Behind the Netflix Culture Deck with Patty McCord and Jessica Neal

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VBSR 1.01: RTO is back (again) + data moats dry up + Sara vibecodes

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Tines’s Eoin Hinchy on rejecting the playbooks

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Supabase’s Paul Copplestone on the difference between “playing startup” and strategy

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*S3 Feature* Transcend’s Kate Parker on putting data back into the hands of users in an AI-driven world

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*RSA Preview* CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company

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*RSA Preview* 1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape

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Corelight’s Brian Dye on What He’s Learned About Scaling

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Graphite’s Merrill Lutsky on Revolutionizing Code Review for the AI Era

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G2’s Godard Abel on How the “Yelp for Software” is Adapting to AI Buying and Discovery

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Speak CEO Connor Zwick on Building the Next Great Language Learning App

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Nebius’s Arkady Volozh on What it Takes to Build Infrastructure Needed for the AI Era

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It’s Time to Build a Better Internet, with Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun

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How Decagon Dominated the B2B Agentic AI Market in Just Two Years

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How Laravel’s Taylor Otwell Builds Products and Community that Drive Organic Growth | S3E2

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What VSCO’s Joel Flory Has Learned About Leadership, Scaling, and Building Generational Companies | S3E1

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Spotlight On Season 3 Trailer

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How Sentry's David Cramer Turned an Open Source Side Project into a $3B Business | S2Bonus2

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How Linear’s Karri Saarinen is Redefining What Scale Looks Like | S2Bonus

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1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape | S2E14

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Wonder’s Marc Lore on blending vision and execution | S2E13

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Chainalysis’ Jackie Burns Koven on building trust in new technologies | S2E12

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Netskope’s Sanjay Beri on aspiring to be an iconic company through controlled innovation | S2E11

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ConductorOne’s Alex Bovee on the critical ingredients of a high-growth startup | S2E10

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Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses on creating a playbook for a product that’s never been built before | S2E9

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Gamma’s Jon Noronha on how early-stage startups can challenge industry incumbents | S2E8

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Remote’s Marcelo Lebre on the future of the global workforce | S2E7

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Accel’s Amit Kumar and Ivan Zhou on being an effective startup partner when things don’t go according to plan | S2E6

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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company | S2E5

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Sysdig’s Suresh Vasudevan on embracing a “challenger mindset” | S2E4

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Syrup’s James Theuerkauf on building an AI-powered product that cuts through the noise | S2E3

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Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin on the biggest lessons learned from bootstrapping and raising capital | S2E2

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Klaviyo’s Andrew Bialecki on proving a tech startup can be built anywhere | S2E1

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Spotlight On Season 2 | Official Trailer

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Accel’s Vas Natarajan, Sara Ittelson, and Casey Aylward share insights and predictions from this season of Spotlight On: AI | S1E13

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Arm’s Rene Haas on building the brain of artificial intelligence | S1E12

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Transcend’s Kate Parker on putting data back into the hands of users in an AI-driven world | S1E11

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Cinder’s Glen Wise on trust and safety threats and holding AI accountable | S1E10

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Checkr’s Daniel Yanisse on tackling bias in people and AI | S1E9

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Ironclad’s Cai GoGwilt on a decade of anticipating the transformative power of AI | S1E8

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Synthesia’s Victor Riparbelli on creating an environment to harness AI benefits and reduce harms | S1E7

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Bard’s Jack Krawczyk on the birth of Google’s AI chatbot and the creative potential that lies ahead | S1E6

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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang on the most powerful technological advancement of our time | S1E5

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Merge's Shensi Ding on powering the next generation of AI SaaS companies | S1E4

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Ada’s Mike Murchison on how AI is revolutionizing customer service | S1E3

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Roblox’s Daniel Sturman on building great teams in the AI era | S1E2

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AssemblyAI's Dylan Fox on building an AI company during a period of radical change | S1E1