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Marc Lore Has Big Plans for Wonder That Go Beyond Fast Casual

2

Ashton Kutcher Never Wants to See Your Pitch Deck Again

3

Live from Disrupt: Vinod Khosla Is Optimistic about AI despite the Risks

4

Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants to Buy TikTok; Here’s His Plan

5

General Catalyst Layers in Financing to Boost Its Fortunes

6

A Frustrated Al Gore Compares Climate Pledges to "New Year’s Resolutions"

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FTC Chair Lina Khan on Startups, Scaling, and “Innovations in Potential Lawbreaking”

8

The Ins and Outs of Investing in Europe, according to VC Saul Klein

9

Rippling’s Parker Conrad on the company’s new round, its new lease and its newest critic

10

IVP’s Eric Liaw on London, succession, and that Klarna kerfuffle

11

VC Arjun Sethi Wants to Manage Other Investors' Data. You Got a Problem with That?

12

VC David Pakman Makes the Case Why AI Needs Crypto

13

Talking Shop with Medha Agarwal and Amy Yin of Early Stage Firm Defy

14

Former Twitter and Facebook Execs Are Going Deep on B2B Software

15

Catching up with Keith Rabois of Founders Fund

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Y Combinator's Pete Koomen Argues YC's Size Is Its Strength

17

Investor Hans Swildens on the Small Tech Buyout Opportunity

18

Reed Jobs and Katie Haun at Disrupt

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Al Gore Has a Plan to Save the World

20

LP Michael Kim on Why He Doesn't Like Special Deals

21

VC Heidi Roizen Doesn't Think the Arm IPO Will Open the IPO Floodgates

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A Startup That Is Buying Up Mom-and-Pop Shops

23

How Index Ventures Jumped to the Front of the AI GPU Line

24

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going to Jail … and More

25

VC Dan Gwak on Getting Deals Done with the DOD

26

How to Invest $1 Billion in Consumer Tech, with Goodwater Capital

27

Uncork Capital's Andy McLoughlin on the Three Axes of Investing Risk

28

Talking Amazon v. Walmart with Journalist Jason Del Ray

29

Benchmark’s Miles Grimshaw on the Coming AI Shakeout and More

30

Greycroft Co-Founder Ian Sigalow on Investing $1 Billion Right Now

31

Explaining Blockchain Capital's Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb

32

Scientist and Entrepreneur Gary Marcus on AI’s Black Mirror Moment

33

Solo VC Elad Gil, the AI Whisperer

34

In Europe, Accel Banks on a Turnaround Over the Next 6 to 9 Months

35

Human Brain Cells on a Chip?

36

How Rippling's Parker Conrad Rescued His Company as SVB Was Imploding

37

Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures Is Investing in AI's Picks and Shovels

38

VC Larry Cheng on How Volition Survived an LP Armageddon

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Talking Shop with Neil Sequeira of Defy.vc

40

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on ChatGPT and Our Future with AI

41

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin on FTX, Crypto, and Investing for the Long Haul

42

VCs Pushing Startups May Face Investor Demands Themselves

43

VC Bradley Tusk Thinks Twitter Will Cost Elon Musk Much More Than He Paid for It

44

Economist, VC, and MIT fellow Paul Kedrosky on the Dangers of OpenAI

45

A Healthcare Brand for Women Begins to Take Shape

46

What's Really Happening at Drive Capital ... and More

47

Crypto VC David Pakman on FTX: An “Entirely Avoidable Tragedy”

48

The Past, Present, and Future of YC with Geoff Ralston

49

VC James Currier Explains Why Generative AI Is So Buzzworthy

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Early Stage Startups Still Attracting Big Checks, Says Matrix Partners' Antonio Rodriguez

51

GV Smells a New Opportunity in Digitizing Scent

52

Steve Case on the Arbitrage Opportunity Outside of Silicon Valley

53

Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko Asks, "Is This Idea Big Enough?"

54

Chris Olsen's Drive Capital Is Betting $2 Billion on the Midwest and Beyond

55

Silicon Valley Operator Jason Lemkin Dishes on VCs Missing Board Meetings

56

Talking with the Anti-Adam Neumann, Landing Founder Bill Smith

57

Story Potpourri

58

Index Ventures Co-Founder Danny Rimer Doesn't Buy Web3

59

Sequoia’s Jess Lee Has a Plan to Help You Build Your Startup

60

Why French Venture Capitalist Frederic Court Doesn't Fear U.S. VCs

61

Talking Startup Boards in a Downturn with Brad Feld

62

Lots of Sellers, Fewer Buyers, in Markets for Startup Shares

63

Assessing the Market Meltdown with VC Ed Sim

64

Crypto VC Sam Rosenblum Offers a Peek into Haun Ventures

65

Bonobos Co-Founder Andy Dunn on His Battle with Bipolar Disorder

66

Hopin's Meltdown, Musk's Machinations, and Gurley's Valuation Advice

67

Benchmark's Sarah Tavel Says Web3 Is Not Crypto

68

Venrock's Bryan Roberts Is Betting that the Central Nervous System Is the Next Big Healthcare Opportunity

69

Jim Breyer Senses Quantum Will Be Big

70

Kirsten Green on the Rise of Solopreneurs

71

Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace Two Years and a Pandemic Later

72

ACME's Founders on SPACs, SPVs, and Space

73

Crossover Investor Mitchell Green Sees Opportunity in This Week's Market Turmoil

74

A Peek into Web3 Power Player Animoca Brands

75

Andrew Chen on Cold Starts, Substack and What’s Next for Clubhouse

76

VCs (and Celebrities) Find Religion with Glorify

77

Brit & Dave Morin's New Venture Fund Plus the Inside Story of Vollebak

78

A Student Loan Startup's "Watershed Moment"

79

Serial Entrepreneur Kevin Chou Dives Deeper into Web3

80

Rippling CEO Parker Conrad Rides Employee Data to $6.5 Billion Valuation

81

Author Jacob Helberg Says U.S.-China Relations Are Even Worse than You Think

82

Tusk Ventures Approaches the Final VC Frontier: Incubating Companies

83

Renowned Investor Kevin Ryan Thinks the Big Money Is in Healthcare

84

Max Chafkin on the Inexorable Rise of Peter Thiel

85

VC Peter Relan on Writing Discord's First Check

86

What's Really Going on in China & Other Stories

87

Upfront Ventures' Mark Suster on Investing in a Fast Forward Market

88

Why the Tech Elite Turned on Gavin Newsom, According to Stanford Professor Neil Malhotra

89

A Sequoia-Backed Predictions Market & Talking Crypto Gaming with a16z's Arianna Simpson

90

Talking Shop with NY Times Tech Reporter Sheera Frenkel and Early-Stage VC Jeff Clavier

91

TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Is All-In on Crypto - Here's Why

92

Renegade Partners on Why the World Needs Another VC Fund

93

Startup Mighty Aims to Build a "Shopify for Kids"

94

Former Uber Data Science Head Kevin Novak on His Leap into VC

95

FlyHomes' Giant Round and a Small Growth Fund Among Giants

96

Intelligence Expert & Serial Entrepreneur Christopher Ahlberg on How Ransomware Gangs Really Work

97

Why Founders Are Making Room for Jamison Hill's New Growth-Stage Fund

98

Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Need for Speed

99

Two Different Founders with Novel Ideas and Fresh Seed Funding to Chase Them

100

Bison Trails Co-Founder Joe Lallouz on Coinbase and Big Changes in the Blockchain Market

101

Form Capital's Bobby Goodlatte on Clubhouse, Coinbase, and Why Nano Funds Rule

102

Coinbase Director Katie Haun and Early Coinbase Backer Garry Tan on What's Next for the Company

103

Jake Paul and Geoffrey Woo Aim to Be the Cool Kids on the Cap Table

104

Canadian VC John Ruffolo Escaped Death and Now He’s Seizing the Moment

105

Blackstone Growth's Big Bumble Bet

106

Famed Prof and Serial Entrepreneur Scott Galloway Is Blowing Up B-School As You Know It

107

Deep Science VC Lindy Fishburne on Turning Molecules into Money

108

VC David Pakman on the Sudden Rise of Cyrptocollectibles

109

Ed Sim of Boldstart Ventures on the Next Wave of Developer First Startups

110

NEA’s Tony Florence on Building Breakthrough Brands

111

Fintech Founder and VC Alexa von Tobel on GameStop, Robinhood, and the Future of Crypto

112

Science Inc. on Building the Next Big Consumer Brand

113

Reilly Brennan of TrucksVC on Rivian, Hydrogen, and the Future of Transportation

114

Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko on Space, SPACs, and the Great Tech Exodus

115

Former Sequoia VCs' Move to the Midwest Starts to Pay Off

116

A Low-Key Investor with Some High Profile Bets

117

Lux Capital's Deena Shakir: Frontier Tech Is Going Mainstream

118

Positive Thinking with Ev Williams and James Joaquin

119

Zoom Investor Jason Green on What's Next

120

PR Pro Mike Sitrick on Communications in a Time of Crisis

121

Mirror Founder Brynn Putnam on Her New Lululemon Life

122

Steve Case on Section 230, SPACs, and The Rise of the Rest

123

Social Dilemma Star Tim Kendall Envisions a World Beyond Facebook

124

Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures on SPACs and Mobile Voting

125

VC Amish Jani on Why His Firm FirstMark Has Jumped into SPACs

126

Tech Strategist Jessica Alter on How Democrats Fall in Love and Republicans Fall in Line

127

Truth-Teller Anand Giridharadas on Why Silicon Valley Is the New Rome

128

The Chainsmokers Are Finding Tech Investing a Hard Habit to Quit

129

First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Rolling Funds Are Becoming Hot

130

IPO Expert Lise Buyer on the Current Craze for SPACs and Direct Listings

131

Silicon Valley Stalwart Kevin Hartz Aims to Legitimize SPACs

132

A Cannabis VC Spells Out Why Weed Sales Are Blazing in the Covid Era

133

Brad Feld on Knowing When to Ditch Plan A

134

Faced with a Potential TikTok Ban, Social Media Influencers Plot Their Next Steps

135

Blavity's Big Opportunity with Black Milennials

136

Investor Michael Kim on Why Pre-Seed is the Place to Be

137

Tim O’Reilly: VC is Now Fundamentally Broken

138

Lo Toney’s Plan to Bring the Clubby VC World into the Future

139

Hair Color Startup Madison Reed Crosses the $100 Million Mark

140

A Startup Riding High as Americans Turn to RVs

141

E-Commerce Veteran Julie Bornstein Plans to Change the Way You Shop Online

142

Kevin Rose on Crytocurrency, VR, and How Founders Can Stay Sane

143

Silicon Valley Recruiters Tell All!

144

Former Tesla and Lyft Exec Plans to Launch Dozens of Startups

145

Top VC at IVP Makes His Most Important Investment Ever

146

How This Silicon Valley VC Saw Covid-19 Coming

147

For Silicon Valley's "Undertaker," Business Is Booming

148

Funding Strangers in a Strange World

149

Venture Debt in an Upside Down World

150

A VC Backer Tells It Like It Is

151

Mike Volpi on the Impact of COVID-19 on VC Investing

152

Wiping Out Coronavirus

153

The Two Connies

154

Brendan Wallace of Fifth Wall

155

Connie & Alex