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The NFX Podcast — 146 episodes

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1

How Running Out of Money Made DocSend a $165M Success w/ Russ Heddleston

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How a $500 TV Ad Turned Credit Karma into a $7B Empire w/ Ken Lin

3

How Tracy Young Sold PlanGrid for $875M and Navigated Tragedy

4

Essay Readout: Stablecoins are Defense Tech by Morgan Beller

5

The Past, Present, and Future of Longevity w/ Joe Betts-LaCroix Alex Colville

6

The NFX Podcast w/ Alex Babin of HerculesAI

7

Essay Readout: Real Estate’s Hidden AI Revolution by Pete Flint

8

#1 Phone A Friend: "Astronauts for Inner Space" with Raed Khawaja

9

Essay Readout: Generative Tech Begins by James Currier

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Essay Readout: 3 Waves of Successful Generative Tech Startups by James Currier

11

AI x Speed (Sunday Readouts)

12

Building Your Startup’s Attention Flywheel with Vijay Chattha (Founder of VSC)

13

The Strategies of Elite CEOs with Avishai Abrahami (CEO & Co-Founder of Wix)

14

NFXBio: Deal or Die – A Guide to TechBio Business Development and Strategy

15

NFXBio: Tech Founders, Don’t Be Afraid of Bio

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Ep 11: Network Effects In TechBio (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep 10: Network Effects In Gaming (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep 9: Why Network Effects Are (Even) More Powerful In Web3 (NFX Masterclass)

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NFXBio: The Promise of Synthetic Embryos with Dr. Jacob Hanna of Renewal Bio

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Ep 8: Your Life Is Driven By Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep. 7 - Network Problems Demand Network Solutions (NFX Masterclass)

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NFXBio: TechBio Platforms Developing a Universal Vaccine & Beating Treatment-Resistant Cancer

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Ep. 6 - Case Studies: Network Effects In Action (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep. 5 - Network Bonding Theory (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep. 4 - The 4 Pillars of Defensibility (NFX Masterclass)

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Ep. 3 - Mapping Out the 16 Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)

27

Ep. 2 - The Underlying Properties Of Network Theory (NFX Masterclass)

28

Ep. 1 - Why Network Effects Are Mission Critical (NFX Masterclass)

29

Coming Soon: The Network Effects Masterclass [special audio edition]

30

NFXBio: Academia or Startup? A Decision Matrix for Future Scientist-Founders

31

Crazy Until It’s Not: New Story Charity’s Bitcoin-Based Mortgages, NFTs, and 3D-Printed Homes

32

The Inside Story of Nextdoor with Sarah Friar

33

Building Confidence Networks In Latin America

34

Eynat Guez & Gigi Levy-Weiss on 7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

35

Community-First Company Building with Cuy Sheffield & Micah Johnson

36

A Founder’s Exponential Toolset with Azeem Azhar & James Currier

37

NFXBio: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D

38

Ann Hiatt on Trillion Dollar Leadership (An Inside Look at Jeff Bezos & Eric Schmidt)

39

Seeing Growth in a Downturn with Eran Ben-Shushan & Gigi Levy-Weiss

40

How a Top Investor Sees the World with Saar Gur

41

NFXBio: Why C2i is the World’s First Platform for Cancer Intelligence

42

Tony Fadell on Learning To See, Telling Stories, & Being A Troublemaker

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Super Founders with Ali Tamaseb & James Currier

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Major Opportunities for Young Founders with Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB

45

Heather Fernandez & Pete Flint on Startup Speed As A Public Good

46

The Founders' List: The Great Online Game by Packy McCormick

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Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency

48

The Founders' List: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants from Marc Prensky

49

The IPO Whisperer Lise Buyer Talks Going Public

50

The Founders' List: The Maker Protocol Whitepaper - MakerDAO's Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) System

51

The Founders' List: Mind the Moat: Notes on 7 Powers (written by Hamilton Helmer) from Flo Crivello (Founder & CEO Teamflow)

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The 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer & Jeff Lawson

53

The Founders' List: Nir Eyal (Author, Professor, & Investor) on "Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire"

54

Hippo: From Idea to SPAC with CEO Assaf Wand & Pete Flint

55

Austen Allred (Co-Founder of Lambda School) & James Currier (NFX) on The New American Dream

56

The Founders' List: 2020 Letter to Amazon Shareholders

57

The CEO That Jeff Bezos Called “His Teacher” with Jeff Wilke & James Currier

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The Founders' List: 1997 Letter to Amazon Shareholders

59

A Proposal to Jack & Zuck: Chris Anderson (ex-WIRED) & James Currier on Regulating Social Media

60

The Founders' List: Valve's New Employee Handbook

61

The Founders' List: Elad Gil on the 5 People Who Can Destroy Your Culture (Hiring Series)

62

The Founders' List: Iman Abuzeid on Frameworks for Using Diversity to Win (Hiring Series)

63

The Founders' List: Internal Letter on Culture from Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb (Hiring Series)

64

The Founders' List: The Interview Process at Stripe, Answered on Quora by Greg Brockman (Hiring Series)

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The Founders' List: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles

66

The Founders' List: Nokia's CEO 'Burning Platform' Memo

67

Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) & Gigi Levy-Weiss

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The Founders' List: The Ethereum Whitepaper

69

The Founders' List: Pete Flint on "How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets"

70

Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More ("The B- Side" with Morgan Beller)

71

The Founders' List: Ashley Mayer on "It’s Okay That Your Startup Doesn’t Have a Communications Strategy"

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The Founders' List: Sean Ellis on "How to Determine the Optimal Price for Your Web Service" (Pricing Series)

73

The Founders' List: Ash Maurya on "My Experiments in Lean Pricing" (Pricing Series)

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The Founders' List: Tomasz Tunguz on "Ten Years Worth of Learnings About Pricing" & "There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for You

75

The Pricing Masterclass with Madhavan Ramanujam & Pete Flint

76

The Founders’ List: The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto

77

The Founders’ List: ‘The HP Way’ Speech by Dave Packard to Management (1960)

78

Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint

79

The Great Unbundling Of Housing & Jobs, with Jed Kolko and Pete Flint

80

The Founders’ List: Email Exchange on Instagram Acquisition by Facebook (Kevin Systrom & Mark Zuckerberg)

81

How To Compete with Big Tech and Win with Zeev Farbman & Gigi Levy-Weiss

82

Erik Torenberg & James Currier on being Citizens of the Internet

83

The Decision Frameworks Behind Fiverr's Success with Micha Kaufman and Gigi Levy-Weiss

84

The Founders’ List: 10 Pieces of Manufacturing Advice from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk

85

"Don't Just Be the Best, Be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier

86

The Founders’ List: "How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Your Life" by Nir Eyal (Author + Former Stanford Professor)

87

The Founders' List: Steve Job's Famous 'Thoughts on Flash' (Famous Memos)

88

The Irrational Truths Behind User Behavior, with Dan Ariely & Gigi Levy-Weiss

89

The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company with Elad Gil & James Currier

90

The Founders' List: Steve Yegge's Famous Rant on 'Google vs Amazon' (Famous Memos)

91

The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier

92

The Founders’ List: "Why Figma Wins" by Kevin Kwok (Former Investor at Greylock)

93

Status Games with Eugene Wei (Product Lead at Amazon, Hulu, Erly, Flipboard, Oculus) and James Currier

94

The Future of Digital Advertising with Mikael Cho & Luke Chesser (Co-Founders of Unsplash)

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The Founders’ List: Bill Gates' internal Microsoft Memo "The Internet Tidal Wave" (Famous Memos)

96

The Founders’ List: "The 3 Types of Platform Companies" by Elad Gil (Color Genomics & Twitter)

97

The Competition For Your Attention with Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) & James Currier

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The Founders’ List: “Don't Believe Your Own B.S.” by Pete Flint (General Partner at NFX)

99

Focus Superpowers with Nir Eyal & James Currier

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The Golden Age of Simulation with Chris Anderson & James Currier

101

The Founders’ List: “Social Capital in Silicon Valley” by Alex Danco (Shopify & Social Capital)

102

The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos)

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The Founders’ List: “The Guide to Unbundling Reddit” by Greg Isenberg (Late Checkout, Indicator Fund, TikTok Advisor, Previously

104

The Founders’ List: “Status as a Service (StaaS)” by Eugene Wei (Former Product Leader at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus)

105

Good vs. Great Companies: The Unseen Truths of Breakout Success with James Currier & Selina Tobaccowala

106

The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns"

107

Prof. Tom Eisenmann (HBS) on Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure

108

The Founders' List: Company Culture at Netflix (Famous Memos)

109

Cyan Banister on the Future of AR/VR

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The Founders' List: Margaret Gould Stewart (VP of Product Design at Facebook) on "How a Single Conversation with my Boss Changed

111

Nir Erez from Moovit on Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

112

The Founders' List: Max Mullen (Co-Founder of Instacart) on "How to Run a Product Brainstorm"

113

The Founders' List: Julie Zhuo (Former VP Product Design at Facebook & Co-Founder of Inspirit) on "How to be Strategic"

114

The Founders' List: Joel Spolsky (Co-Founder of Trello & Stack Overflow) on "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon"

115

The Founders' List: Dharmesh Shah (Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot) on "Aligning Vectors: How To Optimize To Maximize Impact"

116

The Founders' List: Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund) on "15 Annoying Things that VCs say or ask"

117

The Founders' List: Scott Belsky (Founder of Behance) on "Creativity is The New Productivity"

118

The Founders' List: Sean Ellis (Founder & CEO of GrowthHackers) on "The Growth Pyramid Revisited"

119

The Founders' List: 2004 Founder's IPO Letter from Google (Famous Memos)

120

The Founders' List: Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' (Famous Memos)

121

The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Building Strong Companies with The No Politics Rule"

122

The Founders' List: Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Why Startup Timing is Everything"

123

Craig Newmark on Building Craigslist, Teamwork, & The Golden Rule

124

Steve Blank on "Don't Waste A Good Crisis"

125

George Dyson on Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, & The Future We're Building

126

Garrett Smallwood & James Currier on the Founder Journey and Navigating Uncertainty

127

April Underwood shares the Product Thinking That Built Slack & Twitter

128

Keith Rabois on how Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp, & PayPal

129

Rahul Vohra shares the Frameworks Behind Superhuman (NFX Keynote Episode)

130

The Google of Biology: Meet the Company that is Reading & Writing the Code of Life

131

The Insider Story of Houseparty with Ben Rubin & James Currier

132

Josh Elman & James Currier on the Arrival of the Next Social Era

133

The Founders' List: Your Life is Driven by Network Effects by James Currier

134

How Reid Hoffman & James Currier See the Path Ahead for Founders during The Great Reset

135

David Sacks shares how PayPal & Trulia Navigated Downturns

136

Stacy Brown-Philpot on Leading Startups Through Uncertainty

137

How Iman Abuzeid (CEO of Incredible Health) Raised Venture Capital

138

How Marco Zappacosta (Founder & CEO of Thumbtack) Built a Billion Dollar Marketplace

139

The Founder List: 16 Non-Obvious Fundraising Lessons On Pitching (James Currier, Partner at NFX)

140

Scott Cook (Founder of Intuit) Shares Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects

141

The Founder List: The Hidden Patterns to Great Startup Ideas (James Currier, Partner at NFX)

142

The Founder List: 9 Habits of World Class Startups (James Currier, Partner at NFX)

143

Manish Chandra (Founder & CEO) shares The Poshmark Story

144

The Founder List: Inside the Marketplace of Uber (James Currier, Partner at NFX)

145

Inside the Marketplace of Lyft with James Currier & Pete Flint (NFX Partners)

146

Andy Johns & Pete Flint on "Why Growth Hacking Is Broken"