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The NFX Podcast — 148 episodes
How AI is Forcing Startups to Rethink Pricing w/ Madhavan Ramanujam
The Product Intuition Behind $800M+ In Exits w/ Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan
How Running Out of Money Made DocSend a $165M Success w/ Russ Heddleston
How a $500 TV Ad Turned Credit Karma into a $7B Empire w/ Ken Lin
How Tracy Young Sold PlanGrid for $875M and Navigated Tragedy
Essay Readout: Stablecoins are Defense Tech by Morgan Beller
The Past, Present, and Future of Longevity w/ Joe Betts-LaCroix Alex Colville
The NFX Podcast w/ Alex Babin of HerculesAI
Essay Readout: Real Estate’s Hidden AI Revolution by Pete Flint
#1 Phone A Friend: "Astronauts for Inner Space" with Raed Khawaja
Essay Readout: Generative Tech Begins by James Currier
Essay Readout: 3 Waves of Successful Generative Tech Startups by James Currier
AI x Speed (Sunday Readouts)
Building Your Startup’s Attention Flywheel with Vijay Chattha (Founder of VSC)
The Strategies of Elite CEOs with Avishai Abrahami (CEO & Co-Founder of Wix)
NFXBio: Deal or Die – A Guide to TechBio Business Development and Strategy
NFXBio: Tech Founders, Don’t Be Afraid of Bio
Ep 11: Network Effects In TechBio (NFX Masterclass)
Ep 10: Network Effects In Gaming (NFX Masterclass)
Ep 9: Why Network Effects Are (Even) More Powerful In Web3 (NFX Masterclass)
NFXBio: The Promise of Synthetic Embryos with Dr. Jacob Hanna of Renewal Bio
Ep 8: Your Life Is Driven By Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 7 - Network Problems Demand Network Solutions (NFX Masterclass)
NFXBio: TechBio Platforms Developing a Universal Vaccine & Beating Treatment-Resistant Cancer
Ep. 6 - Case Studies: Network Effects In Action (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 5 - Network Bonding Theory (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 4 - The 4 Pillars of Defensibility (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 3 - Mapping Out the 16 Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 2 - The Underlying Properties Of Network Theory (NFX Masterclass)
Ep. 1 - Why Network Effects Are Mission Critical (NFX Masterclass)
Coming Soon: The Network Effects Masterclass [special audio edition]
NFXBio: Academia or Startup? A Decision Matrix for Future Scientist-Founders
Crazy Until It’s Not: New Story Charity’s Bitcoin-Based Mortgages, NFTs, and 3D-Printed Homes
The Inside Story of Nextdoor with Sarah Friar
Building Confidence Networks In Latin America
Eynat Guez & Gigi Levy-Weiss on 7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now
Community-First Company Building with Cuy Sheffield & Micah Johnson
A Founder’s Exponential Toolset with Azeem Azhar & James Currier
NFXBio: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D
Ann Hiatt on Trillion Dollar Leadership (An Inside Look at Jeff Bezos & Eric Schmidt)
Seeing Growth in a Downturn with Eran Ben-Shushan & Gigi Levy-Weiss
How a Top Investor Sees the World with Saar Gur
NFXBio: Why C2i is the World’s First Platform for Cancer Intelligence
Tony Fadell on Learning To See, Telling Stories, & Being A Troublemaker
Super Founders with Ali Tamaseb & James Currier
Major Opportunities for Young Founders with Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB
Heather Fernandez & Pete Flint on Startup Speed As A Public Good
The Founders' List: The Great Online Game by Packy McCormick
Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency
The Founders' List: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants from Marc Prensky
The IPO Whisperer Lise Buyer Talks Going Public
The Founders' List: The Maker Protocol Whitepaper - MakerDAO's Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) System
The Founders' List: Mind the Moat: Notes on 7 Powers (written by Hamilton Helmer) from Flo Crivello (Founder & CEO Teamflow)
The 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer & Jeff Lawson
The Founders' List: Nir Eyal (Author, Professor, & Investor) on "Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire"
Hippo: From Idea to SPAC with CEO Assaf Wand & Pete Flint
Austen Allred (Co-Founder of Lambda School) & James Currier (NFX) on The New American Dream
The Founders' List: 2020 Letter to Amazon Shareholders
The CEO That Jeff Bezos Called “His Teacher” with Jeff Wilke & James Currier
The Founders' List: 1997 Letter to Amazon Shareholders
A Proposal to Jack & Zuck: Chris Anderson (ex-WIRED) & James Currier on Regulating Social Media
The Founders' List: Valve's New Employee Handbook
The Founders' List: Elad Gil on the 5 People Who Can Destroy Your Culture (Hiring Series)
The Founders' List: Iman Abuzeid on Frameworks for Using Diversity to Win (Hiring Series)
The Founders' List: Internal Letter on Culture from Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb (Hiring Series)
The Founders' List: The Interview Process at Stripe, Answered on Quora by Greg Brockman (Hiring Series)
The Founders' List: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles
The Founders' List: Nokia's CEO 'Burning Platform' Memo
Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) & Gigi Levy-Weiss
The Founders' List: The Ethereum Whitepaper
The Founders' List: Pete Flint on "How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets"
Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More ("The B- Side" with Morgan Beller)
The Founders' List: Ashley Mayer on "It’s Okay That Your Startup Doesn’t Have a Communications Strategy"
The Founders' List: Sean Ellis on "How to Determine the Optimal Price for Your Web Service" (Pricing Series)
The Founders' List: Ash Maurya on "My Experiments in Lean Pricing" (Pricing Series)
The Founders' List: Tomasz Tunguz on "Ten Years Worth of Learnings About Pricing" & "There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for You
The Pricing Masterclass with Madhavan Ramanujam & Pete Flint
The Founders’ List: The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto
The Founders’ List: ‘The HP Way’ Speech by Dave Packard to Management (1960)
Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint
The Great Unbundling Of Housing & Jobs, with Jed Kolko and Pete Flint
The Founders’ List: Email Exchange on Instagram Acquisition by Facebook (Kevin Systrom & Mark Zuckerberg)
How To Compete with Big Tech and Win with Zeev Farbman & Gigi Levy-Weiss
Erik Torenberg & James Currier on being Citizens of the Internet
The Decision Frameworks Behind Fiverr's Success with Micha Kaufman and Gigi Levy-Weiss
The Founders’ List: 10 Pieces of Manufacturing Advice from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk
"Don't Just Be the Best, Be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier
The Founders’ List: "How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Your Life" by Nir Eyal (Author + Former Stanford Professor)
The Founders' List: Steve Job's Famous 'Thoughts on Flash' (Famous Memos)
The Irrational Truths Behind User Behavior, with Dan Ariely & Gigi Levy-Weiss
The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company with Elad Gil & James Currier
The Founders' List: Steve Yegge's Famous Rant on 'Google vs Amazon' (Famous Memos)
The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier
The Founders’ List: "Why Figma Wins" by Kevin Kwok (Former Investor at Greylock)
Status Games with Eugene Wei (Product Lead at Amazon, Hulu, Erly, Flipboard, Oculus) and James Currier
The Future of Digital Advertising with Mikael Cho & Luke Chesser (Co-Founders of Unsplash)
The Founders’ List: Bill Gates' internal Microsoft Memo "The Internet Tidal Wave" (Famous Memos)
The Founders’ List: "The 3 Types of Platform Companies" by Elad Gil (Color Genomics & Twitter)
The Competition For Your Attention with Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) & James Currier
The Founders’ List: “Don't Believe Your Own B.S.” by Pete Flint (General Partner at NFX)
Focus Superpowers with Nir Eyal & James Currier
The Golden Age of Simulation with Chris Anderson & James Currier
The Founders’ List: “Social Capital in Silicon Valley” by Alex Danco (Shopify & Social Capital)
The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos)
The Founders’ List: “The Guide to Unbundling Reddit” by Greg Isenberg (Late Checkout, Indicator Fund, TikTok Advisor, Previously
The Founders’ List: “Status as a Service (StaaS)” by Eugene Wei (Former Product Leader at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus)
Good vs. Great Companies: The Unseen Truths of Breakout Success with James Currier & Selina Tobaccowala
The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns"
Prof. Tom Eisenmann (HBS) on Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure
The Founders' List: Company Culture at Netflix (Famous Memos)
Cyan Banister on the Future of AR/VR
The Founders' List: Margaret Gould Stewart (VP of Product Design at Facebook) on "How a Single Conversation with my Boss Changed
Nir Erez from Moovit on Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
The Founders' List: Max Mullen (Co-Founder of Instacart) on "How to Run a Product Brainstorm"
The Founders' List: Julie Zhuo (Former VP Product Design at Facebook & Co-Founder of Inspirit) on "How to be Strategic"
The Founders' List: Joel Spolsky (Co-Founder of Trello & Stack Overflow) on "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon"
The Founders' List: Dharmesh Shah (Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot) on "Aligning Vectors: How To Optimize To Maximize Impact"
The Founders' List: Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund) on "15 Annoying Things that VCs say or ask"
The Founders' List: Scott Belsky (Founder of Behance) on "Creativity is The New Productivity"
The Founders' List: Sean Ellis (Founder & CEO of GrowthHackers) on "The Growth Pyramid Revisited"
The Founders' List: 2004 Founder's IPO Letter from Google (Famous Memos)
The Founders' List: Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' (Famous Memos)
The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Building Strong Companies with The No Politics Rule"
The Founders' List: Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Why Startup Timing is Everything"
Craig Newmark on Building Craigslist, Teamwork, & The Golden Rule
Steve Blank on "Don't Waste A Good Crisis"
George Dyson on Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, & The Future We're Building
Garrett Smallwood & James Currier on the Founder Journey and Navigating Uncertainty
April Underwood shares the Product Thinking That Built Slack & Twitter
Keith Rabois on how Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp, & PayPal
Rahul Vohra shares the Frameworks Behind Superhuman (NFX Keynote Episode)
The Google of Biology: Meet the Company that is Reading & Writing the Code of Life
The Insider Story of Houseparty with Ben Rubin & James Currier
Josh Elman & James Currier on the Arrival of the Next Social Era
The Founders' List: Your Life is Driven by Network Effects by James Currier
How Reid Hoffman & James Currier See the Path Ahead for Founders during The Great Reset
David Sacks shares how PayPal & Trulia Navigated Downturns
Stacy Brown-Philpot on Leading Startups Through Uncertainty
How Iman Abuzeid (CEO of Incredible Health) Raised Venture Capital
How Marco Zappacosta (Founder & CEO of Thumbtack) Built a Billion Dollar Marketplace
The Founder List: 16 Non-Obvious Fundraising Lessons On Pitching (James Currier, Partner at NFX)
Scott Cook (Founder of Intuit) Shares Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects
The Founder List: The Hidden Patterns to Great Startup Ideas (James Currier, Partner at NFX)
The Founder List: 9 Habits of World Class Startups (James Currier, Partner at NFX)
Manish Chandra (Founder & CEO) shares The Poshmark Story
The Founder List: Inside the Marketplace of Uber (James Currier, Partner at NFX)
Inside the Marketplace of Lyft with James Currier & Pete Flint (NFX Partners)
Andy Johns & Pete Flint on "Why Growth Hacking Is Broken"