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We The Builders — 51 episodes
The Investment Thesis for Rebuilding America | Chris Buskirk (Cofounder of 1789 Capital)
What Billion Dollar Founders Have in Common | Ali Tamaseb of DCVC
In Conversation with Bryon Hargis, Cofounder & CEO of Castelion ($13B defense technology company)
Michael Thompson, Board Member at Oklo & Joby on Betting on The Future
Somesh Dash on IVP, Firm Building, Venture Investing, The AI Era and Immigration
Adam Grosser, The Renaissance Man behind UP.Partners on 40 Years of Investing & Building in Silicon Valley
Evan Burns on Building State Affairs, Backed by Khosla Ventures & Founders Fund, The Business of Policy Markets and State of Media
Mike Solana of Founders Fund on Creating Celebrity Mafia featuring Tech Elite
Justin Lopas on the Business of Base Power and Lessons from SpaceX & Anduril
Scott Kupor on A16Z Origin Story, White House Role and Office of Personnel Management
Ian Cinnamon on Building a $2.3B Satellite Manufacturing Campus, Palantir Alumni & The Apex Space Thesis
E41: Austen Allred on X Posting, Lambda School, Getting Sued, ISAs, Lobbying & Future of Education
Brian Hooks, CEO of Stand Together & President of Charles Koch Foundation on Venture Philanthropy
In Conversation with Dan Wright, Cofounder & CEO of Armada ($2B neo-hyperscaler for the edge)
E33: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas, The Alpha in Long Form Writing and Investing with Eric Jorgenson
E32: Chauncey Hamilton, GP at XYZ on Media, Apprenticeship, Conviction and Founder Networks
E31: David Ulevitch on Creating the $1.776B A16Z American Dynamism Practice
E30: Sunil Dhaliwal, Founder of Amplify Partners on Lessons from 27 Years in VC
E29: Todd Klein, Managing Partner at Revolution Growth on VC, AI, Board Meetings and Hollywood
E28: Christian Keil, Partner at A16Z on Lessons from Scaling Astranis and Traits of Elite Operators
E27: Jonathan Lacoste, Founder of SpaceVC on Building & Investing in Frontier Tech & His Own Founder Journey
E26: Matt Ocko, Cofounder DCVC on Lessons from 30+ Years in DeepTech Venture Capital
In conversation with Billy Thalheimer, Cofounder & CEO of Regent
E25: Seth Winterroth, Partner at Eclipse: Investing $10B in the Physical Economy
In Conversation with Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, Cofounder & CEO of Chapter ($3B retirement company)
E24: Rob Leclerc on Building AgFunder, the Biggest Media Platform & Venture Fund focused on Food & Ag
E23: Leland Miller Breaks Down the China Threat. IP Theft, GDP Fabrication, Taiwan Takeover. What is Really Going On?
In Conversation with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital, $7B Fund Accelerating SciFi
E22: Colin Greenspon on Private Boards, Business Model Innovation, Competent Founders and Narya
In Conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch, Cofounder of CrowdStrike, a $100B company
In Conversation with David Friedberg, Cohost of All-In Podcast
E21: Jason Carman on Building Story and Inspiring The Next Generation of Technologists through SciFi
E20: Seth Berman, Cofounder of Susa and Kivu Ventures on History and State of Early Stage Venture Capital
E19: Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, The Renaissance Man behind the Multibillion Dollar House of Jahangir Siddiqui
E18: Jonathan Levin on Building Chainalysis, a $8.6B Company
E17: Bharat Vasan on Lessons from Raising $1B, Multiple Startup Exits and Hero's Journey for Founders
E16: Mike Solana, architect of new media on building Pirate Wires
E15: Mike Maples of Floodgate on Pattern Breaking Founders, Investing and Seeding Twitter, Lyft & Digg
E14: Packy McCormick on Writing, Investing, Media and Creative Process
E12: Dropping out of MIT to Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund and Space Factories w/ Delian Asparouhov
E11: Glenn Fogel, CEO Booking Holdings, the world's largest travel company
E10: Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on Building Chapter with Vivek Ramaswamy, a $1.5B company redefining retirement
E9: Working w/ VP JD Vance, Peter Thiel & Thesis Driven Investing w/ Colin Greenspon
E8: Auren Hoffman: Founder of LiveRamp ($RAMP, $1.85B), SafeGraph and Flex Capital and NQB8
E7: Building a Mach 5 Jet backed by Sam Altman, Founders Fund & Khosla Ventures
E6: Vivas Kumar: Building Mitra Chem & Securing America's Energy Supply Chain
E5: Karan Talati: SpaceX engineer to raising $30 million for First Resonance
E4: The future of home robotics with Mehul Nariyawala, Cofounder & CEO Matic Robots
E3: Christian Garrett: Investing at 137 Ventures (founded by former Thiel Associates) and Connecting Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley
E2: Omri Amirav-Drory: Investing at NFX, TechBio and Race To 160
E1: Shahin Farshchi: Investing at Lux Capital and Accelerating a Sci-Fi Future