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Homebrew’s Hunter Walk and Satya Patel: The Power of a Partnership
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - March 15, 2024 18:19 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHomebrew is one of the great venture firm names. It hearkens back to the 1970s era computer hobbyist group that included people like Steve Jobs. Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are the partners who founded and built Homebrew (the venture capital firm). Nevertheless, if you say “Hunter and Satya”...
Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell and Dr. Leah Hanes Have a (Better) Plan for Educating America
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - December 23, 2023 00:25 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsNolan Bushnell’s career is extraordinary. Nolan has ignited two entertainment revolutions: first with Atari, birthing the video game industry through classics like Pong, and later with Chuck E. Cheese, merging pizza and arcade games for family fun. A serial entrepreneur, he's founded over 20 co...
Richard Socher: Exploring AI with the Visionary AI Scientist, Entrepreneur and Investor
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - October 10, 2023 18:02 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRichard Socher is a visionary computer scientist, entrepreneur, and AI researcher who has dedicated his career to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI. With a Ph.D. from Stanford University, Richard's groundbreaking work in deep learning, neural networks, and NLP has paved the way for...
Hadley Harris: Building Eniac Ventures with 3 Friends / Investing in AI
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - September 15, 2023 21:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhat are the odds that 4 friends can start a VC firm, and still be firing on all cylinders years later? Hadley Harris, one of Eniac Ventures’ 4 co-founders has the answer. Before co-founding Eniac, Hadley was as a developer and engineering team lead at Pegasystems, and later took on roles as ...
Samir Kaji: Building Allocate; The State of the Venture Market; Banking Meltdown (SVB/FRB) Post-mortem
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - September 06, 2023 18:43 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSamir Kaji is the founder behind Allocate, a pioneering platform in the venture capital space. Samir has established himself as a key connector between venture capital firms and the “LPs” (Limited Partners) who invest in them. He is building Allocate to leverage his experience into a platform. ...
Darian Shirazi, General Partner at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI Fund): Unleashing AI's Investment Potential
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - August 21, 2023 18:26 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDarian Shirazi is a general partner at Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund. Gradient Ventures invests in companies that are “developing AI technologies that have the potential to make a significant impact on the world”. Darian is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded and served...
Anthony Soohoo: Bringing the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Walmart
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - July 24, 2023 22:43 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAnthony Soohoo is a Venture Advisor at AI Fund. It is a role he took on after building a company (Dot & Bo) that was acquired. He went from buidling his own company to becoming a leader at -- Walmart. . In fact, Anthony became the head of Wal-Mart’s Home Division. It’s the largest US retai...
Nnamdi Okike on Building 645 Ventures, Bias in Fundraising, and Being a Boston Sports Fan in New York
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - June 07, 2023 18:23 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsNnamdi Okike is rapidly becoming a prominent figure in the venture capital industry. He is the co-founder of 645 Ventures, along with his partner Aaron Holiday. Recently, 645 Ventures successfully raised its fourth fund, of about $350 million. Nnamdi's background includes an education at Harva...
Coindesk’s David Z. Morris: The Wild Story of FTX and its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - January 06, 2023 00:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDavid Z. Morris is part of the Coindesk reporting team that was critical in bringing to light the (apparently) massive fraud at FTX, the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange. FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX, abruptly collapsed in 2022, after having grown to become the world’s third larg...
Elad Gil: “A Startup is An Act of Desperation” and Other Wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's Best Investors
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - December 14, 2022 19:36 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIt is not a stretch to call Elad Gil one of Silicon Valley’s best investors. In a world where one big hit can make a venture capitalists’ career, Elad has invested in…Well, here’s a partial list Airbnb, Airtable, Anduril, Brex, Checkr, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, ...
Adrian Fenty: From Mayor of Washington DC to…Venture Capitalist
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - October 26, 2022 17:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThere are a few – very few –non-traditional paths into venture capital. Adrian Fenty may have one of the most unusual ones. Adrian was the Mayor of Washington D.C., winning that post at the age of 35 (making him Washington D.C.’s youngest mayor ever). In this episode we discuss his path to b...
Michelle Tandler: An Entrepreneur’s “Growth Path”, and “What’s the Matter with San Francisco?”
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - August 11, 2022 22:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsMichelle Tandler is an entrepreneur – she founded “Growth Path”, a provider of audio courses for professional development. Her goal is to teach soft skills and management at scale. She previously worked at tech firms Thumbtack and Yammer, as well as the venture capital firm Trinity. In this...
Max Chafkin on Peter Thiel: “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power”
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - June 17, 2022 23:48 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsMax Chafkin is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power”. Max is a technology reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. “The Contrarian” isn’t just about Thiel. It’s about that, too, of course -- from PayPal to his Facebook investment to his failed hedge fun...
Howard Morgan: From RenTec to First Round Capital, and Beyond
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - April 15, 2022 21:31 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHoward Morgan is one of those few – very few – people who have built multiple game-changing firms. He is co-founder of Renaissance Technologies (sometimes known as “RenTec”). While a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he divined the opportunity to apply emerging...
Jenny Lefcourt: Freestyle Capital Partner’s Path from Entrepreneur to VC
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - March 21, 2022 23:27 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJenny Lefcourt is a partner at Freestyle Capital, a seed stage venture firm overseeing $450 million in seed investments. Jenny dropped out of her Stanford MBA program – before that was cool -- to co-found online wedding registry startup WeddingChannel.com (with classmate, Jessica Herrin) After...
Joe Hudson: The Man Behind Silicon Valley’s Unicorn CEOs
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - January 17, 2022 18:21 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsI talk to a lot of founders and CEOs in Silicon Valley. They started telling me “you know, I couldn’t have done it without…” When I heard that multiple times, I just had to meet the guy they were talking about – Joe Hudson. Turns out, Joe Hudson is a sought after executive coach and creator o...
Eliot Brown on the Crazy Life and Wild Times of We Work Founder Adam Neumann
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - October 27, 2021 21:51 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsEliot Brown, with Maureen Farrell, is co-author of “The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion”. As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal he became intrigued by the messianic founder who had raised billions of dollars, and developed a cult-like following at his startu...
Brad Feld: “Friedrich Nietzsche is the Patron Philosopher of Today’s Entrepreneurs”
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - September 15, 2021 17:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBrad Feld’s latest book (with David Jilk) is “Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche (A Book for Disruptors)”. Those familiar with Brad’s “Feld Thoughts” blog, will find the unexpected title – unsurprising. While reading Nietzsche (um, yes) Brad noted that his favorite personality was a “free spirit:...
165 Auren Hoffman -- Silicon Valley's Hyper-connected Founder, CEO and Investor Shares his Wisdom
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - August 18, 2021 22:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAuren Hoffman is one of the most connected people in Silicon Valley. In a place where the currency of the land is connections – Auren is near the top of the heap. Auren is a Founder and CEO -- He founded SafeGraph in 2016, and previously founded LiveRamp, which is now public (NYSE: RAMP) – a ...
164 Nicole Taylor: Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s CEO On Giving in Silicon Valley; Responding to Black Lives Matter
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - July 30, 2021 23:03 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn Silicon Valley enormous wealth and huge need sit side by side. The gap is bridged in large part by an important organization – Silicon Valley Community Foundation (“SVCF”). SVCF manages more than $10 billion. In this episode Nicole Taylor, SVCF’s CEO, tells us where the money comes from, w...
163 Avi Loeb -- Extraterrestrials in our Solar System: What Happened in October of 2017?
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - June 25, 2021 18:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAvi Loeb is author of the book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth”. It’s a story you can hardly believe, once you hear it. But here it is -- the story of the day in 2017 when telescopes around the world started tracking an object in our solar system. It was mov...
162 Jamie Ducharme on her Book “Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul”
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - June 18, 2021 21:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBig Vape is a nicotine-high of a book: An intense ride-along with the story of the rise of Juul. The story begins innocently – a couple guys don’t want to quit smoking, but also do not want to suffer the ill effects of cigarettes. They start Juul, and its rise – the massive wealth created, th...
161 Ryan Nece of Next Play Capital: From the NFL to Venture Capitalist
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - June 03, 2021 20:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRyan and his dad are one of only two father/son NFL players to both win Superbowl rings. Today Ryan a venture capitalist at the firm he founded, Next Play Capital. His many co-investments include Hippo, ByteDance (TikTok), Flexport, Hims, Impossible Foods, Peloton, (IPO), and Rubrik among oth...
160 Ali Tamaseb – “Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion Dollar Startups”
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - May 18, 2021 22:35 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAli Tamaseb pulls the curtain back on the myths about billion-dollar startups – and he does it with data. That’s not surprising for a guy who is a partner at DCVC, the multi-billion dollar venture firm focused on deep tech. Ali is a scientist turned engineer who works on a broad spectrum of a...
159 Suneel Gupta on The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - May 05, 2021 21:06 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSuneel Gupta is author of the book “Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance”. Backable tells Suneel’s journey from first-time entrepreneur to being named “The New Face of Innovation” by the New York Stock Exchange. Suneel’s ideas have been adopted by firms like Gr...
158 David Bohnett -- GeoCities Founder Turned Philanthropist and Social Activist
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - April 13, 2021 21:24 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDavid Bohnett founded GeoCities in the 1990s, well before the internet attained its current ubiquity. GeoCities became publicly traded on NASDAQ and was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. in 1999. In a 2007 article, the Wall Street Journal described it as a Facebook prototype and noted, “Back then, entrie...
157 Kara Nortman: Upfront Venture’s co-Managing Partner on Becoming a Leader of a Major VC Firm, and Co-owner of Angel City FC
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - March 16, 2021 18:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKara Nortman is a Managing Partner of venture firm Upfront. Upfront famously hosts the “Upfront Summit” – a hard-to-describe, but massive confab of celebrities, entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders held in Los Angeles. Kara is a founding member of All Raise – you’ve heard about All Ra...
156: Is “Working Backwards” the Most Important Business Book Ever? Lessons from Amazon
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - February 19, 2021 21:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn their new book “WORKING BACKWARDS: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon” (St. Martin’s Press, February 9, 2021.) Bill Carr and Colin Bryar share Amazon’s secrets. They had a front row seat for most of Amazon's history, and they are sharing what they learned in their new book. ...
155 Amy Nauiokas: The CEO of Anthemis Group’s Journey from the Peace Corps to Managing Nearly $1 Billion
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - January 29, 2021 23:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAmy Nauiokas is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthemis, a leading digital financial services investment firm. Anthemis manages nearly $1 billion. Amy is also Founder and Chair of Archer Gray, a media production and content company. Straightforward for a venture capitalist, right?...
154 Vern Howard: Hallo's CEO is NOT Your Deliveryman
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast - January 11, 2021 19:36 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsVern Howard’s story is remarkable. Vern was a math prodigy who left high school early, when he tested into Virginia Commonwealth University to study Computer Science and Math. He paid his way through school by teaching math and serving as a janitor on campus. He went on to sell men’s suits, ...
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