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Roland Reynolds from Industry Ventures discusses managing $3.5B to successfully invest across the entire venture ecosystem
[Array] Podcast - October 01, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRoland Reynolds started one of the early fund of funds investing in emerging managers in 2007. He then joined forces with Industry Ventures in 2009 to land their fund of funds initiative. Industry ventures as a firm started in 2000 now manages $3.5B in assets under management. They inve...
Hollywood's Blye Faust produces the movie Spotlight that wins an Oscar
[Array] Podcast - August 16, 2018 06:17 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBlye Faust is an academy award winning producer of the movie Spotlight about the Boston Globe investigation of the Catholic church for allegations of abuse. She has also co-produced The Queen Latifah Show and started an interior design firm byblye With her co-founder Nicole Rocklin, Bl...
Jonathan Abrams founder of Nuzzel and Friendster on how to win in a crowded market
[Array] Podcast - July 31, 2018 02:18 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA Canadian implant in SV Jonathan Abrams is now a founder of 4 SV startups: Socializr, Friendster, HotLinks and most recently Nuzzel with backing from Marc Andreesen, Naval Ravikant, Homebrew, SoftTech and Lowercase just to name a few. Jonathan has first hand experience on how timing ma...
Rory O’Driscoll founder of Scale Venture Partners discuss the in and outs of enterprise investing, taking companies public, AI, and building a long lasting VC firm.
[Array] Podcast - July 30, 2018 02:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsToday on our podcast we have Rory O’Driscoll, cofounder and partner at Scale Venture Partners. Scale Venture Partners just raised their 6th fund of $400m managing over $1.5 billion in assets under management. Scale had interesting beginnings as a firm; they were an in-house VC fund insi...
Billionaire Tim Draper on investing and predicting future of crypto, evolution of venture capital, and why he wants to split California
[Array] Podcast - May 10, 2018 14:10 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTim Draper is the founder of venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Draper Associates. He also built the Draper University built to empower entrepreneurs take risk and build confidence. He is author of the book How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrep...
Ryan Hoover, CEO of Product Hunt: How some startups launch on this largest online community and PH's acquisition by Angellist.
[Array] Podcast - March 25, 2018 09:52 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRyan Hoover is a founder of Product Hunt, place to discover your next favorite thing. Product Hunt was funded by investors like a16z, Greylock, Slow Ventures, and Alexis Ohanian. Product Hunt was recently acquired by, Angellist a company where the world meets startups. Ryan is one of th...
Paul Martino, Bullpen Capital: How do you differentiate your fund?
[Array] Podcast - January 15, 2018 19:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAfter founding several successful start-ups, Paul Martino (https://twitter.com/ahpah), Duncan Davidson (https://twitter.com/duncandavi), and Rich Melmon (https://twitter.com/RMelmon) decide to start a different kind of company, a venture capital fund - Bullpen Capital (http://bullpencap....
Roy Bahat: Starting a new VC fund? Listen to Roy's thoughts on setting it up for success
[Array] Podcast - December 04, 2017 19:21 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRoy Bahat is one of the founder of Bloomberg Beta. I met Roy through my friend Shivon Zilis who is also a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Shivon was in one of our earlier podcasts on Array talking about AI. Bloomberg Beta is one of my favorite firms to work with and not only because they are...
Brad Feld founder of Foundry Group and Techstars shares how he invests in companies and funds
[Array] Podcast - September 19, 2017 02:03 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBrad Feld is a legend in the venture industry. Brad started out as a founder of Feld Technologies then became an angel and institutional investor and recently also expanded his firm, Foundry Group, into fund investments. Amongst the many things he is known for Brad started Techstars and...
Michelle Zatlyn founder of Cloudflare on becoming a unicorn in span of 8 years
[Array] Podcast - August 29, 2017 07:33 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt’s amazing how Cloudflare a company that was a mere dream 8 years has become core part of the internet infrastructure today making websites more secure and scalable. Cloudflare sees all kinds of traffic and attacks from Neo Nazis, largest phasing attacks, political campaigns before yo...
TK Kader founder of ToutApp gets acquired by Marketo and discusses how to survive when competitors proliferate and market crashes how do you survive?
[Array] Podcast - July 31, 2017 19:25 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIf you look up the word hustle in wikipedia, You might find a section on today's founder, Tawheed Kader (TK). TK shares his honest thoughts on how he successfully sold his company ToutApp to Marketo in 2017. This did not come without challenges. Even while he was growing fast and at $5m...
Shivon Zilis discusses how she became part of the machine intelligence movement
[Array] Podcast - June 27, 2017 22:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOn our podcast from a few weeks ago on All things AI we heard from Lucas Baker of Google Deepmind on his perspective on current state of AI. Today we chat with Shivon Zilis who is an investor at VC firm Bloomberg Beta and gives an investment perspective on AI. Shivon became somewhat of a...
Tim Campos former CIO of Facebook discusses strengths of an open and honest culture
[Array] Podcast - June 05, 2017 16:49 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTim Campos, former CIO of Facebook talks about importance of culture at a company, impact of a life coach on his career and challenges he faced as a CIO of two Fortune 500 companies - Facebook and KLA Tencor
Lucas Baker a AlphaGo expert at Google Deepmind talks All about AI
[Array] Podcast - May 01, 2017 18:31 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWith a breadth of experience unusual for a young engineer, Lucas Baker has traveled a winding path through the tech industry leading from Stanford through Square, Y Combinator, Pinterest, Google, and most recently DeepMind. Find out what he's learned along the way and what he thinks abou...
Leslie Miley makes it against all odds. Life story of director of engineering at Slack.
[Array] Podcast - April 17, 2017 20:22 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this podcast we'll hear the story of a college dropout, but not the glamorous Steve Jobs-type story you might expect. Learn how Leslie Miley worked his way up through engineering roles at Walmart, ODesk, Apple, Google, Twitter, to become director of engineering at Slack, one of Silico...
Lukas Biewald founder of Figure8/Crowdflower on how bigger companies use AI
[Array] Podcast - April 10, 2017 17:06 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLukas Biewald, founder of Crowdflower, will be talking about the Future and problems in AI, training data sets, and how AI is used at bigger companies.
Justin Kan discusses selling Twitch to Amazon for one billion dollars
[Array] Podcast - March 27, 2017 08:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the space of nine years, Justin Kan pivoted from aimless post-collegiate soul-searching to a massive exit on his company, Twitch, which he sold to Amazon for $1B. Before that he sold his company Kiko Software on ebay! Justin went from being a partner at Y-Combinator to starting his o...
Auren Hoffman gives unconventional wisdom on how he sold LiveRamp for $310 million to Acxiom
[Array] Podcast - March 20, 2017 07:04 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAuren Hoffman is a founder of Safegraph and previously LiveRamp. LiveRamp was acquired by Axiom for $310m in 2014. Auden shares his views on why smart people make wrong decisions with optionality, how focus in life important, and how to pick markets for your new venture. Auren twitter:...
Esther Dyson is an angel investor in hundreds of companies, wants to see a reform in healthcare, and talks about her training to live on space and retire on Mars
[Array] Podcast - March 13, 2017 21:44 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEsther Dyson trained to be in space and wants to retire on Mars. Esther's global perspective has made her an effective investor and valued board member. A medical scare led her to start Way to Wellville (http://waytowellville.net), a health intervention program for American health syste...
Sean Byrnes founder of Flurry gets acquired for $300m+ after nearly going insolvent 3 times
[Array] Podcast - March 13, 2017 20:56 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSean Byrnes is currently a founder of OutlierAI. Previously, he was a founder of Flurry. Flurry was founded during a recession and almost insolvent 3 times until 2014 when it was acquired by Yahoo for $300-$350m. Sean is now a CEO of Outlier.ai which helps businesses make better decisio...
OpexEngine founder Lauren Kelley shares SaaS benchmarks
[Array] Podcast - March 13, 2017 20:16 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLauren Kelly is the CEO of Opex Engine (https://www.opexengine.com) where they benchmark metrics for SaaS companies. Lauren tells us what metrics should companies track depending on who they are selling to.
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