Confluence.VC
By Clay Norris and Tyler Dean
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Episodes: 82
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Perspectives from the next wave of world-class investors and operators
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#82 - Data-driven LP investing with Jake Kupperman (Principal @ Level VC)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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#81 - VC over-saturation and workflow automations with Tim Flannery (CEO @ Passport)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#80 - How to use programmatic SEO to reach 200k monthly unique site visitors with Nico Cerdeira (Founder @ Failory)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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#79 - Running an angel group vs. running a traditional fund, subsections of proptech worth betting on, and growing a paid community to 200 members with Matt Knight (Founder @ Proptech Angel Group)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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#78 - Alternative ways to build track record with Mack Kolarich (VP @ Assure)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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#77 - Investing in the future of finch with Drew Glover (General Partner @ Fiat Growth)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#76 - Portfolio construction and scenario planning with Anubhav Srivstava (Founder @ Tactyc)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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#75 - Community, capital, and the future of venture with Jacob Peters (General Partner @ House Capital)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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#74 - Seeding the next era of fund managers with Mike Suprovici (Head of Acceleration @ VC Lab)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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#73 - Building and scaling online communities with David Kobrosky (CEO @ Intros AI)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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#72 - Melissa Widner (CEO @ Lighter Capital) on venture alternatives and revenue-based financing
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#71 - Zain Jaffer (Zain Ventures) on prepping for a successful exit, non-obvious differences between family offices and traditional funds, and opportunities in the future of real estate
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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#70 - Alexa Grabell (Co-Founder & CEO @ Pocus) on branding as a product-led growth company, creating early demand for your product, and extracting value from investors after they write checks
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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#69 - Nick Moran (General Partner @ New Stack) on building influence within venture, the solo capitalist movement, and why it's worth betting on talent outside of the hubs
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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#68 - Kirby Porter (Founder @ New Game Labs) on athletes and web3
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May 11, 2022 |
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#67 - Corey Walters (CEO & Here) on educating before selling, the process of fractionalizing hard assets, and solving bottlenecks as you scale
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May 04, 2022 |
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#66 - Jared Fuller (Partnerships @ BuiltFirst) on using ecosystems to your advantage, modern partnerships 101, and how to make sure that your portfolio CEOs are making the right hires
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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#65 - Nik Talreja (Co-Founder & CEO @ Sydecar) on why more junior investors are using SPVs to build their track record, the benefits of not building in public, and attracting top talent
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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#64 - Fed (Founder @ Hive Index) on things that great online communities do well, why community-focused businesses are here to stay, and the rise of the solopreneur
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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#63 - Dustin McCaffree (Founder @ Marvel) on winning at SEO, why every company is becoming a media company, and overcoming bottlenecks
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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#62 - Tyler Denk (CEO @ beehiiv) on creating tribalism, processes to ship faster, and why free is not always better
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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#61 - Michael Quigley (Co-Founder @ SpinCar) on investing with an operator mindset, partnerships and commitment in a world of abundance, and what trends are most exciting within venture
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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#60 - Kenny Rose (Founder @ FranShares) on alternative ways to build passive income
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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#59 - Jake Barry & Kai Han (Co-Founders @ Pallet) on the past, current, and future state of business recruiting, community-based marketing, and creating value through aggregation
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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#58 - Amir Kabir (Partner @ AV8) on the hierarchy of VC priorities, finding product-market fit as an insurtech business, and looking for honesty when evaluating founding teams
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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#57 - Kristofer Martin (Principal @ Will Ventures) on successful traits of athletes-turned-founders, applying skills from different backgrounds, and sectors and opportunities within consumer tech
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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#56 - Phil Nadel (Managing Director @ Forefront Venture Partners) on building distribution advantages
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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#55 - Kai Cash (Investor @ Primary) on creating leverage as a junior investor
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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#54 - Helene Servillon (JourneyOne Ventures) on problems that alcohol, pharma, and CPG don’t address, what makes a cannabis business investible, and obstacles and tailwinds for the cannabis industry
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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#53 - Justine Humenansky (Strategy @ RabbitHole) on ownership-based networks, onboarding late adopters, and staying compliant as a Web3 project
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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#52 - Abigail Tisch (Investor at RRE) on learning to operate within venture, problems that can't be solved with money, and tailwinds and opportunities within mobility tech
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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#51 - Victor Pascucci (Managing Partner @ Energy Capital Ventures) on aging utilities infrastructure, powering the clean energy revolution, and applying mental models across industries
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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#50 - Andrew Gadecki (CEO @ MicroAcquire) on flaws with the M&A process, the media painting the wrong picture of entrepreneurship, and replacing gatekeepers
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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#49 - Nicole (Williams) Ruiz (Investor @ Compound) on narrative-driven investing, ingredients of great narratives, opportunities within deep tech, and the future of digital education
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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#48 - Hanel Baveja (Investment Team @ Union Square Ventures) on thesis-driven sourcing, sharing thoughts online to create magnets for deal flow, and opportunities within fintech and digital wellness
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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#47 - Justin Smith (GP @ Recharge Ventures) on starting a fund from scratch, consumer tech in emerging markets, and investing in consumer brands in today's world
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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#46 - Mel Strong (Founding Partner @ NEXT Ventures) on transitioning from a major corporate into VC, identifying DNA traits of good founders, and sub-verticals to monitor within sports tech
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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#45 - Lolita Taub (GP @ The Community Fund) on productizing yourself, non-obvious benefits to building an audience across platforms, and thoughts on the the current and future state of community
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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#44 - Vinay Iyengar (VC @ Two Sigma Ventures) on why now is the golden age to start a business, implications of software becoming commoditized, and demystifying job searches
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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#43 - Aashay Sanghvi (Investor @ Haystack) on navigating the venture hype cycle, the business and game of being a VC, and breaking down what is attractive about dev tools
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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#42 - Ali Jamal (Founder Partner @ First Check Ventures) on developing a product mindset, how syndicate leads can offer more value than traditional funds, and thoughts on the influx of syndicate leads
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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#41 - David Teten (Founding Partner @ Versatile VC) on opportunities within the VC tech stack, signaling risks when selling a luxury asset, and thoughts on why VC is usually the wrong option
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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#40 - Yohei Nakajima (General Partner @ Untapped Capital) on problems with relying on referrals, betting on businesses making real impact, and the expansion of opportunity as no-code eats software
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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#39 - Ariana Thacker (Founding Partner @ Conscience VC) on hacking a first-time fundraise, red flags for founding teams, and the future of consumer + science
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#38 - John Smothers (Ambassador Program Lead @ Acrew Capital) on building businesses on top of online communities, problems with pattern matching, and venture becoming a hospitality business
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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#37 - Tali Vogelstein (Founding Investor @ Avid Ventures) on earning the right to follow on investments, building an LP base that is a source of value, and Israel becoming an innovation hub
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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#36 - Mikal Khoso (Investor @ Wavemaker) on the reversal of startup idea generation between established and emerging markets, super app wars, and the logic behind bundling services
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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#35 - Josh Schlisserman (Founding Partner @ Behind Genius Ventures) on the rise of operator-led rounds, hacking around getting into competitive seed rounds, and maximizing shots on goal
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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#34 - Halle Kaplan-Allen (Venture Operations @ AngelList) on leveraging software and building scalable systems, why funds cannot afford to overlook internal operations, building an authentic brand
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May 25, 2021 |
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#33 - (Katie Shea (Managing Partner @ Divergent Capital) on establishing track record to pitch LPs, building scalable systems of support, and underwriting technical and and business model risks
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May 19, 2021 |
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#32 - Zibo Gao (Founding Partner @ Intonation Ventures) on challenges for junior VCs and emerging fund managers, investing in products that provide an emotion, and thoughts on building hype
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May 12, 2021 |
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#31 - Ronnie Martinez (Investor @ CEAS) on parallels between athletics and venture investing, sustainability of Florida as a tech hub, and differences between family offices and traditional VC
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May 05, 2021 |
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#30 - Ryan Bloomer & Adriel Bercow (Managing Partner & Partner @ K50 Ventures) on the future of remote education, betting on the Latin America startup scene, and investing with a mission-driven thesis
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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#29 - Rachel Lauren (Investor @ BDMI) on missed opportunity areas within consumer fintech, the future of retail, and the legitimacy of NFTs
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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#28 - Nandu Anilal (Investor @ Canaan Partners) on the process of learning as a VC, the rise of data-driven companies, preempting rounds, escaping the competitive fundraising process
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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#27 - Ankit Sud (Principal @ NewView Capital) on rowing slow, scaling culture, venture funds de-commoditizing themselves, and thoughts on the current state of valuations
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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#26 - Sakib Jamal (Investor @ Crossbeam) on the shifting balance of power away from platforms, the lack of capital powering the creator economy, and building optionality through side hustles
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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#25 - Paraj Mathur (Investor @ Panoramic Ventures) on optimizing number of at bats, avoiding competition in finding deals, and the secondary impact of increased entrepreneurship
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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#24 - Greg Stofman (Struck Capital) on VCs competing as service providers, hiring in-house talent to support portfolio companies, and opportunity areas within climate tech and the future of work
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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#23 - Jay Drain Jr. (Associate @ Maven Ventures) on synthesizing thoughts through writing, the platform-ification of Zoom, the emergence of vertical social networks, and retail investing 3.0
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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#22 - Erica Amatori (Head of Marketing & Platform @ Alpaca VC) on translating marketing experiences into investment skills, competing on platform capabilities, and incentivizing community engagement
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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#21 - Ally Warson (Senior Associate @ UP.Partners) on unlocking economic value through mobilizing emerging markets, being contrarian in venture, and prioritizing execution over ideation
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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#20 - Asher Kraut (Technology Scouting Manager @ Starburst) on building a moat as an accelerator, opportunities within space and defense, focusing on the right problems, and some flaws in startup land
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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#19 - Faye Maidment (Investor @ Unshackled Ventures) on secondary effects of the creator economy, the art of curation and audience building, inflection points for VR/AR, and evaluating timing risk
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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#18 - Ashley Paston (Principal @ Bain Capital Ventures) on Fintech 2.0 and the shift towards embedded finance, evaluating proximity to buyers, navigating around long sales cycles
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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# 17 - Oz Nur (Associate @ Revolution) on investing outside of the traditional innovation hubs, full-stack investment strategies, growth stage enterprise themes, and the outlook on SPACs
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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#16 - Tasha Kim (Investor @ Marcy Venture Partners) on consumer trends, external collaboration projects, the rise of Social 3.0, and assigning value to brand-led communities
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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#15 - Gaby Goldberg (Investor @ Bessemer Venture Partners) on engineering attention as a startup, the playbook for building in public, the need for curators, and thoughts on the current state of audio
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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#14 - Steven Venino (Senior Associate @ Rosecliff Ventures) on overlooked sectors and opportunities, deciphering noise vs. signal, and assessing founder-market fit at the seed
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#13 - Corinne Riley (Investor @ Greylock)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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#12 - Abha Nath (Investor @ Wonder Ventures)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#11 - Brandon Beck (Principal @ Kickstart)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#10 - Sutian Dong (Co-Founder @ Women in VC)
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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#9 - Kenn So (Associate @ Shasta Ventures)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#8 - Cheryl Campos (Head of Venture Growth and Partnerships @ Republic)
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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#7 - Abhinaya Konduru (Associate @ M25)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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#6 - Meagan Loyst (VC @ Lerer Hippeau)
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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#5 - Abir Liben (Associate @ Serena Ventures)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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#4 - Mark Grace (Investor @ M13)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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#3 - Molly Fowler (CEO @ Dorm Room Fund)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#2 - Jessica Li (Growth Marketing @ Zageno)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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#1 - Mike MacCombie (Director of Platform @ ff Venture Capital)
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Sep 23, 2020 |