The Peel with Turner Novak
By Turner Novak
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Episodes: 145
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Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories.
Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.
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The AI-Native GTM Playbook | Sam Blond, Monaco
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Inside the First Quant-Driven VC Fund | Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Chamaeleon
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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15 Hot Takes on VC and AI from the 2026 Allocate Beyond Summit
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May 29, 2026 |
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Building Got Easy. This Startup Solves What to Build | Alfred Wahlforss, Listen Labs
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May 24, 2026 |
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Inside the AI Sprint, Understanding Anthropic's Strategy | Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures
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May 15, 2026 |
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Cursor + Kalshi Seed Investor on Spotting Outlier Talent | Ali Partovi, Neo
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May 07, 2026 |
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How a Hillbilly in Nevada Bootstrapped a $140M ARR Manufacturing Company | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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The $5B Venture Growth Buyout Playbook | Alex Israel, Metropolis
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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How Agentic AI is Reshaping Science, Education, and the Economy | Karthik Duraisamy at the University of Michigan
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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How US Healthcare Actually Works, the WWII Tax Loophole that Broke it Forever, and How AI Can Fix it | Nikhil Krishnan, Out of Pocket
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Sophia Amoruso on Bootstrapping Nasty Gal to $120M Revenue, Turning Down $400M, Declaring Bankruptcy, Public Failure, Starting Trust Fund to Back Other Founders
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Footwork’s Secret Sauce | Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Inside Hanover Park: Building an AI-Native Service Business, Growing to $15B in Assets
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Inside Canada’s Fastest Growing AI Company | Spellbook, Scott Stevenson
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Benchmark’s Chetan Puttagunta on the Past, Present, & Future of Software
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Inside Serval: Building the System of Intelligence for IT | Jake Stauch
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Garry Tan on the Past, Present, and Future of YC
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Building the Wearable That Gets You Stronger | Miranda Nover, Co-founder of Fort Health
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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How Duo Security went Zero to $1B ARR in Ann Arbor | Dug Song, Jon Oberheide
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Building Real-Time Data Streaming for AI | Jacqueline Cheong, Co-founder and CEO of Artie
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The State of AI: Rise of Reasoning, Surge in Chinese Open Source, Sovereign AI , How to Invest in AI Today | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Building the $3B API That Didn’t Exist, Europe’s Regulation Problem | Marcelo Lebre, Co-founder of Remote
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Kevin Hartz | Backing Teen Founders, Lessons from the PayPal Mafia
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Inside the All-In Podcast: Lessons from Elon, Trump, Oprah, Travis Kalanick, Investing in 100+ Startups per Year with Jason Calacanis
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Why the Future of Software is AI and Human Collaboration | Steven Fabre, Co-founder and CEO, Liveblocks
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Building Flex, the AI Private Bank with CEO Zaid Rahman
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Inside Eight Sleep | Using AI to Sleep Better | CEO Matteo Franceschetti
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Inside the New Superhuman: $700M ARR, 40M Daily Users with Rahul Vohra
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Inside Stripe: Stablecoins, AI, and (not) Going Public | Will Gaybrick, President of Technology and Business at Stripe
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Roger Ehrenberg | Investing in Sports, 10x Funds, Traits of Top Founders, Current Seed Stage Market, Investing in Detroit
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Why AI Will Never Replace Engineers, Inside the 996 Discourse, and Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Greptile
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Inside Reducto: YC to Series B in 18 Months, From Pivot to Fortune 10 Customers, Lessons in Founder-Led Sales | Adit Abraham, Co-founder and CEO of Reducto
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Building AI-Native Infrastructure for Developers | Erik Berhnardsson, CEO of Modal
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Howie: The AI Secretary | Austin Petersmith, Co-founder and CEO
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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How Loops Fixes Email for Developers with Co-founder and CEO Chris Frantz
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Untold Startup Lessons from Dozens of Academic Research Papers with Dan Gray at Equidam
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Rethinking Asset Allocation, The Past Present and Future of Venture Capital | Dan Feder, University of Michigan
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Inside Intercom’s AI Turnaround, Why Software Companies Must Train Their Own Models | Eoghan McCabe, Co-founder and CEO
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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How To Generate Alpha in Venture Capital | Albert Azout, Level Ventures
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The Ocean: Earth’s $2.5 Trillion Last Frontier | Will O’Brien, Co-founder of Ulysses
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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How to Build a Content Strategy + CPG Brand Lessons | Isaac Medeiros (Mini Katana, Kanpai Foods)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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The Past, Present, and Future of AI, Robotics, Venture Capital, Crypto | Why Deep Tech Startups Mess up Value Capture | Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner, Compound
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Ryan Hoover on Growth Flywheels, Building Communities, Helping Founders, LP Investing
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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PhD to $100M Revenue: Rebuilding SMB Lending with AI | Sahill Poddar, Co-founder and CEO of Parafin
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Sleeping in Parking Lots to $250M+ Revenue: How Handshake Built Gen Z's Career Platform, Inside its Fast Growing AI Data Labeling Business, Scaling a Three-Sided Marketplace, How AI Changes Hiring
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Solving the Hardest Problems in Dev Tools | Jake Cooper, Founder of Railway
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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How WordPress Powers 43% of the Internet | Matt Mullenweg, Co-founder and CEO, Automattic
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Gamma's Journey to $50M ARR with 30 Employees | Co-founder and CEO Grant Lee
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Inside the $2 Trillion Employee Benefits Market | Ryan Sachtjen, Threeflow
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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How to Raise a VC Fund Today, Traits of Top Emerging Managers, Why Everyone is Selling Secondaries, Triple-Layered SPVs | Samir Kaji, Co-founder and CEO of Allocate
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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How to Skip Your Seed, Pre-Seed Lessons Building Afore to $500M+ AUM | Anamitra Banerji
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Benchmark’s Eric Vishria on Going Zero to $100M ARR in 12 Months, Archetypes of Top AI Founders, Why Storytelling is a Superpower, How Benchmark Makes New Investments
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Samsara’s Journey to $26B Public Company | Sanjit Biswas, Co-founder and CEO
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May 29, 2025 |
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Michael Kim @ Cendana | Lessons from the Top VCs, How Cendana Does Diligence, Portfolio Construction Best Practices, the 60x Rule, How Seed Funds Compete vs Multi-stage, Inside Cendana's Early Days
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May 22, 2025 |
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How AI Changes Governments & Business Models, From $11 to $187M Exit | Mike Vichich, Pursuit
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May 15, 2025 |
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Ultimate Startup Growth Playbook, Using AI to Automate Operations | Sam Ross, Numeral
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May 08, 2025 |
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Scaling Amplitude to $300M ARR with Co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates
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May 01, 2025 |
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Lessons Going Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years | Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Surviving Two Seed Extensions, Fixing Auth for AI Agents | Clerk Founder & CEO Colin Sidoti
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Building Verkada, the $4.5B Physical Security Company | Filip Kaliszan, Founder and CEO
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Forage: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Restricted Payments | Ofek Lavian
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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How the World’s Most Active Angel Investor Operates | Ed Lando, Founder of Pareto Holdings
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Alloy’s Unconventional Path to $1.5B with Tommy Nicholas, Co-founder and CEO
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The $750 Billion AI Opportunity in Customer Service | Mike Murchison, Co-founder and CEO of Ada
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Why Founders are Moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee to Lock-in | Cam Doody at Brickyard
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Zero to $20m ARR in Two Months: Inside Bolt’s 7-Year Journey to Overnight Success | Eric Simons, Co-founder & CEO
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Rick Zullo on Building Equal Ventures, Why Traction is Overrated, Advice for Emerging Managers
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Illegal Immigrant to $160m Fund 1: Inside Villi Iltchev’s Journey Building Category Ventures
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Govtech + Drones Crash Course, Lessons From 2 Exits | Rahul Sidhu
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Infrastructure for AI Browsers with Paul Klein, Founder + CEO of 🅱️ Browserbase
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Robinhood Co-founder Baiju Bhatt on the Journey to $40B, Building Space Solar Power with Lasers
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Sheel Mohnot on All Things Fintech, Starting Better Tomorrow Ventures
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Life360's 17-Year Journey to $3B | Chris Hulls, Founder and CEO
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Unlocking AGI With Visual AI Agents | Joseph Nelson, Roboflow
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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How Morning Brew Grew to 6 Million Subscribers and $70 Million Revenue in Six Years | Austin Rief, Co-founder & CEO
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The Startup Teaching 2-Year Olds to Read | Niels Hoven, Mentava
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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How Nextdoor Grew to 100M Neighbors + Why Founding CEO Nirav Tolia Returned Six Years Later
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Recruiting From Zero to One with Nakul Mandan, Co-founder of Audacious Ventures
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Inside Rent the Runway’s Early Days and the Future of Commerce with Co-founder Jenny Fleiss
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Startup Marketing Masterclass: How OpenPhone Grew to 100k Customers | Daryna Kulya
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Beating the Market 15 Years in a Row, Lessons from Jeff Bezos | Lisa Rapuano
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Gokul Rajaram | Lessons from Zuck, Jack Dorsey, Sergey Brin + Defining your ICP, Evolution of Seed Investing
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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How to Build in AI, Lessons From Early Days of Snyk with Founder Guy Podjarny
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The Rise of AI-Powered Services + Ultimate Sales Crash Course for Founders | Chris Hladczuk, Hanover
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Lessons Building Five Unicorns + Building Pathlight Ventures | Charley Ma & Mahdi Raza
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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How ClickUp Bootstrapped to $10m ARR and Scaled to 9-figures in Revenue with Zeb Evans
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Teen Hacker to Founder, Building an Open Source Security Company | Bobby DeSimone, CEO of Pomerium
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Inside the beehiiv Playbook with Tyler Denk, Co-founder and CEO
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The Future of Software, AI, and Tax, Lessons Scaling Zero to One | Michelle Valentine, CEO of Anrok
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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ShipHero’s Journey to $12B | Aaron Rubin, Founder and CEO
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Inside the Logan Bartlett Show, Investing Through Market Cycles + Bubbles, Dissecting VC Frameworks
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Lessons From Two Exits + Building Electric to Automate IT Management | Ryan Denehy
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Frank Rotman | Building Capital One ($58B) and QED Investors ($4B AUM)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Car Dealership Guy: From Anonymous VC-Backed CEO to B2B Media with Yossi Levi
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The 26-Year Old Exposing $10B Public Companies | Edwin Dorsey, The Bear Cave
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Building Non-Addictive Apps for Kids | Melissa Cash, Pok Pok
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Building boldstart ventures from $1M to $850M with Ed Sim
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Scaling Instacart to $10+ Billion | Nilam Ganenthiran, Co-founder of Beacon Software
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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How the Smartest Companies Use AI | Ankur Goyal, Braintrust
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Lessons From 21 Years of VC Fund Investing | Alan Feld, Vintage Investment Partners
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May 31, 2024 |
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Fixing The Maternal Health Crisis with Anu Sharma at Millie
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May 23, 2024 |
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Aaron Levie | The $1 Trillion AI Opportunity, Stories From Early Days of Box
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May 16, 2024 |
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Elad Gil: Getting Conviction on Unpopular Bets
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May 09, 2024 |
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How to Build a Biotech with Celine Halioua at Loyal
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May 02, 2024 |
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Giving an AI a Computer with Rahul Sonwalkar, Founder and CEO of Julius AI
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Zero to $90M Revenue in Five Years, How Athletic Brewing Created the Non-Alcoholic Beer Category with CEO Bill Shufelt
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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SMB Masterclass: Zero to $150M Revenue in Two Years with Dane Atkinson, Founder and CEO of Odeko
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Josh Miller on Arc, Thrive Capital, and Building a Team
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Market Update: Peter Walker on 2023 VC Valuation Trends, Dry Powder, New Bubbles, Employee Trends
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Chris Bakke on Selling to Elon, Small Exits, and Using Memes for Marketing
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Inside Anchor’s Journey to Product Market Fit and 9-Figure Sale to Spotify with Mike Mignano
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Eric Newcomer on Scaling to 80,000 Newsletter Subs, How to Pitch Reporters
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Siqi Chen on How To Go Viral, Secrets to Storytelling, and Forgetting Best Practices
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Automating the $80 Billion SOC 2 Market with Shrav Mehta (Secureframe)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Epic Gardening's $100+ Million YouTube Playbook with Kevin Espiritu, Founder and CEO
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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How Kirsten Green Built Forerunner Ventures
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Great Media Arbitrage: How Craig Fuller Built FreightWaves
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Building a $510 Million Personal Care Giant with Danielle Cohen-Shohet, Founder & CEO of GlossGenius
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Story of Nubank, The World’s Largest Neobank with Co-founder Cristina Junqueira
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Immigrant to $250M CEO: How Circle Powers the Creator Economy with Co-founder and CEO Sid Yadav
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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🎮 General Intuition Co-founder Pim de Witte on Growing Medal to 10+ Million Gamers
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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How Unit Operates with Precision, with Itai Damti (Co-founder and CEO of Unit)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Pricing Lessons from the Fastest Growing Companies with Kevin Liu, Co-founder and CEO of Metronome
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Zapier’s Secrets to Product Market Fit with Wade Foster (Co-founder and CEO of Zapier)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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How Solugen is Saving the $5 Trillion Chemical Industry (Co-founders Gaurab Chakrabarti & Sean Hunt)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Secrets of the $131 Billion Parking Industry with Jonathon Barkl (Co-founder and CEO of AirGarage)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Securing Open Source Software with Dan Lorenc, Co-founder & CEO of Chainguard
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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From Food Stamps to a $20 Million Fund with Nichole Wischoff
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Lessons From Scaling Pilot to a $1.2 Billion Valuation with Co-founder and CEO Waseem Daher
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Bootstrapping Webflow to $10M ARR, and scaling to a $4B Valuation with Vlad Magdalin (Co-founder & CEO)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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What is OpenStore? How Keith Rabois is Acquiring Shopify Brands
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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The $4 Trillion Business of Financial Crime with Natasha Vernier, Co-founder and CEO of Cable
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Growing Deel to $300M+ ARR in Four Years with Co-founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How Semil Shah Built Haystack
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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🧪 The Einstein of Ecommerce: Bootstrapping to 9-Figures in Revenue with Sean Frank (CEO, Ridge Wallet)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Modern Treasury: How to Move Quadrillions of Dollars, with Co-founder and CEO Dimitri Dadiomov
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The Business of Newsletters with Kendall Baker, “The Sports Newsletter Guy”
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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🏀 How Overtime Grew to 85 Million Fans | Dan Porter (Co-founder and CEO, Overtime)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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🍫 How to Build a $70 Million Chocolate Factory | Nick Saltarelli (Co-founder, Mid-Day Squares)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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🍕 The $1.3 Billion Pizza Business: How Ilir Sela (Founder & CEO, Slice) is Arming the Pizza Rebels
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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🏥 Making Healthcare a Product, Not a Service | Adrian Aoun (Founder and CEO, Forward)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Lessons From Building Mercury with Immad Akhund (Co-founder and CEO, Mercury)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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How Primer Turns Teachers Into Superheroes | Ryan Delk (Co-founder and CEO, Primer)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Selling $100 Million in Dog Collars | Ken Ehrman (Co-founder, Halo Collar)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Sweetgreen: Building McDonald’s for the Next Generation, with Jonathan Neman (Co-founder and CEO)
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Jun 27, 2023 |