Spotlight On
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Episodes: 63
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Spotlight On is a podcast about how companies are built, from the people doing the building. We take you behind the scenes to hear from founders and builders about what they did, what they learned… and what they’ll never do again. This series is produced by Accel, a global venture capital firm. Learn more at Accel.com/SpotlightOn.
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BONUS: Nebius’s Arkady Volozh on building in the agentic era
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May 08, 2026 |
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BONUS: Armadin's Kevin Mandia | On Redefining Security in a New Age of Threats
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Q&A with Zhenya Loginov: the Euro founder flywheel, 2025 IPOs, and leveling up from PLG
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: n8n’s Jan Oberhauser on building the Excel of AI
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.07: Education's Big Transformation
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.06: AI Leaves the Chatbox
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.04: Lovable, talent wars, and the changing $100m milestone
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Bonus: Anton Osika on how Lovable’s creating a world of builders
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.03: Scale, Circle, and Exits 101
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on translating bold visions into operational excellence
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Veza’s Tarun Thakur on excelling at go-to-market at every stage
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.02: The geography advantage + customer anthropology + a taste for taste
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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True Anomaly’s Even Rogers on failing forward to achieve mission success
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on the security arms race
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on bold visions for the future delivered incrementally
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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*Live from Accel’s 2025 People Summit* Behind the Netflix Culture Deck with Patty McCord and Jessica Neal
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May 27, 2025 |
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VBSR 1.01: RTO is back (again) + data moats dry up + Sara vibecodes
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May 22, 2025 |
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Tines’s Eoin Hinchy on rejecting the playbooks
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May 20, 2025 |
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Supabase’s Paul Copplestone on the difference between “playing startup” and strategy
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May 13, 2025 |
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*S3 Feature* Transcend’s Kate Parker on putting data back into the hands of users in an AI-driven world
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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*RSA Preview* CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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*RSA Preview* 1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Corelight’s Brian Dye on What He’s Learned About Scaling
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Graphite’s Merrill Lutsky on Revolutionizing Code Review for the AI Era
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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G2’s Godard Abel on How the “Yelp for Software” is Adapting to AI Buying and Discovery
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Speak CEO Connor Zwick on Building the Next Great Language Learning App
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Nebius’s Arkady Volozh on What it Takes to Build Infrastructure Needed for the AI Era
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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It’s Time to Build a Better Internet, with Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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How Decagon Dominated the B2B Agentic AI Market in Just Two Years
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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How Laravel’s Taylor Otwell Builds Products and Community that Drive Organic Growth | S3E2
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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What VSCO’s Joel Flory Has Learned About Leadership, Scaling, and Building Generational Companies | S3E1
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Spotlight On Season 3 Trailer
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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How Sentry's David Cramer Turned an Open Source Side Project into a $3B Business | S2Bonus2
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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How Linear’s Karri Saarinen is Redefining What Scale Looks Like | S2Bonus
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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1Password’s Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape | S2E14
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Wonder’s Marc Lore on blending vision and execution | S2E13
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Chainalysis’ Jackie Burns Koven on building trust in new technologies | S2E12
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Netskope’s Sanjay Beri on aspiring to be an iconic company through controlled innovation | S2E11
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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ConductorOne’s Alex Bovee on the critical ingredients of a high-growth startup | S2E10
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May 30, 2024 |
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Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses on creating a playbook for a product that’s never been built before | S2E9
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May 23, 2024 |
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Gamma’s Jon Noronha on how early-stage startups can challenge industry incumbents | S2E8
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May 16, 2024 |
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Remote’s Marcelo Lebre on the future of the global workforce | S2E7
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May 09, 2024 |
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Accel’s Amit Kumar and Ivan Zhou on being an effective startup partner when things don’t go according to plan | S2E6
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May 02, 2024 |
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CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz on building a generational company | S2E5
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Sysdig’s Suresh Vasudevan on embracing a “challenger mindset” | S2E4
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Syrup’s James Theuerkauf on building an AI-powered product that cuts through the noise | S2E3
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin on the biggest lessons learned from bootstrapping and raising capital | S2E2
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Klaviyo’s Andrew Bialecki on proving a tech startup can be built anywhere | S2E1
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Spotlight On Season 2 | Official Trailer
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Accel’s Vas Natarajan, Sara Ittelson, and Casey Aylward share insights and predictions from this season of Spotlight On: AI | S1E13
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Arm’s Rene Haas on building the brain of artificial intelligence | S1E12
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Transcend’s Kate Parker on putting data back into the hands of users in an AI-driven world | S1E11
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Cinder’s Glen Wise on trust and safety threats and holding AI accountable | S1E10
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Checkr’s Daniel Yanisse on tackling bias in people and AI | S1E9
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Ironclad’s Cai GoGwilt on a decade of anticipating the transformative power of AI | S1E8
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Synthesia’s Victor Riparbelli on creating an environment to harness AI benefits and reduce harms | S1E7
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Bard’s Jack Krawczyk on the birth of Google’s AI chatbot and the creative potential that lies ahead | S1E6
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang on the most powerful technological advancement of our time | S1E5
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Merge's Shensi Ding on powering the next generation of AI SaaS companies | S1E4
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Ada’s Mike Murchison on how AI is revolutionizing customer service | S1E3
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Roblox’s Daniel Sturman on building great teams in the AI era | S1E2
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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AssemblyAI's Dylan Fox on building an AI company during a period of radical change | S1E1
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Oct 17, 2023 |