The Dart Board with Daniel Dart
By Rock Yard Ventures
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Daniel Dart is the founder and General Partner of Rock Yard Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm focused on tech across core industries. Join Daniel as he sits down with some of the world's greatest investors, operators, and entrepreneurs as they pull back the curtain on tech, venture, and business.
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Micah Rosenbloom | Founder Collective - On firm building, the end of vibes investing, and why it's fricking random
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May 21, 2026 |
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Paul Klein IV | Browserbase - AI for the internet, headless browsers, and going all in
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May 13, 2026 |
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Caroline Duffy | Cowboy Ventures - On the labor shortage economy, the humanoid problem, and tourist investors in defense
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May 07, 2026 |
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Sheel Mohnot | Better Tomorrow Ventures - On the asset that chooses you, why specialization wins, and doing hard things worth writing about
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Steve Sloane | Menlo Ventures - On the bifurcation of venture, making your great ideas count, and why passion follows mastery
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Ethan Choi | Khosla Ventures - On robotics having its GPT-3 moment, going from metrics to founders, and faith as a foundation
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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LIVE from FT26 with Bill Gurley - Career pivots, the AI boom and venture bubbles, and why the industry still favors the young
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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LIVE from FT26 with Seth Levine - Lessons from building a $4B venture firm, the power of emerging managers, and the future of capitalism
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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LIVE from FT26 with Mike Chalfen - On being a Solo GP, having the courage to look dumb, and why trying to see every deal is the path to madness
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Bill Gurley | Benchmark – On finding your dream job, obsessive learning, and why passion beats the resume arms race
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Mike Knoop | Zapier, Arc Prize, Ndea AI Lab — On why scaling LLMs won’t reach AGI, the future of program synthesis, and maximizing the rate of innovation
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Zal Bilimoria | Refactor Capital — On building a solo GP VC firm, portfolio construction evolution, and the lessons that shape great founders
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Seth Levine | Foundry Group — On building a $4B platform, the future of capitalism, and navigating life’s transitions with intention
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Jessica McKellar | Pilot - On building billion-dollar companies, why founders should never stop selling, and the power of being an outsider
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Aaron Epstein | Y Combinator – On what makes great founders, the lessons of failure and focus, and building opportunity for others
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Vanessa Larco | Premise VC - On leaving NEA to build her own firm, spotting outlier founders, and the next wave of consumer tech
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Alda Leu Dennis | Hawktail VC — On building a new kind of venture firm, lessons from Thiel and Tan, and why boldness attracts the right allies
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Stan McChrystal | McChrystal Group - On character, the choices that define a life, and the great lessons along the way
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Samara Hernandez | Chingona Ventures - On breaking barriers, using the unknown as a catalyst, and never taking no for an answer
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Nitish Maini | WorldQuant - On democratizing opportunity, why big risks aren’t as risky as you think, and the two-year rule for growth
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Brad Feld | Foundry - On what real leadership looks like, how to show up through crisis, and the joy of long arc characters
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Finn Meeks | South Park Commons - On going from -1 to 0, finding world class community, and redefining your identity
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Chris Olsen | Drive Capital - On building a $2B firm outside of Silicon Valley, always accepting responsibility, and giving founders more than just money
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Dan O'Connell | Front - On driving a ~$100m ARR startup, the evolution of pricing, and how some people never change
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Mike Miller | Liquid 2 Ventures - On going from nuclear physicist to the early Y Combinator days, selling a startup to IBM, and launching a different type of VC fund
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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John Mannes | Basis Set - On going from government and to venture, how curiosity breeds alpha, and sometimes we just need to focus on what's right in front of us
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Mario Schlosser | Oscar Health - On how AI will make healthcare better, his journey from upstart to IPO, and why you need to do things 100%
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Greg Lippmann | LibreMax Capital - On the 'Big Short,' finding mentors through hard work, and understanding the value in setbacks
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Songyee Yoon | Principal Venture Partners - On why gaming is the frontier of tech, why tomorrow's biggest companies are starting today, and why it pays to have a thick skin
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May 28, 2025 |
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Barry Ritholtz | Bloomberg & Ritholtz Wealth Management - On 'How Not To Invest,' being both a specialist and generalist, and turning his ADHD into a superpower
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May 23, 2025 |
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Ron Biscardi | iConnections - On convening over $50 trillion in AUM, building culture and conviction in a remote world, and how action beats analysis
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May 14, 2025 |
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Stacey Gerber | Sequoia Capital - On creating community with intention, understanding the value of preparation, and how helping others is the key to helping yourself
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May 02, 2025 |
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Jon Bradford | Dynamo Ventures - The 'Godfather of European Accelerators' on advice for founders, scaling teams, and the future of American manufacturing
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Chris Farmer | SignalFire - The journey to $3 billion in AUM, building ‘structural advantages’, and how to differentiate as an emerging VC
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Henry Ward | Carta - On being an ‘accidental founder,’ scaling a unicorn in a ‘non-hype’ sector, and how to build effective teams and manage mental health
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Nolan Bean | FEG Investment Advisors - On advising and managing over $90B of institutional capital and what baseball can teach us about team, process, and discipline
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Leo Polovets | Susa & Humba Ventures - On building a $1B firm, deep tech’s golden age, and practical advice for emerging and established VCs
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Anthony Scaramucci | SkyBridge Capital - From Wall Street to the White House, the future of Bitcoin, and finding purpose as a ‘comfortable outsider’
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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John Arnold | Arnold Ventures - From hedge fund titan, to leadership in evidence-based policy, and what the future of energy and Ai holds
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Hadley Harris | Eniac Ventures - From a $1.6M fund 1 to $800M+ AUM, portfolio construction, LP relationships & scaling a top seed firm
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Daniel Yanisse | Checkr - From idea to $700 million in ARR, the lessons of hyperscaling, and why Ai is now table stakes
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Joe Kaiser | Mercato Partners - On investing $1B in America’s heartland, building team culture and 'love language,' and being sculpted by hard times
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Jim Bethea | University of Iowa - How a $1.6b endowment CIO (and former tire factory worker) thinks about risk and assesses emerging managers
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Kevin Novak | Rackhouse VC - On where the magic is in Ai, getting fired as Head of Data at Uber, and the hard (but important) lessons he learned building teams
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Welcome to The Dart Board.
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Jan 21, 2025 |