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Welcome to The U Lab Podcast.
My name is Hurratul and I'm a 3x founder, researcher, Stanford GSB LEAD alum, and author of Power before Purpose.
The U Lab is a research-led platform at the intersection of venture capital, global capital allocation, and entrepreneurial venture outcomes.
Having built and scaled ventures across 5 countries, and I’m now doing structured research, analyzing how capital actually flows, how ventures succeed or fail, who gets funded and where the system is fundamentally broken.
At The U Lab, you'd learn about:
- Venture capital dynamics and funding patterns
- Global capital allocation and financial power structures
- Research-backed insights on venture outcomes
I host The U Lab Podcast, where I speak with founders, investors, operators and researchers to capture the operating principles and decision-making frameowrks behind building companies under uncertainty.
This is where research meets real-world execution, with lessons packed in every single episode.
If you’re interested in venture capital, global finance, building and scaling a venture, technology or the future of innovation you’re in the right place.
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The U Lab Brief 36 | Why Are a16z and Accel Backing a Continuous Attack Simulation Cybersecurity Startup Armadin?
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 35 | What Happens When Anthropic's Supplier Becomes Its Lender
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 34 | Lenders Want More Protection For NVIDIA Chips
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 33 | AI Debt Is Getting More Expensive
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 32 | Oura's IPO: Primary vs Secondary Share Percentage
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 31 | a16z Announces Horowitz Andreessen Academy
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 30 | Heidi's $340M Deal Structure
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 29 | Amazon + Generac: The Commercial Deal And The Warrant
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 28 | AI's Next Bottleneck May Be Experimental Validation
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 27 | a16z Named 2 AI Sales Strategies. There's a Third.
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 26 | Premium That Is a Discount
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 25 | Paying More For Less
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 24 | Why Capital Concentrates
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 23 | The AI Deployment Layer
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 22 | Engram: The Learned Memory Layer For AI
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Stanford MBA, Investor & Founder's Take on What AI Cannot Commoditize: The Future of Human Advantage
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 21 | FAANG to MANGOS
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 20 | If AI Isn't Taking Your Job, What Is?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 19 | The Trust Layer of AI
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 18 | SpaceX'S $85B IPO. What Happens Next?
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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The U Lab Brief 17 | Google, SpaceX and The Compute Race
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Hidden Rules of Silicon Valley | Trust, Access and Why Some Founders Break Through
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May 29, 2026 |
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How 100,000+ Lives Transformed Across 37 Countries
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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C.E.O. Mindset with James Keyes
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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From Battlefield to Boardroom: Dana Sydorenko’s Mission to Revolutionize Gaming
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May 05, 2025 |
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Embracing Death to Live Unstoppably: Jill Greenbaum’s Powerful Framework of AI For Mindset Shift
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Hope Against Odds - From Fired Leader to Global Investor & Teacher, Professor Jack Fuchs, Director of Principled Entreprenurship and Lecturer (Part-time) at Stanford University
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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The Unstoppable Father : Story Of Unwavering Resilience to bring back his son from the brink of death
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Oct 15, 2024 |