Episodes (Page 5)
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Gili Raanan founded Cyberstarts, world's first VC majorly backed by cyber entrepreneurs, growing from $50 million first fund to nearly $2 billion in three years
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Alex Wiltschko founded Osmo to digitize the sense of smell by teaching computers to read and write scent through proprietary scientific methods
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Kelly Granat is Co-Chief Investment Officer at Lone Pine Capital, one of the most successful hedge funds and investment firms of recent decades
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Devon Zuegel founded Esmerelda Institute to build a new town in California wine country, inspired by Chautauqua communities she cherished growing up
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Doug Leone led Sequoia Capital for 25 years after 1996, transforming single $150 million fund into $85 billion global powerhouse alongside Mike Moritz
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Chris Pedregal founded Granola, an AI-powered notepad that transcribes meetings and enhances notes through advancing cognitive tool evolution
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Ravi Gupta explores 'AI or Die' thesis: constraints historically limiting small teams are dissolving, creating unprecedented opportunities for those embracing aggressive change
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Marc Andreessen discusses seismic shifts in technology and geopolitics including DeepSeek's open-source AI and US-China technological rivalry implications
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Graham Duncan built East Rock managing billions for select families by focusing on people, after convincing Lennar CEO Stuart Miller to entrust $50M in 2006
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Blake Hall served four years as Army officer leading scout sniper missions in Iraq, achieving 90% success rate through relentless preparation and learning
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Dylan Field, Figma co-founder and CEO, discusses navigating AI while maintaining core vision of eliminating gap between imagination and reality
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Tal Zaks, Moderna's former Chief Medical Officer, provides insider perspective on COVID-19 vaccine development and mRNA platform innovation
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Dwight Churchill and Gaurav Misra co-founded Captions, an AI platform for generating and editing talking videos with rapid scaling and growth
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Jack Kokko, AlphaSense CEO and founder, evolved AI-powered search engine from fragmentary financial data aggregation to LLM-driven research transformation
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Jared Kushner discusses diverse career across real estate, New York Observer ownership, Trump administration senior advisor role, and now Affinity Partners private equity
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Scott Wu co-founded Cognition to create Devin, the first AI software engineer capable of handling complete engineering workflows from bug fixes to pull requests
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Micky Malka founded Ribbit Capital, a venture firm exclusively focused on fintech, and declares 'fintech is dead' as the industry evolves and consolidates
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Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark GP) and Modest Proposal (public markets capital manager) discuss pivotal shifts in AI development as leading labs hit scaling limits
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Ronnie Fieg began at age 13 at David Z. shoe store, earning first collaboration with ASICS in 2007 that sold out after Wall Street Journal feature
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Gabe Whaley founded MSCHF, evolving from viral internet pranks into a singular creative company releasing provocative work every two weeks challenging cultural assumptions