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E1000: 1000th Episode Retrospective! Jason & TWiST lifers Lon Harris, Brian Alvey, & Tyler Crowley re-live favorite moments & guests, highlighting innovations in podcasting & tech over the last decade, hitting global trends & what’s in store for the next 1000

Nov 12, 2019 · 02:14:53

✨ Retrospective on 1000 episodes with Lon Harris, Brian Alvey, Tyler Crowley.

02:14:53

E999: ROOM CEO & Co-founder Brian Chen is building phone booths for the modern office, shares insights on maximizing open floor plans, partnering with Calm to reduce stress at work, maintaining capital efficiency as a hardware startup

Nov 8, 2019 · 00:51:33

✨ Brian Chen co-founded ROOM, creating modern office phone booths.

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E998: The Next Unicorns: Benchling CEO & Co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara is increasing efficiency for scientists with a cloud-based platform, gives insights on recent life-science innovations, ethics of gene therapy & defining the line between quackery & brilliance – E10 of 10-ep miniseries

Nov 6, 2019 · 00:54:30

✨ Sajith Wickramasekara's Benchling enhances scientist efficiency via cloud platform.

00:54:30

E997: HubSpot CEO & Co-founder Brian Halligan shares insights on the origin of inbound marketing, how The Grateful Dead inspired HubSpot, importance of customer experience, managing employees in the Glassdoor Era & more

Nov 5, 2019 · 01:05:39

✨ HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan discusses inbound marketing origins.

01:05:39

E996: Clearbit CEO & Co-founder Alex MacCaw is creating god-mode for marketers with Clearbit X, gives insights on dynamic customer targeting, prioritizing profitability over valuation, GDPR’s adverse effect on Facebook & Google, value of aggregated data & benefits of CEO coaching

Nov 1, 2019 · 01:01:53

✨ Alex MacCaw's Clearbit provides dynamic customer targeting for marketers.

01:01:53

E995: The Next Unicorns: NEXT Trucking CEO & Co-founder Lidia Yan brings trucking into the digital age with her two-sided marketplace, shares insights on finding & focusing on an untapped market, owning & innovating drayage, navigating the trucking industry as a woman & scaling the right team for su

Oct 30, 2019 · 01:01:04

✨ Lidia Yan's NEXT Trucking digitizes the trucking industry.

01:01:04

E994: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin shares his state machine that answers all growth questions; Future of Early-Stage VC w/Pete Flint (NFX), Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Ventures), Dave Samuel (Freestyle Capital); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Lever CTO Nate Smith

Oct 29, 2019 · 01:22:16

✨ Phil Libin shared his state machine for answering growth questions.

01:22:16

E993: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra shares the formula for his Product-Market Fit Engine; Future of Angel Investing w/Jeff Clavier (Uncork), Ben Ling (Bling), Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Help Scout VP of Sales Tim Thyne

Oct 25, 2019 · 01:16:52

✨ Rahul Vohra presented his Product-Market Fit Engine formula.

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E992: The Next Unicorns: Expanse CEO & Co-founder Tim Junio reduces exposure to online threats by providing “attack surface visibility”, shares insights into current threats from China & Russia, potential 2020 election tampering, reasons for cybersecurity optimism & more – E8 of 10-ep miniseries

Oct 23, 2019 · 01:37:28

✨ Expanse CEO Tim Junio discussed reducing online threats via attack surface visibility.

01:37:28

E991: #StartupTuneup with Urban-X: Waste-reducing marketplaces, traffic liability reduction, recreational sharing spaces, firefighter safety software & energy cost saving AI

Oct 22, 2019 · 01:27:17

✨ Urban-X startups pitched solutions for waste reduction and firefighter safety.

01:27:17

E990: SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie on driving growth by listening to customers & employees, importance of a strong & diverse board, direct listings v. IPOs, lessons learned from WeWork; plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk featuring Yosiat Gimbernard from Odoo

Oct 18, 2019 · 00:45:16

✨ SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie emphasized listening to customers and employees for growth.

00:45:16

E989: The Next Unicorns: Culture Amp CEO & Co-founder Didier Elzinga is building an employee analytics platform that keeps workers satisfied & motivated, shares insights on the changing role of culture, what modern employees value & maintaining culture while scaling – E7 of 10-ep miniseries

Oct 16, 2019 · 01:19:14

✨ Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga discussed building employee analytics platforms.

01:19:14

E988: Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures, pioneered actionable change to diversify tech & VC, shares early days innovating in e-commerce, insights on current funding landscape, dangers of prioritized growth over sustainability, & lessons learned from backing winners like Dolla

Oct 15, 2019 · 00:53:52

✨ Aileen Lee discussed diversifying tech and VC, and early e-commerce innovation.

00:53:52

E987: The Next Unicorns: Upgrade CEO & Co-founder Renaud Laplanche is empowering users to better understand credit through his consumer credit platform, announces the Upgrade Card, shares insights on taking LendingClub public & how startups have changed since he started his first company in 2000 – E

Oct 12, 2019 · 00:56:13

✨ Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche discussed empowering users with credit understanding.

00:56:13

E986: StockX Co-founder Josh Luber is building a stock market for things, shares insights on the two cultural shifts that brought sneaker culture mainstream, attracting Mark Wahlberg, Eminem & Steve Aoki to invest along with Google Ventures & Marc Benioff & growing a unicorn out of a sneaker-data si

Oct 11, 2019 · 01:01:59

✨ StockX Co-founder Josh Luber discussed building a stock market for goods.

Google Ventures Marc Benioff

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E985: #AskJason! Recognizing great founders as an investor, dealing with a lack of updates, raising capital through crowdfunding, the ideal makeup of today’s founder, how Angel Investing has changed since the release of “Angel”, standing out in slow-to-adapt markets

Oct 9, 2019 · 00:51:50

✨ Jason answered questions on recognizing great founders and dealing with investor updates.

00:51:50

E983: The Next Unicorns: Zola CEO & Co-founder Shan-Lyn Ma shares insights on growing her all-in-one wedding platform in a $100bn market, adapting to changes in wedding demographics, balancing growth and profitability while keeping her team focused, raising moral standards in tech – E5 of 10-ep mini

Oct 4, 2019 · 01:00:58

✨ Shan-Lyn Ma discusses growing Zola, an all-in-one wedding platform, in a competitive market.

01:00:58

E984: Vice Ventures Founding Partner Catharine Dockery raised $25M to invest in vices: marijuana, sextech, gambling, alcohol, vaping; shares insights on hacking her way into VC through cold emails & a strong investment thesis, capitalizing on early markets hungry for investment

Oct 4, 2019 · 00:57:10

✨ Catharine Dockery raised $25M for Vice Ventures, investing in vices like cannabis and sextech.

00:57:10

E982: Karmic Bikes Founder Hong Quan on creating the “Tesla of E-Bikes” with OSLO, bootstrapping through Kickstarter, lowering costs as a strategy, insights on U.S. resistance to widespread E-Bike adoption, & why this vehicle is the future of transportation, plus Office Hours with Jason!

Oct 1, 2019 · 00:45:20

✨ Hong Quan founded Karmic Bikes, aiming for the "Tesla of E-Bikes" with OSLO.

00:45:20

E981: Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta, shares the myths of venture capital, the great value of founders turned investors, why VCs reject startups, searing insights on fundraising & valuations, and predictions on the future of enterprise, AI, work & automation @ LAUNCH Accelerator

Sep 27, 2019 · 01:12:26

✨ Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta debunks venture capital myths and discusses founder investors.

01:12:26

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