Venture Capital Episodes

Interesting raises and deal flow: the companies and spaces getting traction from VC.
April 13, 2019

The State of Venture and "MegaRounds" with Crunchbase's Jason Rowley - 4/11/19, 4.57 PM

While I talk about big round raises and startups and venture all the time, we haven’t really done a deep dive into where venture is at at the moment. So, who better to talk to than Crunchbase, and in this case, Crunchbase’s J...
Guest: Jason Rowley
March 3, 2019

A16Z's Connie Chan On Outgrowing Advertising As A Business Model

So, I hope you read the piece I mentioned in the long reads, Called Outgrowing Advertising, by Andreessen Horowitz's general partner Connie Chan. Link in the show notes. Again, I think this points a way forward for the one tr...
Guest: Connie Chan
Jan. 20, 2019

(Bonus) Land of the "Super Founders" With Ali Tamaseb @alitamaseb

Ali's Medium Post: Land of the Super Founders On this bonus episode, we’re going to revisit a past weekend longread suggestion and talk to the author of that longread to go further in-depth. Do you remember I recommended Land...
Guest: Ali Tamaseb
Oct. 22, 2018

Mon. 10/22 - Fred Wilson Wants You To Vet Your Venture Funders

Facebook wants to buy some cybersecurity, Washington wants to know what Silicon Valley will do for its country, Fred Wilson wants you to ask yourself if your investors are bad actors, and stealing a Tesla by hacking the entry...
Aug. 14, 2018

Tue. 8/14 - Is Kevin Durant teaming up with Marc Andreessen?

NVIDIA announces its next generation GPUs, Apple wants developers to get SaaS-y, what if we just rebuilt the cable bundle with streaming channels, Tinder founders file suit and is Kevin Durant teaming up with Marc Andreessen?...