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A Process for Having it All with Jason Jacobs
Jason Jacobs wants it all. As a father to young children, he wants to be active in their lives, but as an ambitious founder, he’s compelled to build and chase down opp...
Riding an AI Rocketship with Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno
Mikey Shulman is having a great time. He’s running a rocket ship of a company, has $100M+ in funding from some of the top VCs, and is working on an opportunity that he...
Discovering What Your Company Wants to Be with Mike Salguero, CEO of ButcherBox
Today’s conversation with Mike Salguero went in a direction I really wasn’t anticipating. Initially, I was interested in talking to Mike because he’s lived multiple li...
Skipping from Pre-Seed to Series A with Dreadnode
"Would you be mad at us if we raised more money?"That was the text I got late one night from Will Pearce, co-founder and CEO of Dreadnode, a company we'd funded about ...
Where Are They Now with Scott Heiferman, Founder of Meetup
It is incredibly rare to have your startup become a verb. Google and Uber immediately come to mind. But what about when a group of strangers or friends with shared int...
Getting off the VC Treadmill with Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow
This is a spicy one! 🌶️ This week we sat down with Brandon Arvanaghi from Meow.com to discuss his journey from money burning crypto company to profitable fintech. His ...
How to Fix the Founder Mental Health Crisis with Eric Ries of the Lean Startup
Late last year, we sat down with Eric Ries, who fundamentally changed how we think about building startups through The Lean Startup. Only Eric can make corporate gover...
Stargate, Deep Seek and the Futility of Making Predictions about AI in 2025 with @jacsrice, CEO @tribe.ai
Making any kind of time bounded predictions about where AI will be in the year of our lord 2025 is a fools errand. But, we’re suckers for this stuff, so we asked Jacki...
Terminal NYC with Reggie James
On my flight to NYC last week, I casually asked if there were any events happening in the city while I was there. Reggie, who you may remember from his New Hardware vi...
Drones, Defense Tech, and The Consumer Hardware Trap with Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson can’t talk a lot about what he is up to these days. At least on camera. His LinkedIn profile says he’s currently an Engineer at “Stealth". Prior to this...
Cults & Culture with Soleio
Soleio Cuervo is more than a chin on the internet. He’s more than an early design leader at Facebook and Dropbox. And he's more than an epic angel investor. He’s a tru...
Closing The Chapter
Throughout the first year of indie’s return, I’ve felt a real sense of tension.That tension sat at the intersection of what indie was and what indie wants to be.In its...
Where Are They Now with Joshua Schachter from Del.icio.us
Once upon a time, when MTV played music videos, their more mature sister channel, VH1, had a show called “Where Are They Now”. The idea behind the show was to track do...
Post-AI Entrepreneurship with Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius AI
There’s a section of our website that generates more reaction than any single piece of content I’ve ever written. It says:We’re obsessed with the idea that someone is ...
Startup Confessionals Vol. 1 — Ben Kaufman (Camp), Harper Reed (Galactic), Finbarr Taylor (Shogun)
A few weeks back in this very email, I put out a request for a new content format we wanted to experiment with that we called “Startup Confessionals”.From my note:If y...
Going Bananas with Turner Novak, Founder of Banana Capital
As someone who entered the venture industry in the wake of the Dot-com crash, I have a deep appreciation for new managers, their entry point into the industry, and how...
From $250k Raised to a $1.25B Exit with Shegun Otulana
A few weeks back, I was the morning speaker at an event hosted by David Senra of FoundersPodcast (one of my favorite podcasts and people). The afternoon speaker was so...
In the Are.na Trying Things with Charles Broskoski
When I reached out to Charles Broskoski, co-founder of Are.na, it was largely because I kept hearing mention of the service he'd built increasingly entering the zeitg...
Why Tech wants DEI to DIE with Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Founder of ReadySet
After wrapping this week’s conversation with published author and ReadySet’s CEO, Y-vonne Hutchinson, I stepped out of the studio, opened my phone, and X was ablaze. I...
Career Transitions for High Achievers with Steve Schlafman
Walking through Madison Square Park a year ago, @schlaf talked about transitions, something he knew a lot about. I first met Steve when he was a junior investing partn...
Stepping into The Shade Room with Angelica Nwandu
In April 2015, I read an article that elicited a reaction I’d only had a few other times prior. We had just closed applications for our first round of experimental ind...
At Home with Karri Saarinen, Cofounder of Linear
A few years back, I got a DM from a founder wanting to meet and swap stories about adventures in entrepreneurship. Despite being backed by some of the top VCs in the w...
Born Again Bootstrappers — An Interview with the co-founders of Wistia
In this conversation we unpack their journey of building a “lifestyle business”. Some takeaways:— Chris and Brendan emphasize the importance of patience, focus, and lo...
At Home with the Asparouhovs
— Shift in Funding Landscape:There has been a significant shift in the funding landscape, with a decrease in year-over-year growth rates for SaaS companies. This chang...
Founder-Led Sales with Jen Abel of Jjellyfish
Product-market fit requires both customers willing to pay and stay. It’s not just about initial sales, but also retention. Early-stage sales should focus on research a...
Venture Capital Curmudgeons Club with Eric Paley of Founder Collective
— Capital has no insightsEric argues that venture capital alone doesn’t solve business problems, and having more capital doesn’t necessarily lead to better outcomes.— ...
The Current State of AI with Jaclyn Rice Nelson from Tribe AI
Some takeaways:— There’s a significant gap between the hype around AI and its actual implementation in businesses. Many companies are still in the experimental phase, ...
Current State of Crypto with smac from Compound
A few takeaways from this conversation:— Early crypto applications were challenging to use and primarily attracted tech enthusiasts and speculators. Over time, the tec...
Reading the Comments on The End of Software with Chris Paik, Partner at Pace Capital
When you end an essay with a line like:"Majoring in computer science today will be like majoring in journalism in the late 90’s.”You’re bound to ruffle some feathers. ...