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We Saw This Movie. Everybody Died at the End (w/Rick Heitzmann)
Firstmark Capital’s Rick Heitzmann is someone I turn to when I want to understand what public market activity means for private startups. Heitzmann’s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Adderall on Demand (w/Rolfe Winkler)
During the pandemic, the U.S. government relaxed rules that prevented doctors from prescribing controlled substances — like Adderall — over the inter…
3 years, 11 months ago
Streaming in Crisis (w/Lucas Shaw)
Netflix’s stock price has been in free fall. The company was worth more than $300 billion late last year and now the stock market values the company …
3 years, 11 months ago
Rooting for Elon
On the latest episode of Dead Cat, we throw our weight behind Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter.
Katie Benner, Tom Dotan, and I make our predictions about w…
3 years, 11 months ago
Imploding Fast (w/Kate Clark)
Of all the sectors, I would never have guessed that one-click checkout companies would be the nexus of startup world drama. And yet that is where we …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Fictionalized Viral Uber Driver
On the Dead Cat podcast, Tom Dotan, Katie Benner, and I talk about Apple’s WeCrashed, Hulu’s The Dropout, and SHOWTIME’s Super Pumped — the TV shows …
4 years ago
Going Evergreen (w/Hunter Walk)
Hunter Walk, co-founder of the venture capital firm Homebrew, is a staple of tech Twitter. Walk worked on Second Life and at YouTube before founding …
4 years ago
VC Jeopardy!
On this week’s Dead Cat, Tom Dotan and I reflect on this year’s SXSW. We take stock of the Austin tech scene and ponder what storylines emerged from …
4 years ago
Brands Are Not Human Beings (w/Jack Conte)
Patreon CEO Jack Conte took the stage at my first ever SXSW event with a beer in hand.
With Dead Cat co-host Tom Dotan, we discussed crowdfunding, On…
4 years ago
Keeping Tabs on the Oligarchs (w/Teddy Schleifer)
Suddenly, Silicon Valley is worried about its Russian ties.
I’m getting messages from sources about potential Russian-connected venture capital firms…
4 years ago