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Execution > Ideas: What Engineers Need to Know Before Becoming Founders
Season 2 Episode 68
Jyoti Bansal sold his first company, AppDynamics, to Cisco for $3.7 billion.
Harness, his next company, reached a similar valuation a few years later…
8 months, 1 week ago
How to Think Like a VC When You’re Building (or Joining) a Startup
Season 2 Episode 67
Brian Rothenberg, partner at Defy and former VP of Growth at Eventbrite, joins Fund/Build/Scale to share what really matters when evaluating early-st…
8 months, 1 week ago
Cap Table Strategy: A Playbook for Early-Stage Founders
Season 1 Episode 66
When you’re raising your first rounds, every cap table decision can echo for years. Give away too much equity early, lock yourself into restrictive p…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
From D2C to B2B: How to Pivot Without Losing Your Mission
Season 2 Episode 65
A turbulent flight sparked Wayne Slavin’s idea for Sure: let consumers buy insurance in real time. But after launching as a D2C app, he realized the …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Sell Your World-Changing Idea to a Mission-Driven Investor
Season 2 Episode 64
James Joaquin is co-founder and managing partner at Obvious Ventures, a VC firm that backs startups tackling intractable problems like climate change…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Conviction Matters More Than TAM: The Seed-Stage Litmus Test
Season 2 Episode 63
Uncork Capital Partner Amy Saper shares practical advice for early-stage founders building AI-enabled tools for engineering, product, and design team…
10 months ago
How (and How Not) to Pitch a Cybersecurity VC
Season 2 Episode 62
Ten Eleven Ventures CTO and Operating Partner Scott Lundgren shares practical advice for early-stage cybersecurity founders.
He explains why founder…
10 months ago
Deep Tech Without Stealth: Inside Dusty Robotics’ Origin Story
Season 2 Episode 61
Construction workers spend hours on their hands and knees snapping chalk lines to mark where walls, plumbing and utilities should go. It’s painstakin…
10 months, 1 week ago
Leveraging Founder-Market Fit to Win Over Risk-Averse Buyers
Season 2 Episode 60
What happens when a team of legal veterans decides to rebuild the dispute resolution process from the ground up?
To find out, I interviewed Rich Lee…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
From Side Project to API Powerhouse: How Postman Went Global
Season 2 Episode 59
Before Postman became a category-defining platform used by millions of developers, it was a personal side project.
In this episode, co-founder and …
10 months, 2 weeks ago