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Inside a VC’s Playbook for Capital-Intensive Startups
Season 2 Episode 47
Sophie Bakalar, partner at Collaborative Fund, joins Fund/Build/Scale for a candid conversation about early-stage investing in climate tech, consumer…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Building a Market from Scratch: Generative Music for Enterprise Customers
Season 2 Episode 46
Recorded in July 2024, Aimi founder Edward Balassanian joins Fund/Build/Scale to share how his AI-powered platform creates generative, copyright-safe…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
How a Broke College Student Co-founded a VC-Backed Edtech Startup
Season 2 Episode 45
In this episode of Fund/Build/Scale, Nectir co-founder and CEO Kavitta Ghai shares how she turned her frustration as a college student into a fast-gr…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Is AI Compute Broken? Tim Davis on Modular’s $130M Bet
Season 2 Episode 44
Would you leave a stable, high-paying job at Google to build something that competes with NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD?
That’s exactly what Tim Davis, co…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Scaling European Startups: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Changing
Season 2 Episode 43
Building a startup in Europe presents a unique set of challenges, like fragmented markets, cultural differences in risk-taking, and a VC ecosystem th…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
What Journey’s Pivot from B2C to B2B Reveals About Enterprise Sales
Season 2 Episode 42
Journey founder and CEO Stephen Sokoler appeared on Fund/Build/Scale in June 2024 to talk about how his startup pivoted from B2C meditation services …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
What Your CEO Won't Tell You About Your Stock Options
Season 2 Episode 41
When you accepted the offer, maybe you imagined being in the group photo when your boss rang the bell at NASDAQ.
But five years later, your company j…
10 months ago
Why PR Comes Before PMF
Season 2 Episode 40
Do you want to know the difference between marketing and PR?
Marketing is when you say something nice about yourself;
PR is when other people say ni…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Investor Insights for African Startups with Capria Ventures’ Mobola da-Silva
Season 2 Episode 39
Building a startup in Africa isn’t the same as doing it in Silicon Valley.
Some challenges overlap, but many don’t, like currency volatility, limited…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
KarmaCheck CEO Eric Ly on Customer Discovery + Early Product Development
Season 2 Episode 38
Eric Ly is the CEO of KarmaCheck, where he’s tackling a problem he first noticed years ago as a co-founder of LinkedIn:
People don’t always tell the …
10 months, 4 weeks ago