Podcast Episodes

Niki Scevak - Wild Hearts and Wild Ideas

Episode 200

My guest today is Niki Scevak, co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures. Blackbird is a leading VC firm in Australia and New Zealand and has inve…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Todd McKinnon - Creating and Defining a New Market Category - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.7]

My guest today is Todd McKinnon, co-founder and CEO of Okta, the leading provider of identity management for enterprises. Todd started Okta in 2009 a…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Jason Karp and Rohan Oza – The Power of Brand

Episode 199

My guests today are Jason Karp and Rohan Oza. Jason is the founder and CEO of HumanCo, a holding company focused on building businesses that help peo…

5 years, 9 months ago

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John Chambers - Pattern Matching, Playbooks, and Winning Product Categories - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.6]

My guest this week is John Chambers. John was the CEO of Cisco from 1995 to 2015 where he helped grow Cisco from $70 million to $40 billion in annual…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Anu Hariharan – Lessons in Growth Investing

Episode 198

My guest this week is Anu Hariharan. Anu is a partner at Y-Combinator's Continuity Fund where she focuses on growth investing. Before YC, Anu was an …

5 years, 10 months ago

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Laura Behrens Wu - When Digital and Physical Worlds Converge - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.5]

My guest today is Laura Behrens Wu, co-founder and CEO of Shippo. Shippo started in 2014 after Laura realized with her own e-commerce start-up that s…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Brad Gerstner and Rich Barton – Thriving in Changing Markets

Episode 197

My guests today are Rich Barton and Brad Gerstner. Brad is the founder of Altimeter Capital and is one of my favorite active investors. Brad and Alti…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Jason Citron - Building the Third Place - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.4]

My guest today is Jason Citron, founder and CEO of Discord. Discord is one of the largest and fastest growing social networks in the world. It starte…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal of Acquired - Lessons on Early Stage Investing and Getting Acquired

Episode 196

My guests today are Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Ben and David are investors but also the duo behind the Acquired podcast, which is one of my fav…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Leore Avidar - Creating and Selling Superpowers - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.3]

My guest today is Leore Avidar. Leore is the co-founder and CEO of Lob, a company which makes it easy to send direct mail programmatically. He’s also…

5 years, 10 months ago

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