PODFOLIO

🎧 Winner Take All #202 | Top 100 Marketplaces, Battle for Twitter, Weibo Uprising

We start off with an update on Elon Musk’s attempts to purchase a  majority share in the social platform Twitter. With the Twitter board  now instituting a poison pill strategy to ward off hostile takeover  attempts, it would appear things are getting tense. I still think Elon  can make a purchase of Twitter happen but it’s going to have to be done  the hard way. Next, a look at Chinese netizens voicing dissent on the  social platform Weibo. We close out the episode with a look at  Andreessen Horowitz’s 2022 top 100 marketplaces rankings.   #podcast #ElonMusk #twitterupdate  —

🎧 #70: Bruno Montanari – How Venture Capital Supports Science And Innovation

Big corporations strive to bring new solutions to their customers to help them solve their most pressing problems. To do so the corporation needs to be innovative. That’s why companies like Apple, Google, Pfizer, and similar players want to cooperate with start-ups and scale-ups globally. Such cooperations strive to collaborate with top startups, invest in them, and sometimes acquire them to have access to novel ideas.

🎧 #297: Pepperdine University Capital Markets Study on Private Company Valuations with Dr. Craig Everett

Dr. Craig Everett is on the show today to dive deep (in a way that a normal business owner can understand) into the world of valuations, where they come from, and how the research he leads at Pepperdine University is helping shed light on the middle and lower private markets.   Dr. Craig Everett is a finance professor at Pepperdine University and contributor to the Pepperdine Private Market Capital Projects and Executive Director for the Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies.

🎧 Ep796: Liron Azrielant | Managing Partner, Meron Capital

Liron is a General Partner at Meron Capital and has over 10 years of experience in the venture capital, private equity and tech industries.  Liron also manages the Young Venture Capital Forum in Israel – a professional organization connecting over 250 young partners, principals and associates from all VC firms in Israel.

🎧 306: Nathan Beckord — Capital Raising Mistakes: 3 Times the Charm

Nathan Beckord — Capital Raising Mistakes: Third Time’s the Charm   Today, Bill and his guest take an in-depth look at some of the common mistakes startup founders make when trying to raise capital. Having gone through the experience himself a number of times, our guest shares key highlights he’s learned from his extensive career as an interim CFO, Business Developer, and Advisor.

🎧 Debt capital for post revenue start ups in health tech – Lighter Capital

Brandon Krongold and Matt Dowling are Investment Co-ordinators at Lighter Capital — a zero dilution, revenue-based debt capital provider for growing tech and healthtech businesses. In this episode, Brandon and Matt share their story and how Lighter Capital has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into growth companies.

🎧 2/2: What’s Your Learning Velocity?: Steve Cadigan

Here’s Why The Future of Work is The Future of Learning! Futurists tell us that over 50 percent of jobs today will soon be replaced by automation and AI. The shelf lives of certain skills are diminishing rapidly. Longstanding industries and industry leaders are being massively disrupted.  These staggering changes are challenging our concepts of what a career really looks like today and how we should build organizations going forward.

🎧 E93 – Enduring Venture Investing w/General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst.  Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking career, he has invested in companies such as Stripe, Snap, Livongo, Gusto and many other phenomenal companies.

🎧 #129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon

Silicon Valley icon Marc Andreessen explores investing, decision making, and the art of solving unsolvable problems.    In this discussion, Andreessen reveals why the Internet has become the conduit for some people to disrupt traditional power structures and for others to enforce them, optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for the future of the Internet, assessing judgment, and the book he turns to for insight.

🎧 Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and New York Times best selling author. His most recent book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, chronicles the history of the industry, and his key takeaways serve as the perfect conclusion to our mini-series.

🎧 Michele Romanow (Clearco) – The Three Critical Marketing Metrics for DTC Brands, When VC Money Makes Sense and When It doesn’t and The Insight That Le

Thank you Radha Kapoor for the introduction to Michele Romanow, co-founder and CEO of Clearco. Clearco offers fast affordable funding for ecommerce companies to fund your inventory or marketing needs. Michele is a serial entrepreneur and also one of the dragon’s on Canada’s Dragon’s Den. We discuss what’s misunderstood about scaling ecommerce companies, when venture capital makes sense vs.

🎧 Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital: global growth, partnering with legendary companies and the evergreen fund | E1403

Sequoia Capital is the greatest venture capital firm of all time. It’s indisputable. – Jason Jason chats with Sequoia’s Doug Leone, a leader who shepherded the firm for four decades. They discuss great founders, governance, Sequoia’s global expansion, mentoring the next generation of investors and more.

🎧 20VC: Sequoia’s Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What

Doug Leone is the Global Managing Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most renowned and successful venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Google, Airbnb, Whatsapp, Stripe, Zoom and many more. As for Doug, he joined Sequoia over 33 years ago and has led investments in Nubank, Meraki, ServiceNow and TradeRepublic to name a few.

🎧 Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet. Is it?

Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others.

🎧 Jaclyn Johnson, CEO of Create & Cultivate And New Money Ventures On How to Nail Your Pitch, Transform Your Mindset Around Rejection And Fund Your Busi

As we wrap up Women’s History Month, I couldn’t think of a better person to have on the show than Jaclyn Johnson to talk all things venture capital and showing up for women in business! It’s been almost four years since I’ve had Jaclyn on, and I’m in awe of everything she’s accomplished in that time.

🎧 How Marketing Is Shifting in 2022 #2055

In episode #2055, we talk about how marketing is shifting in 2022! We believe that media and branding are the two biggest forces right now and that they will continue to spearhead how businesses market themselves. Tune in to hear about the trends that we are noticing, and how NFTs may evolve in the next few years.

🎧 419: The GK Fund with Michael Benezra

Michael Benezra is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the GK Fund: a nonprofit social impact fund to support BIPOC-owned companies in Greater Boston. Michael also serves as the COO of Colette Phillips Communications, helping to lead the All Inclusive Boston tourism campaign, among other projects.

🎧 The Ins and Outs of a Venture Capital Fund Part 1 – The Journey of Vonetta Young

Understanding the importance of a venture capital fund is critical if you’re planning to fund a business. Financing is a significant step when you’re starting up a company, but before you begin looking for venture capital, it’s best to understand what it is. This episode’s guest is Vonetta Young, a proud woman of colour and financial advisor who guides persons of colour and women searching for or looking to enter the world of venture capital funding.

🎧 Adzmel Adznan: Engineer to VC Partner, Malaysia Roots & Processing Grief

Adzmel is one of the Co-Founding Partners of Piva Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in deep tech and climate tech companies across North America and Europe. The firm is currently investing from its inaugural $250 million fund, backed by PETRONAS. As one of the founding Partners of Piva, Adzmel was instrumental in setting up the firm’s investment strategy.

🎧 Reliance Retail buys Clovia; Sarah and Ajit Isaac fund new IISc centre; Cricketer Mahela Jayawardene co-founds cloud-sec startup

Reliance Retail, part of the Reliance Industries conglomerate, is acquiring an 89 percent stake in direct-to-consumer brand Clovia for $125 million. Indian Institute of Science has entered into an MoU with Ajit Isaac, founder and chairman of Quess Corp, and his wife Sarah Isaac, for establishing a Centre for Public Health at the IISc campus.

🎧 414: Demystifying Venture Capital with Sarah Dusek

What do women need to know to succeed at the game of business? Sarah Dusek is a female entrepreneur who sold her company Under Canvas in 2017 for over $100M. In that same year, Under Canvas received a spot on the coveted Inc. 5000 list, and Sarah was named to Ernst & Young’s EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women list.

🎧 Sequoia in Europe with Luciana Lixandru

Sequoia Capital has landed in Europe. Last September, Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firm set up shop in London with Luciana Lixandru at its head. With COVID aside, why make this move in 2020? Sequoia has previously invested in European companies like UiPath, Unity, and Klarna — why the need for a physical base.

🎧 EP 190 Advice for Startups Seeking Funding

Is fundraising for your startup causing daytime stress and nighttime terrors? Our guest, serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Ben Jen, is here to help ease your fundraising journey with his insights and advice. Ben is the Founder and Managing Director of Ben Jen Holdings, a venture capital and private equity firm dealing with companies in various tech and business fields.

🎧 Bryan Chambers and Joel Radtke on FinTech and Venture Capital Innovation

We are back in Texas with a venture capital firm and its FinTech portfolio company. Bryan Chambers and Joel Radtke join us to discuss venture capital innovation and the journey of an up-and-coming Texas startup. Capital Factory is a firm that connects investors with new companies and talent. Texas has five of the twelve largest and fastest-growing cities in the U.

🎧 Ep. 500 w/ Marlon Nichols Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital

Marlon Nichols is the founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders building the future that the world wants to see. Marlon is a Kauffman Fellow who also serves on the Board of Directors. Prior to MaC Venture Capital, Marlon was founder of Cross Culture Ventures and served as Investment Director at Intel Capital.

🎧 Clayton Gardner On Going From 110 Investor Rejections To Raising $60 Million In Just 48 Hours

Clayton Gardner has raised $75M in capital to modernize investing. His startup is already helping tens of thousands of individual investors diversify into new asset classes with ease. The venture, Titan has raised funding from top-tier investors like Will Smith, Jared Leto, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kevin Durant.

🎧 EYL #182: NFTs, Web 3, & Crypto with John Henry & Buster Scher

In episode 182 we spoke with John Henry and Buster Scher about Web3.0, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, and Venture Capital. This episode is a deep dive into the future of money and business. #nft #web3 #crypto  EYL University: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 Roelof Botha – Sequoia’s Crucible Moment

My guest today is Roelof Botha, a partner at one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture firms, Sequoia Capital. A few days ago before I sat down with Roelof, he announced Sequoia’s boldest innovation since the firm was founded by Don Valentine in the early 1970s. Going forward, the firm will break from the traditional VC mould of fund cycles and instead restructure around a single, open-ended, permanent structure named The Sequoia Fund.

🎧 #332: Angela Strange of Andreessen Horowitz

At LendIt Fintech LatAm I also chatted with Angela Strange, a general partner at the well-known venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Angela has become a prolific investor in Latin American fintech, as well as U.S. fintech, and so brings a unique perspective to the region. If you want to get some background on Angela’s thoughts on Latin American fintech, she co-authored this paper earlier this year that laid out the case for the rapid growth of Latin American fintech.

🎧 #44: Franco Varona, Foxmont Capital Partners – How Venture Investing Is Nation Building and The Opportunities Of Being A First Generation VC In The Ph

Franco is the Managing Partner at Foxmont Capital Partners, a Philippine-focused early-stage venture capital fund by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Prior to Foxmont, Franco was the Founding General Manager of Grab Philippines. He is an Experienced Operator with a demonstrated history of working in early-stage high-growth startups in Asia.

🎧 The Chopping Block: Why the Crypto Markets Have Been Down This Week

The Chopping Block is back! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics: why crypto assets experienced a drawdown after last week’s FOMC meeting that hinted at accelerated rate hikes which emerging assets Tarun, Haseeb, and Tom envision weathering a bear market which assets could be further hurt by a continued bear market the significance of Paradigm and Sequoia investing in Citadel Securities what aspects of Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike’s web3 article Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun take umbrage with wh

🎧 Not Boring’s Packy McCormick on VC’s building brand through content creation, tech trends he’s most excited about, and how writing has helped him with

Listen now (53 min) | Episode 74 Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.This week I’m delighted to bring you my conversation with Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring, a biweekly newsletter that now has over 100K subscribers and covers tech, strategy, finance, economics, and everything in between.

🎧 73: The Ins and Outs of Venture Capital w/ Marlon Nichols

Name: Marlon Nichols Current Title: Managing Partner, MaC Venture Capital   About Marlon: Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly known as Cross Culture Ventures), which finds the entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. He’s a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital, with an extensive background in technology, private equity, media, and entertainment.

🎧 314. 2022 Predictions P1: $100M Seed Valuations, Universe vs. Metaverse, Hottest and Coolest Sectors, Sequoia’s VC Shakeup (Ramy Adeeb)

Ramy Adeeb of 1984 joins Nick to discuss 2022 Predictions P1: $100M Seed Valuations, Universe vs. Metaverse, Hottest and Coolest Sectors, Sequoia’s VC Shakeup. In this episode we cover:   Ramy’s New $75M Fund Bubbles in Crypto and NFT’s Why Ramy is sticking to the Universe Sequoia’s New Strategy & More! Missed a recent episode? Go to The Full Ratchet blog and catch up! Also, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.  

🎧 Anjali Bansal (Founder & General Partner, Avaana Capital) | The Persona & Personality Behind An Investor and LP

Anjali Bansal is the Founder of Avaana Capital which invests in and provides scaling up support to innovation-led startups for catalyzing impact at scale while delivering commercial returns. Anjali has invested in and mentored various successful start-ups including Delhivery, UrbanClap, Darwinbox, Nykaa, and Lenskart.

🎧 The pandemic novels of Hanya Yanagihara and Sequoia Nagamatsu: Bookmark This! Ep 28

Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads. In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li look at a new wave of pandemic novels, including To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara and How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.

🎧 316: Legendary Investor Ben Horowitz Talks Moving Culture, Enforcing Values, And His Favorite Rap Album

Ben Horowitz is one of the most widely recognized names in the world of entrepreneurship. Not only is he the co-founder of the famous venture capital fund, Andreessen Horowitz, but he’s also a respected author and thinker with some of the most innovative ideas when it comes to the way companies are run.

🎧 24. Tech Eats Bio: Vijay Pande – General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio Fund

Vijay Pande is a General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on investments in Biopharma & Healthcare. As the founding investor of a16z’s Bio Fund, Vijay leads the firm’s investments at the cross section of biology and computer science, including applications in computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in healthcare; digital therapeutics; diagnostics; and other novel transformative scientific advances applied to industry that take bio beyond healthcare.

🎧 Insignia Ventures and the Southeast Asia Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with Tan Yinglan

“… One of our mantra is we don’t build good companies. We build great companies. I think the beauty is that we have seen enough companies to realize what great looks like. For us, we have a high bar. So one of the metrics that we mention a lot is how many founders with the means to do so that we back will invest again in Insignia.

🎧 Can Venture Capital Give You Tinnitus with Navin Goyal, MD, of LOUD Capital

Navin Goyal, M.D. is a physician and entrepreneur who serves as CEO of LOUD Capital, early-stage venture capital and alternative investment firm leveraging capital, entrepreneurship, and education to grow impactful companies across the globe. Navin strives to make venture capital more purpose-driven, inclusive, and impactful.

🎧 SLP335 Don Stuart – Venture Capital and Bitcoin

Now there’s been some discussion about the impact of Venture Capitalists on the world of Bitcoin and ‘Crypto’. Don Stuart, startup investor & organizer of Kansas City Bitcoin meetup, joins me on the show to chat: What Venture Capital is Venture Capital model Vesting and incentives for VCs How they make money Bitcoin vs ‘Crypto’ VC Size of rounds raised Are Bitcoiners anti VC.

🎧 An Audience With The 2021 Female Entrepreneur of the Year – With Vandana Tolani

Vandana is a Venture Capital expert, and CEO of Convanto, a renowned boutique investment bank in India. She was recently awarded the accolade of Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021, and was also named as one of the Top 10 Women Leaders in Wealth Management 2021. She is also a Venture Advisor with Loyal VC, the INSEAD-led Canadian VC Fund, having a core portfolio of over 160 investments in more than 35 countries.

🎧 Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible

Startups are romanticized AFTER they win. But it takes extraordinary grit to have what it TAKES to win. Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreessen-Horowitz, is the perfect guest to tell it like it is, as he has for many years in his books “the Hard Thing About Hard Things” and “What You Do Is Who You Are.” Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE interviews Ben to discuss the ups and downs of dealing with “the struggle,” and why the best startup leaders are often the ones who simply refused to quit.

🎧 Basil Darwish, Managing Director at Wells Fargo Strategic Capital-Promoting Fintech Growth Via CVC

In today’s episode, Anirudh Singh sits down with Basil Darwish, Managing Director and Fintech & Enterprise Tech lead at Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. Basil joined as the team’s first hire in March 2016, coming over from Citi Ventures. In this episode, they discuss a range of topics, including Basil’s winding path towards venture investing, the pros and cons of different corporate venture capital models, a deep dive into three of Wells Fargo’s investments: Travota, H20.

🎧 Ep 50 – David Meerman Scott – You Can Create B2B Demand Instead of Mass-Spamming Your Buyers

Our Guest is David Meerman Scott, author of various bestselling business books, keynote speaker, as well as LP and Strategic Advisor at Stage 2 Capital. What’s in it for you 1. How to choose the right VC firm to help your growth as a company 2. How to avoid mass-spamming your buyers and successfully change your marketing strategies 3.

🎧 Ted Lindsley On In The Trenches Strategies To Optimize A Liquidity Event (#117)

“The wisdom that I have today as a result of the path that I’ve chosen.” – Ted Lindsley Ted Lindsley is a serial startup, CEO, and technopreneur with three successful ventures under his belt and two exits, including one to a $2.5 billion NASDAQ traded company. He has a proven track record of recruiting exceptional talent and leading those teams to achieve success.

🎧 Unlearning racism in venture building & investing :: with Lindsey T. H. Jackson

In this episode of Ventures, my guest Lindsey T. H. Jackson ( and I discuss the journey of anti-racism and anti-oppression work in ourselves, in venture capital, and in startup ecosystems. We discuss the nuances of dismal representation numbers in venture; how to approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) conversations in the workplace and beyond; how to develop a regular practice to self-reflect, define your community, and “fail fast” on your own anti-racism journey; and how to encourage others to consider embarking on the journey them

🎧 EP#55 Sanjay Nath – The journey from a fund manager to a firm manager, the platform approach of supporting founders and building an enduring VC bran

In this episode, Sanjay Nath (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Blume Ventures), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to Blume Ventures, the genesis of Blume to build an institutional seed stage fund, challenges faced as a first time fund manager, change in investment & hiring strategy with a growing fund size, the platform and community approach of supporting founders, building a strong VC brand, identifying founders that can build global companies from India, his learnings from a decadal career in VC and more.

🎧 Globalization Partners Raises $200M; Sequoia Launches Benchmark Tool

In this week’s roundup: Globalization Partners receives $200 million investment, Sequoia launches a benchmarking tool, and more.

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