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Hello everybody! It’s Laura, the Founder and Host of “It’s Time For Moore Injury Funding” Podcast. I am also the Founder and CEO of Moore Injury Funding, your Legal Funding Counselors with a passion for Law, Medicine, Legal Funding and heart for all suffering individuals. This podcast is a great source of information based on a variety of topics covering Legal Funding, and its significance in the Personal Injury, Worker’s’ Compensation, Trucking Injuries, Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, ...
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20VC: Duolingo Co-Founder on Why $3M is Harder than $100M to Raise | Why You Should Always Take Tier 1 VCs Even at Worse Terms | Why Europe Can't Win Unless the US Screws Up | How AI Impacts the Future ...
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Severin Hacker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded education app with over 100 million monthly users. Since its 2021 IPO, Duolingo has reached a market cap of $20BN. The company has raised over $183M from top-tier investors including CapitalG, Kleiner Perkins, Union Square Ventures, NEA, Ashton Kutcher, and Tim Ferris…
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From Coffee Trader To $250M+ VC | Manav Garg (Together Fund)
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"SaaS as we know it is DEAD." This might sound controversial, but as Manav Garg explains, the old model of simple workflow automation is being rapidly superseded. AI agents are now capable of executing complex tasks based on simple commands, fundamentally changing how businesses operate and what they expect from technology. Manav Garg is the Co-fou…
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97: Sean Peche, Founder and Fund Manager, Ranmore Funds – Benefits of Challenging the Status Quo in Fund Marketing and Distribution
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Most fund managers are happiest behind their screens, crunching data and studying markets. That’s their zone of genius, so it makes sense. But when you step into the founder seat, everything changes. Investing is no longer your only job. Suddenly, marketing and distribution aren’t just important, they’re non-negotiables. Today’s guest, Sean Peche, …
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Ep. 26 How To Scale In an Old-School Industry with Manukai Startup Founder Pascal Weber
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n this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Pascal Weber, Co-Founder of Manukai — a deep tech ETH spin-off that just raised a $3M oversubscribed seed round to solve one of the most critical bottlenecks in modern manufacturing: CNC machine programming.While the world rushes to digitize, manufacturing still leans heavi…
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How to Pitch VCs Like a “Dangerous” Founder
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What makes a founder dangerous? Not credentials. Not their pedigree. And it's not who they know. For investor and former operator Promise Phelon, a dangerous founder is someone with lived experience, relentless conviction, and the ability to build something the world doesn't expect. Promise is the founder and managing partner of Growth Warrior Capi…
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TBC125: What I Learned Coaching HBS Founders on Fundraising
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In this episode of The Back Channel, I reflect on a recent visit to Harvard Business School where I coached founders in Jeff Bussgang’s Launching Tech Ventures class. I break down one of the biggest fundraising mistakes I saw, how founders frame their problem space, and share advice on how to fix it.…
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1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley Tian, Founder of Aragon
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Wesley turned a simple AI headshot generator into a $10M ARR, profitable company—in just two years. He was fired from his job, broke in San Francisco, and, after getting rejected by 30 VCs, down to his last few thousand bucks. But Wesley saw a moment: generative AI was taking off, and no one was tackling AI headshots. Fast-forward two years, and he…
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The Bull Case For Ethereum | Tom Dunleavy & Ryan Berckmans
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Gm! This week we're joined by Tom Dunleavy & Ryan Berckmans to discuss the bull case for Ethereum. We deep dive into Ethereum's big pivot, how to value the L1, should L2 tokens exist, the role of Etherealize, what's next for ETH & more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, analysis and data from Katherine Ross. Subscribe to the Empire newslet…
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#201 Jon Truett - Optimizing Human Performance
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Jon Truett is a former British Army soldier with a 23-year career, including 20 years serving in the elite 22 Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment of the United Kingdom Special Forces. Enlisting in the Parachute Regiment in 1998, he passed the grueling SAS selection process in 2002 and participated in numerous high-stakes operations, including multip…
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From boot camp to Botox denials, Army Doctor Nicholas Woo joins the Millegan brothers to talk about military healthcare, financial literacy for new recruits (hint: don’t buy the Mustang), and how TRICARE might accidentally be the best health plan in America. We also dive into Boeing’s slow-motion implosion, crypto’s awkward adolescence as it tries …
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He went from 0 to a $210M exit in 3 years—without inventing anything new. | Kazi Ahmed, Founder of Carbon6
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Kazi Ahmed took a small insight—seeing friends cash out from Amazon brands—and built Carbon6, a software roll-up startup, selling it for $210M just three years later. But behind the quick success was a frantic scramble to survive. Aggressive acquisitions nearly ran them out of cash, forcing a brutal pivot from burning $1M per month to profitability…
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Part 2: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things
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Delhivery, the logistics company, started out in Delhi. It even has Delhi in its name, literally. Yet, a few weeks ago, I flew to Goa to meet its co-founder and CEO, Sahil Barua, because that’s where Delhivery’s headquarters is now. It was a day trip. I took an early morning flight. Spent a few hours at a quaint cafe where I was the only guest. The…
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Targeting Sickle Cell Disease (Sponsored Content)
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Terri Booker’s body burns with pain. She’s one of the 100,000 Americans living with sickle cell disease – a blood disorder that can cause severe pain, organ failure, and even premature death. The genetic condition came about to protect against malaria. Dr. William Hobbs leads clinical development for sickle cell disease at Vertex, and they are inve…
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Stock Talk-Investing in Motion-US Debt Downgrade
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Experience the unique format of "Investing in Motion," where Investment Coach and Sage Investors founder Aman Raina takes you along for the ride-literally. In each episode, Aman records his candid thoughts while driving between destinations, offering listeners a real-time, unfiltered look into his investment mindset. In this premiere, Aman reacts t…
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Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
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(0:00) The Besties welcome Ben Shapiro! (1:53) A Bestie apology to Phil Hellmuth, All-In Poker Tournament (7:58) Trump's majorly consequential Middle East trip: Saudi, Qatar, Iran, and his vision for a "New Middle East" (35:18) US-China deal: is the tide turning on tariffs? (46:33) GOP divided over "Big, Beautiful Bill" due to its impact on our deb…
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Microsoft Layoffs, Immigration Blunders, & Office Hours with Jeremy Redman of Airfive | E2127
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Today’s show: Microsoft lays off 6,000 employees despite record profits, signaling a ruthless new phase in big tech. Jason, Lon, and Alex discuss what it means for the talent market, why tightening U.S. immigration could cripple startup innovation, and whether AI startup Windsurf is selling too early as OpenAI circles. Plus, Klarna’s AI customer se…
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OpenAI Launches Codex: An Autonomous Programming Agent
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OpenAI just launched Codex, a brand-new coding agent that can build features and fix bugs autonomously. We’ve been testing it at Every for a few days, and I’m impressed. I invited Alexander Embiricos, a member of the OpenAI product staff responsible for Codex, to demo the agent live on a special edition of AI & I. We talk through: - What Codex is a…
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Breaking Stereotypes: Understanding Personal Injury Law with Tommy J. Badeaux
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Send us a text This Episode features Attorney Tommy J. Badeaux with the Law Office of Tommy J. Badeaux practicing Personal Injury and Maritime Law in Metarie, Louisiana. Tommy, from Cut Off, Louisiana, graduated from South Lafourche High School and earned his Pre-Law degree at the University of Louisiana. After obtaining his juris doctorate from Lo…
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The Next Phase of the Bull Market | Weekly Roundup
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Gm! This week we're back with another weekly roundup. We discuss the state of the market, what to own this cycle, has BTC dominance topped, why you need to pay attention to crypto M&A in 2025 & much more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, analysis and data from Katherine Ross. Subscribe to the Empire newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsl…
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LIVE: Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI
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At AI Ascent 2025, Jeff Dean makes bold predictions. Discover how the pioneer behind Google's TPUs and foundational AI research sees the technology evolving, from specialized hardware to more organic systems, and future engineering capabilities.By Sequoia Capital
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#144: From Founder-Led Sales to Scalable Go-To-Market in Vertical SaaS - Phil Stern
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Phil Stern is the operating principal of Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped vertical SaaS companies. Mainsail offers deep operating support to the leaders in their portfolio companies to help them grow more efficiently. Phil leads the GTM operations team, helping their founders scale sales, marketing, and success t…
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20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
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Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, where he leads the development of one of the world’s most beloved design platforms. Previously, he was Head of Product at Uber, overseeing the core rider experience used by millions globally. A master of product storytelling and team-building, Yuhki has redefined how world-class digital product…
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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
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(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (2:58) Will AI kill search?: Google disrupting itself, evolving search to follow the user (15:32) Infrastructure advantage, foundational model differentiation (25:08) Future of human-computer interaction, hardware, competitive landscape in AI (35:29) Energy constraints in AI (41:20) Google'…
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Factor-based Investing with John Montgomery
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Barry speaks with John Montgomery, President, CEO, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Bridgeway Capital Management. His responsibilities include the firm’s strategic direction, investment management and risk oversight, portfolio management, and mentoring. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, a BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, and…
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Insiders React: Death of Google Search? + YC's Startup Wishlist, Trump’s Saudi AI Deals
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What happens when Apple hints that Google’s search dominance may be cracking, triggering a $155 billion wipeout in Alphabet’s value? Many still think Google search is untouchable, but a shift in user behavior and a few lines in DOJ testimony may signal otherwise. In this episode, Chris Saad, Yaniv Bernstein, and Amir Shevat explore how Apple’s reve…
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LIVE: Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox ft. Harrison Chase of LangChain
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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase introduces the concept of ambient agents, AI systems that operate continuously in the background responding to events rather than direct human prompts. Learn how these agents differ from traditional chatbots, why human oversight remains essential and how this approach could dra…
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Academic IPO insights - Prof. Jay Ritter (IPO Stories, Ep. 35)
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Jay Ritter is a Professor of Finance at the University of Florida's Warrington School of Business. He has become known as «Mr IPO» for his substantial work on IPOs through the years, starting with his PhD dissertation about IPOs at the University of Chicago in 1981. Through his work, Jay Ritter has attempted to provide data-driven insights into the…
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443: Supademo: From Cold Outreach Failure to 7-Figure SaaS - with Joseph Lee
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Joseph Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Supademo, an AI-powered platform that helps you create interactive demos for onboarding, sales, and product education. ==================================== ❤️ This episode is powered by Gearheart https://saasclub.io/gearheart Book a free 1:1 consultation: https://saasclub.io/gearheart/book =======…
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#200 Tom Homan - The U.S. Border Czar
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Tom Homan is the U.S. Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s second administration, appointed in November 2024 to oversee border security and interior enforcement operations. A career law enforcement officer, Homan served as Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2017 to 2018, where he implemented stringent immig…
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Building AI That Sells: Scaling Smarter with Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody
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Entrepreneurs often ask: When do I know it’s time to scale? Or, how do I lead when I wasn’t the original founder? In this week’s Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Chris Picardo sits down with Eleanor Lightbody, CEO of Luminance, who shares how she took a promising AI product and built a company culture, go-to-market motion, and product strategy tha…
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Forecasts are overrated—great founders build one step at a time. | PMF Observations
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I break down my top insights from recent conversations with four founders who won in unconventional ways. You’ll hear how Noah turned LinkedIn posts into his primary sales channel (without ever going viral), why Dan’s startup survived a brutal 95% downround but ended up at $400M ARR two years later, how Adam turned a stagnant $3M ARR business into …
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Why we keep failing to eradicate this disease, with YouTuber John Green
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John Green has spent his career telling stories — through novels, YouTube videos, and educational projects like Crash Course. Now, he’s on a mission to eliminate tuberculosis: a curable disease that still kills more than a million people every year. In this episode, Green joins host Jeff Berman to talk about how we could scale solutions to this glo…
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Jakob Sons - Starting a Medical Cannabis startup, Quitting the lawyer career, Making Eur 35M in 2024, The hyper-personalisation trend and diversifying from flower
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Jakob Sons is one of the co-founders and Managing Partners of Cansativa. Cansativa is building the largest medical cannabis platform in Europe and are offering the most desirable products and brands yummy. In 2022, they've raised the 15 million round from Snoop's dog, Casa Verde, and they generated 35M Eur in Revenue in 2024 and projected 90M Eur i…
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Hivemind: ETH Pump, Solana’s Edge & the New Meme Meta
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This week, the Hivemind team discuss ETH's sudden outperformance and whether it's driven by genuine flows or just positioning, Solana's strength as the launchpad for "Internet Capital Markets," and the evolving narratives around RWA tokens, L1 rotation, and meme coin mania. They also touch on Celestia’s roadmap struggles, the logic behind tokenized…
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20VC: Tiger Global Saved by OpenAI | Coatue's New Fund: Hype or Substance | Why SBF is the Greatest Investor of the Last 5 Years | Why Big Funds are Investing in Perplexity
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Items Mentioned in Today’s Episode: 04:11 Owner’s New $120M Round at $1BN 06:05 Why Series A is F****** Today 14:55 Could Tiger Global Be Saved by OpenAI and Scale 22:43 Why SBF is the Greatest Investor of the Last Decade 31:34 Why No Individuals Should Invest in Venture Funds 36:27 Why Microsoft Laying 3% of Their Workforce Off is not Enough 41:38…
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Judging from the difficulties many adults have managing their money, we don't do a great job collectively of teaching our kids about money. Jesse doesn't consider himself an expert on this, but he does have seven kids, and thus seven chances to instill good money habits in his own children. In today's episode he shares how he teaches his kids about…
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TBC127: Why Talking Too Much Is Killing Your Pitch
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In this episode, we share a powerful lesson from a recent pitch practice session with a founder whose natural charisma backfired. While being articulate and engaging can be a superpower, it can also lead to rambling when clarity matters most. We talk about why “less is more” applies just as much to live pitches as it does to pitch decks—and how emb…
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Chime’s IPO, Databricks’ $1B Acquisition & Dave Rubin’s Media Empire | E2126
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Today’s show: Chime is finally going public with strong financials and a shot at matching its $25B 2021 valuation, signaling real momentum in the IPO market. Databricks just made a $1B bet on agentic AI by acquiring Neon, a Postgres-as-a-service startup riding the new database wave. Then, Dave Rubin joins to share how he built and sold Locals, his …
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The $10B Hedge Fund CEO Who’s Betting Big on AI | Will England, Walleye Capital
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Will England just pivoted his $10B AUM hedge fund to go all in on AI with a firm-wide email: “I wrote this email using ChatGPT—you should too. As a hedge fund, we should be ashamed to leave money on the table by ignoring AI.” It’s working: 75% of his 400-person team are using ChatGPT daily—and Walleye is well on its way to transforming into an AI-f…
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Bonus: An Evening with Michael Lewis, From "Liar’s Poker" to Today
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Barry speaks with bestselling author and financial journalist Michael Lewis, live, from the Landmark Theater in Port Washington, NY. The wide-ranging, 90-minute conversation covered the full arc of his career, from “Liar’s Poker” to this year’s “Who is Government.” The informative – and at times hilarious – conversation included his experiences tur…
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LIVE: How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra
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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor discusses why AI is driving a fundamental shift from subscription-based pricing to outcomes-based models. Learn why this transition is harder for incumbents than startups, why applied AI and vertical specialization represent the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs and how …
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Nicky Goulimis & Nico Barawid: The serial entrepreneurs stopping scams & building Tunic Pay differently
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In today’s 40 Minute Mentor episode, we’re joined by Nicky Goulimis and Nico Barawid, the Founders of early-stage FinTech Tunic Pay, the only fraud vendor designed specifically for scams. Prior to building Tunic Pay, Nicky scaled Nova Credit, the credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing a…
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LIVE: Sam Altman of OpenAI on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sam reflects on OpenAI’s evolution from a 14-person research lab to a dominant AI platform. He envisions transforming ChatGPT into a deeply personal AI service that remembers your entire life's context—from conversations to emails—while working seamlessly across all services. Sam describes the generation g…
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📊 Institutional money watches their data before it moves with Joshua Frank | Ep. #91
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🎙️ In this episode, we sit down with Joshua Frank, the visionary Founder & CEO of The Tie — the leading provider of alternative data and analytics powering the institutional side of crypto.🔍 With clients ranging from hedge funds and trading desks to top exchanges, The Tie delivers real-time insights into crypto sentiment, market-moving news, and on…
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Deep-dive: European Medical Cannabis, Market Size, Trends, Regulation
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An overview of the global medical cannabis market, highlighting its rapid growth driven by legislative reforms, increasing research, and patient acceptance. While North America currently leads, Europe, particularly Germany, is identified as a major growth engine due to recent law changes significantly boosting patient access and imports, despite ch…
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Agentic AI Meets Cybersecurity + Solar Robots in the Desert | E2125
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Today’s show: Alex interviews founders from two frontier technologies reshaping our world. First, ZioSec is tackling the cybersecurity risks of AI agents with continuous adversarial testing before real attacks happen. Then, Terabase shows how mobile robotic factories are transforming solar energy deployment, assembling massive solar farms directly …
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Lending with Ned: Dave Silverstein with Anna Barber
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In episode 72 of Venture Everywhere, Anna Barber, Investing Partner at M13 and LP at Everywhere Ventures, chats with Dave Silverstein, co-founder and CEO of Ned, a modern infrastructure platform powering cash flow lending activities, from origination and underwriting, through portfolio management. Dave shares about Ned’s evolution from revenue-base…
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E 803: How to Fund Your Beauty Brand Growth Without Giving Up Equity — with Marshall Lebovits
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Summary Finding the right funding is one of the biggest challenges for emerging beauty brands today. In this episode of Scaling Emerging Beauty, Monique is joined by Marshall Lebovits, a financing expert with 35+ years of lending experience. Marshall breaks down how early-stage brands can use asset-based funding to scale without giving up ownership…
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