Best General Catalyst Podcasts (2025)

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UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts on pushing his university into the AI age 23:09

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This week on Strictly VC Download, Connie Loizos sits down with Lee Roberts, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to discuss his ambitious plan to make AI the university’s “north star” amid a tumultuous year. Roberts walks through his decision to merge UNC’s School of Data Science and Society with its School of Information…

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The Future of Autonomous Electronic Warfare in Multi-Domain Operations | The Pair Program Ep77 52:28

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The Future of Autonomous Electronic Warfare in Multi-Domain Operations | The Pair Program Ep77 In this episode of The Pair Program, hosts Tim Winkler and Mike Gruen are joined by Nathan Mintz, Co-founder & CEO of CX2, and Dr. William “Dollar” Young, Jr., Former U.S. Air Force Colonel & Spectrum Warfare Expert, for a deep dive into the future of ele…

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20VC: Sequoia's David Cahn on The Winners and Losers in AI | The $0-$100M Revenue Club: Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead? | The Future of Defence: Who Wins and Who Loses | How to Analyse Margins ... 1:14:23

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David Cahn is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and one of the world’s leading AI investors. At Sequoia David has led investments in Clay, Juicebox, Sesame, Kela, Stark, etc.. Before Sequoia, David was a General Partner @ Coatue where he led investments in Notion and Hugging Face. AGENDA: 00:00 We Are in an AI Bubble 05:04 Why Building Physical Data Cen…

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Recovery & Stress Management 18:40

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Send us a text Support the showBy Tre Burns

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20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generared Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and ... 1:16:18

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Sandy Diao is one of the most exceptional growth leaders of the last decade. Sandy has scaled products to over 200M+ users and led growth teams at Descript, Meta and Pinterest. She is also a prolific writer all on things growth here. AGENDA: 03:59 Biggest Growth Lessons from Pinterest 08:01 What is a Good vs a Bad Growth Hypothesis 11:11 Common Mis…

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20VC: Why VC Today is Worse Than 2021 | Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad Investment Today | Why We Are Deluding Ourselves on Growth Expectations | Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation | Benchmark Adds Their ... 1:28:58

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AGENDA: 04:50 Benchmark's New Partner: Everett Randall 10:19 Revolut Raises $3BN at a $75BN Valuation: Another Loss for Public Markets? 28:39 Why Today is as Bad as the Hype of COVID in 2021 32:10 Why Vertical SaaS is a Bad VC Investment Today 36:14 Why Everyone Investing in Legal SaaS Will Lose Money 44:16 Why King Making is More Real Than Ever 55…

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20VC: Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation | Deel vs Rippling: WTF is Going On | Management Lessons from Ben Horowitz and Nik Storonsky | Deel's M&A Playbook: Lessons from 13 Acquisitions ... 1:15:23

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Alex Bouaziz is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Deel, the $17BN global payroll juggernaut that just last week announced their latest $300M fundraise led by Ribbit, a16z and Coatue. Deel has been on the most insane journey, they do $1BN+ in ARR, they just had their first $100M revenue month and they have been profitable for over 3 years. AGENDA: 03:38 Anno…

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How Hans Swildens pulled off a blockbuster Goldman Sachs sale, and what it means for venture liquidity 24:00

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This week's episode of StrictlyVC Download features Hans Swildens, founder of Industry Ventures, discussing his firm's transaction with Goldman Sachs that comes during Industry Ventures' 25th anniversary year. Swildens walks through the 20-year evolution of the Goldman relationship—from LP investor to wealth platform partner to minority stakeholder…

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Securing the Industrial Frontier with Frenos | The Pair Program Ep76 45:47

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Securing the Industrial Frontier with Frenos | The Pair Program Ep76 In this episode, hosts Tim Winkler and Mike Gruen chat with Harry Thomas, CTO of Frenos, and Colin Murphy, Chief Hacking Officer at Frenos, two cybersecurity experts redefining how we protect critical infrastructure. They unpack what it takes to defend operational technology (OT) …

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Coaching beyond HR walls Can Leaders Be Culture Catalysts We Say Yes 1:04:14

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Key Takeaways: Culture is Co-Owned, Not Just HR's Responsibility: The webinar emphasized that culture is not solely the domain of HR but a shared responsibility co-created and co-owned by every individual, especially leaders, at all levels of an organization. Behavior Trumps Policy: Panelists highlighted that culture cascades faster through lived b…

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Relational Intelligence 1:01:18

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Key Takeaways: The multifaceted nature of relational intelligence, blending emotional and interpersonal skills with systemic awareness. How to shift from an egocentric view to a more holistic understanding of oneself and one's place within various systems. Challenging conventional notions of "growth" and "success" by embracing contentment and recog…

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20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth ... 1:13:49

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Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp, the next-generation developer terminal reinventing how engineers build and collaborate. Warp has raised over $70M from top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, GV, Dylan Field, and Elad Gil. Before founding Warp, Zach was Principal Engineer at Google, where he led development of Google Docs, and later…

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20VC: $3.5BN - The Price Zuck Paid for Thinking Machines Co-Founder | Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M | Softbank Borrows $5BN Against ARM Holding to Invest More Into OpenAI 1:19:54

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AGENDA: 03:44 Rory Is So Old He Worked with Arthur Rock!!! 07:28 Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures for $665M 16:37 Thinking Machines Co-Founder Raises $2BN and Then Leaves for Meta 29:36 SoftBank Goes for $5BN Leverage Against ARM Stock To Buy More OpenAI 39:35 More Data Centres Than Offices: Are We In a Bubble 43:28 Where is the Alpha in Ve…

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The politics of AI: OpenAI’s Chris Lehane on AI’s promise and peril 20:11

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This week’s episode of StrictlyVC Download was recorded live at the Elevate Festival in Toronto. TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos sat down with Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, to discuss the company’s newly launched video generation tool Sora, the complexities of copyright and fair use in AI training, and the massive in…

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Generals in the Startup Trenches: Leading Defense Tech from Frontlines to Frontiers | The Pair Program Ep75 59:47

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Generals in the Startup Trenches: Leading Defense Tech from Frontlines to Frontiers | The Pair Program Ep75 In this episode of The Pair Program, hosts Tim Winkler and Mike Gruen sit down with two retired Army generals turned tech executives, LTG Eric Wesley, former CEO of Parasanti Inc, and LTG Ross Coffman, President of Forward Edge AI. They discu…

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Leading with Empathy Creating Space for Client Ownership in Coaching 58:55

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Key Takeaways: Empathy is Key: Essential for fostering client autonomy and effective coaching. Presence Over Fixing: Be present and listen deeply, resisting the urge to provide solutions. Avoid Bias: Recognize and manage expert bias, time pressure, and the rescue impulse. Empower Through Acknowledgment: Acknowledge the client's process, not just th…

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Gain confidence as we explore complex situations with new ICF Code of Ethics 59:06

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They thoroughly unpacked the revised ICF Code of Ethics, highlighted key changes, and discussed practical implications:Expanded Ethical Scope ("ICF Professional"): Your ethical responsibilities as an ICF professional now extend beyond coaching sessions to all public identification with ICF. Transparency in Tech & Conflicts of Interest: Proactively …

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20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble | Do Margins Matter & Does Defensibility Exist in an AI World | Is Per Seat Pricing Dead & The Future of Vibe Coding with Mike ... 1:03:16

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Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, the $50BN software giant behind products like Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Since founding the company in 2002, he has scaled it to over 300,000 customers globally, generating more than $5BN in annual revenue. Atlassian now employs over 10,000 people across 13 countries and is one of th…

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your perspective shapes everything 16:45

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From Vision to Impact How Individual Purpose Transforms Communities 1:03:14

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Key TakeawaysDiscovered Personal Purpose: Attendees gained insights into how individual purpose can serve as a powerful catalyst for significant life and career transitions. Embraced Heart-Centered Leadership: They learned how combining compassion, empathy, and practical solutions led to impactful and sustainable transformation. Understood Societal…

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20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan 1:02:22

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Chris Degnan is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Snowflake, where he was instrumental in scaling the company from less than $1M in ARR to over $3B in annual revenue. He joined as the first sales hires and built Snowflake’s go-to-market engine from scratch, growing the team from to more than 6,000 globally. Under his leadership, Snowflake became …

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Conscious Leadership for Sustainable Mindset Change 57:24

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Key Takeaways:The importance of acknowledging and processing difficult emotions rather than suppressing them. Differentiating between authentic vulnerability and emotional dumping. Strategies for leaders to manage their emotional state and its ripple effect on their teams. How to approach systemic change in an organization, starting with self-aware…

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Systemic Team Coaching SPEED Process 1:00:56

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Key Takeaways:The initial challenges that prompted Sona Comstar to adopt a systemic team coaching approach. The impact of appreciative inquiry and focusing on strengths. Tangible improvements in collaboration and communication, including fostering open dissent. Strategies for sustaining behavioural changes and cascading learning throughout the orga…

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in Enhancing Conversational Coaching 1:00:34

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In this podcast, Cindy and Prakash explored: What "coaching between the lines" truly means and its relevance to deeper coaching work. The power of NLP in enhancing conversational coaching and understanding clients' inner experiences beyond their spoken words. Practical ways to become more attuned to subtle client shifts, including tone, energy, bod…

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20VC: OpenAI's Multi $BN Deal with AMD | Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds | Does King Making Really Work in Venture Capital: Harvey vs Legora | Chamath is Back: The SPAC is Back 1:24:50

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AGENDA: 03:29 OpenAI and AMD's Major Partnership 07:35 Microsoft Have F***** Up the OpenAI Partnership 17:08 OpenAI's Developer Day Announcements 20:45 Why VC is the Most Forgiving Asset Class on Price and Valuation 29:10 What Does it Take to IPO in 2025: Why Snyk Will Not IPO 42:30 Four Strategies Companies Need to Take to Own Their Own Destiny 49…

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Opening the Inner Eye Lasting Change, Turning Compassion into Action 1:03:35

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Key Takeaways & Learnings: Courage in the Face of Adversity: Learn how Brinda Adige, founder of Makhal Sahaya, confronts systemic injustice and corruption with unwavering conviction, emphasizing the power of self-belief over external validation. The Power of Words and Inner Conviction: Explore how intentional language and a deep belief in the inher…

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Psychological Safety A Human Need and A Coaching Responsibility 55:13

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Key Takeaways: Understanding Psychological Safety: Go beyond the basics and discover the personal, emotional, and even spiritual dimensions of feeling safe in a coaching relationship. The Coach's Impact: Learn practical insights into how your presence, energy, and self-awareness directly contribute to building trust and vulnerability with your clie…