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The Darwin's Monkey

The Darwin's Monkey

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We do always romanticise our lives our jobs and ...science. Here, our guests will reveal the truth that is hidden behind the stage. Cosy talks, smart people and great ideas. Stay tuned with us!
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The Glass Cannon Podcast

The Glass Cannon Network

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Interweaving immersive storytelling with irreverent, improvised humor, the Glass Cannon Podcast delivers like no other the experience of what it's really like to sit around a table playing role-playing games with your best buds. Founded in 2015, the Glass Cannon Podcast has risen to prominence as one of the most recognized and celebrated Actual Play podcasts in the world. While the hosts were raised on D&D and started off with mostly Pathfinder podcasts, the past decade has seen the Network ...
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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Reggie Marable is the Head of Global Sales at Sierra, a conversational AI platform for businesses. Sierra enables companies like ADT, Sonos, SiriusXM, and WeightWatchers to build AI agents that transform customer experiences. The company has rapidly become a hypergrowth leader in Silicon Valley, recently securing a funding round that values it at $…
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More clues leads to a gruesome discovery. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/L1PakP-vcoM⁠ This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at ⁠https://foundryvtt.com/gcp⁠ For all your random number-generating needs, visit Norse Foundry at ⁠https://no…
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 03:56 Why The Risk Lever Has Been Turned Higher than Ever in VC 06:04 Why IRR is the Hardest Thing to Control 09:36 Is Lack of Liquidity Short Term Temporary or Long Term Structural 12:17 Why Fund Returners Are Not Good Enough Anymore 16:03 Sequoia: The Best Strategy at the Worst Time 26:30 What it Takes to be Good at…
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Special Guest Host Mary Lou replaces Joe for this one and talks with Jared about LARPing before launching into a debate over the work of Brandon Sanderson! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/cXJqJtOHTl4⁠ Access exclusive podcasts, ad-free episodes, and livestreams with a 30-day free trial with code "GCN30" at ⁠jointhenaish.com⁠. Join Troy Laval…
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Taavet Hinrikus is a Partner at Plural, the early-stage fund that backs the most ambitious founders on a mission to change the world through technology. He co-founded Wise in 2010, where he was CEO and later Chairman, which went public in the first-ever direct listing in Europe in 2021. Prior to that, Taavet was Skype’s Director of Strategy until 2…
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Mayur Gupta is currently the CMO at Kraken, one of the largest crypto platforms in the world. Prior to that, he lead Marketing, Business Transformation and Growth at Gannett - USA Today Network, led Growth at Spotify and was the CMO at Freshly which eventually got acquired by Nestle. He was the first ever Chief Marketing Technologist at Kimberly Cl…
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A series of secret passageways lead to the discovery of more disturbing details. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/qX9a7cfbV_k This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs…
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In Today’s Show We Discuss: 04:49 Breaking Down the $3BN Windsurf Acquisition 06:18 Why Sam Altman is Playing a Master Game 12:40 Why Multi-Stage Funds are Destroying Seed Managers 21:52 Are Endowment Funds F****** 27:38 What Would Rory Do If He Was CFO of an Ivy League Endowment Fund 43:38 The Denominator Effect and It’s Impact on Venture Allocati…
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Blood of the Wild's Mary Lou joins Joe and Jared to talk Druids! Everything from their real-world history to builds and party roles in Pathfinder and D&D 5E. Plus, reactions to the Oblivion Remaster, and some of the darkest and most mystical elements of a Fae (or Fey!) Adventure. 0:00 Intro 7:07 Mary Lou's Earth 17:36 Druid Builds 1:10:40 Nerd Hist…
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Jason Wilk is the Founder and CEO of Dave, the greatest turnaround in the public markets of the last 12 months. Dave went public with a market cap of $4BN, just months later the company had a market cap of $50M. Today, they are back with a market cap of $1.1BN. In 2024, CNBC named Dave the best-performing financial stock in the country, achieving 9…
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Rich Socher is the Founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of the AI startup MetaMind, which Salesforce acquired in 2016. He is widely recognised as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely …
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The party encounters an enigmatic entity whom they apparently met before. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/weZrD6FmhX0 This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs, visit…
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Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more. Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others. In T…
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The hosts and callers react to the intense questions raised by Netflix's 'Adolescence' series before lightening things up with a look at some of the best (and worst) in TTRPG character sheets. 0:00 Start of Show 5:33 Adolescence 29:30 A Toxic Problem 1:07:10 Character Sheets 1:40:07 Dear GCR 1:51:00 Player Fiat Watch the video here: https://youtu.b…
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Victor Lazarte is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the mot renowned venture firms in the world. At Benchmark, Victor has led deals into the likes of HeyGen and Mercor. As an angel, he was the first investor and board member of Brex, and as a Founder he scaled Wildlife Studios, bootstrapping into the largest gaming company in LatAm, with about …
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Aatish Nayak is the Head of Product at Harvey where he oversees product vision, strategy, design, analytics, marketing, and support. This is his third hypergrowth AI unicorn having previously held product leadership roles at Scale AI from 40 to 800 people, and Shield AI from 20 to 100 people. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:21 Biggest Product Les…
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Sleeping gas and demons make for a brutal battle beneath Ritalson Manor. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/2FPkQxhLHlU This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs, visit …
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Tom Hulme is a General Partner @ GV and leads GV’s European investing. He has led rounds in Monzo, Nothing, GoCardless, Lemonade, Snyk and is widely considered one of the best investors in Europe. Stan Boland is one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs in the UK. In 1999, he co-founded Element 14 which was acquired by Broadcom in 2000…
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The new Book Club book is announced! Plus, Erik Mona (Paizo) and Skid Maher (GCN) join the show to discuss epic D&D campaign settings, including Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, Eberron, Planescape, Dragonlance and more! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/3bdUsq-DI_8 0:00 Intro 7:30 Greyhawk 40:30 Forgotten Realms 1:09:50 Elevator Pitch 1:…
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Ernest Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Carvana. Under Ernie’s leadership, Carvana went from a back-of-the-napkin idea to a $50+ billion public company, became the fastest-growing online used car retailer in U.S. history, and landed on the Fortune 500 in under 10 years. However, it was not all up and to the right, in 2022, the stock plummeted 99%…
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After investigating the Mistwood, the new party returns to town to check in with their families and superiors. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/RRViHv_y2pQ Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Sydney Amanuel, and Kate Stamas as they tour the country. Get your tickets today at https://hubs.li/Q03cn8wr0. Access exclu…
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Nabeel Hyatt is a General Partner @ Spark Capital, one of the leading firms of the last decade with portfolio companies including Twitter, Anthropic, Coinbase, Affirm, Discord, Deel and more. In Todays Show with Nabeel Hyatt We Discuss: 1. The Rules of Investing: What have been Nabeel’s biggest lessons on price sensitivity? When did he not pay up a…
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Ishan Mukherjee is the Co-Founder/CEO of Rox, a Sequoia-backed AI-powered sales productivity platform. Before Rox, he was the Chief Growth Officer at New Relic where he scaled the self-serve business from $0-$100M in ARR. Prior to New Relic, Ishan founded Pixie Labs (acq by New Relic). Before that he led product at Siri Knowledge Graph at Apple, La…
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The heroes discover blueprints for an underground addition to Ritalson Manor. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/9zHXCyKyJjk This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs, v…
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Welcome to The Daily Deal — the new show with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin, where we break down the biggest stories in tech, venture, and B2B. From market meltdowns to billion-dollar raises, wild valuations, and the drama behind the deals. We’re covering it all! Plus, we’ll be joined by some incredible guests to go deeper on the moves shaping t…
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The guys discuss the release date and expected launch titles for the Switch 2, including an exclusive From Software game: The Duskbloods. They also break down Season 2 of Severance and take calls on thoughts, theories and more! Plus, a look into a TTRPG ahead of its time: Paranoia! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/pK5zM0KAzZE 0:00 Intro 5:40 …
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Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft, where he leads the company’s AI and technology strategy at global scale and played a pivotal role in Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Prior to Microsoft, Kevin spent six years at Linkedin as SVP of Engineering. Kevin has also enjoyed advisory positions with Pinterest, Box, Code.org and more. In Today’s Episo…
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After discovering a haunted animal corpse and a desecrated underwater statue, the heroes contend with yet another lakeside disturbance. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/D5roz4iuSvU Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Sydney Amanuel, and Kate Stamas as they tour the country. Get your tickets today at https://hubs.l…
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Dame Julia Hoggett is the CEO of the London Stock Exchange. Julia previously worked at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority as Director of Market Oversight and Head of Wholesale Banking Supervision. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:25 How to Become CEO of a National Stock Exchange 05:36 Why The Domestic Economy is F***** Despite the Boom in Financ…
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Nine Gatewalkers try to get to the bottom of things. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/zdobtiR7Swg This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs, visit Norse Foundry at htt…
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Mitchell Green is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital. Mitchell has led or co-led investments in companies including Alibaba, Asana, Benchling, ByteDance, Duo Security, Grafana, Mindbody, and Xamarin, among several others. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:31 How Bessemer Taught Me The One Golden Rule of Investing 06:48 Why AI Inf…
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Niklas Östberg is the Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, a global juggernaut now present in over 70 countries across four continents. In Q4 2024, the company announced GMV of $49BN with $12.8BN in revenue and $750M in EBITDA. They have made an astonishing 35+ acquisitions including $2BN for Glovo. Before launching Delivery Hero, Niklas co-founded Pi…
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The guys discuss WOTC's layoffs of 90% of the developers on the Sigil VTT before opening the discussion to how we all use maps in general. Are they even necessary? Also, the guys rank their top 5 action heroes of all time. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/ezco9j7Sqis Access exclusive podcasts, ad-free episodes, and livestreams with a 30-day f…
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Andrew Feldman is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Cerebras, the fastest AI inference + training platform in the world. In Sept 2024 the company filed to go public off the back of a rumoured $1BN deal with G42 in the UAE. Andrew is the leading expert for all things inference. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:23 Where Was AI Landscape in 2015 When Cerebras…
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Elias Torres is the Co-Founder and CEO of Agency, the AI agent for customer success teams. Prior to Agency, Elias was the Co-Founder of Drift, a company he sold to Vista for $1.2BN Before that he started Performable, which he sold to Hubspot. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 03:50 Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders: How Backgrounds Shape You 06:23…
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The heroes return to Ritalson Manor and meet other Gatewalkers. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/xnmKmH-sMAA This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-generating needs, visit Norse Fou…
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Brian Holland, Chaosium's Director of Marketing, joins the guys to discuss a new release for the Pendragon RPG and the upcoming 10th Anniversary of one of his favorite films—Mad Max: Fury Road. Also, Joe's Three Questions for Jared, best of the best co-op games, and Jared goes off on a Nerd Rant! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/TNAq4j_9Ebk A…
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Peter Singlehurst is the Head of Private Companies at Baillie Gifford. He has led research on a wide range of private investments including Epic Games, Bending Spoons, Anduril, Solugen, Scopely, and Grammarly, as well as a number of private holdings that have since transitioned to the public markets such as Airbnb, Affirm, Warby Parker, Wise and Te…
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Yamini Rangan is the CEO at HubSpot. The $32BN juggernaut that has revenues of $2.6BN, over 247,000 customers and 8,200 employees. Prior to Hubspot, Yamini served as Chief Customer Officer at Dropbox, and before Dropbox, she was VP of Sales Strategy and Operations at Workday. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:16 Taking Over the CEO Role from the Fo…
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The Founder's Day Festival is cut short by a strange illness and a sacrificial ram rising from the dead. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/8mqLp6VwDMY Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Sydney Amanuel, and Kate Stamas as they tour the country. Get your tickets today at https://hubs.li/Q03cn8wr0. Access exclusive p…
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Matt Biilmann is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify. Under his leadership, Netlify has become one of the fastest-growing platforms for modern web development. Matt recently introduced agent experience (AX), a new way of thinking about how software is built and experienced in the AI era. Matt is also known for coining Jamstack, a concept that redefine…
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A brief sojourn in Chesed provides the party with more news than they could have ever expected. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/xkS57rLkmv0 This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-g…
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Joe and Jared debate the need for relationship mechanics in RPGs. Jared explains why Daredevil may be the best Marvel Comics character. Plus, how to bring monsters of Irish Folklore into your home games and a review of the Last of Us Season 2 trailer! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/M8xWu1opEOQ Access exclusive podcasts, ad-free episodes, an…
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Jake Saper is a General Partner @ Emergence Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last 20 years. Their many wins include being early investors in Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva and more. In total, the firm has invested $2BN and returned an astonishing $8BN in cash with much more to come. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 04:45 The Zoom Investment …
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The village of Rosewood Vale prepares to celebrate its inaugural Founder's Day Festival. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/C99ViV5Fjeg Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Sydney Amanuel, and Kate Stamas as they tour the country. Get your tickets today at glasscannonnetwork.com/live-tour. Access exclusive podcasts, …
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Julian Teixeira is the Chief Revenue Officer at 1Password, where he has grown B2B revenue over 8x and scaled a team of more than 450 in go-to-market. 1Password set the record for the largest raise in Canadian history at the start of 2022 and has raised nearly $1B in capital throughout his time with the company. Prior to 1Password, Julian served as …
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A brief sojourn in Chesed provides the party with more news than they could have ever expected. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/23RPUFCLSi4 This episode was sponsored by Foundry VTT and Norse Foundry. See why tabletop gamers everywhere have made the switch to Foundry Virtual Tabletop at https://foundryvtt.com/gcp For all your random number-g…
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The Book Club gathers to discuss Dungeon Crawler Carl. We also discuss our favorite dungeon crawls, how we use Reddit for gaming, and Mario Day. Plus, a caller steps to the stage for a chance to Beat McD! Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/5QFT1X0kgGs Access exclusive podcasts, ad-free episodes, and livestreams with a 30-day free trial with cod…
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Anton Osika is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable, the fastest growing startup in Europe. With Lovable, you can turn your idea into an app in seconds with just a prompt. After just 3 months, the company has scaled to $17.5M in ARR. They are adding $2M in net new revenue every single week. Even better, Lovable has 85% Day 30 retention rate, making it …
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