A horror/mystery audio drama miniseries. Strange tapes, ghost trains, witches, and conspiracy theorists. In 1945, a continental train bound for the east coast stopped in Appalachia and was never seen again. But one passenger, a reporter, did come home. And she claimed something was following her. It's now 1983. The woman has gone missing. Her niece finds magnetic tape reels in her attic that contain recordings from the doomed overland passage. Something compels her to keep listening. Somethi ...
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Quiet Fight Productions Podcasts
DealFlow Podcast is where founders, VCs, and operators say the quiet stuff out loud. No PR fluff, no safe answers, just the real stories behind how deals get done and companies actually grow.Hosted by Keira Nesdale (MH Ventures), a VC and builder in the arena, DealFlow goes past the pitch deck into what works right now in AI, Web3, and frontier tech. Each episode breaks down how top founders find customers, structure raises, survive bear markets, and turn messy product experiments into somet ...
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From Refugees to Remote Workers: Decaf and the Future of Digital Money
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When your bank freezes, your app crashes, or Wise ghosts your transfer… life doesn’t stop. Rick Martin is building Decaf for those moments.The purpose of Decaf is simple: getting money, fast and cheaply, to people and places banks can’t reach. Rick is the co-founder of Decaf, a self-custodial wallet that turns stablecoins into real-world money flow…
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From Side Hustle Bots to a $100M Crypto Startup
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Sam Battenally is trying to fix the two things everyone hates about trading:it’s slow, and it’s full of hidden costs. Sam is the co-founder and CEO of RISE, a new blockchain built to feel like modern web apps: instant, smooth, and (on their new exchange RiseX) zero gas fees. He’s also just acquired perp DEX team BSX to help turn that vision into a …
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Why Stablecoins Were Just the Warm-Up: Theo's Plan to Rewire Global Finance
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Most people think crypto is about coins, memes, and speculation. Iggy thinks it’s about something much bigger: rewiring a $1.5 quadrillion financial system onto better rails… and letting anyone in for as little as $1. Iggy is the Chief Investment Officer at Theo Network, a protocol that takes real-world assets like US T-bills, gold, and stocks and …
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Why Crypto Still Doesn’t Work and How Muriel is Fixing it.
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Web3 keeps calling itself the “global computer”. Muriel Medard is the MIT professor actually making that true. In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sit down with Professor Muriel Medard, co-founder and CEO of Optimum, inventor of Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), and one of the core minds behind the “memory layer” of Web3. They break down why bloc…
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The Next Internet Won’t Be Built by People. It’ll Be Built by AI Agents (DAIN)
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In this episode of DealFlow: Founder Stories, Keira sits down with Donny Solana, founder of DAIN, the Decentralized Autonomous Intelligence Network that’s redefining how AI works, learns, and earns. DAIN is building the Autonomous Internet, a world where intelligent agents represent you, your business, even your ideas. These agents negotiate, inves…
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This Company Is Building the Amazon (& Uber) of 3D Printing
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What if factories disappeared?In this episode of Dealflow, we sit down with John Dogru, founder and CEO of 3DOS, to explore how decentralized manufacturing could disrupt trillion-dollar supply chains and unlock a new creator economy for physical products.3DOS is building the world’s first open network for 3D printing and on-demand production, conne…
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Big Tech Sells Your Data. Vana Lets You Get Paid Instead.
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Big Tech sells your data. Vana lets you get paid instead. In this episode of DealFlow: Founder Stories, Keira sits down with Art Abal, Managing Director of Vana, the Web3 data protocol putting people back in control of the data that powers AI. This isn’t just another Web3 pitch it’,s a revolution in ownership. Art and the Vana team are building a s…
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Inside the $2B Bet on Decentralized AI: The 0G Labs Story
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In this episode of DealFlow, Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G Labs, joins to break down how he’s building the world’s first modular Layer-1 designed to make AI a public good, open, verifiable, and unstoppable. This isn’t another hype cycle chat. It’s the real founder story behind one of Web3’s boldest bets: where AI meets blockchain at sc…
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Humanoids Are Coming: How XMaquina Lets You Own a Piece of the Robot Economy
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Humanoids are coming and for the first time, you can own a piece of them. In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sits down with Mauricio, co-founder of XMaquina, to unpack how Physical AI is moving from sci-fi to cash-flowing reality. This isn’t another crypto hype session — it’s the operator’s playbook for turning humanoid robots into investable, reve…
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From Web3 Idea to $25M Reality: Miden’s Founder Playbook
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In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sits down with Azeem Khan to unpack how Miden evolved from a bold Web3 idea into a $25 million blockchain powerhouse. This isn’t another fluffy crypto convo... it’s the real founder story behind one of the most ambitious projects in decentralized tech. 🔍 Inside, we dive into: 💥 How Miden spotted a breakout opportu…
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always, everywhere memories like dreams (00:00) SOMEBODY'S TAKING OLD JONI (05:14) TRAIL OF BODIES (09:13) IT'S THIS ROOM (14:48) I'M OKAY, HANSON (19:13) OUTRO/CURTAIN CALL (20:14) THE U.K. VERSION ENDING QUIET FIGHT PRODUCTIONS presents TROUBLE IN MIND QUIET FIGHT PRODUCTIONS is Cindy Chow, Sophie Tomei, and Jordan Wong STEVIE is Sophie Tomei HAN…
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Episode 7 - "What Are You Doing Here?"
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That’s what happened aboard the Autumn Flyer? Stevie, Hanson, and Wade reach Trouble after a... setback. A mining town, through and through. A site of great tragedy. It was the Confederates. The daaamn Confederates. (00:00) PREVIOUSLY ON... (01:05) WEST VIRGINIA TO FOLLOW (03:30) TROUBLE, FINALLY (06:33) STRANGER FROM SAN FRANCISCO (08:48) GODDAMN …
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He went in the hole. Don’t go in the hole. Why was Moss trying to burn down the place? Who else was there? And maybe most importantly, whose house is this? I don’t want to talk about the Commodore Ballroom. What happened aboard the Autumn Flyer? (00:00) PREVIOUSLY ON… (00:49) HE WENT IN THE HOLE (01:59) WHAT DO WE DO? (06:49) IT’S WAY FOGGY (08:24)…
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Episode 5 - "What If He's Some Deranged Psychopath?"
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Wade probably made them listen to Rush on the way down. Hanson wanted Dylan, obviously. Stevie, Hanson, and Wade travel to rural Washington to find someone who doesn’t really want to be found. Moss lives in a cabin in the woods. In any other genre that’s a pretty cool vacation. Of course Wade’s never met him in person. Of course the man doesn’t tru…
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Welcome to the neighbourhood! Stevie and Hanson receive a bloody warning, but from who? Or what? And how did a postcard from the town of Trouble, West Virginia end up through Wade’s mail slot? I mean, somebody put it in there, but it was late at night! Spooky! There’s a trail to follow. Always a little deeper to dig. And who can say no to a road tr…
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Uh oh is right. Stevie’s in trouble again; Hanson turns to an old friend for help. Real popular gal, that Dotty Colleran. Why are all these people so drawn to the unexplained? People get weird about collecting things. Like, really weird. Don’t look in my downloads folder. Are the tapes really worth killing over? Are they worth dying for? Sometimes …
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Well, that was weird! What was that sound? Stevie and Hanson listen to one of Dotty Colleran's tapes from the Autumn Flyer. It's becoming increasingly clear that nothing good happened to that train. Stevie digs a little deeper into the mystery. Hanson says he knows someone who might be able to help. I hope you really like New Age music. What happen…
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Episode 1 - “What Happened to the Autumn Flyer?”
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No, the creepy old tapes in the attic aren’t cursed. But what are they doing there? It’s 1983. Fresh out of journalism school (ie: unemployed) Stevie Maynard finds a haunting mystery to unravel. The tapes belonged to her aunt, Dotty Colleran, a reporter back in the day. Except, Dotty went missing in the ‘60s, having vanished without a trace… until …
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No, the creepy old tapes in the attic aren’t cursed. But what are they doing there? It’s 1983. Fresh out of journalism school (ie: unemployed) Stevie Maynard finds a haunting mystery to unravel. The tapes belonged to her aunt, Dotty Colleran, a reporter back in the day. Except, Dotty went missing in the ‘60s, having vanished without a trace… until …
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