Welcome to Cloudbreak, where breakthrough innovation meets breakthrough growth. In this podcast hosted by early stage VC firm Trilogy Equity Partners, we sit down with the brilliant minds and leaders building early stage startups to discuss the pivotal stories, insights, and hard-won lessons they've learned from the driver's seat of breaking innovation, company building, and scaling. They'll share what's working, what isn't, and what they'd wish they'd known earlier.
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The Tech.eu Podcast is a show discussing the most interesting stories from the European technology scene.
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The Founder's Formula Podcast is designed to bring current founders, co-founders, founding CEOs, and aspiring entrepreneurs alike the latest and greatest insight from founders who have "been there and done that".
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Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com
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The Investor + Operator (IO) Podcast hosts the most candid, vulnerable conversations about building companies with the world’s best operators and investors.
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Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast—the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy. Hosted by Sage Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides, each episode dives into candid conversations with technical founders, investors, and GTM experts. You’ll get real talk, proven playbooks, and no-fluff advice on how to land your first customers, build ...
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Probably Nothing is always something when it comes to NFTs. Alexis Ohanian, Founder and Former Executive Chairman of Reddit and Founder of VC firm Seven Seven Six, and Tiffany Zhong, Founder and CEO of Islands, join forces to create the one-stop podcast for NFT news, deep dives, and interviews. Expect many interviews with up and coming industry experts from NFT creators to community leaders to guild founders and much more. If you want to get into the NFT world and not get left behind, this p ...
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Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing in early-stage startups.
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Welcome to The Alternatives Mason: Building Alts Knowledge Brick by Brick. Banrion Capital Management uses technology to help independent advisors scale and educate themselves on alternative investments. Since education is such a big piece of the Banrion mission and business, we are excited to kick off this series to dive into the nits and grits of the alternatives space.
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The TechSurge: Deep Tech VC Podcast explores the frontiers of emerging tech, venture capital, and business trends, with conversations tailored for entrepreneurs, technologists, and investment professionals. Presented by Celesta Capital, and hosted by Founding Partners Nic Brathwaite, Michael Marks, and Sriram Viswanathan. Send feedback and show ideas to [email protected]. Each discussion delves into the intersection of technology advancement, market dynamics, and the founder journey, offe ...
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The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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Where Venture Capital Meets Execution – The Playbook for Founders, Investors & High-Growth Ventures Welcome to Chasing the Multiple—the high-impact venture capital podcast for startup founders, investors, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) looking to unlock exponential growth. Hosted by VC investors Adam Weiss and Austin Moss of BlackBay Venture Capital, this show delivers insider strategies, raw execution insights, and tactical knowledge straight from the minds of top fo ...
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Most venture capital firms are stress testing the technology and hard hitting questions of what "tomorrow" may look like. Here’s their real-time take…
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C2 Biz Growth features insightful information and lessons learned from entrepreneurs and CEOs who are growing and scaling their companies. We realize that being the CEO and leader can be a lonely position. However, Success breeds Success and our conversations with men and women on the “entrepreneurial battlefield” will inform, inspire, and drive you to keep marching onward and upward. C2 Biz Growth is hosted by John Hale III, Founder and CEO of The Cornerstone Group, a business advisory and ...
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On Turpentine VC, host and venture capitalist Erik Torenberg delves deep into the art and science of building successful venture firms through conversations with the world’s best investors and operators. Hear about insider strategies on decision-making, investment theses, and building firms for the long term—from the ground-level, VC to VC. Guests in season 1 include Ben Horowitz of a16z, Mamood Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins, and Alfred Lin of Sequoia.
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Jamie Goldstein has spent over two decades working in venture capital and is founder & partner at our firm. He also serves as chairman of Petri, an accelerate program co-founded by pillar VC focused on supporting companies attacking the world's largest problem at the intersection of computation, biology, & engineering.
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Interviews with the leading impact investors and entrepreneurs who are using capital resources to create positive social and environmental change around the globe.
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Everything people and workforce—recruiting, marketing, technology, talent management, and workforce economics—delivered with biting sarcasm and unapologetic snark. Industry misfits Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman bring their no-holds-barred opinions to dissect news, trends, and the occasional dumpster fire. If you’re a hiring company, staffing firm, or vendor looking for insights (and a thick skin), these two won’t just tell you what’s happening—they’ll tell you why you’re probably doing it wr ...
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Welcome to Glorium Technologies Knowledge Hub! This podcast series is for founders, CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs of healthcare and real estate startups who want to scale their businesses or attract additional investment. Glorium Technologies is a top-shelf bespoke software development firm boasting a portfolio of 100+ deployed products. We create innovative and scalable solutions for VC-backed startups and expanding tech companies. Here we invite you to sit back, take a cup of coffee and listen to s ...
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Welcome to the Array Podcast. The platform to discover an array of hacks and skills you need at different stages of building your business. On each episode, we host successful entrepreneurs who share their secrets on growing an enterprise businesses that leverage data and AI/ML.
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Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets
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Alt Goes Mainstream podcast is the place to turn to for interviews with some of the brightest and most experienced minds in the world at the intersection private markets and wealth management. AGM dives into investment strategies like private equity (PE), private credit, venture capital (VC), secondaries, GP stakes, infrastructure, real estate, wealth management, and comprehensively covers tools and frameworks for approaching private markets, such as asset allocation, evergreen funds, model ...
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Thrive TRM is collaborative, real-time Talent Relationship Management Software for search agencies, in-house recruiters, and VC/PE firms looking to make better hiring decisions.
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‘Beauty and the Brand,’ is the ultimate podcast for beauty, health, and wellness entrepreneurs! Hosted by Aggie Burnett, a seasoned beauty industry expert, former Glamour Beauty Editor, and founder of a successful indie fragrance brand, this podcast is your go-to resource for launching, growing, and scaling legacy brands that stand the test of time. Join Aggie as she shares her wealth of knowledge from over 15 years in the industry, offering actionable strategies and deep dives into the late ...
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Twice-weekly conversations with top executives and thought leaders at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation. Each episode of Technovation explores the technology trends that are transforming business, and the leaders driving digital change inside their organizations. Produced by Metis Strategy and hosted by firm President Peter High, Technovation is the premier podcast for IT and technology professionals with the largest collection of interviews with elite CIOs, CTOs, and ...
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A weekly virtual events series for alternative investors who want to learn about cutting edge investment opportunities and network with fellow LPs, GPs, and individual allocators from across the globe.
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Forward Thinking Investors is a podcast where Mat Sherman interviews the world's brightest up and coming investors, as well as many who have already proven themselves as the best. Topics will range from portfolio construction theory to what makes a good market, and everything in between. The goal of this podcast is to help popularize the concept of investing with the public and get them familiar with how investors think. Listening to this podcast will make you a better investor and a better ...
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Outsider Inc. is dedicated to visionary leaders breaking the mold of tech entrepreneurship. Hosted by Ian Hathaway—co-author of The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and co-founder of seed-stage venture capital firm FOVC—each episode delivers exclusive interviews and insider insights from exceptional founders building generation-defining companies. Join us for an in-depth exploration into the real-life stories of entrepreneurs from unexpected places and backgrounds ...
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The Ideas in Motion podcast will feature interviews with founders, VCs, and startup enthusiasts all connected by a common thread – INSEAD. These interviews will span a wide range of topics such as fundraising, sector trends, and the startup ecosystem.
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Artesian is a global alternative investment management firm specialising in public and private debt, venture capital and impact investment strategies. On this podcast, we share ways to tap unrecognized value and deliver sustainable performance in challenging environments as investors and innovators.
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Have you ever wanted to know the real secrets to starting, building, and scaling a company? How do you learn to fail and fail fast? How should you be thinking about financing and exit strategies? The entrepreneur’s journey is a long one — full of unknowns, risks, and opportunities at every turn. At PJC we have your back. With our Uncovered podcast, we aim to expose some of these unknowns so you can better understand what to expect and how to prepare. Each season you’ll hear from first time f ...
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The Women’s Advocate is hosted by civil rights attorney Sarah Nichols where she discusses how women can negotiate and support each other to close the wage gap.
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The Village Global podcast takes you inside the world of venture capital and technology, featuring enlightening interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and tech industry leaders. Learn more at www.villageglobal.vc.
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The Origin Ventures podcast discusses all things tech, startup, and venture capital with startup founders and executives, experts in our network, and other investors. Origin Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture capital firm investing across the United States and Canada. Visit originventures.com for more details about us, to sign up for our newsletters, and other content!
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It's inspiring to hear people's success stories. Their breakthroughs and triumphs motivate and empower us to work hard toward our own goals. However, these success stories are not without difficulties and challenges. Before reaching their current positions, successful people had to navigate a challenging path full of obstacles. If you want to achieve great things, unlock a better version of yourself, and secure the life you desire, you must approach the road to success differently. Welcome t ...
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Learn everything there is to know about venture capital from a venture capitalist, award winning graduate business school professor and entrepreneur. Learn the fascinating history of venture capital, who the players are and what their investment criteria is. Also learn how to pitch a business model to a venture capital firm. What can venture capital firms do to help you? What can the wrong venture capital do to your business? What are the legal issues to consider when starting a company and ...
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Atento Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on unlocking unsung potential. From our offices in Tulsa and NW Arkansas, leading markets for innovation in the heartland, we identify high-potential ideas and individuals and then invest the early-stage funding and human capital needed to take ventures from 0-1 and 1-10. The BeAtento Podcast explores the founders, partners, funders, and systems that work together to transform the heartland into the nation’s most equitable tech hub.
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Welcome to TGIM - Thank Goodness It’s Monday, your new favorite podcast that celebrates the joy of work, innovation, and the exciting projects that drive us forward. Hosted by the team at Able, each episode dives deep into how AI is transforming mid-market and private equity companies, bringing you inspiring stories, expert insights, and a touch of fun every Monday. What You Can Expect: - Innovative Topics: Explore how AI and technology are revolutionizing the business landscape. From AI-dri ...
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Ryan Floyd is a venture capitalist with 25+ years of experience and a penchant for B2B SaaS startups. Ryan co-founded the firm Storm Ventures, and his investments were acquired by companies like Microsoft and Nvidia. Through sharing his own wisdom - and interviewing enterprise industry leaders - Ryan helps startup founders unlock massive growth for their businesses. From sales efficiency to cold emailing investors to surviving as a first-time founder, no topic is left uncovered. New episodes ...
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The Factory Floor is hosted by the three co-founders of Conversion Factory, the marketing agency at the forefront of SaaS growth, marketing, and tech trends. Episodes are released on Twitter one day early, @coreyhainesco. Every other week Corey, Zach, and Nick break down what’s working right now in SaaS marketing, share real-world lessons from the field, and give you the strategies you need to outpace the competition. You can also find us on YouTube, X, and everywhere you listen to podcasts! ...
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Welcome to the Kauffman Fellows podcast, produced in partnership with Mighty Capital. This season, we feature select Kauffman Fellows as hosts of mini-series, interviewing some of the world’s top leaders in capital formation, all from a place of authenticity and vulnerability. What makes the Kauffman Fellows Podcast unique? We challenge our guests to hang up the superhero cape and get real about the sacrifices, failures, and inflection points that each individual goes through to become the b ...
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The VITALIZE Podcast, a show by VITALIZE Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work. Hosted by Justin Gordon, The VITALIZE Podcast features interviews with startup founders, investors, and operators as well experts in the future of work. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world while the Future of Work s ...
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The Alternatives Mason: Building Alts Knowledge Brick by Brick | Episode 28 | THe VC Firm That Thinks Different and Hires Bots with Brad Zapp
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What happens when a banker’s son builds a venture firm in a place most investors overlook? Brad Zapp, Cp-Founder, President and Head of Strategy & Marketing at Connetic Ventures, shares how rejection fueled his pivot into early-stage investing, eventually leading to Wendal, an AI-powered associate that reviews founders 24/7. With this remarkably in…
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Ep #15: Why Webflow is the best website builder for marketers (Framer sucks)
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In this episode of The Factory Floor, Nick, Corey, and Zach compare website building platforms for SaaS marketing sites, focusing on Webflow, Framer, and custom-coded solutions. They highlight Webflow’s strengths in scalability, SEO, and ease of updates, making it ideal for marketing teams. Framer is praised for design flexibility but criticized fo…
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John Chambers: Former Cisco CEO on Why AI Will Move 5x Faster Than the Internet
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Former Cisco CEO John Chambers returns to discuss why AI is scaling faster than any tech wave before it, including the internet. Now the CEO of JC2 Ventures, Chambers shares lessons from advising 24 AI-native startups and offers a strategic lens on how leaders, companies, and countries can win or be left behind. In this episode: AI’s “5x speed” vs.…
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This week, the gang dives into a grim economic landscape, tackling the week's bad news with their signature candor before scraping for some silver linings. The bad news hits hard: the U.S. government shutdown, now in its eighth day, is costing $7-15 billion weekly, furloughing 1.9 million workers and delaying critical jobs data, with ADP and Moody’…
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Shredded: Einride, Filament, Gullie, LinkedIn, Alex, Sage, Criterion HCM & More
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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.By Evergreen Podcasts
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Inside Experian’s Innovation Labs: Agentic AI, Fraud Defense, and the Road to Quantum
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How is Experian transforming from a data company into a technology-first innovator? In this episode, Kathleen Peters, Chief Innovation Officer at Experian, joins Peter High to reveal how her team is scaling Generative AI, agentic AI, and behavioral analytics to fight fraud, streamline decisioning, and make advanced modeling accessible to everyone. …
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Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets, why they released Sora, how they use models inter…
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The AI Gold Rush, Silicon Valley Investments, and the Future of VC with Michael Downing - Episode 15
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In Episode 15 of C2 Biz Growth, host John Hale III sits down with Michael Downing, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of MDSV Capital. With over 25 years of experience founding five software companies and investing in more than 65 early-stage startups, Michael offers an insider’s perspective on the evolving world of venture capital an…
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Stonepeak's Mike Dorrell - pioneering infrastructure investing
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How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace - Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO
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Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?
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From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still compete? We sat down with Dan Wang, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” to discuss. Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction 1:36 Lawyers…
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Lockheed Martin CIO Reveals Digital Strategy for Defense
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As Senior Vice President for Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer at Lockheed Martin, Maria Demaree is leading one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies through a sweeping digital and cultural transformation. In this episode of Technovation with Peter High, Maria shares how Lockheed Martin’s 1L…
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Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse
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Two trends in media have been abundantly clear since 2020: legacy media is dying, and independent media is rising. a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle sit down with Tablet founder and editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse to discuss the great media realignment, why real institutions will outlast the new “internet pirates", Alana’s dee…
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Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy, capturing trillions of dollars of value in the process. In this talk from the 2025 a16z LP Summit, a16z General Partner Alex Rampell discusses the history of filing cabinets and databases, how SaaS p…
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Juicebox Squirts, Waymo Leaks & Google Gushes
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This week, the boys sling hot takes like baristas slinging lattes, diving into HR tech, AI, and corporate shenanigans with their signature wit. Kicking things off, they set the stage with a vibe check, chuckling over the wild ride of recruitment tech while side-eyeing the economic chaos of startups chasing venture capital like kids chasing ice crea…
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The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
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Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Co-Founder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig into America’s defense production gap: why the U.S. can out-innovate but not out-produce—and what it will take to turn that around. They discuss why U.S. war games show we run out of munitions in a we…
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Shredded: Juicebox, Willo, Job&Talent, Orbio, Talentiqa, LinkedIn, DailyPay, & More
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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.By Evergreen Podcasts
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Salesforce’s Joe Inzerillo on Agentic AI and the Future of the Enterprise Workforce
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The AI workforce won’t replace humans—but it will reshape how work gets done. On this episode of Technovation with Peter High, Salesforce EVP & CDO Joe Inzerillo joins to explore the rise of agentic AI and how it’s transforming work, from org structure to customer engagement. Joe draws on lessons from Disney, SiriusXM, and now Salesforce to unpack …
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Hg's Chris Kindt - AI's transformative role in value creation for private equity
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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode provides a fascinating window into the world of private equity value creation and how AI can help transform both portfolio company and investment firm processes and operations to create value. We sat down in New York with Hg Partner and Head of Value Creation Chris Kindt to dive into …
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Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions
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Today we’re sharing a feed drop from Cheeky Pint, where Stripe cofounder and president John Collison chats with legends in technology over a pint of Guinness. In this episode, John is joined by a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen and tech investor Charlie Songhurst for a candid conversation about bubbles, downturns, and the psychology of markets. They d…
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From Ironman Collapse to Healthcare Category Leader: Burning the Ships w/ Guillaume de Zwirek, Founder & CEO, Artera
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In this episode of Outsider Inc., host Ian Hathaway interviews Guillaume de Zwirek, founder and CEO of Artera. Guillaume's journey from a classical guitarist and world-class Ironman triathlete to a successful health tech entrepreneur is anything but conventional. Inspired by his personal frustrations as a healthcare patient, Gui founded Artera, a p…
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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha talks to Liam Fedus, former VP of post-training research and co-creator of ChatGPT at OpenAI, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, former head of materials science and chemistry research at Google DeepMin…
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Investors don't understand AI, says founder of OpenAI safety adviser
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In this Tech.eu podcast, Faculty AI founder Marc Warner talks AI and the work undertaken by Faculty AI.By Tech.eu
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Zero To $1 BILLION In Payments In Just One Year: How To Crush Product-Market-Fit w/ Joshua Silver
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Usually small startups fail when trying to take on big companies. Rainforest, however, is a different story. In the payments space dominated by Stripe and PayPal, founder Joshua Silver saw a gap no one was paying attention to. The result? Over $1 Billion in transactions in their first year! In this convo, Joshua explains how he found the opportunit…
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The boys welcome Tiffany Anton, a sex therapist, to discuss the implications of workplace relationships, particularly in light of a recent affair involving a CEO and an HR employee at a Coldplay concert. Tiffany shares her insights on the dynamics of affairs, the power structures at play, and the societal shifts in understanding relationships. The …
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Ep #14: Comparing marketing for bootstrapped companies vs. VC backed companies
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In this episode of Factory Floor, hosts Nick Loudon, Corey Haines, and Zach Stevens discuss the distinct marketing approaches employed by bootstrapped and venture capital (VC)-backed startups. The conversation explores how these two types of businesses, often operating in similar industries, adopt contrasting strategies based on their funding model…
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Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood
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Ads pay for the internet—and they’re about to change again. a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg, entrepreneur and author Antonio García Martínez, and Meta CMO Alex Schultz dive into growth and performance marketing, privacy myths, retail media, and the AI future of “audience-of-one” advertising—plus Instagram what-ifs, WhatsApp as a super-app, and …
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Inside the U.S. Department of State’s AI and Cyber Resilience Transformation
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“No one cares about AI if the Wi-Fi doesn’t work.” As CIO of the U.S. Department of State, Dr. Kelly Fletcher leads a global team delivering secure, resilient, and modern technology across 190 countries. In this episode of Technovation with Peter High, Dr. Kelly Fletcher, Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Department of State, shares how she lea…
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The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
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Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z crypto. In this first episode, we ask how American Dynamism, consumer, games, and crypto all fit together, from Palmer/Oculus to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto, while also explori…
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Ep #13: Why “we’re focusing on sales” isn’t a good reason to stop doing marketing
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On this episode of the Factory Floor, we debunk "focusing on sales." We discuss why a focus on sales shouldn't halt marketing, and how the two fuel growth together, as two sides of the same coin. ... The Factory Floor is hosted by the three co-founders of Conversion Factory, the marketing agency at the forefront of SaaS growth. Episodes are release…
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From CIO to VC: Marina Levinson on Vertical AI, Startup Bridges & Board Leadership
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Marina Levinson shares her journey from CIO to venture investor to startup advisor, revealing the skills, relationships, and mindset shifts needed to thrive across roles, how her experience as a tech buyer sharpened her investment approach, how she built bridges between enterprise executives and startups, and highlights such as how CIOs can play a …
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This week, hosts Chad and Joel, joined by career guru J.T. and Emi, sling snark and wisdom like a comedy roast for the recruiting world. They dive into The Muse’s shady “acquisition” drama, where a LinkedIn post from an engineering honcho claims a buyout, but with zero press release or website proof, it smells more like a corporate ghosting than a …
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Permira Part 2: Co-CEOs Brian Ruder and Dipan Patel - the collaborative leadership model in action: scaling an €80B alternative asset manager
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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode is with two executives who have helped to build one of the industry’s leading alternative asset managers. In Permira Part 2, Brian Ruder joins his Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO Dipan Patel in Permira’s London office to discuss the firm’s evolution and how the business has grown to ov…
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Shredded: RefAssured, Dogwood Ventures, Appcast, Workfully, Shilling VC, & More
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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.By Evergreen Podcasts
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From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
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What comes after vibe coding? Maybe vibe researching. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Jakub Pachocki, and Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, join a16z general partners Anjney Midha and Sarah Wang to go deep on GPT-5—how they fused fast replies with long-horizon reasoning, how they measure progress once benchmarks saturate, and why reinforcement learning …
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Agentic AI at the Edge: Nancy Avila’s Three-Pillar Strategy for IT Transformation
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“The speed is so incredible. I can’t tell if I’m getting older and I’m slower, or if just the speed of this technology is so exponentially faster.” As CIO of Analog Devices, Nancy Avila leads digital transformation for a $9.5B semiconductor company at the forefront of AI innovation. In this episode of Technovation with Peter High, Nancy Avila, Chie…
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Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie
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Should the US put a price on H-1B visas, or would that block the flow of new talent? Are AI coding agents actually making teams way more productive, or is it just hype? And in the AI platform shift, will the big winners be incumbents or new AI-native startups? Erik Torenberg is joined by Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, a16z board partner Steven…
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Platform Shifts, AI, and the Future of Consumer Investing
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Welcome back to another episode of Venture Unlocked, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the business of venture capital. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mercedes Bent about her fascinating journe…
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Innovating Cancer Treatment: Biotech, Bold Moves, and Business Success with Eric C. Broyles - Episode 14
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In this episode of C2 Biz Growth, host John Hale III welcomes Eric Broyles, serial entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of Nanocann Therapeutics, for a powerful conversation about resilience, innovation, and leadership in business. Eric takes us back to his roots in a working-class neighborhood in Ohio, where discipline, education, and hard work shaped …
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America's Autism Crisis and How AI Can Fix Science with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is one of the country’s top medical experts and a 24-year professor of medicine at Stanford. After being censored and deplatformed during COVID for his role in opposing harsh lockdowns, he was appointed Director of the National Institutes of Health by President Trump in 2025. a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg, Vineeta Agarwa…
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Going Public with Glenn Schorr - Ep. 4: Unpacking the past few months in private markets
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We are back with the latest Going Public with Evercore’s Glenn Schorr. On this episode of Going Public, we unpack the rollercoaster of the past few months in private markets for alternative asset managers. Private markets is much more than private equity — and this episode dives into nuances of specific strategies and what it means for alternative …
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Surprise! Work-Life Balance is Stressing You Out
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Time management coach Elizabeth Grace Saunders discusses the complexities of flexible work schedules and their potential to lead to burnout. She emphasizes the importance of defining personal boundaries, understanding emotional drivers, and the need for effective communication in both professional and personal relationships. The conversation explor…
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