My guest today is Dave Girouard, co-founder and CEO of Upstart, a lending platform that leverages AI to make loans more accessible and affordable. Dave started in Silicon Valley as a Product Manager at Apple and later spent eight years at Google, where he built their suite of cloud apps. In our discussion, we cover the lessons Dave has learned about buildin ... Show More
Nov 19
Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448]
My guest today is Ari Emanuel. Ari runs one of the most influential portfolios in global sports, entertainment, and media. He oversees TKO, which includes the UFC and WWE, serves as the Executive Chairman of WME Group, and recently founded MARI, a new company focused on global ev ... Show More
1h 1m
Nov 11
Wolfgang Hammer - The Power of Story - [Invest Like the Best, EP.447]
My guest today is my friend Wolfgang Hammer. Wolfgang is a successful film producer and executive who helped create House of Cards and ran several major studios, including Lionsgate, CBS Films and Miramax. He’s now building a new kind of film studio with support from Mitch Lasky ... Show More
41m 32s
Nov 4
Luca Ferrari - Building Bending Spoons - [Invest Like the Best, EP.446]
My guest today is Luca Ferrari. Luca is the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, which he describes as 25 percent private equity and 75 percent technology company. Founded in 2013, Bending Spoons fully acquires and operates digital companies like Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and mos ... Show More
1h 20m
Dec 2020
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story
Today’s episode is with Dave Girouard, the CEO and co-founder of Upstart, an AI-powered lending platform that recently went public. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business.
Here at F ... Show More
1h 3m
Jul 2023
Gary Coover: Designing a Sustainable Token Economy - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.79]
This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Gary Coover. Gary spent 8 years building Samsung’s innovation arm, Samsung Next, before he was drawn into the Web3 world. Today, he is the Chief Operating Officer of Superlayer, a venture studio focused on building Crypto startups. We sta ... Show More
45m 24s
Nov 2020
Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonably deep”
Our second episode is with Ayo Omojola, VP of Product at Carbon Health. Previously, he was the founding product manager on the banking team for Cash App at Square, where he co-created the Cash Card and helped build out Square’s technical banking infrastructure. He’s also a former ... Show More
1h 11m
Jul 2024
Phil Huber: The Case for Private Credit - [Making Markets, EP.36]
My guest this week is Phil Huber, the Head of Portfolio Solutions at Cliffwater. The private credit market has exploded recently, with Assets under management reaching a staggering $1.2T last year. I’ve been a little skeptical of this asset class, so I asked Phil to come on and c ... Show More
43m 56s
Apr 2024
GTM 89: Bundling the GTM Stack, Secrets of Winning Investors & Landing Key Hires with Daniel Ruiz
<p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-ruiz-a73818aa/'>Daniel Ruiz</a> has spent his career driving growth at high-velocity startups, serving as an early employee at multiple YC companies before co-founding Synch. As CEO, he has successfully raised funding from top invest ... Show More
47 m
Jun 2024
Ho Nam - Lessons in Venturing Differently - [Art of Investing, REPLAY]
Today, we are replaying our conversation with Ho Nam, co-founder of Altos Ventures. As the numbers go, Altos is one of the greatest venture capital firms of the last quarter century. We unpack Ho's origin story and the values that shaped him most as a person and investor, and th ... Show More
1h 45m
Mar 2024
How to Get Rich (Full Interview with Dave Ramsey) - Sept. ‘23 | Ep 683
Watch the YouTube video of the episode HERE“Put money in stuff you love and you understand.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) interviews Dave Ramsey, founder and CEO of the company Ramsey Solutions, as he discusses key strategies for business growth, investment wisdom, and the importan ... Show More
1h 7m
Feb 2024
Ultra-Niche Positioning: How to Find Success By Going SUPER Narrow
I’m so f*cking happy to announce that my book, Stand The F*ck Out, is officially available for PURCHASE! To buy the book—and more!—DIRECTLY from us and support our small business, go to: https://book.stfo.ioFree Shipping Worldwide • Ripped Apart by 70+ Marketers • Money-Back Gu ... Show More
57m 59s