Yesterday
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]
Michael Moritz led Sequoia Capital for nearly two decades and backed some of the defining companies of the internet era. In his new memoir, Ausländer, he turns his attention to his own family, Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives in Wales. We discuss the ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 8
Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]
My guest today is Walter Russell Mead. Walter is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providence and God and Gold, two of the best books written on American power. He has spent decades studying how the United States came to dominate the world, and our ... Show More
1h 18m
Sep 1
Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489]
My guest today is Sarah Guo, founder and managing partner of Conviction, the venture firm she built to back AI-native companies from their earliest days. Sarah has become one of the most sought-after early-stage investors in AI, often the first check into the companies defining t ... Show More
59m 46s
Oct 2025
Sequoia's Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
<p>(0:00) Introducing Roelof Botha</p> <p>(1:08) Sequoia's Scout program and its best-performing funds ever</p> <p>(3:38) State of Venture Capital: Why it's broken, too much capital, not enough great companies</p> <p>(9:01) Why Sequoia separated from its China business, how they ... Show More
27m 57s
Dec 2024
TIP680: Investing in Exceptional Businesses for the Long Run w/ Dev Kantesaria
On today’s episode, Clay is joined by Dev Kantesaria to discuss the current market environment, the types of investments he is looking for, FICO, S&P Global, and much more. Dev is the founder and portfolio manager at Valley Forge Capital Management. The firm has been highly succe ... Show More
58m 21s
Jun 2025
What VCs Get Wrong About Building Durable Startups with Tim Levene
<p>In this episode of Couchonomics with Arjun, we sit down with Tim Levene, CEO of Augmentum Fintech, the UK’s only publicly listed fintech venture capital firm.<br/><br/>From going public to backing infrastructure instead of hype, Tim shares what permanent capital allows that tr ... Show More
56m 57s
Jul 2021
TIP363: The Game of Investing w/ Bing Gordon
In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Bing Gordon. Bing is a legend in the silicon valley world, having first been a co-founder of Electronic Arts (EA), then went on to be a director at Zynga, Audible, Zume, Duolingo, and others. For the last 18 years, he’s also sat o ... Show More
1 h
Mar 2022
TIP433: The Art and Science of Investing in Startups w/ Jason Calacanis
Trey Lockerbie chats with Angel Investing legend, Jason Calacanis. Jason is an entrepreneur who sold his second business Weblogs to AOL for $30MM in 2005. Jason then founded multiple other companies and along the way, became an angel investor in companies like Uber, Robinhood, Ca ... Show More
56m 31s
Mar 2024
Arcadea Group - Permanent Capital Investing in Vertical SaaS - [Art of Investing, EP.14]
Our teachers today are Daniel Eisen and Paul Yancich, co-founders of Arcadea Group. Arcadea is a private market, long-duration investor building a permanent home for high-quality, vertical market software companies.
Today, we sit down with an example of next-generation talent in ... Show More
1h 37m
Nov 2024
The Authority Advantage: How to Dominate Your Industry | Bedros Keuilian | EP 46
<p>Today I sit down with Bedros Keuilian, the powerhouse entrepreneur behind multiple businesses, including one doing over $200 million annually. Together, we break down the secrets of building an impactful personal brand, collapsing time for success, and achieving peak performan ... Show More
45m 22s
This week we are replaying our episode with Doug Leone. Doug led one of the world’s most successful venture firms, Sequoia, for over 25 years after he was given responsibility for the firm by its founder, Don Valentine, in 1996. Alongside Mike Moritz, the pair managed its expansion from a single $150m early-stage fund into an $85 billion global powerhouse. I ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dougleone">Doug Leone</a> is the Global Managing Partner @ <a href= "https://www.sequoiacap.com/">Sequoia Capital</a>, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture firms with a portfolio including the likes o ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/bgurley">Bill Gurley</a> is a General Partner @ <a href= "http://www.benchmark.com/">Benchmark Capital</a>, Bill, is widely recognized as one of the greats of our time having worked with the likes of GrubHub, NextDoor, ... Show More
