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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
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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
Apr 2018
SaaStr 171: How To Figure Out Your Pricing Strategy: The Diminishing Role of The Per Seat Model, Why Open Source Is The Only Way To Get In Front of Today's Developers & Why Capital Efficiency Is Always Key with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner @ NEA
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Product Strategy Masterclass by Gautham Krishnan, Product Leader @ Disney+ Hotstar
<p>In this episode, Gautham Krishnan shares his playbook for mastering product strategy, apply second-order thinking to uncover hidden opportunities, and leverage pre-mortems to minimize risk.</p><p>If you’re looking to sharpen your "product sense" to accelerate your career growt ... Show More
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Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners) - The Language of Technology
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Investing in transformative tech: EQT Ventures’ long view
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Driving Development Efficiencies for SaaS - with Akash Gupta of GreyOrange
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Growth Equity vs. PE vs. VC: What Founders Need to Know Part 1 with Stew Campbell
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Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
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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
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No Small Boy Stuff, Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Prompts We're Using
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Episode 664: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about investing wisdom from Nassim Taleb and how to use ChatGPT as a life coach.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) No small boy stuff
(2:30) Squid ... Show More
1h 9m
My guest this week is a good friend and a business mentor of mine. Chetan Puttagunta is a general partner at Benchmark Capital and has a remarkable track record of investing in early-stage software businesses, including several like Mulesoft, MongoDB, and Elastic that went on to be public companies.
Chetan has been my key guide for understanding the world o ... Show More
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/@chetanp"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chetan Puttagunta</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a General Partner @</span> <a href= "http://www.nea.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NEA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, o ... Show More
<p>Brought to you by <strong>Linear</strong>—The new standard for modern software development. | <strong>Eppo</strong>—Run reliable, impactful experiments. | <strong>Pando</strong>—Always-on employee progression.</p><p>—</p><p><strong>Gustaf Alströmer</strong> is a Group Partner ... Show More
