Jul 16
Why Plaid’s COO cold-calls new hires | Eric Sager (COO of Plaid)
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Eric Sager, COO of Plaid, following stints as CRO of Bluevine and Head of Sales at Square. During his seven-year tenure at Plaid, Eric has helped lead the business through a pandemic, Visa's collapsed acquisition, ... Show More
1h 9m
Jun 25
How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
In this episode of In Depth, Brett sits down with Paul Copplestone, co-founder and CEO of Supabase, the open-source Postgres platform now serving more than seven million developers. Before Supabase, Paul launched a Thumbtack-style marketplace in Southeast Asia and co-founded an o ... Show More
59m 53s
Jun 4
How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)
In today's conversation, Brett sits down with CMO of Figma, Sheila Joglekar Vashee. Previously the second marketing hire at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company past $1 billion in revenue, she now leads marketing at Figma fresh off its IPO. In an industry that has spent a ... Show More
1 h
Sep 2021
Dave Girouard - Making Better Loans - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 52]
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 clo ... Show More
1h 9m
Feb 2019
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/davidcohen">David Cohen</a> is the Founder and co-CEO of <a href= "http://www.techstars.com/">Techstars</a>, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. To date, David has backed hundreds of startups including the likes of Uber, Send ... Show More
30m 55s
Sep 2023
Kevin Ryan: How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas
Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Kevin Ryan, Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, an incubator and venture capital fund behind Business Insider, MongoDB, GILT and Zola among others. Kevin shares how he runs his ... Show More
1h 2m
Nov 2023
First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders
Episode 65: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Dan Siroker (@dsiroker), a serial entrepreneur who is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, a personalized AI that captures everything you’ve ever seen, said, or heard. Prior, he was the co-founder and CEO of Optimize ... Show More
25m 2s
Sep 2022
20 Product: The No 1 Metric You Need To Look at When Building Product | Why the Best in Product Have No Domain Experience | Why You Should Not Hire From Incumbents & The Difference Between Good vs Great PMs with David Lieb, Visiting Group Partner @ Y Comb
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dflieb">David Lieb</a> is one of the product OGs of the last decade. As the founder of Bump David pioneered how over 150M users shared data, contacts and more before the company was acquired by Google. At Google, David ... Show More
57m 43s
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 First Round, we first came to know Dave when we invested in Upstart’s seed round ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-fialkow-20085852/">David Fialkow</a> is the Co-Founder and Managing Director @ <a href= "https://www.generalcatalyst.com/">General Catalyst</a>, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a ... Show More
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 501, an interview with the innovative CEO of Motiv, David G. Ewing where we speak about entrepreneurial resilience and customer experience innovation. </p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">In this episode, David shares his journey fr ... Show More
