Episodes

Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at , an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $6 billion in capital. In 2003, he founded . Since then, he has founded over a dozen companies, including Addepar, a wealth management...

Brendon Cassidy is one of the OG of enterprise sales of the last decade, having advised the likes of Gong.io, Pipedrive, Showpad. Previously Brendon was first Head of Sales at LinkedIn and VP of Sales at Talkdesk. In Today's Episode with Brendon...

Peter Wagner is a Founding Partner of . Peter has led investments in dozens of early-stage companies including Snowflake, Gong, Pinecone, and many others which have gone on to complete IPO's or successful acquisitions. Prior to founding Wing, Peter...

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of , the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with $1.55 Trn in assets, owning on average, 1.5% of every listed company. Tangen was previously Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer in AKO Capital, which...

Frank Quattrone is the Founder and Executive Chairman of and served as its CEO from the Firm’s founding until January 2016. Over more than four decades, Frank and the teams he has led have advised on more than 600 mergers and acquisitions with an...

Sami Inkinen is the Co-Founder and CEO of , the company reversing type 2 diabetes. Before Virta, Sami was the Co-Founder of Trulia, steering the company to a successful IPO and its eventual sale to Zillow Group. Outside of the boardroom, he launched...

Justin is the Founder and Managing Partner of one of the nation’s best-performing private equity firms, Shore Capital Partners (“Shore”). Since the firm’s inception in 2009, Shore has grown from 4 to over 140 team members managing over $6...

Scott Williamson was most recently Chief Product Officer for , where he led a team of 65 in Product Management, Product Operations, Growth, Pricing, and Corporate Development functions.  Before GitLab, Scott was VP of Product for for over...

Roger Ehrenberg is a legend of the venture industry as the Founder of IA Ventures, among the most successful seed-stage venture firms of this generation, having seeded companies including (NASDAQ: DDOG), Digital Ocean (NYSE: DOCN), The Trade Desk...

Christian Hecker is the Founder and CEO of , the company making it easy and inexpensive for everyone with a smartphone to invest. To date, Christian has raised over $1.3BN for the company from the likes of Sequoia, Founders Fund, Accel and Creandum to...

Martin Gontovnikas, a.k.a Gonto, is a software engineer at heart who moved to the “dark side” to focus on Marketing. With this career transition, he found a way to combine his 2 passions by applying his “engineering thinking” model to...

Thomas Plantenga is the CEO @ Vinted, one of the fastest-growing marketplaces in the world with a Prior to becoming CEO, Thomas worked with a range of organisations including Bookaboat, OLX, Sellit/Wallapop and FJLabs. Alex Taussig is a General...

is the Global Managing Partner @ , one of the world’s most renowned and successful venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Google, Airbnb, Whatsapp, Stripe, Zoom and many more.  is the Founder & CEO of Claure...

Erik Allebest is the CEO @ , the #1 online chess service on the planet with more than 150+ million members and 15+ million games played each day. Erik has scaled the company to over 700 people and $100M+ in revenue with no venture funding. In...

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of , one of the leading seed-stage investment firms of the last decade having invested in over 500 seed-stage startups, including , Ro, Ramp, PillPack, Amplitude, Stripe, Warby Parker, Harry’s,...

Will Wu is the CTO @ , the owner and operator of the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, and Hinge to name a few. Prior to Match, Will was VP of Product at . As the 35th employee, Will...

Dave Kellogg is . Among his many accomplishments, Dave was the CMO of Business Objects where he helped scale the business from $30M to $1BN in revenue. Dave has also been a CEO twice, once scaling the business from $0 to $80M and the other business...

Ryan Akkina is a member of the Global Investment Team at the MIT Investment Management Company (), which is responsible for managing MIT's endowment and pension plans. Ryan has invested in the likes of , Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Greenoaks and...

Dave Ripley is the CEO @ , one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, valued in 2022 at a whopping $10.8BN. Prior to Kraken, Dave was the Co-Founder of Glidera, a market-leading Blockchain technology company that Kraken acquired in 2016. ...

Sean Murray is the CRO @ which is the fourth company Sean has scaled successfully into the enterprise. Sean's prior roles include revenue leadership positions at (CRO), Xactly (VP Sales), and CEB, now Gartner (Head of MID Global Sales). In...

Adam Fisher is a Partner @ and one of the most successful investors in Israel over the last two decades with seed investments in Fiverr, Wix, Melio, HiBob and more. Adam has now made over 60 investments and has had an incredible 23 successful exits....

Zaria Parvez is Senior Global Social Media Manager where she is famed for scaling Duolingo's TikTok from 50K followers in September 2021 to 8M followers today. The Duolingo TikTok has 143 viral videos (view counts of 1M or higher) due to Zaria’s...

Shyam Sankar is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of in addition to the Chairman of . Shyam holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and a M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford...

Brian Halligan is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairperson of . Brian led the business as CEO for 15 years from Day 1 to a $30BN public company with 7,000 employees. Among Brian numerous achievements, Brian is famed for coining the term "inbound...