The GoingVC Podcast

The GoingVC Podcast

The GoingVC Podcast - uncovering new paths into VC, diving deeper into alternative models, and addressing areas of weakness with Rachel (@rachmast), and JJ (@jjmaclean) from the GoingVC team.

GoingVC is a global community and career development program for venture capital. To learn more or to checkout our guides, content, models and VC research checkout www.goingvc.com/blog

Feedback? We'd love to hear it: podcast@goingvc.com

Recent Episodes

Nov. 28, 2025

Episode 44 - Building Asymmetric Capital with Rob Biederman

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Rob Biederman of Asymmetric Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitat...
Oct. 22, 2025

Episode 43 - Developer First Startups & Building Heavybit with Tom Drummond

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Tom Drummong of Heavybit Industries. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitat...
July 14, 2025

Episode 42 - Going Global from Day Zero with Shamb Mishra

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Shamb Mishra of Antler. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us...
June 15, 2025

Episode 41 - Investing at the Intersection of Culture and Technology with Rachel Springate

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Rachel Springate of Muse Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate t...
May 1, 2025

Episode 40 - On Founding Nava Ventures, and the Critial Series A with Manish Patel

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Manish Patel of Nava Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to s...
April 8, 2025

Episode 39 - Climate, Capital and Conviction with David Neff

👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with David Neff of Ecliptic Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to ...

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Reviews

Insightful!

"Solid format, lots of helpful bits of industry insight. Can't wait for more."

ItsMattSherwood | Oct. 17, 2020

Breaking in

"John and crew are the best resource I know for how to break into venture. Thrilled they finally launched a podcast."

Timboslice30 | Oct. 17, 2020

Fantastic

"I love the relevance and quality of this podcast. Cant wait to hear the next episode."

CNGUYEN_dbc | Dec. 7, 2020