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
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Recent Episodes
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Sept. 4, 2026
Episode 48 - Infinite Curiosity: John Forbes on Deep Tech Diligence and Building Deep Checks
👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with John Forbes at Julian Capital and Deep Checks. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com. John Forbes (@john___forbes) started two businesses before finishing high school, joined Dorm Room Fund as its youngest partner at Berkeley, and helped take a disaster-coordination startup from zero to product-marke
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July 27, 2026
Episode 47 - Talent Is Everywhere, Capital Isn't with Bedy Yang of 500 Global
👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Bedy Yang at 500 Global. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com. Bedy Yang has spent 15 years helping 500 Global grow from an accelerator running lots of little bets into a $2.2B multi-stage platform with 30+ unicorns. She joins JJ and Asad to talk about investing outside-in, what first-time managers
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May 20, 2026
Episode 46 - from Tashkent to Termsheet with Victor Orlovsky
👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Victor Orlovski at R136 Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.
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April 8, 2026
Episode 45 - Strings to Startups: Caroline Winnett on Trading the Violin for Venture
👋 Hey Listener! We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Caroline Winnett Berkeley SkyDeck. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.
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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 hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.
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 hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.
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JJ MacLean
Asad Ali