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E9: Sam Lessin and Seth Rosenberg Debate: Will AI Favor Incumbents or Start-Ups?

Sam Lessin, General Partner at Slow Ventures, and Seth Rosenberg, General Partner at Greylock, debate what the effects of AI on incumbents and the next wave of AI-first products will look like.

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E9: Sam Lessin and Seth Rosenberg Debate: Will AI Favor Incumbents or Start-Ups?

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Oct. 3, 2023

E9: Sam Lessin and Seth Rosenberg Debate: Will AI Favor Incumbents or…

Sam Lessin, General Partner at Slow Ventures, and Seth Rosenberg, General Partner at Greylock, debate what the effects of AI on incumbents and the next wave of AI-first products will look like.

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Sept. 26, 2023

E8: How Roger Ehrenberg Nets 10x Fund Returns

Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures joins Erik on episode 8 of Turpentine VC to talk about his contrarian and opinionated view of how seed funds should operate, and how that's allowed him to generate 10x fund returns.

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Sept. 19, 2023

E7: How Floodgate Differentiated Again From Thousands of Seed Firms

This week, Erik is joined by Mike Maples, Jr, co-founder of Floodgate, a storied seed firm that's invested in Lyft, Okta, Twitch, and Twitter, to name a few unicorn portcos. In this episode, Mike and Erik dive into why it's …

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Sept. 12, 2023

E6: Chad Byers on Why Susa is Returning to Concentrated, Company-Buil…

In just under a decade, Susa has become one of the best seed firms in the industry: their $25M Fund I famously invested in Flexport and Robinhood. Now, ten years later, they’re taking all their learnings and relaunching the firm …

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Sept. 5, 2023

E5: General Catalyst CEO on the Case for Operational Rigor in VC

Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst, and runs the firm like a true business: defining its mission and values, approaching the product from a problem-solving perspective, and more—all the things that apply to enduring businesses, Hemant applies to …

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Aug. 29, 2023

E4: Sam Lessin on Why Seed and the “Factory System” Era of Venture is…

This week Erik is joined by Sam Lessin, General Partner at the early-stage VC firm Slow Ventures, essayist, and former VP of Product at Facebook.

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