Smart Venture Podcast

087 Trevor McFedries is the CEO of Dapper Labs' Dapper Collectives. He is also the founder of Brud, a Sequoia-backed startup that created a popular robot transmedia influencer Lil Miquela with over 3 million followers on Instagram that had collaborated with top brands like Prada and supermodels like Bella Hadid. Trevor is also the founder of Friends with Benefits, one of the most influential DAO....

086 Rasesh Patel is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at AT&T Business, where he has responsibility for AT&T Business' portfolio-wide P&L with $36 Billion of annual revenue as well as its cutting-edge integrated platforms, products and solutions including Mobility, 5G, Edge Compute, Internet of Things, SD-WAN, Cybersecurity, Voice, Collaboration and Cloud Connectivity. Prior to AT&T, Rasesh was...

085 David Sobeski is the SVP of Data and Analytics at Adidas. Prior to Adidas, he was the SVP of Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce, the SVP of Innovation at Nordstrom, and CTO at The Walt Disney Company and Playdom. He also served as the SVP of Yahoo and an executive at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows, Internet Explorer, Mobile and many other high profile products.   Check out our brand new Y...

084 Vanessa Dew is the Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Health-Ade Kombucha, where she helped grow the product from a farmer's market commodity to a nationwide brand with retail sales over $200M annually. Today, Health-Ade can be found in over 45,000 stores nationwide. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!   https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@Gra...

083 Jason Kong is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in Series B and later enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jason has invested in and works with companies like Attentive, Brex, Compass (COMP), Cribl, Datadog (DDOG), Discord, Figma, Harness, Niantic, Podium, Slack (WORK), and UiPath (PATH), among others. Prior to a career in venture capital, Jason was a tech investment banker at Morgan...

082 Kevin Rose is a partner at True Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. He focuses on blockchain, consumer internet, and health/ wellness. Prior to his career at True Ventures, he was a GP at Google Ventures and a serial entrepreneur. He founded Digg, Zero, Oak, and other tech companies. He also invested in Twitter, Facebook, Square, Solana, Ripple, Nextdoor, Medium, Blu...

081 Justin Osofsky is the Chief Operating Officer of Instagram, where he leads oversees Instagram's business functions and is responsible for helping the company scale globally.  He is also VP, Global Operations at Facebook.  Prior to these roles, Justin was Vice President at Facebook where he most recently led Global Operations and Corporate Development, working in close partnership with the prod...

080 Devin Finzer is the Co-founder and CEO at OpenSea, the first peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets. OpenSea raised $100 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by A16Z to scale its open NFT marketplace. Prior to founding OpenSea, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!   https://www. SmartVenturePod....

079 Joe Sabia is the founder of Studio Sabia, a content strategy studio that serves companies like Amazon Audible, YouTube Originals, Spotify, Legendary Films and many others. Prior to founding the content studio, he served as the SVP of Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment, where he created Vogue's 73 Questions. Joe helped grow Conde brand's YouTube audience from 1.5M to 46M subscribe...

077 Suzanne Kounkel is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte. She also ran Deloitte's US Consulting Tech sector industry practice, one of Deloitte's largest and fastest growing businesses. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council and is a member of the Adweek Diversity and Inclusion Council as well as ANA's Global CMO Growth Council.  Check...

076 Grant Sanderson is the creator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel using artistic visuals to teach people math. Prior to 3b1b, Grant had worked at Khan Academy where he teaches multivariable calculus. Before that he was an undergrad at Stanford studying maths and CS. Grant's YouTube channel has over 4.11 million subscribers and his videos received over 200 million views.  Fun Fact: We were r...

075 Nick Thompson is the CEO at The Atlantic. Prior to The Atlantic, he was the former Editor in Chief of Wired. He is also a contributing editor at CBS, a frequent public speaker about technology, and a co-founder of The Atavist, a digital magazine and publishing platform acquired by WordPress. He was also a senior editor at The New Yorker and author of the book "The Hawk and the Dove:  Paul Nitz...

074 Chris   Voss  is the author of  Wall Street Journal Bestselling book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On it. He was a former international hostage negotiator for the F.B.I. and he also taught business negotiations in top business schools' MBA programs such as USC, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern and many others. He is currently the CEO and founder of The Black...

073 [Fundraising Special Series] Andrew D' Souza is the founder and CEO of Clearco. Clearco is a suite of performance financing products and services to help founders grow their companies. They use data to forecast companies' growth, create tailored financing solutions and provide non-dilutive capital to the founders who need it. Clearco has invested more than $2 billion into over 5000 companies....

072 Erin Egan is the VP and Chief Privacy Officer of Public Policy at Facebook. She leads Facebook's global privacy and data policy team, where she collaborates with policymakers, regulators, advocates, academics and other experts on issues related to privacy and data protection, ensuring Facebook's product and features reflect input from people around the world. Prior to Facebook, she was a partn...

071 [Fundraising Special Series] Kendrick Nguyen is the founder of Republic, an investing platform that allows everyone to invest in private companies, including startups, real estate, video games and crypto. Prior to Republic, he was the general counsel at AngelList.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube:  https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join...

070 [Fundraising Special Series] Vinay Hiremath is the co-founder and CTO at Loom, one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley. Recently, Loom received a $130 million series C investment backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, General Catalyst and Iconiq Capital, bringing the valuation to $1.53 Billion. Loom has been rated as one of the top 10...

069 Ekta Chopra is the Chief Digital Officer at E.L.F. BEAUTY, where she leverages cutting-edge technology to help the company maximize growth. In 2019 E.L.F. Beauty closed down all the physical stores and focused on online sales. Now E.L.F. is one of the top Gen Z favorite brands. Prior to E.L.F., she was the director of technology at The James Irvine Foundation and she led technology in companie...

068 Chris Slowe is the CTO and founding engineer at Reddit. He helped build Reddit, sold it, and has recently come back with the other co-founders to rebuild the platform. He is currently leading the engineering division and the architectures at Reddit. Prior to Reddit, he holds a PhD in Physics from Harvard University.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@Grac...

067 Sanchan S Saxena is the VP of Product at Coinbase. Prior to Coinbase, he was the General Manager at Airbnb where he led a cross-functional team managing product management, engineering, design and other functions for Airbnb Plus. Prior to Airbnb, he spent time at Facebook and Instagram, where he founded and led the Instagram Shopping product, amongst other product areas.  https://www. SmartVen...

066 Vanessa Liu is a VP at SAP leading the SAP.iO Foundries North America team to invest in women and diverse-led B2B intelligent enterprise start-ups, including AI, Blockchain, data analytics, machine learning, and many others. Prior to that, Vanessa was the COO of Trigger Media Group, a venture studio based in New York City. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and worked at McKinsey & Company...

065 Matt Cooper is the CEO of Skillshare, where he leads a community-driven platform for online learning and professional development. Prior to that he was the CEO of Visually, a company he turned around and led to a successful acquisition. Before that, he was the VP of Enterprise Services at Upwork.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube:  http...

064 Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC), one of the original seed VC firms in the Silicon Valley, and has closed 200+ investments since 2004. His portfolio includes Postmates, Poshmark, Fitbit, SendGrid, Mint and many others. He was also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association and was featured on the Forbes Midas List among t...

063 Robin Daniels is the CMO at Matterport, a leading 3D technology company that enables professionals to edit and share 3D models of physical spaces. Prior to that he served as the CMO at WeWork and worked as a marketing executive at multiple tech companies like LinkedIn, Box, and Salesforce. He is also the founding member, advisor and investor at byFounders where he advises and invests in early...

062 Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist. Beyond founding Craigslist he also founded Craig Newmark Foundation where he funded and promoted investment in organizations to effectively serve the communities.  His philanthropy work focuses on helping build trustworthy journalism. He is a founding funder and executive committee member of the News Integrity Initiative, administered by the CUNY Gra...