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Connie & Alex go over a few of their favorite tech stories this week, and then Connie talks to Alex Wiltschko and Krishna Yeshwant of GV (Alphabet's venture arm) about Wiltschko's plans to digitize scent. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.i...

Connie & Alex talk to Steve Case , co-founder of America Online and Revolution, about his new book, The Rise of the Rest, which chronicles a series of bus trips he and his team made across the country to seed investment outside of  traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Tr...

Connie & Alex talk tech news, and then Connie chats with Ann Miura-Ko , co-founding Partner at Floodgate, about Floodgate's plans to train the next generation of entrepreneurs.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) 3. &q...

Connie & Alex go over a few of their favorite tech news stories this week and then talk to Chris Olsen of Drive Capital about investing in the Midwest and beyond. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) 3. "Dream Catcher&qu...

Connie & Alex go over some of the week's top tech stories, and then Connie talks to Jason Lemkin , a VC, entrepreneur, and author, about the decline of board meetings in the post-Covid era. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-t...

Connie & Alex go over this week's tech news and then talk to Bill Smith, a serial entrepreneur with over $500 million in exit proceeds whose new flexible lease apartment startup ( Landing ) looks to be his biggest venture yet.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incom...

Connie & Alex go over this week in tech news, including a hot new entrepreneur and crazy times in Atherton.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) 3. "Dream Catcher" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io...

Connie interviews Danny Rimer , co-founder of Index Ventures, about how megafunds still seem to be raising money in these troubled times and why he doesn't feel comfortable with many Web3 investments.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-...

Connie & Alex go over this week in tech news and then talk to Jess Lee , a partner at Sequoia, about Arc , a new program organized by Sequoia to invest $1 million in promising startups and help them sharpen their mission via an intensive, seven-week program. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Ke...

This week, Alex talks to Silicon Valley polymath Touraj Parang about his new book,   EXIT PATH: How to Win the Startup End   Game , and then Connie interviews Frederic Court of Felix Capital about the European VC scene. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic....

Connie & Alex go over this week in tech news, and then Connie talks to venture capitalist Brad Feld of Foundry Group about his new book, Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors , and why startup boards are especially important when times are tough. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired...

Connie & Alex dig deep into the private market for startup shares through conversations with two experts: Justin Fishner-Wolfson of 137 Ventures, which provides customized liquidity solutions to founders, investors, and early employees of high-growth private technology companies; and Kelly Rodriques , CEO of Forge Global, which has built a marketplace that enables private company shareholders...

Connie & Alex go over some of this week's top tech stories and then chat with  Ed Sim of Boldstart Ventures about how the current turmoil in the public markets is affecting the startup world.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blipp...

Connie & Alex skim over the week's tech news and then talk to Sam Rosenblum of Haun Ventures , one of the hottest crypto funds out there, about Haun's new $1.5 billion fund and whether we are now entering another crypto winter. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://...

Connie & Alex talk tech news, and then Connie chats with Andy Dunn, co-founder and former CEO of Bonobos, about his new book, Burn Rate , which chronicles his struggle with bipolar disorder.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-tran...

On this Arbor Day, Connie & Alex run through this week in tech news, including words of warning from Benchmark's Bill Gurley about a seismic shift in valuations. Special thanks to our sponsor, Seed Invest . Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/s...

Connie & Alex go over a couple of top tech stories for the week, and then Connie talks to Sarah Tavel , one of Benchmark's Capital's five general partners, about how Web3 differs from crypto.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-...

Connie & Alex muse about Musk and dwindling VC distributions before speaking with Bryan Roberts , a partner at Venrock, about hot areas for healthcare and biotech investing  in 2022. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) 3. &q...

Connie and Alex go over this week's technology news and then talk to Jim Breyer, the Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA, and Austin, TX. Breyer is perhaps best known as the lead investor in Facebook's Series A round, but he has also established a reputation for backing winners in areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics...

Alex digs into two news stories before Connie interviews Kirsten Green , founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, one of the venture world's leading e-commerce firms.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance) 3. &quo...

Connie & Alex reconnect with Brendan Wallace , co-founder of Fifth Wall, a venture firm focused on real estate technology aka "Proptech," and ask him what it's like like to invest in technology for offices when nobody seems to be going to the office any more.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy T...

Connie & Alex peruse the week's top tech news and then talk to Hany Nada and Scott Stanford of ACME Capital, a VC firm based in Los Angeles and Menlo Park that invests in "pioneering founders." Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...

Connie & Alex skim over this week's tech news stories and then chat with Mitchell Green, founder of Lead Edge Capital , a bi-coastal venture capital firm with $3 billion under management that has used eight investment principles to make big bets in companies like Alibaba, Spotify, and Duo Security. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/391...

Connie & Alex chat with Yat Siu, founder and CEO of Animoca Brands , a gaming company and Web3 holding company that was an early investor in such breakthrough crypto companies as OpenSea and Dapper Labs. Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759...

Connie & Alex pick their favorite tech story of the week and then talk to Andrew Chen , a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, about his new book, The Cold Start Problem , which tries to unlock how some of the most prominent startups in Silicon Valley have used network effects to scale.  Music:  1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired) 2...