The Inquisitive VC

Drew Austin is the Managing Partner of Red Beard Ventures , where he invests in Web 3.0 infrastructure and frontier technologies. He is also the former CEO & Founder of Wade & Wendy. We talk about how Drew got into crypto and NFTs, what he looks for when buying NFTs, the Loot Project, NFTs on other chains and much more! Check out the Substack for a full transcript of the episode, with link...

Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage product-led growth companies in the future of work & the future of play. Paige is also the author of Seed to Harvest, a book demystifying VC for children and adults. Until recently she was also a Developer Success Engineer at WorkOS. We talk about her interest in VC, Seed to Harvest, founding...

Jeff Morris Jr. is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One , an early-stage seed fund backed by Sequoia, Marc Andreessen, Kleiner Perkins and many other LPs. Jeff has invested in companies like Lyft, Dapper Labs, Pipe, Superhuman and many more. He was previously the VP of Product, Revenue at Tinder.  We talk about his learning from deploying a fund, investing in crypto, how he determined h...

Kinjal is an early-stage investor at Blockchain Capital , working with founders building the future of crypto. She is also a founding member of Komorebi Collective, a DAO making investments exclusively in female and nonbinary crypto founders. Previously, she spent time at Fidelity Investments and Tufts University. We talk about Komorebi Collective, crypto consumer products, DAOs, access to informa...

Madusha is the founder and CEO of Expo Labs, an Auckland-based venture studio. Currently, Expo Labs is building and scaling in-house brands but will soon invest in and help grow other products and technologies. Previously Madusha was a founder of EMGN.com, an entertainment, media and gaming site which in 2015 was the 15th most viewed mobile website in the USA. After successfully exiting EMGN, Madu...

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