BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. How Eventbrite survived the business apocalypse — and why the internet made real life more valuable than ever Husband and Wife duo Kevin and Julia Hartz, co-founders at Eventbrite, join us on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast show to share how they built one of the world’s largest event marketplaces, navigating a leadership transiti...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Ben Miller , CEO and Co-Founder at Fundrise , joins NEW ECONOMIES to explore the future of investing in an AI-driven world. From democratizing private markets to backing the next generation of technology companies, Ben explains why software is entering a new era of disruption, and how AI could reshape everything from work an...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Why email never died — and why Superhuman is betting on voice, AI, and the future of work Rahul Vohra , founder of Superhuman and now CEO of Superhuman Mail inside the newly formed Superhuman group, joins NEW ECONOMIES on why email remains the most important layer of modern work, how AI is transforming productivity beyond th...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Why I built the coding tool everyone dismissed — then watched it take over the Fortune 500 Michele Catasta , President and Head of AI at Replit, joins NEW ECONOMIES on why vibe coding is no longer just for hobbyists, how Replit went from a side project to having 85% of the Fortune 500 as users, and why 2026 is the year every...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Why I built banking for America's startups — then rebuilt it around AI Immad Akhund , Co-Founder & CEO at Mercury , joins NEW ECONOMIES on banking one in three U.S. startups, raising $200M without needing a dollar of it, and why the legacy banking system was never going to win. In this episode, we discuss Mercury’s origin st...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Why I built America's most-loved payroll company then reinvented it with AI Eddie Kim , Co-Founder and CTO at Gusto , joins NEW ECONOMIES on cracking the small business market, keeping all three co-founders for 15 years, and why he just built the most important product of his career in eight weeks. Watch or listen now on You...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Why I Returned As CEO After 5 Years Away Nirav Tolia, Co-Founder & CEO at Nextdoor, joins NEW ECONOMIES on the company's founding story, why Nirav came back as CEO and the impact of community in the midst of AI. Watch or listen now on YouTube , Apple Podcasts , and Spotify Download the full transcript: Nirav Tolia is the co-...

Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Watch or listen now on… YouTube , Apple Podcasts , and Spotify Maria Sharapova is one of the greatest sporting icons of our time, having played over 800 matches, won 36 singles titles, and claimed 5 Grand Slams. Since retiring from the sport, she has become an entrepreneur, investor, and more recently, the host of her podcas...

Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode. Hey listeners, If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of Eric Hippeau , co-founder of Lerer Hippeau Ventures , one of the most prominent venture firms focused on the NYC startup ecosystem. With decades of experience in venture capital, Eric joins us to help unpack where...

Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode. Hey ReadersIf you work in tech, you’ve probably heard the term “ new media ” — a new wave of the creator economy where creators are becoming the preferred distribution channels for brands and businesses. To better understand new media, the creator economy, and what the futu...

Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode. As we know, the CRM landscape is undergoing a huge transformation — with incumbents such as Salesforce being slow to move and innovate, newer players are entering the arena, moving faster with better innovation. To help us understand how legacy software is being forced to e...

AI and crypto are merging faster than anyone predicted. We asked the investor with a front-row seat to explain exactly where it’s going. Subscribe to never miss a future episode. As we know, crypto is evolving daily - right alongside AI. We wanted to get to the bottom of where these two fast-moving sectors are truly intersecting, so we sat down with Ali Yahya , General Partner at Andreessen Horowi...

Subscribe to NEW ECONOMIES to avoid missing future episodes. Hey listeners, Imagine walking into a classroom where there are no traditional teachers - just tablets, robots, and human instructors guiding every lesson. That future isn’t hypothetical. It’s already here. Today’s guest on the podcast is Joleen Liang, co-founder of Squirrel AI , an education startup from China that’s already teaching th...

Hey listeners! Do you remember when you set up your first email address? Well it might have been on Yahoo! - remember them? They have been pretty quiet over the years, having gone through a complete turnaround from a public company to a private one, selling off a bunch of assets, but they are now back, and we just interviewed their CEO Jim Lanzone , and SVP Head of Yahoo Research Group Eric Feng f...

Dan Shipper is the co-founder of Every — the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI which is trusted by 100,000 builders. Before founding Every, Dan was the founder of Firefly, a co-browsing technology that was used by over 5,000 SMBs, and 7,000 financial advisors. Listen on: YouTube , Apple Podcasts and Spotify The latest trend: The $0 to multi-product AI empire In this episode, we...

Watch on YouTube —> In this episode, we sit down with Kirill Bigai, founder of Preply , for a deep dive into his journey from a scrappy entrepreneur to leading a global education powerhouse. In a candid conversation, Kirill reflects on the meteoric rise of the world’s leading language-learning marketplace and the hard-won lessons from a decade of pivots and a recent move to unicorn status. For som...

In this episode, we sit down with Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of Builder AI and Second Brain, for his first public interview since his departure from Builder. In a candid conversation, Sachin reflects on the meteoric rise of one of AI’s most talked-about companies and the hard-won lessons from a turbulent 2025. For some context: You might remember Builder AI — it quickly became one of the most talk...

iRobot was the miracle that almost wasn’t. For 33 years, Colin Angle steered the company from a living room startup at MIT to a global household name. But in early 2024, the story took a dark turn: a $1.7 billion acquisition by Amazon was blocked by regulators, leading to bankruptcy filings and Colin’s departure. This week, we sit down with the legendary co-founder to unpack one of the most contro...

Venture is changing fast — but not in the way most people think. This week, we’re joined by David Haber , General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz , where he invests in AI applications and helped build the firm’s presence in New York. David recently wrote a piece that went viral around a single provocative idea: Most investors run funds. Very few build firms. We unpack what that actually means — why...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Max Junestrand , Co-Founder and CEO of Legora . The company only went through Y Combinator last year, has raised $260M to date, and is already one of the fastest-growing companies across legal AI. Legora is betting that the next decade of law won’t be won by “better PDFs,” but by software that fundamentally changes how legal work gets done. Max takes us from...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemi r, the self-described “accidental telecom guy” and co-founder of Airalo , the eSIM marketplace that’s quietly rewiring how travelers get online around the world. Bahadir shares the wild, very human journey that led from hustling ship supplies out of his parents’ home in Turkey — pretending to be “60 different people” across ports worldwi...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Lindsay Kaplan , co-founder of Chief , the women’s executive network that became one of the fastest-growing membership communities in the world — scaling from a cold-email experiment to a venture-backed unicorn in just a few years. Lindsay shares the inside story of building a brand that reshaped executive leadership for women, from hacking together the firs...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Anish Acharya , General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz , who has spent many years at the frontier of consumer products — from early days at Google to building startups to now backing the founders shaping the next decade of software. We’re living through the fastest product cycle in tech history, and Anish breaks down why right now is the best moment in histo...

Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create. P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools f...

Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create. P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools f...