Due Diligence

Michelle Goad is an Operating Partner at The Chernin Group, a growth equity firm that invests in iconic media & commerce brands like Barstool Sports, Hello Sunshine, Food52, The Athletic, and more. Prior to that Michelle led Nike's entry into social commerce after selling her conversational commerce startup, PS Dept., to the multibillion dollar brand in 2017. Michelle started her career in fas...

Michael Ma is the founder & CEO of CreatorDAO, a decentralized community that accelerates creators with capital & technology. He is also a VC and founded Liquid 2 Ventures alongside legendary football player Joe Montana after helping First Round Capital launch Dorm Room Fund in Boston. Prior to venture capital, Michael got his MBA at Harvard Business School and before that sold his startup...

Amy Errett is the founder & CEO of Madison Reed, a hair color brand that sells direct-to-consumer and offline through third-party retail stores like Ulta and through over 50 of their own hair color bars around the U.S. They have raised over $200M in venture capital including most recently from Sandbridge and Marcy Venture Partners, Jay Z's venture firm. Amy Errett is a partner at True Ventures...

Jerry Colonna is the CEO, and co-founder, of Reboot.io , an executive coaching and leadership development firm that operates from the philosophy that "better humans make better founders". Jerry became one of Silicon Valley's most well-known executive coaches after a career in venture capital in which he cofounded Flatiron Partners with venture capitalist Fred Wilson in 1996 in New York City and jo...

Connie Chan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a leading Silicon Valley VC firm with over $35B under management. Connie joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2011 after working at HP in China and in private equity and became a general partner in 2018. She also spearheaded the firm’s Asia network to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley startups looking to navigate opportunities in the Chinese co...

Imran Khan is the CEO and co-founder of Verishop, a platform for discovering 5000+ indie brands across fashion, beauty, home, and wellness. Prior to founding Verishop with his wife, Cate Khan, Imran was the Chief Strategy Officer at Snap where he lead the company to its IPO and before that he served as Managing Director of Global Internet Investment Banking at Credit Suisse and Managing Director o...

Ezra Cooperstein is the President of Night, a management company for the world best digital creators, including MrBeast, Moriah Elizabeth, Safiya Nygaard, Codie Sanchez, Graham Stephan, and more. He was previously CEO of Maker Studios and President of Fullscreen and Rooster Teeth and has over two decades of experience in digital content, media & the creator economy.

Patrick Schwarzenegger is an investor, founder, actor & model. In 2020 co-founded MOSH, a brain wellness brand that makes nutritional bars for brain health, with his mother Maria Shriver to fund research focused on women's Alzheimer's. He has also invested in companies including Liquid IV, Poppi, Olipop, Whoop, Rumble, MUD/WTR, Verb Energy, Malk Organics, and Tecovas.  In this conversation we...

In this episode I interview Ju Rhyu, CEO & co-founder of Hero Cosmetics. Ju co-founded Hero Cosmetics in 2017 after working in the corporate world when a trip to South Korea inspired her to bring hydrocolloid acne patches to the U.S. market — and thus Mighty Patch (one of Amazon's bestselling personal care products!) was born, kicking off a dazzling success story that is still just beginning....

If there is such a thing as an "OG girlboss", Candace Nelson would be it.  Her entrepreneurial journey began when she left investment banking to cofound the cult favorite cupcake brand Sprinkles which has sold over 200M+ cupcakes since it was founded in 2005 & has been beloved by Hollywood celebrities from Jessica Alba to Blake Lively to Oprah. She sold the company in 2012 and went on to becom...