Automotive Ventures

Greenfield

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Greenfield is a podcast for founders, investors, and operators navigating the future of mobility. Hosted by Steve Greenfield, General Partner at Automotive Ventures, the show offers a clear, disciplined perspective on the technologies, retail innovations, and market forces reshaping how people and goods move. Understand the signals that Steve and his team at Automotive Ventures are seeing across thousands of startups each year: where capital is flowing, which trends actually matter, and how value will shift over the next decade.

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The Founder Who Refused to Go Back | Danny Zaslavsky, CEO of VINCUE 30.06.2026 30:00

Inventory management has become one of the biggest competitive advantages for modern car dealerships. In this episode of the Greenfield Podcast, Steve Greenfield sits down with Danny Zaslavsky, co-founder of VINCUE, to discuss how artificial intelligen...

The Future of The Service Department Is Proactive | McKenna Valley, SparkServ 23.06.2026 11:15

What if the biggest growth opportunity in automotive isn't selling more cars—it's bringing customers back to service before they ever think about going somewhere else? McKenna Valley, co-founder of SparkServ, joins Greenfield to discuss how a simple co...

Why AI Will Reshape Car Buying More Than Mobile Did | Corey Lydstone, CarGenius AI 16.06.2026 23:27

When the next platform shift hits automotive, Corey Lydstone will be ready. He's seen this movie before. He built Autolist during the transition from desktop to mobile, grew it into one of the industry's leading mobile shopping platforms, and ultimatel...

The Infrastructure Behind Moving 50 Million Students Every School Day 28.04.2026 30:53

What looks like a simple system is anything but. School transportation is the largest mass transit network in the United States, moving 50 million students daily, yet it still runs on outdated processes with zero margin for error. In this episode, Keit...

The $28B Problem Dealers Still Handle Like It’s 1945 31.03.2026 24:51

Warranty processing is one of the largest profit leaks in automotive retail, and almost no one talks about it. Jim Roche, Founder and CEO of WarrCloud, breaks down how a $28 billion industry is still being managed with manual processes, paper trails, a...

Why ADAS Calibration Is the Next Automotive Goldmine 24.03.2026 35:35

The automotive industry spent a decade building self-driving technology. Now comes the harder part: maintaining it. In this episode, Kinetic co-founder and CEO Nikhil Naikal breaks down how modern vehicles have quietly transformed into software-defined...

How Steve Greenfield Built Automotive Ventures From Scratch 17.03.2026 58:32

Automotive Ventures didn’t start as a venture fund. It started as two operators trying to figure out how to help founders. In this first episode of Greenfield, Automotive Ventures General Partner Steve Greenfield and Venture Principle Justin Charbonnea...

What To Expect From The Greenfield Podcast 26.02.2026 1:36

Greenfield is a podcast for founders, investors, and operators navigating the future of mobility. Hosted by Steve Greenfield, General Partner of Automotive Ventures, the show offers a clear, disciplined perspective on the technologies, retail innovatio...