The Dart Board with Daniel Dart

Meet Howard Morgan, Chair and General Partner of B Capital and one of the true pioneers of venture capital. Prior to B Capital, Howard co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman, served as founding president of Renaissance Technologies with Jim Simons, and was machine 50 on the ARPANET back in 1973. He spent more than a decade as a professor before going full-time into investing, and over t...

Micah Rosenbloom is a General Partner at Founder Collective, one of the original true seed funds, founded in 2009 before seed was even a recognized category. Before he was a VC, Micah co-founded three companies, including Brontes Technologies, which was acquired by 3M. He then spent four years inside 3M running the acquired business, which gave him something most investors don't have: a real o...

Meet Paul Klein, founder and CEO of Browserbase. Paul started his career at Twilio, where he saw firsthand what it looked like to make something programmable that wasn't designed to be. He spent time at Mux building headless browser infrastructure before founding Browserbase himself and taking it from zero to Series B in under 18 months. The company is backed by Kleiner Perkins, CRV, and Notab...

Meet Caroline Duffy, Partner at Cowboy Ventures. From flying to Guatemala to observe call center workers alongside Andrew Ng in the early days of AI, to watching it come full circle and now investing in the companies that used to just be ideas, she has gotten to work alongside some of the best AI researchers in the world and now invests alongside icons like Aileen Lee at Cowboy. In this episode we...

Meet Sheel Mohnot, co-founder and GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, before entering venture, Sheel lived on $1 a day in India doing microfinance work, built and sold two companies, and co-founded Thistle, a healthy food delivery business now generating north of $100M in revenue. He started investing out of his own pocket before raising a proof-of-concept fund in 2017,...

Meet Steve Sloane, Partner at Menlo Ventures. In this episode, we talk about all things venture. From his early days in the ecosystem as a YC-backed founder, to joining Menlo Ventures as an associate and working his way up to partner, and now leading their secondary strategy, Steve has seen every side of this business. We get into why the middle of the venture market is such a brutal place to inve...

Meet Ethan Choi, Partner at Khosla Ventures. Ethan's path to one of the most storied firms in venture is a unique one. His father was an orphan in post-war Korea, grew up on the streets, and eventually immigrated the family to Sydney. Ethan grew up in Australia, attended BYU, served a church mission, and bought a one-way ticket to the US with no network. In this episode, we get into why roboti...

The Dart Board x FUTURE TITANS is proud to present Ron Biscardi of iConnections in conversation with Bill Gurley, longtime Benchmark partner and one of the most influential venture capitalists of the past two decades. Recorded live at the FUTURE TITANS Emerging Manager Summit , Bill discusses the themes behind his new book Running Down a Dream and the idea that great careers often begin when someo...

The Dart Board x FUTURE TITANS is proud to present Jeff Perry of Carta in conversation with Seth Levine, partner and co-founder of Foundry, a Boulder-based venture firm managing over $4 billion across multiple funds. With more than 25 years in venture, Seth shares the lessons he learned building Foundry from an emerging manager into one of the industry’s most respected firms. Recorded live at the...

The Dart Board x FUTURE TITANS is proud to present Mike Chalfen of Chalfen Ventures, one of Europe’s most iconic venture investors and a pioneer of the solo GP model. Investing since the early days of the internet, Mike shares the lessons that shaped his approach to venture and why he ultimately chose to build his own firm. Recorded live at the FUTURE TITANS Emerging Manager Summit , we discuss ho...

Meet Bill Gurley, longtime general partner at Benchmark and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected thinkers on markets, technology, and careers. In this conversation, Bill reflects on his unconventional path into venture capital, the ideas behind his new book on finding and thriving in your dream job, and the patterns he’s observed across elite performers—from Bob Dylan to legendary coaches and fo...

Meet Mike Knoop — co-founder of Zapier, co-founder of Arc Prize, and co-founder of the NDEA AI Lab. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mike shares his journey from building one of the most capital-efficient SaaS companies ever to taking big swings at the frontier of artificial intelligence. We dive into why scaling language models alone won’t get us to AGI, how benchmarks like ARC expose the limit...

Meet Zal Bilimoria, founder & solo GP at Refactor Capital, a seed-stage fund focused on bio, climate, energy, aerospace, and other hard-but-world-changing industries. We discuss his 10-year journey building Refactor, how his product years at Google/Netflix/LinkedIn shaped his investing lens, and what he learned from launching A16Z’s first bio fund. We talk portfolio construction, ownership dis...

Meet Seth Levine , co-founder of Foundry Group and longtime venture investor. He shares the story behind building a $4B platform, why the firm chose not to raise future funds, and how he’s thinking about the next chapter of his life and work. We dig into his fund-to-fund strategy, the value of broad exposure across the venture ecosystem, and how asymmetric information shapes better decision-making...

Meet Jessica McKellar, CEO and co-founder of Pilot. In this episode, she shares how she built three successful startups, including exits to Oracle and Dropbox, and breaks down why staying close to customers is a must for shaping strategy and culture. Jessica explains why founders should keep selling long after scaling begins—and how great teams come from values alignment, not titles. She also refl...

Meet Aaron Epstein, partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Creative Market. From building his first software as a teenager to selling his startup to Autodesk and later spinning it out again, Aaron’s story is one of curiosity, grit, and reinvention. In this conversation, he and Daniel talk about what YC looks for in founders, why great founders matter more than great ideas, and the power of focu...

Meet Vanessa Larco, co-founder of the new venture firm Premise and former NEA partner. In this episode, Vanessa joins Daniel to talk about why she left one of the world’s largest VC firms to start her own, how she and her co-founder built Premise from first principles, and what she looks for in truly magnetic founders. They also dive into why consumer tech is on the verge of a new boom, her belief...

Meet Alda Leu Dennis, managing partner at Hawktail VC. From her start at Disney and Wilson Sosini to working alongside Peter Thiel at Founders Fund and Garry Tan at Initialized, Alda shares what she’s learned from two decades in venture. From backing exceptional founders to why smaller funds often outperform to the power of clear expectations with LPs and founders alike, she also discusses what sh...

Meet General Stan McChrystal , former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and one of the most respected military leaders of our time. From a career that spanned 34 years in uniform to the Rolling Stone article that ended it overnight, his journey is a story of leadership, resilience, and character. In this episode, he shares why credibility and long-term thinking matter more than winn...

Meet Samara Hernandez , founder of Chingona Ventures . From growing up under the poverty line to breaking into Goldman Sachs and launching a fund named after the Spanish word for “badass woman,” her journey is nothing short of inspiring. In this episode, she shares why resilience—what she calls the Chingona Factor —matters more than pedigree, and how underestimated founders often build the most tr...

Meet Nitish Maini, chief strategy officer at WorldQuant. From a small town in India to rising through the ranks of finance to help steer one of the world's most significant quantitative hedge funds, his journey is nothing short of amazing. In this episode, he shares why the worst advice he ever got was "don't take the risk," and why he believes the wildest leaps often turn out to...

Meet Brad Feld, one of the investors and firm builders I look up to the most. From exited founder, to angel investor, to firm builder, to author, to marathon runner, Brad is truly prolific. In this conversation, we touch a bit on all of that, and so much more. From going through the internet bubble, to starting over, to managing the third 1/3 of life, to his favorite type of characters, all the wa...

Meet Finn Meeks, partner at South Park Commons (SPC), one of the most unique communities and funds in VC. In this conversation, we dig into how SPC supports technologists so early, they call it the 'minus one' stage, and they mean it. From being surrounded by the best people, to putting bad ideas to rest, their approach is unlike any other early-stage ecosystem out there. We also learn how...

Founder of Drive Capital, Chris Olsen, left a dream job as a partner at Sequoia to prove that billion-dollar companies could be built outside Silicon Valley. In this candid conversation, he unpacks the founding of Drive Capital, why geography no longer limits great ideas, and how authentic leadership, disciplined fundraising, and building powerful local ecosystems can drive long-term success. We a...

Meet Dan O'Connell, CEO of Front. From joining Google when it had just 300 employees, to leading AI strategy at Dialpad, to now running one of the most innovative customer support platforms in the world at Front, Dan understands tech and Silicon Valley in ways few others do. We dive into the future of AI, what it's like to be recruited as a CEO, how to empower teams at scale, and why disru...