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Ray is an analyst at a secondaries venture fund based in Los Angeles, focused on growth-stage companies across enterprise SaaS and consumer tech. Prior, Ray worked as an investor at an early-stage life science VC in Seattle. He is also an active angel investor.In this episode, we talk about marketing paradigms in this new era of the creator economy. What are vibes when it comes to

Chris Anselmo lives with an adult-onset neuromuscular disease called limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B. Chris is the author of a newsletter called ‘Hello, Adversity’, where he writes about what to do when adversity knocks. Every week, he shares tools and strategies to help cultivate resilience in everyday life, informed by his personal journey.In this episode expect to lea

Shawn Tsao was the co-founder of Caviar. They sold it to Square for $100M. DoorDash then bought it from Square for $400M.In this episode, expect to learn how the idea of Caviar came from a failed business, their unique partnership strategy that allowed to scale fast, the interesting discovery that made their customers loyal, why he would do it all over again (with a few tweaks), ho

Peter Buckingham leads the software organization at SambaNova Systems. SambaNova produces accelerated solutions for AI.In this episode, expect to learn why Peter moved to Silicon Valley, how he managed to get his first job, why he’s now involved in building AI chips, what the future of AI looks like, the tug-of-war between open and closed source AI, the path towards technology le

Instead of making decisions on gut feel all the time, here's one method and framework to help make tough and hard decisions easier for every aspect of your life, from deciding to start a business (startup), or moving jobs to relationships and personal growth.Learn how to break down the benefits and costs into worst-case, most likely, and best-case scenarios.This is the perfect vide

Zach is currently the Head of Solutions Engineering at Rippling. Previously, he was the VP of Solutions Engineering at Slack, and has led solutions engineering at Optimizely and Box. In this episode, expect to learn how startups can build out a solutions engineering team the right way, why the SE function is different to customer success and sales, the powerful and measurable benef

Vatsal have served as a product and engineering executive in creating operating systems, video games, virtual reality, and cloud services for the consumer (B2C) and businesses (B2B) customers at companies such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Zynga. The products he has created are used by billions of customers and have cumulatively generated 10s of billions of USD value. Learn how Va

This video covers the top 10 questions that I've received from aspiring founders looking to build their first company and how to do it properly. Building a company is hard stuff so these questions are aimed at helping entrepreneurs better understand what's required in building a business.#business #entrepreneurship #mindset---------------------------------TIMESTAMPS:---------------

Jennifer is the CEO of Cultivating Leadership. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders’ lives better. She speaks about leadership and complexity, coaches executives and executive teams, designs and teaches leadership programs. In this episode, expect to learn the mental models of highly effective leaders, why imposter syndrome

Danny is a data scientist, consultant, and educator with over 12 years of experience. Danny runs his Data With Danny education platform where he teaches fundamental data skills to over 3,000 students. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice, and a technical author and instructor at O’Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning.In this episode expect to learn why data is becoming the new oil, the funda