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Sand Hill Road
A place to talk about startups, venture capital and tech. For a full download, double-click on sandhillroad.io
Episodes
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- E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang
- E42 Taking Zoom meetings like a pro with Fathom (YC W21) founder Richard White
- E41 Replacing credit bureaus one API integration at a time with Argyle founder Shmulik Fishman
- E40 The world is broken, let's fix it with 8VC founding partner Drew Oetting
- E39 Trailblazing the silver tech category with Seth Sternberg co-founder of home-care unicorn Honor
- E38 Helping brands build sustainable products with Novi Connect found Kimberly Shenk
- E37 Finding regulatory moats at the Series A with Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners
- E36 Running the world's largest trust experiment with Couchsurfing founder Casey Fenton
- E35 Launching a startup acquisition marketplace with MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki
- E34 Tackling the formalwear industry with Queenly co-founders with Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou
- E33 Catching the perfect privacy wave one consent at a time with Didomi co-founder Jawad Stouli
- E32 Incubating a space factory at Founders Fund with Delian Asparouhov
- E31 Building the future of remote work with Remote.com founder Job van der Voort
- E30 Fintech investing with Better Tomorrow Ventures co-founder Sheel Mohnot
- E29 "Billon Dollar Loser" author Reeves Wiedeman on the epic rise and fall of WeWork
- E28 Inside DCM’s Record IPO Streak with Kyle Lui, Partner at DCM
- E27 Replacing PDF attachments one Docsend at a time with founder and CEO Russ Heddleston
- E26 Deciphering Super Founders with author and DCVC partner Ali Tamaseb
- E25 Bottoms-up product and go-to-market strategy with product leader and investor Vivek Saraswat
- E24 Bootstrapping from zero to $1m+ in ARR with Justin Jackson, mega maker of Transistor.fm
- E23 Insights from building a VC firm in public with Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan
- E22 Building the atomic cockroach of databases with Cockroach Labs co-founder Spencer Kimball
- E21 Building a distributed warehouse network one parcel at a time with STORD co-founder Sean Henry
- E20 Unpacking Growth with Andy Johns, Partner at Unusual Ventures
- E19 Moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture with effx founder Joey Parsons
- E18 Looking for the next Cal moonshots with Caroline Winnett of UC Berkeley's SkyDeck
- E17 Migrating lawyers to the cloud with legal technologist Richard Mabey, co-founder of Juro
- E16 Unpacking marketplaces and modern food delivery wars with Mike Ghaffary from Canvas Ventures
- E15 Building a cloud unicorn for developers with Digital Ocean co-founder Moisey Uretzky
- E14 The great hits and misses of venture capital with Brendan Wales of e.ventures
- E13 Uncoding the ‘Coding VC’ Leo Polovets, Co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures
- E12 Exploring the latest in data science with Sarah Catanzaro from Amplify Partners
- Investing in the next frontier of open source with Bryan Offutt from Index Ventures
- Pioneering the gig economy with TaskRabbit co-founder Brian Leonard
- Investing in vertical SaaS and marketplace companies with Trinity Ventures Principal John Lin
- On financing hard tech with Root Ventures partner Lee Edwards
- Simmer co-founders Richard Wu and Vaibhav Verma on challenging Yelp through dish level reviews
- Investing in open source software with Patrick Chase from Redpoint Ventures
- Pioneering version control for data science with Pachyderm co-founder and CEO Joe Doliner
- Open sourcing code and companies with Gitlab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij
- Exploring chaos engineering with Gremlin co-founder and CTO Matthew Fornaciari
- How open-source software is eating software with Joseph Jacks from OSS Capital
- The direct-to-consumer (DTC) playbook vs. the Amazon model: lessons from Harry's $1.37m exit
- Fundraising when you're building in the dark, lessons from JFrog's co-founder Ben Haim
- No more ‘boring bonehead questions’: How Marc Andreessen is trying to save Silicon Valley from the bean counters
- Uber prices and starts flirting with PayPal, Slack files without slack
- Ex-Kleiner Perkins GP Mary Meeker raises $1.25bn Bond fund (which actually is a VC fund)
- A quick peek inside of Robinhood's revenue model
- Pop, pop, pop, the Zoom and Pinterest IPO price pop
- Rise of the unicorn acqui-financing rounds
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