In the seventh episode of the podcast, I chat with White Star Capital’s Thomas Klocanas about the crypto landscape covering everything from the potential centralization of mainstream killer apps for crypto, the powerful combination of creator t

6. GPV’s Earnest Sweat: Learning How to Communicate Through Equity Research, How to Best Prepare for Alumni Conversations, and Investing in Prop-Tech

May 17th, 2021 29m 59s

In this sixth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GPV’s Earnest Sweat on a wide variety of topics like the importance of learning how to communicate and how to hone this skill, his path to investing in unsexy (but massive) industries like p

5. Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra: Startup vs Big Finance after College, Is It Okay if It’s just Linear Regression, and the Importance of Radical Candor

May 3rd, 2021 33m 25s

In this fifth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra on a wide variety of topics like the importance of real ML insight vs good marketing, choosing a job that aligns with your natural abilities and enjoyments

4. GGV’s Graham Carney: Backing Non-Archetypal Founders, Audio Platforms/Usage as Commonplace, and Tech/Startups as Weird 10yrs ago

Mar 17th, 2021 13m 54s

In this fourth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GGV’s Graham Carney on a wide variety of topics like the different perceptions of going into tech back in 2011 vs now, the common use of audio for communication outside of the US, and inves

3. Bessemer ’s Mike Giampapa: Crypto Becoming a Fully Functional Asset Class, Free as Quite a Powerful Moat, and Focusing on the Best Company to Join Not the Equity Package

Mar 4th, 2021 24m 55s

In this third episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Bessemer’s Mike Giampapa on a wide range of topics like the huge upside in consumer vs enterprise with product and business model innovation, how crypto is becoming mainstream amongst invest

2. Lightspeed’s Anoushka Vaswani: Operating Experience Can Become Stale, Value and Low Opportunity Cost of College, and How Venture Isn’t Contrarian

Feb 25th, 2021 28m 12s

In this second episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Lightspeed’s Anoushka Vaswani on a wide range of topics like why she chooses to focus on growth investing, the importance of network over operating experience, the burgeoning European start

1. Bain Capital Ventures’ Kevin Zhang: Exponential Impact of Specialization, Why Student Founders Should Get a Job, and the Efficiency Frontier

Feb 16th, 2021 27m 31s

In this first episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Bain Capital Ventures’ Kevin Zhang on a wide range of topics like which COVID-19 trends are here to stay, are breakout ideas always bad, exponential returns to specialization, and why studen

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