My guest this week is Jonathan Neman, the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is a fast-casual restaurant chain that Jonathan co-founded in 2007 during their senior year at Georgetown when he realized they couldn't find a healthy, affo

Emmett Shear - The New Language of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.9]

1 Nov 26th, 2020 51m 30s

My guest today is Emmett Shear, founder and CEO of Twitch. Twitch is the world's leading live streaming platform for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon in 2014. We talk about how Twitch empowers streamers to monetize their audience, the neces

Modest Proposal – Better, Cheaper, Faster: Why Companies that Reduce Friction Win

1 Sep 29th, 2020 1h 5m

Before getting to this week’s guest, an announcement: starting Thursday we will be introducing a new series of interviews. Be sure to check this same podcast feed in two days to learn more.My guest this week goes by the pseudonym Modest Propo

Boyd Varty – The Art of Tracking

Apr 11th, 2017 1h 22m

This week’s episode is the most unique to date. My guest is Boyd Varty, who grew up in the South African Bush, living among and tracking wild leopards. The main theme of our conversation is tracking, and how the same strategy for pursuing anima

Hash Power – Ep. 1 - Understanding Blockchains

1 Sep 26th, 2017 1h 9m

Welcome to the first episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies with leaders in the field like Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, & Ari Paul. Hash Power is meant to be an i

Peter Attia, M.D. - How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life

1 Mar 7th, 2017 1h 27m

My guest this week is Peter Attia, M.D., whose mission is to understand and improve human lifespan and healthspan (or quality of life). Reading Peter’s research, you find that there are many similarities between health and investing—ideas like

Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman

1 Jun 6th, 2017 1h 15m

This week’s episode is very unique. It is the first episode devoted to bonds, just not the kind of bonds you are used to. My guest is Ira Judelson, who is the leading bail bondsman in New York City. I met Ira through my friend and former podcas

David Senra - In Service of Founders

Sep 12th, 2023 1h 24m

My guest today is David Senra, the creator and host of Founders Podcast. With an incredible appetite for biographies, David has delved into the lives of over three hundred entrepreneurs, extracting invaluable wisdom that he shares with his audi

Lee Ainslie - Hedge Fund Maverick

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 36m

My guest today is Lee Ainslie, the founder of Maverick Capital. Lee started his investing career at Tiger Management where he worked for Julian Robertson. In 1993, he left to start Maverick and has built the firm into one of the top-performing

Jeff Green - Modernizing Advertising

Feb 7th, 2023 1h 4m

My guest today is Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of advertising platform, The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is the second advertising exchange Jeff has built, having sold his first venue to Microsoft in 2007. He started The Trade Desk in 2009

Ravi Gupta - Focus

1 Aug 9th, 2022 1h 17m

My guest today is Ravi Gupta. Ravi spent a decade in private equity at KKR before joining Instacart as their first CFO and COO. He navigated them through a critical moment in their history and returned to investing in 2019 as a partner at Sequo

Josh Wolfe & Chris Power - Factories of the Future

1 Jun 14th, 2022 1h 9m

My guests today are Josh Wolfe and Chris Power. Josh will be a familiar voice to many of you and is the co-founder and General Partner of Lux Capital. Chris is the founder and CEO of advanced manufacturing start-up, Hadrian. Most of our discuss

Marko Papic - A Multi-Polar World

Mar 15th, 2022 1h 9m

My guest today is Marko Papic, partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group, where he leads the firm’s research on macroeconomics and markets. Marko has spent his career at the intersection of finance and geopolitics, making him a perfect p

Joey Levin - Building an Anti-Conglomerate

Feb 15th, 2022 1h 9m

My guest today is IAC’s CEO, Joey Levin. IAC is a unique business in that it’s a holding company which builds world-class digital businesses. Since Barry Diller created IAC over two decades ago, it has produced 11 public companies, including Ma

Doug Colkitt - The Evolution of Markets

1 2 Dec 14th, 2021 1h 17m

My guest today is Doug Colkitt. Doug has spent his career searching for and trading inefficient markets, first at Citadel’s high-frequency trading group, then for himself, and then as an operator building CrocSwap - a decentralized exchange or

Sam Bankman-Fried - Creating a Perfect Market

1 1 Oct 19th, 2021 1h 15m

My guest today is Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of leading cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. In a little over two years, FTX has registered 1.2 million users, grown to facilitate $10.9 billion of daily trading volume, and reached an $18 billio

Karen Karniol-Tambour - All Things Macro

Aug 3rd, 2021 1h 19m

My guest today is Karen Karniol-Tambour, Partner and Co-CIO for Sustainability at Bridgewater Associates. You will quickly understand why Ray Dalio described Karen as a “vacuum cleaner of learning” - our conversation covered a variety of market

Carl Kawaja - Wisdom from Decades of Investing

Jul 27th, 2021 1h 28m

Today’s conversation is one of my all-time favorites, with someone I’ve come to respect deeply in the field of investing. My guest is Carl Kawaja, who has served as a portfolio manager at Capital Group for decades. Capital Group is among the mo

David Sacks - How to Operate a SaaS Startup

Jul 13th, 2021 1h 1m

My guest today is David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures and founding COO of PayPal. During our conversation, we explore what differentiates Enterprise SaaS from DTC subscriptions, what makes for a magical product launch event, and wha

Marc Andreessen - Making the Future

Jun 29th, 2021 1h 19m

My guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc was an early pioneer of the internet. At age 22, he built Mosaic, the first widely adopted web browser and

Justin Fishner-Wolfson - Secondary Investing in Private Markets

May 25th, 2021 1h 7m

My guest today is Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder of 137 Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on providing liquidity solutions to founders, investors, and employees of private businesses. In our conversation, we discuss what early career ex

Brent Beshore - Learnings from a Year of Unexpected Events

1 May 18th, 2021 1h 8m

My guest today is Brent Beshore. For those that don’t know Brent from his frequent appearances on this podcast, he runs Permanent Equity Fund and has been a close personal friend for the past five years. Brent and I revisit our conversation fro

Andrew Sugrue - Investing in Paradigm Shifts

May 4th, 2021 1h 2m

My guest today is Andrew Sugrue, co-founder, and partner at Avenir Growth Capital. Avenir is a growth equity firm focused on backing category-defining businesses. In our conversation, we cover Andrew’s investing career, what he learned from Jul

Kanyi Maqubela - Dawn of the 21st Century

Mar 30th, 2021 1h 9m

My guest today is Kanyi Maqubela, co-founder of seed-stage VC firm Kindred Ventures, which he started with his partner Steven Jang in 2019. Before founding Kindred Ventures, Kanyi was a general partner at Collaborative Fund. In our conversation

Jesse Walden - A Primer on NFTs

Mar 23rd, 2021 47m 39s

My guest today is Jesse Walden, the founder of Variant, an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks and platforms building the ownership economy.With all the hype surrounding NFTs, I wanted to talk to Jesse about them, given his