Shiva Rajaraman is the VP of Product at OpenSea, where he leads a team of designers and product managers to build the top NFT trading platform. Prior to OpenSea he worked as the VP of Commerce at Meta, VP of Product at Spotify, and CTO at WeWork, he also worked on products at many other iconic tech companies such as Google (YouTube). You can learn more about: 1. The commonality and differences to build successful products in top tech companies in Silicon Valley 2. How to build a successful produ...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 103
Jeff Zirlin ( Jiho ) is the co-founder and growth lead at Sky Mavis. Sky Mavis is revolutionizing how people play, live, work and earn within virtual worlds through the use of blockchain technology. Sky Mavis’ first game, Axie Infinity, is one of the largest NFT gaming ecosystems and has amassed millions of players around the world. At Sky Mavis, Jeff spearheads the growth of products through messaging, community empowerment, and incentive design. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! h...
May 17, 2022•58 min•Ep. 102
Lauren Riihimaki is a YouTuber who has over 8.5Million followers on YouTube channel LaurDIY and 21M+ followers over social media. She is also the host and executive producer of an HBO Max competition series called Craftopia. Prior to that Lauren won the YouTube Streamy Award in the "Lifestyle" category, and a Shorty Award in the "House & Home" Category. Lauren started her YouTube career in her first year of University in Toronto, Canada. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www...
May 10, 2022•55 min
100 Olivia Nottebohm is the Chief Revenue of Notion where she leads the Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Customer Experience teams. Prior to Notion, she held multiple leadership positions at various well-known companies. Such as COO of Dropbox, VP at Google, and Partner at McKinsey & Company. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your ho...
Apr 27, 2022•50 min
099 Jim Louderback worked as the CEO of VidCon, one of the leading conferences in the world of digital creators and innovators. Under his leadership, the company was sold to Viacom in 2018. He is also a Venture Partner at seed investment firm Social Starts. Prior to VidCon, Jim was the CEO of Revision3, where he helped drive a 20x increase in viewers and a 12x increase in revenue. He eventually sold Revision3 to Discovery Communications where he worked as General Manager and transformed the grou...
Apr 19, 2022•55 min
097 Yoni Assia is the Co-founder and CEO of eToro, a leading social investment platform with over 27 million users who exchange investment strategies, connect and share thoughts about the market across the platform. Yoni was an early believer in Blockchain technology. Beyond founding eToro, he had worked on the Colored Coins project with Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. He also established the GoodDollar foundation, a non-profit that helps the mass market to adopt crypto. Check out our ...
Apr 08, 2022•58 min•Ep. 97
096 Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading crypto wealth management service. Prior to founding Abra, Bill worked as a research engineer at NASA, the CIA, as well as a VP of Goldman Sachs. Bill also served as CEO at multiple companies such as Boom Financial and WebSentric. He gave the first-ever TED talk on bitcoin back in 2012 when bitcoin was trading at $5. He also created the world's first synthetic dollar/ stablecoin based on Bitcoin in 2015. Check out our brand new YouTube Vi...
Apr 01, 2022•56 min
095 Imran Khan is the founder and CEO/Core Contributor of Alliance DAO, a top accelerator for Web3 companies. He formerly served as the General Partner at Token Daily Capital. Prior to that Imran worked at Microsoft, where he helped launch One Note for Education, Surface, and HoloLens. He was also a Partner at zk Capital and led investments into Dharma and Namebase. Prior to that, he worked at Comcast leading strategy for its enterprise unit. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https:...
Mar 23, 2022•48 min
094 Dan Roth is the Editor In Chief and VP at Linkedin, where he oversees a team of editors across the globe. He and his team curate breaking news and views on Linkedin and cultivate top contributors across the site. Under Dan's leadership, his team also built influencer programs to help leaders like Barack Obama, Richard Branson and other top CEOs, VCs and business leaders to share their thoughts and connect with their audiences. He also helped build and launched the 135-country- spanning Daily...
Mar 14, 2022•58 min•Ep. 94
093 Baek Kim is the General Partner at #Hashed, one of the leading crypto startup investing funds. Hashed has grown to $4B+ in AUM investing in Web3 and crypto companies. Their investment includes some of the top crypto companies such as Terra Money, Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, ZKSync, among others. Prior to crypto investing, Baek has worked at Amazon Web Services and founded a Robotics startup. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @Grac...
Feb 24, 2022•55 min•Ep. 93
092 Richard Oppy is the VP of Global Brands at Anheuser Busch InBev, the largest consumer goods company in the world with leading beer brands in over 100 countries. He is responsible for the global marketing efforts of some of the world’s most iconic beer brands, including Corona, Stella Artois, Michelob Ultra, and the world’s most valuable beer brand – Budweiser. Under his leadership Budweiser purchased Beer.eth domain, updated the brand’s Twitter PFP to the rocket NFT as well as launched its o...
Feb 04, 2022•49 min•Ep. 92
091 Ravi Mehta is the Co-founder and CEO of Scale Higher, a company that helps professionals match with career coaches to accelerate their career growth. Prior to starting a company, Ravi was the Chief Product Officer at Tinder where he led the product strategy for the world's #1 monetizing app. He also led teams on Gen Z engagement and consumer products at Facebook and Tripadvisor. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG Linke...
Feb 01, 2022•59 min•Ep. 91
090 Colin Bryar is the former VP of Amazon, Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos, COO at IMDb and COO at Singapore-based RedMart. He is also the co-author of the book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon , which takes you in the room and show how the principles and practices were used to create four key Amazon business: Kindle, Amazon Prime, Prime Video and Amazon Web Services. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter /...
Jan 17, 2022•55 min•Ep. 90
089 Amy Kelly Lauer is the Senior Vice President of Sephora, General Manager at Sephora @Kohl's. Prior to leading Sephora @ Kohl’s, Amy was the VP, Head of Digital at Kendo Holdings, Inc., where she led and managed end-to-end eCommerce, paid digital & social marketing, and product management for Kendo Brands (including Fenty Beauty, Kat Von D Beauty, Marc Jacobs Beauty, etc.) Prior to that Amy spent over 20 years working at Gap, Inc., where she served as SVP, VP, and other leadership positions a...
Jan 02, 2022•46 min•Ep. 89
088 Emmanuel Straschnov is the Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble, a no-code platform that helps non-technical founders build influential tech companies. Bubble has raised $100 million in series A. Prior to founding Bubble, Emmanuel worked as the special assistant to the CEO of Prada USA. He also received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyo...
Dec 28, 2021•47 min•Ep. 88
087 Trevor McFedries is the CEO of Dapper Labs’ Dapper Collectives. He is also the founder of Brud, a Sequoia-backed startup that created a popular robot transmedia influencer Lil Miquela with over 3 million followers on Instagram that had collaborated with top brands like Prada and supermodels like Bella Hadid. Trevor is also the founder of Friends with Benefits, one of the most influential DAO. Prior to working in tech, he was a DJ and music producer who worked with top talents like Katy Perry...
Dec 20, 2021•54 min•Ep. 87
086 Rasesh Patel is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at AT&T Business, where he has responsibility for AT&T Business’ portfolio-wide P&L with $36 Billion of annual revenue as well as its cutting-edge integrated platforms, products and solutions including Mobility, 5G, Edge Compute, Internet of Things, SD-WAN, Cybersecurity, Voice, Collaboration and Cloud Connectivity. Prior to AT&T, Rasesh was the Senior Vice President of DIRECTV where he was in charge of customer experiences. Check out our ...
Dec 16, 2021•58 min•Ep. 86
085 David Sobeski is the SVP of Data and Analytics at Adidas. Prior to Adidas, he was the SVP of Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce, the SVP of Innovation at Nordstrom, and CTO at The Walt Disney Company and Playdom. He also served as the SVP of Yahoo and an executive at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows, Internet Explorer, Mobile and many other high profile products. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGon...
Dec 03, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 85
084 Vanessa Dew is the Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Health-Ade Kombucha, where she helped grow the product from a farmer’s market commodity to a nationwide brand with retail sales over $200M annually. Today, Health-Ade can be found in over 45,000 stores nationwide. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each epi...
Nov 21, 2021•52 min•Ep. 84
083 Jason Kong is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in Series B and later enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jason has invested in and works with companies like Attentive, Brex, Compass (COMP), Cribl, Datadog (DDOG), Discord, Figma, Harness, Niantic, Podium, Slack (WORK), and UiPath (PATH), among others. Prior to a career in venture capital, Jason was a tech investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he worked on numerous IPO and M&A transactions for high-growth tech companies. He wa...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 83
082 Kevin Rose is a partner at True Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. He focuses on blockchain, consumer internet, and health/ wellness. Prior to his career at True Ventures, he was a GP at Google Ventures and a serial entrepreneur. He founded Digg, Zero, Oak, and other tech companies. He also invested in Twitter, Facebook, Square, Solana, Ripple, Nextdoor, Medium, Blue Bottle Coffee, and many other iconic companies. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! htt...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 82
081 Justin Osofsky is the Chief Operating Officer of Instagram, where he leads oversees Instagram's business functions and is responsible for helping the company scale globally. He is also VP, Global Operations at Facebook. Prior to these roles, Justin was Vice President at Facebook where he most recently led Global Operations and Corporate Development, working in close partnership with the product and policy organizations with the goal of creating a safe, inclusive community for people, busines...
Sep 30, 2021•41 min•Ep. 81
080 Devin Finzer is the Co-founder and CEO at OpenSea, the first peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets. OpenSea raised $100 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by A16Z to scale its open NFT marketplace. Prior to founding OpenSea, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the ...
Sep 15, 2021•50 min•Ep. 80
079 Joe Sabia is the founder of Studio Sabia, a content strategy studio that serves companies like Amazon Audible, YouTube Originals, Spotify, Legendary Films and many others. Prior to founding the content studio, he served as the SVP of Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment, where he created Vogue’s 73 Questions. Joe helped grow Conde brand’s YouTube audience from 1.5M to 46M subscribers, reaching over 550M monthly organic views. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https:/...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 79
077 Suzanne Kounkel is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte. She also ran Deloitte’s US Consulting Tech sector industry practice, one of Deloitte’s largest and fastest growing businesses. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council and is a member of the Adweek Diversity and Inclusion Council as well as ANA’s Global CMO Growth Council. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGong...
Jul 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 77
076 Grant Sanderson is the creator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel using artistic visuals to teach people math. Prior to 3b1b, Grant had worked at Khan Academy where he teaches multivariable calculus. Before that he was an undergrad at Stanford studying maths and CS. Grant’s YouTube channel has over 4.11 million subscribers and his videos received over 200 million views. Fun Fact: We were recently at a cocktail/dinner party and our friends referred to him as the “Taylor Swift of the nerd w...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 76
075 Nick Thompson is the CEO at The Atlantic. Prior to The Atlantic, he was the former Editor in Chief of Wired. He is also a contributing editor at CBS, a frequent public speaker about technology, and a co-founder of The Atavist, a digital magazine and publishing platform acquired by WordPress. He was also a senior editor at The New Yorker and author of the book “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.” Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast! ht...
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 75
074 Chris Voss is the author of Wall Street Journal Bestselling book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On it. He was a former international hostage negotiator for the F.B.I. and he also taught business negotiations in top business schools' MBA programs such as USC, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern and many others. He is currently the CEO and founder of The Black Swan Group Ltd. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTu...
Jun 25, 2021•58 min•Ep. 74
073 [Fundraising Special Series] Andrew D’ Souza is the founder and CEO of Clearco. Clearco is a suite of performance financing products and services to help founders grow their companies. They use data to forecast companies’ growth, create tailored financing solutions and provide non-dilutive capital to the founders who need it. Clearco has invested more than $2 billion into over 5000 companies. The company has raised $520 million to date. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @Grace...
Jun 15, 2021•51 min•Ep. 73
072 Erin Egan is the VP and Chief Privacy Officer of Public Policy at Facebook. She leads Facebook’s global privacy and data policy team, where she collaborates with policymakers, regulators, advocates, academics and other experts on issues related to privacy and data protection, ensuring Facebook’s product and features reflect input from people around the world. Prior to Facebook, she was a partner and co-chair of Covington & Burling’s global data protection practice, where she represented tech...
Jun 07, 2021•57 min•Ep. 72
