Bob Muglia was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing SNOW (NYSE), a data warehousing company. Bob is known for managing divisions at Microsoft that supported the Microsoft Office Suite, Windows Server and MSN Network product families. He was one of four presidents that reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Bob held several executive positions at Microsoft before resigning from the company in 2011. He worked briefly for Juniper Networks as the EVP, then accepted ...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 7 min
David Shim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Read AI. Read AI empowers you to enhance the effectiveness of your meetings. By applying AI and analytics to video conferencing, Read analyzes, prescribes, and prevents bad meetings. Experience the ultimate app for hybrid meetings with Read available on Zoom as part of Essential Apps. Prior to Read AI, David was the CEO of Foursquare. Topics: Leveraging AI to solve common pain points in virtual meetings The future of hybrid work and the role of AI in enhan...
Nov 15, 2024•58 min
Aditi Maliwal is a partner at Upfront Ventures, investing in early stage companies across financial technology and enterprise software. Aditi partners with founders at their earliest stages of inception and supports them throughout the stages of company building. While at Upfront, she has partnered deeply in this way with Arcade, Clair, Renew, Stem, WriterAI and ZestAI amongst others. Before joining Upfront, Aditi was at Google, first on the Corporate Development team leading acquisitions across...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr
Paul is a Managing General Partner at Bullpen Capital. Paul is the founder of eight companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust);Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul’s early online gaming innovations in multi-player user experience from over 30years ago are the inspiration for several of the modern social gaming offerings. He holds over a doz...
Nov 06, 2024•58 min
Pablo Casilimas is the Managing Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. Christopher Kennamer is a Venture Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. A VC fund investing in US-based pre-seed startups with a focus on dual-use tech and infrastructure for cloud & AI. Topics: Building a national VC network Remote Deal Evaluation Best Practices Early-stage investment trends outside Silicon Valley #VCNetwork #CrossCountryDeals #NationalVC #RegionalInvesting #vc...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Clayton Bryan is a Partner at 500 Global. Clayton has spent time at some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. He has built expansive online communities, scaled marketplace businesses, and facilitated million dollar deals. At Yahoo he worked on award winning products. Later, at Payvment, he helped a team pioneer a new set of tools that started the social commerce movement. With Diversity as a guiding principle, Clayton has spent the entirety of his career within venture capital foc...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min
James Mumma is a Founding Partner Nomad Ventures. Nomad Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on strong network effect businesses and marketplace solutions including Fintech, peer-to-peer economy, and the transformation of archaic industries. Investments include: Alt, Autopilot, Minoan, Cameo, Lunch Payments, Ink, Zoe Financial, Returnmates, Aquifer Motion, Packsmith, Bezel, Thermal, Beacon, Stonks, and others. Topics: Lessons learned from marketplace investments Evaluates potential ne...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Ian Park is a Partner at Primer Sazze. Prior to joining the firm, Ian invested in startups and VC funds at KIC, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. He also spent time at VMG Partners and Bertram Capital identifying and reviewing investment opportunities using A.I. He started his career in consulting at BRG and McKinsey & Company. As an aspiring economist, Ian studied mathematics and economics at University of Minnesota and pursued Ph.D. in economics at Boston College where he ...
Nov 02, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Aidan Madigan-Curtis is a Partner at Eclipse. As an investor, board member, public company executive and entrepreneur, Aidan’s career has centered around the innovation and transformation of critical industries. As a Partner at Eclipse, Aidan invests across core, disruptive themes in today's world including geopolitical disruption, supply chain dislocation, energy transition, manufacturing onshoring, and industrial autonomy. She sits on eight corporate boards spanning defense and industrial sect...
Nov 01, 2024•58 min
Susannah is a Partner at AlleyCorp, focused on investments in a range of tech categories, with an emphasis on B2B and consumer marketplaces. She has invested in and incubated marketplaces across a diverse range of industries from global logistics to the creator economy. In addition to investing, Susannah is deeply involved with AlleyCorp’s incubation process, dedicating substantial time to supporting portfolio companies at their earliest stages. Prior to AlleyCorp, Susannah was Director of Strat...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Jihong Kim is a venture capitalist at Samsung Ventures and has led both financial and strategic investments in software, digital media, and services. Noteworthy exits include SentinelOne (NYSE: S), Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), Raxium (acquired by Google), ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody), Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Pluto.tv (acquired by Viacom), Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra Technologies), and Loom.ai (acquired by Roblox). He works closely with multiple busi...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Dave Anderson is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that use AI to enhance humans in overlooked legacy industries. Early checks into Ziva Dynamics (acq. by Unity), Bipi (acq. by RBI), AEYE (NASDAQ: LIDR), Common Sense Machines, Drishti, Operant AI, Volur, Stack AI, Oxen AI, Bitpart AI, Bolo AI, Middleware, Hireguide, Treehouse, Fishtail, Clockwork, Safe, Mentorcam, Dropverse, Truewind, Athenic AI, Universal Hydrogen, Carbice, Nauto, ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Ben Huh is the founder of Orange Fund. Orange Fund is the seed-stage venture investing partner of the Orange DAO, a community of more than 1,000 experienced tech founders working in crypto. He is also the former CEO of The Cheezburger Network, which at its peak in 2010 received 375 million views a month across its 50 sites. Topics: The intersection of AI and blockchain technology Evolution of Internet Culture Managing large online communities #CryptoVC #Web3Future #OrangeDAO #BlockchainInnovatio...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Suman Natarajan is a Principal at B Capital’s San Francisco office, where she invests in startups powering the enterprise, across domains such as cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, data and ML/AI, and B2B SaaS. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President at Citi Ventures and an investor at Intel Capital, where she drove investments in companies such as Cribl, Tessian, Snyk, Styra, Nylas, Transmit Security, Immersive Labs, Netskope, Verodin (acq. by FireEye), and Kenna Security (acq. by...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min
John Frankel is a Partner at ff Venture Capital. He is passionate about working with founders that are building the big businesses of tomorrow. He founded ff Venture Capital in 2008 to work with founders who share this vision, which has since funded over 150 seed and early-stage companies that have in turn created thousands of jobs and impacted the lives of millions. While ff Venture Capital’s investments span a number of industries, John is currently fascinated by applied artificial intelligenc...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr
Omar Shaya is the founder of MultiOn, an AI company that develops autonomous agents. Prior to this, he led product management for Core Product Ranking at Meta and worked on product management at the Microsoft Search, Assistant, and Intelligence (MSAI) organization. Additionally, Omar has worked as a product manager at Crealytics and LiquidM, two successful startups where he helped incubate and develop AI-based marketing automation platforms. Omar holds an MS in Management from the Stanford Gradu...
Oct 19, 2024•52 min
Nick Adams is the co founder of Quill. Quill is a local meeting tool designed to free you to be present in meetings, and get work done fast afterward. Whether you're capturing notes from startup pitches, documenting founder updates, or organizing insights from multiple discussions, Quill makes post conversational work a breeze. With customizable templates for various roles and industries, Quill functions like a Notion for conversations, enabling users to effortlessly record, organize, and follow...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Mark Kraynak is a Founding Partner at Acrew Capital. 🚀 This episode is brought to you by Quill Meetings. 🚀 Mark Kraynak is a technology executive, company builder and erstwhile poet/engineer. Before co-founding Acrew, Mark joined Aspect Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence and converted to a full time investor at the end of 2017. Prior to joining Aspect, Mark spent nearly 13 years at Imperva, where he held a number of marketing, product, corporate development and strategy roles. Mark has led ...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Chris Picardo is a Partner at Madrona. Chris joined Madrona in 2017. As a partner on the investment team, Chris focuses on identifying, evaluating, and leading new investment opportunities and working closely with existing companies. Chris helps lead Madrona’s investments in companies innovating around the intersection of life and computer science through combining novel wet lab science with cutting-edge machine learning. He also helps lead investing activities in consumer technology and commerc...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Arvind Jain is the Co-founder and CEO of Glean ($4.6 Billion valued), the Work AI platform connected to all your data. 🚀 This episode is brought to you by Quill Meetings. 🚀 Find, create, and automate anything. Prior to Glean, Arvind co-founded and led R&D at Rubrik, one the fastest growing companies in cloud data management. Arvind also spent over a decade at Google as a distinguished engineer, where he led teams in Google’s Search, Maps, and YouTube products. Earlier in his career, Arvind...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Sumit Chauhan is the Corporate Vice President of Office Product Group at Microsoft. 🚀 This episode is brought to you by Quill Meetings. 🚀 She heads up a wide portfolio of Microsoft 365 experiences, guiding product, design, and engineering teams for both M365 Copilot and M365’s flagship applications and creator tools. Her portfolio includes M365 Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Designer as well as Microsoft 365’s video solutions. She and her team are working to evolve the way we accom...
Oct 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Scott Walbrun is a venture capital investor at BMW i Ventures, BMW's independent VC fund, where he focuses on investments targeting the future of mobility, energy, supply chain, and artificial intelligence. In addition to this role, he provides workshops and coaching to hundreds of startups each year through various accelerator/incubator programs. Prior to joining BMW i Ventures, he provided M&A and capital markets advisory to technology companies and investors as a member of Jefferies' Tech...
Oct 12, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Amin Shaykho is the CEO of Kadama, social media star, and TED talk speaker honored on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Shaykho is a former senior software engineer at Apple on teams like iMessage and Health. Shaykho raised $1.7M for Kadama and grew it to 2M+ users, 2.5M+ followers and 1B+ views on social media, and reached a peak App Store ranking of #2 in education. Shaykho has over 2M+ followers across his personal Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat. Topics: The future of edtech, building a ...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Elana Gold is a partner at Red Beard Ventures (RBV), a pioneering Web3 fund with over $25M in capital, investing in blockchain consumer apps, infrastructure, gaming, metaverse, and DeFi, both in equity and tokens. She leads the RBV Syndicate, which invests in startups at any stage and sector, with over 3,900 LPs, 210+ company investments, and over $50M deployed. An advocate for women in investing, she founded The Girls Table, a platform (for men and women) boosting entrepreneurs, creators, and i...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min
René Lomelí is a Partner at 500 Global, he joined the team back in 2013. Since then, he has been responsible for the 16-week program they run for their investments in Spanish-speaking LatAm "Somos Lucha". He's also been part of the +240 investments they've made in the region such as Konfio, Clip, Ayenda, 99Minutos, Conekta, Jüsto, Terapify, and Graviti. He enjoys helping early-stage companies in several areas, such as business strategy, product-market fit, marketing, fundraising, team, culture b...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital. Foundation Capital is a leading Silicon Valley based early stage venture capital firm. He focus on investing in bold founders who have a vision to transform markets and build enduring companies. Ashu has extensive experience across the stack from AI 1st applications to data/ML infrastructure, cyber security, and cloud infrastructure. Ashu is an early investor in Databricks, Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity (via an acquisition), Anyscale, Turing,...
Oct 05, 2024•59 min
Jeff Seibert is the co-founder and CEO of Digits, where he's building the world's first AI-powered accounting platform for startups and small businesses. He previously served as Twitter's Head of Consumer Product, leading the company's teams across Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, as well as its Developer and Data platforms. Jeff was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, the award-winning mobile performance analytics platform, which today runs on over 6 Billion monthly-active smartphones ...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary. Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale. He is an investor in Ramp, Replit, Anduril, OneSchema, Zepto, Moment, Nomic, Pave, Patch, Modern Intelligence, Teamshares, Leland, Synthesis, Armada, Power, and more. Prior to Contrary he is a Partner at Index Ventures and Growth Investor at Coatue Management and TCV. Topics: Supporting Founders fr...
Oct 04, 2024•59 min
Wei Lien Dang is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures and leads investments in infrastructure software, security, and developer tools. He has spent more than a decade building products at startups. Wei was a co-founder of StackRox, a cloud-native security company, where he was responsible for product management, user experience, product marketing, and technical evangelism prior to its acquisition by Red Hat. Before that, Wei held product leadership roles at CoreOS (also acquired by Red Hat), Br...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min
#159 JuE Wong is the former President & CEO/ Executive Board Director of Olaplex Inc. (Nasdaq: OLPX). Prior to Olaplex, she was the Global CEO/ Executive Board Director of Moroccanoil, the President of Elizabeth Arden, and an Independent Board Director of The Red Door by Elizabeth Arden. Other notable companies she has served as a leader include Murad and Perricone MD, among others. You can learn more about: - How to Be the CEO of an Iconic Cosmetic Brand - The Career Journey of a Public Com...
Sep 28, 2024•53 min
