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🎧🍌 How to Raise a VC Fund, Traits of Top Emerging Managers | Samir Kaji, CEO of Allocate
Why 90% of venture funds struggle to raise, advice for emerging managers, triple-layered SPV's, why everyone is selling secondaries, and how AI is…
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🎧🍌 How to Skip Your Seed, Pre-Seed Lessons Building Afore to $500M+ AUM | Anamitra Banerji
How to invest in founders pre-product, running a right Series A fundraise, lessons from Twitter's first PM, why every VC started an accelerator, and how…
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🎧🍌 Benchmark’s Eric Vishria on Going Zero to $100M ARR in 12 Months
Why AI grows 10x faster than SaaS, how Benchmark makes new investments, archetypes of the top AI founders, why storytelling is a superpower, and…
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May 2025

🎧🍌 Inside Samsara’s Journey to $26B Public Company | Sanjit Biswas, Co-founder and CEO
Lessons building two unicorns, AI in the physical world, thinking customer-first instead of product-first, mastering sales as a technical founder and…
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🎧🍌 Cendana's Michael Kim on Characteristics of the Top VCs, How Seed Funds Compete vs Multistage Firms, Portfolio Construction Best…
204x DPI funds, why high ownership to fund size drives outlier returns, how secondaries are generating most early stage VC returns, the 60x rule, and…
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🎧🍌 How AI Changes Governments & Business Models | Mike Vichich, CEO of Pursuit
Lessons going from $11 in the bank to a $187 million exit, how AI changes Helmer's 7 Powers, if DOGE is actually working, building startups in the…
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🎧🍌 Ultimate Startup Growth Playbook, Using AI to Automate Operations | Sam Ross, Numeral
Why retention trumps growth, lessons from the early days of Facebook ads, adding $1B of GMV at Airbnb, how to use pockets of demand to find business…
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🎧🍌 How Amplitude Scaled to $300M ARR | Spenser Skates, Co-founder and CEO
How Large Action Models will change B2B SaaS, lessons from Amplitude's early mistakes, how to choose board members, and what most people get wrong about…
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April 2025

🎧🍌 Lessons Scaling Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years | Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
How a malware attack almost took down the internet, learning to love sales as a technical founder, lessons from Frank Slootman, and the future of open…
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🎧🍌 Surviving Two Seed Extensions, Fixing Auth for AI Agents | Clerk Founder & CEO Colin Sidoti
How to recap a Seed stage company, leveraging Associates when fundraising, why you shouldn't change your pitch for investors, building a compound…
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🎧🍌 Inside Verkada, the $4.5B Physical Security Company | Filip Kaliszan, Founder and CEO
Going zero to nearly $1B revenue in nine years, why building hardware is easier than you think, how to add new product lines, hardware fundraising…
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🎧🍌 Forage: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Restricted Payments with Ofek Lavian, Co-founder and CEO
Building food stamps to 10% of Instacart's revenue, why 1 in 8 American's can't afford groceries, when micromanagement isn't bad, and why everyone…
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