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🎧🍌 How the Top US Angel Investor Operates | Ed Lando, Founder of Pareto Holdings
A playbook for incubating companies, benefits of concentration vs diversification, how to start angel investing, high vs low PR investing strategies…
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🎧🍌 Alloy’s Unconventional Path to $1.5B with Tommy Nicholas, Co-founder and CEO
Getting PMF on steroids with hands-on sales implementations, why you're most likely to give up on something hard when it first starts to work, and how…
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🎧🍌 The $750 Billion AI Opportunity in Customer Service | Mike Murchison, Co-founder and CEO of Ada
Why AI is still underhyped, how large companies stand to benefit most from AI, why companies talk to customers less as they grow (and how to flip that…
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February 2025

🎧🍌 Why Founders are Moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee to Lock-in | Cam Doody at Brickyard
16x funds, building a startup insulator, scaling a local services business, why 5-star review systems don't work, and why Cam wants everyone to copy…
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🎧🍌 Zero to $20m ARR in Two Months: Inside Bolt’s 7-Year Journey to Overnight Success | Eric Simons, Co-founder & CEO
Behind the scenes of hyper growth, almost shutting down months before launch, living on $1/day, building a community around your product, and how AI is…
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🎧🍌 Rick Zullo on Building Equal Ventures, Why Traction is Overrated, and Advice for Emerging Managers
Why venture capital isn't venture capital anymore, how PE firms will benefit the most from AI, why it sucks to be a Seed investor right now, and inside…
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🎧🍌 Illegal Immigrant to $160m Fund 1: Inside Villi Iltchev’s Journey Building Category Ventures
The evolution of Silicon Valley, his biggest career mistake, why profitability always matters, advice for founders selling their company, and why you…
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January 2025

🎧🍌 Lessons Selling Two Startups, Crash Course on Govtech + Drones with Rahul Sidhu
Two exits in 17 months, a playbook for selling to government, what most people get wrong about the police, what it's like testifying to Congress, and…
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🎧🍌 Building Infrastructure for AI Browsers with Paul Klein, Founder + CEO of Browserbase 🅱️
Unlocking better AI agents, how the best infrastructure companies become product companies, why you shouldn't start a company, the playbook that raised…
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🎧🍌 Robinhood Co-founder Baiju Bhatt on the Journey to $40B, Building Space Solar Power with Lasers
Going zero to one building physical products, floating space solar farms, the value of creativity and design, combining qualitative and quantitative…
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🎧🍌 Sheel Mohnot on Building Two Fintechs, Starting Better Tomorrow Ventures
Current opportunities in fintech, why accelerators work, lessons competing with Stripe, common early fintech startup pitfalls, navigating hot vs…
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🎧🍌 Life360's 17-Year Journey to $3 Billion | Chris Hulls, Founder and CEO
Fundraising in unsexy markets, competing with Sam Altman, building advertising and hardware businesses, almost getting cancelled on TikTok, and the…
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