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🎧🍌 How WordPress Powers 43% of the Internet | Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic
Lessons starting one of the first SaaS companies, building a community around your product, how AI is changing coding, lessons on optimism from Walt…
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🎧🍌 $50M ARR with 30 Employees: Inside Gamma's Journey to 50 Million Users | Co-founder and CEO Grant Lee
Taking a horizontal vs vertical product approach, rebuilding as an AI-native product, importance of design, hiring generalists, and building a culture…
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June 2025

🎧🍌 Inside the $2 Trillion Employee Benefits Market
Why the internet never displaced insurance brokers, AI opportunities in insurance, and lessons from kickstarting a marketplace
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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

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