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🎧🍌 Healthcare Skipped Three Platform Shifts and Went Straight to AI | Alamin Uddin, NexHealth
Why 75% of dentists still have a server in the closet, from $4k in the bank and a maxed-out Amex to powering 81% of new AI healthcare startups, and…
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🎧🍌 Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street
The history of financial markets, removing 8-layers of middlemen with blockchain, launching Solana in the depths of COVID, getting early PMF, and 2026…
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🎧🍌 The Hidden Layer of Every AI Agent | Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest
Using product tracing to build a low cost software factory, why you can't vibe code infrastructure, and building a dev tools company without a personal…
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🎧🍌 He Sold for $600M, Then Built the Same Company Again | Peter Rahal, David
Making food VC-backable, why Big Food can't innovate, building a multi-brand company that lasts, and why marketing is about finding mispriced attention
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🎧🍌 Inside Goldman’s $22B Bet on Venture Capital | Hans Swildens, Industry Ventures
How VC secondaries grew from a $250M to $150B market in 25 years, why asset managers are acquiring venture firms, how Seed survive the platform era, and…
 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

June 2026

🎧🍌 Why Pre-Seed Investing Has Never Been Harder | Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures
How sitting out of bubbles can be more dangerous than joining, why the system rewards an addiction to consensus, how to fundraise as a non-consensus…
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🎧🍌 Inside NYC's Scrappiest Accelerator, Elbow Grease | Dan Teran, Gutter Capital
The best founders want help, the most helpful investors have concentrated portfolios, creating a board and using OKR's in the early days of a company…
🎧🍌 The AI-Native GTM Playbook | Sam Blond, Monaco
Why you shouldn't measure brand marketing, Monaco's launch playbook, how gifting and timing increase conversion rates, and how to improve your AI…
🎧🍌 Inside the First Quant-Driven VC Fund | Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Chamaeleon
Breaking the power law, why repeat founders aren't always the safer bet, how small funds capture the most unicorns, and why the venture industry is much…
🎧🍌 15 Hot Takes on VC from the 2026 Allocate Beyond Summit
Why traditional Seed is dead vs why it’s not, swallowing an entire bottle of the power law pill, robotics hype, why AI is the most powerful technology…
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May 2026

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