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🎧🍌 How to Get 1 Billion Views per Month | Isaac Medeiros Founder of Mini Katana & Kanpai Foods
Creating a content strategy, lessons building consumer brands, why TikTok saved food & beverage brands, how to get a product into retail stores, moving…
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🎧🍌 The Past, Present, and Future of AI, Robotics, Venture Capital, and Crypto | Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner, Compound
Why deep tech startups mess up value capture, unprecedented state of hype in AI, venture slop, and why VC firms decay over time
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🎧🍌 Ryan Hoover on Growth Flywheels, Building Communities, Helping Founders, LP Investing in Micro Funds
Why every community needs utility, unpacking Product Hunt's early growth flywheel, investing in consumer health, and why human behavior will never…
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🎧🍌 PhD to $100M in 4 Years: Rebuilding SMB Lending with Sahill Poddar, Co-founder and CEO of Parafin
Discovering the Higgs boson particle at CERN, why access to credit is broken for SMBs, and the growth trick that Robinhood got most of its userbase
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🎧🍌 Sleeping in McDonald's Parking Lots to $250M+ Revenue: How Handshake Beat LinkedIn with Gen Z
Inside its fast growing AI data labeling business, how to build a skunkworks AI team, scrappy ways to get early customers, scaling a three-sided…
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🎧🍌 Solving the Hardest Problems in Dev Tools | Jake Cooper, Founder of Railway
Why there are only two moats, how AI is changing backend infrastructure, why managers should be operators, and why you shouldn't work on the weekends
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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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🎧🍌 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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