Smart Venture Podcast
By Grace Gong
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The best information diet for future CEOs.
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Host Grace Gong talks to the most influential people in business, venture capital, and tech. From executives to billionaire founders, Grace helps you get smarter one episode at the time.
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#161 Acrew Capital’s Founding Partner Lauren Kolodny, Alumni Ventures Independent Board Director
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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#160 StepStone Group Partner Seyonne Kang
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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#159 Olaplex Inc. (Nasdaq: OLPX)'s ex- President and CEO, Moroccanoil's ex - Global CEO, JuE Wong
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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#158 Cisco’s EVP & Chief Product Officer, Box's ex-CPO & CSO, JLL & Equinix Board Member, Jeetu Patel
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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#157 Intuit Ventures’ Managing Director, ex- M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund Partner Adam Coccari
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Sponsor spotlight: LG Electronics' EVP, Sokwoo Rhee
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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#156 Intel Capital’s Senior Managing Director Mark Rostick
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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#155 True Ventures' Partner Puneet Agarwal
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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#154 Greycroft's Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Ian Sigalow
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May 15, 2024 |
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#153 Slipstream Investors' Founder and GP, QED Investors' former COO & General Counsel Alex Edelson
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#152 Trust Fund's Managing Partner, Nasty Gal's founder, Sophia Amoruso
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#151 Orangetheory Fitness CEO and Co-Founder Dave Long
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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#150 Ballistic Ventures’ General Partner, former Managing Director at Lightspeed, Jake Seid
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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#149 Roble Ventures’ Founding Partner, Sergio Monsalve
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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#148 Maverick Ventures’ Managing Director, Ambar Bhattacharyya
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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#147 Afore Capital's Managing Partner Gaurav Jain
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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#146 Canvas Ventures’s Co-Founder and General Partner, Rebecca Lynn
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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#145 OkCupid's Co-Founder, ex-The Match Group's CEO, Corazon Capital's Managing Director, Sam Yagan
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#144 MasterClass' CEO David Rogier
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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#143 Norwest Venture Partners’ General Partner, Dave Zilberman (Portfolio: Slack, DocuSign)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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#142 M13's Managing Partner, Karl Alomar, ex-COO of DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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#141 Lead Edge Capital's Founder & Managing Partner, Mitchell Green (Portfolio: Alibaba, Spotify)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#140 Kindred Ventures’ Founder & Managing Partner, Investor of Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Steve Jang
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Sponsor Spotlight: ft. Alumni Ventures’ CEO Mike Collins | How to invest in startups as individual investors?
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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#139 Science’s CEO, investor, and board member of Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Michael Jones
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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#138 Google's Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping Matt Madrigal
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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#137 Wing Venture Capital’s Founding Partner, Peter Wagner
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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#136 Precursor Ventures' Managing Partner Charles Hudson
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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#135 Lerer Hippeau’s Managing Partner, Ben Lerer
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May 27, 2023 |
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#134 Cruise’s Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Daniel Kan
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May 26, 2023 |
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#133 Pear VC's Founding Managing Partner, investor of DoorDash, Mar Hershenson
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May 12, 2023 |
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#132 Founders Fund's Partner, Brex's ex - CRO, Sam Blond
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May 05, 2023 |
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#131 PayPal's VP, ex- CMO of REVOLVE, Co-Founder of Happy Returns, David Sobie
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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#130 Coatue's General Partner, Atlassian's ex-CTO, Sri Viswanath
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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#129 Tome, AI Storytelling Tool Backed by Lightspeed, Coatue, Greylock Co-Founder & CEO Keith Peiris
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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#128 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 2 | How to negotiate a brand deal
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#127 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 1 | How to go viral on TikTok
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#126 1 Million+ TikTok followers, Noah Jennings, Founder of Compound Creative
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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#125 Chapter One's Managing Partner, ex-VP of Tinder, investor in Dapper Labs, Jeff Morris Jr.
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#124 NextVeiw Ventures Co-founder & Partner investor of thredUP, Attentive, TripleLift David Beisel
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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#123 General Catalyst's Managing Director, Investor of Discord, Snap, Audius, Niko Bonatsos
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#122 MasterClass's Investor Board Member Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners Alex Gurevich
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#121 Substack(valued $600M+)’s Co-founder, Hamish McKenzie
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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#120 M13's General Partner and Investor, Latif Peracha and Mark Grace
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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#119 Austin Evans, 5.34M+ subscribers and 1.26B+ views on Youtube (Creator Special)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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#118 Kong Pham, 2.4M + on Youtube, Jumpcut (YC backed) & Blu Yam’s CEO & founder (Creator Special)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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#117 Polo Ralph Lauren's ex-VP, Melissa Cohen
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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#116 SignalFire Partner, ex-Google, McKinsey, KPCB, Wayne Hu
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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#115 Sino Global Capital's Founder and CEO Matthew Graham
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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#114 Index Ventures's Partner Rex Woodbury
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#113 Vayner3's President Avery Akkineni
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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#112 Convivialite Ventures Partner, Brandon Yahn, Pernod Ricard portfolio: Absolut, Jameson, Glenlivet
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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#111 Alo Yoga's VP, ex - Stitch Fix, Sephora, LVMH, Dolby Laboratories, Angelic Vendette
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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#110 Pepsi's CMO, Todd Kaplan
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#109 BITKRAFT Ventures Partner, Goldman Sachs's ex-VP, Moritz Baier-Lentz
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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#108 Cooper Turley, Music NFT Collector, investor in Sound, Catalog, Royal, advisor at Audius
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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#107 CoinFund founder & CEO, investor of CoinList, Dapper, Republic, Polkadot, Jake Brukhman
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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#106 Rally, Forte, Kabam's founding CEO, SuperLayer (Venture Studio) Managing Partner Kevin Chou
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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#105 Magic Eden's (Valued at $1.6B) Co-founders, CEO and COO, Jack Lu and Zhuoxun Yin
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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#104 Partner at Decibel VC, investor in Databricks, Sumo Logic, Dan Nguyen-Huu
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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#103 VP of OpenSea, ex VP of Meta & Spotify, product at YouTube Shiva Rajaraman
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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#102 Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity)’s Co-Founder & Growth Lead Jiho Jeffrey Zirlin
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May 17, 2022 |
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#101 LaurDIY (Lauren Riihimaki) 8.5M followers on YouTube, 21M+ followers over social media
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May 10, 2022 |
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#100 Notion's CRO, ex-COO of Dropbox, ex-VP at Google, ex-Partner at McKinsey, Olivia Nottebohm
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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#99 VidCon's ex-CEO & GM, Viacom's ex-SVP, Jim Louderback
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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#97 eToro's founder & CEO, Yoni Assia
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#96 Abra's founder & CEO, Bill Barhydt
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#95 Alliance DAO’s founder, CEO (Core Contributor), Imran Khan
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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#94 Editor in Chief, VP of LinkedIn, Dan Roth
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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#93 Partner at #Hashed, investor in Terra Money, Axie Infinity, DYDX, ZKSync, Baek Kim
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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#92 AB InBev's VP (Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Michelob Ultra, beer.eth, etc) Richard Oppy
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#91 Tinder's ex - CPO, Co-Founder & CEO of Scale Higher Ravi Mehta
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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#90 ex-VP @Amazon, ex-TA (Chief of Staff) to Jeff Bezos, Co-Author of Working Backwards, Colin Bryar
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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#89 Sephora's SVP & General Manager of Sephora @Kohl's Amy Kelly Lauer
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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#88 Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble ($106.3M+ Raised) Emmanuel Straschnov
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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#87 Dapper Labs' Dapper Collectives CEO Founder of Brud & Friends with Benefits DAO Trevor McFedries
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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#86 AT&T Business’ Chief Product & Platform Officer Rasesh Patel
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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#85 Adidas's SVP of Data & Analytics, ex-SVP at Salesforce, ex- CTO of Disney, David Sobeski
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#84 CSO & Co-Founder of Health-Ade Kombucha, Vanessa Dew
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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#83 Partner @ IVP, investor in Attentive, Brex, Discord, Harness, Jason Kong
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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#82 Kevin Rose Partner at True Ventures exGP at Google Ventures Founder of Digg Investor of Twitter
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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#81 Instagram COO Justin Osofsky
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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#80 OpenSea (NFT marketplace Valued at $1.5B) Co-founder & CEO, Devin Finzer
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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#79 ex-SVP Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment, VOGUE 73 questions, Joe Sabia
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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#77 CMO of Deloitte, Suzanne Kounkel
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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#76 3Blue1Brown (4.11M subscribers on YouTube) Grant Sanderson
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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#75 CEO of The Atlantic, former Editor in Chief of Wired, Nicholas Thompson
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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#74 Chris Voss, ex-F.B.I. hostage negotiator, WSJ Bestselling Author of Never Split The Difference
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#73 Co-Founder & CEO of Clearco ($2+Billion invested), Andrew D'Souza
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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#72 VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Public Policy at Facebook Erin Egan
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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#71 Co-Founder & CEO of Republic, ex-General Counsel at AngelList, Kendrick Nguyen
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May 31, 2021 |
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#70 Co-founder & CTO of Loom (Valued at $1.53Billion), Vinay Hiremath
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May 24, 2021 |
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#69 Chief Digital Officer at E.L.F. Beauty, Ekta Chopra
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May 17, 2021 |
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#68 CTO of Reddit Chris Slowe
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May 10, 2021 |
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#67 VP of Coinbase ex-General Manager of Airbnb, ex- Product at Instagram & Facebook Sanchan Saxena
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May 04, 2021 |
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#66 VP of SAP (SAP.iO Foundries North America), Vanessa Liu
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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#65 CEO of Skillshare, ex-VP of Upwork, ex-CEO of Visually Matt Cooper
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#64 Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, Investor of Postmates, Poshmark, Fitbit, Jeff Clavier
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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#63 CMO at Matterport ex-CMO at WeWork ex- marketing leader @ LinkedIn Salesforce Box Robin Daniels
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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#62 Founder of Craigslist & Craig Newmark Foundation, Philanthropist Craig Newmark
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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#61 Partner at M13, ex- CEO & Founder of NatureBox, ex- Investor at General Catalyst Gautam Gupta
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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#60 Rebecca Minkoff Founder & Designer Founder of The Female Founder Collective & The Superwomen Pod
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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#59 Chief Product Officer, Engineering at Goldman Sachs Dylan Casey, ex Olympic Cyclist alongside Lance Armstrong
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#58 SVP of Yelp, ex-SVP of Global Marketing at Eventbrite, Dan Kimball Topic: Career development as a marketing leader
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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#57 Co-Founder of Square, The Innovation Stack Author, Philanthropist, Artist, Investor Jim McKelvey
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#56 Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners Nicole Quinn Board Member of Calm, Cameo, HAUS, Girlboss
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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#55 Hinge COO - Sam Levy How to reinvent your company and power up growth
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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#54 CEO of Apollo Fusion, ex - VP of Google & founder @4 tech companies acquired for millions Mike Cassidy
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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#53 CTO of FLEXE, ex - VP of Amazon David Glick Topic: Lead a technical team without being technical
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#52 Co-founder of Palm, ex - Global VP of Samsung Dennis Miloseski Build partnerships with NBA Star & brands
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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#51 Partner at Vertex Ventures US Domenic Perri Topic: From business development to VC
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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#50 Partner at Floodgate Fund Iris Choi Topic: From investment banking to VC
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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#49 Board Member of Verizon, Nordstrom, Okta Author of Unapologetically Ambitious Shellye Archambeau (Part2)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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#48 Board Member of Verizon, Nordstrom, Okta Author of Unapologetically Ambitious Shellye Archambeau (Part1)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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#47 Chief Product Officer of WW (formerly Weight Watchers), ex-VP of Walmart & Sephora Lucinda Newcomb (Part2)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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#46 Chief Product Officer of WW (formerly Weight Watchers), ex-VP of Walmart & Sephora Lucinda Newcomb (Part1)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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#45 Former Co-CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, author of Love is Free, Guac is Extra Monty Moran (Part2)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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#44 Former Co-CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, author of Love is Free, Guac is Extra Monty Moran (Part1)
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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#43 Investor on "The Pitch," Co-founder of BlueCat, Canada's Top 40 under 40 Michael Hyatt (Part2)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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#42 Investor on "The Pitch," Co-founder of BlueCat, Canada's Top 40 under 40 Michael Hyatt (Part1)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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#41 Co-founder, Chief Dating Officer of Coffee Meets Bagel Dawoon Kang (Part2)
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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#40 Co-founder, Chief Dating Officer of Coffee Meets Bagel Dawoon Kang (Part1)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#39 35-Year CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, ex-Board Member of Domino's Pizza Robert Rosenberg (Part2)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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#38 35-Year CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, ex-Board Member of Domino's Pizza Robert Rosenberg (Part1)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#37 VP of Facebook, investor of The Business of Fashion, board member of Le Monde Julien Codorniou (Part2)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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#36 VP of Facebook, investor of The Business of Fashion, board member of Le Monde Julien Codorniou (Part1)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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#35 VP of Google, former marketing leader of Nike, Nickelodeon, Reebok Marvin Chow (Part2)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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#34 VP of Google, former marketing leader of Nike, Nickelodeon, Reebok Marvin Chow (Part1)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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#33 CEO of LG Technology Ventures, former VP & GM of Samsung Ventures America Dong-Su Kim (Part 2)
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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#32 CEO of LG Technology Ventures, former VP & GM of Samsung Ventures America Dong-Su Kim (Part 1)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#31 VP of Lyft Loni Mahanta (Part2) Topic: Career development from law to tech
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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#30 VP of Lyft Loni Mahanta (Part1) Topic: Career development from law to tech
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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#29 NYT&WSJ Bestselling Author of Radical Candor, ex-CEO coach of Dropbox & Twitter Kim Scott (Part2)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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#28 NYT&WSJ Bestselling Author of Radical Candor, ex-CEO coach of Dropbox & Twitter Kim Scott (Part1)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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#27 Co-founder & Managing Partner of Stage 2 Capital, former CRO of HubSpot, Author Mark Roberge (Part2)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#26 Co-founder & Managing Partner of Stage 2 Capital, former CRO of HubSpot, Author Mark Roberge (Part1)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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#25 Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, Author of Intentional Integrity. Topic: Ethics at work Rob Chesnut (Part2)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#24 Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, Author of Intentional Integrity. Topic: Ethics at work Rob Chesnut (Part1)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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#23 Chief Revenue Officer of Envoy, former VP of Dropbox Philip Lacor (Part2)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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#22 Chief Revenue Officer of Envoy, former VP of Dropbox Philip Lacor (Part1)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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#21 Managing Partner of NFX, Founder of Trulia Pete Flint Topic: From founder to investor (Part2)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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#20 Managing Partner of NFX, Founder of Trulia Pete Flint Topic: From founder to investor (Part1)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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#19 President of Learning Services of Chegg Nathan Schultz Topic: Career Development in Edtech (Part2)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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#18 President of Learning Services of Chegg Nathan Schultz Topic: Career Development in Edtech (Part1)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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#17 Partner at Initialized Capital, former VP of People and Culture at Reddit Katelin Holloway (Part 2)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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#16 Partner at Initialized Capital, former VP of People and Culture at Reddit Katelin Holloway (Part 1)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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#15 Founding Partner of Polaris Partners chairman emeritus of NVCA Terry McGuire (Part 2)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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#14 Founding Partner of Polaris Partners chairman emeritus of NVCA Terry McGuire (Part 1)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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#13 General Partner at Foundation Capital Charles Moldow VC Portfolio: LendingClub, LendingHome (Part 2)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#12 General Partner at Foundation Capital Charles Moldow VC Portfolio: LendingClub, LendingHome (Part 1)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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#11 CEO of Meetup, former CEO of Investopedia, Double Click David Siegel (Part 2)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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#10 CEO of Meetup, former CEO of Investopedia, Double Click David Siegel (Part 1)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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#9 VP of LinkedIn Scott Roberts Topic: Career development in business development (Part 2)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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#8 VP of LinkedIn Scott Roberts Topic: Career development in business development (Part 1)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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#7 CEO of Naked Poppy Former VP of Marketing/ CMO at Amazon, OpenTable, Upwork, Eventbrite Jaleh Bisharat
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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#6 Senior Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners Promod Haque VC Portfolio: Apigee, FireEye
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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#5 Former VP of Dropbox Billy Blau Topic: Career in business development and partnerships
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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#4 Co-founder of Meritech Capital Partners Portfolio: Facebook, Salesforce, Yammer Paul Madera
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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#3 Founding Partner at FJ Labs Fabrice Grinda Investment portfolio: Alibaba, DeliveryHero, Flexport
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#2 VP of Amazon Ethan Evans Topics: Job interviews, leadership, career transition
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#1 Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners David Cowan (VC portfolio: LinkedIn, Twitch, RocketLab)
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Jun 11, 2020 |