The Dart Board with Daniel Dart

Daniel Dart is the founder and General Partner of Rock Yard Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm focused on tech across core industries. Join Daniel as he sits down with some of the world's greatest investors, operators, and entrepreneurs as they pull back the curtain on tech, venture, and business.

The Dart Board with Daniel Dart is a technology podcast hosted by Rock Yard Ventures, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Rock Yard Ventures hosts The Dart Board with Daniel Dart, a technology show with 47 episodes published.

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  Ted Schlein | Ballistic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins - Generational Firm Building, 40 Years in Cyber, and Why You Have to Earn the Right

  Aug 19, 202642 min

  Meet Ted Schlein, executive chairman and general partner of Ballistic Ventures, and general partner at Kleiner Perkins since 1996. Ted has been in the cybersecurity industry really since it began, helping build one of the first major companies in the sector, Symantec. He then joined Kleiner Perkins, where he has been involved for over three decades, during which he founded another cybersecurity darling, Fortify Software. And if that wasn't enough, he recently founded another venture firm, Ballistic Ventures. Very few people have had the staying power and success of Ted, and in this episode we dig into a bit of everything spanning his generational run - which is still going on today. We close by learning a bit about the stories that shape him and the best advice he picked up along the way

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  Joanne Chen | Foundation Capital - On The Great Reorg, learning to let go of outcomes, and why every fund has to stand for something

  Aug 12, 202634 min

  Meet Joanne Chen, General Partner at Foundation Capital.Foundation has been investing for over three decades, focused on seed and Series A, backing companies before product-market fit around two mega trends: AI and blockchain. The firm has had 35 IPOs, including Cerebras, which it incubated in its own offices. Joanne joined almost twelve years ago after being introduced to the firm by co-founder Kathryn Gould. Before venture, she was an engineer, a banker, and even spent a few years on the placement agent side before making the jump to investing. In this episode, we get into how Foundation turns customer conversations into investment ideas, what she found interviewing companies for what she calls The Great Reorg, why raising more capital doesn't mean returning more capital, why she got less attached to outcomes and more attached to growth, and why she thinks venture is a human psychology exercise rather than a pattern-matching one.

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  Howard Morgan | B Capital - On being machine 50 on the ARPANET, the blank check that became Uber, and how to pick great partners

  Jul 8, 202645 min

  Meet Howard Morgan, Chair and General Partner of B Capital and one of the true pioneers of venture capital. Prior to B Capital, Howard co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman, served as founding president of Renaissance Technologies with Jim Simons, and was machine 50 on the ARPANET back in 1973. He spent more than a decade as a professor before going full-time into investing, and over the past 50 years, he has backed some of the world's biggest companies, including Uber, Roblox, and Square. In this episode, we go all the way back to the early internet and why he saw email coming before almost anyone, then into building Renaissance and the decision to split venture from quant. Howard tells the story of how First Round started as essentially two full-time people and returned roughly 50x on its second fund, including the blank check that became Uber and the eight-year-old who pitched the team on Roblox. We also get into why he joined B Capital, why he asks for the bad news first, and the best advice he ever received standing in a computer center in 1965.

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  Micah Rosenbloom | Founder Collective - On firm building, the end of vibes investing, and why it's fricking random

  May 21, 202651 min

  Micah Rosenbloom is a General Partner at Founder Collective, one of the original true seed funds, founded in 2009 before seed was even a recognized category. Before he was a VC, Micah co-founded three companies, including Brontes Technologies, which was acquired by 3M. He then spent four years inside 3M running the acquired business, which gave him something most investors don't have: a real operator's view of what a startup looks like after it lands inside a 65,000-person company. Founder Collective has backed Uber, The Trade Desk, WHOOP, Shield AI, Verkada, Suno, and Airtable across five intentionally small funds. In this episode, we cover why fund size drives every strategic decision that follows, the shift from cottage industry to firm-building and what operators-turned-VCs get right that others are still learning, why the best investments in the portfolio were always that way in the early days and what that means now, the founder psychology required to survive hardware's valley of death, and what staying small when everyone else scaled actually costs, and why Micah would do it again.

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  Paul Klein IV | Browserbase - AI for the internet, headless browsers, and going all in

  May 13, 202638 min

  Meet Paul Klein, founder and CEO of Browserbase. Paul started his career at Twilio, where he saw firsthand what it looked like to make something programmable that wasn't designed to be. He spent time at Mux building headless browser infrastructure before founding Browserbase himself and taking it from zero to Series B in under 18 months. The company is backed by Kleiner Perkins, CRV, and Notable Capital, with customers including Ramp, Stripe, Vanta, and Vercel using Browserbase to power their agents across the web. In this episode, we get into why the web wasn't built for agents and what Browserbase does about it, the better lesson, and why rebuilding the internet for AI is probably a temporary hack, what solo founding at Series B actually looks like, why he hires for agency and judgment over credentials, and why optionality is a curse.

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