The Luba Show

Honest, human conversations with interesting minds in tech and beyond.

The Luba Show is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 21 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.

Unknown Host hosts The Luba Show, a business show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #23

  She Backed Twitter. Now She's Betting on Founders Who Are "AI-Pilled.” - Ann Miura-Ko

  Aug 17, 20261h 27m

  Automate Compliance (and get $1,000 off!!) - https://vanta.com/luba Today I walk with Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner of Floodgate. Ann has spent almost 18 years building Floodgate around a deliberately small, non-consensus fund model, made early bets on companies like Lyft and TaskRabbit, and teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford, and now she's watching AI rewrite the lean startup playbook in real time. She gets into the AI agent inside one portfolio company that quietly caught millions of dollars in missed credit, and why she believes not losing is not the same as winning. We get into: • Why she waited nearly 18 years to grow Floodgate's fund size, and how staying small means a $1 billion exit still moves the needle for her investors • Making debate opponents cry for a slice of pizza, and the permission that gave her to be disagreeable for the rest of her career • SmarterDx, the company she couldn't get other investors to take seriously at Series A, that went on to exit for over $1 billion • The math behind "founder friendly" investing, and why a $100M exit barely registers against a $1 billion fund So much more! TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Ann Miura-Ko, Co-Founding Partner, Floodgate (01:35) Making debate opponents cry for a slice of pizza (05:41) Truth-seeking VS defending your ego (11:12) How Mike Maples treated her as an intellectual equal from day one (18:04) Being told she was "average" before finding her calling (26:07) How AI is rewriting the lean startup playbook (36:35) Floodgate's bet to stay small while other firms scale up (39:53) The AI agent that caught millions in missed credits (46:43) SmarterDx: the $1B exit no other investor wanted (48:49) The real math behind a "founder friendly" investor (53:55) Category design and why Lyft had to break the law to launch (1:08:39) The Toyota Corolla he drove for 25 years to buy her a piano (1:11:53) Being the only woman in her electrical engineering class (1:16:37) Turning 50 and her year of saying yes Follow Ann LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiura/ X: https://x.com/annimaniac Follow Luba Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/ X: https://x.com/LubaYudasina

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  Episode #21

  She Raised $100M+ to Freeze Humans — Laura Deming (Until)

  Jul 30, 20261h 2m

  Today I walk with Laura Deming, co-founder of Until, a cryopreservation company in San Francisco. Laura got interested in longevity at eight, started working in Cynthia Kenyon's lab at UCSF at 12, and spent years backing the field as an investor through the Longevity Fund. She now builds technology to pause biological time, starting with donor organs and building toward whole-body medical hibernation. We get into: -The conference talk she was not supposed to give, and how it ended her VC chapter -What "transcend death" actually means once you press on it, tested with a teleporter to Mars -Why San Francisco kills intuition, and the breakdown in her mid-20s that made her protect hers -The big magnet, and rewarming an organ in about a minute -Why transplant patients live inside a two-hour radius with a pager on them at all times so much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Trailer 00:00:48 Intro 00:01:35 "I love science" and the things that have stayed constant 00:05:13 A childhood without rules and reconstructing what normal means 00:07:03 What is actually worth preserving when a person dies 00:13:00 The Dreaming Machine and the film that never got made 00:19:02 When you could not say the word aging out loud in the lab 00:22:55 Emailing Cynthia Kenyon at 12 and the day her life started 00:28:49 The talk that made her leave VC for cryo 00:32:39 San Francisco as an intuition killer 00:35:04 Molecules in clockwork synchrony and feeling loved by the universe 00:44:39 The big magnet and rewarming an organ in about a minute 00:46:19 The two-hour radius and the pager that runs a transplant patient's life 00:53:50 Her best arguments against her own work 00:58:44 The teleporter to Mars and what dies in the process 01:01:42 Outro Follow Laura X: https://x.com/LauraDeming?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-deming-b255362a/ Website: https://www.untillabs.com/ Follow Luba I Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/ X: https://x.com/LubaYudasina

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  Episode #20

  The Investor Who Backed 10 Unicorns Explains the AI Bubble - Avichal Garg (Electric Capital)

  Jul 23, 20262h 2m

  Today I sit down with Avichal Garg, co-founder and General Partner at Electric Capital. Avichal has built and sold companies, worked inside early Google and Facebook, served as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, and now backs founders across crypto and frontier tech. We get into: -Why founders are more like artists than operators -What actually compounds a person's trajectory -His "software eating money" thesis behind Electric Capital -Why honesty ends up being the real edge in venture so much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Trailer 00:00:44 Intro 00:01:00 Watches, luxury markets, and the AI parallel 00:12:48 Opportunity is a luxury 00:14:43 Founders as artists, not just operators 00:18:26 Authenticity and cutting through market noise 00:24:38 Betting on outliers as a life philosophy 00:37:58 Storytelling as a founder superpower 00:55:41 How Elad Gil helped launch Electric 01:07:55 Why crypto was the wedge for Electric 01:19:28 Why he prefers market corrections 01:31:00 The firms Electric was modeled after 01:36:21 Honesty as the core operating principle 01:42:15 Over-committing resources to founders 01:51:03 Dodging SBF and reading fake authenticity 02:01:40 Outro Follow Avichal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/avichalgarg/ X: https://x.com/avichal?lang=en Follow Luba Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/ X: https://x.com/LubaYudasina

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  Episode #20

  The Investor Who Backed 10 Unicorns Explains the AI Bubble - Avichal Garg (Electric Capital)

  Jul 23, 20262h 2mS0

  <p>Today I sit down with Avichal Garg, co-founder and General Partner at Electric Capital. Avichal has built and sold companies, worked inside early Google and Facebook, served as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, and now backs founders across crypto and frontier tech.</p><p>We get into:</p><p>-Why founders are more like artists than operators</p><p>-What actually compounds a person's trajectory</p><p>-His "software eating money" thesis behind Electric Capital</p><p>-Why honesty ends up being the real edge in venture</p><p>so much more!</p><p>Timestamps</p><p>00:00:00 Trailer<...

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  Episode #19

  $6.8B GovTech Founder On Why Most Startups Fail Selling to Government - Ben Rudolph

  Jul 16, 202657 min

  Today I'm talking to Ben Rudolph, co-founder and CTO of Peregrine Technologies, to trace his path from Stanford gymnastics to building one of the fastest-growing companies in government technology. They discuss his time at the UN working with refugees, the 18 months he and co-founder Nick Noone spent embedded inside a police department, surviving the early "wilderness" of company building, and how Peregrine grew into a multi-billion dollar business. The conversation also covers leadership lessons, company values, and balancing fatherhood with running a fast-scaling company. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Trailer 00:01:18 Intro 00:01:21 Stanford gymnastics and meeting Nick 00:09:06 Working with refugees at the UN 00:16:20 Deciding to start the company 00:19:10 Moving into a police department for 18 months 00:26:44 Where the Peregrine name comes from 00:31:23 Winning the California RFP 00:41:47 Growth from wilderness to product-market fit 00:44:58 Biggest mistake and hardest lessons as a leader 00:48:39 Becoming a father while scaling the company 00:48:52 How Peregrine uses AI internally and externally 00:56:01 Life philosophy and closing thoughts 00:57:00 Outro Links: Ben Rudolph Website: https://www.benrudolph.info/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__benrudolph/?hl=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brudolph Luba Yudasina Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa X: https://x.com/LubaYudasina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/

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