We The Builders

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We The Builders is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 43 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.

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  E30: Sunil Dhaliwal, Founder of Amplify Partners on Lessons from 27 Years in VC

  May 21, 20261h 58mS0

  <p>Intro</p><p>Sunil Dhaliwal has been in investing for 27 years, he was a General Partner at Battery Ventures for 14 years before starting Amplify Partners. He founded Amplify 13 years ago with the thesis of backing technical founders. Interestingly, the “business guy” was more investable back in the 2010/11 era.</p><p>Amplify is an investor in companies like Datadog, Fastly, Recursion, Chai Discovery, Langchain, Anchorage Digital, Covariant, Runway ML, Temporal, Luma AI to name a few. These are either publicly traded or have privately achieved unicorn valuations.</p><p>They have launched a dedicated bio fund after their latest $900m fund...

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  E29: Todd Klein, Managing Partner at Revolution Growth on VC, AI, Board Meetings and Hollywood

  May 14, 20261h 19mS0

  <p>Intro</p><p>Todd Klein is a currently a Managing Partner at Revolution Growth, a VC firm founded by Steve Case. He has been in venture investing for over 25 years, his notable investments include companies like AirBnB, CAVA, Square, Pinterest, CustomInk. </p><p>Watch on YouTube:</p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>00:00 - Introduction 01:44 - What have you changed your mind on?03:19 - How capital has become a commodity?05:28 -Why truly talented founders are a rare asset? 07:11 - How founders must evolve through personality transformations? 09:56 - The extraordinary velocity of job obsolescence 13:55 - Has the software industry gotten too big? 15:08...

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  E28: Christian Keil, Partner at A16Z on Lessons from Scaling Astranis and Traits of Elite Operators

  May 12, 20261h 19mS0

  <p>Intro</p><p>I first met Christian Keil over Twitter/X DMs probably 3 years ago or so. He started building the Astranis media function in public, he was the face of it as he figured out Twitter and video in real time. When he joined, they were a team of 50 and by the time he left they were about 500 people. </p><p>How to be an elite operator at a startup? Take on more projects. I agree with Christian on this and can relate. Some of them become whole orgs, Christian was hired for a finance job, got looped...

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  E27: Jonathan Lacoste, Founder of SpaceVC on Building & Investing in Frontier Tech & His Own Founder Journey

  May 1, 20261h 34mS0

  <p>Intro</p><p>Jonathan Lacoste, is the founder of SpaceVC, a pre-seed frontier tech fund with at least a 20% unicorn hit rate, this is my observation based on publicly reported valuations of the companies listed on their website. </p><p>Before starting his fund, Jonathan was an entrepreneur, he dropped out of college to start his company Jebbit for which he raised for $90m and successfully exited to BlueConic. Their product was similar to a better version of SurveyMonkey or Qualtrix, like a Canva and SurveyMonkey fusion. Highlight of the company was that they sold billions of questions in...

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  E26: Matt Ocko, Cofounder DCVC on Lessons from 30+ Years in DeepTech Venture Capital

  Apr 28, 20261h 32mS0

  <p>Intro</p><p>Matt Ocko is the Cofounder and Co-Managing Partner of DCVC, a firm he started with Zachary Bogue 16 years ago. Matt started his career at Oracle and then went on to join a $1B AUM fund called Helix Investments in the 90s where he learnt the lesson that venture is 90% people from Ben Webster. </p><p>Matt coined the term “deeptech” almost a quarter of a century ago with Steve Jurvetson on a late 1999 winter night when they were talking about quantum computing being an investable category. </p><p>DCVC has been investing in deeptech since its ince...

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