ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building. Today’s topic: How do you create a platform that people not only use, but tell their friends about? One that goes beyond just being useful and actually connects deeply with the user? In… Continue reading a16z Podcast : Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans
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This Week in Startups : E1093: Keith Rabois on China’s grand plan, TikTok, Taiwan, Big Tech & more
ABOUT THIS EPISODEFollow Keith: https://twitter.com/rabois Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners…Gusto – 3 months free at https://gusto.com/twistDell for Entrepreneurs – Save up to 48% at https://dell.com/twistLinkedIn Jobs – Get $50 off your first job post at https://www.linkedin.com/twist https://anchor.fm/s/7c624c84/podcast/play/45691873/https:%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-0-4%2F240722543-32000-2-c12ee89480157c71.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Masters of Scale : 10. Let fires burn w/Selina Tobaccowala (Evite, SurveyMonkey, Gixo)
ABOUT THIS EPISODEIt’s the opposite of what you were taught. The best entrepreneurs — they let fires burn. Knowing which problems NOT to solve is as critical as knowing how to solve them. We’re revisiting this episode with serial entrepreneur Selina Tobaccowala (Evite, SurveyMonkey, TicketMaster, Gixo) to underscore the one thing every entrepreneur needs to… Continue reading Masters of Scale : 10. Let fires burn w/Selina Tobaccowala (Evite, SurveyMonkey, Gixo)
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors : SaaStr 353: Unicorns and Decacorns in 2020: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t with Keith Rabois, General Partner at Founders Fund and Jason Lemkin, CEO, and Founder of SaaStr
ABOUT THIS EPISODESaaStr 353: Unicorns and Decacorns in 2020: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t with Keith Rabois, General Partner at Founders Fund and Jason Lemkin, CEO, and Founder of SaaStrKeith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is… Continue reading The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors : SaaStr 353: Unicorns and Decacorns in 2020: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t with Keith Rabois, General Partner at Founders Fund and Jason Lemkin, CEO, and Founder of SaaStr
Zero to IPO : Slack and Pigeonly
ABOUT THIS EPISODESlack and PigeonlyYou’ve taken your product to market, and the response is overwhelming. It’s an overnight success — and more people are interacting with your business than you could have ever imagined. What does strategic growth look like from here?? Who should you partner with? And how do you honor your original mission… Continue reading Zero to IPO : Slack and Pigeonly
Masters of Scale : 62. The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)
ABOUT THIS EPISODETo survive a crisis, you have to double down on who you already are as a company. This is something Ellen Kullman knows, having led DuPont through the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and taken the CEO role at 3D-printing unicorn Carbon only weeks before Covid hit. Through her years as a leader, Ellen has… Continue reading Masters of Scale : 62. The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)
a16z Podcast : What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal
ABOUT THIS EPISODEGiven recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal justice reform (and bestselling author), and Terry Brown, a former police officer in East Palo Alto (who has since run his own security firms) — who, incidentally, both grew… Continue reading a16z Podcast : What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors : SaaStr 338: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Taking Care of Your Team and Your Customers
ABOUT THIS EPISODESaaStr 338: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Taking Care of Your Team and Your CustomersThese are unique times. In some ways, we can use our playbooks, make adjustments, and in other ways, things are very different. What isn’t likely to be very different is that recurring revenue … recurs. This is the bedrock… Continue reading The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors : SaaStr 338: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Taking Care of Your Team and Your Customers
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
ABOUT THIS EPISODEElad Gil is one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and prominent angels of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Square, Airbnb, Pinterest, Instacart, Flexport and Brex to name a few. Prior to solely company investing, Elad was an operator as Founder and CEO @ Color Genomics for their… Continue reading The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
Decoder with Nilay Patel : Recode Decode: Brian Chesky
ABOUT THIS EPISODEAirbnb CEO Brian Chesky returns to Recode Decode to talk with Kara Swisher about how the company is “going back to [its] roots” after the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its IPO; the future of travel and hospitality in a world with way fewer people taking airplanes; and how Airbnb tried to “lead by example”… Continue reading Decoder with Nilay Patel : Recode Decode: Brian Chesky