Every day, Jason Calacanis and Molly Wood cover startups, technology, markets, media, crypto, and the all the hottest topics in business and tech. They also interview the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors and innovators.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 52 days 15 hours 42 minutes
E1002: Wealthfront CEO & Co-founder Andy Rachleff on hitting escape velocity at Wealthfront, pioneering “self-driving money” for consumers, shares insights on product-building in 1980’s vs. today, best investor attributes, & the future of NextGen banking
1:08 Jason intros Andy Rachleff
2:20 Where is Wealthfront at currently?
4:44 How are traditional money managers allowed to get away with so much?
10:19 How has Andy dealt with becoming the elder statesmen at his company?
14:15 What are Wealthfront Cash Accounts?
18:27 Wealthfront's long term vision
23:49 What is high-revenue retention? How does Wealthfront maintain it?
27:44 How has Silicon Valley changed since Andy started at Benchmark?
32:10...
E1001: Eight Sleep CEO & Co-founder Matteo Franceschetti pioneered “sleep-fitness” with smart heating & cooling technology; shares insights on product iteration, delighting customers, innovating in D2C, raising $40M from LAUNCH, Founders Fund, Craft & mor
1:03 Jason's thoughts on the exploding DTC movement
4:10 How Jason discovered Eight Sleep
7:15 Jason intros Matteo Franceschetti
8:18 Matteo describes starting Eight Sleep and The Pod
15:48 What was Matteo's history before Eight Sleep
16:27 What did Matteo learn from his prior career in Solar Energy?
20:11 What has Matteo learned about users' sleep through data analysis
22:54 How does the thermo alarm work?
26:52 What is Eight Sleep doing with...
E1000: 1000th Episode Retrospective! Jason & TWiST lifers Lon Harris, Brian Alvey, & Tyler Crowley re-live favorite moments & guests, highlighting innovations in podcasting & tech over the last decade, hitting global trends & what’s in store for the next
1:10 Jason intros episode 1000 + Brian Alvey & Lon Harris
3:58 "Money is the Root of All Evil" theme song
5:22 What were the first few episodes of TWiST like?
6:27 What is working with Jason like?
7:49 Tyler joins the show from Thailand and shares his history with TWiST
10:55 Brian gives his experience being the first guest on TWiST
11:59 Historic Clip: Gary Vaynerchuk on E24
18:12 History of podcasting as an industry
26:30 Historic Clip: Travis...
E999: ROOM CEO & Co-founder Brian Chen is building phone booths for the modern office, shares insights on maximizing open floor plans, partnering with Calm to reduce stress at work, maintaining capital efficiency as a hardware startup
0:53 Jason intros Brian Chen
1:15 Brian demos ROOM’s collaboration with Calm
2:42 How did ROOM get their room...
E998: The Next Unicorns: Benchling CEO & Co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara is increasing efficiency for scientists with a cloud-based platform, gives insights on recent life-science innovations, ethics of gene therapy & defining the line between quackery &
0:53 Jason intros Sajith Wickramasekara
1:40 What does Benchling do?
2:24 How did Sajith get into life science?
6:55 Benchling's value proposition for scientists
9:04 How do they charge?
10:43 Is Chamath Palihapitiya the most famous Sri Lankan in the US?
13:25 Why immunotherapy is the most exciting development in life science
19:00 3D Printing & harvesting organs in other species
20:50 Ethics of editing a human embryo
28:19 How did the...
E997: HubSpot CEO & Co-founder Brian Halligan shares insights on the origin of inbound marketing, how The Grateful Dead inspired HubSpot, importance of customer experience, managing employees in the Glassdoor Era & more
0:52 Jason intros Brian Halligan
1:35 Brian describes how his job has changed as HubSpot has scaled
3:33 Jason asks Brian about buying Jerry Garcia's guitar "Wolf"
4:42 Jason & Brian reminisce over Grateful Dead shows at Giants Stadium
6:36 How the Grateful Dead pioneered "Inbound Marketing" & inspired HubSpot
15:24 How Brian met his Co-founder Dharmesh Shah
17:04 The original idea behind HubSpot
19:18 Ray Ozzie's impact on HubSpot & Brian
25:34...
E996: Clearbit CEO & Co-founder Alex MacCaw is creating god-mode for marketers with Clearbit X, gives insights on dynamic customer targeting, prioritizing profitability over valuation, GDPR’s adverse effect on Facebook & Google, value of aggregated data &
0:58 Jason intros Alex MacCaw
2:26 What is Clearbit?
8:53 What are some Clearbit use cases?
12:48 Benefits of cashflow positivity in terms of fundraising
15:39 How Jason felt about Alex Tew’s Calm investor updates
18:59 GDPRs effect on Clearbit and the industry as a whole
27:37 How did Alex go from anti-coaching to benefitting from a CEO coach?
32:49 Alex’s experience finding a CEO coach from Naval Ravikant
34:22 What did Alex learn about company...
E995: The Next Unicorns: NEXT Trucking CEO & Co-founder Lidia Yan brings trucking into the digital age with her two-sided marketplace, shares insights on finding & focusing on an untapped market, owning & innovating drayage, navigating the trucking indust
0:55 Jason intros Lidia Yan
5:03 Lidia describes getting into the trucking industry and why NEXT focuses on "drayage"
13:29 How NEXT has revolutionized drayage shipping
18:22 What is a typical shipping broker's take rate
20:54 How does pricing work in the trucking industry?
27:28 How do trucking companies measure their driver's hours?
29:41 Issues within the trucking industry?
35:14 Did trucking lose employees to ride-sharing?
39:20 How NEXT...
E994: All Turtles CEO Phil Libin shares his state machine that answers all growth questions; Future of Early-Stage VC w/Pete Flint (NFX), Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Ventures), Dave Samuel (Freestyle Capital); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Lever CTO Nate Smit
1:03 Jason intros Phil Libin from LAUNCH Scale 2019
1:51 Phil Libin on "The State Machine that Answers All Growth Questions"
32:40 Jason joins Phil on stage for Q&A
39:56 Jason intros Phil (NFX), Rebecca (Canvas Ventures) & Dave (Freestyle Capital)
41:34 Transitioning from founder to VC
44:08 How to let a founder know when they are headed down the wrong path
47:42 At what stage does a founder have to change their mindset?
49:49 Dave Samuel on Airtable...
E993: Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra shares the formula for his Product-Market Fit Engine; Future of Angel Investing w/Jeff Clavier (Uncork), Ben Ling (Bling), Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund); plus LAUNCH Scale Partner Talk w/Help Scout VP of Sales Tim
0:48 Jason intros Rahul Vohra
3:21 Rahul gives a talk on building a "Product-Market Fit Engine"
29:42 Rahul takes questions from the LAUNCH Scale audience
37:28 Jason intros the "Future of Angel Investing" panelists: Ben Ling (Bling Capital), Clara Brenner (Urban Innovation Fund) & Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital)
38:54 Has Silicon Valley reached peak entitlement?
41:44 Is "too much $ chasing too few companies" the new normal in VC
45:47 How important is price &...