Building Webflow, and the No-Code Movement (with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO)
We're joined by Webflow's Co-Founder and CEO, Vlad Magdalin, talking about how he started the company (over a decade, trying three times), how to nail the timing of your startup, and the future of the...
12 Dec 20191h 3min
Early Stage and Enterprise Investing (with Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark)
We are joined by Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner on Benchmark, talking his investment philosophies, enterprise technology trends, and the uniqueness of Benchmark. How is this firm with only five pa...
11 Nov 201954min
Chewse CEO Tracy Lawrence on growing both as a company and a founder
"You can call it paranoia, or you can call it innovation. The language doesn’t matter if the feeling is the same. This is all an experiment I’m running eight years in: How do I update my mindset to wa...
21 Okt 20191h 7min
Marketplaces Deep Dive with Ramesh Johari
We're joined by Stanford professor and senior advisor to Airbnb, Uber, Stitch Fix, and Wave Capital, Ramesh Johari, who is one of the world's leading experts in marketplaces. Ramesh has been advising ...
3 Okt 20191h 12min
How a Startup Studio Works
Ben and David discuss the newest development in the venture ecosystem, startup studios, through the lens of Pioneer Square Labs (which Ben cofounded in 2015). David manages to trick Ben into sitting o...
15 Sep 201954min
The Random Episode: Twitter Commentary and 2019 Survey Feedback
Ben and David couldn’t agree on a topic for this LP episode with the clock winding down to our recording going live... so we decided to “do it live” and commentate on our Twitter feeds haha (and discu...
3 Sep 201947min
Product recruiting and executive search (with Andrew Abramson from Riviera Partners)
We dive into one of the most critical components of company building, recruiting product leaders (and executives in general), with Andrew Abramson of Riviera Partners -- one of the most elite search f...
17 Aug 201951min
Times they are a’changin: Series A is not what it used to be
“If you look at the firms that were traditionally the early-stage ventures firms, the Series-A firms, and you look at their fund sizes and their firm sizes and compositions, it’s changed significantly...
29 Juli 201944min
