Dan O’Keefe on the founding of Festivus and secrets of HBO’s Silicon Valley
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinfeld, where the holiday “for the rest of us” is featured in t...
21 Dec 202049min
Jessica Lessin of The Information turned her journalism beat into a business
7 Dec 202052min
How John Bogle started Vanguard Group and invented index funds
23 Nov 202055min
Todd McKinnon's journey taking Okta from $0 to a $25+ billion public company
9 Nov 20201h 6min
How Reid Hoffman convinced us to put our resumes online
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman was one of my first guests on Venture Voice, back in 2006. Even though LinkedIn had 7.2 million users by then, it was still very much a niche platform and had only 56 emp...
26 Okt 202054min
Why Mark Cuban ditched his watch after selling his company
Mark Cuban has built and sold more than one company and invested in plenty of others, but you might be surprised to learn that what he values most is something a lot of entrepreneurs find much more el...
13 Okt 20201h 15min
VV Show #60 – Larry Kramer of MarketWatch
Today’s media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com by resisting pressure to put most content behind a pay wall while n...
27 Sep 20091h 24min
VV Show #59- Barry Silbert of SecondMarket
Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there’s a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an IPO or outright acquisition, there are few options to cash out for the shareholders of eve...
9 Aug 20091h 3min
