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Turpentine VC · Business

Turpentine VC

On Turpentine VC, host and venture capitalist Erik Torenberg delves deep into the art and science of building successful venture firms through conversations with the world’s best investors and operators. Hear about insider strategies on decision-making, investment theses, and building firms for the long term—from the ground-level, VC to VC. Guests in season 1 include Ben Horowitz of a16z, Mamood Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins, and Alfred Lin of Sequoia.

Episodes

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Frank Rotman's Lessons Investing in FinTech and Crypto

06 Feb 2024
1h 12m
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Building a Multi-Billion-Dollar Asset Management Firm with CoVenture's Ali Hamed

30 Jan 2024
58m
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Tomasz Tunguz on the Theory Behind Theory Ventures

23 Jan 2024
53m
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Phin Barnes on Unbundling VC

16 Jan 2024
1h 22m
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Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on Reinventing Venture

09 Jan 2024
57m
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Katherine Boyle on Building a16z’s American Dynamism Practice

02 Jan 2024
1h 17m
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Union Square Venture’s Rebecca Kaden on How the Firm Develops Their Theses

26 Dec 2023
53m
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Union Square Ventures (USV) maintains a consistent, small-partnership model that prioritizes consensus-driven decision-making and high-conviction, idea-led investing over massive asset accumulation. Managing partner Rebecca Kaden emphasizes that the firm’s success relies on a "thinker-first" approach, where partners id...

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Sam Lessin on What's Going to Happen to VC in 2024

19 Dec 2023
58m
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Elad Gil on AI, Crypto, and What’s Next

12 Dec 2023
57m
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Successful venture building requires navigating the "idea maze" by prioritizing "lifelong doing" over passive learning, often scaling expertise by hiring operators who possess the necessary skills for the next stage of growth. Market opportunities frequently emerge from technological or regulatory discontinuities, such...

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Lessons From Co-founding First Round, Idea Lab, and B Capital with Howard Morgan

06 Dec 2023
54m
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Logan Bartlett on Carving Out a Spot in Venture

28 Nov 2023
1h 1m
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A Deep Dive into Thrive Capital's Investment Strategy

15 Nov 2023
1h 5m
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How Benchmark Thinks About Venture in 2023

07 Nov 2023
1h 28m
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Benchmark’s venture capital model centers on a lean, partner-centric structure that prioritizes deep, long-term commitment to founders over the administrative overhead of platform teams. By maintaining a small, equal partnership, the firm ensures that general partners remain directly involved in critical company-buildi...

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An Inside Look Into Sequoia's Strategy & Operations, with Alfred Lin

31 Oct 2023
59m
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Sequoia Capital maintains its 50-year legacy by obsessing over the long term and balancing competing cultural tensions, such as individual performance versus team collaboration. Rather than tracking assets under management, the firm focuses on supporting founders from the initial idea stage through the Sequoia Arc prog...

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Ann Miura-Ko Breaks Down How to Build A Venture Firm in 2023

24 Oct 2023
47m
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No Process, High Conviction — The Iconoclastic Founders Fund DNA

17 Oct 2023
51m
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Will AI Favor Incumbents or Start-Ups? Sam Lessin and Seth Rosenberg Debate

03 Oct 2023
45m
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How Roger Ehrenberg Nets 10x Fund Returns

26 Sep 2023
41m
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How Floodgate Differentiated Again From Thousands of Seed Firms

19 Sep 2023
54m
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Why Susa is Returning to Concentrated Seed Investing

12 Sep 2023
53m
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