
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


Building a Multi-Billion-Dollar Asset Management Firm with CoVenture's Ali Hamed

Tomasz Tunguz on the Theory Behind Theory Ventures

Phin Barnes on Unbundling VC

Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on Reinventing Venture

Katherine Boyle on Building a16z’s American Dynamism Practice

Union Square Venture’s Rebecca Kaden on How the Firm Develops Their Theses
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...

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

Elad Gil on AI, Crypto, and What’s Next
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...

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

Logan Bartlett on Carving Out a Spot in Venture

A Deep Dive into Thrive Capital's Investment Strategy

How Benchmark Thinks About Venture in 2023
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...

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

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

No Process, High Conviction — The Iconoclastic Founders Fund DNA

Will AI Favor Incumbents or Start-Ups? Sam Lessin and Seth Rosenberg Debate

How Roger Ehrenberg Nets 10x Fund Returns

How Floodgate Differentiated Again From Thousands of Seed Firms

Why Susa is Returning to Concentrated Seed Investing
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