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VC Aileen Lee Still Sees the Most Promise in Mundane Tech

Can Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian bring Digg back?

Chris Farmer of SignalFire is betting the venture industry will never look the same

Slow Ventures creates a creators fund, Meta enters the humanoid bot race, and everything else you may have missed

Nirav Tolia is turning to AI to keep things neighborly on Nextdoor

Dub, an app at the intersection of TikTok and Wall Street, has teens talking

As Boom breaks the sound barrier, founder Blake Scholl says supersonic travel is around the corner

Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace on wildfires, insurance, and the unquenchable demand for data centers

Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025

GV CEO David Krane on what it takes to manage 800 investments in five years

Why Lead Edge founder Mitchell Green keeps buying Bytedance shares

How AI is powering a comeback in consumer startups, with Brynn Putnam and Ben Lerer

Marc Lore Has Big Plans for Wonder That Go Beyond Fast Casual

In this episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, host Marc Lore, the founder of Wonder—a fast-growing food delivery and tech company—shares insights into his innovative business model. Wonder operates multiple restaurant cuisines from a single, streamlined kitchen and has recently acquired Grubhub. Lore envisions tr...

Ashton Kutcher Never Wants to See Your Pitch Deck Again

In this episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary from Sound Ventures, a firm managing $1 billion in assets, discuss their successful investment strategies, which include notable companies like Spotify and OpenAI. They delve into the significance of founder-market fit and...

Live from Disrupt: Vinod Khosla Is Optimistic about AI despite the Risks

In this podcast episode, Connie Loizis engages in an insightful conversation with Vinod Khosla about the transformative power of AI and its impact on society, the economy, and tech regulation. Khosla shares an optimistic view on how AI can lower labor costs and create abundance, while also highlighting significant conc...

Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants to Buy TikTok; Here’s His Plan

General Catalyst Layers in Financing to Boost Its Fortunes

A Frustrated Al Gore Compares Climate Pledges to "New Year’s Resolutions"

FTC Chair Lina Khan on Startups, Scaling, and “Innovations in Potential Lawbreaking”

The Ins and Outs of Investing in Europe, according to VC Saul Klein

This podcast episode explores the transformation of Europe's venture capital market into an emerging market, the growing importance of Gulf states as investors in the LP universe, the sources of capital in the private markets, the focus on addressing income inequality, the changing attitude towards venture capital by i...