The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified

375. Founding Unicorn Startup Alloy, How to Scale a Go To Market Strategy, and The Next 10 Years in FinTech (Laura Spiekerman)

Investor Stories 287: Lessons Learned (Ross, Viswanathan, Alon)

374. Key Drivers in Cloud and Security, Wiz's Unconventional GTM Decision, Insights on Earnings Predictability, and Lessons from Datadog, Discord, Slack and Coalition (Shardul Shah)

In this podcast episode, Shardul Shah from Index Ventures shares valuable insights into venture capital, recounting his career path and the firm's focus on geographic and sector-specific investments. He explores emerging opportunities in cloud infrastructure and security, discusses the challenges of early-stage investi...

Investor Stories 286: Why I Passed (Lefcourt, Hershenson, Viswanathan)

373. Bootstrapping to a Billion Dollar Exit, The History of Options Trading, Competing Against Robinhood, and How to Build a Brokerage Content Machine (Kristi Ross)

Investor Stories 285: Post Mortems (Draper, Lefcourt, Sugden)

372. The $30 Trillion Dollar Market Opportunity, Formulas for Successful Consumer Investing, and The Current Macro Environment(Dan Ahrens)

Investor Stories 284: What's Next (O'Malley, Viswanathan, Schlacks)

371. Are Founders Born or Made?, What it Takes to Raise a Series A in 2023, and Weighing the Balance of Unit Economics vs Growth (Mar Hershenson)

Investor Stories 283: Why I Passed (Mejia Hernandez, Wroblewski, Burnham)

370. Why 8VC's Incubation Model Works, the Most Unique Culture in Venture Capital, and Investing at the Intersection of PE and VC (Drew Oetting)

Investor Stories 282: Strange & Unusual (Viswanathan, Lefcourt, Alon)

369. What Consumer Founders Often Get Wrong, How to Build a Culture that Breeds Creativity, and Scaling Bark to IPO (Henrik Werdelin)

Investor Stories 281: Lessons Learned (Kadavy, Burnham, Hamed)

368. From a Bar Owner to $100M+ ARR, How an Outsider Navigated Silicon Valley, Raising through Peaks and Troughs of Hype Cycles, and How to Select $B startups at the Incorporation Stage (Oz Alon & Nadav Eylath)

Investor Stories 280: What's Next (Jones, Lefcourt, Viswanathan)

367. 2023 Predictions P2: A16Z vs. Tiger, ChatGPT vs. Google, Hot vs. Cool Sectors, and Which Big Tech Companies are Doomed (Ramy Adeeb)

366. 2023 Predictions P1: Web 3.0's Demise, The AI Hype Cycle, Will Elon get the Last Laugh at Twitter, and Should Anti-Trust Take a Bite out of Apple (Ramy Adeeb)

Investor Stories 279: Why I Passed (Nagaraj, O'Malley, Kadavy)

Investor Stories 278: Post Mortems (Khera, Hamed, Viswanathan)