November 2018 – Listen Hero

Y Combinator : #103 – Michael Seibel

ABOUT THIS EPISODE 103 – Michael Seibel Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch. In this episode Michael comments on five of his essays. The essays are: Why Should I Start a Startup?,… Continue reading Y Combinator : #103 – Michael Seibel

Babbage from The Economist : Babbage: The baby crisperer

ABOUT THIS EPISODEBabbage: The baby crispererA Chinese scientist has claimed to have edited the genomes of two babies using the revolutionary genome-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9. Also, how the production of semiconductors is becoming a new battlefield. And Kenneth Cukier asks the author, technology executive and investor Elad Gil what it takes for a startup to… Continue reading Babbage from The Economist : Babbage: The baby crisperer

Giving : Sam Altman is using technology to make the world better

ABOUT THIS EPISODESam Altman is using technology to make the world betterSam Altman is the president of Y Combinator, the incubator behind hits like Dropbox and AirBnb. Under his watch, YC has become an incredible force for good. They’ve funded dozens of important non-profits, host a groundbreaking universal basic income research lab and run the… Continue reading Giving : Sam Altman is using technology to make the world better

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund

ABOUT THIS EPISODELaura Deming is Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund, the first VC firm dedicated to funding high-potential longevity companies. To date, Laura has raised $26m across 2 Longevity funds and has backed the likes of Unity Biotechnology, Precision Biosciences, Metacrine, Navitor, and Alexo Therapeutics. Prior to Longevity, Laura was accepted to MIT at… Continue reading The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch : 20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund

Fortt Knox : 100 – Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder and Affirm CEO: Disrupting Money (Again)

ABOUT THIS EPISODE100 – Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder and Affirm CEO: Disrupting Money (Again)Max Levchin learned to write code out of necessity. His mother’s necessity, specifically. Levchin co-founded PayPal, reaped a windfall from its IPO and sale, and became one of the best-connected investor/entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. But before all that, he was a teenage… Continue reading Fortt Knox : 100 – Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder and Affirm CEO: Disrupting Money (Again)

FTP Report : What’s a bitcoin?

ABOUT THIS EPISODE@avichal (Avichal Garg is co-founder of Electric Capital) a crypto-currency fund manager, veteran startup co-founder, who has also worked at Google and Facebook joins to explain Bitcoin 101 for us non-computer scientists. https://suryasays.com/podcast-download/1185/episode-2-whats-a-bitcoin.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Village Global’s Venture Stories : Live Episode: The Present and Future of Crypto with Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan

ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this special live episode of Venture Stories, Erik Torenberg interviews two special guests about the present and future of crypto: Naval Ravikant (@naval), CEO and co-founder of AngelList, and Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis), CTO of Coinbase. They start with an overview of the history of organizing societies and the role of centralized decision-makers… Continue reading Village Global’s Venture Stories : Live Episode: The Present and Future of Crypto with Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan

Earnings Season : Dropbox (DBX) Q3 2018 Earnings Call – Drew Houston

ABOUT THIS EPISODEListen to any earnings call on demand with the Borsa Earnings Call mobile app now on the App Store. Download here: bit.ly/FreeQuarterlyEarningsCallsWelcome to Earnings Season. Our goal is to make listening to earnings calls easier. We upload relevant and newsworthy earnings calls for easy listening. To request a company’s earnings call, email borsaHQ@gmail.com.This… Continue reading Earnings Season : Dropbox (DBX) Q3 2018 Earnings Call – Drew Houston

Village Global’s Venture Stories : Live Episode: Eric Schmidt and Tyler Cowen on The Future of Technology and Society

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis is a special episode of Venture Stories recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, featuring Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen), professor of economics at George Mason University and Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt), former executive chairman and CEO at Google/Alphabet. Cowen talks to Schmidt about a wide range of topics, from Schmidt’s college… Continue reading Village Global’s Venture Stories : Live Episode: Eric Schmidt and Tyler Cowen on The Future of Technology and Society

Month: November 2018