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A Venture Roast: Making Venture Capital Great Again

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by Nathaniel J Krasnoff

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Lovingly poking holes in startups, Vc, and Silicon Valley. Venture Capital and Silicon Valley is broken. There are amazing people coming up trying to upend that model, and we're out here putting pen to paper on their visions for the future in long-form 1:1 interviews. If your preferred listening channel is outside of Anchor, and you'd like the reference links covered in the summaries of the podcasts, please go to https://anchor.fm/ventureroast

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Episode thumbnail for Ep. 12 The role of platform in VC with Natalie Sportelli (Lerer Hippeau & Forbes)

December 23, 2020

Ep. 12 The role of platform in VC with Natalie Sportelli (Lerer Hippeau & Forbes)

<p>Natalie Sportelli is the Director of Brand and Content at Lerer Hippeau. She comes from Forbes, where she served as Associate Editor for the Under 30 vertical. She sits on the Junior Advisory Board of tech nonprofit RaisedBy.Us and runs @bywomenvcs, a Twitter handle that amplifies content by women in venture capital. She graduated from Colgate University, where she studied English and History.</p> <p>Lerer's <a href="https://medium.com/lerer-hippeau-ventures/paths-into-venture-capital-decoding-the-vc-platform-role-d5c510225866">Article</a> on the role of Platform &nbsp;</p> <p>Natalie's <a href="https://twitter.com/N_Sportelli">Twitter</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/N_Sportelli">@N_Sportelli</a></p> <p>Medium <a href="https://medium.com/@n_sportelli/a-few-things-ive-learned-about-brand-building-in-venture-capital-5ef27ba58e3f">post</a> on VC brand</p> <p>Natalie's <a href="https://www.nataliesportelli.com/">website</a></p> <p><br></p>

Episode thumbnail for Ep. 11 The Morality Of Venture and How to Pick Winners with Jeremy Kaufmann (Principal at Scale Venture Partners)

November 24, 2020

Ep. 11 The Morality Of Venture and How to Pick Winners with Jeremy Kaufmann (Principal at Scale Venture Partners)

<p><strong>Jeremy focuses on investments across Scale’s technology portfolio with a primary focus on companies adding machine intelligence to business and vertical software, especially in industries untouched by the first decade of SaaS. Jeremy is also excited about frontier technologies including drones, robotics, and novel applications of AI across the IOT stack. His efforts have contributed to investments in KeepTruckin, Solvvy, TechSee, and OM1.</strong><br> <br> <strong>Prior to joining Scale, Jeremy worked on the Sales Strategy and Business Operations team at Salesforce, where he drove initiatives in sales operations, partnerships, and growth, serving as the embedded strategy lead for the SMB business and the sales development organization. Additionally, he worked as a data scientist at Analysis Group, focused on health economics, healthcare outcomes research, and drug pricing. Jeremy started his career as a policy researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he concentrated on consumer credit, college loan accumulation, and education in the age of automation.</strong><br> <br> <strong>Jeremy holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College, where he graduated </strong><strong>summa cum laude</strong><strong>.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Articles and Books Covered:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Geography-Jobs-Enrico-Moretti/dp/0544028058">The New Geography of Jobs</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/110197267X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3E5VMZ3ORGZGZ&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=winners+take+all&amp;qid=1606194624&amp;sprefix=winners+%2Caps%2C453&amp;sr=8-2">Winners Take All</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/economic-impact-venture-capital-evidence-public-companies">Stanford - Impact of Venture Capital</a></p> <p><a href="https://catalyst.com/research_item/saas-investors-mind-the-valuation-gap-growth-at-any-price/">Growth Calculus</a></p>

Episode thumbnail for Ep 10. "Reputation is the skin in the game" with Alex Fayette of ACME Capital

November 17, 2020

Ep 10. "Reputation is the skin in the game" with Alex Fayette of ACME Capital

<p>Alex Fayette is a Principal at ACME Capital, where he focuses primarily on leading investments in early frontier technology companies and early consumer&nbsp;businesses. Alex currently serves as a board observer for Akash Systems, Astra, Ever/Body, IonQ, quip, and Replika, along with two yet-to-be-announced frontier tech investments by ACME. He previously served as a board observer for PillPack, which was acquired in July 2018 by Amazon. Prior to ACME, Alex started his career on the Investment Banking team at J.P. Morgan, working across their Financial Institutions Group in New York City and the Technology, Media &amp; Telecom team in San Francisco. Alex received his B.A. from Yale University and is a former Yale Whiffenpoof. Alex lives in San Francisco.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://betakit.com/clearbanc-raises-300-million-usd-to-take-entrepreneur-funding-model-global/">Article Highlighted in the Episode&nbsp;</a></p>

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Lovingly poking holes in startups, Vc, and Silicon Valley.

Venture Capital and Silicon Valley is broken. There are amazing people coming up trying to upend that model, and we're out here putting pen to paper on their visions for the future in long-form 1:1 interviews.

If your preferred listening channel is outside of Anchor, and you'd like the reference links covered in the summaries of the podcasts, please go to https://anchor.fm/ventureroast

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