
Fireside with a VC
Hosted by Andrew Romans and [Host Name] · Andrew Romans
4.4from 7 ratings
- 141
- Episodes
- 42
- Transcribed
- 7
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 45K
- YouTube views
About Fireside with a VC
Andrew Romans, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital, 3x author, and university professor, talks to VCs, founders and other VC-startup ecosystem players about all things venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, CVC, and big corporate tech titans.
- Publisher
- Andrew Romans
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
42 of 141 episodes have a transcript.

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
E135: Category Creators—The Secret to Venture Success | Eric Ver Ploeg of Tunitas Ventures

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E135: Category Creators—The Secret to Venture Success | Eric Ver Ploeg of Tunitas Ventures
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Does the customer get an experience that they could never have gotten any other way? And it's the flip side of what Clay Christensen calls targeting non-consumption. So you have a new technology or a new vehicle for delivering value. Don't go try to fight against the incumbents. You're fighting against what you want to do is fight against a place where the existing solutions are so terrible that you are like a breath of fresh air on a dank evil night. And then the second part of it is there has to be a defensible business model. slightly tongue-in-cheek, call this like the advice to entrepreneurs to not grow wheat, right? […]
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- Eric Ver Ploeg
- Chris Wilkerson
- Arthur Bavelas
- Tyson Tuttle
- Barry DiRaimondo
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- YouTube views
- 44,877
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
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- Quality
- 62
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 67
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