High Stakes
Hosted by Paige Soya and Nick Duafala · Paige Soya
5.0from 12 ratings
- 76
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 20K
- YouTube views
About High Stakes
Join seasoned investors and successful start-up founders as they weigh in on topics and trends currently dominating the venture capital space. Each episode brings together a founder and an investor to provoke a deepened understanding of the topic at hand. If you want to learn about how early-stage venture capital investing works, this show is for you.
- Publisher
- Paige Soya
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 76 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Zero Churn, 90% Close Rate: The Customer Journey VCs Look For | Paige Soya & Mike Desai (CEO, Truentity Health)
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How VCs Actually Think About Startup Valuations? | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala & K Street Capital
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Makes a Business VC-Backable? | Paige Soya, Nick Duafala, & Jon Sherry (Alium, Ex-CB Insights)
Inside a recent episode
Zero Churn, 90% Close Rate: The Customer Journey VCs Look For | Paige Soya & Mike Desai (CEO, Truentity Health)
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so at the end of the day, you know, their go live day, they onboard five patients. They feel really good about it. And when we walk out the door, you know, we also have like, okay, here are the things you're going to do tomorrow. And next week, you're going to start recruiting patients again, and then you're going to have them come in on this day. So we give them that entire journey so they know what to expect and what the outcome is ultimately, right? Because all of the pharmacists, they care deeply about their patients, deeply. And they want to make sure that the services they're providing are going to ultimately lead to better patient outcomes. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Mike Desai
- Joseph
- Jose
- Jonathan Sherry
- Joseph Whang
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 20,443
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 71
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Who hosts High Stakes?
Paige Soya and Nick Duafala host the show. Published by Paige Soya.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does High Stakes take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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