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<p>The Winners Welcome Podcast, by Harlem Capital, brings elite founders and top investors into thoughtful conversations on pushing past possible, sharing the conviction, standards, and lessons behind building generational companies.</p><p></p><p>Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm that backs the next generation of winners. The firm partners with exceptional founders with the irrational motivation to build generational companies. All Winners Welcome.</p><p></p><p>We’d love to hear from you. Share your feedback at <a href="mailto:info@harlem.capital" target="_blank">info@harlem.capital</a> or DM us @HarlemCapital, and if you’re enjoying the podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review.</p>
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May 27, 2026
Inside Espa AI: How Deon Nicholas Raised $115M to Build AI
<p>In this episode of Winners Welcome, we sit down with Deon Nicholas, founder and CEO of Espa AI, the AI executive assistant built for founders, operators, and anyone trying to achieve more. Before Espa, Deon founded Forethought, where he raised over $115M and became one of the earliest leaders in AI customer service, well before the current AI wave.Deon shares how he first got into AI as a high school intern in 2009, why he believes we're entering a consumer renaissance powered by agentic AI, and what he's seeing now that most people haven't caught onto yet. We also get into how he thinks about talent in the age of AI, the humility-confidence balance every founder needs, what it takes to build a personal brand as a technical founder, and why Espa is designed to make executive-level support accessible to everyone, not just the top 1%.Subscribe for more conversations with founders, operators, and investors building what's next.Our podcast is sponsored by Gunderson Dettmer #PoweredByGundersonTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:08 Raising $115M Pre-AI, Pre-Pandemic1:27 Discovering AI in High School in 20094:00 Building His First AI Learning Tool5:43 From Waterloo to Silicon Valley7:17 Why Customer Service Became the First Big AI Market9:38 Founding Forethought and Winning TechCrunch Disrupt10:40 The Aha Moment Behind Espa and Agentic AI13:38 How Deon Uses Espa Every Day15:51 Going Zero to One Again in a New AI Era17:55 Competitive Programming and the Roots of Grit22:40 How to Recruit World-Class Talent27:55 The Long-Term Vision for Espa30:28 Storytelling, Brand, and Becoming the Face of a Company33:43 Building an Authentic Personal Story as a Founder36:08 Where to Find EspaMore on Deon:https://www.linkedin.com/in/deon-nicholas/Check out Espa AI:https://espa.ai/More on Gabby:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellecazeau/More on Brandon:https://harlem.capital/team/brandon-bryanthttps://www.youtube.com/@Wallstreetpaperhttps://x.com/wallstreetpaperThe Winners Welcome Podcast, by Harlem Capital, brings elite founders and top investors into thoughtful conversations on pushing past possible, sharing the conviction, standards, and lessons behind building generational companies.Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm that backs the next generation of winners. The firm partners with exceptional founders with the irrational motivation to build generational companies. All Winners Welcome.We’d love to hear from you. Share your feedback at info@harlem.capital or DM us @HarlemCapital, and if you’re enjoying the podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review.</p>
May 13, 2026
Inside Replit: From Coding Tool to $9B AI Platform
<p>In this episode, Aman Mathur joins us to unpack how AI is reshaping the way software gets built. We talk about what’s changed inside Replit as the platform has scaled, why AI agents are lowering the barrier to creation, and what it takes to move from experimenting with prompts to actually shipping real products. The conversation also explores the future of software creation as design, development, and deployment become increasingly compressed into one workflow.Aman Mathur is a product leader at Replit, where he has helped drive the company’s product strategy during a period of rapid growth and major AI breakthroughs. Replit is building an AI-powered platform that helps anyone create and launch software faster, from first-time builders to large enterprise teams, with a broader mission of bringing the next generation of software creators online.Our podcast is sponsored by Gunderson Dettmer #PoweredByGundersonTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:04 Aman's Background and Replit's Growth2:00 From Education Tool to AI-Powered Platform3:47 Early Days at Replit: What Went Right and Wrong5:11 Who Is Building on Replit Today6:04 From Side Project to Revenue: The New Builder Economy6:40 The Agent Timeline: Agent 1 Through Agent 410:39 The Design Canvas Explained13:01 How the Agent Thinks: Context, Projects, and Outputs14:04 Enterprise Adoption and the Fortune 50016:43 The Pressure of Hypergrowth17:38 Replit's Operating Principles and Culture20:05 The Vision: A Billion Software Creators22:27 Building on Mobile: What's Possible From Your Phone26:22 What's Next for AI Agents in the Next 12 to 18 Months28:26 Advice for Builders: Just StartMore on Aman:https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-mathur/More on Brandon:https://harlem.capital/team/brandon-bryanthttps://www.youtube.com/@Wallstreetpaperhttps://x.com/wallstreetpaperThe Winners Welcome Podcast, by Harlem Capital, brings elite founders and top investors into thoughtful conversations on pushing past possible, sharing the conviction, standards, and lessons behind building generational companies.Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm that backs the next generation of winners. The firm partners with exceptional founders with the irrational motivation to build generational companies. All Winners Welcome.We’d love to hear from you. Share your feedback at info@harlem.capital or DM us @HarlemCapital, and if you’re enjoying the podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review.</p>
April 29, 2026
Inside Lava: Mitchell Jones Predicting the Future of AI Agents
<p>Today’s conversation with Mitchell Jones covers what most founders miss: survival comes first. We unpack second-time founder advantages, fundraising psychology, and long-term trust with investors. And we go deep on why AI agents demand a new payments infrastructure.Mitchell Jones is a fintech founder building Lava Payments, a modern payments infrastructure company focused on enabling faster, more flexible capital movement for businesses. Before launching Lava Payments, Mitchell Jones co-founded Lendtable, a fintech platform designed to help employees access capital to participate in employer-sponsored benefit programs.Our podcast is sponsored by Gunderson Dettmer #PoweredByGundersonTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:00 Mitchell Jones’ Background and Founder Journey2:02 What Mitchell Learned From Building Lendtable6:41 The Three Biggest Founder Lessons From His First Startup8:24 The Pros and Cons of Being a Second-Time Founder13:19 Why Mitchell Is Building Lava and Betting on AI Payments18:57 How Lava Helps AI Companies Track Usage and Monetize20:27 Fundraising Advice: How to Think Like a VC25:17 What Really Gets an Investor to Say Yes29:44 Why Founders Should Pitch Believers, Not Convince Skeptics32:01 Why Trust Comes Before the Transaction35:24 Mitchell on AI Applications, AGI, and the Future of Companies41:18 Great Man Theory and the Future of AI44:40 OutroMore on Mitchell:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-jones-333559a2More on Brandon:https://harlem.capital/team/brandon-bryanthttps://www.youtube.com/@Wallstreetpaperhttps://x.com/wallstreetpaperThe Winners Welcome Podcast, by Harlem Capital, brings elite founders and top investors into thoughtful conversations on pushing past possible, sharing the conviction, standards, and lessons behind building generational companies.Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm that backs the next generation of winners. The firm partners with exceptional founders with the irrational motivation to build generational companies. All Winners Welcome.We’d love to hear from you. Share your feedback at info@harlem.capital or DM us @HarlemCapital, and if you’re enjoying the podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review.</p>
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