Silicon Street

About Silicon Street

A podcast on venture capital, technology, and entrepreneurship geared towards college students and young professionals. Silicon Street was co-founded by two students at the University of Notre Dame with the goal of making it easier for young people to understand the private investing and technology ecosystems.

Publisher

Nick Cutler and Matty Vallace

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jul 2020

Latest episode

9 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 81 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Building a Career in Growth Equity

   Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital, discusses his career progression in growth equity, Volition's investment philosophy, and provides advice for aspiring investors in an interview.

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   6 Mar 2025

   Investing Across Diversified Venture Opportunities

   Mike Joslin, partner at 1842 Fund, shares his venture capital experiences across corporate VC, venture studios, and fund-of-funds, offering guidance on entering venture capital investing in this interview.

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   20 Mar 2024

   Understanding Ethics, Developments, and Outlooks on Artificial Intelligence

   Dr. John Behrens is the Director of the Technology and Digital Studies Program as well as the Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining Notre Dame, Dr. Behrens spent 20 years in industry where he held several executive positions at large tech firms like Cisco and Pearson, where he was most recently the Vice President of AI Product Development. Before working at these firms, John was a tenured professor at Arizona State where he taught educational data science. Dr. Behren now focuses on preparing current and future leaders to successfully transition through the technology, AI, and data revolutions. In this podcast, we discuss the ethical implications of the AI revolution and anticipated impacts of AI on society, as well as some suggestions for prompt engineering.

Inside a recent episode

Building a Career in Growth Equity

Published 9 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that can be other private equity funds buying in, it could be a strategic acquisition from a, you know, other private company or public company, or if they have enough scale, you can even IPO as an exit. Yeah, so to kind of follow up on that, could you maybe explain to the listeners why growth equity firms like volition take a minority stake in these found out companies and then secondly, how involved does volition get in these company's operations? Yeah, great question. So why minority? If you think about like the definition of growth equity, we're investing in growth stage businesses. So there's always like the founder believes in we believe that there's a bigger opportunity for this business. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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