Tech Deciphered

About Tech Deciphered

Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news. To understand what’s really happening behind the surface, join our hosts, Nuno Goncalves Pedro, investor, co-founder and managing partner at Strive Capital, and Bertrand Schmitt, entrepreneur, co-Founder & Chairman at App Annie. They have been each in tech for almost 25 years, are now based in Silicon Valley, having both previously worked and lived in Europe and Asia. With Tech DECIPHERED, discover how the best entrepreneurs pitch, how investors think, and what are the deep trends underlying the tech industry. To learn more about Tech DECIPHERED, head over to www.decipheredshow.com for more info about the podcast, show notes, resources and complete transcripts.

Publisher

Bertrand Schmitt & Nuno G. Pedro

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Mar 2020

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 84 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   81 – The VC-to-English Dictionary: The Meaning to What VCs Do and Say

   Bertrand Schmitt and Nuno Goncalves Pedro decode venture capitalist jargon and actions, offering entrepreneurs insights into navigating investment discussions and understanding VC decision-making.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   80 – The Gate Swings: Government, Frontier Models, and the Open-Weight Counterstrike

   Hosts Bertrand Schmitt and Nuno Goncalves Pedro discuss the evolving landscape of AI regulation, open-weight models, and geopolitical implications in this interview episode.

3. 

   31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   79 – The Cognitive Age

   Bertrand Schmitt and Nuno Goncalves Pedro explore the "Cognitive Age" and how companies compete in a future of abundant intelligence, discussing the shift from knowledge to judgment workers and the enduring human element.

Inside a recent episode

81 – The VC-to-English Dictionary: The Meaning to What VCs Do and Say

Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] All the stated past reasons that we mentioned normally come into three forms at the same time. They're non-falsifiable, right? They're truth in some way. They're not offensive. We don't want to offend you as VCs. And they're option-preserving, which is what we discussed before, right? It keeps us in the option of talking later to you, having a good relationship, either in this company or in a future company that you do, et cetera, et cetera. So that's how I would frame it. There's some research from a bunch of professors. Ilya Srebalev, who was my professor at Stanford, Gompers, Gornal and Kaplan on VC decision-making that consistently find that management team is one of the most important, often the most important criteria for a VC to invest or not invest into a company, but it's also the one that you won't hear about. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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60

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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