
Very True by Verissimo
Hosted by Alex Oppenheimer and Alex · Alex
5.0from 12 ratings
- 43
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Very True by Verissimo
Brought to you by Verissimo Ventures, The Very True Podcast features candid startup insights and conversations with early-stage founders, operators, and investors shaping the future of tech. From behind-the-scenes startup stories to hard-earned lessons on fundraising, scaling, and staying resilient, each episode offers a window into what it really takes to build something bold.
- Publisher
- Alex
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jul 2025
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 43 episodes have a transcript.

19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cool People Have Cool Hobbies - How to Become an Expert in Anything with Tim Lim

6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Software in Its Final Form? Innovation, Commoditization, and Why Alex De Simone Left AWS

30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Good Video Looks Effortless (and Isn't)
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Cool People Have Cool Hobbies - How to Become an Expert in Anything with Tim Lim
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then you learn, you know, whether it's the influence of the barrel or the influence of the corn or the other components of bourbon that you like. And then you kind of, okay, then learn, okay, what made this, what elements made this bottle something that I like? And then you kind of go down that channel. So whether it's the way in which it was produced, whether it's ingredients that we used, the way it was aged, how long it was aged, you then take that and you kind of discover. And I will say for me, especially with something like whiskey, it really was so helpful to learn from other people. […]
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- Tim Lim
- Alex De Simone
- Itai Joseph
- Nick Greenfield
- Yaron Hadad
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- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 11 ratings
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Who hosts Very True by Verissimo?
Alex Oppenheimer and Alex host the show. Published by Alex.
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