Jason Calacanis interviews the
greatest angel investors on earth.
Presented by:
Entering our 4th season of the Angel Podcast - this season ventures into exclusive terrain: the select pool of VC's with a billion dollar fund. In this new 10 episode mini-series, Jason will interview the world's elite investors, uncovering their secrets to selecting winners, lessons for investors and founders alike, and other strategies that got them to the top of their game.
Sarah Cannon of Index Ventures shares insights on investing in the future of work, underrated emerging startup markets, going from the Obama Administration to Venture Capital, increasing upward mobility in US + more
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Sarah Tavel, Partner at Benchmark shares insights on getting recruited by Peter Fenton, disrupting VC gender norms from the inside, transitioning from operator to investor & more
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
David Cowan, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners shares insights on owning up to his anti-portfolio, understanding sunk cost, top traits for becoming a VC & best Founders & CEOs he's ever worked with.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
500 Startups Co-founder & Managing Partner Christine Tsai shares lessons from her fund’s 10 unicorns & 2200+ startups across 74 countries, what it takes to be a successful founder, achieving a 26% women-led portfolio, greatest hits/misses, & strong leadership through adversity.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Mitch Kapor, Partner at Kapor Capital, shares stellar return results of their portfolio’s first-ever Impact Report, investing with purpose to close gaps & back entrepreneurs with distance traveled & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Dan Rose, Chairman at Coatue Management is leading a $700M early-stage fund, shares insights on working with Bezos & Zuckerberg during pivotal years at Amazon & Facebook, 100+ angel investments, standout founder traits & more
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Ajay Agarwal, Partner at Bain Capital shares insights on culture evolving from sales-driven to product-driven, why enterprise software is the ideal business, best investments & anti-portfolio
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock Partners shares insights on Greylock's "Zero to One" investment thesis, sharpening her decision-making skills, & product as investment criteria & the changing landscape of VC
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Charles Hudson, Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures, shares strategies on the great rewards & risks of pre-seed, betting on founders with unique insight, analyzing market structure vs. size, importance of mobilization to increase SV diversity.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Chris Redlitz, General Partner of Transmedia Capital, shares success of The Last Mile program teaching tech to incarcerated populations, insights from investing/advising in 90+ startups, nurturing networks & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
George Zachary, General Partner at CRV shares insights on cancer scare shifting his focus to investing in health-tech, passing on Google at MDV, CRISPR & "designer babies", coronavirus threat & more!
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Nicole Quinn, Partner at Lightspeed Ventures shares benefits of celebrity founders like Lady Gaga & Gwyneth Paltrow, insights on investing in consumer & power of "Force of Nature" product people
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Jeff Richards of GGV Capital shares lessons for founders & investors from 2008 recession & Dot-com bust, criteria for taking on venture debt, valuing companies in a down market & more
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Matt Ocko, Managing Partner of Data Collective, invests in deep tech with an algorithmic edge, shares decision-making in difficult markets, building a world-class team, the state of Seed in 2019, being brave & taking risks to create a utopian future.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Ben Ling of Bling Capital (prev. Khosla Ventures), shares strategies from 100+ investments & 9 unicorns, qualities of great founders & teams, assessing market opportunities, the art of startup valuations, and much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
Mamoon Hamid, Partner at Kleiner Perkins & expert early investor (Slack, Box, Intercom) on evolving from growth to venture, lessons from founding & leaving Social Capital, exceptional founder qualities, and much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
In part 2, Dave shares insights on favorite business models & products, backing founders with a tangible sense of inevitability, the rise of two internets, democratization of passion, & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Boldstart Founder Ed Sim on 20yrs seeding 50+ enterprise co’s, how his father’s fleeing N. Korea shaped his VC, NYC deep tech, & being 1st $ in to guide founder-product fit to product-market fit to self-sustainability.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital on being a self-taught VC, creating a rocket ship to fund 64+ underrepresented founders in just 2yrs, launching upcoming studio & mastering the art of disciplined investing.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Ryan Hoover, Founder of Weekend Fund & Product Hunt, shares lessons from building his early-stage fund, harnessing excitement for new markets, betting on founders with strong perspectives & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Partner at Blackbird Ventures (Canva, Culture Amp), shares insights on the growth of Australia’s startup ecosystem, valuations outside of SV & benefits for investors, focusing on deep tech & “science nonfiction,” and much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Jeff Clavier, Uncork Capital, on pioneering micro VC, lessons from 200+ investments & 5 funds, strategizing at Seed for Series A crunch, risky ICOs, & the hard-won wisdom of always be raising.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Arjun Sethi, Social Capital on bringing skills as a founder (MessageMe, Lolapps) & Yahoo head of growth to early-stage investing, being candid, taking methodical risks, & the critical importance of rapid-learning, resilient teams
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Dave Morin of Slow Ventures shares insights from 250+ investments (Slack, Pinterest, Twitter), architecting Facebook & building Path, promoting mental health with Sunrise, and much more – Part 1
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Urban.us partners Shaun Abrahamson & Stonly Baptiste seed & support startups to improve cities, solve climate/housing/transportation, & profit in the expanding urban megaregions & TAM.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
View Timestamps
.png)
Satya Patel, Homebrew, on 80+ investments, betting on founders with mission, solving problems over building biz, funding "phases" not stages, portfolio stars, & the critical importance of boards & organizational muscle memory.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund shares insights from ~50 investments focused on solving our biggest challenges, importance of tenacity, momentum, culture to scale & positive communication with investors
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Rob May, investor 45+ co's & founder Talla & Backupify, shares dealbreakers, successful founder patterns, using scar tissue as entrepreneur to be a better angel, creating Talla ICO & future bots, blockchain, & crypto
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Pete Flint, NFX Managing Partner & Trulia Founder, shares insights from entrepreneurship to investing, criteria for $150m seed fund, supporting persistent founders, company-building & culture, targeting markets ripe for disruption, & power of data network effects
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Ask an Angel! Jason Calacanis & Ed Roman answer questions on startup runway concerns, syndicate hit rates, advising best practices, founder updates, due diligence, pro-rata rights, investment legal structures & more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Super angel Gil Penchina has invested in 200+ startups throughout his career (incl. LinkedIn, PayPal). He and Jason riff about founder tenacity, how to deal with failing companies, and getting past your own biases.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Andrea Zurek, XG Ventures (Facebook, Twitter) & angel since 2006, shares startup selection criteria, lessons building Google, ideal terms & valuations, solving problems & finding right combination of money, fortitude & discipline.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Angel & syndicate leader Ed Roman on optimizing for outsized outcomes, leaning on gut & market analysis, not learning the wrong lessons, avoiding fraudulent customers, & swinging for fences (only) in SV.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Zach Coelius, founder-turned-angel & Syndicate leader with a $1b exit after only 2yrs investing, shares insights on advising, hustling, deal flow, & the thrill of first market validation.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Ben Narasin shares his strategy behind 80+ portfolio co's (with 50% Series A conversions & 3 unicorns), proven thesis on successful startups & founders, & betting on the strength of conviction.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Dave Samuel, Freestyle Capital, on the joy & risks of early-stage, qualities of ideal founder, team & product, portfolio favorites, & focused investing as a former entrepreneur.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Pear VC Founding Managing Partner Pejman Nozad shares lessons from selling rugs as an immigrant to seeding 100+ co’s & 6 unicorns, staying disciplined & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Ask an Angel! Jason Calacanis & Brian Alvey answer investor questions on picking startups, evaluating founders, due diligence, how syndicates work, deal terms & much more.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
.png)
Matt Brezina, investor in 65+ startups (Dropbox, Cruise) & founder (Xobni, Sincerely) shares strategies for backing relentlessly resourceful founder-builders & bringing operational value in return.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Spotify
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
Jason Calacanis is a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular weekly podcast This Week in Startups. He's the founder of a series of conferences that bring entrepreneurs together with potential investors.
As a “scout” for top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and later as an angel investor, Jason has invested in 150 early-stage startups including 4 that have achieved billion-dollar valuations (so far).
His book "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups: Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000" will be published by Harper Collins on July 18th, 2017. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Find Jason on the internet:
This Week in Startups: twice-weekly podcast interviewing the most interesting entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley
Jason's Syndicate: Want to become an angel investor? Invest alongside Jason via his syndicate
Follow @jason on twitter
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
.png)
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
.png)
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
.png)
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
E1: "Angel" Podcast Premiere: Cyan Banister, angel investor now Founders Fund VC, shares portfolio hits/misses, deal flow strategies, finding founder-product fit & backing startups that change human behavior
Welcome to the first episode of the "Angel" podcast. In this series, Jason interviews angels about their investment strategies and pulls back the curtain on how early-stage startups get funded. In E1, Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her portfolio successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC. Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.
E1: "Angel" Podcast Premiere: Cyan Banister, angel investor now Founders Fund VC, shares portfolio hits/misses, deal flow strategies, finding founder-product fit & backing startups that change human behavior
Welcome to the first episode of the "Angel" podcast. In this series, Jason interviews angels about their investment strategies and pulls back the curtain on how early-stage startups get funded. In E1, Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her portfolio successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC. Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Super angel Gil Penchina has invested in 200+ startups throughout his career (incl. LinkedIn, PayPal). He and Jason riff about founder tenacity, how to deal with failing companies, and getting past your own biases.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
Andrea Zurek has been an active angel investor since 2006. Ms. Zurek has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek.
Listen to this episode:
iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher
Watch this episode:
YouTube | iTunes
E1: "Angel" Podcast Premiere: Cyan Banister, angel investor now Founders Fund VC, shares portfolio hits/misses, deal flow strategies, finding founder-product fit & backing startups that change human behavior
Welcome to the first episode of the "Angel" podcast. In this series, Jason interviews angels about their investment strategies and pulls back the curtain on how early-stage startups get funded. In E1, Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her portfolio successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC. Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.
E1: "Angel" Podcast Premiere: Cyan Banister, angel investor now Founders Fund VC, shares portfolio hits/misses, deal flow strategies, finding founder-product fit & backing startups that change human behavior
Welcome to the first episode of the "Angel" podcast. In this series, Jason interviews angels about their investment strategies and pulls back the curtain on how early-stage startups get funded. In E1, Cyan Banister, former angel investor (Uber, Thumbtack) now Founders Fund Partner, shares with Jason her portfolio successes & brutal losses, her formula for choosing successful startups & founders, and her journey from angel investor to VC. Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this podcast.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
This theme does everything you could possibly want it to do and not only that, it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
