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I asked Sophia Amoruso what building Nasty Gal to a $120M+ revenue run rate taught her about building a modern brand in 2026: "The entire experience should be cohesive. It should all feel like the...
Primerย is solving one of the biggest problems in the world today: We are drastically underinvesting in our children. The next 200 years of education are going to look very different from the last ...
Sophia Amoruso bootstrapped her first company to $28 million revenue before it was cool: "Year 1 in 2011 was $75k. It was just me in my step aunt's poolhouse with a hot plate. Year 2 was $250k. I...
I asked Chetan Puttagunta what Benchmark looks for in the founders they back: "The through line is that they have a deep insight on a problem that theyโre really passionate about. Going backwards...
I asked Nikhil Basu Trivedi why he invested in Canva's Seed round in 2014 (last valued at $42 billion): "I look for founders who are obsessed with their product. Always making it better. Continuin...
Up to 40% of public company board meetings are now dedicated to AI. I asked Mike Smith at Footwork what he's seeing with actual AI adoption from serving on multiple public company boards. "It's u...
๐ง๐ New podcast out today with Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi at Footwork In 2020, Nikhil texted Mike asking if heโd ever consider starting a venture firm. Five years later, we sat down to reco...
Chris Hladczuk wants to turn every Hanover Park customer into a raving fan: "To keep growing past your first 5-15 customers, every one needs to be a raving fan of the product. And this is a very ...
"Our goal is to become the default for how fund CFO's adopt AI." I asked Chris Hladczuk at Hanover Park how CFO's are actually using AI today: "There's a lot of noise in the market. There's a bun...
I asked Chris Hladczuk why you should always get on the plane: "Our customers are signing up for a decade-long relationship. You can't build the trust needed for that over a zoom call. If you're ...
This founder just raised $27 million and thinks a reckoning is coming for AI-native service businesses: "I think the reckoning will happen in 2026 for AI-native services businesses that are growin...
Hanover Park just raised $27M to create AI products for investment firms that touch over $100 trillion in assets. AI-native services businesses are the recent model to catch the attention of Silic...
Fund administration is stuck in the stone age. Chris Hladczuk + Hanover Park are on a tear and just raised $27 million toย keep helping investment firms upgrade from duct-taped solutions to the mod...
A lot of teams are building AI features, but AI has a data problem. Unfortunately you can't just Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V data across systems like Postgres and Snowflake. These were all built with very dif...
Spellbook is the fastest growing AI company in Canada. Here's how they launched 100 product experiments in 3 years to find PMF: "We would launch a landing page every two weeks. Our view was if we ...
I asked Scott Stevenson what video games can teach us about building businesses: "There's a book called Playing to Win by Davidย Sirlin. He played professional Street Fighter at the highest level. ...
I asked Scott Stevenson if ChatGPT and Claude are going to replace all the vertical AI tools: "Lawyer's don't actually draft anything from scratch. Especially contracts. They want to start with a ...
Spellbook is the fastest growing AI company in Canada. It also might be the largest company ever built on a Microsoft Word plugin. Spellbook's Co-founder and CEO Scott Stevenson has been in legal ...
Staying on top of tax deadlines sucks. Cool new feature from Fondo making this process much easier for founders.
I asked Chetan Puttagunta about Benchmark's current strategy and how they've adapted to today's funding environment: "We have a $500 million fund. There's four of us. And we're investing at Seed a...
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