Smart Venture Podcast

Shiva Rajaraman is the VP of Product at OpenSea, where he leads a team of designers and product managers to build the top NFT trading platform. Prior to OpenSea he worked as the VP of Commerce at Met…

Jeff Zirlin (Jiho) is the co-founder and growth lead at Sky Mavis. Sky Mavis is revolutionizing how people play, live, work and earn within virtual worlds through the use of blockchain technology. Sk…

Lauren Riihimaki is a YouTuber who has over 8.5Million followers on YouTube channel LaurDIY and 21M+ followers over social media. She is also the host and executive producer of an HBO Max competition…

100 Olivia Nottebohm is the Chief Revenue of Notion where she leads the Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Customer Experience teams. Prior to Notion, she held multiple leadership positions at v…

099 Jim Louderback worked as the CEO of VidCon, one of the leading conferences in the world of digital creators and innovators. Under his leadership, the company was sold to Viacom in 2018. He is als…

097 Yoni Assia is the Co-founder and CEO of eToro, a leading social investment platform with over 27 million users who exchange investment strategies, connect and share thoughts about the market acro…

096 Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading crypto wealth management service. Prior to founding Abra, Bill worked as a research engineer at NASA, the CIA, as well as a VP of Goldman Sa…

095 Imran Khan is the founder and CEO/Core Contributor of Alliance DAO, a top accelerator for Web3 companies. He formerly served as the General Partner at Token Daily Capital. Prior to that Imran wor…

094 Dan Roth is the Editor In Chief and VP at Linkedin, where he oversees a team of editors across the globe. He and his team curate breaking news and views on Linkedin and cultivate top contributors…

093 Baek Kim is the General Partner at #Hashed, one of the leading crypto startup investing funds. Hashed has grown to $4B+ in AUM investing in Web3 and crypto companies. Their investment includes so…

092 Richard Oppy is the VP of Global Brands at Anheuser Busch InBev, the largest consumer goods company in the world with leading beer brands in over 100 countries. He is responsible for the global m…

090 Colin Bryar is the former VP of Amazon, Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos, COO at IMDb and COO at Singapore-based RedMart. He is also the co-author of the book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories,…

089 Amy Kelly Lauer is the Senior Vice President of Sephora, General Manager at Sephora @Kohl's. Prior to leading Sephora @ Kohl’s, Amy was the VP, Head of Digital at Kendo Holdings, Inc., where she …

088 Emmanuel Straschnov is the Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble, a no-code platform that helps non-technical founders build influential tech companies. Bubble has raised $100 million in series A. Prior to …

087 Trevor McFedries is the CEO of Dapper Labs’ Dapper Collectives. He is also the founder of Brud, a Sequoia-backed startup that created a popular robot transmedia influencer Lil Miquela with over 3…

086 Rasesh Patel is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at AT&T Business, where he has responsibility for AT&T Business’ portfolio-wide P&L with $36 Billion of annual revenue as well as its cutting-…

085 David Sobeski is the SVP of Data and Analytics at Adidas. Prior to Adidas, he was the SVP of Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce, the SVP of Innovation at Nordstrom, and CTO at The Walt Disney Compa…

084 Vanessa Dew is the Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Health-Ade Kombucha, where she helped grow the product from a farmer’s market commodity to a nationwide brand with retail sales over $200M…

083 Jason Kong is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in Series B and later enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jason has invested in and works with companies like Attentive, Brex, Compass (…