Smart Venture Podcast

082 Kevin Rose is a partner at True Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. He focuses on blockchain, consumer internet, and health/ wellness. Prior to his career at True Ventu…

081 Justin Osofsky is the Chief Operating Officer of Instagram, where he leads oversees Instagram's business functions and is responsible for helping the company scale globally.  He is also VP, Globa…

080 Devin Finzer is the Co-founder and CEO at OpenSea, the first peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets. OpenSea raised $100 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by A16Z to …

079 Joe Sabia is the founder of Studio Sabia, a content strategy studio that serves companies like Amazon Audible, YouTube Originals, Spotify, Legendary Films and many others. Prior to founding the c…

077 Suzanne Kounkel is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte. She also ran Deloitte’s US Consulting Tech sector industry practice, one of Deloitte’s large…

076 Grant Sanderson is the creator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel using artistic visuals to teach people math. Prior to 3b1b, Grant had worked at Khan Academy where he teaches multivariable ca…

075 Nick Thompson is the CEO at The Atlantic. Prior to The Atlantic, he was the former Editor in Chief of Wired. He is also a contributing editor at CBS, a frequent public speaker about technology, a…

074 Chris Voss is the author of Wall Street Journal Bestselling book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On it. He was a former international hostage negotiator for the F…

073 [Fundraising Special Series] Andrew D’ Souza is the founder and CEO of Clearco. Clearco is a suite of performance financing products and services to help founders grow their companies. They use d…

072 Erin Egan is the VP and Chief Privacy Officer of Public Policy at Facebook. She leads Facebook’s global privacy and data policy team, where she collaborates with policymakers, regulators, advocat…

071 [Fundraising Special Series] Kendrick Nguyen is the founder of Republic, an investing platform that allows everyone to invest in private companies, including startups, real estate, video games an…

070 [Fundraising Special Series] Vinay Hiremath is the co-founder and CTO at Loom, one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley. Recently, Loom received a $130 million series C investment ba…

069 Ekta Chopra is the Chief Digital Officer at E.L.F. BEAUTY, where she leverages cutting-edge technology to help the company maximize growth. In 2019 E.L.F. Beauty closed down all the physical stor…

068 Chris Slowe is the CTO and founding engineer at Reddit. He helped build Reddit, sold it, and has recently come back with the other co-founders to rebuild the platform. He is currently leading the…

067 Sanchan S Saxena is the VP of Product at Coinbase. Prior to Coinbase, he was the General Manager at Airbnb where he led a cross-functional team managing product management, engineering, design an…

066 Vanessa Liu is a VP at SAP leading the SAP.iO Foundries North America team to invest in women and diverse-led B2B intelligent enterprise start-ups, including AI, Blockchain, data analytics, machi…

065 Matt Cooper is the CEO of Skillshare, where he leads a community-driven platform for online learning and professional development. Prior to that he was the CEO of Visually, a company he turned ar…

064 Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC), one of the original seed VC firms in the Silicon Valley, and has closed 200+ investments since 2004. His…

063 Robin Daniels is the CMO at Matterport, a leading 3D technology company that enables professionals to edit and share 3D models of physical spaces. Prior to that he served as the CMO at WeWork and…

062 Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist. Beyond founding Craigslist he also founded Craig Newmark Foundation where he funded and promoted investment in organizations to effectively serve the c…