Venture Voice – interviews with entrepreneurs
Muck Rack & Shorty Awards cofounder/CEO Greg Galant interviews the world's best entrepreneurs and creators, including the founders of LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Yelp, Brooklyn Brewery, Trello, Twitter and Stack Overflow.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2021
Matt Mullenweg built Automattic into a $7.5B company
Matt Mullengweg was a high school student looking for a better way to customize his blog when he discovered the open source software community and created the WordPress platform. A few years later, a…
01:09:00 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
David Cohen’s Techstars
As Co-Founder and Chairman of Techstars, David Cohen has spent nearly his entire career focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. Aspiring founders and early-stage entrepreneurs from around the world…
00:45:04 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Henrik Werdelin’s Bark fetches $1.6 billion valuation
Originally from Denmark and now living in the US, Henrik Werdelin has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Most Creative People In Business” by Fast Company and named to the “Silicon Alley 100” by …
01:08:45 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
Fabrice Grinda on growing Zingy into a $200 million business
Fabrice Grinda is one of the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors, with over 150 exits on 500 angel investments. When I first interviewed him for this podcast, way back in 2005, the t…
01:03:34 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Guy Kawasaki’s evangelizing Canva
Guy Kawasaki’s name has become almost synonymous with tech entrepreneurship and evangelism. Over the past 25 years, he’s had a hand in advising a generation of tech start-ups and innovators, either d…
00:44:12 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
How Derek Sivers decided to sell CD Baby
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers made two appearances on Venture Voice in the early days of this podcast. In our first conversation, he described the process of growing the company into one of the larges…
00:43:07 |
Mon 24 May 2021
LivePerson’s Robert LoCascio got in mental shape to build a $3.5 billion business
Born into a family of entrepreneurs, LivePerson founder and CEO Robert LoCascio always had the entrepreneurial spirit, going back to his teens when he and a friend started an auto detailing business.…
01:05:23 |
Mon 10 May 2021
How Tom Perkins pioneered venture capital in 1972
This week we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists. The firm Tom co-founded, Kleiner Perkins, is responsible for fundin…
00:41:03 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer Turned His Amateur Photos Into a $3 Billion Business
Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional stock agencies were still stuck in the world of print, so he took th…
00:59:12 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Curative founder Fred Turner’s fast pivot into COVID-19 testing
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA. He was interested in sequencing his own genome, but he soon discovered there were oth…
01:02:35 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
How DRY Soda founder Sharelle Klaus pioneered the culinary soda category
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we dip back into the archives for my 2005 interview with Sharelle Klaus, founder and CE…
00:48:48 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
How Amanda Hesser cooked up success with Food52
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to my early days in the New York startup community. Listening to her tell the story of her ent…
00:55:05 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
How Mike McDerment grew FreshBooks
Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a small web design agency when he accidentally saved over an old invoice. Frustrated and looking for a better way …
01:10:18 |
Mon 15 Feb 2021
How journalist Steve Hindy started Brooklyn Brewery
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s career journey, both as a foreign correspondent before he took the…
00:45:26 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
How Mark Wilson built his success by building up others’
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by a strong work ethic and desire to make an impact. But when Mark foun…
00:55:32 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
How Evan Williams turned side projects like Twitter into huge successes
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, as well as Blogger and Medium. But back in 2005 when this episode was recorded, Twitter hadn’t even been conce…
00:39:37 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Dan O’Keefe on the founding of Festivus and secrets of HBO’s Silicon Valley
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinfeld, where the holiday “for the rest of us” is featured in …
00:49:09 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Jessica Lessin of The Information turned her journalism beat into a business
00:52:24 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
Todd McKinnon's journey taking Okta from $0 to a $25+ billion public company
01:06:24 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
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