W talks: founders counsel
Founders Counsel is about founders at the top of their game advising other founders while exploring one central theme per show. Host Doug Mandell draws on his experience as consigliere to many well-known Silicon Valley founders and operators as well as his background as general counsel to startups (including the first GC at LinkedIn) to facilitate the discussion. Doug also draws upon his network to curate a panel of founders selected based on their experiences and relationship to the episode’s topic.
- Update frequency
- every 92 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Ep5. Keeping founders and families secure: Issues with cyber and physical security
For family offices, individuals and families, cyber and physical security preparedness is often overlooked or less emphasized than it is at companies. But the threats are real and growing, including…
Ep4. How can VCs best help founders?
The fourth episode of the Founders Counsel podcast, “How can VCs best help founders?,” is out now. This episode examines what it means to be considered a “founder-friendly” venture capitalist and how…
Ep3. Should age matter for founders?
The third episode of Founders Counsel explores the relevance of age when founding a company. It has been posited by some that one is over the hill in Silicon Valley at 35. From our experience repre…
Ep2. Do operators make the best VCs?
For the second episode of Founders Counsel, three dynamic and successful operators (Silicon Valley speak for executives) who became venture capitalists discuss how they broke into the Silicon Valley …
Ep1. Using entrepreneurial skills for good
How can founders use their entrepreneurial skills for good?
In this first episode of Founders Counsel, we explore this question by examining how five top founders have responded to Covid-19 by launchi…