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Helping founders hit PMF, get funded & drive durable growth through podcasting & buyer events (Formerly TheTop.VC)
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Recent episodes
- How AI Agents Are Changing Engineering | Cursor, Temporal, Tailscale, Legora & Namespace.so
- ($38M raised; a16z) Convey Founder, Rohan Chopra: What Happens When AI Stops Helping Employees and Starts Becoming the Employee? (A16z, Khosla Ventures, Pear VC invested)
- ($23M raised) Namespace Founder, Hugo Santos: #1 Startup Insight – Why Trust and Network Are the Real Infrastructure for Product-Market Fit and Fundraising Success (Backed by NEA & Susa Ventures)
- $100M Security Problems: 4 AI Cybersecurity Startups Pitch Tonic AI CSO Robert Lowry (
- ($70M+ raised) DOSS Founder, Wiley Jones: How to actually build an AI native company (don't miss this one)
- ($22M Raised) Sequoia India & Naval Ravikant-Backed TrueFoundry Founder Nikunj Bajaj: Balancing Short-Term Execution with Long-Term Vision
- ($22.5M raised) Koah Labs Founder, Mike Choi: Internal Squad Operating System, Why End User Experience is the North Star for AI Ad Networks
- ($650M+ raised) Temporal Founder, Samar Abbas: #1 Startup Insight – Give the Problem a Name Before You Solve It (Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Sequoia invested).
- ($30M raised) Kintsugi Founder, Jeff Gibson: Building “Boring” Fintech for Global Tax Compliance—Why Trust and Customer Support Win in Massive, Overlooked Markets
- ($5M+ raised) Lava's Founder, Mitchell Jones: #1 Startup Insight – The Power of Iteration, Tracking Micro Signals, and Staying True to Your ICP