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Uncapped with Jack Altman
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Uncapped #50 | Tobi Lütke from Shopify
Toby Lütke, CEO and founder of Shopify, discusses his 20-year journey building the e-commerce platform and his philosophy on leadership, product development, and the transformative potential of AI. As…
Uncapped #49 | Kevin Hartz & Bennett Siegel from A*
This conversation features Kevin and Bennett from A-Star, a $1 billion AUM venture capital firm focused on seed-stage investing. The firm was founded five years ago and has just closed its third fund,…
Uncapped #48 | Tarek Mansour from Kalshi
Tarek Mansour, CEO and co-founder of Cal Sheet, discusses building the first regulated prediction market exchange in the US. Born in California but raised in Lebanon during volatile times, Tarek found…
Uncapped #46 | Brad Lightcap from OpenAI
Brad Lightcap, CFO of OpenAI since 2018, discusses his journey from Y Combinator to leading finance at one of the world's most influential AI companies. Having joined when OpenAI was primarily known f…
Uncapped #45 | Ron Conway from SV Angel
Ron Conway, founder of SV Angel, sits down for a live podcast discussion about his decades-long career as Silicon Valley's most successful angel investor. Conway has invested in defining companies inc…
Uncapped #44 | Max Junestrand from Legora
Max is the founder and CEO of Lagora, a legal AI company that has grown to nearly 400 employees in just two years. Chatham Gujral is a partner at Benchmark who led Lagora's seed round in March 2024 an…
Uncapped #43 | Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, and Jared Friedman from YC
This conversation features three Y Combinator partners: Gary Tan (CEO), Jared Friedman (Partner), and Harj Taggar (Partner), discussing how YC has evolved from 2006 to 2026. Gary did YC in Summer 2006…
Uncapped #42 | Bret Taylor from Sierra
Brett Taylor, co-CEO and co-founder of Sierra, discusses the current state of enterprise software and AI transformation. Taylor brings extensive experience as former co-CEO of Salesforce and current b…
Uncapped #40 | Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
This conversation features Keith Rabois, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, and Vinod Khosla, Founder and Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures. Keith previously co-founded and led companies like PayPa…
Uncapped #38 | Ben Horowitz from a16z
Ben Horowitz, co-founder and managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, discusses his unique 30-year partnership with Marc Andreessen and their approach to building one of venture capital's largest firm…
Uncapped #37 | Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners
This conversation features Saam Motamedi, Partner at Greylock Partners, discussing the 60-year evolution of one of venture capital's oldest firms. Greylock, founded in 1965, pioneered the modern GP/LP…
Uncapped #36 | Pat Grady & Alfred Lin from Sequoia
This conversation features Pat Grady and Alfred Lin, the newly appointed co-stewards of Sequoia Capital, discussing their transition into leadership roles and the firm's investment philosophy. Pat Gra…
Uncapped #35 | Trae Stephens from Founders Fund
Trey Stephens is a General Partner at Founders Fund and co-founder of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company building autonomous weapons systems. The conversation explores his dual role as b…
Uncapped #34 | Mel Williams from TrueBridge
Mel Williams is co-founder of TrueBridge, a premier fund-of-funds managing $8 billion in venture capital allocations. TrueBridge was early to invest in top-tier firms like Thrive, Founders Fund, and p…
Uncapped #33 | Vlad Tenev from Robinhood
Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder of Robinhood, discusses the evolution of online brokerage from Charles Schwab's phone-based disruption in the 1970s through E-Trade's Apple II innovation to Robinhood's …
Uncapped #32 | Kyle Vogt from The Bot Company
Kyle Vogt, founder of Twitch and former CEO of Cruise (the self-driving car company), discusses his new venture building affordable home robots. As a serial entrepreneur who has navigated both success…
Uncapped #31 | Dylan Field from Figma
Dylan Field, CEO and co-founder of Figma, discusses the evolution of design tools and AI's impact on creative workflows. Field started Figma in August 2012, taking five years to reach general availabi…
Uncapped #30 | Alex Pall from The Chainsmokers
Alex Pall, one half of The Chainsmokers, discusses his dual career as a Grammy-winning electronic music producer and venture capitalist with Mantis VC. The conversation explores the creative process b…
Uncapped #27 | Vince Hankes from Thrive Capital
Vince Hankus is a partner at Thrive Capital who joined the firm in 2019 and has worked on major investments including OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks, and Stripe. He previously worked at Tiger Global befor…
Uncapped #25 | Lulu Cheng Meservey
This conversation features Jack Altman, CEO and co-founder of Lattice, speaking with Lulu Cheng Meservey, a communications strategist who has worked with companies like Substack, Activision Blizzard, …
Uncapped #24 | Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and author of The Network State, discusses his framework for understanding modern global politics through economic disruption patterns. Speaking from his Network School…
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