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Adrian Fenty - MaC Venture Capital

Sep 13, 2023

Adrian Fenty has a fascinating perspective as founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital and former mayor of Washington, DC. In this episode, Adrian dives into the intersections of government and technology, including:

* Why governments should be run more like tech companies

* Why governments are critical for...

Brett Queener -- Bonfire Ventures

Aug 16, 2023

Brett Queener from Bonfire spends 20-30 hours onboarding each of his companies and shares some of his playbook and rules of thumb. I like a lot of his operational tips:

* Founders should stay involved in sales (at the seed stage)

* Seed companies should hire mechanics not scalers

* 20% of employees should be quota...

Katelyn Foley - UP.Labs

Aug 2, 2023

Katelyn Foley is the President of UP.Labs, a venture lab that builds SaaS companies in partnership with large corporations. Katelyn was previously a partner at BCG Digital Ventures.

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Wes Nichols -- March Capital

Jul 12, 2023

March Capital was investing in generative AI long before ChatGPT went mainstream.

In today's episode, we talk with Partner Wes Nichols, who has brought his 30 years of analytics and AI experience as an investor and entrepreneur to help March Capital with this area of focus.

Wes is an industry authority in predictive...

Will Coffield -- Riot Ventures

Jun 28, 2023

Will Coffield is a co-founder and General Partner at Riot Ventures, a hard tech fund that invests at seed and Series B.

In this episode Will shares:

The technological renaissance taking place at the US Dept. of Defense.
What caused the United States' lead in defense tech to narrow
What is at stake in the ongoing...