Ross Fubini's guest appearances

Ross Fubini

Business Execution Radio

Village Global's Venture Stories

Naval Ravikant

Reid Hoffman

Bill Gates

Tyler Cowen

Josh Wolfe

Marc Andreessen

Kyle Samani

Dan Zuller

Travis Kling

Keith Rabois

Cal Newport

Nir Eyal

Ramit Sethi

Peter Thiel

Charles Eisenstein

OwlTail

Misha Esipov

On this episode Erik is joined by his fellow general partner at Village Global, Ross Fubini (@fubini), and Misha Esipov (@mishaesipov), co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit.Ross and Village are investors in Misha’s company and Ross has been obsessed with fintech for a very long time. Misha tells the story of how his team came upon the idea and why the mission of the company has been resonating with the founding team and subsequent hires. He explains why credit reports are not shared between credit rating bureaus in different countries, making it really difficult to get a credit card, a loan, or even just an apartment, as an immigrant.Misha talks about going from a three-person founding team to where they are today and what kinds of learnings he has gathered along the way. He talks about the importance of hiring a general counsel and starting with smaller customers before bigger ones. Ross says he’s excited about how big Nova Credit could get and explains what he means when he says he likes to see entrepreneurs “own the whole problem.” Erik also asks about their requests for startups in the space and what kinds of companies they would be looking to invest in if they were running a fintech fund.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

On this episode Erik is joined by his fellow general partner at Village Global, Ross Fubini (@fubini), and Misha Esipov (@mishaesipov), co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit. Ross and Village are investors in Misha’s company and Ross has been obsessed with fintech for a very long time. Misha tells the story of how his team came upon the idea and why the mission of the company has been resonating with the founding team and subsequent hires. He explains why credit reports are not shared between credit rating bureaus in different countries, making it really difficult to get a credit card, a loan, or even just an apartment, as an immigrant. Misha talks about going from a three-person founding team to where they are today and what kinds of learnings he has gathered along the way. He talks about the importance of hiring a general counsel and starting with smaller customers before bigger ones. Ross says he’s excited about how big Nova Credit could get and explains what he means when he says he likes to see entrepreneurs “own the whole problem.” Erik also asks about their requests for startups in the space and what kinds of companies they would be looking to invest in if they were running a fintech fund. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at <a href="http://villageglobal.vc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">villageglobal.vc</a> or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal. Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Building a Global Financial Business with Misha Esipov and Ross Fubini

Mahmoud Abdelkader

Mahmoud "Rusty" Abdelkader (@mahmoudimus), CEO of Very Good Security and Ross Fubini (@fubini), partner at Village Global, join Erik on this episode to talk security on the web and Mahmoud's company Very Good Security.Mahmoud explains what he and his team is trying to do at Very Good Security and how they hope to transform the way web apps are secured.Ross has known Mahmoud for a while now and explains why he decided to invest in Mahmoud and his company.  They run through the unique aspects of the business that Mahmoud describes as “an infrastructure business disguised as SaaS.” The three also talk about the opportunities in the space and candidly discuss the challenges that VGS and Mahmoud as CEO see ahead of them.For example, Mahmoud asks “how do you hire someone to do a job you don’t know how to do yourself?” They discuss going into the trenches to do the job yourself first so you can understand it. Mahmoud also gets into some of the engineering behind VGS and why he had to give up his motorcycle.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Mahmoud "Rusty" Abdelkader (@mahmoudimus), CEO of Very Good Security and Ross Fubini (@fubini), partner at Village Global, join Erik on this episode to talk security on the web and Mahmoud's company Very Good Security. Mahmoud explains what he and his team is trying to do at Very Good Security and how they hope to transform the way web apps are secured. Ross has known Mahmoud for a while now and explains why he decided to invest in Mahmoud and his company. They run through the unique aspects of the business that Mahmoud describes as “an infrastructure business disguised as SaaS.” The three also talk about the opportunities in the space and candidly discuss the challenges that VGS and Mahmoud as CEO see ahead of them. For example, Mahmoud asks “how do you hire someone to do a job you don’t know how to do yourself?” They discuss going into the trenches to do the job yourself first so you can understand it. Mahmoud also gets into some of the engineering behind VGS and why he had to give up his motorcycle. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at <a href="http://villageglobal.vc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">villageglobal.vc</a> or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal. Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Fintech Fridays: Transforming Web Security with Mahmoud Abdelkader and Ross Fubini