Lenny Pruss's guest appearances

Lenny Pruss

Business and Philosophy

Venture Confidential

Software Daily

The POPCAST with Dan POP

Ed Sim

Jerry Chen

Joe Duffy

Jocelyn Goldfein

Leo Polovets

Bob Hoffman

Vivek Saraswat

Ilya Sukhar

Geoff Ralston

Elad Gil

George Anders

Gaurav Jain

Semil Shah

Scott Belsky

Michael Walsh

OwlTail

In this episode we talk with Lenny Pruss from Amplify partners about the Venture Capital process, Amplify, some of the portfolio companies he's worked with such as Datadog, Hashi, Lighstep and many others. Lenny is brilliant and understands the cloud native space and shares his knowledge about how he picks portfolio companies and some amazing advice for founders. Lenny's bio: Lenny Pruss is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He has more than eight years of experience working alongside and on behalf of entrepreneurs as an advisor, mentor, and investor. Lenny works with technical founders solving complex problems across systems and infrastructure, developer tools, cybersecurity, and emerging enterprise technologies.Prior to joining Amplify Partners, he was a Principal with Redpoint Ventures where he led the firm’s investments in Hashicorp and LightStep. Lenny began his career with RRE Ventures in New York where he shaped the firm’s enterprise investment thesis and backed companies including Datadog and WhipTail Technologies (acquired by Cisco). He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a founding partner of Rock Venture Partners, a student-led seed investment fund, and a B.S. from UC Berkeley.Episode Links Amplify Partners site: https://amplifypartners.com/ Lenny's Blog: https://medium.com/lenny-for-your-thoughtsTimeline/Topic 0:00 - Intro 00:38 - Lenny's Path/Journey 05:03 - Lenny discusses Amplify and its unique position 09:45 - How Amplify and Lenny evaluates technology 18:25 - Lenny Talks some of the companies in Amplify Partners portfolio (Tilt.dev) 22:42 - Prisma 24:30 - Fishtown Analytics, Replicated, Gremlin 30:00 - Lenny for your thoughts (Lenny's Blog) 30:50 - What makes this cloud native community unique? 34:05 - What work is Lenny most proud of? Show Links Watch (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/c/thepopcastpop Listen (Apple PODCAST and others): http://popcast-d9f7b6dc.simplecast.com Follow us on (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PopcastPop Follow us on (Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-popcast-with-danpop 

In this episode we talk with Lenny Pruss from Amplify partners about the Venture Capital process, Amplify, some of the portfolio companies he's worked with such as Datadog, Hashi, Lighstep and many others. Lenny is brilliant and understands the cloud native space and shares his knowledge about how he picks portfolio companies and some amazing advice for founders. Lenny's bio: Lenny Pruss is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He has more than eight years of experience working alongside and on behalf of entrepreneurs as an advisor, mentor, and investor. Lenny works with technical founders solving complex problems across systems and infrastructure, developer tools, cybersecurity, and emerging enterprise technologies.Prior to joining Amplify Partners, he was a Principal with Redpoint Ventures where he led the firm’s investments in Hashicorp and LightStep. Lenny began his career with RRE Ventures in New York where he shaped the firm’s enterprise investment thesis and backed companies including Datadog and WhipTail Technologies (acquired by Cisco). He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a founding partner of Rock Venture Partners, a student-led seed investment fund, and a B.S. from UC Berkeley. Episode Links  Amplify Partners site: <a href="https://amplifypartners.com/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amplifypartners.com/ </a> Lenny's Blog: <a href="https://medium.com/lenny-for-your-thoughts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/lenny-for-your-thoughts</a>Timeline/Topic  0:00 - Intro  00:38 - Lenny's Path/Journey  05:03 - Lenny discusses Amplify and its unique position  09:45 - How Amplify and Lenny evaluates technology  18:25 - Lenny Talks some of the companies in Amplify Partners portfolio (Tilt.dev)  22:42 - Prisma  24:30 - Fishtown Analytics, Replicated, Gremlin  30:00 - Lenny for your thoughts (Lenny's Blog)  30:50 - What makes this cloud native community unique?  34:05 - What work is Lenny most proud of? Show Links  Watch (YouTube): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/thepopcastpop " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/thepopcastpop </a> Listen (Apple PODCAST and others): <a href="http://popcast-d9f7b6dc.simplecast.com " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://popcast-d9f7b6dc.simplecast.com </a> Follow us on (Twitter): <a href="https://twitter.com/PopcastPop " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PopcastPop </a> Follow us on (Linkedin): <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-popcast-with-danpop " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-popcast-with-danpop </a>

Episode 37 - Investing into the Next Wave of Awesome with Lenny Pruss

Making the right engineering choices in today’s wide landscape of cloud technologies is hard. Predicting the future in order to invest in companies in this space has the same level of complexity.  The cost of cloud computing is going down but the volume of total required space and processing power is going up. The open source community is growing and improving but people are increasingly willing to buy software that will save them time. Capital is flowing into Silicon Valley at a faster rate than can be sensibly absorbed by the number of quality companies. A decent product won’t have trouble raising money. But a decent investor has to choose wisely among the huge selection of available opportunities. Lenny Pruss works at Amplify Partners where he is currently focused on the cloud native space. In this episode, we talk about what cloud native means and how to navigate the complex landscape, whether you are an engineer or an investor. Show Notes Cloud Native Landscape Project The post Cloud Native Investing with Lenny Pruss appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Making the right engineering choices in today’s wide landscape of cloud technologies is hard. Predicting the future in order to invest in companies in this space has the same level of complexity. The cost of cloud computing is going down but the volume of total required space and processing power is going up. The open source community is growing and improving but people are increasingly willing to buy software that will save them time. Capital is flowing into Silicon Valley at a faster rate than can be sensibly absorbed by the number of quality companies. A decent product won’t have trouble raising money. But a decent investor has to choose wisely among the huge selection of available opportunities. Lenny Pruss works at Amplify Partners where he is currently focused on the cloud native space. In this episode, we talk about what cloud native means and how to navigate the complex landscape, whether you are an engineer or an investor. <h2>Show Notes</h2> <a href="https://github.com/cncf/landscape" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cloud Native Landscape Project</a> The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/03/13/cloud-native-investing-with-lenny-pruss/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cloud Native Investing with Lenny Pruss</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Cloud Native Investing with Lenny Pruss

Scott Raney

In this episode Tom is joined by Redpoint’s Scott Raney and Lenny Pruss. Tom, Scott, and Lenny discuss Redpoint’s investment philosophy, the changing expectations founders and investors have for each other, and finally they examine the current funding environment and Redpoint’s outlook for 2016.To find out about new episodes of this and other Heavybit podcasts, follow @heavybit on Twitter.The post  appeared first on Heavybit.

In this episode Tom is joined by Redpoint’s <a href="https://twitter.com/sraney" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Raney</a> and <a href="#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lenny Pruss</a>. Tom, Scott, and Lenny discuss <a href="http://www.redpoint.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Redpoint’s</a> investment philosophy, the changing expectations founders and investors have for each other, and finally they examine the current funding environment and Redpoint’s outlook for 2016.To find out about new episodes of this and other Heavybit podcasts, <a href="https://twitter.com/heavybit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">follow @heavybit</a> on Twitter.The post <a href="https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/venture-confidential/ep-3-scott-raney-lenny-pruss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.heavybit.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heavybit</a>.

Ep. #3 Feat. Redpoint’s Scott Raney and Lenny Pruss