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Paradigm Shift

Candid conversations with people building the future. We discuss breakthrough moments and hard-earned insights that shaped people, products and technologies. Hosted by Ashish Kundra and Zane Salim.

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EP41: Bootstrapping Boast.ai to $10M ARR with No Marketing Team with Lloyed Lobo

EP41: Bootstrapping Boast.ai to $10M ARR with No Marketing Team with Lloyed Lobo

14 Sep 2023

1hr 14mins

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EP40: AI as the next platform shift and investing in emerging technologies, with Elad Gil entrepreneur and investor

EP40: AI as the next platform shift and investing in emerging technologies, with Elad Gil entrepreneur and investor

30 Jun 2023

48mins

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EP39: Lessons learned bootstrapping SwagUp to $100M+ in revenue with founder and CEO Michael Martocci

EP39: Lessons learned bootstrapping SwagUp to $100M+ in revenue with founder and CEO Michael Martocci

Michael Martocci is the Founder and CEO of SwagUp, a platform that makes it easy to create, automate and distribute swag... Read more

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EP38: Michael Stoppelman, former SVP Engineering at Yelp and investor in 300+ companies, on building world class engineering teams and lessons learned scaling Yelp from 6 to 600 engineers

EP38: Michael Stoppelman, former SVP Engineering at Yelp and investor in 300+ companies, on building world class engineering teams and lessons learned scaling Yelp from 6 to 600 engineers

Michael Stoppelman is the former SVP of Engineering at Yelp and profilic angel investor in 300+ startups. In early 2007,... Read more

5 Apr 2023

47mins

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EP37: Building and funding enduring fintech companies, with Cameron Peake, Partner at Restive (fintech VC) and founder of early SMB neobank Azlo (almost $1B deposits)

EP37: Building and funding enduring fintech companies, with Cameron Peake, Partner at Restive (fintech VC) and founder of early SMB neobank Azlo (almost $1B deposits)

Cameron Peake is a Partner at Restive Ventures, an early stage fintech focused VC fund. Previously Cameron was co-founde... Read more

5 Mar 2023

50mins

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EP36: Semil Shah (founder Haystack, early investor in DoorDash, Instacart, Figma) on the current fundraising market and building intuition to pick winners early

EP36: Semil Shah (founder Haystack, early investor in DoorDash, Instacart, Figma) on the current fundraising market and building intuition to pick winners early

Semil is the founder and GP at Haystack, an early-stage VC firm with $450M+ AUM. He’s an investor in 200+ companies incl... Read more

25 Jan 2023

38mins

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EP35: Beerud Sheth, founder of Upwork ($1.5B public co) and Gupshup ($1.4B unicorn), on the resilience and grit needed to build two generational companies

EP35: Beerud Sheth, founder of Upwork ($1.5B public co) and Gupshup ($1.4B unicorn), on the resilience and grit needed to build two generational companies

Beerud Sheth in a rare  founder who’s started not one, but two unicorns — UpWork and Gupshup. He’s seen a lot of pivotal... Read more

18 Jan 2023

56mins

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EP34: Finding product-market fit and blitzscaling a healthcare marketplace 25x in 18 months, with Wei Deng, CEO/Founder Clipboard Health ($1.3B)

EP34: Finding product-market fit and blitzscaling a healthcare marketplace 25x in 18 months, with Wei Deng, CEO/Founder Clipboard Health ($1.3B)

Wei is the founder of Clipboard Health. Clipboard Health makes it really easy for nurses to search for jobs based on wha... Read more

20 Dec 2022

43mins

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EP33: Building and scaling network-based enterprise businesses with James McGillicuddy, former Head of Strategy at Carta ($7.4B) and COO SourceGraph ($2.6B)

EP33: Building and scaling network-based enterprise businesses with James McGillicuddy, former Head of Strategy at Carta ($7.4B) and COO SourceGraph ($2.6B)

In this conversation, we speak with James McGillicuddy. James was previously Head of Strategy at Carta ($7.4B valuation)... Read more

20 Dec 2022

42mins

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EP32: Building and launching cross-chain crypto infrastructure, with Bryan Pellegrino, founder/CEO of Layer Zero ($140M Series A)

EP32: Building and launching cross-chain crypto infrastructure, with Bryan Pellegrino, founder/CEO of Layer Zero ($140M Series A)

Bryan is the founder of LayerZero Labs, which is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applic... Read more

6 Dec 2022

54mins

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