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  Sourcery · 23 Jul 2025 · 54 min

  Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC

  WithNat Friedman

  MentionsGoogle

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  Rune Kvist, CEO & Founder of the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), joins Sourcery to break down how his team is building the confidence infrastructure for AI adoption, and why every AI agent will soon need to be certified and insured. AIUC just came out of stealth with a $15M… More on the show's page

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  The Twenty Minute VC · 10 Jul 2025 · 1h 7m

  20VC: Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | OpenAI's SBC Bombshell: More Stock Comp Than Revenue | Privat Equity is Back: Olo Bought for $2BN | Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 People: Is This Just the Start | Will Sequoia Part with Shaun Maguire

  WithNat FriedmanShaun Maguire

  MentionsSean Maguire

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  Agenda: [00:00] The AI Talent Crisis No One's Ready For [03:00] Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Why Two Legendary VCs Walked Away From $1B to Join Meta [12:00] Meta's AI Talent Magnet: Will It Actually Work? [15:00] Cursor Is Breaking the Market: Can Anyone Compete? [18:30] OpenAI's SBC… More on the show's page

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  The Twenty Minute VC · 26 Jun 2025 · 1h 14m

  20VC: Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross Bought with Zuck's $100BN AI Budget | Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens | Why Larry Ellison is the Smartest Man in Tech | Substance or Sizzle: What is Real and What is BS in AI

  WithLarry EllisonNat Friedman

  MentionsRevolution

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  Agenda: 04:21 - The Meta Acquisition Bombshell: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross Join Facebook?! 06:00 - Facebook's $100 Billion Gamble: Can Zuck Buy the Future? 09:27 - The "Magic Room" Theory: Why Only Insiders Get Billion-Dollar Paydays 11:27 - Is Loyalty Dead in Silicon Valley? The Great Talent… More on the show's page

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  TBPN · 19 Jun 2025 · 3h 10m

  Meta Taps Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross for AI Push, Starship Rocket Explodes | Mike Knoop, David Cahn, Walden Yan, Eoghan McCabe, Jeff Weinstein, Garrett Lord, Tanay Tandon

  WithDavid CahnGarrett LordJeff WeinsteinNat Friedman

  MentionsEoghan McCabeCoatueSequoia Capital

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  (04:10) - Meta Eyes Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross for AI Push (37:47) - Lakers Sold to Mark Walter (43:39) - Surge Hits $1B+ in Capital Without Outside Revenue (56:20) - Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and CEO of Ndea, discusses the evolving landscape of AI reasoning models, highlighting… More on the show's page

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  In Depth · 19 Mar 2026 · 1h 10m

  The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)

  MentionsChristina CacioppoNat Friedman

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  In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Jeremy Epling, CPO of security and compliance platform Vanta. Jeremy details his career journey, unpacking what it took to make the jump from tenured Microsoft executive to startup CPO. He also shares hard-won insights: how to maintain…

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  The Twenty Minute VC · 8 Sept 2025 · 1h 14m

  20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski

  MentionsMati StaniszewskiAndreessen HorowitzGrowth StorySequoia CapitalNat Friedman

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  Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the world's leading AI voice platform. Since launching in 2022, ElevenLabs has raised over $350M, most recently at a $3.3BN valuation, making it one of Europe's fastest AI unicorns. The company counts Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman,… More on the show's page

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  The Twenty Minute VC · 28 Aug 2025 · 1h 12m

  20VC: Anthropic's $10BN Round | Klarna's IPO Broken Down | Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine | Martin Casado: Is Consensus Investing the Only Game | Why Satya is Chatting S*** on SaaS Apps Disappearing featuring Marc Benioff

  WithMartin Casado

  MentionsMarc BenioffNat Friedman

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  AGENDA: ​​00:00 – Marc Benioff vs Snowflake, Databricks & Palantir: Who Wins the Data Cloud War? 05:10 – Does Benioff Feel The Need to Buy AI Talent Like Zuck Is? 09:00 – What Salesforce has Learned From Palantir on Forward Deployed Engineers? 18:00 – Will SaaS apps disappear in an AI world?… More on the show's page

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  Uncapped · 30 Jul 2025 · 52 min

  Uncapped #19 | Dwarkesh Patel

  MentionsJeff BezosIlya SutskeverNat FriedmanNoah Smith

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  In his early twenties, Dwarkesh Patel has become one of the leading podcasters with nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers excited to consume his deeply-researched interviews. Dwarkesh has caught the attention of influential figures such as Jeff Bezos, Noah Smith, Nat Friedman, and Tyler Cohen, who… More on the show's page

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  TBPN · 3 Jul 2025 · 3h 42m

  Soham Parekh Exclusive Interview | Chris Miller, Aaron Ginn, Bridget Harris, Pryce A. Yebesi, Jacob Rintamaki, Auren Hoffman, Mehran Jalali, Kushal Byatnal, Avlok Kohli, Nico Christie, Flo Crivello

  WithAaron GinnAvlok KohliBridget Harris

  MentionsAuren HoffmanNat Friedman

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  (04:05) - Soham Parekh, an Indian software engineer, has been accused by multiple U.S. startup founders of simultaneously working at several companies without disclosure, leading to his termination from firms like Playground AI and Antimetal. In a recent conversation, Parekh admitted to his… More on the show's page

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