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- 172AI Will Turn Everyone Into a Gamer w/ Max Child1 Apr 2026 · 31 minMax Child▶Show page
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Max Child (Founder & CEO of Weekend, the #1 voice AI games company in the world, formerly Volley) breaks down why AI will turn everyone into a gamer, not just the hardcore players. We explore how AI is shifting gaming from button presses to conversation, unlocking entirely new types of interactive experiences on the…
- 171How AI Is Rewriting Video Games w/ Nick Walton4 Mar 2026 · 46 min▶Show page
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Episode 6: Why Video Games Will Never Be the Same Nick Walton (CEO, Latitude Games) AI isn’t just improving games, it’s fundamentally changing how they’re built. In this episode of The NFX Podcast, James Currier sits down with Nick Walton, CEO of Latitude (creators of AI Dungeon and Voyage), to explore the rise…
- 170How AI is Forcing Startups to Rethink Pricing w/ Madhavan Ramanujam30 Jan 2026 · 1h 12m▶Show page
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Key Points: - 20% of what you build in tech drives 80% of the willingness to pay, making it crucial to identify and monetize this core value early on. - Framing POCs as business case validation exercises rather than just technical validation can help ensure that you are engaging with customers who are serious about…
- 169The Product Intuition Behind $800M+ In Exits w/ Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan28 Jan 2026 · 1h 42mKamakshi SivaramakrishnanGoogle▶Show page
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Key Points: - The journey of founding and scaling startups often involves leveraging unique technical expertise to address emerging market needs and seizing serendipitous opportunities for growth and acquisition. - Data-driven startups face the dual challenge of innovating with sparse data and navigating complex…
- 168How Running Out of Money Made DocSend a $165M Success w/ Russ Heddleston26 Jan 2026 · 1h 6mRuss Heddleston▶Show page
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Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction of Russ Heddleston (0:40) Russ Heddleston's early career and founding Docsend (2:02) Microsoft internships and Maru Networks experience (4:38) Ideation and approach to selecting startup ideas (6:54) Docsend's challenges and pivots (10:11) Struggles with enterprise sales and…
- 167How Tracy Young Sold PlanGrid for $875M and Navigated Tragedy24 Jan 2026 · 56 minTracy YoungY Combinator▶Show page
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Subscribe to NFX for weekly insights at - nfx.com/subscribe (0:00) Introduction to Tracy Young (0:04) Tracy Young's background and early career (2:39) Lessons learned from construction industry (5:33) Founding of PlanGrid (8:03) Experience with Y Combinator and early product market fit (13:18) Sales strategies…
- 166How a $500 TV Ad Turned Credit Karma into a $7B Empire w/ Ken Lin22 Jan 2026 · 1h 8mGoogle▶Show page
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Key Points: - Ken Lin emphasized the importance of maintaining a strong company culture and staying mission-aligned, even when faced with significant financial pressures and acquisition offers. - Credit Karma's early scrappiness and unconventional marketing strategies, such as leveraging Google Television Auction…
- 165The NFX Podcast w/ Alex Babin of HerculesAI20 Mar 2024 · 35 min▶Show page
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Hercules builds high-quality, enterprise-grade AI solutions based on data extraction, transformation, and verification, while integrating with enterprise systems and tools for maintenance and monitoring. Join NFX general partner James Currier and HerculesAI CEO Alex Babin talk about the latest breakthroughs in the AI…
- 164Real Estate’s Hidden AI Revolution (Sunday Readouts)22 Oct 2023 · 16 minRevolutionPete Flint▶Show page
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This is an essay readout using an AI voice clone of NFX general partner, Pete Flint. AI has the potential to smooth out many links in the real estate production chain and create a cascade that will close the productivity gap. This essay reveals what’s on the way and how founders can seize this opportunity. Read the…
- 163"Astronauts for Inner Space" with Raed Khawaja26 Jul 2023 · 34 minMorgan Beller▶Show page
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Morgan Beller calls up Raed Khawaja - CEO & Co-Founder at Open - to catch up and talk about the current movement around one's 'inner-space'. Open is a social space for meditation, movement, and practice, on and offline, who’s raised close to $15M to help friends be present together. They blend old and new to bring…
- 162Generative Tech Begins (Sunday Readouts)23 Jul 2023 · 19 min▶Show page
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This is an essay readout using an AI voice clone of NFX general partner, James Currier. Generative Tech is the next step in software. It’s a new level of human-machine partnership. It turns deep learning engines into collaborators to generate new content and ideas nearly like a human would. This area is so new, and…
- 1613 Waves of Successful Generative Tech Startups (Sunday Readouts)16 Jul 2023 · 5 min▶Show page
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This is an essay readout using an AI voice clone of NFX general partner, James Currier. Every 14 years there’s a tech revolution, and we have now entered the Generative Tech revolution. Anything you’re interested in, anything you’re working on is going to be impacted by generative tech and generative AI. In addition…
- 160AI x Speed (Sunday Readouts)25 Jun 2023 · 9 min▶Show page
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This is an essay readout using an AI voice clone of NFX general partner, James Currier. The AI revolution just ratcheted up the speed bar for startups. You think you’re moving fast enough. You’re not. Speed is the number one advantage of a startup. But now that generative AI here, your definition of speed has to…
- 159Building Your Startup’s Attention Flywheel with Vijay Chattha (Founder of VSC)20 Jan 2023 · 1h 1mVijay Chattha▶Show page
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There’s a concept in network theory called Preferential Attachment. When one node gets ahead, it attracts more resources, and more attention. It's a snowball effect. PR for your company works the same way. Once you become the biggest node, more resources flow to you. Today, NFX General Partner James Currier sits down…
- 158The Strategies of Elite CEOs with Avishai Abrahami (CEO & Co-Founder of Wix)18 Jan 2023 · 46 minAvishai Abrahami▶Show page
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The transition from Founder to CEO is a watershed moment in your company, and in your life. A great Founder creates something from nothing. A great CEO takes the next step, and builds mechanisms of success. They turn that vision into a well-functioning machine. Becoming a great CEO is a matter of tactics and personal…
- 157NFXBio: Deal or Die – A Guide to TechBio Business Development and Strategy10 Jan 2023 · 46 min▶Show page
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There are two parts to building a bioplatform: you have to focus on the science, then you have to think about the business side. When do you partner? When do you develop your own products? How can you determine the real value of a deal? How do you build a strategic network? What avenues are Founders overlooking right…
- 156NFXBio: Tech Founders, Don’t Be Afraid of Bio5 Jan 2023 · 44 min▶Show page
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There’s huge value in integrating tech and bio. But many tech entrepreneurs don’t realize what they can bring to the field. Tech entrepreneurs: you can come to bio, if you learn to speak the language. Today, head of NFX Bio Omri Amirav-Drory sits down with his former co-founder at Genome Compiler, and Founder of…
- 155Ep 11: Network Effects In TechBio (NFX Masterclass)21 Dec 2022 · 10 min▶Show page
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Biology is the most advanced technology on earth. It’s a nanotechnology that actually works, and it scales. The rest of the world will benefit when there are more TechBio founders and investors in the space and this sector has never been more central to shaping a better future. The next significant phase of human…
- 154Ep 10: Network Effects In Gaming (NFX Masterclass)14 Dec 2022 · 18 min▶Show page
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We are in the first wave of web3 games, and some believe that games don't have network effects built into their development or long-term strategy. In this episode, listen to NFX partner Gigi Levy-Weiss as he dives into the world of defensibility within the gaming industry, sharing the 4 layers of network effects, the…
- 153Ep 9: Why Network Effects Are (Even) More Powerful In Web3 (NFX Masterclass)7 Dec 2022 · 24 minMorgan Beller▶Show page
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In Web3, network effects are fundamental and critical to survival. If you’re building in Web3 properly, then it should automatically include network effects. Listen in as General Partner Morgan Beller acts like the river guide of network effects for Web3 as she shares her experience and insights on how to be…
- 152NFXBio: The Promise of Synthetic Embryos with Dr. Jacob Hanna of Renewal Bio6 Dec 2022 · 25 minThe New York TimesOmri Amirav-Drory▶Show page
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We're highlighting a breakthrough moment - this summer, Dr. Jacob Hanna, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science published a paper demonstrating that synthetic mouse embryos could be grown outside the womb, without an egg or sperm. This is a major advance that was covered by Nature, The Washington Post, The…
- 151Ep 8: Your Life Is Driven By Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)30 Nov 2022 · 15 min▶Show page
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What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. The unseen hand in them all is the networks that surround us and the powerful math they exert on us. This episode outlines how we see…
- 150Ep. 7 - Network Problems Demand Network Solutions (NFX Masterclass)23 Nov 2022 · 17 min▶Show page
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We spend a lot of time teaching Founders how to use network effects to create these giant, world-changing businesses, but we think that too little has been said about how society should adapt to these new network effect behemoths we’re helping create. This episode is hosted by general partner James Currier as he…
- 149NFXBio: TechBio Platforms Developing a Universal Vaccine & Beating Treatment-Resistant Cancer22 Nov 2022 · 52 minOmri Amirav-Drory▶Show page
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In biology we have a saying: what doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again. Cancer. Deadly viruses. These problems are so hard to tackle because the goalposts are always moving. Thanks to evolution, these diseases often outpace therapies and vaccines. Today, NFX General Partner and Head of NFX Bio Omri Amirav-Drory…
- 148Ep. 6 - Case Studies: Network Effects In Action (NFX Masterclass)18 Nov 2022 · 22 minCase Studies▶Show page
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These are case studies and stories that outline network effects in the wild - it is a montage of how big tech companies like Trulia, Meta, Uber, and even Bitcoin navigate their defensibility over time. For the best experience of this episode, watch our case studies at nfx.com/masterclass or by searching on YouTube to…
- 147Ep. 5 - Network Bonding Theory (NFX Masterclass)9 Nov 2022 · 22 min▶Show page
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Realize that your startup itself is a network. Your goal is to bond people to it. When you attach, or bond, one node to your network, it adds value to all the other nodes. This is episode 5, from the NFX Masterclass, covering Network Bonding Theory. Learn best practices for bonding nodes to your network led by NFX…
- 146Ep. 4 - The 4 Pillars of Defensibility (NFX Masterclass)26 Oct 2022 · 18 minPete Flint▶Show page
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Durability = Network Effects + Economies of Scale + Brand + Embedding + IP. Learn about these other 4 strategies for startup durability outside of network effects from NFX General Partner, Pete Flint. Value creation mostly accrues in the out-years when usage, revenue, and growth compound. Founders who win big spend…
- 145Ep. 3 - Mapping Out the 16 Network Effects (NFX Masterclass)19 Oct 2022 · 24 min▶Show page
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Unlock the NFX map to understand how each network effect works, in episode 3 of the Network Effects Masterclass, General Partner James Currier will review the 16 types of network effects and how they reinforce each other in powerful ways. Learn to analyze the NFX map to determine how to engineer sustained, long-term…
- 144Ep. 2 - The Underlying Properties Of Network Theory (NFX Masterclass)12 Oct 2022 · 28 min▶Show page
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Unlearn what you thought you knew about network effects. This episode takes you to the very beginning and lays out network theory from square one. Listen in as James covers the basics of network principles to use as a launchpad for the rest of the course and see how your startup behaves as a network itself. This is…
- 143Ep. 1 - Why Network Effects Are Mission Critical (NFX Masterclass)5 Oct 2022 · 13 min▶Show page
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Few understand the hidden complexities of network effects - learn all there is to know about building iconic companies from day one. This is episode 1 of the Network Effects Masterclass (audio edition). You'll hear a short introduction from NFX Partner James Currier on what you will learn in this masterclass to build…
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