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Podcast Episode Description Date: Mar 2023 Time Saved: 55 mins Recommendation ⁠Episode⁠ - Yes Podcast - Yes Interviewee Dr. Lan Xuezhao is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety startup. She was previously an AI Resident at OpenAI.

Podcast Episode Description Date: Nov 2022 Time Saved: 1h 12 mins Recommendation Episode [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-vent-17640/episodes/20vc-jason-lemkin-on-why-found-156476309] - Yes Podcast - Yes Interviewee Jason Lemkin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlemkin/] focuses on helping, founding, funding, and growing B2B start-ups and making it a positive-sum game for everyone involved. Specialties: helping people grow and become their best. Doing not the impossible, but the unlikely. Never giving up.

Date: Dec 2022 Time Saved: 39 mins Recommendation Podcast Venture Unlocked Episode [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/venture-unlocked-the-playbook-1497071/episodes/gautam-gupta-from-tcv-velocity-157150526] - YES Interviewee Gautam Gupta [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautamgup/]is the founder/CEO of NatureBox (www.naturebox.com), a digitally native brand of snacks. He started the company because of his passion for nutrition. Earlier in life, learning about nutrition helped him lose 70 lbs in 6 months. While he was lucky to lose weight, he believes the next generation of food has to be about change. The company has attracted millions of customers and has over 40% brand awareness across the country. They achieved a lot but had their fair share of bumps. This experience gave him many hard-earned lessons in management, scaling, raising capital, and dealing with “shit-hit-the-fan” moments. Gautam started his career as an early stage investor at General Catalyst. He had the great fortune to join the firm when he was 18 years old and spent the first 8 years of his career as part of the team that scaled it from a small firm to one with global reach. He helped open the west coast office. As a professional and angel investor, he has funded 30+ companies. This portfolio includes 8 companies valued over $1B and in aggregate, generates close to $2B in annual net revenue. Examples include BigCommerce, GoodData, Honest Company, Grammarly, Imperfect Produce, Pilot, The Pill Club, Heap Analytics, Split.io, among others. Outside work, Gautam is passionate about enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs through education. He sits on the Board of Overseers at Babson College, his alma mater that is consistently ranked #1 in entrepreneurship, and co-created a class at Santa Clara University on emerging retail models.

Date: Nov 2021 Time Saved: 44 mins Recommendation Podcast ETL [https://ecorner.stanford.edu/series/etl/] - YES but selective on episodes, can get kinda long and long winded on reactions to tech news Episode [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/entrepreneurial-thought-leader-4797/episodes/jeff-epstein-bessemer-venture-103580620] https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/entrepreneurial-thought-leader-4797/episodes/alfred-lin-sequoia-capital-dev-135889604- YES Interviewee Jeff Epstein [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffepstein1/] is an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and a Lecturer at Stanford University. He specializes in B2B Software, Marketplaces and Vertical AI. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Twilio, Okta, Kaiser Permanente and other companies. He served on the Board of Priceline/Booking Holdings for 16 years, as it grew from $1 billion to $80 billion in market value. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, with a market value of over $150 billion. Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff served as Chief Financial Officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS) and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at The First Boston Corporation. He holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.