E29: Eric Tarczynski - Backing the Bold #2

E29: Eric Tarczynski - Backing the Bold #2

Eric Tarczynski is the Founder and Managing Partner at Contrary, a venture fund that identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. They’ve backed some of the fastest-growing startups in the world including the likes of Ramp, Anduril and Zepto. Contrary’s LPs include the founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Airbnb, and many more iconic companies. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

E28: Mario Gabriele - The Power of Storytelling

Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a modern media company. Since its founding in 2020, The Generalist has grown to more than 60,000 subscribers and is read by the most influential founders, investors, and operators across the tech world. Mario also runs Generalist Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on helping founders create and capture narrative power. He contributes to Philosophical Foxes, an on-chain storytelling initiative. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

E27: Patrick Ryan - Community Investing for the Future

Patrick Ryan is the Co-Founder of Odin, an investment platform and community for people building the future. Odin are making it 10x cheaper and easier to launch and invest in syndicates, SPVs & funds. Before Odin, Patrick was the Project Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Coca-Cola European Partners. Prior to Coca-Cola, Patrick was Head of Inbound Equity Crowdfunding at Crowdcube. Patrick also built his own Vodka brand, Ishka, before selling in 2019. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

E26: Zach Lloyd - Building the New Terminal

Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp who’s mission is to elevate developer productivity by building a blazingly fast terminal for the modern age. Warp is modernising the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. To date they’ve raised $23 million across a $6 million Seed round, led by GV and a $17 million Series A, led by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma. Before Warp, Zach was the interim CTO at TIME after spending over 7 years as a Principal Engineer at Google for the Google Docs Suite. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

E25: Vinay Iyengar - Early Stage Investing with Two Sigma

Vinay Iyengar is a Principal at Two Sigma Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and infrastructure. Prior to Two Sigma Ventures, Vinay was an Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, having been an angel or co-invested with Bessemer in the likes of Canva, Discord, Zapier among others. Before Bessemer, Vinay started his career as a Machine Learning Engineer at Intel Corporation before moving to Quantitative Trading at Goldman Sachs. Vinay also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Harvard. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com