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Nov 13, 2020

This slightly unusual Founded and Funded is the story of the early years of Madrona as told by the founders and early team members, Tom Alberg, Paul Goodrich, Matt McIlwain and Greg Gottesman.  They recount the first meeting with Jeff Bezos, early missteps by a green investing team and the struggle to raise a fund...


Oct 28, 2020

As we take a break and plan Season 4 of Founded and Funded, we bring you the first in a new podcast series from Madrona investor, Anu Sharma.  In this series, Anu speaks with experienced founders, engineers and product leaders about the mystery of GoToMarket or GTM.  Focused on uncovering not just how to measure but...


Oct 5, 2020

Daniel Li, Chris Picardo and Erika Shaffer from Madrona Venture Group  talk about the incredible number of financings in PNW in September.  40 companies raised over $450 in venture financings.  We talk about how GitLab manages their 1,300 employees who are remote, and we touch on a guerrilla approach to selling SaaS -...


Sep 29, 2020

Jumping off of this week's DL, we talk about Microsoft's announcements (as we lived through the huge outage of Office 365 etc) and talk about the guy who started Snowflake and many other enterprise tech companies that are doing rather well - Mike Speiser from Sutter HIll.  Touch on drones in the home and a quick how-to...


Sep 22, 2020

This week Dan Li and Ishani Ummat from Madrona talk about a surprisingly huge IPO in China that rivals some of the US tech IPOs.  For water. Dan takes a bit of a deep dive on Chamath Palihapitiya SPAC (Hedosophia II!!) and the 'memo' on OpenDoor that doesn't as much make a case for the specific company but for...