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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...


Sep 15, 2020

The smoke is here and we've been stuck indoors - so there is a lot to cover.  Hear Erika Shaffer, Daniel Li and Ishani Ummat discuss the news from the week.  We review the growth of hiring in the tech world, Investment memos and what entrepreneurs (and VCs) can learn from them and hit on some truth telling from Reed...


Sep 2, 2020

Hope Cochran sits down with the founders of Sila, a banking as a service company, to talk about why she invested, how they came to build this company, and the problem of moving money on the internet.  Sila has navigated this complex regulatory and technical world to enable fintechs or companies that need as a...