Episodes
Eoghan McCabe: moving to America to build Intercom into a unicorn + t…
Eoghan (CEO and co-founder of Intercom) joins ODF for a wide-ranging conversation about his experiences building a successful startup in San Francisco and his advice for other founders.
Deep Dive: Find the right co-founder and idea with Mo El Mahallawy, C…
Discussion focused on finding your co-founder and navigating the idea maze.
Deep Dive: Shutting down a startup, doing right by your team, and fou…
Deep Dive with Stevie Cline (ODF4) — managing partner at Vol. 1 Ventures — on shutting down startups, founder identity, and the long arc of ambition. Prior to VC, Stevie was a partner at a major law firm and her …
Control Your Financial Destiny: Runway, Metrics, and more with Puzzle…
Sasha Orloff is the co-founder and CEO of Puzzle, a company that builds modern accounting software specifically for startups.
Augmenting people with AI and building the future featuring Matt Rast…
Matt Rastovac is the founder of Respell, a company that builds AI-powered workflows and agents to assist on tasks enabling individuals and teams can be more effective than ever before.
"The most important milestone in the history of longevity biotech" — …
Loyal (ODF2) has earned what they believe to be the FDA’s first-ever formal acceptance that a drug can be developed and approved for lifespan extension. Truly groundbreaking. You’re about to listen to an archival interview with Celine just one and …
Defense Tech: Opportunities to support America and our allies with ve…
Joining me in the deep end is US Navy veteran Mike Slagh — founder of Shift — an organization that has built the most significant bridge between the Department of Defense and the startup ecosystem.
Lessons from the Journey to Building a Product Customers Want with Ma…
Max Greenwald met his co-founder Alan via ODF (applications for ODF19 close this week) and co-founded Warmly—a startup whose path has been anything but a straight line. After a few years of pivots they've come out the other end and …
Generative AI and deciding what to build first with Elaine Zelby of T…
Elaine Zelby just raised $5M from Index Ventures to empower marketers with generative AI. She sits down with On Deck co-founder Julian Weisser to discuss how to decide what your startup should build first, what to consider when evaluating potential …
Raising $40M to Build Health Insurance for India with Amrit Singh
Joining us in The Deep End today is Amrit Singh. Amrit Singh is the co-founder of Loop Health, the fastest-growing health insurance startup in India. Loop Health has raised over $40M, led by General Catalyst and Elevation Capital. As we …
Combating the Autoimmune Epidemic with Wallace Torres
Joining us today in The Deep End is Wallace Torres. Wallace is the Co-Founder of WellTheory. WellTheory is an early-stage startup with a pretty powerful mission: combating the autoimmune epidemic through the use of food as medicine, community care, and …
Raising $175M to Translate Nature Into Medicine with Viswa Colluru
Joining us today in The Deep End is Viswa Colluru, the CEO & Founder of Enveda Biosciences. Enveda has raised $175M in their quest to translate nature into medicine. Before founding Enveda, Viswa obtained a PhD in cellular and molecular …
Intro: How to Help People Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Welcome to a new mini-series of The Deep End! In these mini-series we explore some of the most complex, societal problems facing us at the moment - helping listeners gain a nuanced understanding of a complex topic - and then …
AI Companionship with Replika's Eugenia Kuyda
Hey everyone, as we gear up for the launch of a new series on longevity next week, we wanted to re-publish this really timeley episode with Eugenia Kuyda, the founder and CEO of Replika, an AI companion company. Our conversation …
Fundraising and Venture Capital in 2023 with Julian Weisser
Joining us today in the Deep End is Julian Weisser. Julian is the co-founder of On Deck, and a prolific angel investor with over a hundred angel investments including Loyal, Level, Atmos, and more. Every few months, we invite Julian …
From Personal Health Transformation to Magic AI with Varun Bhanot
Joining us today in the Deep End is Varun Bhanot. Varun is the co-founder and CEO of Magic AI, a home fitness system that uses AI to give you personalised training on a beautifully designed mirror. Prior to building Magic …
EP111: Raising from Sam Altman to Build Land Valuation Models with Wi…
Joining us in The Deep End today is Will Jarvis, co-founder and CEO of Valuebase. Valuebase is building land-centric models to improve property valuations and mass appraisal modeling. Valuebase recently secured $1.6 million in funding, with Sam Altman's Hydrazine leading …
Navigating the Idea Maze to Reinvent Children Education with Ryan Delk
Joining us on The Deep End today is Ryan Delk. Ryan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Primer, a startup creating a new education system for children, centered around microschools. Last year, Primer announced that they’ve raised $15M in new …
Raising $2.2M to Make Home Ownership Flexible with Lauren Self
Joining us today in the Deep End is Lauren Self. Lauren is the founder of Roots Homes, a fractional home ownership company, that allows you to build equity in your home while paying rent, which recently raised a $2.2M seed …
Housing and Regulation with Kim-Mai Cutler from Initialized
Joining us in The Deep End today for our housing series is Kim-Mai Cutler, a partner at Initialized who invests in proptech, real estate, and climate. Kim's background as a financial markets reporter and early-stage venture startup enthusiast, allowed her …
Intro: How to Increase Access to Housing
Over the past two years, we've interviewed 100+ people for our podcast, The Deep End. Now we're relaunching The Deep End as a multi-media publication, focused on problems worth solving. In the first series, we are tackling an issue that …
From Pivoting to Raising $180M to Build Stripe for Transportation wit…
Joining us in The Deep End today is Vignan Velivela. Vignan is the co-founder and CEO of AtoB, a fintech payments platform modernizing the trucking industry’s financial system, which raised a $155M Series B last year. He was also a …
Curiosity as an Ideation Mechanism with Tory Reiss
Joining us in The Deep End today is Tory Reiss. Tory is the CEO and co-Founder of Equi, an alternative investment hedge fund. Tory previously co-founded Archblock, a decentralized alternatives marketplace, and Harvest Money, an AI-driven debt management platform. We’re …