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Feb. 12, 2024

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.

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Feb. 6, 2024

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 …

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Jan. 19, 2024

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.

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Dec. 7, 2023

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.

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Dec. 2, 2023

"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 …

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Nov. 11, 2023

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.

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Oct. 27, 2023

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 …

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Oct. 24, 2023

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 …

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Aug. 16, 2023

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 …

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Aug. 3, 2023

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 …

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July 27, 2023

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 …

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July 27, 2023

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 …

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July 19, 2023

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 …

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July 12, 2023

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 …

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June 29, 2023

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 …

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June 15, 2023

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 …

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June 8, 2023

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 …

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May 31, 2023

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 …

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May 24, 2023

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 …

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May 24, 2023

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 …

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May 10, 2023

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 …

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May 3, 2023

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 …

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April 27, 2023

How Finch Navigated the Idea Maze to a $40 Million Raise with Ansel P…

Joining us in The Deep End is Ansel Parikh. Ansel is the co-founder of Finch, an API for Employment Systems that democratizes access to the infrastructure that underpins the employment sector. Finch recently raised a $40M Series B. Before Finch, …

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