Episodes

This week's guest on The Deep End is Dr. Emily Anhalt (@dremilyanhalt on Twitter). Dr. Anhalt is a psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Coa, which describes itself as building a gym for your …

Cooper Turley leads a handful of online communities known as DAOs. "DAO" is an acronym that stands for a decentralized autonomous organization. In more colloquial terms, a DAO is an internet community with a shared cap table and bank account. …

It's a new season of the Deep End and we're moving to two episodes per week (Mondays + Wednesdays)! We lay the groundwork for all of our upcoming episodes by discussing the nature of the open-source web. Our guest, Cal.com …

Dean Hollis Robbins wears many hats: Administrator, teacher, scholar of black sonnets... but she's also an expert on expertise itself. Today's conversation is about frameworks for organizing knowledge. Dr. Robbins argues that our modern society suffers from mismanaged "self-secretarying" - …

Patrick Rivera (Product Engineer at Mirror) has a front seat on the edge of the crypto revolution. He details the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0, discusses the crypto-native creator economy, paints a picture of …

Flo Crivello (CEO of Teamflow) believes that a new way of working calls for an entirely new set of tools. In this conversation, we explore how employers can curate a new kind of space that looks virtual, but feels intimate …

We sit down with Marc Lore, a serial entrepreneur and self-described "moonshot seeker." He has successfully founded and sold three companies, including Jet.com, which sold to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Now, he's building a mission-driven city called, "Telosa," …

We sit down with Gaby Goldberg, investor at Bessemer and explorer of the metaverse. Also joining us is Shriya Nevatia, program director of On Deck Catalyst.

We sit down with Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries. He explains why Varda’s mission statement is to “expand the economic bounds of humanity” and how its success will do for space what the gold rush did for California.

We sit down with Sam and Andrew who, since meeting during On Deck, have gone on to co-found a startup called Levels. Their goal is nothing short of changing the way the world interacts with food through the creation of …

We sit down with Kyla Scanlon, a content creator and program partner at On Deck Investing— a fellowship for investors who want to deepen their knowledge of public markets, understand investor psychology, and accumulate practical tools for long-term wealth creation.

We sit down with Candice Ammori, Program Director of the On Deck Climate Tech fellowship — a 10-week program for startup and climate experts looking to start, join, invest in, and advise climate tech companies.

We sit down with Fadeke Adegbuyi, self-described “tech optimist” and creator of Cybernaut — a newsletter that explores the wide-ranging and sometimes “weird” communities and cultures of the Internet.

We sit down with Packy McCormick, writer of the popular Not Boring newsletter and startup investor via Not Boring Capital. The following conversation was recorded live on the internet in front of an audience of On Deck community members and …

We sit down with Rebecca Kaden, a Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures to discuss thesis-driven investing. The following conversation was recorded live during the recent On Deck New York City drop.

We talk with Web Smith, an expert on consumer brands and ecommerce and the founder of 2PM, an online resource that analyzes the intersection of media and commerce.

We talk with Jarrod Dicker, investor at the Chernin Group and former Washington Post executive, about how modern creators are driving the development of new applications and ushering us into a new era—the decentralized web, also referred to as web3.

Joining us in the Deep End is Bradley Tusk, an investor, political strategist, and businessman. We spoke to Bradley on the day of New York City’s Mayoral election. His firm, Tusk Strategies, is running Andrew Yang’s campaign. Though the election …

We talk with Celine Halioua, founder and CEO of Loyal — a startup that is developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. Celine was in the second cohort of the On Deck Founder fellowship and recently announced an $11M raise — …

We talk to Saagar Enjeti, former cohost of the news show Rising (1.3M YouTube subscribers). Last week he launched Breaking Points, an independent news and opinion show, that has already hit 250k YouTube subscribers and more paid podcast subscribers than …

We talk with Joe Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir — a platform for creators to manage their businesses. Joe believes that creators are professionals, and that for them to reach their full potential it is essential that the quality …

In this episode we talk to Balaji Srinivasan, formerly CTO of Coinbase, GP at Andreessen Horowitz, and founder of 1729.com, about some of the themes and ideas he is working on for his forthcoming book, “the Network State”, including: - …

In this episode we are joined by Katherine Boyle, a partner at General Catalyst. Last week, Katherine announced a new civic tech-focused fund based in Miami with a mandate to back civic tech businesses. Today, we speak with her about: …

In this episode we are talking to Erik Torenberg, co-founder and chairman of On Deck. Erik is on a mission to build On Deck into a modern education institution for the future of work. We discussed: - What’s causing incumbent …