Dave Lerner
Welcome to Venture Studio, the Podcast
Welcome to Venture Studio, the Podcast

Episode 52: Building Blocks of the New World with Sean Ford

Sean Ford is the COO of Algorand, pioneers of a new future powered by blockchains. In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of blockchain, and how Algorand is leading the charge by providing an infrastructure for existing businesses to operate globally in this emerging, decentralized economy.

Let’s head up to the office….

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“[Blockchain is] really designed to remove the friction from financial exchange and participation” - Sean Ford

Show Notes:

  • What is a blockchain, and why is it important to society?

  • What are the challenges of building an infrastructure through blockchain?

  • How do you evaluate the quality of a blockchain project?

  • What is Algorand, and how is this recent incarnation unique?

  • Who is Silvio Micali, and why is he important?

  • Which entities/businesses are building off of Algorand?

  • How do governments/institutions build on top of Algorand?

  • How is Algorand structured?

  • Where is Algorand going in 5-10 years? And how about blockchain as a whole?

  • What’s a good way to get the next generation into the industry?

“[Algorand] has never experienced even a millisecond of downtime since we launched in June 2019” - Sean Ford

Links Mentioned:

“You’re successful in technology if people don’t know you’re they’re USING your technology. - Sean Ford

Episode 51: The Crypto Future with Ken Kruger, CEO of MOON

I’m sure like me, a lot of you who don’t work in crypto are trying to understand and learn about it these days. I know that some of us are very skeptical, some are intrigued, and that some are just curious, and trying to learn as much as they can.

After this conversation with Ken Kruger, you can consider me among those who are really inspired at the possibilities. Ken deeply believes that Cryptocurrencies are the future of money — he is walking the walk, and is the founder and CEO of Moon, a company on a mission to bring this future to fruition.

By background, Ken is a serial founder and software engineer with a computer science degree from Cornell, and an MS in industrial engineering and Operations Research from Columbia, where he studied Financial engineering. In the past he’s has worked at Lockheed Martin as a software engineer, and as a Product Manager on classified military projects.

Let’s head up to the office….

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“The power of crypto is that every time a new application comes up, it brings new people, and that’s the built-in network effect of these cryptocurrency networks.” - Ken Kruger

Show Notes:

  • About Ken’s intro to the world of Crypto

  • What are stable coins?

  • The currency situation in Venezuela

  • What does Dave get consistent pushback on regarding crypto?

  • China, and bitcoin mining prohibition

  • What is the importance of stable coins?

  • How do you obtain a stable coin?

  • What are the methods for converting to local currency from your crypto wallet?

  • Why are stable coins important in the scenario of currency exchange in foreign countries?

  • What are some alternates to stable coin?

  • Which Crypto communities are “up and coming”?

  • What are the problems with crypto payments?

  • What are some companies that allow for purchases in crypto?

  • What’s driving consumers to want to transact in crypto?

  • What is “Moon”, and how does it work?

  • What is the Moon user base like, demographically?

  • What’s in the future for Moon?

  • Increasing use cases of Moon

  • What are systems like Moon unlocking for the future?

“Stablecoins you just can’t ignore; there’s so much value there” - Ken Kruger

Links Mentioned:

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Discord

“Crypto payments are almost like a marketplace that has to be bootstrapped — do you get all the merchants to start accepting crypto first, or do you get the consumers to start spending crypto first?” - Ken Kruger

Episode 50: Lylan Masterman of White Star Ventures

Lylan Masterman is General Partner at White Star Capital where he leads the New York office. In this episode, Masterman discusses White Stars history and his approach to venture capitol investments. Masterman has an impressive technical background that informs his work and makes him a dynamic figure in the venture investing world.

We learn about the impressive companies White Star Capital has backed and how Masterman has meticulously crafted successful venture investment teams. He talks at length about the various responsibilities of Board Members, successful relationship building within the realm of venture investing, and the importance for startups to have a strong finance leader. It was an illuminating and inspiring conversation that I’m excited to share this week.

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“Part of our DNA since day one has been to be TransAtlantic.” - Lylan Masterman

Show Notes:

  • The benefits of Transatlantic Investment

  • How co-lead investments can lead to successful ventures

  • Where Whitestar Capital is focusing there investments

  • How digitization of finance has influenced their investments

  • What disruption of commerce is and how they pursue companies engaging in it

  • Why Whitestar Capital is interested in companies that work on sensor and algorithm technology

  • Why Masterman decided to invest in the KeyMe company

  • The importance of Whitestar’s most recent investments in Drop, Mnubo, and Unicast

  • How Masterman got into VC investing with an educational background in math and computer science

  • The importance of a high functioning team and what a founder should do to create a successful company

  • How to conduct effective board meetings and maintain a good relation with the COO and CFO

  • What a good board meeting schedule is and how to find a rhythm

  • What good internal dynamics of a VC team look like

  • The benefits of having complimentary skill sets on a VC team

  • How to maintain valuable relationships across industries and borders

  • The importance of evaluating companies based on their location

  • How diversity of specialization in startups can be related to region and urban center

“If your product can be used by clients across all the countries of the world, why would you want to ignore that addressable market.” - Lylan Masterman

Links Mentioned:

“It should always be about the CEO owning the decisions.” - Lylan Masterman

Episode 48: Wendy Xiao Schadeck of Northzone Ventures

This episode's guest is Wendy Xiao Schadeck of Northzone. Wendy joined Northzone in 2016. She has a particular interest for media, fintech, real estate tech, edtech, and blockchain, and specifically companies that connect the New York and European ecosystems. Prior to joining Northzone, Wendy worked at A. T. Kearney and Accenture, where she helped solve the toughest business problems for industry giants in financial services, CPG, retail, telecommunications, and transportation.

Her writings on the subject of blockchain and crypto are terrific reading. Here are a few sample posts:

https://medium.com/@wen_xs/what-is-blockchain-really-an-intro-for-regular-people-e51578d98a96

https://medium.com/@wen_xs/blockchains-biggest-assumptions-a48d340e917b

https://medium.com/@wen_xs/one-way-blockchain-adoption-could-happen-eac384cdf1de

https://medium.com/@wen_xs/things-to-think-about-before-investing-in-blockchain-tokens-8885b01e6615

Episode 47: Lindsey Grey - Two Sigma Ventures

This episode’s guest is Lindsey Grey of Two Sigma Ventures. Her bio is below:

Lindsey joined Two Sigma Ventures in 2016 to lead our efforts to build and grow our portfolio support capabilities. She is responsible for identifying the needs and challenges of our portfolio companies, and developing resources, programs, and connections to help them succeed. Lindsey is also helping to build out Two Sigma Ventures’ marketing and content strategy.

Lindsey joined us from NYU where she was Senior Director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute. During her 4 years at NYU she created and ran an accelerator program, opened an entrepreneurship center, co-taught classes with Steve Blank at the engineering school, helped build a mentorship program, taught research commercialization for the NSF, and mentored hundreds of faculty and student-led startups. Prior to NYU, Lindsey worked with Fortune 500 companies on corporate spin-outs and innovation strategy as part of Clay Christensen’s consulting firm, Innosight. Lindsey received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Connecticut College.

Episode 46: Deborah Jackson, of Plum Alley

Deborah Jackson is a founder and entrepreneur, early-stage investor and former investment banker.  In 2012 Deborah founded Plum Alley to advance women entrepreneurs and strong teams of women and men, to build better products and companies that are positioned to outperform others.

Deborah's accomplishments include:
- 20+ years raising capital for entities including healthcare  technology; past experience includes Goldman Sachs,  Shattuck Hammond Partners
- Early stage investor in copmanies in consumer internet, cloud  software, mobile, and medical, including one IPO
- Co-Founder/Advisor, WIM Accelerator to build mobile tech
- Columbia University Committee Advisor to President on Entrepreneurship
- Awards & Recognition: TechCrunch 40 Over 40, Forbes  “Women Changing the World” (VC/Enrepreneurs), Fast  Company “League of Extraordinary Women,” Bpeace  Economic Impact Award
- Start-up Competition Judge: Harvard Busines School New  Venture Competition, Technovation, Startup Weekend
- Featured Speaker: CNBC, Family Office Association, HBS,  The Atlantic Conference, Columbia University, UPenn

Episode 45: Jason Cahill of McCune Ventures

This week’s guest is Jason Cahill of McCune Capital, as seed-stage venture fund here in NYC funding new technology applied to old industries.

Enjoy great insights from Jason on what seed-investing is all about. "It's all one big conversation"

By background, Jason is network design engineer by training, an experienced manager, an Army veteran who served with Special Forces, an empathetic customer advocate, and a product-focused leader that loves to think big. An MBA at Carnegie Mellon sparked his passion for tech, and for data-centric, mission-driven companies solving “real problems.” He's always enjoyed helping teams and has long been an advisor/mentor/advocate for entrepreneurial ventures in various organizations. His investments have spanned sectors, but always gravitate toward high-performing operators.

Episode 44: Rafat Ali, CEO of Skift

This week's guest is the great Rafat Ali. Rafat is the CEO/founder of Skift, the largest business intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data, and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry.

If there's anyone we've ever spoken to that embodies the mantra of "following your own instinct" it is Rafat. His is the story of doubling and tripling down on his own vision despite all odds.

Previously, he was the founder of paidContent and ContentNext, now owned by UK’s Guardian News and Media. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter.

 

Episode 41: Jessica Lawrence, CEO of NY Tech Alliance

This week's guest is Jessica Lawrence Quinn, the CEO of NY Tech Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting New York’s growing technology community, and the organizer of NY Tech Meetup, the world’s largest Meetup group.

Prior to her work with NY Tech Alliance, Jessica was the CEO of Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Southern California, where she supported a community of 75 staff, 5,000 volunteers, and 15,000 girls.

Jessica was one of only 15 women selected to participate in Seth Godin’s Female Entrepreneur MBA (FeMBA) in 2010. Jessica’s writing has been featured on the Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes.com, The Next Web, The Huffington Post and in a weekly column in The Press-Enterprise. She also speaks frequently on the tech sector, the future of work, and organizational development and culture at events such as PopTech, SXSW, and TEDx.

Episodes 39 & 40: Brad Harrison, Scout Ventures

This week’s guest is the incomparable Brad Harrison, founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Scout Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm in NYC that partners with experienced entrepreneurs who are building scalable technologies.

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During this experience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.

While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications and retired as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

Episodes 37 & 38: Spencer Ante tells story of world's first Venture Capitalist

The guest on these two episodes is Spencer Ante, author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital.

Spencer is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated and award-winning author, writer, editor, and journalist formerly with The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Wired. He is also a seasoned product developer and manager with extensive experience across digital media, social media, broadcast, and print media. He is also President and cofounder of WhoWeUse, a mobile app and Web directory that connects people with the most popular local services used by their friends and neighbors.

Spencer tells the story of the first professional venture capitalist in the world, the guy who literally “made up the industry” and launched the first venture fund ever- in 1946! Georges Doriot was a visionary, few understood what he was doing, the SEC fought him tooth and nail throughout the decades he was running his venture fund. His LP’s nagged him incessantly for immediate “dividends” well before the startups he was backing had even had a chance to grow. Yet Doriot stayed true to his vision and pushed forward relentlessly. He was eventually vindicated- but you'll hear all about it on these episodes.

So head on up to the venture studio office and hear the story that Spencer’s got for us.

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2016 Year in Podcasts

What a year 2016 has been for @venturestudio - incredible guests - conversations with some of the most interesting people in NYC's investment community. It's been tremendous fun and we've learned a ton. I want to give out a big thanks to my producer, Kevin Weeks, for all his efforts. Kevin was a former student of mine @ Columbia- he's worked with startups and investors in a variety of capacities, and was the one who pushed me to get @venturestudio up and running again- this time as a podcast. We both saw the value of speaking directly to the mystery surrounding fundraising by having the people who "write the checks" on the show. Fundraising is a process that all founders face in one way or another, and frankly it remains a major source of stress and anxiety for many of them.

We also want to thank you for tuning-in- we're grateful to have you with us.

And if you've enjoyed the show this year I'm going to ask you to take two minutes right now- by clicking on this link and once there, to clock on "View in iTunes" and then leave us a 5 Star Review- this helps us enormously. Can you do that for us? Much appreciated.

So here we are with a year behind us as a podcast. It's all about learning and listening- we want to give our guests the forum to open-up, speak freely and in "longer-form" with limited interruption from me- so we can get to hear their internal ruminations about investing, about founders, about NYC- and to learn their motivations, interests, pet peeves, etc. We want to get beyond the mundane LTV vs. CAC analysis that anyone can regurgitate. Most of these folks have a lot more going on than investing in startups. They've had careers and families, many have been founders themselves, they are involved in causes and charities and movements in many cases. That's the whole point isn't it? They're real people who happen to invest in companies- and we've had some really great people on who help this NYC ecosystem get better every day just by being who they are.

So just below are some of our most interesting conversations of the year. Rather than simply listing episodes and key takeaways, we thought it would be more interesting to group some of our guests into buckets such as "the newcomers', "the intellectuals", "the tacticians", "the guardians", "the originals", etc. Tweet at us if you learned other things that you want to add.

 

The Newcomer: Shan-Lyn Ma

Shan is the CEO of the fastest growing registry in the world, Zola. She's just finished raising her Series C and in 3.5 years has built a powerhouse company here in NYC. 

She's also jumped into angel investing over the last 18 months. How's she going about it? What approach is she taking. Have a listen- just super thoughtful and insightful.

 

The Intellectuals: Naval Ravikant & Jerry Neumann

Naval Ravikant

In this two-part interview, my fellow Stuyvesant grad, Naval, who is co-founder and CEO of Angellist went absolutely "beyond thunderdome" as I like to say. He got deep- to put it mildly. He presciently predicted the forces being unleashed on the presidential election, elucidated on his epic post: The American Spring: medium.com/the-mission/america…320bf712#.k4ppdt9pd , covered the power-dynamics (and haters) at play in venture capital, and discussed the coming disruption of the wealthy elite in the American Political system.

Oh yes, I should add we also found time to discuss AngelList, syndicates and startup funding :) 

Jerry Neumann

“The hard part’s not writing the check. The hard part is getting a bigger check back at the end.”

Jerry is one of the deepest thinkers in the venture scene, period. He's also one of the longest standing investors in NYC, and has been a part of the NYC tech ecosystem for 25+ years as a VC, founder, angel and fellow entrepreneurship professor @ Columbia.

Jerry goes deep on his investing philosophy and approach, the power-law in VC, betting on the ponies, thoughts on getting started as an investor, Carlotta Perez's epic work on technology cycles, and more. Speaking with Jerry is always an awesome learning experience.

Also check out some links of his below:

Reaction Wheel
reactionwheel.net/

Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing
reactionwheel.net/2014/07/betting-ponies.html

Neu Venture Capital
neuvc.com

 

The Tacticians: Steph Palmeri & Jonathan Lehr

Steph Palmeri

A lot to learn from Steph- she's a machine-gun of energy and insights. She comes to my startup classes at Columbia (where she's an alumnae of the MBA program) to lecture on venture capital and always cuts right to the core when she talks to founders about their startup projects.

One major takeaway from this conversation is Steph's advice to NYC founders doing a seed round: You should have at least one west coast investor in the round! Very important to have that DNA in the company when you get to later rounds!

Jonathan Lehr

Jonathan is the co-founder and General Partner at Work-Bench which helps scale enterprise technology startups by providing community and workspace, connecting exceptional builders to Fortune 500 buyers, and co-investing in extraordinary founders tackling enormous markets.

Jonathan talks about Work-Bench providing the platform that equips their founders with ridiculous access to potential enterprise clients to do customer development and/or sales. It's working- so pay close attention to what they're building and get involved if you're in the business of selling to the enterprise.

The Accelerators: Jenny Fielding & Alex Iskold

Jenny Fielding

Jenny previews the launch of Techstars IoT accelerator (and their five corporate partners) which she's running. I've been over since then and it's really terrific- lots of great teams. This will be an IoT franchise in NYC- mark my words- a terrific program with a superb leader.

Alex Iskold

Alex puts on an absolutely incredible Techstars program. It's a jewel here in NYC. From this episode we learned so much about his approach and philosophy. Enormous wisdom here.

Alex Iskold founded GetGlue, which was acquired in 2013 and Information Laboratory which was acquired in 2003. He also writes a great blog about startups and venture capital at  and you can follow him on twitter at @alexiskold.

The Syndicator: Ming Yeh

What a pleasure it was to talk to Ming- she's a veteran in the VC industry and is now running the largest seed fund in the world! It's a $400M vehicle called CSC Upshot. Ming is based in the US but the fund's parent company is Chinese.

Ming is full of wisdom and educates us on the burgeoning chinese early-stage sector, her view on Angellist Syndicates and the goals of CSC Upshot. Enjoy!

The Blue-Collar Genius: Paul Martino

From Paul we learn a great deal. Some highlights were what it was like to be mentored by the legendary Bill Campbell, why he and his partners founded Bullpen to play in the space between Seed and Series A, and a good deal about their blue-collar/lunch-pail approach to investing. 

Paul's a very successful serial entrepreneur and he described his entrepreneurial mindset in staking out a space in venture that no one else was in: "post-seed, 12-18 months prior to Series A". 

The Guardian: Jerry Colonna

We believe that in work is the possibility of the full realization of human potential. Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way we achieve our fullest self.

What can I say about my fellow Brooklynite Jerry Colonna? He's just a gem- we're so lucky to have him in this ecosystem. He's helping so many founders and investors via his Reboot coaching platform.

He's also been on a long personal odyssey to find peace and meaning and fulfillment in his life. He shares a good bit on this score as well. A very special person.

 

The Original: Joanne Wilson

She's a fellow Brooklynite and wears her opinions on her sleeve- a creature of pure instinct- a one-woman-gang backing female founders across the city and the country- yes- she's the gotham gal - definitely read her blog. She started working in NYC tech in the 90's folks- she's seen it all. She was working with Jason Calacanis when he put his first Silicon Alley Reporter out. These days she's having the time of her life and has been investing in startups for a decade. 

From Joanne some of the key insights we gleaned were the fact that tweens are too fickle a market to invest in, that in addition to backing women-led ventures she's also quietly running a network of women angel investors with whom she compares deal flow, and that she "beat the shit out of her dad in ping-ping" when she was a kid :)

We also learned that she trusts her instincts 100%, doesn't put up with any BS, totally believes in her insights and is not wracked by second-guessing decisions and all that nonsense. We would all do well to remind ourselves of what self-confidence and conviction sounds like by listening to Joanne as we enter a new year.

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Hope you've enjoyed and looking forward to more conversations on @venturestudio in the new year.

Wishing you all the best for 2017!

Dave

Episode 36: Shan-Lyn Ma, CEO of Zola & Angel Investor

This week’s guest is Shan-Lyn Ma, Co-Founder and CEO of Zola and angel investor in New York City. Zola is re-inventing the Wedding Registry for the modern couple.

Shan elaborates on the great success of Zola in becoming the fastest growing wedding registry and how she and her team used their learnings from their time at Gilte Group to design the business model. She also describes the funding of Zola, which recently raised it's Series C round. Each round was very different- seed, Series A, B & C and investors wanted to see different things at each interval. Fascinating stuff.

Lastly, Shan describes her recent foray into angel investing. For anyone thinking of getting into investing at some point her approach is extremely thoughtful and sharp.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

Enjoy!

Episode 35: The Master (Jerry Colonna)

This week's guest is Dave's friend, Jerry Colonna of Reboot. Jerry is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs with his platform, Reboot. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction. Previously he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private­ equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. He joined JPMP from Flatiron Partners, which he launched 1996 with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early­ stage investment programs in the New York City area. At Flatiron, Jerry was responsible for a wide range of the firm’s investments including Geocities Inc., Gamesville Inc., Vertical One Inc., and The New York Times Digital.

Jerry is truly a gem in the startup ecosystem and describes is own journey of radical self-inquiry over the past 15 years.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

Episodes 33 & 34: Jerry Neumann, Angel Investor

This two part series features Jerry Neumann, early stage angel investor at Neu Venture Capital and longtime New York VC. Neu invests in seed-stage companies developing cutting-edge technologies for use in large markets. Neu makes five or six new investments a year and only invests in companies where they can make a difference.

Jerry and Dave cover the landscape of NYC over the past 20+ years, Jerry's philosophy and approach to investing as well as Jerry's insights into technology cycles. They also discuss teaching entrepreneurship to the next generation as both Jerry and Dave are professors teaching entrepreneurship at Columbia University.

“The hard part’s not writing the check. The hard part is getting a bigger check back at the end.”

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

Enjoy!

Episode 32: Jonathan Lehr, CEO of Work-Bench

This week’s guest is Jonathan Lehr (@fendien), Co-Founder and General Partner at Work-Bench (@Work_Bench). Work-Bench helps scale enterprise technology startups by providing community and workspace, connecting exceptional builders to Fortune 500 buyers, and co-investing in extraordinary founders tackling enormous markets.

This episode, we start with a few thoughts on the VC ecosystem and some recent headlines from Dave. Then, we jump right into Dave’s amazing interview with Jon.

Remember - all of our shows are available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.

Epidsode 30 & 31- Naval Ravikant - CEO of AngelList

Welcome back to Venture Studio, and welcome back to our fantastic two-part interview with Naval Ravikant of AngelList.

In part 1 of this interview, Dave and Naval talked about AngelList, syndicates and startup funding. In part 2, things got quite a bit more philosophical. In this interview, Naval and Dave cover power dynamics and haters in venture, the American political system - Trump, Bernie and Hilary - the disruption of the wealthy elite and, of course, South Park.

Naval was particularly prescient in his prediction of how Trump will up-end the whole system via his use of social media.

In this episode, Dave refers to this post by Naval called The American Spring: medium.com/the-mission/america…320bf712#.k4ppdt9pd

Episode 29: Matt Harrigan, Grand Central Tech

This week’s guest is Matt Harrigan, Co-Founder of Grand Central Tech. Grand Central Tech is a year-long accelerator in midtown Manhattan that actually sounds quite different from most accelerators: One year. No Rent. No Equity. GCT surrounds its companies with the best possible programming, resources and strategic partners to offer an unparalleled value proposition.

Remember - all of our shows are on venturestudio.org and on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play. If you like this episode, you’ll love Episode 21 with Brad Hargreaves, founder of Common, a GCT alum. Make sure to subscribe on iTunes and follow us on twitter @venturestudio.