Chasing Capital
by Alex Toberoff
Welcome to the Chasing Capital podcast, where we focus on notable VCs, operators, and founders in their 20s and 30s, giving insight and advice to university students.
Podcast episodes
7. White Star’s Thomas Klocanas: NFTs as Unique Community Engagement with Creator Coins, Multis Building the Argent for SMBs, and the Power of Publishing Content for New Grads in Tech/Crypto/VC
7. White Star’s Thomas Klocanas: NFTs as Unique Community Engagement with Creator Coins, Multis Building the Argent for SMBs, and the Power of Publishing Content for New Grads in Tech/Crypto/VC
In the seventh episode of the podcast, I chat with White Star Capital’s Thomas Klocanas about the crypto landscape covering everything from the potential centralization of mainstream killer apps for crypto, the powerful combination of creator tokens and NFT for creator communities, positive sum dynamics in institutional crypto, and the benefits of putting all your written work out there when you’re starting out.
6. GPV’s Earnest Sweat: Learning How to Communicate Through Equity Research, How to Best Prepare for Alumni Conversations, and Investing in Prop-Tech
6. GPV’s Earnest Sweat: Learning How to Communicate Through Equity Research, How to Best Prepare for Alumni Conversations, and Investing in Prop-Tech
In this sixth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GPV’s Earnest Sweat on a wide variety of topics like the importance of learning how to communicate and how to hone this skill, his path to investing in unsexy (but massive) industries like prop-tech and manufacturing, and how to perfectly prepare for a chat with an alumni in tech or VC.
5. Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra: Startup vs Big Finance after College, Is It Okay if It’s just Linear Regression, and the Importance of Radical Candor
5. Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra: Startup vs Big Finance after College, Is It Okay if It’s just Linear Regression, and the Importance of Radical Candor
In this fifth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra on a wide variety of topics like the importance of real ML insight vs good marketing, choosing a job that aligns with your natural abilities and enjoyments, and the benefits of joining tech right after college vs traditional Finance & co.
4. GGV’s Graham Carney: Backing Non-Archetypal Founders, Audio Platforms/Usage as Commonplace, and Tech/Startups as Weird 10yrs ago
4. GGV’s Graham Carney: Backing Non-Archetypal Founders, Audio Platforms/Usage as Commonplace, and Tech/Startups as Weird 10yrs ago
In this fourth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GGV’s Graham Carney on a wide variety of topics like the different perceptions of going into tech back in 2011 vs now, the common use of audio for communication outside of the US, and investing globally at GGV giving him an interesting purview into non-archetypal founders.
3. Bessemer ’s Mike Giampapa: Crypto Becoming a Fully Functional Asset Class, Free as Quite a Powerful Moat, and Focusing on the Best Company to Join Not the Equity Package
3. Bessemer ’s Mike Giampapa: Crypto Becoming a Fully Functional Asset Class, Free as Quite a Powerful Moat, and Focusing on the Best Company to Join Not the Equity Package
In this third episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Bessemer’s Mike Giampapa on a wide range of topics like the huge upside in consumer vs enterprise with product and business model innovation, how crypto is becoming mainstream amongst investors, and the importance of choosing a good company/sector over your title, comp, and equity package when coming out of college.