In the Know with Amol Sarva

S4E10 PJ Parson, Northzone and Spotify

🎙️ Episode Guide — PJ Parson (Northzone) Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech Celebrating 30 years of the New York tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. PJ Parson is a partner at Northzone, best…

S4E9 Kevin Ryan, Alleycorp + MongoDB ++ Doubleclick, Dilbert

>updated with vibier sound!< Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech Celebrating 30 years of the New York tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Kevin Ryan joined DoubleClick in 1996, just…

Flaming Lips play Madonna

S4E8 Howard Morgan, First Round and BCap

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Howard Morgan started as an engineer and professor in the early computing days, and ended up…

S4E7 *Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures

>updated with vibier sound!< Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Fred Wilson's USV is kind of a 'nuff said, to borrow NYC…

S4E6 Alan Patricof, APAX, Greycroft and Primetime

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Alan Patricof's been at it since he graduated from Columbia Business School just a couple years…

S4E5 Ben Lerer, Thrillist and Lerer Hippeau

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Ben Lerer tells us what ideas led to the creation of a whole new type of media company in the…

S4E4 Dennis Crowley, Foursquare and Dodgeball

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Dennis Crowley tells us how he got to New York and the early internet culture in the media/Wall…

S4E3 Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Albert Wenger tells me about his 20 years at USV, and how NY went from apps-mostly to deep and…

S4E2 Owen Davis, Contour and NYC Seed

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. Owen Davis tells us how advertising powered early NYC tech and the big transition…

S4E1 John Borthwick, Betaworks

Welcome to my series on OG NY Tech -- celebrating 30 years of NY tech ecosystem, from 1995 to now. John Borthwick tells us the roots story of media and art and agencies at the heart of the early…

Pablos Holman from Deep Future VC on “invention” vs. just innovation

Pablos built one of the first decentralized money networks, the first experimental Blue Origin rockets, one of the first handheld computers, invented 1000s of new patents with Nathan Myhrvold, and…

AI x Bio x NY: highlights from our conference

So you missed the all-day all-science+technology collection of superstars gathered by LifeX and Bits in Bio at Fenwick in New York? Wondering what the frontiers of foundation models in bio,…

What’s super-investor Jim Mellon thinking about?

Jim, founder of Juvenescence, old China and Russia hand, and investor in our fund LifeX sends me an email every morning with lots of attachments that he read that morning. Here's what he's been…

De-growth, de-acceleration from the Slow Down manifesto by Shohei Saito, by Amolbot

Read the post here: https://amol.sarva.co/%f0%9f%90%8c-kohei-saitos-slow-down-de-acc-manifesto/

Cyborgs! Our AI and Bio Future, by Amolbot

I gave a talk in Stockholm last year, that I asked these robots to discuss. Hope you enjoy it. This doesn't look LIKE me but it does sort of resemble what I could possibly look like. It was the…

What’s Om Malik interested in these days?

The legendary tech beat reporter is back with a team effort newsletter covering some of the most interesting people in tech. Listen in to hear what he's been thinking about over the last 10 issues.

10 x Trends for AI x Health + Bio in 2025 from LifeX dealflow analysis, courtesy of Amolbot

We analyzed the 1,000s of companies we're watching and investing in at LifeX. We looked at every update email from every CEO and every conversation notes from every team member. And we made hits…

20 Trends for 2025 in Health and Biopharma from Wall Street, synthesized by Amolbot

We synthesized the dozens of outlook reports from Wall Street analysts on health, biopharma, and related trends. Listen in to Amolbot (an automated Amol) and co-hosts.

Techbio 2025 predictions from Amol’s inbox full of reports, via Amolbot

We synthesized the dozens of outlook reports from Silicon Valley observers of techbio for AI x Health startups and trends. Listen in to Amolbot (an automated Amol) and co-hosts.