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The Story of Mercury | $5B Bank With 300,000 Customers
Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury, a San Francisco-based digital banking platform for startups.He was born in Pakistan, with his mother working as a teacher and his father owning a…
Kayvon Beykpour | Selling to Twitter, Rejecting Elon Musk & Getting Trolled by Kobe
Kayvon Beykpour is the co-founder and CEO of Macroscope, an AI code review agent, backed by Lightspeed, Thrive Capital Google Ventures, and others.Previously, Kayvon was the GM of Twitter’s consumer…
Frank Guzzone | Head of Design at Thrive Capital
A conversation with Frank Guzzone, Head of Design at Thrive Capital. He grew up in Virginia, the son of an immigrant father. Frank and I are from the same hometown & college. Frank enrolled at…
James Currier | How Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
James Currier is a Founding Partner at NFX and an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon.James grew in New Hampshire to a carpenter father and music teacher mother. He left home at 13 on a…
David Tisch | The Life Story of Box Group's Founder
A conversation with David Tisch, founder of BoxGroup.We talked about the importance of taste, why you can't replicate career paths, playing in the world series of poker, and a bunch more.I hope you…
Zach Dell & Justin Lopas | Solving the Hardest Problem in America - Base Power
Zach Dell and Justin Lopas are the co-founders of Texas-based Base Power Company.They recently raised a $1B series C at a $4B valuation, fueling their goals to modernize the electricity grid and…
Aaron Levie | He Cold Emailed Mark Cuban To Invest in His Startup (Now They’re Worth $5B)
Episode #18 of Yesterday:Aaron Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box (NYSE: BOX), a cloud storage company used by over 100,000 businesses worldwide, including 67% of the Fortune 500. He co-founded…
Jonathan Neman | How Sweetgreen Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Salad Chain
Episode #17 of Yesterday:Jonathan Neman is the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen, Inc. (NYSE: SG), the mission-driven restaurant brand redefining fast food through fresh, seasonal, and sustainable…
Zach Sims | The Codecademy Story: A $525M Exit That Almost Didn't Happen
Zach Sims co-founded Codecademy with Ryan Bubinski after dropping out of Columbia. And over a decade later in 2021, they sold to Skillsoft for $525M.We discuss his family, scrappy upbringing that led…
Joe Lonsdale | From Chess Prodigy to Co-founder of Palantir, 8VC
Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir (now worth ~$400B) and went on to found venture firm 8VC, the University of Austin, OpenGov, Addepar, and several other companies. In this wide-ranging conversation,…
Gordon Ritter | The Story of Silicon Valley's Most Extreme Investor ($8B In Returns)
Gordon Ritter co-founded Emergence Capital, backing iconic brands like Salesforce, Veeva Systems, Zoom, and more.We cover his life story in great detail — ranging from his father’s bloody face on the…
Akshay Kothari | $90M Acquisition to Co-Founding Notion ($10B+ Valuation)
We discuss the life story of Notion’s co-founder, Akshay Kothari. Notion is a productivity tool, valued at $10B+ with over 100M users. Akshay grew up in Western India in Ahmedabad, the largest city…
Dwarkesh Patel | The $10,000 Email Behind Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella and Marc Andreessen
This week, we cover the life story of Dwarkesh Patel, host of The Dwarkesh Podcast. Dwarkesh grew up in India until the age of eight, when his family moved to the United States for his father's…
Guillermo Rauch | The man behind Netflix, Ebay and More
This week, we cover the life story of Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel. Rauch grew up in Lanús, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself to code and by…
John Andrew Entwistle | The Life Story of Wander.com’s CEO
This week, we cover the life story of John Andrew Entwistle. He was once a Formula race car driver, during which he broke his back multiple times, and he even threw a house party that shut down his…
Jessica Mah | Youngest YC Founder
Jessica Mah is the founder of inDinero and Mahway, a venture studio backing companies in aerospace, legaltech, and biotech. We discussed growing up in Westchester to immigrant parents, teaching…
Josh Browder | Putin’s Mafia, Raising Millions, and Investing
Joshua Browder is the founder of DoNotPay, a legal tech company that automates consumer rights protection. We discuss the Russian mafia stalking his family, interviewing Warren Buffett at 18,…
Jack Altman | Investment Banking to Billion Dollar Startup
Jack Altman is the founder of Lattice, a now multi-billion dollar company. He recently launched Alt Capital, a 150M early-stage venture fund. We discuss Jack’s suburban upbringing and going from…
Haseeb Qureshi | Poker Pro to Investing $3B
Haseeb Qureshi is a former pro poker player and now the founder of Dragonly, a crypto-focused venture firm managing $3B+. We discussed growing up in Texas to immigrant parents, his foray into the…
Spenser Skates | Failed Startup to $300M in Revenue
Spenser Skates is the founder of Amplitude, a digital analytics platform. We discussed growing up in Boston to immigrant parents, his struggle of feeling like he wasn’t amazing at anything, and his…
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