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• How a16z's Most Connected VC Picks Founders

  October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

  Today I walk with David Haber, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. David co-founded Bond Street and sold it to Goldman Sachs, started his career working for the founder of Royalty Pharma and investing at Spark Capital, and helped open…

• $13 Billion CEO Thinks Most People Shouldn't Start A Company

  October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

  Today I walk with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly. Shishir co-founded Coda and sold it to Grammarly, built skippable ads at YouTube into a product that went from $0 to $1 billion in 18 months…

• She Raised $16.5M+ to End Genetic Disease - Noor Sidiqqui

  September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

  Today I walk with Noor Siddiqui, founder and CEO of Orchid. Noor was a Thiel Fellow at 17, studied CS at Stanford, and has raised $16.5M for Orchid from Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, and Elad Gil, and now she's out…

• He Co-founded $2B Udemy. Now a16z Gave Him $42M To Rethink College - Gagan Biyani

  September 24, 2026 · 52 min

  Today I walk with Gagan Biyani, founder and CEO of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Gagan co-founded Udemy, which grew into a multibillion-dollar public company, built Sprig, co-founded Maven, and started his first profitable business at…

• $9.5B Gusto Founder Went Back to Being an Engineer to Build an AI CoFounder - Edward Kim

  September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  Today I walk with Edward Kim, co-founder and CTO of Gusto. Edward built Gusto with two Stanford classmates into a $9.5B payroll platform running 300,000 small businesses, made over $1M selling Android apps on the side, and after a decade…

• He Helped Founders Raise $2 Billion. Now He's Sold on Solo Founding - Julian Weisser

  September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  Today I walk with Julian Weisser, founder of Solo Founders and co-founder of On Deck. Julian has run 27 ODF cohorts, helped more than 1,000 founders collectively raise over $2 billion, and spent eight years matching people with…

• Amplitude went public at a $5.6 billion valuation. Now its CEO is rebuilding all 800 employees around AI

  September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  Automate Compliance (and get $1,000 off!!) - https://vanta.com/luba Today I walk with Spenser Skates, co-founder and CEO of Amplitude. Spenser shut down his first startup, a voice-to-text texting app called Sonalight, a year after it got…

• From $10M to $70M ARR in 12 Months, The Story of OpenArt - Coco Mao

  September 10, 2026 · 51 min

  Automate Compliance (and get $1,000 off!!) - https://vanta.com/luba Today I walk with Coco Mao, CEO and co-founder of OpenArt, an AI visual storytelling platform. Coco spent years as an engineer at Google, ran her own startup inside…