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Sand Hill Road

NBC Bay Area

What makes Silicon Valley the innovation capital of the world? It all starts on Sand Hill Road, considered the mecca of venture capital. Join us for insightful interviews from the heart of Silicon Valley with the VCs, start-ups and innovators behind the trending technologies of tomorrow. Hosted by NBC Bay Area business and technology reporter and host of Press:Here, Scott McGrew.

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Episodios

208 episodios

  1. Jeremy Kaufmann: The AI Investments Silicon Valley Is Missing 28:13
  2. Ben Freeman's Bet on the Next PayPal Mafia 17:15
  3. Sabrina Paseman: Why Manufacturers May Resist the AI They Need 25:33
  4. SVLG's Ahmad Thomas: Beyond the Data Centers 23:43
  5. Gradient Ventures Darian Shirazi on AI, Moats and China 31:41
  6. 2026 Venture Capital Reading List 21:09
  7. Andy Chen: The Convenient Cofounder Penalty 22:23
  8. PR Yu: Ethical Capital at Speed 20:04
  9. David Spreng: Why Debt Isn't a Dirty Word 17:28
  10. Leah Solivan: Muscle of Conviction 16:24
  11. Jack Leeney of 7GC: Why IPOs Are Optional Now 26:03
  12. Entrepreneurs First: Investing Before the Idea 20:10
  13. Rudina Seseri Knew AI Was Cool Before You Did 17:47
  14. Adeo Ressi: Why the World Needs More Venture Capitalists 22:32
  15. Who Wins When ChatGPT Does the Searching? 22:14
  16. Brewing Medicine: Christina Smolke and the Race to Reinvent Drug Manufacturing 21:49
  17. Dr. Ed Engleman: Vivo Capital’s Cancer Hacker 18:02
  18. The Fastest Startup in Tech: Maria Palma on Lovable 29:53
  19. Design First, Lean Always: The Gamma Playbook 26:06
  20. Physics & AI: N47’s TJ Rylander Is Reimagining Engineering 23:09
  21. Rewiring the Special Relationship with the UK's AI Minister 18:09
  22. Eugene Malobrodsky's Bet on Immigrant Founders 28:28
  23. Christina Farr: The Storyteller's Advantage 17:42
  24. Abhinav Asthana: Building for Developers, Not Headlines 19:11
  25. Katelin Holloway's Billion-Dollar Box Scores 35:59
  26. Ireland’s Big Bet on Silicon Valley 17:47
  27. NEA's Aaron Jacobson on Robotics, AI Startups and Defense Innovation 20:15
  28. Steven Lee: From Last Kid Picked Up to Earliest Money In 15:19
  29. Rehan Jalil's Four Wins and a Vision 18:41
  30. The Meme is the Message: Kanyi Maqubela on Crypto, Culture, and the Future of Value 27:59
  31. Heavybit Announces Its Largest Raise Yet: $180m 23:08
  32. 2025 Summer VC Reading List 8:42
  33. The Systems Leader vs The Lone Wolf with Robert Siegel 20:32
  34. From MySpace to Liquid Death: Mike Jones on Building Brands People Love 28:48
  35. Practicing Venture Not Performing It: Joseph Alalou’s Outsider Ethos 27:56
  36. Biotech and Bold Bets with Jessica Owens, Inititate Ventures 28:56
  37. Masha Bucher Day One Ventures 17:00
  38. Lori Rosenkopf's Unstoppable Entrepreneurs 16:30
  39. Entrepreneurship through the eyes of Navin Chaddha 24:26
  40. Larry Gadea's startup journey 28:54
  41. Bobby Franklin’s unkillable movie monster 23:23
  42. How AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape 27:49
  43. Diagnosing diseases and saving lives with AI 19:10
  44. AI 's role in developing category killer therapeutics 30:16
  45. Fungus among us? 'Canadian values' in the Bay Area VC market 27:06
  46. Why does Steve Vassallo of Foundation Capital choose to invest early? 29:00
  47. A $40 Million Investment in Exploding Kittens 20:24
  48. Bay Area Venture Market Remains King 11:36
  49. San Francisco's Death is Greatly Exaggerated 14:10
  50. Mike Schroepfer is Saving the World, One Big Step at a Time 28:05