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We The Builders

Suffiyan Malik

Conversations with practitioners at the edge of their craft across business, media, startups, frontier technologies, investing. wethebuilders.us

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59 episodes

  1. Can AI Help the U.S Navy Decide Who Gets Promoted? Assistant Secretary of Navy Ben Kohlmann (M&RA) 1:09:53
  2. The $3B Company Building Hardware Intelligence | Cameron McCord (Nominal) 1:17:05
  3. Aaron Slodov on Atomic Industries & Rebuilding American Manufacturing 51:54
  4. Backing Canva, Missing Airbnb, and Learning to Change Your Mind | Aydin Senkut 1:49:03
  5. Ritankar Das on Finding Your Gifts and the Science of Success 1:50:00
  6. The Biggest Markets in the World Are the Most Regulated | Sal Churi (Trust Ventures) 1:21:34
  7. Ross Fubini of XYZ Ventures on Investing in Anduril, Advising Palantir and Funding Palantir Mafia 1:44:47
  8. He Sold His Company for $2.5 Billion. Now He is Building AI for Logistics | Harish Abbott 1:24:54
  9. The Investment Thesis for Rebuilding America | Chris Buskirk (Cofounder of 1789 Capital) 1:14:08
  10. What Billion Dollar Founders Have in Common | Ali Tamaseb of DCVC 1:39:19
  11. In Conversation with Bryon Hargis, Cofounder & CEO of Castelion ($13B defense technology company) 46:58
  12. Michael Thompson, Board Member at Oklo & Joby on Betting on The Future 32:44
  13. Somesh Dash on IVP, Firm Building, Venture Investing, The AI Era and Immigration 1:48:56
  14. Adam Grosser, The Renaissance Man behind UP.Partners on 40 Years of Investing & Building in Silicon Valley 2:32:01
  15. Evan Burns on Building State Affairs, Backed by Khosla Ventures & Founders Fund, The Business of Policy Markets and State of Media 1:11:07
  16. Mike Solana of Founders Fund on Creating Celebrity Mafia featuring Tech Elite 35:40
  17. Justin Lopas on the Business of Base Power and Lessons from SpaceX & Anduril 53:02
  18. Scott Kupor on A16Z Origin Story, White House Role and Office of Personnel Management 1:11:05
  19. Ian Cinnamon on Building a $2.3B Satellite Manufacturing Campus, Palantir Alumni & The Apex Space Thesis 30:13
  20. E41: Austen Allred on X Posting, Lambda School, Getting Sued, ISAs, Lobbying & Future of Education 1:46:45
  21. Brian Hooks, CEO of Stand Together & President of Charles Koch Foundation on Venture Philanthropy 42:04
  22. In Conversation with Dan Wright, Cofounder & CEO of Armada ($2B neo-hyperscaler for the edge) 31:26
  23. E33: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas, The Alpha in Long Form Writing and Investing with Eric Jorgenson 1:24:26
  24. E32: Chauncey Hamilton, GP at XYZ on Media, Apprenticeship, Conviction and Founder Networks 1:20:39
  25. E31: David Ulevitch on Creating the $1.776B A16Z American Dynamism Practice 1:50:31
  26. E30: Sunil Dhaliwal, Founder of Amplify Partners on Lessons from 27 Years in VC 1:58:10
  27. E29: Todd Klein, Managing Partner at Revolution Growth on VC, AI, Board Meetings and Hollywood 1:18:55
  28. E28: Christian Keil, Partner at A16Z on Lessons from Scaling Astranis and Traits of Elite Operators 1:19:21
  29. E27: Jonathan Lacoste, Founder of SpaceVC on Building & Investing in Frontier Tech & His Own Founder Journey 1:34:02
  30. E26: Matt Ocko, Cofounder DCVC on Lessons from 30+ Years in DeepTech Venture Capital 1:32:17
  31. In conversation with Billy Thalheimer, Cofounder & CEO of Regent 23:49
  32. E25: Seth Winterroth, Partner at Eclipse: Investing $10B in the Physical Economy 1:28:20
  33. In Conversation with Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, Cofounder & CEO of Chapter ($3B retirement company) 21:27
  34. E24: Rob Leclerc on Building AgFunder, the Biggest Media Platform & Venture Fund focused on Food & Ag 1:40:26
  35. E23: Leland Miller Breaks Down the China Threat. IP Theft, GDP Fabrication, Taiwan Takeover. What is Really Going On? 2:19:22
  36. In Conversation with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital, $7B Fund Accelerating SciFi 29:53
  37. E22: Colin Greenspon on Private Boards, Business Model Innovation, Competent Founders and Narya 2:04:47
  38. In Conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch, Cofounder of CrowdStrike, a $100B company 25:29
  39. In Conversation with David Friedberg, Cohost of All-In Podcast 21:29
  40. E21: Jason Carman on Building Story and Inspiring The Next Generation of Technologists through SciFi 1:26:29
  41. E20: Seth Berman, Cofounder of Susa and Kivu Ventures on History and State of Early Stage Venture Capital 2:15:06
  42. E19: Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, The Renaissance Man behind the Multibillion Dollar House of Jahangir Siddiqui 2:19:33
  43. E18: Jonathan Levin on Building Chainalysis, a $8.6B Company 1:24:01
  44. E17: Bharat Vasan on Lessons from Raising $1B, Multiple Startup Exits and Hero's Journey for Founders 2:35:10
  45. E16: Mike Solana, architect of new media on building Pirate Wires 1:44:03
  46. E15: Mike Maples of Floodgate on Pattern Breaking Founders, Investing and Seeding Twitter, Lyft & Digg 2:05:24
  47. E14: Packy McCormick on Writing, Investing, Media and Creative Process 1:41:09
  48. E12: Dropping out of MIT to Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund and Space Factories w/ Delian Asparouhov 59:48
  49. E11: Glenn Fogel, CEO Booking Holdings, the world's largest travel company 1:53:06
  50. E10: Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on Building Chapter with Vivek Ramaswamy, a $1.5B company redefining retirement 1:52:06