Chasing Capital: Recent Episodes
Alex Toberoff
Welcome to the Chasing Capital podcast, where we focus on notable VCs, operators, and founders in their 20s and 30s, giving insight and advice to university students.
In the seventh episode of the podcast, I chat with White Star Capital’s Thomas Klocanas about the crypto landscape covering everything from the potential centralization of mainstream killer apps for crypto, the powerful combination of creator tokens and NFT for creator communities, positive sum dynamics in institutional crypto, and the benefits of putting all your written work out there when you’re starting out.
In this sixth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GPV’s Earnest Sweat on a wide variety of topics like the importance of learning how to communicate and how to hone this skill, his path to investing in unsexy (but massive) industries like prop-tech and manufacturing, and how to perfectly prepare for a chat with an alumni in tech or VC.
In this fifth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Streamlined Ventures’s Nicky Kamra on a wide variety of topics like the importance of real ML insight vs good marketing, choosing a job that aligns with your natural abilities and enjoyments, and the benefits of joining tech right after college vs traditional Finance & co.
In this fourth episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with GGV’s Graham Carney on a wide variety of topics like the different perceptions of going into tech back in 2011 vs now, the common use of audio for communication outside of the US, and investing globally at GGV giving him an interesting purview into non-archetypal founders.
In this third episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Bessemer’s Mike Giampapa on a wide range of topics like the huge upside in consumer vs enterprise with product and business model innovation, how crypto is becoming mainstream amongst investors, and the importance of choosing a good company/sector over your title, comp, and equity package when coming out of college.
In this second episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Lightspeed’s Anoushka Vaswani on a wide range of topics like why she chooses to focus on growth investing, the importance of network over operating experience, the burgeoning European startup ecosystem, and the value and low opportunity cost of completing your degree.
In this first episode of Chasing Capital, I chat with Bain Capital Ventures’ Kevin Zhang on a wide range of topics like which COVID-19 trends are here to stay, are breakout ideas always bad, exponential returns to specialization, and why student founders should get work experience first.
Recommendations:
- Podcast: All in Podcast
- Book: Shoe Dog
