Carnegie Mellon's Miles Dieffenbach: Can Mega Funds Still Produce Venture Returns?
Miles Dieffenbach's path into venture started with getting cut from the Pittsburgh Steelers. A team captain at Penn State, Miles signed with...
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Origins - A podcast about Limited Partners, created by Notation Capital
Origins is a podcast about Limited Partners, the firms and institutions that invest in venture capital funds. Through a series of interviews, we explore what has historically been an opaque...
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20 of 130 episodesRobinhood's Sarah Pinto: Bringing Private Markets to the Public
What happens when you take the most exclusive asset class in the world and list it on the New York Stock Exchange? Sarah Pinto is finding ou...
Minisode: Answering Uncertainty, Venture’s Vibes Problem & the Limits of TVPI
Origins hosts Nick Chirls (GP, Asylum Ventures) and Beezer Clarkson (LP, LGT Capital Partners) unpack their recent conversation with Alec Li...
Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission: Josh Browder on Building DoNotPay and Investing Like a Founder
What does it take to build a profitable company for a decade without ever really needing the money you raised? According to Joshua Browder,...
Minisode: The Endowment Model, LP Culture Fit & Surviving Venture Cycles
Origins hosts Nick Chirls (GP, Asylum Ventures) and Beezer Clarkson (LP, LGT Capital Partners) unpack their recent conversation with Thomas...
The Second Cognitive Revolution: What AI Actually Means for Venture Capital
What separates the investors and founders who thrive in moments of radical change from those who don’t? According to Alec Litowitz, it isn’t...
Fund Commitments, Co-Invest & Secondaries: The $120B LP Playbook
What does it look like when one of the world’s most longstanding institutional investors ($120B) decides to go deeper into venture capital?...
Minisode: The Conversation Happening in Every Early-Stage Boardroom Right Now
Origins hosts Nick Chirls (GP, Asylum Ventures) and Beezer Clarkson (LP, Sapphire Partners) react to their conversation with Nicholas Csicsk...
From Juilliard to $6B AUM: How a Musician Built One of Venture's Most Unconventional Endowments
What happens when a classically trained musician from Juilliard ends up managing a $6 billion endowment? Today's episode of Origins explores...
Minisode: The Brutal Math Behind VC Consolidation
Origins hosts Nick Chirls (GP, Asylum Ventures) and Beezer Clarkson (LP, LGT Capital Partners) unpack a recent conversation with David Clark...
Why Power Laws Still Drive Outperformance with VenCap’s David Clark
What does patience look like today when the best companies take 10–15 years to exit, and is it still worth it to wait that long? Today’s epi...
Minisode: Does the Data Match the Anecdotes?
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recen...
Venture’s Haves and Have-Nots with Dan Gray
Dan Gray is a prolific thinker, writer and researcher in the VC world, who describes himself as best known for “long walls of text on Twitte...
What Venture's Top Voices Expect Next in AI
2025 was, undoubtedly, the year of AI. In the first episode of 2026 Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner...
Minisode: The Speed of Iteration in Venture
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recen...
Staying Small Despite Billion-Dollar Backings with Micah Rosenbloom
Micah Rosenbloom is a Managing Partner at Founder Collective, a firm dedicated to seed investing and, crucially, to keeping their fund sizes...
Minisode: What Early Stage Venture Can Learn from Crypto Traders
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dive into their rece...
Internet Capital Markets with Kyle Samani
Kyle Samani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, toke...
Minisode: Can LPs Diversify in an AI-Obsessed World?
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, unpack their recent...
Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel
Eight years after becoming the first female partner at Benchmark, Sarah Tavel recently took on a new role as Venture Partner that allows her...