Matt Mullenweg built Automattic into a $7.5B company
Matt Mullengweg was a high school student looking for a better way to customize his blog when he discovered the open source software communi...
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What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and their friends and foes. This podcast features...
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David Cohen’s Techstars
As Co-Founder and Chairman of Techstars, David Cohen has spent nearly his entire career focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. Aspiring f...
Henrik Werdelin’s Bark fetches $1.6 billion valuation
Originally from Denmark and now living in the US, Henrik Werdelin has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Most Creative People In Busines...
Fabrice Grinda on growing Zingy into a $200 million business
Fabrice Grinda is one of the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors, with over 150 exits on 500 angel investments. When I firs...
Guy Kawasaki’s evangelizing Canva
Guy Kawasaki’s name has become almost synonymous with tech entrepreneurship and evangelism. Over the past 25 years, he’s had a hand in advis...
How Derek Sivers decided to sell CD Baby
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers made two appearances on Venture Voice in the early days of this podcast. In our first conversation, he describe...
LivePerson’s Robert LoCascio got in mental shape to build a $3.5 billion business
Born into a family of entrepreneurs, LivePerson founder and CEO Robert LoCascio always had the entrepreneurial spirit, going back to his tee...
How Tom Perkins pioneered venture capital in 1972
This week we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists. The firm...
Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer Turned His Amateur Photos Into a $3 Billion Business
Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional stock age...
Curative founder Fred Turner’s fast pivot into COVID-19 testing
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA. He was interested in seque...
How DRY Soda founder Sharelle Klaus pioneered the culinary soda category
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we dip back into the archive...
How Amanda Hesser cooked up success with Food52
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to my early days in the New York st...
How Mike McDerment grew FreshBooks
Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a small web design agency when he accidentally saved ov...
How journalist Steve Hindy started Brooklyn Brewery
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s career...
How Mark Wilson built his success by building up others’
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by a strong...
How Evan Williams turned side projects like Twitter into huge successes
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, as well as Blogger and Medium. But back in 2005 whe...
Dan O’Keefe on the founding of Festivus and secrets of HBO’s Silicon Valley
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinf...
Jessica Lessin of The Information turned her journalism beat into a business
What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...
How John Bogle started Vanguard Group and invented index funds
What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...
Todd McKinnon's journey taking Okta from $0 to a $25+ billion public company
What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...