Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers

A podcast by Samir Kaji - Wednesdays

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148 Episodes

  1. Tomasz Tunguz on where we are in the AI S-Curve and the Evolving Investment Landscape

    Published: 3/5/2025
  2. The Solo GP Playbook: Zal Bilimoria on Fundraising, Portfolio Strategy, and Founder Relationships

    Published: 2/19/2025
  3. The Evolution of building a legacy firm at Venrock with Brian Ascher

    Published: 2/5/2025
  4. Evolving Venture Liquidity Solutions with Gaurav Mathur of Pinegrove Capital Partners

    Published: 1/22/2025
  5. The blueprint for starting a new firm with Chemistry Ventures, including the work needed before choosing your partners and non-consensus decision making.

    Published: 10/30/2024
  6. Meet the Expert: Venture Fund Banking with Sam Heshmati and Vincent Timoney of Citizens Private Bank

    Published: 10/16/2024
  7. Saga Ventures on key lessons on raising a Fund I, building healthy partnerships, and winning in a competitive seed market

    Published: 9/26/2024
  8. Building a firm to last, lessons from nearly three decades of investing, and the path to hiring great venture teams with Glenn Solomon of Notable Capital (FKA GGV Capital)

    Published: 8/28/2024
  9. Doing a successful GP led secondary in Venture Capital, Why seed funds can scale, and what a good VC platform team looks like

    Published: 8/8/2024
  10. Investing in USV Fund I, lessons learned as a LP, and why Emerging Managers are so important

    Published: 8/1/2024
  11. The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now start going back on offense featuring Tom Loverro of IVP

    Published: 7/17/2024
  12. Finding greatness in non-consensus startups, the story of Twitch from Justin.TV, and why great companies need insights and inflection points with Mike Maples

    Published: 7/10/2024
  13. TX Zhuo’s of Fika Ventures on raising a Fund I, evolving decision making frameworks, and what founder first means to them

    Published: 6/27/2024
  14. Limited Partner Unlocked: Michael Kim Cendana Capital on the Emerging Manager landscape, fundraising, and the need for liquidity

    Published: 6/5/2024
  15. Amy Saper of Uncork Capital on how startups should embrace constraints to foster creativity, and her learnings from being at Accel, X, Uber, and Stripe

    Published: 5/15/2024
  16. LP Unlocked shorts: What We're Hearing about Venture Liquidity with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

    Published: 4/19/2024
  17. What's happening at the seed stage? Featuring Jenny Fielding, Kirby Winfield, and Nate Williams

    Published: 4/10/2024
  18. The Craft of Venture Capital with David Sacks

    Published: 3/27/2024
  19. Adam Bain of 01 Advisors on scaling Twitter from 0 to $1B+, being coached by Bill Campbell, and why they don't take board seats

    Published: 3/13/2024
  20. Mitchell Green of Lead Edge Capital on the Moneyball approach to investing, the art of effective cold calling, and managing 700+ strategic LPs

    Published: 3/6/2024

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Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com