Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers
A podcast by Samir Kaji

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149 Episodes
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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 -
Limited Partner Unlocked shorts: What we're Hearing from LPs with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter
Published: 2/23/2024 -
Khosla Venture's Samir Kaul on building an iconic, durable firm, and the role of non-consensus decision making
Published: 2/16/2024 -
Venture Unlocked Shorts: Looking back the era of Unicorns and what's ahead?
Published: 1/31/2024 -
Venture Unlocked Shorts: Why VC has gone mainstream and the parallels to private equity and hedge funds
Published: 1/26/2024 -
The opportunity outside of Silicon Valley and how to build a strategic LP base with Brendan Wales and Kellan Carter of FUSE
Published: 1/25/2024 -
Meet The Expert Series: Matt Trotter of Stifel Bank on the state of the venture debt market, and how investors & startups should approach the credit markets today
Published: 1/10/2024 -
Pejman Nozad of Pear on building a $800MM+ AUM firm as an immigrant who sold Persian rugs before going into VC
Published: 12/22/2023 -
Paul Kwan of General Catalyst on the importance of innovation in creating global resilience
Published: 12/7/2023 -
The Chainsmokers' Alex Pall in crossing over from a grammy nominated group in the music industry to starting Mantis VC
Published: 11/29/2023 -
Brad Gerstner talks AI, Tech Super cycles vs. Market cycles, and the start of Altimeter as a $3MM fund
Published: 11/16/2023 -
Going back to the foundation of Kleiner Perkins with Mamoon Hamid through clear busines model focus and culture
Published: 11/1/2023 -
Special LP roundtable: What are LPs thinking about in Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Guy Perelmuter and Chris Douvos
Published: 10/25/2023 -
Building competitive moats in VC at Lerer Hippeau with Ben Lerer and Graham Brown
Published: 10/11/2023 -
Building a next-generation tech-enabled Venture Capital firm with Chris Farmer of SignalFire
Published: 9/27/2023 -
The art of raising from LPs in an economic downturn with Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures
Published: 8/30/2023 -
Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures on investing in Latin America, learnings from building a public company, and working with founders
Published: 8/16/2023 -
Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures on strategically raising a fund in a downturn, Why Firms Need a Business Model, and different views on portfolio construction
Published: 7/26/2023 -
Sunil Nagaraj of Ubiquity Ventures on the journey of a solo-GP, The Importance of Authenticity, and Navigating Hype Cycles
Published: 7/12/2023 -
Oren Zeev on scaling to $2B+ in AUM as a solo-GP, contrarian investing, and high founder NPS
Published: 6/14/2023
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