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S2E02: Before Clay Was a Unicorn: The First Check, the Thesis, and the Long Game - Andre Charoo, Maple VC	First Funders	74:00
S2E01: Lessons on AI, PM, and LLMs from founder, investor, and operator Shalin Mantri	First Funders	77:04
15: Founder to fintech evangelist to Internet personality and always a Taco Bell enthusiast – Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures	First Funders	53:08
14: First checks for dropouts, students, and deep tech sci-fi founders - Danielle Strachman, 1517 Fund	First Funders	64:23
13: Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund has seen over 50,000 companies and made 800 investments – usually in just 30 minutes	First Funders	60:19
12: First checks building the future of cities since 2012 led to unicorn investments and $215M in AUM - Julie & Clara, Urban Innovation Fund	First Funders	78:46
11: How one of Arian Ghashghai’s virtual reality companies is on track to hit $20M in revenue after one round of funding	First Funders	90:33
10: How Amit Garg co-founded an AI-first seed fund before AI took off	First Funders	71:06
09: Angels of Shopify investing collectively and lessons on following your gut - Atlee Clark, Angel	First Funders	58:53
08 Takeaways: Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures: macro, team vs market, fund size vs. outcomes	First Funders	20:32
08: From the CIA to Google to 400+ pre-seed investments, first and early to define pre-seed - Charles Hudson, Precursor	First Funders	59:28
07: Angel in 100+ startups, focused on learning and catalyzing mission-first startups - Eric Ries, Creator Lean Startup, Founder, LTSE	First Funders	70:12
06: Finding Alpha in Texas - Rajiv Bala, Clutch VC	First Funders	72:19
05: Discovering hidden baseball talent to leading Sales at Stripe all applied to finding outliers in tech - Meka Asonye, First Round Capital	First Funders	68:18
04: 3x tech founder turned seed VC brings a founder mindset to startup investing - Amit Kumar, Accel	First Funders	61:48
03: Angel vs VC, finding purpose and community in startup investing - Rachel Sheinbein	First Funders	63:13
02: 300 startup investments, 500 LPs, sharp elbows - Jenny Fielding, Everywhere Ventures	First Funders	67:14
01: State of Venture Capital 2024 with Arjun Arora	First Funders	43:32
About the Hosts: How they got into Seed and Angel Investing	First Funders	06:36
Coming Soon - a podcast for Angels and Venture Capitalists who write first checks	First Funders	00:40

S2E02: Before Clay Was a Unicorn: The First Check, the Thesis, and the Long Game - Andre Charoo, Maple VC

74:00

S2E01: Lessons on AI, PM, and LLMs from founder, investor, and operator Shalin Mantri

77:04

15: Founder to fintech evangelist to Internet personality and always a Taco Bell enthusiast – Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures

First Funders

53:08

14: First checks for dropouts, students, and deep tech sci-fi founders - Danielle Strachman, 1517 Fund

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64:23

13: Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund has seen over 50,000 companies and made 800 investments – usually in just 30 minutes

First Funders