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Coming Soon: The Network Effects Masterclass [special audio edition] from 2022-09-22T20:07:50
At NFX, we've spent over 20 years studying the power of network effects. As founders, we’ve built them into companies worth $10B+. As investors, we teach our founders these playbooks. Now we’re put...
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The Founder List: Inside the Marketplace of Uber (James Currier, Partner at NFX) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.385716
James Currier of NFX outlines 5 important lessons you can learn from Uber and its growth over the last 10 years. Read the full case study here - https://www.nfx.com/post/the-network-effects-map-nfx...
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Scott Cook (Founder of Intuit) Shares Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.381985
About 2 years ago, Intuit Founder Scott Cook came to NFX to meet with James Currier to discuss their shared interest in network effects. It was one of the most compelling conversations James has ha...
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David Sacks shares how PayPal & Trulia Navigated Downturns from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.297141
Today we’re talking with David Sacks & Pete Flint about how to lead a company through an unforeseen downturn, and what it takes to adapt and survive in an unpredictable economy. David is a general ...
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Josh Elman & James Currier on the Arrival of the Next Social Era from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.294412
Today Josh Elman & James Currier discuss the history of social media, where it is today, and the next wave of social companies that may be a result of the current lockdown situation. Due to the mas...
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The Google of Biology: Meet the Company that is Reading & Writing the Code of Life from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.290359
Biology is the new frontier.
At NFX, we’ve been investing in this space. And in this episode of the NFX podcast, we talk to Trevor Martin, the CEO and Co-Founder of Mammoth Biosciences, a...
George Dyson on Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, & The Future We're Building from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.284825
As a Founder, having a strong sense of direction, purpose, and context for what you are doing every day gives you an advantage. Finding the deeper meaning gives you speed and power. Your work matte...
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Steve Blank on "Don't Waste A Good Crisis" from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.283957
Speed is often the secret weapon, especially when adjusting to and tackling a crisis.
Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, eight-time entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blan...
The Founders' List: Margaret Gould Stewart (VP of Product Design at Facebook) on "How a Single Conversation with my Boss Changed my View on Delegation and Failure" from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.268240
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Aug 5, 2016 by Ma...
Cyan Banister on the Future of AR/VR from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.267435
Cyan Banister is an early stage investor in Uber, Niantic, SpaceX, many others. She’s a partner at Long Journey Ventures and spends most of her time dreaming about what the future could look like. ...
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The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.261284
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the ma...
The Founders’ List: Bill Gates' internal Microsoft Memo "The Internet Tidal Wave" (Famous Memos) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.255575
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Surfaced during the prolonged Justice Department antitrus...
The Future of Digital Advertising with Mikael Cho & Luke Chesser (Co-Founders of Unsplash) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.254539
"What's happening in general on the internet is an evolution to visual storytelling. The image is more powerful than ever, but it's also much harder to be seen than ever due to saturation. What's h...
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The Founders' List: Steve Job's Famous 'Thoughts on Flash' (Famous Memos) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.244533
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
'Thoughts on Flash' is an open letter published by Steve ...
How To Compete with Big Tech and Win with Zeev Farbman & Gigi Levy-Weiss from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.097832
Founded in January 2013, Lightricks is a company that develops video and image editing mobile apps, known particularly for its selfie-editing app, Facetune. Headquartered in Jerusalem, the firm has...
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The Founders’ List: Email Exchange on Instagram Acquisition by Facebook (Kevin Systrom & Mark Zuckerberg) from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.097008
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
The following is a reenactment of an email conversation b...
Launching NFX Bio and The Rise of the Scientist Founder from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.078685
Today we're announcing NFX Bio, a new fund initiative led by some of biotech's most successful Founder/CEOs. Our mission is to back seed-stage companies building bio-platforms that solve the bigges...
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BJ Fogg on Tiny Habits for Startup Founders with James Currier from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.072485
BJ Fogg is an American behavior scientist who is currently an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and a New York Times best-selling author. He is the founder and director of the Behavior Desig...
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The Founders' List: Pete Flint on "How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets" from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.071617
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Inside the war rooms of companies locked in the battle fo...
The Founders' List: Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual Report from Warren Buffett from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.070410
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) held its 2020 annu...
The Founders' List: Letter to Amazon Employees from Jeff Bezos from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.069540
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos announced in February that he was ste...
The Founders' List: Valve's New Employee Handbook from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.061400
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This is Valve’s new employee handbook, delivered to every...
Julia & Kevin Hartz On Taking Eventbrite Public from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.045420
Julia and Kevin Hartz co-founded Eventbrite, a website that allows users to create, share, and join events worldwide. In this episode of the NFX Podcast, the two join NFX Partner Pete Flint to disc...
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The Insider Story of Waze with Noam Bardin from 2022-02-22T11:31:33.039364
Underlying Waze's journey is a little-known approach to product thinking, super-powerful data network effects, and a guiding north star metric. This is Waze's insider story, as told by their former...
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Choosing The Final Frontier: Launching a Rocket Company with Andy Lapsa of Stoke Space from 2022-02-22T11:31:32.903496
"We have all the technical and economic ingredients needed to build a massive economy in space. We’re not focused on Mars or the Moon, we’re singularly focused on building a space economy that make...
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A Mammoth Becomes A Unicorn: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D (NFX Bio) from 2022-02-22T11:31:32.902198
Today, Mammoth Biosciences announced their series C and D at more than a $1B valuation. Mammoth is a startup story that Founders should be following because there is so much to learn from their pat...
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Crazy Until It’s Not”: New Story Charity’s Bitcoin-Based Mortgages, NFTs, and 3D-Printed Homes from 2021-12-14T14:00
Some problems are so big, they feel crazy to even try to solve them. Global homelessness, for example. 1.6 billion people today are living without adequate housing*. This represents a massive, unde...
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The Inside Story of Nextdoor with Sarah Friar from 2021-11-18T10:00
Nextdoor, the social media app for neighborhoods, which is actively used in 1 in 3 households in the U.S., was recently valued at $4.3B and listed on the NYSE last week (November 8, 2021) under th...
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Building Confidence Networks In Latin America from 2021-11-10T10:00
NFX has been increasingly active in LatAm over the last few years, largely drawn there by an incredibly talented pool of Founders in the region. To understand the unique challenges and opportunitie...
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Eynat Guez & Gigi Levy-Weiss on 7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now from 2021-10-28T13:00
The Covid pandemic removed barriers to global hiring and remote team building. It exposed startups, by necessity, to all-new solutions for growing and bonding their teams. Most companies advan...
Community-First Company Building with Cuy Sheffield & Micah Johnson from 2021-10-21T13:54:49
The next evolution of companies will be created in public with early customers, partners, and supporters. They’ll be community-owned and operated, building upon the playbooks created by early NFT a...
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"A Tragedy of Measurement" with Rob Goldman & James Currier from 2021-08-23T16:42:30.119801
Rob Goldman joined the growth team at Facebook in 2012 - the same year that News Feed ads launched. He became Facebook's VP of Ads and was responsible for more than 99% of their revenue until he le...
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The Founders' List: Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract from 2021-07-30T09:00
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Network effect businesses are reshaping the world. Networ...
NFX Mashup: The SPAC Masterclass from 2021-07-29T09:00
This is an NFX Mashup, where we string thoughts from past episodes together under the same topic.
Startups today have more options than ever before — much earlier in their life cycles — fo...
Meet the Team Behind 'Stoner Cats' (NFT Animated Series from Mila Kunis & Friends) from 2021-07-23T18:58:43
'Stoner Cats' is an adult animated series centered on five house cats who repeatedly save their beloved owner created by Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, and friends, including the creative forces behin...
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Ann Hiatt on Trillion Dollar Leadership (An Inside Look at Jeff Bezos & Eric Schmidt) from 2021-07-22T09:00
What few people see is that Trillion-Dollar Leadership focuses relentlessly on the “who.” Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt both aligned their companies around this question: Who are we serving and who i...
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The Founders' List: Vitalik Buterin on Bitcoin Maximalism, Currency, and Platform Network Effects from 2021-07-21T23:00
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In this article (published in 2014) Ethereum creator Vita...
Making Markets with Prof. Scott Duke Kominers (HBS) & James Currier from 2021-07-19T21:00
Over the past twenty years, tech entrepreneurs have created and captured enormous value by launching new marketplaces to the world.
Today NFX Partner James Currier talks with Professor Sc...
The Founders' List: How VCs See Your KPIs from 2021-07-17T09:00
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Everyone knows that KPIs are critical, but often Founders...
The Founders' List: The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work from 2021-07-15T09:00
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
When the economy eventually normalizes, demand for labor ...
Seeing Growth in a Downturn with Eran Ben-Shushan & Gigi Levy-Weiss from 2021-07-12T16:30
In the face of a global pandemic and a financial meltdown, Founders are confronted with a new reality. If you are running a startup today, this will likely be one of the most challenging climates y...
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The Founders' List: 8 Skills Top Founders Master for Startup Fundraising (How VCs Negotiate) from 2021-06-30T09:00
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Fundraising is a learned skill – and VCs almost always ha...
The Founders' List: 7 Principles of Game Design from Design Gym from 2021-06-29T09:40
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Life is, by some measures, an infinite game, where the ru...
How a Top Investor Sees the World with Saar Gur from 2021-06-28T15:45
Saar Gur is one of the best investors in Silicon Valley and has a gift of identifying the next big consumer trends earlier than most. As a General Partner at CRV, he was recently highlighted as #34...
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Why C2i is the World’s First Platform for Cancer Intelligence (NFX Bio) from 2021-06-25T07:20
The team at C2i Genomics is combining cutting-edge genomics and sophisticated AI to provide the world’s first whole-genome cancer intelligence platform, transforming the way cancer is monitored and...
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Tony Fadell on Learning To See, Telling Stories, & Being A Troublemaker from 2021-06-22T08:50
It’s not often you get to see through the eyes of someone who created a product that you and hundreds of millions of other people use, hundreds of times a day, every single day, and have for a deca...
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The Founders' List: Shishir Mehrotra with an Inside Look at How YouTube Scaled (Rituals for Hypergrowth) from 2021-06-17T09:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
When Shishir Mehrotra left YouTube in 2014, a number of o...
Super Founders with Ali Tamaseb & James Currier from 2021-06-15T09:00
What started as a viral medium article from two years ago has now turned into 'Super Founders', a book on what data reveals about billion-dollar startups. Today on the NFX Podcast we have Ali Tamas...
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Major Opportunities for Young Founders with Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB from 2021-06-10T13:50
Stanford GSB Dean Jon Levin joins NFX Partner Pete Flint to discuss his perspective on new Founders entering the industry, how Stanford encourages its students to solve real-world problems with tec...
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Heather Fernandez & Pete Flint on Startup Speed As A Public Good from 2021-05-25T01:00
Speed is routinely acknowledged as a major advantage for startups. But startup speed is not sufficiently understood as an invaluable competency for society at large. Solv Health’s growth during the...
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The Founders' List: The Great Online Game by Packy McCormick from 2021-05-21T14:41:55
The Great Online Game is an infinite video game that plays out constantly across the internet. It uses many of the mechanics of a video game, but removes the boundaries. You’re no longer playing as...
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Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency from 2021-05-18T14:30
The "Passion Economy" as coined by Li Jin makes it easier for people to monetize their individuality through unique, creative work. This comes with a host of benefits, not the least of which is the...
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The Founders' List: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants from Marc Prensky from 2021-05-14T19:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This is, ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’ written by...
The IPO Whisperer Lise Buyer Talks Going Public from 2021-05-11T13:30
Lise Buyer, known as the IPO whisperer Pete Flint on the NFX Podcast to discuss all things taking a company public via traditional IPOs, Direct Listings, and SPACs.
Lise consulted on Trul...
The Founders' List: The Maker Protocol Whitepaper - MakerDAO's Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) System from 2021-05-10T17:45
In December 2017, the white paper introducing Maker and the original decentralized Dai Stablecoin System was published. It describes the exact design and features of the Dai launch, as well as a r...
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The Founders' List: Mind the Moat: Notes on 7 Powers (written by Hamilton Helmer) from Flo Crivello (Founder & CEO Teamflow) from 2021-04-30T16:15
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
We’ve recently published a podcast and essay focused on H...
The 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer & Jeff Lawson from 2021-04-29T13:45
In this special NFX Podcast episode, Jeff Lawson (Co-Founder & CEO at Twilio) interviews Hamilton Helmer to analyze the 7 Powers, getting at the core question: What is it about certain businesses t...
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The Founders' List: Nir Eyal (Author, Professor, & Investor) on "Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire" from 2021-04-28T19:55
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"We’re on the precipice of a new era of the web. As infin...
Hippo: From Idea to IPO with CEO Assaf Wand & Pete Flint from 2021-04-27T20:50
Insurtech is also a space that has become increasingly crowded and more high-profile in recent years.
Hippo Insurance uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties, creatin...
Hippo: From Idea to SPAC with CEO Assaf Wand & Pete Flint from 2021-04-27T18:50
Insurtech is also a space that has become increasingly crowded and more high-profile in recent years.
Hippo Insurance uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties, creatin...
Austen Allred (Co-Founder of Lambda School) & James Currier (NFX) on The New American Dream from 2021-04-22T14:00
The new American dream is underway. The current US educational industrial complex is not serving young people anymore, and entrepreneurs outside the system are creating new alternatives.
A...
The Founders' List: 2020 Letter to Amazon Shareholders from 2021-04-21T09:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In his final letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo...
The CEO That Jeff Bezos Called “His Teacher” with Jeff Wilke & James Currier from 2021-04-20T17:00
Jeff Wilke (former CEO, Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Business) sheds light on a counter-intuitive driver behind unusual success: Focus on the inputs, not the outputs. Jeff shares the 3 drivers under...
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The Founders' List: 1997 Letter to Amazon Shareholders from 2021-04-20T14:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Amazon's approach to building sustainable long-term value...
The Founders' List: Gigi Levy-Weiss on "How VCs Think: The Psychology That Drives Investing Decisions" from 2021-04-15T20:55
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"For a startup, understanding VCs’ mindsets is often as i...
A Proposal to Jack & Zuck: Chris Anderson (ex-WIRED) & James Currier on Regulating Social Media from 2021-04-12T08:30
The usual Silicon Valley response to regulation is to offer self-regulation instead — but only tech companies have the skills and speed to fix what they broke, unable to manage the influence over t...
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The Founders' List: Elad Gil on the 5 People Who Can Destroy Your Culture (Hiring Series) from 2021-03-30T13:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
The old saying "one bad apple spoils the bunch" holds esp...
The Founders' List: Iman Abuzeid on Frameworks for Using Diversity to Win (Hiring Series) from 2021-03-30T13:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
The data is clear – diverse teams win. Companies with mor...
The Founders' List: Internal Letter on Culture from Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb (Hiring Series) from 2021-03-30T13:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our e...
The Founders' List: The Interview Process at Stripe, Answered on Quora by Greg Brockman (Hiring Series) from 2021-03-30T13:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Pulled from a Quora post in 2015, Greg Brockman (former C...
The Founders' List: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles from 2021-03-25T15:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Amazon has and operates by its own set of leadership prin...
The Founders' List: Nokia's CEO 'Burning Platform' Memo from 2021-03-18T17:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In 2007, Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop (a former Microsoft exe...
Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) & Gigi Levy-Weiss from 2021-03-17T14:55
Gabi Shalel is an amazing games founder - he understands the type of innovation, fast iteration, and quality required to create a successful games company. These things are also very valuable for e...
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The Founders' List: The Ethereum Whitepaper from 2021-03-11T17:50
This introductory paper was originally published in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, before the project's launch in 2015. It's worth noting that Ethereum, like many community-drive...
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The Founders’ List: Bill Gate's internal Microsoft Memo "The Internet Tidal Wave" (Famous Memos) from 2021-03-05T13:30:26.674208
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Surfaced during the prolonged Justice Department antitrus...
The Founders' List: The DoorDash Investment Memo from 2014 from 2021-02-25T18:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In the Summer of 2013, DoorDash had a dream of building a...
Stanford's "Touchy Feely" Course (For Startup Founders), with Carole Robin & James Currier from 2021-02-22T23:00
Carole has been in the business of helping leaders grow for over 35 years. Before she co-founded and became the Head of Programs of Leaders in Tech, she taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Bu...
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Good vs. Great Leaders with Carole Robin & James Currier from 2021-02-22T22:00
Carole has been in the business of helping leaders grow for over 35 years. Before she co-founded and became the Head of Programs of Leaders in Tech, she taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Bu...
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Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More ("The B- Side" with Morgan Beller) from 2021-02-18T14:30
Today we’re releasing the B-Side of our conversation with Vitalik Buterin, highlighting what may look strangely different in the coming decades. Here’s what great Founders know that others do not: ...
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Vitalik Buterin on The Revolt of the Public ("The A-Side" with Morgan Beller) from 2021-02-16T14:20
Today we’re releasing the “A-Side” of a conversation with Vitalik Buterin, known as the creator of Ethereum and is a force behind much of the crypto movement.
Vitalik shares his unique po...
The Founders' List: Ashley Mayer on "It’s Okay That Your Startup Doesn’t Have a Communications Strategy" from 2021-02-11T18:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Ashley Mayer is the Senior Director of Communications at ...
The Founders' List: James Currier (General Partner at NFX) on "The Psychology of Startup Growth" from 2021-01-28T18:08:58
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published by James Currier, Ge...
The Founders' List: David Skok on "Scalable Pricing A Key Tool For SaaS Success" (Pricing Series) from 2021-01-26T14:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Alongside our latest NFX Essay "The Hidden World of Prici...
The Founders' List: Tomasz Tunguz on "Ten Years Worth of Learnings About Pricing" & "There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for Your Startup" (Pricing Series) from 2021-01-26T14:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Alongside our latest NFX Essay "The Hidden World of Prici...
The Founders' List: Sean Ellis on "How to Determine the Optimal Price for Your Web Service" (Pricing Series) from 2021-01-26T14:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Alongside our latest NFX Essay "The Hidden World of Prici...
The Founders' List: Ash Maurya on "My Experiments in Lean Pricing" (Pricing Series) from 2021-01-26T14:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Alongside our latest NFX Essay "The Hidden World of Prici...
The Pricing Masterclass with Madhavan Ramanujam & Pete Flint from 2021-01-25T08:10
Madhavan Ramanujam is a legendary “pricing whisperer” among tech unicorns including Trulia, Etsy, Uber, Amazon, Evernote, and more. He is the author of 'Monetizing Innovation' and a partner at Simo...
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The Founders’ List: The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto from 2021-01-21T18:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Originally written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, ...
The Founders’ List: ‘The HP Way’ Speech by Dave Packard to Management (1960) from 2021-01-14T18:15
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In 1960, David Packard gave an informal speech to the man...
Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint from 2021-01-12T14:00
Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize thi...
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The Great Unbundling Of Housing & Jobs, with Jed Kolko and Pete Flint from 2021-01-11T21:55
Few people can see what Jed sees about the relationship between real estate and labor markets and the downstream effects of their recent untethering. And, ultimately, what this means for startup li...
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Erik Torenberg & James Currier on being Citizens of the Internet from 2020-12-21T23:20
Erik Torenberg is an entrepreneur, investor, and most importantly a community builder. NFX General Partner James Currier connects with Erik on the intricacies of building online & offline communiti...
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The Decision Frameworks Behind Fiverr's Success with Micha Kaufman and Gigi Levy-Weiss from 2020-12-17T14:40
Founders rarely get to hear the inside story of building a massive marketplace business from idea to IPO. Today we analyze the core startup decisions you need to make in the early days about your ...
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The Founders’ List: 10 Pieces of Manufacturing Advice from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk from 2020-12-16T19:56:13
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
From the outside, it's hard to understand what's going on...
"Don't Just Be the Best, Be the Only" with Kevin Kelly & James Currier from 2020-12-15T01:00
In this candid conversation with iconic tech thinker Kevin Kelly (founding Editor of Wired), we discuss inspirational and transformative advice for early-stage Founders reflecting on the work they’...
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The Founders’ List: "How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Your Life" by Nir Eyal (Author + Former Stanford Professor) from 2020-12-10T17:40
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"Becoming indistractable requires an understanding of why...
The Irrational Truths Behind User Behavior, with Dan Ariely & Gigi Levy-Weiss from 2020-11-30T19:45
We all think we know how our users behave. It turns out, we don’t. Founders over-index on rational assumptions, but users most often behave irrationally.
Behavioral economics, by contrast...
The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company with Elad Gil & James Currier from 2020-11-23T22:20
Can your company be a Billion-dollar business? When we look inside the early days of companies like Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart & Square, what are the patterns that may shed light on how gr...
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The Founders' List: Steve Yegge's Famous Rant on 'Google vs Amazon' (Famous Memos) from 2020-11-20T17:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Longtime Googler Steve Yegge posted an insightful rant on...
The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier from 2020-11-16T23:00
In order to drive growth, you need to be data-driven and relentlessly creative. The difficult part of implementing growth in your company is finding someone who is good at both.
Growth exp...
The Founders’ List: "Why Figma Wins" by Kevin Kwok (Former Investor at Greylock) from 2020-11-12T18:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"Design is all of the conversations between designers and...
Status Games with Eugene Wei (Product Lead at Amazon, Hulu, Erly, Flipboard, Oculus) and James Currier from 2020-11-10T14:40
Status can be a volatile, powerful driver of engagement. Status and one of its underlying mechanisms, scarcity must be considered by product designers in every category, as early on as possible.
The Founders’ List: "The 3 Types of Platform Companies" by Elad Gil (Color Genomics & Twitter) from 2020-10-29T16:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"Conflating what makes a platform work versus e.g. an inf...
The Competition For Your Attention with Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) & James Currier from 2020-10-26T22:00
"I think that everybody is getting attuned to strategic communication in a way that was not happening before social media.
NFX partner James Currier talks with Sarah Frier, who reports on ...
The Founders’ List: “Don't Believe Your Own B.S.” by Pete Flint (General Partner at NFX) from 2020-10-22T16:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"Superpowers cut both ways. They may spur meteoric growth...
Focus Superpowers with Nir Eyal & James Currier from 2020-10-19T22:30
All early-stage companies are in search of traction. It’s notable that the opposite of traction is distraction and top Founders have an inverse response to distraction. As the world around them get...
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The Golden Age of Simulation with Chris Anderson & James Currier from 2020-10-14T07:00
On this episode of the NFX Podcast we have one of the most generative people in Silicon Valley, Chris Anderson. He was famously Editor in Chief at Wired for over a decade during an insanely influen...
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The Founders’ List: “Social Capital in Silicon Valley” by Alex Danco (Shopify & Social Capital) from 2020-10-12T18:27:33
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"The 20s will see San Francisco face down some really big...
The Founders’ List: “The Guide to Unbundling Reddit” by Greg Isenberg (Late Checkout, Indicator Fund, TikTok Advisor, Previously WeWork/Islands/5by) from 2020-09-30T19:30:43
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
"The broad networks are everything to everyone, the niche...
The Founders’ List: “Status as a Service (StaaS)” by Eugene Wei (Former Product Leader at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus) from 2020-09-24T19:52:06
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
A Must Listen for all Founders - audio version of Eugene ...
Good vs. Great Companies: The Unseen Truths of Breakout Success with James Currier & Selina Tobaccowala from 2020-09-21T08:00
NFX partner James Currier talks with Selina Tobaccowala - co-founder of Evite, CTO and President of SurveyMonkey, and cofounder of the fitness app Gixo. It’s rare to get a candid view into what hap...
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The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns" from 2020-09-17T22:26:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published by James Currier, Ge...
Prof. Tom Eisenmann (HBS) on Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure from 2020-09-14T10:50
NFX partner James Currier talks with professor Tom Eisenmann about why, exactly, over 75% of startups fail. Tom has been teaching entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School for more than a decade ...
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The Founders' List: Company Culture at Netflix (Famous Memos) from 2020-09-10T21:43:04
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Netflix’s memo on company culture on their employee websi...
Nir Erez from Moovit on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) from 2020-08-31T20:00
"Mobility as a service" is the idea of packaging together one person's entire portfolio of transportation options. Even if it’s a different mode of transportation for the first mile, the bulk of th...
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The Founders' List: Max Mullen (Co-Founder of Instacart) on "How to Run a Product Brainstorm" from 2020-08-24T23:45
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Oct 6, 2017 by Ma...
The Founders' List: Julie Zhuo (Former VP Product Design at Facebook & Co-Founder of Inspirit) on "How to be Strategic" from 2020-08-24T23:43
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Oct 2, 2018 by Ju...
The Founders' List: Joel Spolsky (Co-Founder of Trello & Stack Overflow) on "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon" from 2020-08-24T23:40
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on May 12, 2000 by J...
The Founders' List: Dharmesh Shah (Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot) on "Aligning Vectors: How To Optimize To Maximize Impact" from 2020-08-24T23:35
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Oct 16, 2017 by D...
The Founders' List: Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund) on "15 Annoying Things that VCs say or ask" from 2020-08-24T23:30
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published by Elizabeth Yin, Co...
The Founders' List: Scott Belsky (Founder of Behance) on "Creativity is The New Productivity" from 2020-08-24T23:25
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Sep 9, 2019 by Sc...
The Founders' List: Sean Ellis (Founder & CEO of GrowthHackers) on "The Growth Pyramid Revisited" from 2020-08-24T23:20
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published on Mar 15, 2018 by S...
The Founders' List: 2004 Founder's IPO Letter from Google (Famous Memos) from 2020-08-24T23:15
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to...
The Founders' List: Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' (Famous Memos) from 2020-08-24T23:10
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
In October 2006, Yahoo Senior Vice President Brad Garling...
The Founders' List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Building Strong Companies with The No Politics Rule" from 2020-08-24T23:05
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published by James Currier, Ge...
The Founders' List: Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) on "Why Startup Timing is Everything" from 2020-08-24T23:00
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
This essay was written and published by Pete Flint, Gener...
Craig Newmark on Building Craigslist, Teamwork, & The Golden Rule from 2020-08-13T17:15
At NFX, we dig into network effects companies and their founding stories, so we emailed Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.
Craigslist is the purest example of a 2-sided network eff...
Garrett Smallwood & James Currier on the Founder Journey and Navigating Uncertainty from 2020-07-31T10:00
Garrett Smallwood (CEO of Wag!) joins NFX partner James Currier to share his thoughts on profitable and efficient management of companies, thoughtfully operating before and after COVID-19, and shif...
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April Underwood shares the Product Thinking That Built Slack & Twitter from 2020-07-13T22:30
Twitter and Slack are two of technology’s most talked-about companies. They are both category-defining products marked by hypergrowth, each amassing a large base of deeply loyal users and a valuati...
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Keith Rabois on how Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp, & PayPal from 2020-06-30T13:30
In this episode of the NFX Podcast, Keith Rabois and James Currier examine the rule deviation behind some of technology's greatest startup feats — PayPal, Square, Yelp, and even Apple, Tesla, and S...
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Rahul Vohra shares the Frameworks Behind Superhuman (NFX Keynote Episode) from 2020-06-18T00:00
Rahul is the founder and CEO of Superhuman where he and his team are building the fastest email experience in the world. Before Superhuman, Rahul founded Rapportive, which was acquired by LinkedIn ...
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The Insider Story of Houseparty with Ben Rubin & James Currier from 2020-05-18T14:30
This is the insider story of Houseparty. In the last two months, the video app has grown 1600% to become the #1 social app in 82 countries, including the U.S., with hundreds of millions of users. I...
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The Founders' List: Your Life is Driven by Network Effects by James Currier from 2020-04-30T17:15
Working with network effects in our 100+ portfolio companies makes it impossible not to notice how the same mechanisms and math that create near-destiny for companies also create near-destiny for u...
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How Reid Hoffman & James Currier See the Path Ahead for Founders during The Great Reset from 2020-04-16T18:59:49
Today Reid Hoffman & James Currier discuss the path ahead for Founders in a post-COVID world. What you need to learn and unlearn to get your company through a crisis, frameworks for the tough decis...
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Stacy Brown-Philpot on Leading Startups Through Uncertainty from 2020-03-18T01:47:54
TaskRabbit invented the gig-economy in 2008 with a marketplace that matches freelance labor with local demand for everyday tasks. Stacy Brown-Philpot became CEO of TaskRabbit in 2016 and led the co...
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How Iman Abuzeid (CEO of Incredible Health) Raised Venture Capital from 2020-01-29T20:03:42
After raising venture capital from NFX, Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, and Precursor Ventures, CEO & Co-Founder Iman Abudzaid made her fundraising learnings, methodology, and frameworks pub...
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How Marco Zappacosta (Founder & CEO of Thumbtack) Built a Billion Dollar Marketplace from 2019-11-11T18:04:58
Marco Zappacosta (Co-founder & CEO of Thumbtack) talks with Pete Flint (NFX & founder of Trulia) about what it takes to build a billion-dollar marketplace and the lessons he's uncovered along the j...
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The Founder List: 16 Non-Obvious Fundraising Lessons On Pitching (James Currier, Partner at NFX) from 2019-10-28T21:09:26
As Founders ourselves, we started 10 venture-backed companies that exited for over $10 Billion. During that time as Founders and now as VCs, we’ve seen 16 counterintuitive lessons in pitching VCs t...
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The Founder List: The Hidden Patterns to Great Startup Ideas (James Currier, Partner at NFX) from 2019-08-22T00:30:45
It’s often said that success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. We disagree. This might be true at later stages, but at the initial stage of a startup, the core idea makes a huge difference. S...
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The Founder List: 9 Habits of World Class Startups (James Currier, Partner at NFX) from 2019-08-21T23:58:49
Startups that grow into transformative companies do two things: (1) they nail the basics and (2) they cultivate the right habits (core operating principles). In this episode of The NFX Podcast, Ja...
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Manish Chandra (Founder & CEO) shares The Poshmark Story from 2019-06-18T00:31:47
They were rejected by 200+ investors. They were turned down by every single payment processor in the country. They discovered they were in violation of USPS regulations, and almost ran out of money...
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Inside the Marketplace of Lyft with James Currier & Pete Flint (NFX Partners) from 2019-03-25T19:30:37
Pete Flint & James Currier of NFX discuss Lyft's upcoming IPO, the defensibility of the ridesharing business model, and what Lyft should do next.
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Andy Johns&Pete Flint on"Why Growth Hacking Is Broken" from 2019-02-13T00:22:57
"Why Growth Hacking Is Broken" - Pete Flint & Andy Johns by NFX
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Andy Johns & Pete Flint on "Why Growth Hacking Is Broken" from 2019-02-13T00:22:57
"Why Growth Hacking Is Broken" - Pete Flint & Andy Johns by NFX
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