1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast

Warren Packard, Partner at AI Fund, discusses his firm's investment thesis. Instead of founders pitching, the AI Fund operates as a Venture Studio and recruits repeat entrepreneurs with domain knowledge to build ventures based on their ideas.

Lisa Chai, Co-founder and General Partner at Interwoven Ventures, discusses her firm's investment thesis.

Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm's AI investment thesis.

Nicholas Fok from Erez Capital discusses his firm's investment thesis.

Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm's AI investment thesis.

Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, discusses a non-Unicorn chasing investment thesis.

Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm's AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.

David Hornik, Founding Partner at Lobby Capital, discusses his firm's AI investment thesis. This is an excellent discussion spanning Agentic AI and Ultralight startups.

Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures, discusses his firm's AI investment thesis.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses AI in Healthcare startups. Fascinating, comprehensive discussion with concrete pointers.

Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.

Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures. discusses his firm's AI investment thesis. We had an excellent discussion on AI-enabled drug discovery, AI-enabled medical imaging, etc.

Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder at Mela Ventures, discusses his firm's AI investment thesis.

Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discusses his firm's AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights.

Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, discusses his AI investment point of view.

Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital, discusses why he wants to see Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI startups. We're hearing this a lot right now.

During this week's roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of Human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables and more.

Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner at Kae Capital, discusses the trends he is seeing in the Indian startup ecosystem.

Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures, has been in the industry for a long time and has an interesting perspective on AI investing.

Yash Hemaraj is General Partner at BGV, and Founding Partner at Arka Venture Labs. This is a very interesting discussion that goes into the nuances of high velocity Positioning and Go To Market strategies.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Partner at Nexus Venture Partners, has been investing in AI startups for over a decade. This is an excellent and insightful discussion about his AI investment thesis.

Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc, discusses his AI investment thesis and shares his firm's use of AI in monitoring investment-worthy startups.

Jukka Alanen, Managing Partner at Rebellion Ventures, discusses his portfolio, investment thesis and related trends.

Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures, discusses how he is investing in AI startups and what he is learning from the market.

Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital, discusses how he is thinking about investing in AI. There's a lot of confusion around AI right now. The hype is astronomical. Amidst this noisy environment, we're trying to bring you some signal, some wisdom.

Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital, talks about his AI investment thesis. It's a wonderful discussion that not only entrepreneurs should listen to, but investors should also listen in to calibrate their own investment thesis.

Julien Pham, Founder GP at 3CC | Third Culture Capital, talks about the firm's focus on HealthTech. Julien is a physician by training. Excellent discussion!

This talk on India's Prospects in the Age of AI was given in November 2023.

This is Part 2 of my talk from 2019, Man and Superman.

In this talk from 2019, I speak about Man and Superman – the impact of how AI-driven augmentation of the human species will render one part of civilization – MAN – extinct. The other part, the part that becomes enhanced by AI, will thrive. This enhanced Superman will compose music like Beethoven, write poetry likeRead Full Article »

When I gave this talk in 2016, I spoke on the Future of Capitalism. I discussed how mass-scale automation engineered by Artificial Intelligence stands to render human beings useless. With nothing to do. With no mechanism to earn a livelihood. The Economic impact of AI on society was my primary concern. My general conclusion wasRead Full Article »

Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures, talks about his firm's investment thesis.

Julien Pham is Founder and Managing Director at Third Culture Capital (3CC), a firm focused on investing in the healthcare space.

Sergey Jakimov is Co-founder and Partner at LongeVC, a firm focused on the Longevity space. We discuss trends and opportunities in this sector full of whitespace waiting for the entrepreneur's magic touch.

Kyle Asman is Managing Director at Backswing Ventures, a firm that has a non-Unicorn investment thesis.

Giuseppe Donvito is Partner at P101 Ventures based in Milan. We have a wonderful conversation about Italian startups.

Heather Hiles is Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity, and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

Anirudh Damani is Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund. We have a terrific discussion on the Indian Startup Ecosystem and its trends.

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm's successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.

Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights on the gaps in the tech industry.

Tae Hea Nahm, Managing Director and Co-founder at Storm Ventures, emphasizes and articulates his firm's specific interest in investing in vertical cloud startups.

Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar, and a long-time player in the Indian startup ecosystem discusses Exit options for Indian startups and other topics.

Bhaskar Ghosh, Partner and CTO at 8VC, discusses his firm's investment thesis, and we have an interesting discussion about the definition of a “good” entrepreneur.

Pawel Maj, Investment Director, Warsaw Equity Group, discusses post-seed and pre-series A funding in Eastern and Central Europe in the context of his firm's investment thesis.

Anup Jain, Managing Partner at Orios Venture Partners, discusses the Indian startup ecosystem and its trends and nuances.

Cameron Kramlich, General Partner at Angelneers, offers a rare perspective in support of solo entrepreneurs.

Evan Zimmerman, Chairman of Jovono, discusses his fund's investment philosophy, especially around pre-seed and seed.

Janam Mehta, Partner at Campus Fund and Venture Investments at JSW Ventures, discusses the progress of the Indian startup ecosystem.

Chandrashekar Kupperi is General Partner at Peaceful Progress Fund, an angel fund in India. We have some very interesting discussions on consumer startups in India, especially the ones targeting lower economic strata consumers.

Bill Baumel, Managing Director at Ohio Innovation Fund, is one of the pioneers of the Ohio startup ecosystem.