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Jacob sits down with Hemant Taneja, the CEO & Managing Director of General Catalyst. GC is one of the world's largest venture capital firms, most recently raising an $8B fund in 2024. The firm has invested in companies like Livongo, Cityblock Health, and Hippocratic AI. They discuss the possibility of a $100B healthcare company, how buying a health system can accelerate partnerships, what will succeed in AI, and more. [0:00] Intro[0:54] Hemant's Healthcare Journey[2:25] A Vision for 2030[3:36] Transforming Healthcare Systems[6:03] The Role of AI and Technology in Healthcare[9:04] Incubation and Investment Strategies[13:43] Platform Focus in Health Tech[21:42] Exploring International Healthcare Opportunities[24:48] AI Transformations Across Industries[25:51] Innovative Financing in Venture Capital[34:41] The Future of AI and Venture Capital[38:18] Quickfire Out-Of-Pocket: https://www.outofpocket.health/

Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst discusses the firm's evolution from an artisanal business to an enduring venture platform, focusing on operational rigor, fund size, talent strategy, and investments in companies like Stripe and Snap, while emphasizing the importance of responsible innovation and long-term industry transformations. — 

Connie & Alex talk to Hemant Taneja and Pranav Signhvi of General Catalyst about their “Customer Value” strategy, a  funding model in which General Catalyst pre-funds a company's customer acquisition cost in exchange for a capped return linked directly to the customer value generated from its investment. Music: 1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired)2. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance)3. "Dream Catcher" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4650-dream-catcher)4. "Pamgaea" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaea)5. "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3687-edm-detection-mode)License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Hemant Taneja, CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst and Teresa Carlson, Inaugural President of General Catalyst Institute (GCI), discuss the launch of GCI, and how they are shaping AI policy guidance around the world, as well as connecting their diverse portfolio to governments to promote global resilience.

"If there are two things that have been foundational to my journey, it's been learning, and it's been the importance of taking risk."Hemant Taneja, managing partner and CEO of General Catalyst, shares his insights on leadership, innovation, and the evolving role of venture capital in this episode of View From The Top, the podcast. In his conversation with Shantam Jain, MBA '24, on the Stanford GSB campus, Taneja reflects on his personal journey from a low-income household in Delhi to becoming a prominent figure in the venture capital world. The conversation delves into the challenges and opportunities in various sectors, including healthcare, defense, and AI. Taneja discusses the role of venture capital in fostering transformative companies. He also highlights the importance of aligning profit with purpose and the necessity of engaging with policymakers to navigate the complexities of emerging technologies.Stanford GSB's View From The Top is the dean's premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund.During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.For a full transcript, visit the episode's page on the Stanford GSB website. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

My guest today is Hemant Taneja. Hemant is the CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst, the global venture capital firm you'll hear us refer to as GC. GC has set out to build resiliency across critical industries worldwide. The firm leverages technology to retool sectors such as healthcare, energy, defense, and manufacturing and explores innovative capital structures to support founders and businesses. Hemant discusses how the firm is positioned to respond to the aftermath of crises, including the pandemic, wars, energy issues, and beyond. We also discuss the building of a category-defining healthcare company, Livongo and much more. Please enjoy this conversation with Hemant Taneja.  Listen to Founders Podcast For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. ----- This episode is brought to you by Ramp. Ramp's mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Ramp is the fastest growing FinTech company in history and it's backed by more of my favorite past guests (at least 16 of them!) than probably any other company I'm aware of. It's also notable that many best-in-class businesses use Ramp—companies like Airbnb, Anduril, and Shopify, as well as investors like Sequoia Capital and Vista Equity. They use Ramp to manage their spending, automate tedious financial processes, and reinvest saved dollars and hours into growth. At Colossus and Positive Sum, we use Ramp for exactly the same reason. Go to Ramp.com/invest to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. ----- This episode is brought to you by Tegus, where we're changing the game in investment research. Step away from outdated, inefficient methods and into the future with our platform, proudly hosting over 100,000 transcripts – with over 25,000 transcripts added just this year alone. Our platform grows eight times faster and adds twice as much monthly content as our competitors, putting us at the forefront of the industry. Plus, with 75% of private market transcripts available exclusively on Tegus, we offer insights you simply can't find elsewhere. See the difference a vast, quality-driven transcript library makes. Unlock your free trial at tegus.com/patrick. ----- Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.  Past guests include Tobi Lutke, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, John Collison, Kat Cole, Marc Andreessen, Matthew Ball, Bill Gurley, Anu Hariharan, Ben Thompson, and many more. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes: (00:00:00) Our Partners: Ramp and Tegus (00:03:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best (00:03:57) Introducing Hemant Taneja and General Catalyst (00:04:17) Global Resilience and Innovation Post-Pandemic  (00:05:56) Re-Globalization and Manufacturing  (00:07:03) Building Livongo: A 20-Year Overnight Success  (00:13:23) Aligning Incentives in Healthcare  (00:15:40) Re-imagining the Investment Business  (00:20:54) Evolution of General Catalyst (00:27:04) Succession and Trust in Asset Management  (00:35:00) Founder-Centric Capital Goals  (00:36:32) Balancing Growth and Liquidity  (00:41:39) AI and Onshoring Productivity  (00:47:10) Defense Investments and Ethics  (00:50:11) Geopolitics and Regulation  (00:53:16) Reflections on Leadership and Strategy  (01:01:14) Hemant's Future Plans  (01:02:55) The Kindest Thing Anyone Has Ever Done for Him

On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, we are joined again by a dear friend, Kevin Maney, as he shares stories about the missed opportunities for innovation after Soviet Union's fall. Kevin Maney has a new book out called Red Bottom Line, wherehe tells his firsthand experience as a young USA Today reporter in Russia during the time. From the optimism of Gorbachev's era to the disillusionment under Putin, Christohper and Kevin also explore Russia's technological transformation, societal issues and geopolitical impact. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Kevin Maney on the Journalism in Russia during the late 80s and early 90s Kevin starts off the conversation with a description of the conditions in Russia before, during, and after the fall of the Soviet Union. He describes when Mikhail Gorbachev started loosening restrictions and allowing more foreign correspondents into Russia, which allowed journalists like Kevin to make it to Russian soil as early as 88-88. Though some restrictions were lifted, Kevin recalls that they still had to jump through so many hoops just to get there, as there aren't exactly direct routes or flights going from America to Russia at the time. At this point in time, a lot of Americans and other Westerners were flocking to Russia, as demand for common consumer products skyrocket. Things like toothpaste and deodorant were being sold left and right, things that weren't originally available locally. Kevin observed this trend and proposed to his editor to let him cover this economic and financial phenomenon that is happening in the Soviet Union. Kevin Maney on Life in Russia during Economic Hardship As Kevin recalls the situation then, he saw a country that was on its last legs, and its people trying desperately to live as normal as they could. He observed certain stores that only allowed foreigners or people with non-local currencies to shop, as they know it had more buying power in the long run. Local residents were crowding other stores, either to purchase clothing items or to replenish their essential supplies. In department stores, shelves were nearly bare, with only toys and luxury items remaining unsold. Everyone was scooping up anything they could find. Seeing all that in contrast to people's lives in America was disheartening, to say the least. The Opening of the First McDonalds in Russia during the 90s Given all that, Kevin still saw some hope for the country as they start rebuilding themselves from within. That, and all the companies that are now flooding into Russia to help supplies their needs and ideally, boost their economy. One such company was McDonalds, who Kevin has a fond story to tell. He shares that on one of his trips back to Russia, he just happened to be on the same flight as George Kohan, the biggest McDonalds franchisee in Canada. George was on his way to Moscow to check his plans to build a branch there, which eventually became the first of many McDonalds built in Russia. Kevin got to talk with George Kohan on how things were going with building a business on foreign soil, and the procedures and machinations he had to go through to finally get approved to open his business there. To hear more from Kevin Maney and his stories from the redeveloping Russia in the 90s, download and listen to this episode. Bio Kevin Maney is cofounder of Category Design Advisors, where he works with CEOs and executive teams to develop and execute strategies to design and dominate markets. He is also a multi-time bestselling author and journalist who writes about technology and society. His most recent book, UnHealthare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, was co-authored with venture capitalist Hemant Taneja and Jefferson Health CEO Steve Klasko. It came out in 2020, and tees up how healthcare will evolve in the ...

The NFL's chief media and business officer Brian Rolapp talks about sports in the streaming era and how the league is using machine learning. Then, General Catalyst CEO and managing director Hemant Taneja assesses the balance between innovation and risk in the development of AI and what could be next in healthcare. Conversation recorded on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at The Futurist Summit: The New Age of Tech.

Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, joins Washington Post Live to discuss his company's work with the Commerce Department to develop AI guidelines and his warnings of a digital cold war between the United States and China. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja shares his insights on the venture capital landscape, society's digital transformation, and the firm's mission-based approach to investing in the latest episode of Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors. 

Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst, and runs the firm like a true business: defining its mission and values, approaching the product from a problem-solving perspective, and more. If you're looking to improve your sourcing, tracking, and due diligence, check out: http://synaptic.com/turpentine We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com. --- SPONSORS: Synaptic unifies over one hundred real-time company performance metrics across alternative datasets like user traffic, employee data, app downloads, product reviews, and more. It's your all-in-one source for alternative data that helps you make better investment decisions. To learn how Synaptic can improve your sourcing, tracking, and due diligence, visit http://synaptic.com/turpentine Pesto Tech is a hiring marketplace that makes finding great remote developers fast and easy. They use large language models to evaluate developers along dozens of parameters, including code quality, performance, and security. If you need to start hiring developers fast, all you have to do is answer 5 simple questions on their website: http://pesto.tech --- RECOMMENDED PODCAST:  Every week investor and writer of the popular newsletter The Diff, Byrne Hobart, and co-host Erik Torenberg discuss today's major inflection points in technology, business, and markets – and help listeners build a diversified portfolio of trends and ideas for the future. Subscribe to “The Riff” with Byrne Hobart and Erik Torenberg: https://link.chtbl.com/theriff RECOMMENDED PODCAST: LIVE PLAYERS Join host Samo Burja and Erik Torenberg as they analyze the mindsets of today's most intriguing business leaders, investors, and innovators through the lens of their bold actions and contrarian worldviews. You'll come away with a deeper understanding of the development of technology, business, political power, culture and more. LIsten and subscribe everywhere you get your podcasts: https://link.chtbl.com/liveplayers. --- Join our free newsletter to get Erik's top 3 insights from each episode every week: https://turpentinevc.substack.com/ --- RELATED SHOWS: If you like Turpentine VC, check out our show The Limited Partner with David Weisburd, where David talks to the investors behind the investors: https://link.chtbl.com/thelimitedpartner --- X / TWITTER: @htaneja (Hemant) @eriktorenberg (Erik) @generalcatalyst @TurpentineVC --- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Episode Preview (00:53) How Hemant took over as CEO of General Catalyst (03:31) Why General Catalyst decided to operate like a true company (05:15) The vision for General Catalyst (08:15) How GC thinks about a16z and the future of investing (10:52) GC's governance in relation to their vision (11:59) Sponsor: Synaptic (13:01) Hemant on how macro determines GC's strategy (14:59) The future of VC and how the asset class is evolving (17:04) More on GC's responsible innovation thesis (19:28) The difference between GC and a16z (20:32) Hemant explains GC's unfair advantage in healthcare (22:47) How GC's strategy is differentiated (24:05) GC's incubation strategy (26:02) GC's customer value strategy (27:23) How Hemant thinks about launching firm products (29:11) On GC's global resilience practice (30:49) Sponsor: Pesto Tech (31:40) On why GC has been so successful in digital health, and the future of that space (33:23) Hemant's request for startups in healthcare (35:13) Opportunity areas for emerging managers today (37:06) Hemant's approach to talent cultivation and retention (39:24) Where does General Catalyst fit into the venture ecosystem? (41:11) On radical collaboration

Taking the TCZ stage this week to share insights from their team coaching experiences are Hemant Taneja, Madalina Camarasu and Inbavanan Ganapathy from Tattva Consulting. The session was live-streamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterward on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)! Tattva Consulting is a boutique consulting firm based in New Delhi, India working with the purpose of providing meaningful and sustainable transformation for our clients. Their work flows in the areas of Organization Change and Culture, Talent Management, Team Coaching and Leadership Effectiveness. We leverage research-based methodologies matched to the client's context to deliver value. Hemant Taneja is Founder and Practitioner at Tattva and is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience. He has held leadership roles in functions ranging from Business Operations to Human Resources across various global organizations. Madalina Camarasu is a Program Manager in Global Leadership Development at UIPath. She is passionate about making learning engaging and meaningful by bringing together people, technologies and learning solutions. In her role at UiPath, Mădălina is responsible for designing and bringing to life innovative programs, experiences and tools that foster an environment of continuous learning and growth among the organization's leaders. Inbavanan Ganapathy has more than 27 years of Corporate and 11+ years of Consulting / Coaching experience in all facets of People Practice from Organization Development and Effectiveness, Learning & Development, Personnel Management to Industrial Relations domains. During his Corporate career, apart from Heading the People Function, his experiences have included Setting up manufacturing operations, Heading Industrial Relations, Leading People Integration post acquisition, Leading Organization wide Change initiative, Authoring blueprint for People Capability Maturity Model, and Global Head for Learning & Development function. Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

We discussed a few things including:  1. Klasko's healthcare and innovation journey2. His tenure at Jefferson3. Industry challenges and opportunities4. Insights/trends relating to health and education sectors5. His new book and how music and DJing have affected his lifeStephen Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. is an author, an entrepreneur and a believer in the creative and optimistic transformation of healthcare and higher education. He has been a CEO, a university president, and a dean of two medical colleges. Currently he is pursuing his passion to bridge academic health centers with the emerging world of #digital medicine and #innovation.  As President of Thomas Jefferson University, he directed a merger between an almost two century old health science university and a nationally ranked university for design and architecture, heralded by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “few successful mergers between academic entities.”  As CEO of Jefferson Health, he presided over the growth of the system from $1.5 billion to $9 billion including the acquisition of Health Partners Plan, making Jefferson the first integrated delivery and financial system in Philadelphia history.His most recent book, “Feelin' Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier” uses music and creativity to tackle some of the thorniest issues in healthcare, academics and health equity. His fifth book (with Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst) in 2021, “UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance” has become the manual for both founders and health system CEOs for bringing together the venture capital world with the traditional healthcare ecosystem and has been translated in several languages.Dr. Klasko serves as an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst, North American ambassador for Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and as CMO and Operating Partner of Abundant Venture Partners.  He is also the lead independent director of Teleflex, a seventy-year-old NYSE medical device company. In 2022, President Biden appointed him to the National Board of Education Sciences.Over the past five years he has been awarded by Fast Company as one of the “top 25 most #creative people in business,” by Modern Healthcare as the “#2 most influential person in #healthcare” and by Ernst and Young as the “#entrepreneur of the year.”#healthtech#podcast #AFewThings

The business landscape gets noisier every day which makes getting found, getting noticed, and getting bigger problems most face. What's a company to do? According to Kevin Maney, the answer is category design. In today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast, Kevin explains just what category design is, why it matters, plus so much more about what it takes to succeed today in business. Kevin Maney is co-author of Play Bigger and has been a bestselling author and award-winning columnist writing about technology for three decades. That allows him to bring broad and deep context to Category Design conversations. Kevin's most recent book is Intended Consequences, co-authored with his long-time collaborator, Hemant Taneja, who runs the VC firm General Catalyst. His other books with Hemant are UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, which proposes a new category of healthcare, and the 2018 book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future. He also authored The Two-Second Advantage (a 2011 New York Times best seller), Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On and Others Don't, and The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM. Kevin has written for Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Conde Nast Portfolio, The New York Times and USA Today, and has appeared frequently on television and radio, including CNN, CBS Sunday Morning and NPR. He also writes music for and plays in a New York band, Total Blam Blam. Learn more about Kevin on his website: https://www.categorydesignadvisors.com/ = = = = = My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available everywhere books are sold! Get your copy and learn more about it here Are we connected yet on social?  @maryloukayser (Instagram) https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlkayser/ (LinkedIn) Here are three more ways I can help you: Share this episode with one person who could use a boost of inspiration and positivity today. Bring me in to speak at your next event. Book a free call with me today to discuss that book you finally want to write in this year.

Candid Conversation with Fareed Zakaria & Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of global VC firm General Catalyst on how changing geopolitics are changing the game for VCs as well. In a new world order of lowered liquidity and a tsunami of tech transcending borders host Anupriya Nair & Apoorva Mittal question where Indian startups stand in the new global funding landscape? Do founders need to face the new reality of valuations? And how are VCs balancing patience and profitability in an era of tech disruption? Hemant Taneja is CEO and MD of VC firm General Catalyst, backers of legendary companies like Stripe, Snap, Samsara, Airbnb, Kayak and Gusto. Hemant is also a best selling author and advocate for Responsible Innovation.Fareed Zakaria is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. If you like this episode from Anupriya, check out her other episodes on Survivor Island: The Startup Finale, Downsizing to Down Rounds, Nirav Modi: Extradition or Asylum - The Scam Explained, Call of Duty: The Inflation Warzone and more! You can follow our host Anupriya on her social media: Twitter and Linkedin   Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief' on ET Play, The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Google Podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Health Assurance Podcast: Dr. Stephen Klasko and Hemant Taneja, CEO and Managing Director at General Catalyst, talk about what's needed to transform the healthcare ecosystem and deliver what people need most. The co-authors of the book UnHealthcare discuss health equity, responsible innovation and a future that's not just making the wealthy healthier.This episode is sponsored by General Catalyst.

On episode 6 of season 3, I continued my conversation with Dr. Stephen Klasko, who was the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare's “100 Most Influential Individuals”. He is also the co-author of 2020's UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance with Silicon Valley investor Hemant Taneja, and is currently an executive in residence at General Catalyst. In the second half of this two-part episode, Dr. Klasko and I discussed some of the systemic issues in U.S. Healthcare.  We started with a discussion of behavioral health, and how we will need to think differently about clinician/patient interactions to get at the root of the problem, starting with acting more proactively.   The antidote to much of what ails us, in Dr. Klasko's opinion, is healthcare at any address (i.e. Jefferson sent a nursing student  into the home of an asthma patient with 10 previous ED visits that resulted from asthma exacerbations. The nursing student discovered mold, and so Jefferson sent a handyman to fix it at a fraction of the cost of an inpatient admission). Nobody wakes up in the morning and says "I am going to telebank", and yet we talk about meeting people where they are (tele-health, homecare, etc.) as though it's novel.  Dr. Klasko's vision was that Jefferson would one day no longer be defined as a hospital system, but as a system that provided healthcare at any address. He asks, rhetorically, "Why would you want to be defined by the place where you've in essence failed to keep people healthy?" Despite advocating un-scaling, in order to innovate, Dr. Klasko freely admits that he grew Jefferson from 3 hospitals to 18. Yet, these mergers allowed him to obtain huge geographic proximity - nobody was more than 10 or 15 minutes from a Jefferson facility. As a result of facilities owned by the hospitals they bought, Jefferson was also able to obtain massive primary care networks, further contributing to the vision of healthcare at any address. We spoke about Tandigm's partnership with Penn and IBC, and what it will take for that partnership to bear fruits for the clinicians and patients involved. Finally, we discussed mergers and acquisitions, and the future of our healthcare system. Dr. Klasko can be found on Twitter and Linkedin. Please make sure to check out Society for HealthCare Innovation (SHCI) website (http://www.SHCI.org) for more information about our work. 

On episode 5 of season 3, the first of this two-part episode, I spoke with Dr. Stephen Klasko about his unlikely journey from OBGYN to the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare's “100 Most Influential Individuals”. He is also the co-author of 2020's UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance with Silicon Valley investor Hemant Taneja, and is currently an executive in residence at General Catalyst. Dr. Klasko and I began the episode discussing the creation of the Jefferson Italy Center in Rome and partnership with Gemelli Hospital. Jefferson's presence in Italy highlighted one of the ironies of U.S. Healthcare - while we claim to be on the cutting edge of innovation when it comes to healthcare, we create serious barriers to entry. The CEO of Marriott Hotels in Italy can be a CEO in the U.S., but if you are the head of cardiovascular surgery at Shanghai university and you come to the U.S., we make you retake your residency. We also shun the use of alternative medicine, which is used to treat 2/3 of the world's population, because it doesn't fall into the familiar categories of surgery or drugs (Jefferson created the Marcus center for Integrative Health which is taking the best of care that happens around the world that is not just drugs and surgery).Jefferson's uniquely international presence and perspective served the health system well during COVID. Their Italian hospital  served as the canary in the coal mine, and allowed Jefferson to have a clear picture of the damage that COVID would ultimately cause long before most of the U.S,.  Jefferson had also invested $50 million into Telehealth in 2014 and maintained the pandemic preparedness team it had stood up when Ebola (almost) hit. We touched on the state-level licensure requirements and how much the emergency protocols reduced tensions around credentialing. The idea that someone might need a different debit card to pull money out in every state is ridiculous, and yet in healthcare, it is the status quo in credentialing because it often aligns with the vested interests of the incumbents.Dr. Klasko blames the system in its entirety for the fact that while predominantly underserved people died because they didn't get care during the pandemic, insurers quadrupled their net operating income because people they thought would get care died. You can find the full episode here:Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3D26Ayq Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3eZyovmDr. Klasko can be found on Twitter and Linkedin. Please make sure to check out Society for HealthCare Innovation (SHCI) website (http://www.SHCI.org) for more information about our work. 

I moved from San Francisco to New York, in February 2019, back before it was cool to turn tail on the tech mecca. Truth be told, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for San Francisco, but my girlfriend beckoned from Brooklyn.I’m writing this from my flight back to New York after over a week in SF. I spent much of it in an Airbnb next to Mr. Pickle’s on Van Ness Avenue and then a few days crashing at a fellow tech reporter’s apartment in the Outer Richmond. I ate Mission Chinese and La Taqueria, drank at Brass Tacks and The Monk’s Kettle, and made it up to Calistoga for a picturesque vineyard wedding.But did I spend any time working for you, dear reader? Yes, not to worry. I spent my days shuttling from South Park to the Presidio, catching up with venture capitalists, founders, tech media insiders, and senior tech executives. And I spent my nights getting drunk with them, eager for looser lips.Here are my key immediate takeaways:One source told me that even Insight Partners — which announced a $20 billion fund in February — has decided to seriously slow down big late stage private investments. Until recently, Insight looked like one of the last holdouts when it came to doing late stage deals even as the market unraveled. But now, like pretty much everyone else, it’s mostly focused on its existing portfolio.VC advice on the downturn — even Sequoia Capital’s presentation to founders — has felt too much like content marketing. For some startup CEOs it can feel a bit like you’re the goody two-shoes, “A” student in the classroom, when the teacher reprimands everyone. You think the rebuke applies to you, but really the message is meant for the troublemakers. But it’s the most diligent among us that take these admonitions personally. Founders need advice specific to their company. There’s a sense that there have been many software engineers who have been overpromoted in the bull cycle and that this downturn could force some coders to reset their expectations about their appropriate rank and pay.I spent much of my time asking sources what the overarching, thematic story of the downturn would be. One venture capitalist gave me my favorite answer: He argued that we’d look back on this downturn as a story of the perfect storm between retail and professional investor excesses. On the retail side, we saw the rise of Robinhood and Coinbase, and r/wallstreetbets trades on Kodak and GameStop. On the professional side, we saw firms like SoftBank and Tiger go so, so long without enough diligence to back it up.If I had to name a couple companies/firms that I think are most likely to represent this downturn, right now I’d name Instacart, Coinbase, Robinhood, GoPuff, Bird, Tesla, Tiger, and SoftBank. Though, right now, I think increasingly crypto is looking like it will be the category most associated with this cycle’s excesses.There’s been a lot of envy in traditional startup world of people who went over to the the crypto dark side. Now there’s all sorts of schadenfreude going on as crypto prices plummet. Some VCs are starting to admit (mostly in private) that they never really believed in crypto. Still, there’s so much money. Just as I was leaving the city, Coinbase announced that it was brutally laying off 18% of its staff, locking them out of their emails before they even had time to say goodbye.We’re overdue for a reckoning over who screwed over credulous investors with implausible SPAC deals. ~cough~ Chamath ~ cough ~ At least, Brad Gerstner’s Altimeter led the PIPE on its own terrible Grab SPAC deal. Andreessen Horowitz still remains, probably, the biggest nemesis of many firms in Silicon Valley. Sure, Tiger blew up the startup world. But what Tiger did was so unlike anything venture capital firms were doing, so there’s less professional jealousy. There are whispers that things aren’t as copacetic internally at a16z as might appear from their highly choreographed public communications. It would seem that part of the explanation for the explosion of funds at the firm has been the explosion of egos. Instead of resolving interpersonal conflicts on the consumer fund, let’s just create a gaming fund. In that light, it’s pretty amazing that the firm couldn’t figure out a way to keep Katie Haun. Consumer investing across the board seems challenged. What’s going on over at Popshop, Lunchclub, Cameo, and Clubhouse just to name a few? I guess investors simply wishing consumer investing into being without a strong new thesis wasn’t exactly an omen for the sector’s inevitable success. (I will say that Whatnot and BeReal remain two consumer plays that I’m still following.) What will it mean for this generation of consumer investors? Benchmark’s next generation consumer investor, Sarah Tavel, seems to have made her best investment in business-to-business company Chainalysis, last valued at $8.6 billion. Speaking of Benchmark, the firm deserves some credit for holding firm on its strategy as other venture firms’ fund sizes got crazy. Sure, Benchmark probably could have made way more money if it topped up its own investments — but then it might be taking the heat that Benchmark favorite Altimeter is getting right now over its overexuberance. There’s money and reputation to manage. Benchmark has always made enough money to value its reputation. (That’s something Travis Kalanick, Adam Neumann, Nirav Tolia, etc. surely gripe about.)Last year’s hype around venture capital firms indefinitely holding onto private companies long after they go public is looking like pure bubble thinking. Sequoia’s timing on its all-in-one, hold indefinitely “The Sequoia Capital Fund” looks a little more like one of the excesses from the bull market. But limited partners seem too afraid to do anything to unwind the strategy shift that seems designed to enrich the firm’s general partners. (Reach out to me if you have off-the-record intel on this.)Investors are dramatically slowing the pace of their investments. These funds are going to last years longer than they would have in bull times. Multi-stage investors seem more inclined to double-down on their existing portfolio companies than to make new bets. Bridge rounds are on everyone’s lips. Still, I heard from investors who had made secret Series B and C investments in companies this year. It’s a good time to make a bet on a company that got away for a hype-y Series A round.Startup founders think prospective employees want assurances that their company is really worth what the company says it is. Good private unicorns are in a bit of a bind. Prospective employees are now automatically giving their equity offers a mental haircut based on the market downturn. So good companies have an incentive to reaffirm their valuations with funding rounds during the downturn — even if it otherwise might be smarter to keep their valuations artificially low so as to maintain room to grow should conditions worsen. (I wish employees would get better at assessing companies based on fundamentals, rather than the last tick fundraising round. Employees are basically begging founders to maximize for valuation, which then minimizes employee upside.)Some small-to-medium sized companies are shopping themselves to their rival startups but it’s not always clear why the competitor would want to buy. Why take on additional burn and headcount when all you might end up getting is leads on some new customers? Sure, you might do some venture capital firm a favor, but what’s that really worth?There are some cracks in up-start media world. The most obvious tremor is at BuzzFeed where the stock has sunk 54% in a month. Reporters have been leaving in droves. Meanwhile, The Information lost one of its top editors — Martin Peers. He’s long been a central figure over there. The Information’s up-and-coming venture capital reporter Berber Jin departed to the Wall Street Journal, as did Sarah Krouse who will be covering Netflix for the Journal. Stephen Nellis returned to Reuters. Meanwhile spirits seem strong at my former employer, Bloomberg. The ascendance of the player-coach editor seems to have people upbeat. Sarah Frier is leading big tech coverage and Lucas Shaw (who has been a guest on Dead Cat) is running the show on Hollywood coverage. And somehow Bloomberg just lured back a former star reporter who had left to join the startup ranks: Alex Barinka — who left Bloomberg as a deals reporter to help launch Imran Khan’s Verishop before going over to Stitch Fix — is joining Frier’s team as a social media reporter based in LA. Next week I’m in Toronto for Collision where I’ll be interviewing Uncork Capital’s Andy McLoughlin, Real Ventures’ Janet Bannister, and Left Lane Capital’s Vinny Pujji on a panel Wednesday called “Survival of the leanest: The importance of being capital efficient.” Then, less than an hour later I’ll interview General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja about responsible innovation. On Thursday, I’ll ask “Has the tech bubble burst... again?!” in a panel with FirstMark’s Matt Turck, Lux’s Deena Shakir, and Neo Financial’s Andrew Chau. Expect the most interesting tidbits in this newsletter late next week.Talking about Chesa Boudin on Dead CatMy first meeting in San Francisco started with a tour of The San Francisco Standard, the Michael Moritz-funded local news enterprise. My old editor Jonathan Weber — once the editor of tech media dot-com icon The Industry Standard — is the editor-in-chief over at the SF Standard. Weber, Dead Cat co-host Tom Dotan, and I met up for a nice dinner at The Morris in the Mission. After spending the evening discussing San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s recall, Tom and I convinced Weber to come on the Dead Cat podcast and talk about the Standard and San Francisco politics.Tom thinks I’m going to get eviscerated by San Franciscans for my politics. This is something we’ve never seen before: a New Yorker opining on San Francisco local affairs. I did my best to offend conservatives and liberals alike, maligning the police while rooting for tech’s ascendant influence on San Francisco politics. Weber makes the case for objective, follow-the-reporting local news and outlines the real issues underpinning the recall. He explains how money is simultaneously to blame and not to blame for Boudin’s recall. And he defends the Standard against its critics for its influential story on Boudin’s refusal to make drug arrests. We interrogate what Boudin’s defeat means for the future of progressive politics and the city of San Francisco.Give it a listen.Read the automated transcript. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

I moved from San Francisco to New York, in February 2019, back before it was cool to turn tail on the tech mecca. Truth be told, I'll always have a special place in my heart for San Francisco, but my girlfriend beckoned from Brooklyn.I'm writing this from my flight back to New York after over a week in SF. I spent much of it in an Airbnb next to Mr. Pickle's on Van Ness Avenue and then a few days crashing at a fellow tech reporter's apartment in the Outer Richmond. I ate Mission Chinese and La Taqueria, drank at Brass Tacks and The Monk's Kettle, and made it up to Calistoga for a picturesque vineyard wedding.But did I spend any time working for you, dear reader? Yes, not to worry. I spent my days shuttling from South Park to the Presidio, catching up with venture capitalists, founders, tech media insiders, and senior tech executives. And I spent my nights getting drunk with them, eager for looser lips.Here are my key immediate takeaways:One source told me that even Insight Partners — which announced a $20 billion fund in February — has decided to seriously slow down big late stage private investments. Until recently, Insight looked like one of the last holdouts when it came to doing late stage deals even as the market unraveled. But now, like pretty much everyone else, it's mostly focused on its existing portfolio.VC advice on the downturn — even Sequoia Capital's presentation to founders — has felt too much like content marketing. For some startup CEOs it can feel a bit like you're the goody two-shoes, “A” student in the classroom, when the teacher reprimands everyone. You think the rebuke applies to you, but really the message is meant for the troublemakers. But it's the most diligent among us that take these admonitions personally. Founders need advice specific to their company. There's a sense that there have been many software engineers who have been overpromoted in the bull cycle and that this downturn could force some coders to reset their expectations about their appropriate rank and pay.I spent much of my time asking sources what the overarching, thematic story of the downturn would be. One venture capitalist gave me my favorite answer: He argued that we'd look back on this downturn as a story of the perfect storm between retail and professional investor excesses. On the retail side, we saw the rise of Robinhood and Coinbase, and r/wallstreetbets trades on Kodak and GameStop. On the professional side, we saw firms like SoftBank and Tiger go so, so long without enough diligence to back it up.If I had to name a couple companies/firms that I think are most likely to represent this downturn, right now I'd name Instacart, Coinbase, Robinhood, GoPuff, Bird, Tesla, Tiger, and SoftBank. Though, right now, I think increasingly crypto is looking like it will be the category most associated with this cycle's excesses.There's been a lot of envy in traditional startup world of people who went over to the the crypto dark side. Now there's all sorts of schadenfreude going on as crypto prices plummet. Some VCs are starting to admit (mostly in private) that they never really believed in crypto. Still, there's so much money. Just as I was leaving the city, Coinbase announced that it was brutally laying off 18% of its staff, locking them out of their emails before they even had time to say goodbye.We're overdue for a reckoning over who screwed over credulous investors with implausible SPAC deals. ~cough~ Chamath ~ cough ~ At least, Brad Gerstner's Altimeter led the PIPE on its own terrible Grab SPAC deal. Andreessen Horowitz still remains, probably, the biggest nemesis of many firms in Silicon Valley. Sure, Tiger blew up the startup world. But what Tiger did was so unlike anything venture capital firms were doing, so there's less professional jealousy. There are whispers that things aren't as copacetic internally at a16z as might appear from their highly choreographed public communications. It would seem that part of the explanation for the explosion of funds at the firm has been the explosion of egos. Instead of resolving interpersonal conflicts on the consumer fund, let's just create a gaming fund. In that light, it's pretty amazing that the firm couldn't figure out a way to keep Katie Haun. Consumer investing across the board seems challenged. What's going on over at Popshop, Lunchclub, Cameo, and Clubhouse just to name a few? I guess investors simply wishing consumer investing into being without a strong new thesis wasn't exactly an omen for the sector's inevitable success. (I will say that Whatnot and BeReal remain two consumer plays that I'm still following.) What will it mean for this generation of consumer investors? Benchmark's next generation consumer investor, Sarah Tavel, seems to have made her best investment in business-to-business company Chainalysis, last valued at $8.6 billion. Speaking of Benchmark, the firm deserves some credit for holding firm on its strategy as other venture firms' fund sizes got crazy. Sure, Benchmark probably could have made way more money if it topped up its own investments — but then it might be taking the heat that Benchmark favorite Altimeter is getting right now over its overexuberance. There's money and reputation to manage. Benchmark has always made enough money to value its reputation. (That's something Travis Kalanick, Adam Neumann, Nirav Tolia, etc. surely gripe about.)Last year's hype around venture capital firms indefinitely holding onto private companies long after they go public is looking like pure bubble thinking. Sequoia's timing on its all-in-one, hold indefinitely “The Sequoia Capital Fund” looks a little more like one of the excesses from the bull market. But limited partners seem too afraid to do anything to unwind the strategy shift that seems designed to enrich the firm's general partners. (Reach out to me if you have off-the-record intel on this.)Investors are dramatically slowing the pace of their investments. These funds are going to last years longer than they would have in bull times. Multi-stage investors seem more inclined to double-down on their existing portfolio companies than to make new bets. Bridge rounds are on everyone's lips. Still, I heard from investors who had made secret Series B and C investments in companies this year. It's a good time to make a bet on a company that got away for a hype-y Series A round.Startup founders think prospective employees want assurances that their company is really worth what the company says it is. Good private unicorns are in a bit of a bind. Prospective employees are now automatically giving their equity offers a mental haircut based on the market downturn. So good companies have an incentive to reaffirm their valuations with funding rounds during the downturn — even if it otherwise might be smarter to keep their valuations artificially low so as to maintain room to grow should conditions worsen. (I wish employees would get better at assessing companies based on fundamentals, rather than the last tick fundraising round. Employees are basically begging founders to maximize for valuation, which then minimizes employee upside.)Some small-to-medium sized companies are shopping themselves to their rival startups but it's not always clear why the competitor would want to buy. Why take on additional burn and headcount when all you might end up getting is leads on some new customers? Sure, you might do some venture capital firm a favor, but what's that really worth?There are some cracks in up-start media world. The most obvious tremor is at BuzzFeed where the stock has sunk 54% in a month. Reporters have been leaving in droves. Meanwhile, The Information lost one of its top editors — Martin Peers. He's long been a central figure over there. The Information's up-and-coming venture capital reporter Berber Jin departed to the Wall Street Journal, as did Sarah Krouse who will be covering Netflix for the Journal. Stephen Nellis returned to Reuters. Meanwhile spirits seem strong at my former employer, Bloomberg. The ascendance of the player-coach editor seems to have people upbeat. Sarah Frier is leading big tech coverage and Lucas Shaw (who has been a guest on Dead Cat) is running the show on Hollywood coverage. And somehow Bloomberg just lured back a former star reporter who had left to join the startup ranks: Alex Barinka — who left Bloomberg as a deals reporter to help launch Imran Khan's Verishop before going over to Stitch Fix — is joining Frier's team as a social media reporter based in LA. Next week I'm in Toronto for Collision where I'll be interviewing Uncork Capital's Andy McLoughlin, Real Ventures' Janet Bannister, and Left Lane Capital's Vinny Pujji on a panel Wednesday called “Survival of the leanest: The importance of being capital efficient.” Then, less than an hour later I'll interview General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja about responsible innovation. On Thursday, I'll ask “Has the tech bubble burst... again?!” in a panel with FirstMark's Matt Turck, Lux's Deena Shakir, and Neo Financial's Andrew Chau. Expect the most interesting tidbits in this newsletter late next week.Talking about Chesa Boudin on Dead CatMy first meeting in San Francisco started with a tour of The San Francisco Standard, the Michael Moritz-funded local news enterprise. My old editor Jonathan Weber — once the editor of tech media dot-com icon The Industry Standard — is the editor-in-chief over at the SF Standard. Weber, Dead Cat co-host Tom Dotan, and I met up for a nice dinner at The Morris in the Mission. After spending the evening discussing San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's recall, Tom and I convinced Weber to come on the Dead Cat podcast and talk about the Standard and San Francisco politics.Tom thinks I'm going to get eviscerated by San Franciscans for my politics. This is something we've never seen before: a New Yorker opining on San Francisco local affairs. I did my best to offend conservatives and liberals alike, maligning the police while rooting for tech's ascendant influence on San Francisco politics. Weber makes the case for objective, follow-the-reporting local news and outlines the real issues underpinning the recall. He explains how money is simultaneously to blame and not to blame for Boudin's recall. And he defends the Standard against its critics for its influential story on Boudin's refusal to make drug arrests. We interrogate what Boudin's defeat means for the future of progressive politics and the city of San Francisco.Give it a listen.Read the automated transcript. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Hemant Taneja (@htaneja), managing partner at General Catalyst and author of Intended Consequences, joins Anne Dwane and Village Global's newest partner, Prateek Alsi, to discuss:- What responsible innovation is and how tech can do good in the world using the framework.- How founders should think about responsible innovation at the earliest stages of a company.- The importance of thinking from first principles. - Lessons from the creation process of the companies Hemant has been involved in.- A better alternative to “move fast and break things.”- Which areas he excited about investing in, including healthcare and India.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

662: In this interview, we discuss the thesis behind Unscaled and how companies need to be intentional about scaling their businesses. Hemant emphasizes the importance of integrating General Catalyst's values in the companies he grows and looking at long-term consequences of these investments. He also gives his perspective on social good businesses and how artificial intelligence can be used to measure consequences of investment decisions. Finally, we discuss how Hemant's approach to investing has changed over the pandemic, why writing allows him to become convicted in his own thinking, and other keys to his successful career.

662: In this interview, we discuss the thesis behind Unscaled and how companies need to be intentional about scaling their businesses. Hemant emphasizes the importance of integrating General Catalyst's values in the companies he grows and looking at long-term consequences of these investments. He also gives his perspective on social good businesses and how artificial intelligence can be used to measure consequences of investment decisions. Finally, we discuss how Hemant's approach to investing has changed over the pandemic, why writing allows him to become convicted in his own thinking, and other keys to his successful career.

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst. Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking career, he has invested in companies such as Stripe, Snap, Livongo, Gusto and many other phenomenal companies. His brilliant investing career fundamentally stems from his core trait of being an original thinker and intentionally resorting to first principles thinking when developing frameworks. Alongside being a wonderful venture investor, Hemant is well-renowned for the books he has authored and other writings, which have spearheaded some incredible modern-day entrepreneurship principles such as Unscaling, Responsible Innovation, Empathetic Entrepreneurs and many more. He has been with General Catalyst for over two decades now, contributing and shaping an enduring venture investing practice. General Catalyst is a global venture capital fund, investing in technology companies across the world. With a portfolio that includes Canva, Stripe, Deliveroo, GitLab, Airbnb - General Catalyst is definitely one of the most successful institutional investors. Through this conversation with Hemant of General Catalyst, we decode how one may build an enduring venture investing practice. We discuss the following through this conversation: (Coming Soon..) About our sponsor: Stride Ventures, which is one of India's leading Venture Debt Funds, becoming synonymous with innovative startup financing in India. Stride provides comprehensive solutions, going beyond venture debt, to cater to distinctive challenges faced by high-growth and inherently strong businesses, backed by leading institutions. The fund has a portfolio of over 60+ diversified companies, having deployed more than Rupees 1500 Crore to date. In just over two years, Stride Ventures has emerged as the preferred venture debt lender in the Indian Ecosystem. To know more about this phenomenal fund, visit - https://strideventures.in/ Hope you liked the 93rd Episode on the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast - Enduring Venture Investing! That was it from this Episode, thanks again for tuning in! :) If you liked the episode, do share with your friends or drop us a quick review! Also, do follow us on social media to stay updated with all new episodes: Twitter: https://twitter.com/isv_podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/indian-silicon-valley-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indiansiliconvalleypodcast/ Gallery of all Episodes: https://airtable.com/shrTOFf1z5UT0q9p8 You can also subscribe to the YouTube Channel of the Podcast : https://www.youtube.com/c/IndianSiliconValley/ "If you never try, you never know" Stay Tuned, Keep Building.

As the GOAT of pro football, Tom Brady retires, Brian Flores sues the NFL and the Bengals/Rams make the Super Bowl, Tom and Jay are back look at some of the week's top compliance and ethics stories this week in the Brady Retires edition.  Stories 1.     DOJ issues the first Opinion Release of 2022. DOJ website. Tom in FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. 2.     Do BODs have unrealistic expectations of compliance? Dick Cassin explores in the FCPA Blog. 3.     KPMG mislead FRC through forged docs. Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.  4.     LRN releases the 2022 Program Effectiveness Report. Download report here. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. 5.     A ‘how-to' on remediating. The HeadSpin enforcement action. Tom in FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week. (sub req'd) 6.     Learning to scale up ethically. Hemant Taneja in CCI.  7.     Why compliance should lead ESG. Carrie Penman in Ethics and Compliance Matters. 8.     The Boardroom agenda in 2022. Deloitte in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. 9.     Changes in antitrust enforcement and its impact on compliance. Mike Volkov, Matt Kelly and Tom in Compliance into the Weeds. Mike Volkov with a 3-part blog series in Corruption Crime and Compliance. 10. Unclear values can lead to unethical behavior. Brett Beasley in Center for Ethical Leadership.   Podcasts and More 11. In February on The Compliance Life, I visit Ellen Smith, a former Director of Trade Compliance who recently started her own consulting firm. In Part 1, she discussed her academic background and early professional career. 12. Aly McDevitt with a multipart series in Compliance Week on the end-to-end story of a ransomware attack. Here is more about the series on this month's edition of From the Editor's Desk, with Tom and Dave Lefort. A subscription is required but Compliance Week is running a membership special of $199 for the year. Use Promo Code RNSM199. For information and details click here. 13. CCI releases a new e-book from Tom “FCPA 2021 Year in Review”. Available free from CCI. 14. Trial of the Century-the Enron Trial. This week, Tom premiered a 5-part podcast series on the Enron Trial with Loren Steffy, who covered the trial for the Houston Chronicle. In Part 1, the run-up to the trial. In Part 2, the trial begins. In Part 3, the star witnesses and key testimony. In Part 4, the Verdict comes in. In Part 5, what did it all mean? It is available on the Compliance Podcast Network, Megaphone, iTunes, Spotify and all other top podcast platforms. 15. Looking for a quick daily bite of trade compliance? Check out the Compliance Kitchen with Silvia Surman, who gives a short 3-5 minute update on one trade compliance topic each day. On the Compliance Podcast Network.   Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Zieger is a co-founder and the executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs, a nonprofit working to create tools and standards to help innovative companies scale responsibly. He was previously the general counsel of Stripe, where he built and oversaw the company's legal, compliance, public policy, and corporate security functions and helped Stripe scale from a small startup to one of the largest fintech companies in the world. In this conversation with Stanford professor Riitta Katila, Zieger explains why Responsible Innovation Labs is developing frameworks for responsible technology innovation and explores what a principled 21st century technology ecosystem might look like.

Jon Zieger is a co-founder and the executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs, a nonprofit working to create tools and standards to help innovative companies scale responsibly. He was previously the general counsel of Stripe, where he built and oversaw the company's legal, compliance, public policy, and corporate security functions and helped Stripe scale from a small startup to one of the largest fintech companies in the world. In this conversation with Stanford professor Riitta Katila, Zieger explains why Responsible Innovation Labs is developing frameworks for responsible technology innovation and explores what a principled 21st century technology ecosystem might look like.

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Health Technology Podcast! Hemant Taneja is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst. Hemant is a visionary leader in the healthcare space. He is an investor, founder, and author of several books including Unscaled and his 2020 book UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance. We talk about what it means to truly deliver access to health rather than just access to care. Hemant advocates for Responsible Innovation, which means engineering for growth and good with greater intention.   Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.  

Venture capital funds provide the gasoline startups need to get from an initial sketch on a cocktail napkin to a global-scale giant like Uber, Amazon, or Airbnb. With so much change over the last year, we drove out to Los Altos Hills, California to sit down with Hemant Taneja, one of venture's power players to understand what's on his mind half way through this year. Marcus Daniels, Highline Beta's Founding Partner & CEO, also shares his insights.

March 29, 2021: Frank Nydam, the VP of Healthcare at VMware joins Bill for the news. The CHIME Spring Forum is coming up. Future Vision for Health & Care: What’s Coming Over the Horizon? Post-COVID Trends Shaping Healthcare. Putting Patient Experience at the Heart of Healthcare. What goes into the planning of virtual events like this? And what is the future of these kinds of conferences? What is all the hype around the concierge medicine startup Transcarent? How should health systems be preparing for the future of hospital at home? Have consumer habits changed enough that we're going to see a shift in how care is delivered post Covid? Microsoft did a study on people working remotely. Are they thriving or surviving? Big companies are wrestling with their hybrid work plans. Key Points:With Transcarent, Glen Tullman and General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja are applying the Livongo playbook to the employer-sponsored healthcare system [00:14:05] The big winner of really moving forward is behavioral health and mental health via telehealth [00:25:55]A Microsoft study finds 41% of workers may quit this year. The big complaint is being overworked. [00:28:55] A mix of office and remote work brings new hurdles [00:32:35]The hybrid work model opens you up to a new diverse set of talent [00:33:15]Transcarent VMware 

Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst, and has been an early investor in market-leading companies like Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, and Stripe. His 2018 book Unscaled articulates the need for accountability, transparency, and explainability in AI technologies, and his 2020 book UnHealthcare proposes a new model for impactful healthcare innovation. He is also the author of the influential Harvard Business Review article “The Era of ‘Move Fast and Break Things' is Over.” In this conversation with Stanford professor Tom Byers, Taneja discusses recent technological paradigm shifts, and urges founders and investors to build responsibly and drive positive social change by measuring and valuing impact as much as financial returns.

Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst, and has been an early investor in market-leading companies like Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, and Stripe. His 2018 book Unscaled articulates the need for accountability, transparency, and explainability in AI technologies, and his 2020 book UnHealthcare proposes a new model for impactful healthcare innovation. He is also the author of the influential Harvard Business Review article “The Era of ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ is Over.” In this conversation with Stanford professor Tom Byers, Taneja discusses recent technological paradigm shifts, and urges founders and investors to build responsibly and drive positive social change by measuring and valuing impact as much as financial returns.

Hemant Taneja, a managing director at General Catalyst and the founder of the firm’s Silicon Valley operations, joins Scott to discuss the venture capital space, why he’s bullish on the healthcare sector, and why responsible innovation is more important than ever. Hemant also shares his thoughts on the energy space and why Tesla is a key player. Follow Hemant on Twitter, @htaneja. (16:44) Scott opens with his thoughts on LVMH buying 50 percent of Jay-Z’s champagne brand as well as his thoughts on the luxury brand market.  This Week’s Office Hours: Australia vs. Facebook (49:18) and buying shares on the secondary market (56:40). Algebra of Happiness: Love & Empathy (60:51). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recently, TigerConnect held our annual user meeting, TigerSummit. The virtual summit provides current TigerConnect customers with our latest news and gives them a forum to share their own success and workflows. As part of this year's opening keynote, we invited Hemant Taneja, entrepreneur, investor, and co-author of UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance to speak on behalf of healthcare's future.In today's episode of The Connected Care Team, TigerConnect CEO, Brad Brooks, and Hemant discuss where healthcare is heading, the technology that will get us there, and the innovative ways to begin rethinking care delivery.Related:Connect with Hemant Taneja on LinkedInCheck out UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance on AmazonTo learn more about care team collaboration solutions, visit TigerConnect's website.Follow TigerConnect on LinkedIn for the latest episodes, news, and announcements.Subscribe to The Connected Care Team on your favorite platform to get notified of new episodes.

Hemant Taneja, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Author joins the show to discuss the importance of health assurance, shares why tech shouldn't disrupt health and reminisces over Bob Marley.

The THCB Book Club is a discussion with leading health care authors, which will be released every month. And this is the first one! We kicked off with a new book from Hemant Teneja (VC at General Catalyst who has been writing many big checks lately) and Stephen Klasko (CEO at Jefferson Health System and one of the most unusual hospital system bosses in America). Their book is called “UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance” which is a how-to for creating a platform for a revolutionary future for health care. “UnHealthcare” is about a new concept called Health Assurance-- which Tenaja says is "an emerging category of consumer-centric, data-driven healthcare services that are designed to bend the cost curve of care and help us stay well.” Sitting in on the interview because we can't get rid of him was Glen Tullman from Livongo. (Just kidding, Glen!) He weighed in on how this connects with his new idea of Consumer Directed Virtual Care and the Teladoc-Livongo merger. In September the THCB Book Club will feature Jane Metcalfe with her 2020 book NEO.LIFE The original video recording of this interview is up on The Health Care Blog's YouTube Channel.

The Episode in 60 Seconds Change. Nothing is so constant as change. Technology is often the force that brings about change. When technology changes the way we accomplish simple or complex tasks, there’s a gap in understanding. People have a hard time getting from/to—from where they are to the new reality. Marketing leaders create the translation layer for users by designing new categories. On this edition of Studio CMO, we dive into: What is category design? What Zoom did to be different Category design, at its core, is not marketing Would you like to be a Pepper? Inside a "lightning strike" Our Guests Kevin Maney is a bestselling author and award-winning columnist. He is co-author of the book Play Bigger, and has been an A-list writer and thinker about technology for 25 years at multiple outlets including being a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, and as a columnist, editor and reporter at USA Today. Kevin’s most recent book is UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, which proposes a new category of healthcare. It is co-authored with Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst and Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health. Kevin and Hemant also co-authored the 2018 book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future. He also writes music for and plays in a New York band, Total Blam Blam. (Stay around for the end of the episode for a track from the band.) Mike Damphousse brings a hard-nosed, pragmatic aspect to category design, baked in from two decades as a company founder, CEO, CMO and sales executive. He understands how companies work and how to take a category plan from concept to implementation. Mike was most recently founder and CEO/CMO of Green Leads, which introduced the pipeline generation category. He was previously CMO of Asteria, a data integration software company which went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Show Notes When technology comes into a world and it changes the way things are done, what happens is there's a gap that occurs and understanding, and that gap is really difficult for people to cross. That's where the world of category comes in. - John Farkas A great example of category creation occurred when Steve Jobs first introduced the iPad.    Category design is identifying a problem and delivering a solution that addresses the problem in a new way. Sometimes, category design occurs when a solution solves a problem users didn't even know they had. People think in terms of categories. That's the way we sort out a world full of lots of, lots of choices. - Kevin Maney Category design has a way of creating proprietary eponyms. Think Kleenex, Clorox, Phillips Head Screwdriver, Band Aid, and Jacuzzi... and now Zoom. Find out more about Eddie Yoon and Superconsumers. In a world of "Coke and Pepsi," be Dr. Pepper. Read the history of "Be a Pepper" on the official site of the Dr. Pepper Museum. 

Charlene Walters holds an MBA in Management and a PhD in Business Administration & Marketing. She is a Business, Branding, Entrepreneurship mentor, speaker, and blogger who developed a Digital Entrepreneurship MBA program and is a featured expert on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ask An Expert platform. In May of 2021, her book, Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success, will be published by McGraw Hill’s Professional Trade division. She is also the author of a memoir, Own Your Other, about overcoming tragedy and loss. Dr. Walters writes a blog called Entrepreneurship, Life Enthusiasm & Energizing Your Brand and has taught hundreds of business, marketing, and entrepreneurship courses and workshops for a number of businesses and universities. She also appears in/on many videos, podcasts, blogs, and media outlets.Books Mentioned: Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionalsby Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicUnscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future by Hemant Taneja with Kevin ManeyThe 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd by Allan DibTop 3 Takeaways: 1) Overcome tragedy, move forward, evaluate what is important, & pivot.2) Work hard, find balance, & find time for people and other important things in life. 3) Be resilient, reframe your thinking, and develop a backup plan.

When Facebook moved into a Menlo Park space that was across the street from one of the lowest income areas of California, Susan Gonzales saw a potential for outreach, so she launched the company's community engagement program. Her time at Facebook gave her some unique insights into the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. She now consults with startups on strategic communications, sharing her expertise on diversity-related issues. Show notes Susan Gonzales, Communications Coach (1:07) Susan's consulting services help her clients effectively communicate their messaging. Facebook's summer academy was designed to give low-income students professional learning opportunities. Black in AI, Queer in AI, Latinx in AI, and Women in Machine Learning are all groups Susan wants to help amplify.   The All Turtles origin story (18:00) Jon answers Susan's question about how All Turtles came to be by telling the story of how the idea for All Turtles first gained traction.   AI use case (21:14) Our first “Anti-AI use case”: the decision to not use AI in the new All Turtles product Sift, a news therapy app   Listener question (26:35) From May via email: “Are there guidelines for technology adoption speed/tipping point? Do you consider this at all when investing? In other words, what % of the population needs to LOVE the product/service so that the other next influenced segment (a bigger audience) will adopt it?” The Unscaled podcast series featured Hemant Taneja's philosophy that you don't need to scale in size first in order to have an impact.     We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Voicemail: +1 (310) 571-8448 Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

The story of Theranos, a company that falsely claimed it could perform a full range of medical tests using just a tiny blood sample drawn by pricking your finger. Manuela Saragosa speaks to John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter with the Wall Street Journal and author of a book on the case, Bad Blood. Plus Silicon Valley venture capitalist Hemant Taneja explains why investors need to be more cautious.(Photo: Blood samples, Credit: Getty Images)

Hemant Taneja — an investor in big names like Airbnb and Stripe — shares the basics of venture capital.

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Although Wikipedia is a contributor website like Twitter or Facebook, why doesn't it suffer from the same levels of misinformation and fake news? The Wikimedia Foundation's executive director Katherine Maher joins this episode to talk about the importance of transparency and sticking to your values at scale. She also shares how machine learning will be increasingly important in Wikipedia's operations, and what organizations using Wikipedia's datasets should know about the flaws in its information. Show notes Conversation with Katherine Maher (1:02) The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit that provides structure for free knowledge and hosts Wikipedia (1:13) Wikipedia is the world's fifth most popular website (1:25) What's important to the Wikimedia Foundation? (3:36) Wikipedia's asymptotic mission (4:27) The importance of transparency in Wikipedia edits (11:42) The Unscaled Series on the All Turtles Podcast is about how economies of scale have changed and how startups can adapt (12:40) Hemant Taneja's book, Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future (12:42) Wikipedia as a moderating force in partisan politics (13:20) The role of machine learning in Wikipedia's future operations (18:15) Articles about women are only 18% of the total biographical pages in Wikipedia (19:58)   AI use case (26:06) How do we make the internet more compatible with democracy? (27:16) Jon's experiences with his phone's call screening functions (30:00)   Listener question (34:05) This one comes in via email from Ari, and is another example of a user rising to the challenge of finding a useful application for blockchian. He sent us a link to an article about using blockchain to track food safety and origins. The article explains how blockchain can prevent fraud in the food industry so a consumer in China buying Australian beef can be sure that the package does, in fact, contain Australian beef. The writer of the article asserts that in food production, the manufacturers could record documentation proving that what they're packaging is what they say they are, and upload that documentation to blockchain-based databases. Food could be labeled with stickers readable by smartphones that connect to the proper documentation. So, is this actually a useful application of blockchain?   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Voicemail: +1 (310) 571-8448 Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

People with chronic conditions dedicate a great deal of cognitive overhead to monitoring their own health. Type 2 diabetes patients, for example, have to constantly think about when to eat, what type of exercise to do, and when to take medication. Livongo is a company that aims to change that. For patients with type 2 diabetes, Livongo takes their blood glucose levels and provides actionable recommendations based on that data. It's another example of how AI and tech are revolutionizing healthcare.   Show notes Conversation with Glen Tullman and Dr. Jennifer Schneider of Livongo (1:00) Glen Tullman, CEO of Livongo (0:30) Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Chief Medical Officer of Livongo (0:25) All Turtles Podcast Season 1 episode 22 mentions Livongo as an example of a company that does personalization well (1:04) Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy (1:16) Livongo's products (2:48) Livongo's website (18:48)   Advice to entrepreneurs: How to pitch investors (19:00) All Turtles' video Rule of Three: How to pitch investors (19:44) When pitching investors, be able to answer these questions: Why this, why you, and why now? (20:15) The difference between pitching VCs versus pitching All Turtles (24:01)   Listener question (24:56) From Jacob via the hello@all-turtles.com email: In the example of self-driving cars, how do we prevent the onboard sensors from being spoofed into thinking they're on a safe country road, when they're actually driving off a cliff into the ocean? Could blockchain help us keep these sensors and the software from being corrupted? If not, what makes it a bad fit? What are the emerging/existing technologies that would be a better fit? Leave us a voicemail with your question and we'll play it on a future episode: +1 (310) 571-8448 (29:48)   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Voicemail: +1 (310) 571-8448 Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

After a summer of bonus episodes and the release of our Unscaled series, we're back for season 2 with a slate of exciting upcoming guests and fresh discussion segments. In this season 2 preview, hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega announce some of the guests joining future recordings, from Max Levchin and Jason Calacanis to the cofounder of the Holberton School. They also answer a listener question that starts a discussion about how far extended metaphors should go.   Show notes What we did this summer (0:40) All eight episodes of the Unscaled Series are now available for streaming (0:48) Season 1 episode 22 of the All Turtles podcast that featured Hemant Taneja (1:01) Hemant's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future (1:14) Listener feedback (1:39)   Upcoming guests (2:50) Sylvain Kalache, cofounder of the Holberton School, a project-based software engineering school (3:01) 42 Silicon Valley, a software engineering school without teachers or courses (3:08) Season 1 episode 27 of the All Turtles Podcast featured the cofounder of 42 (3:11) Max Levchin, and his company HVF, starting companies to solve hard problems (3:25) Anita Sands, board member of Symantec (3:38) Dennis Mortensen, x.ai CEO and founder (3:43) Season 1 episode 32 of the All Turtles podcast features a discussion with Brittney Gallagher about science fiction and tech (4:18)   Our new voicemail for listeners to call in with questions is +1 (310) 571-8448. Leave us a message and we'll play it on a future episode, and answer your question (5:45)   Listener question (6:10) The Algorithmic Canaries episode of the Unscaled Series (6:14) The Do Not Pass Go episode of the Unscaled Series (8:50)   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Email: hello@all-turtles.com Voicemail: +1 (310) 571-8448 Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

Can it be that now is the best time in the history of the universe to build meaningful products? The final episode of the Unscaled series considers how access to APIs, broader sources of funding, and tools on the internet that weren't available ten years ago allow creators to build innovative new products faster, cheaper, and more easily than ever before. Yet, at the same time, creators now have the ability to cause widespread harm. With great power comes great responsibility.   Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity) Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law (1:48) The significance of 2007: when Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law came together (3:09 The golden age of venture capital (4:21) It's the best of times, it's the worst of times (6:25) It's easier to focus on what can go wrong; it takes imagination to envision what could go wrong (6:38) Think hard about first principles (7:47) Power to eliminate diseases and solve climate change (8:20) AI is the new electricity (9:51) Cultural shift: being an entrepreneur is conceivable (10:22) This acceleration of progress can go really well or really terribly—what will determine the direction of the future? (10:52) The evolution of the business, technology and policy framework (11:23) Are we living in a shared reality? (12:22) The attention economy and the commodity of anger (13:35) What is the true cost of tribal outrage? (15:04) Companies like Apple and Amazon do not fracture our reality through tribal outrage; Facebook and Twitter do (16:47) Instagram-enabled mental health epidemic (19:16)   To binge-listen to all eight episodes, please visit the Unscaled Series.   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

Hemant Taneja, the Managing Director of General Catalyst and author of Unscaled, joins us to chat about A.I. and the economy of the future. The great unscaling will touch everything.

Does the “company” still make sense as the default operational unit for doing business? Or is it an archaic method of organizing the development, manufacture, and sale of goods and services? For people who want to make innovative products, Silicon Valley demands they start an entirely new business as well. But not every new idea needs to become a company. It's time to rethink companies as the modus operandi for creating things of value. Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity)   Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst   Do companies still make sense? (1:08) Historically, companies were the only way to bring innovation to light (2:20) What is starting a company good for? (2:58) The idea for corporations started as a way to share risk (3:25) All Turtles video “Why form a company?” has more details on why companies were historically useful (4:14) The value of open-source stacks (6:30) How Amazon AWS has changed how early-stage startups can operate (7:50) The Netflix model: if you want to make a movie, you don't have to start a film company (9:51) The potential of tech product development in Mexico City (12:49) Why it's valuable for founders to work on local issues (14:55) Conventional VC wisdom is changing (16:31) What defines a good business today (18:20) Companies in the U.S. provide healthcare (19:09) The perks that companies offer employees other than salary (20:09) The concept of an employee is changing as well (e.g. Uber drivers) (21:13) TaskRabbit connects users to freelance workers (21:49) What is the future of capitalism? (22:50) Retirement has fallen on the individual as pensions have disappeared (23:28) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

The proliferation of AI is spurring calls for regulation. But what should these new rules look like? Who will enforce them? And does AI require a new definition of monopoly? Historically, monopolies were classified as companies with too much market share, and antitrust laws were designed to protect consumers from high prices and limited product choice. But with faster, cheaper options from the likes of Amazon, a new approach to consumer protection is needed. Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity) Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst   Antitrust regulation (1:45) What is a monopoly? (2:01) Is Facebook a monopoly? (3:25) Bill Gates quote: “A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it's a platform.” (4:35) Why monopolies were thought to be bad (5:20) Importance of innovation in the age of new monopolies (6:20) Flaws in applying the definition of monopolies in the physical world to ecommerce (7:55) Geographic constraints no longer apply (8:35) What should Facebook do to not be a monopoly? (9:35) What should Amazon to to not be a monopoly and create more value than they're constraining? (10:35) When Bill Gates told Phil that Evernote wasn't a platform (12:40) Privacy protection (14:33) The hindrances of GDPR on innovation (15:58) The U.S. government's lack of an AI department (17:45) Balancing the security of the population with the risk of constraining innovation (18:10) Role of regulation when job security is threatened (19:01) Skill gap between what students are taught and what skills are needed (19:40) AI is projected to create more jobs than it eliminates (20:35) How should we draw lines between what is a company and what is a government? (20:51) What's the full value of a job? (26:13)   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

Is personalization really the golden ticket that some product creators think it is? In the tech industry, it's a widely-held opinion that personalization is the answer to everything, and that successful products must be custom-tailored to meet the unique needs of each user. But it's difficult to think of really successful products that are hyper-personalized. The iPhone, for example, is more or less the same phone for every user. So is personalization actually important? And if so, to what degree?   Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity) Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst   Is personalization just a Silicon Valley fetish? (2:11) Livongo provides chronic care management solutions for type 2 diabetes patients (2:57) Concept of personalized medicine (4:20) How to create boundaries for personalized groups (5:21) Optimizing for a demand-oriented product (6:10) There aren't 7 billion types of diabetes (6:50) Comparison the music industry (8:30) “What is the right amount of personalization?” (9:35) Don't underestimate the power of delight (10:14) Flocking to certain groups of people at the expense of others (11:07) What do users actually want? (12:56) Shift from a supply-based economics mindset of products to a demand-based one (13:44) Products with the right amount of personalization (14:49) Strava, an app for runners and cyclists to track their progress (15:07) Sectors where unscaling has been happening for a while, e.g. online shopping and video (16:30) Digit, an app that helps users save money (16:47) Wealthfront, an app for financial planning and investing (16:48)   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Airbnb, Uber, and Facebook have had the public turn against them when their products caused damage. Even if the founders of these companies had good intentions, they could have made better use of data and AI to measure the impact of their products. It's time to update the MVP acronym from Minimum Viable Product to Minimum Virtuous Product. Companies should strive to build morally sound design principles from the start with accountability, explainability, and transparency.   Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity) Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst Companies must consider the long-term consequences of what they build (2:43) How does your mission fit into where innovation is going? (4:00) Accountability, explainability, and transparency (4:28) China's positioning post-GDPR (4:35) The importance of a diverse team (6:30) What does diversity mean? (7:18) Why regulation matters (8:19) No zero-sum (9:30) Credit Karma (10:39) Spot, an AI for workplace harassment and discrimination reporting (11:30) Amazon same-day delivery and unintended discrimination (13:58) How do you catch these kinds of things before they cause damage? (14:29) What can go wrong even if the algorithm does its job (15:04) When and how should consumers hold companies accountable? (16:13) The chain of accountability (18:40) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

How can you tell if the product that you're creating will cause harm? What signs should Facebook have noticed long before its product wreaked havoc on democracy? There are “algorithmic canaries” to watch out for—akin to the birds used in coal mines to help detect deadly gases—now for the digital age. AI is a tool that can be harnessed to efficiently measure a product's impact, whether good or bad.   Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (referral fees will be donated to charity) Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst How can product makers include algorithmic canaries? (1:30) Historical comparisons (like the internal combustion engine) (1:40) The benefit of AI (2:25) Why it took so long for people to discuss the harmful effects of Facebook (4:47) The role of the internet (5:15) In the internal combustion engine example, what should have been done? (5:40) Comparison to nuclear energy (6:50) What went wrong with Facebook? (8:49) The “move fast and break things” slogan (9:40) The purpose of regulation (11:48) The scooter wars (13:20) What should they have done? (14:16) Jump bikes (15:04) Products that try to advantage some people at the expense of other people (16:55) The importance of measuring impact (18:55) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

There's been a big change in the way businesses are built: they no longer need to have sky-high valuations and thousands of employees before they can make an impact. “Scale” as we know it has run its course, leaving a wide-open pasture where startups can focus on building products that matter instead of getting big fast. What lessons should entrepreneurs take from this shift? And how does it influence how success should be measured today? Join Phil Libin, Hemant Taneja, and Ronda Scott to find out. Show notes Hemant Taneja's book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Ronda Scott, marketing partner at General Catalyst Scale has run its course (1:06) Markers of scale breaking (1:50) The problems of getting big (3:00) Companies that made an impact before they got big (3:22) How to have a broader impact (5:15) The importance of renting (6:27) Proctor and Gamble's model (7:05) The differences between consumer-facing goods and innovations in healthcare (8:50) Where fintech fits in (9:55) Digital goods like movies on Netflix (12:10) How tailored products can be even when they come from small companies (12:58) Is it bad news for the economy that companies don't need to hire thousands of employees to make a big impact? (13:50) The All Turtles model and hyper-focused product teams (14:44) Employment during the restructuring of the economy (15:58) Why businesses don't have to build everything themselves (16:26) We've moved from vertical integration to API integration (17:25) Anyone can be an entrepreneur (18:10) How should success be measured? (18:48) Customer empathy (18:58) No longer needed to get big before making an impact (20:24) Feedback loop (20:30) The best way to get bigger in scale (21:00) Getting to truth first (22:30) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

Welcome to the Unscaled Series, eight new episodes from the All Turtles Podcast featuring Phil Libin in conversation with General Catalyst's Ronda Scott and Hemant Taneja. Hemant's book Unscaled provides a framework for the series' discussions on what it means for a company to scale today. Episode 1 examines the internet's role as an equalizer—both for businesses and for bad actors—and asks how entrepreneurs can address the most pressing problems online today. Show notes Hemant Taneja's book: Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future    Venture capital firm General Catalyst  Hemant Taneja bio    Ronda Scott bio What went wrong with the world wide web (2:01) The problems with moving fast and breaking things (2:21)The original goals for the Internet (3:08) Hemant's first internet job (4:05)Ronda's first internet job (4:45) The difference between being right and being statistically right (6:30) The biggest problems online today (7:55) Governance doesn't exist (8:13) Current environment won't support new businesses trying to do good (9:44) Ronda's truck -- picture coming ASAP! (10:55) Siloing has created deep divisions and polarization (11:30)Do San Francisco's problems reflect those of the tech industry? (12:20) Is education better or worse today? (13:45) Khan Academy (15:50) Three classes of problems online (17:15) Unintended consequences (17:25) Intended, legal consequences (17:31) Intended, illegal consequences (17:41) Scale makes consequences more damaging (19:25) Problems are the same as the 1990s, but the audience is orders of magnitude larger (20:41) It's time to rethink the concept of scale (22:03) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes. Season 2 is coming soon! Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askATFor more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our websit

Hemant Taneja '97, MNG '99, SM '99 discusses his new book, Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future, published in spring 2018. Episode transcript: http://bit.ly/2JHHN6d

Hemant Taneja is Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the world's leading venture firms of the last decade with Airbnb, Stripe, Snapchat, Hubspot and Gusto all in their portfolio. As for Hemant, he has led investments at GC in Stripe, SNAP, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Color Genomics, Class Dojo and more. He also directs the GC Stripe Platform Fund, a $10 million initiative to help start new ventures that are built on top of the Stripe Connect platform. On the educational front, Hemant holds 5 degrees from MIT and sits on the board of Khan Academy. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Hemant made his way from 5 degrees at MIT and wanting to be an academic to pursuing startups in the world of VC with General Catalyst? 2.) Question from Sam @ ClassDojo: What were the hardest elements of establishing GC on the West Coast? With hindsight today, what would Hemant do differently given the chance? How does Hemant think about the development and ability to accelerate the creation of local reputation? What is crucial and works most effectively? 3.) How does Hemant respond to Elad Gil's "everyone is looking for the next truly deep dein to explore"? Why is Hemant so bullish that we are in the "golden age of venture capital"? Why does Hemant believe that "scale" as a key measure has run it's course? What does Hemant's thesis of the future of "unscaling" really mean? 4.) How does Hemant analyse price sensitivity in todays forthy environment? How has his relationship to price changed over time? With regards to price, what have been some of his biggest regrets and learnings drawn from real-world examples? How does Hemant assess reserve allocation? Why does he think pro-rata is a lazy posture? 5.) Hemant has said on boards for over 1,800 hours, so what does Hemant belive makes the truly special board members? How does Hemant think about first building that rapport and "intimacy" with the founder? Secondly, how important does Hemant believe it is to build similar relations with other board members? Which founder exemplifies the best board management in Hemant's mind? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Hemant’s Fave Book: Home Deus Hemant’s Most Recent Investment: Spring Discovery As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Hemant on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Highfive makes meetings better for thousands of organizations with insanely simple video conferencing designed for meeting rooms. It’s the easiest-to-use solution, with all-in-one hardware and intuitive cloud software. Plus, it’s a high-quality experience with industry-leading audio powered by Dolby Voice. It’s so easy to use, that there’s no pin codes or app downloads. Just click a link in your browser, and you’re in the meeting. With customers in over 100 countries, Highfive is already trusted by the likes of Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com. Culture Amp is the platform that makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. From onboarding surveys to company-wide engagement, individual effectiveness and more, the platform manages multiple sources of feedback and connects the dots for you and that is why companies like Slack, Nike, Oracle and Lyft all trust Culture Amp. It enables leaders to make better decisions, demonstrate impact and turn your company culture into a competitive edge.  So put your people and culture first and find out more on cultureamp.com.

On this week's Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We'll hear from Dr. Thomas Olin, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.

On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We’ll hear from Dr. Thomas Olin, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.

On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We’ll hear from Dr. Thomas Olin, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.

Masters in Business Host Barry Ritholtz joins Carol and they speak to Rick Clough, Bloomberg News Industrials Reporter, and Karen Ubelhart, Bloomberg Intelligence Industrials Analyst, on GE earnings and turnaround outlook. Peter Waldman, Bloomberg News Projects & Investigations Reporter, discusses his Bloomberg Businessweek story about data-mining company Palantir tracking U.S. citizens. Sun Jen Yung, Partner at Nfluence Partners, explains how she put Spotify together with music tracker Loudr. Hemant Taneja, Managing Director at General Catalyst, talks about his book "Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Startups are Creating the Economy of the Future." And we Drive to the Close with Masakazu Takeda, Portfolio Manager at Hennessy Funds. 

Masters in Business Host Barry Ritholtz joins Carol and they speak to Rick Clough, Bloomberg News Industrials Reporter, and Karen Ubelhart, Bloomberg Intelligence Industrials Analyst, on GE earnings and turnaround outlook. Peter Waldman, Bloomberg News Projects & Investigations Reporter, discusses his Bloomberg Businessweek story about data-mining company Palantir tracking U.S. citizens. Sun Jen Yung, Partner at Nfluence Partners, explains how she put Spotify together with music tracker Loudr. Hemant Taneja, Managing Director at General Catalyst, talks about his book "Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Startups are Creating the Economy of the Future." And we Drive to the Close with Masakazu Takeda, Portfolio Manager at Hennessy Funds.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Artificial intelligence can render the concept of scale meaningless and enable startups to compete with global giants. Investor Hemant Taneja explains how size becomes a liability in his new book, Unscaled. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega also share everyday encounters with AI including autocomplete successes and disasters. Along the way, they respond to a listener question about regulating Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Show notes Everyday encounters with artificial intelligence Google sheet autocomplete on iOS (2:21) Email autocomplete fail (4:24) The Amy meeting scheduler bot fail (6:36) Conversation with General Catalyst managing director Hemant Taneja, author of Unscaled (10:19) General Catalyst  A venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. Unscaled: How A.I. and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future, by Hemant Taneja  (10:36) AngelList (16:35) Livongo  A service for people with chronic illnesses to monitor their health. (18:32) Ep. 5: Raging Bull  Maybe it's kind of B.S.: Personalization (skip to 15:35) (21:51) Hemant's three bits of advice for entrepreneurs (30:10) Listener Questions Facebook was already operating under a 2011 consent decree with the FTC about sharing people's data without their permission. Given the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the fact that this week Zuckerberg stated that he was open to being regulated, should Facebook's use of AI be regulated? What might that look like? (32:39) Zuckerberg open to being regulated (New York) Finally! For a while, I thought the All Turtles Subreddit was in the same category as flying unicorns and Daft Punk playing at the trash fence... but I finally found it! Seriously though... this is super hard to find, and you don't link to it from anywhere else. (39:10) The All Turtles Subreddit We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Hemant Taneja, Managing Director at General Catalyst, discusses the changing nature of startups, how they are being built, and how it applies to the healthcare sector.  

Hemant is the Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners. We interviewed him at the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit, held in October, 2015.

Hemant and Jisung talk about what it means to be in the Clean-Tech Venture Capital business and how the sector is evolving in response to legislative uncertainty, as well as the recent financial crisis.