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In this Special Extended Edition of The Reboot Chronicles Ted Leonsis joins us with untold stories you will only hear here.Ted is founder, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies that has the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. The billion-dollar group includes eight teams, like the NHL's Capitals, the NBA's Wizards, and the WNBA's Mystics; five venues including the Capital One Arena in Washington DC; and massive media, esports, and betting platforms—and other ventures changing the industry.An early Internet pioneer, Ted was Vice Chairman and President of AOL, and cofounded Revolution Growth with Steve Case. A board member at Groupon and American Express, he also serves on the board of governors for the NBA, NHL, and WNBA—helping them reboot the next generation of sports, media, entertainment, and technology.Watch or listen as we unpack impactful and entertaining lessons you can use to reboot your business, why he bucked the trend and sold his AOL holdings, how he is upgrading Washington DC—and where he almost dropped the Stanley Cup.#growth #innovation #therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #Sports #SportsBetting #DraftKings #e-sports #TeamLiquid #aXiomaticGaming #TedLeonsis #WashingtonDC #LeagueOfLegends #Dota2 #NBA2K #VideoGames #NBA #WNBA #NHL #Wizards #Mystics #Capitals #DigitalMediaPlatform #SportsBusiness #SportsIndustry #SportsMarketing #Streaming #GamingIndustry #SportsBetting #DigitalSports #meta #facebook #CapitalOne
Ted Leonsis, Revolution Growth partner, Zephyr AI investor, and Monumental Sports owner, and Grant Verstandig, co-founder and executive chairman of Zephyr AI and Red Cell Partners, join host Tammy Haddad to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming the patient-doctor relationship by leveraging AI to analyze data, identify patterns, improve decision-making, and enhance patient outcomes. Leonsis and Verstandig also highlight the importance of maintaining America's global competitiveness by mitigating the China threat and addressing AI's energy needs with nuclear power.
Episode #102 Fireside with a VC speaking with Tige Savage who cofounded Revolution with Steve Case, founder of AOL – America Online, one of the biggest internet companies in history reaching a peak market cap of $200bn dominating email, internet connectivity, online news, and chat. Tige discusses all things venture capital with a wealth of multi-decade experience covering a wide area of topics on how to run a high-performing VC fund year over year and best practices on investing, governance, legals, portfolio construction, sectors, overall strategy, and today's exit market. Discussing the organization of Revolution with 1) Revolution Rise of the Rest – their $150m pre-seed fund, 2) Revolution Ventures – the $150m VC fund Tige manages with a concentrated 15 portfolio companies per fund, and 3) Revolution Growth which continues to invest in Series B and beyond. Discussed the pioneering thesis of investing across the US rather than being concentrated in the Silicon Valley, New York, Boston or other highly evolved tech corridors and why Washington DC matters. Find the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FzartNaPUoY. Find this and all full episodes for Fireside with a VC on your favorite podcast platform here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/FiresideVC https://revolution.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tigesavage/ https://www.7bc.vc/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/ Join our Newsletter - Fireside with a VC: https://subscribe.7bc.vc. Join the conversation, leave comments, and tell us what you think about these topics and this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/firesidevc/message
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today's episode with an internet legend provides an illuminating window into how the past can help inform us about the future.Steve Case is a pioneer and a visionary. He built one of the foundational companies of the internet, AOL, that brought America and the world online. As one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, Steve has spent the past 39 years building, investing in, and shaping business policy for many industry-defining companies.His entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online. Under Steve's leadership, AOL became the world's largest and most valuable internet company. AOL was the first internet company to go public, and one of the best performing stocks of 1990s, delivering 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of internet users in the U.S. used AOL.Steve has since built another successful company, Revolution, a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm that backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development. Revolution Growth has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies including Sweetgreen, Tempus, Tala, DraftKings, and CLEAR. Revolution Ventures has invested in almost 30 companies, including Framebridge and SRS Acquiom. Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in over 200 startups in 100 US cities, building critical ecosystem development for entrepreneurship across the country.Steve's passion for helping entrepreneurs has extended to the policy world. He was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership, an effort launched at the White House in 2011 to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship around the country. He was also the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. He was also instrumental in passing the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act and the Investing in Opportunities Act. He's also the Chairman of the Case Foundation, which he established with his wife, Jean, in 1997 and together in 2010 they joined The Giving Pledge.Steve is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future and The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the American Dream,” which has ended up serving as a fantastic blueprint for the next wave of the internet.Steve and I had a fascinating and illuminating conversation, full of lessons learned from building the first wave of the internet that can be applied to building and investing in companies today.We discussed:How Steve and his team built AOL into the world's largest and most valuable internet company at a time when 3% of people were using the internet for 1 hour a day.How revolutions happen in evolutionary ways.The three waves of the internet and why Steve believes that the third wave is much more complex and will require the ability to navigate policy and partnerships.Lessons he learned as a founder to build a successful and diversified investment firm in Revolution.How emerging technology ecosystems can build thriving startup communities, starting with “tentpole companies.”How the things that happen to you shape how you live your life and on “living a life that's full with passion and urgency.”Thanks Steve for coming on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to share your wisdom, lessons learned, and visionary views of the future. It was an honor and a pleasure to have you on the show.
We see people succeed and wonder how they got there. But it's just as important to look at what they didn't do, as it is to look at what they did.On this episode of Deal Us In, host Xaviera Webb, an associate at McGuireWoods, is joined by guest Kristin Gunther, partner at Revolution Growth, a venture firm based in Washington, D.C. With over 15 years of experience in private equity, finance, and operations, Kristin shares her journey, her struggles, and her advice for women seeking to achieve success in the finance industry. Tune in to hear Xaviera and Kristin discuss juggling work and family commitments, the trade-offs of being a working mom, and ‘mom guilt'. They also talk about the character traits that have enabled Kristin to succeed in the high-intensity worlds of both private equity and venture capital, the strategies Kristin finds most effective in managing competing priorities, and the specific challenges unique to women in a competitive workplace. Connect and Learn More☑️ Kristin Gunther | LinkedIn☑️ Revolution Growth | Twitter/X | Instagram | LinkedIn☑️ Xaviera Webb | LinkedIn☑️ McGuireWoods | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter/X☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThis podcast was recorded and is being made available by McGuireWoods for informational purposes only. By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that McGuireWoods makes no warranty, guarantee or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in the podcast. The views, information or opinions expressed during this podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect those of McGuireWoods. This podcast should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state and should not be construed as an offer to make or consider any investment or course of action.
Todd Klein of Revolution Growth joins Nate to discuss The Most Interesting Diligence Process You've Ever Heard, Why Founders Aren't Risk Takers, and Reasoning Behind The Government Blocking More M&A Than Ever Before. In this episode we cover: Revolution Growth's Investment Philosophy and Areas of Focus The Current Regulatory Environment for Exits and M&A Comparison of the Internet Paradigm Shift to AI and Identifying Sustainable Trends Evaluating Founders and Distinguishing Those Who Want to Build Big Versus Control Process for Identifying Trends and Immersing in Portfolio Companies Guest Links: LinkedIn Twitter Revolution The hosts of The Full Ratchet are Nick Moran and Nate Pierotti of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. You can learn more about New Stack Ventures by visiting our LinkedIn and Twitter. Are you a founder looking for your next investor? Visit our free tool VC-Rank and we'll send a list of potential investors right to your inbox!
Kristin Gunther is a Partner at Revolution Growth. Kristin brings over 15 years of experience in private equity, finance, and operations to Revolution Growth. Prior to joining Revolution, she spent five years at Perseus LLC, most recently as Vice President, where she worked with portfolio companies and management teams on growth strategies, operating and finance matters, and exit planning. She began her career as an investment banking analyst at Rothschild Inc. in New York, NY and as a research associate at CRT Capital Group in Stamford, CT. She is on the board of Scopely, serves as a board observer for Carbon Robotics, and worked on the exits of FedBid, Handy, and Lolly Wolly Doodle. Kristin received a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and earned her M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Kristin is originally from Massachusetts.
Kristin Gunther is a Partner at Revolution Growth. Kristin brings over 15 years of experience in private equity, finance, and operations to Revolution Growth. Prior to joining Revolution, she spent five years at Perseus LLC, most recently as Vice President, where she worked with portfolio companies and management teams on growth strategies, operating and finance matters, and exit planning. She began her career as an investment banking analyst at Rothschild Inc. in New York, NY and as a research associate at CRT Capital Group in Stamford, CT. She is on the board of Scopely, serves as a board observer for Carbon Robotics, and worked on the exits of FedBid, Handy, and Lolly Wolly Doodle. Kristin received a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and earned her M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Kristin is originally from Massachusetts.
Jonathan Neman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand that serves healthy food at scale. Jonathan and his co-founders and fellow Georgetown classmates Nathaniel Ru and Nicolas Jammet started Sweetgreen in 2007, opening their first location in Georgetown, DC, just three months out of college. The trio were disappointed with campus food options. Their vision is to be as ubiquitous as traditional fast food, but far more transparent and honest.Sweetgreen raised its initial $375,000 of startup funding from investors including the three founders' parents, Joe Bastianich, Seth Goldman, and Washington's Latino Economic Development Center. In 2013, it accepted a $22 million investment from Revolution Growth, a venture capital fund founded by Steve Case.Sweetgreen's corporate headquarters moved to the Los Angeles area from Washington, D.C. in 2016. As of September 2023, it had 221 stores in operation in 18 states and the District of Columbia.Tune in to the episode to learn about Jonathan Neman's story and how it led to Sweetgreen.*CHA-CHING! Customers are rushing to your store. Do you have a point-of-sale system you can trust or is it (ahem) a real P.O.S.? You need Shopify for retail.Shopify POS is your command center for your retail store. From accepting payments to managing inventory, Shopify has EVERYTHING you need to sell in person. Get hardware that fits your business. Take payments by smartphone, transform your tablet into a point-of-sale system, or use Shopify's POS Go mobile device for a battle-tested solution.Plus, Shopify's award-winning help is there to support your success every step of the way.Do retail right with Shopify. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at www.shopify.com/founderhour. Once again, go to www.shopify.com/founderhour to take your retail business to the next level today.*The Founder Hour is brought to you by Outer. Outer makes the world's most beautiful, comfortable, innovative, and high-quality outdoor furniture - ALL from sustainable materials - and is the ONLY outdoor furniture with a patented built-in cover to make protecting it effortless. From teak chairs to fire pit tables, everything Outer makes has the look and feel of what you'd expect at a 5-star resort, for less than you'd pay at a big box store for something that won't last.For a limited time, get 10% off and FREE shipping at www.liveouter.com/thefounderhour. Terms and conditions apply.
Ted Leonsis is the founder and CEO of Monumental Sports, which owns and operates five professional sports teams, including the Washington Wizards, Capitals, and Mystics. Previously a senior executive at AOL, Ted is also the co-founder of the venture capital firm Revolution Growth. Ted joins Adam to share his journey and his best lessons and advice. Ted and Adam discuss entrepreneurship, leadership, mentorship, personal and professional development, the human and business sides of sports, and much more.
Dive into the dynamic intersection of investment, sustainability, and policy with Revolution Growth's (https://revolution.com/entity/growth/) Todd Klein and Fazeela Rashid! This engaging podcast episode explores their ventures in food, health, and technology, tackling the challenges of policy landscapes, growth-stage investments, and eco-conscious practices. Uncover their unique investment strategy with a sector spotlight on healthcare, financial services, and beyond traditional VC hubs, showcasing their growth-stage expertise in nurturing promising companies for maximum impact. Sustainability takes center stage as they reveal how green practices are embedded into their ventures. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or simply passionate about a better future, this episode offers valuable insights into shaping industries for a sustainable tomorrow, navigating the complex world of policy and investment, and identifying promising growth-stage companies.
Futurist Steve Case is a disruptive, visionary leader. Read his new book- Rise of the Rest. Steve is one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life.For the past 15 years, Steve's focus has been on starting and scaling Revolution, the Washington D.C.-based investment firm that now backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development.Revolution Growth has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies including Sweetgreen, Tempus, Tala, DraftKings, and CLEAR. Revolution Ventures has backed more than two dozen venture-stage companies, including Framebridge, Policygenius, and Bloomscape. The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in more than 200 startups in over 100 U.S. cities, in partnership with many of America's most successful entrepreneurs and investors.Steve's entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steve's leadership, AOL became the world's largest and most valuable Internet company, helping to drive the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. AOL was the first Internet company to go public, and one of the best performing stocks of the 1990s, delivering a 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of Internet users in the United States used AOL. In 2000, Steve negotiated the largest merger in business history, bringing together AOL and Time Warner in a transaction that gave AOL shareholders a majority stake in the combined company.To facilitate the merger, Steve agreed to step down as CEO when the merger closed.Steve's passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. He was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership—an effort launched at the White House in 2011 to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation.Steve was also the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship.Steve has been a leading voice in shaping government policy on issues related to entrepreneurship, working across the aisle to advance public policies that expand access to capital and talent. He was instrumental in passing the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act and the Investing in Opportunities Act, and is active in advocating on behalf of immigration reform and legislation that supports and accelerates the emergence of startup ecosystems in rising cities.Steve served as the Chair of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex. In his role, Steve led the Board of Regents' efforts to increase the Institution's reach, impact and relevance.
S03:E02 - Kristin Gunther, Partner, Revolution GrowthMoments that Made Her is a podcast where the rare and unique women that hold senior private equity roles share their stories, including the key personal and professional moments that defined their journeys and lessons they learned along the way.Moments that Made Her is a production of the Private Equity Women Investor Network, also known as PEWIN, which is the preeminent organization for senior-level women investment professionals in private equity.PEWIN provides its members with opportunities to network, share ideas, make deep connections with peers, and empower each other to succeed. Our mission is to increase the profile of women in private equity, and members represent institutions with over $3 trillion in assets under management.Moments that Made Her is hosted by Kelly Williams, PEWIN's Founding Chair, and is produced in collaboration with Purple Photo Group.To learn more please visit pewin.org.
In this episode of the Dealmakers' Podcast, we dive into the inspiring journey of a true visionary, Dan Shapiro. Raised by parents deeply rooted in academia, Dan's upbringing was steeped in the worlds of communications and computer science. His venture, Glowforge, has attracted funding top-tier investors like DFJ Growth, Foundry Group, Revolution Growth, and True Ventures.
In this episode, we speak with Kristin Gunther, a Partner at Revolution Growth which has more than $1 billion in assets under management and backs category-defining companies. Revolution is a D.C.-based investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case in 2005. Through its family of funds – The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution Growth – Revolution partners with founders at every stage of the startup lifecycle. Kristin brings over 15 years of experience in private equity, finance, and operations. Prior to joining Revolution, she spent five years at Perseus where she worked with portfolio companies and management teams on growth strategies, operating and finance matters, and exit planning. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to subscribe.
It has been said on this podcast that we are in an unprecedented time of investment in the food tech space. Companies that get funding today make the products you will see in stores tomorrow. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talk with Fazeela Abdul Rashid of Revolution Growth about how she evaluates companies for investments. Revolution Growth, a venture capital fund investing in growth-stage companies around the country that are leading disruption within their industry including Meati, the Boulder-based alternative whole-food proteins company, and Curbio, a proptech platform for pre-sale home renovation. Fazeela sits on the board for each company.Photo Courtesy of Revolution.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Tech Bites by becoming a member!Tech Bites is Powered by Simplecast.
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Produced by Foundersuite (www.foundersuite.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital. This episode is with Dan Shapiro of Glowforge (www.glowforge.com), makers of a desktop 3-D laser printer. In this episode, we discuss his experience as a multi-startup founder, why it's a mistake to ask for intros, when to play the "CEO card" with your employees, tips for building investor relationships at events, and much more. Glowforge has raised a total of $70 million since its 2015 founding, including the most recent round, a $43 million Series E led by DFJ Growth. Co- and previous investors include Foundry Group, Revolution Growth, True Ventures, and others. The Company also raised a crowdfunding round of over $29 million. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $9.7 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com.
Steve and Brandon talk about the early days at AOL, entrepreneurship in America and the exciting entrepreneurs he met in his Rise of the Rest tour across the United States.About Steve CaseSteve Case is one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. Case co-founded AOL in 1985 and under his leadership and vision, AOL became the largest and most valuable Internet company, driving the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.- based investment firm that backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development. Revolution Growth has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies including Sweetgreen, Tempus, DraftKings, and Clear. Revolution Ventures has backed more than two dozen venture-stage companies, including Framebridge and PolicyGenius. The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in more than 200 startups in over 100 U.S. cities, in partnership with many of America's most successful entrepreneurs and investors. Steve's passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. Recently named co-chair of the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Council will advise on the development of a National Entrepreneurship Strategy and continue to support policies that will ensure America's competitiveness globally. In 2011, he was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership—an effort launched at the White House to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation—and member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. He is also the author of the forthcoming book Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream, and the New York Times bestselling book The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future.EPISODE LINKSRise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American DreamBest price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WVUTlyThe Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the FutureBest price on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QeDan4CONNECT WITH USClaim Your Spot to Receive the EDGE's Weekly Email Newsletter. It's FREE! Weekly insights and updates giving you an edge to get the most out of your time, talent and ideas. Over 17,200 listeners and counting!--> https://edge.ck.page/bea5b3fda6A top podc Other Great Podcasts From the Best Podcasts NetworkOn Business Podcast On Business Podcast is an unscripted, brutally honest, candid, sometimes ugly, conversation about running businesses & successful companies, for aspiring entrepreneurs, current startups, or experienced business owners looking to elevate their business. https://OnBusinessPodcast.comMARKETING PodcastThe MARKETING podcast brings you marketing science, case studies that reveal successful marketing techniques and teach strategic marketing analysis where we model the data and turn it into financial forecasts so you have predictable revenue.Brandon can't promise you instant marketing success after each episode. But...he guarantees that you will find each MARKETING episode always reliable, always actionable, and always useful for your marketing efforts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing/id1653276478
Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur and investor Steve Case, who came to prominence as a co-founder of America Online and has spent the last 15 years with Washington-based investment firm Revolution. In addition to serving as chairman and chief executive officer at Revolution, Case is a partner at Revolution Growth, which has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future” and the upcoming “The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve Murray discusses early investment like the one he was part of in Draft Kings and where the new money is going in modern sports tech investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Steve Murray is Managing Partner at Revolution Growth, the Washington DC-based investment firm that has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies. In 2016, Revolution Growth invested in DraftKings and Steve joined the board. In April 2020, despite a temporary shutdown among major sports leagues, DraftKings debuted on the public market through a three-way SPAC merger with Steve working closely on the deal. Other notable investments from Revolution Growth include Sportradar, the world's leading supplier of sports and betting-related data and CLEAR, the biometric identity company that has made entry into airports and sports stadiums around the country faster, safer, and more convenient. Steve is currently on the boards of Revolution Growth companies BigCommerce, Convene, Glowforge, Interactions, Tala and of course DraftKings. He is also a board observer at Tempus and Uptake. Steve joined Revolution from Softbank where he worked for nearly 20 years with some of the most important technology companies of our generation including Yahoo, Etrade, GeoCities, GSI Commerce, Alibaba, Fitbit, Kabbage and many others. https://sportstechworldseries.com/podcast
Klein, a partner Revolution Growth, ponders the future of media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week we had on Osman Nur (@oz_notes) with Revolution Growth. Revolution is a multi-strategy fund based in Washington, D.C. that invests in underrepresented geographies across the US. Within his role, Oz helps source and evaluate high-growth companies that align with the mission of the fund. In this talk, we discuss: investing outside of the traditional innovation hubs the expansion of firms offering full-stack investment strategies growth stage enterprise themes the short and long-term outlook for SPACs
Startup Challenges and the Future of Work Steve Case is one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. In 1985 he co-founded America Online (AOL), which became the world's largest and most valuable Internet company, helping to drive the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. For the past 15 years, Steve's focus has been on starting and scaling https://www.revolution.com/ (Revolution), the Washington DC-based investment firm that backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development through Revolution Growth, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, which has invested in more than 140 startups in over 70 U.S. cities. During this #DreamitLive interview, we discuss advice Steve gives startups, where startups should be focusing their time, and what distractions founders should be tuning out. With the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, we talk with Steve about his thoughts on how this changes startups' top priorities, creates new opportunities, and which business models might be at risk. We also take a deep look at a favorite topic of Steve's: the growth of innovation ecosystems outside of the major tech hubs, what he calls “the Rise of the Rest.” For decades, most high tech investors have focused on three prominent geographies - the Bay Area, Boston, and New York City. How will COVID-19 accelerate or decelerate the growth of startup communities in these rising cities across the U.S.? In this interview with Steve Case: New opportunities emerging in a post-COVID business environment and what businesses are most at risk How the current business environment might affect trends outlined in Steve's book http://www.thirdwavebook.com/ (The Third Wave) How COVID-19 might affect the future of work and the locations where founders choose to launch and operate businesses The potential long-term impacts and second-order effects of shorter commutes, lower costs of living, and higher quality of life that some workers are experiencing during this pandemic and how large tech companies may adjust policies as a result New entrepreneurial ecosystems that may blossom and how venture capital paradigms might shift as a result How startups can capitalize and thrive on trends like distributed work and adjust to business development activities moving online
He negotiated a contract with Sammy Sosa and helped grow AOL into a juggernaut. Now Donn Davis -- a co-founder of private equity firm Revolution Growth with his old boss Steve Case -- is the chairman of the Professional Fighters League, as well as a backer of an e-sports team and a media investor. He tells Jason Kelly, Michael Barr and Mike Lynch how the PFL is working through its hiatus and its plans for returning in 2021 (hint: it involves cameras on the cage on the ref's hat). Plus, our panel discusses the latest XLF legal Smackdown between CEO Oliver Luck and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, Florida opening itself to sports and ESPN’s upcoming Tiger Woods documentary. Hosts: Jason Kelly, Michael Barr and Mike Lynch
In this episode, we chat with Steve Murray, a Managing Partner at Revolution Growth, which is a late stage growth fund that invests in private companies around the country. The fund has nearly $1 billion in assets under management and is an integral part to the Revolution platform founded by Steve Case and Ted Leonsis. Steve joined the Revolution Growth team as a partner in 2016 bringing over 25 years of experience with high growth technology businesses. He joined Revolution from Softbank where he worked for nearly 20 years with some of the most important technology companies of our generation including Yahoo, Etrade, GeoCities, Ziff Davis, GSI Commerce, Buzzfeed, Fitbit, xAd, Kabbage and many others. In our conversation you’ll hear about how the tech landscape has changed over the years, what Steve looks for in a good investment opportunity and how the Revolution platform and its Rise of The Rest initiative is having an impact across the country. We hope you enjoy the show.
The conversation with Donn Davis gave great insight into how he thinks. He is a Founding Partner of Revolution Growth as well as Co-Founder and Chairman of the Professional Fighters League. The commonality of those two businesses: disruption. And that is what we focus much of the conversation on. We also dig into the differences in being an attacker v. defender and a builder v. manager. His perspective and tips for college students and those in their 20’s is worth paying attention to. He is also the first person on the pod to create an actual business class at Miami, called Real Business after 20-years in the business world. I hope you enjoy the conversation. I did.
Dislocation is a podcast dedicated to innovation in real estate — exploring technology's impact on the way in which assets are planned, designed, financed, built, marketed, and operated. This week, Dror and David discuss how demographic changes impact demand for real estate; how cyclical demand impacts innovation in housing construction; and recent developments in the Space-as-a-Service market. Key points from this podcast: - There will be 21 million people aged 100 or older by the year 2100, compared to onyl 150,000 in 2000. - 50% of households in large US cities are single-person. These households used to consist mostly men, but are now majority female. - Rezi is planning to spend $10 million on buying up residential leases and using them as inventory to streamline the multifamily rental process. - Autodesk CEO says that “by 2050 there will be two billion more people on the planet – we have to build 1,000 more buildings a day for the next 32 years to house them." — is that a lot or a little, and how will construction catch up? - Is it possible to integrate and innovate in the construction industry in the face of extremely cyclical demand? How will AI and automation impact how the industry respond to such cycles? How does Katerra approach these challenges? - Convene raises $152m from ArrowMarks Partners, Revolution Growth, RXR, Brookfield - Breather launches new "Month Plus" offering, to provide longer-term furnished private offices to its clients - Senior WeWork executive tells media "We are a real estate company in the same way that Uber is a taxi company. We have no real estate and they don't have any taxis" — is that true? And if not, why do they keep repeating it? ____ David Friedlander is the founder of Hothouse.co, a marketing communications, public relations, and trend consultancy with a narrow focus on the future of real estate. Hothouse work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, Dwell, CNN, and many other outlets. Read more here: hothouse.co/about/ Dror Poleg is the founder of NYC's Rethinking.RE, where he advises institutional real estate investors on innovation and investment in emerging technologies. His insights have been featured in reports and events by KPMG, Urban Land Institute, JLL, PERE, NYU, Savills, Estates Gazette, and EPRA. Read more here: www.rethinking.re/dror-poleg/
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steve Murray, a managing partner at Revolution Growth who boasts more than 25 years of experience with technology businesses. He joined Revolution from SoftBank, where he worked with companies including Fitbit, BuzzFeed, E-Trade, Ziff Davis and Kabbage.
Revolution Growth founder and partner Ted Leonsis talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being a longtime executive at AOL and how the company changed dramatically when it merged with Time Warner in 2000. Leonsis says AOL correctly anticipated the social nature of the internet, but left several windows open for Google to beat it at its own game. After the merger, it had to turn its energies toward defending Time Warner's legacy businesses and missed still more opportunities. He also discusses his majority ownership of several sports teams, including the NBA's Washington Wizards and the NHL's Washington Capitals, and why he thinks Vice's cable channel Viceland is "the biggest con ever." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices