E17: Bharat Vasan on Lessons from Raising $1B, Multiple Startup Exits and Hero's Journey for Founders

Bharat Vasan is the Cofounder of Intangible AI (a16z backed startup), fmr. COO & Partner at The Production Board with David Friedberg and fmr. COO of EA…

Feb 20 • Suffiyan Malik

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E16: Mike Solana, architect of new media on building Pirate Wires

Mike Solana is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pirate Wires and CMO of Founders Fund

Feb 15 • Suffiyan Malik

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E15: Mike Maples of Floodgate on Pattern Breaking Founders, Investing and Seeding Twitter, Lyft & Digg

Mike Maples Jr. is one of the OG seed investors in Silicon Valley and has been featured on the Forbes Midas list eight times. He is also the author of…

Feb 11 • Suffiyan Malik

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January 2026

E14: Packy McCormick on Writing, Investing, Media and Creative Process

Packy McCormick cofounded Not Boring, the famous tech and business newsletter with over 250,000 subscribers and Not Boring capital which is a $50M AUM…

Jan 23 • Suffiyan Malik

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E12: Dropping out of MIT to Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund and Space Factories w/ Delian Asparahouv

Delian is a Partner at Founders Fund and he is also cofounder and President of Varda Space Industries

Jan 1 • Suffiyan Malik and Delian Asparouhov

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December 2025

E 11: Glenn Fogel, CEO Booking Holdings, the world's largest travel company

Glenn has spent 25 years at Booking and has seen it's rise to the world's largest travel company

Dec 4, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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November 2025

E10: Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on Building Chapter with Vivek Ramaswamy, a $1.5B company redefining retirement

Chapter is redefining what retirement means starting with Medicare

Nov 13, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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October 2025

E9: Working w/ VP JD Vance, Peter Thiel & Thesis Driven Investing w/ Colin Greenspon

Colin Greenspon, Cofounder of Narya Capital shares the thesis behind the fund and a concentrated strategy

Oct 10, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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September 2025

E8: Auren Hoffman: Founder of LiveRamp ($RAMP, $1.85B), SafeGraph and Flex Capital and NQB8

On investing, building companies, community, talent and more

Sep 25, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik and Auren Hoffman

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E7: Building a Mach 5 Jet backed by Sam Altman, Founders Fund & Khosla Ventures

AJ Piplica is the founder & CEO of Hermeus, we are reporting directly from their HQ in Atlanta

Sep 13, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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E6: Vivas Kumar: Building Mitra Chem & Securing America's Energy Supply Chain

Vivas Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Mitra Chem, valued at $250M

Sep 2, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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August 2025

E5: Karan Talati: SpaceX engineer to raising $30 million for First Resonance

Karan is the Co-founder and CEO of First Resonance, (building the next-generation manufacturing software platform for modern manufacturers)

Aug 23, 2025 • Suffiyan Malik

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