Podcasts by Venture Voice – interviews with entrepreneurs
Muck Rack & Shorty Awards cofounder/CEO Greg Galant interviews the world's best entrepreneurs and creators, including the founders of LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Yelp, Brooklyn Brewery, Trello, Twitter and Stack Overflow.
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Jessica Lessin of The Information turned her journalism beat into a business from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.565909
Jessica Lessin is founder, CEO, editor-in-chief and sole owner of The Information, the influential subscription-only tech publication that was launched on a simple idea: write deeply reported artic...
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How Evan Williams turned side projects like Twitter into huge successes from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.563762
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, as well as Blogger and Medium. But back in 2005 when this episode was recorded, Twitter hadn’t even been con...
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How journalist Steve Hindy started Brooklyn Brewery from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.558753
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s career journey, both as a foreign correspondent before he took t...
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How Amanda Hesser cooked up success with Food52 from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.556739
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to my early days in the New York startup community. Listening to her tell the story of her e...
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Guy Kawasaki’s evangelizing Canva from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.549514
Guy Kawasaki’s name has become almost synonymous with tech entrepreneurship and evangelism. Over the past 25 years, he’s had a hand in advising a generation of tech start-ups and innovators, either...
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Henrik Werdelin’s Bark fetches $1.6 billion valuation from 2022-02-21T17:11:25.547686
Originally from Denmark and now living in the US, Henrik Werdelin has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Most Creative People In Business” by Fast Company and named to the “Silicon Alley 100” b...
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Matt Mullenweg built Automattic into a $7.5B company from 2021-11-22T18:46:07
Matt Mullengweg was a high school student looking for a better way to customize his blog when he discovered the open source software community and created the WordPress platform. A few years later,...
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David Cohen’s Techstars from 2021-07-19T15:33:34
As Co-Founder and Chairman of Techstars, David Cohen has spent nearly his entire career focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. Aspiring founders and early-stage entrepreneurs from around the wor...
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Fabrice Grinda on growing Zingy into a $200 million business from 2021-06-22T06:02:38
Fabrice Grinda is one of the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors, with over 150 exits on 500 angel investments. When I first interviewed him for this podcast, way back in 2005, the...
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How Derek Sivers decided to sell CD Baby from 2021-05-24T19:16:51
CD Baby founder Derek Sivers made two appearances on Venture Voice in the early days of this podcast. In our first conversation, he described the process of growing the company into one of the larg...
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LivePerson’s Robert LoCascio got in mental shape to build a $3.5 billion business from 2021-05-10T12:28:42
Born into a family of entrepreneurs, LivePerson founder and CEO Robert LoCascio always had the entrepreneurial spirit, going back to his teens when he and a friend started an auto detailing busines...
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How Tom Perkins pioneered venture capital in 1972 from 2021-04-26T16:17:19
This week we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists. The firm Tom co-founded, Kleiner Perkins, is responsible for fund...
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Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer Turned His Amateur Photos Into a $3 Billion Business from 2021-04-12T14:14:42
Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional stock agencies were still stuck in the world of print, so he took ...
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Curative founder Fred Turner’s fast pivot into COVID-19 testing from 2021-03-29T15:38:39
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA. He was interested in sequencing his own genome, but he soon discovered there were o...
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How DRY Soda founder Sharelle Klaus pioneered the culinary soda category from 2021-03-15T13:21:36
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we dip back into the archives for my 2005 interview with Sharelle Klaus, founder and ...
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How Mike McDerment grew FreshBooks from 2021-02-15T18:03:46
Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a small web design agency when he accidentally saved over an old invoice. Frustrated and looking for a better wa...
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How Mark Wilson built his success by building up others’ from 2021-01-18T14:10:34
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by a strong work ethic and desire to make an impact. But when Mark fo...
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Dan O’Keefe on the founding of Festivus and secrets of HBO’s Silicon Valley from 2020-12-21T11:00
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinfeld, where the holiday “for the rest of us” is featured i...
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How John Bogle started Vanguard Group and invented index funds from 2020-11-23T18:13:07
To an entrepreneur, a corrupt industry with a lot of inefficiencies means one thing: There’s a huge opportunity to innovate. When he founded The Vanguard Group in 1975, John Clifton “Jack” Bogle cr...
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