Sitemap - 2023 - Stretch Four Insights

Episode 020: Demo Perfection and the Pitfalls of Falling Out of Love With Your Company

Minimizing Decisions, Strategy, Healthspan over Lifespan & Ignoring the Losers

Episode 019: Building an AI Startup from Humble Beginnings: A Founder's Immigration Journey

Bonus Pod: 48 Hour Fast: Insights and Challenges with Vidal Nelson

Starting Something New in Your 30s, Sales Cycles, and More

Episode 018: Running for My Life (My SF Half Marathon Results), Bolt Goes Bust, Fundraising Framework For Founders

Episode 017: Building a VC-Backed Telehealth Company with Dan Miller, CEO of Spora Health

AI and Shadow IT Platforms, Startup Fundraising Season, and HBO's Content Machine

Episode 016: Not at Vegas Summer League: Urgency in July, Inspiration from Your Kids, and More

Zuckerberg's Threads, Cowherd’s California Living Framework, and The Vanity of Series A Metrics

4th of July Special: Insights on Getting Customers, Coach K, Baby Boomers, Drugs, and CP3

Episode 015: Time Management and Building Relationships with Yoni Rubin (MRGN)

The Middle and Upper Classes Take Over the NBA Draft and Where Venture Capital Lives

Episode 014: Mistral AI's $130M seed round, importance of reference customers, and interview with PostHog founder James Hawkins.

Juneteenth Edition: Deep Dive on Embedded Insurance, Lowered Eligibility Requirements for YouTube Creators, and More

Episode 013: Tech Week Recaps (SF & LA)

Episode 012: MoonPay Founders Sell Shares, Plaid's Data Collection, and New Business from Laundry with Scott Patterson.

Episode 011: Finovate Insights, Plastic Bankruptcy, and Staying Fit as a Parent plus Clockwise Founder/CEO Matt Martin

Episode 010: The Newchip Accelerator bankruptcy and Tanvi Surti of Luca.AI discussing E-commerce, AI, and YCombinator.

Episode 009: Faking it in Silicon Valley, who paid DataDog $65M in one year, and talking wellness with friend and fitness influencer Vidal Nelson

Episode 008: The Journey to Radical Optimism: Insights on Family, Personal Branding, and Future Technology with Kevin Kelly

Episode 007: CEO Interview with Ben Lilienthal (Screen Meet) on Building Four Successful Enterprise Startups, Time Billionaire Parenting, Air Movie Recap, and Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem

Founder Fraud in the Venture-Backed Founder Ecosystem and AI Training Data Paywalls

Insider Insights on Recent YCombinator Companies, San Francisco's Warranted and Unwarranted Doom and Gloom, and More!

SF AI Events Recap, My Personal Finance Journey, and Why Selling to Other Startups is Dead - Read Now!

Episode 006: Preparing for a half-marathon at 35, Life After SVB, & Cody Barbo on raising over $40 million, moving to Texas and the perils of founder compensation

Fintech Meetup, Cash App Scammers, and February Reads

A Letter to My Son on His 1st Birthday

Episode 005: Summarizing Dylan Field's $20B exit, Victory Lap's 5th anniversary, and Scott Britton's insights from an Ayahuasca retreat on reaching 15K Substack subscribers.

Childcare Costs Up, Product Glut for Founders, AI limits in fintech, & Shutting down your startup

Episode 004: The Church of Sam Altman & Three things founders can learn from Adam Neumann

AI startups founder trends, Supplements are having a moment, and millionaires are renting more than ever

Episode 003: 3 Books I Read & My Fitness Check-in for January; The Stretch Four Business Results & Selim Benayat — Founder and CEO at Bento.me the first founder to participate Sequoia's Arc Program

Companies do more with less, Frugality vs. ROI, and Tasting the Rainbow

Episode 002: Breaking down Sequoia's New Arc Program, Childcare deep dive with tips for founders, Laduram Vishnoi talks raising $50 million in venture, and doing Y Combinator as a 2X founder

Bryan Johnson's Blueprint goes viral (again), Bob Johnson chats with David Rubenstein, and more

Episode 001: The New Chip accelerator explained, sober January, Equinox, & protecting your inbox with Gated.com Founder and CEO Andy Mowat

An exposed startup accelerator, SF's newest neighborhood: Cerebral Valley, and John Wall unpacks his journey and The Hoop State

10 Things We Learned in 10 Months of Parenthood

How should founders approach venture funding and valuations in 2023, California flooding, and more