Luba Show
Read bullet-point summaries of Luba Show interviews with founders, investors, and technologists on startups, venture capital, AI, and ambition.
Episodes
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He's Bringing Supersonic Flight BACK - Blake Scholl
Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, walks through the journey of building the first independently developed supersonic jet (XB-1), the near-death
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She Kept Her Fund Small for 18 Years. A $1B Exit Just Proved Her Right.— Ann Miura-Ko
Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner of Floodgate and Stanford professor, reflects on 18 years building a seed-stage venture firm that deliberately stayed small
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He Left Plaid at 45 to Become a Founder for the First Time. — Jean-Denis Greze (Town)
Jean-Denis Greze left his role as CTO of Plaid at age 45 to become a first-time founder, driven by a sense that if he didn't start a company then he never
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She Raised $100M+ to Build a Pause Button for Biology — Laura Deming (Until)
Laura Deming, co-founder of Until (a reverse cryopreservation company in San Francisco), shares her journey from child longevity prodigy to building technology
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He Backed 10 Unicorns. Now He's Nervous About AI - Avichal Garg (Electric Capital)
Avichal Garg, co-founder and General Partner at Electric Capital, shares his philosophy on investing, founder psychology, and building a venture firm that
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From $2.5B to $6.8B in 15 Months, Peregrine's Founder - Ben Rudolph
Ben Rudolph, co-founder and CTO of Peregrine Technologies, traces his journey from Stanford gymnastics to building a $6.8B government technology company that
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$47 Billion Crypto Founder Shares His Story - Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana)
Anatoly Yakovenko, founder of Solana (now worth ~$47B), recounts his journey from a Soviet childhood to building a high-performance blockchain, sharing lessons
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From Being Rejected by Every VC to Starting Her Own Fund - Leah Solivan (Founder of TaskRabbit)
Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit and now general partner at her own fund Precedent VC, traces her path from a ballet‑loving IBM programmer in Boston to
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Infinity Machine HQ Tour: EV vehicles backed by a16z American Dynamism
Infinite Machine is a New York–based electric vehicle startup founded by two brothers (Joe and Eddie) and a third co-founder, Zach, that designs and
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2 Electric Vehicles in 2 Years With Just $14M and 20 People ft Joe Cohen
Joe Cohen is a serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Wharton to start his first company, Universe (a website builder used by millions, raised $47M), and has
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"I’m Still Terrified of Going Broke" – The Brutal Reality of Success ft Robbie Bent (Othership)
Robbie Bent is the CEO and co-founder of Othership, a wellness brand that grew from a DIY ice bath in a Toronto backyard into a multi-location "social spa"
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Sam Parr: How to Build a $20M Empire Without Destroying Your Marriage
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur who built The Hustle newsletter to over 1.5 million subscribers and sold it to HubSpot for over $20 million, co-hosts the
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The Brutal Truth About Imposter Syndrome ft Kevin Zhang, General Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
Kevin Zhang is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of Bain Capital, a $200 billion investment manager spanning private equity, credit
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How to Make High-Stakes Decisions with Only 10% Information ft Hiten Shah (@hitenshow)
Hiten Shah is a serial entrepreneur (Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics, Nira, SliderBench) who has spent over 20 years in startups and developed a deeply self-reflective
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$250M Founder Joins Naval Ravikant to Disrupt Venture Capital | ft Ankur Nagpal
Ankur Nagpal is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold two companies—Teachable (a nine-figure exit) and Carry (acquired by AngelList)—and is now a General
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Grant Sanderson (@3Blue1Brown): The High Cost of Being a Second-Hand Thinker
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) joins Luba to reflect on a decade of creating math YouTube videos, his creative process, and how he's planning to evolve his
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Decentralized Social Media | Jay Graber, Founder of Bluesky
Early life and the meaning behind her Chinese name
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$4B Crypto Fund, Manhood, Discipline, VC: Haseeb Qureshi
Haseeb Qureshi is Managing Partner of Dragonfly Capital, a crypto venture firm that just closed a $650M Fund 4, bringing total capital raised to over $4B. He
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Juan Benet (Filecoin, Protocol Labs): Neurotech, Thinking in Decades, Crypto, Knowledge Systems
Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, discusses his lifelong obsession with knowledge systems, the evolution of his career from crypto to large-scale R&D, and
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Guinness Record, Pain, American Dynamism | Michelle Volz, fonder of Pax VC
Michelle Volz is a solo GP at Pax VC, an early-stage fund focused on American Dynamism — startups at the intersection of technology, government, and the
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Eugene Wei: Tech’s New Era, The Death of Boredom, Culture on Repeat
Eugene Wei — former Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, and Oculus executive, writer, and product thinker — joins the Luba Show for a wide-ranging conversation recorded at
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YC, Bootstrapping, Founder Psychology w/ Kathryn Cross (Anja Health) and Rajya Atluri (Coral AI)
Kathryn Cross (founder of Anja Health) and Rajya Atluri (founder of Coral AI) join The Luba Show to discuss their contrasting startup journeys — Kathryn went
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$300M CEO: Psychology Behind Success and the Subconscious | Jacob Peters, co-founder of Superpower
Jacob Peters, co-founder and CEO of Superpower, joins The Luba Show for a wide-ranging conversation about the subconscious patterns that drive founders, how
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Why 100-Hour Weeks Are Necessary To Build a $10B Startup | Marty Kausas, Co-founder and CEO of Pylon
Marty Kausas, co-founder and CEO of Pylon (a B2B customer support software company), joins Luba to discuss the extreme work ethic, psychology, and personal
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From Google Comfort to Startup Chaos: A Googler's True Tale
Charles Weill spent seven years as a machine learning engineer at Google before leaving to start CreatorML, a company that uses machine learning to analyze
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Surviving Solo: Sherry Wong on Being a Solo Founder
Sherry Wong is the founder of Roster, a hiring platform and marketplace for the Creator economy that helps creators find behind-the-camera talent like video
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This Stanford PhD passed on 500k to build this
Jesse Zhang is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of beacons.ai, a website builder for creators that has raised over $20 million in Series A funding (backed