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Andy Chen: The Convenient Cofounder Penalty
Jun 10, 2026
22m 23s
PR Yu: Ethical Capital at Speed
May 28, 2026
20m 04s
David Spreng: Why Debt Isn't a Dirty Word
May 8, 2026
17m 28s
Leah Solivan: Muscle of Conviction
Apr 22, 2026
16m 24s
Jack Leeney of 7GC: Why IPOs Are Optional Now
Apr 2, 2026
26m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Andy Chen: The Convenient Cofounder Penalty✨ | startup successco-founder dynamics+4 | Andy Chen | Outcast VenturesKleiner Perkins+2 | U.S. | startupco-founder+6 | — | 22m 23s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() PR Yu: Ethical Capital at Speed✨ | venture capitalethical investing+4 | PR Yu | Yu GalaxyLeo Cancer Care+1 | — | venture capitalethical capital+6 | — | 20m 04s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() David Spreng: Why Debt Isn't a Dirty Word✨ | venture capitaldebt financing+3 | David Spreng | Runway Growth Capital | — | debtventure capital+3 | — | 17m 28s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Leah Solivan: Muscle of Conviction✨ | entrepreneurshipventure capital+3 | Leah Solivan | TaskRabbitIKEA+2 | — | TaskRabbitLeah Solivan+5 | — | 16m 24s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Jack Leeney of 7GC: Why IPOs Are Optional Now✨ | IPOsAI investment+4 | Jack Leeney | 7GCMorgan Stanley+7 | Fortune 500 | IPO pricingpublic markets+6 | — | 26m 03s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Entrepreneurs First: Investing Before the Idea✨ | entrepreneurshipventure capital+3 | Alice Bentinck | Entrepreneurs FirstVCs | — | Entrepreneurs Firstfunding+5 | — | 20m 10s | |
| 2/9/26 | ![]() Rudina Seseri Knew AI Was Cool Before You Did✨ | AI investmentstartup evaluation+3 | Rudina Seseri | Glasswing Ventures | AI | AIinvesting+5 | — | 17m 47s | |
| 2/2/26 | ![]() Adeo Ressi: Why the World Needs More Venture Capitalists✨ | venture capitalfundraising+4 | Adeo Ressi | Decile GroupVC Lab+1 | — | venture capitalfundraising+6 | — | 22m 32s | |
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Who Wins When ChatGPT Does the Searching?✨ | AI-driven searchdigital reset+4 | Alex Halliday | GoogleAirOps | — | ChatGPTAI+5 | — | 22m 14s | |
| 12/18/25 | ![]() Brewing Medicine: Christina Smolke and the Race to Reinvent Drug Manufacturing✨ | drug manufacturingbiotechnology+4 | Christina Smolke | NarcanAntheia+1 | — | drug manufacturingbiotechnology+5 | — | 21m 49s | |
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| 12/4/25 | ![]() Dr. Ed Engleman: Vivo Capital’s Cancer Hacker✨ | cancer treatmentimmunology+3 | Dr. Ed Engleman | Vivo CapitalStanford+1 | — | cancerimmune system+5 | — | 18m 02s | |
| 11/18/25 | ![]() The Fastest Startup in Tech: Maria Palma on Lovable✨ | venture capitalstartup naming+3 | Maria Palma | Freestyle CapitalGE+1 | — | venture capitalstartup+5 | — | 29m 53s | |
| 11/13/25 | ![]() Design First, Lean Always: The Gamma Playbook | Gamma co-founder and CEO Grant Lee and lead series A investor Vas Natarajan of Accel are building one of the fastest-growing creative-tools startups in tech. With 70 million users, 100M ARR and just 50 employees, Gamma has become the “anti-PowerPoint”—a visual communication platform for the AI generation. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Physics & AI: N47’s TJ Rylander Is Reimagining Engineering | TJ Rylander, general partner at N47 is exploring the next frontier of artificial intelligence: the physical world. Rylander explains how companies like Luminary Cloud are revolutionizing engineering by merging AI with physics, enabling designers to test and refine aircraft or cars virtually in days instead of months. He also shares how Skydio’s autonomous drones, once aimed at consumers, are now helping first responders and the military. Along the way, Rylander reflects on his early career at Enron, his time investing for the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, and his passion project on the board of one of America’s oldest summer camps—where he says lessons in leadership and “doing your fair share of the work” still guide him today. | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | ![]() Rewiring the Special Relationship with the UK's AI Minister | Kanishka Narayan isn’t your typical politician. A Stanford GSB grad, he’s now the United Kingdom’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence — a job that didn’t even exist a few years ago. In this episode, Narayan talks about how Britain is using AI to drive both prosperity and dignity, why the UK just signed a “Technology Prosperity Deal” with the U.S., and how his Indian-Welsh roots and time in Silicon Valley shape the way he thinks about innovation, energy, and risk-taking. Plus, what it’s really like to grumble in Parliament. | — | ||||||
| 10/21/25 | ![]() Eugene Malobrodsky's Bet on Immigrant Founders | Eugene Malobrodsky came to the U.S. as a teenager and went on to co-found Hotspot Shield, the VPN that became a symbol of free speech during the Arab Spring. Now he’s a venture capitalist at One Way Ventures, backing immigrant founders building the next wave of AI companies. He joins Scott McGrew to talk about risk, resilience, and what really drives innovation in Silicon Valley. | — | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Christina Farr: The Storyteller's Advantage | Startups need an interesting story. Not just for the media, but for investors and clients. Former CNBC reporter turned venture investor turned author Christina Farr explains what makes a great story and how being boring is the worst strategy of all. | — | ||||||
| 9/18/25 | ![]() Abhinav Asthana: Building for Developers, Not Headlines | Postman began as a side project by Abhinav Asthana and his two co-founders, and turned into the most widely adopted API collaboration platform, used by millions of developers worldwide. In this conversation, Abhinav breaks down why developer feedback matters more than early paywalls, how “just ship” beat long strategy decks, and why he’s still bullish on San Francisco. We cover raising capital without making it the point, scaling from three founders to ~850 people across 20+ countries, and the hard lessons of hiring—and replacing—leaders as a company grows. Plus: Factorio, parenting, and what it really means to build “developer-first.” | — | ||||||
| 9/11/25 | ![]() Katelin Holloway's Billion-Dollar Box Scores | Venture capitalist Katelin Holloway—founding partner at 776— unpacks the new math of sports investing. From incubating Angel City FC and LA Golf Club to why women’s sports offer the biggest upside, Holloway explains where value is created (media, sponsors, merch) and how pay equity should be built from first principles. Plus: the origin of “776,” TGL’s tech-arena gamble, and the story behind her three citizen’s arrests. | — | ||||||
| 9/4/25 | ![]() Ireland’s Big Bet on Silicon Valley | Ireland is making an aggressive play to strengthen its ties with the West Coast. IDA Ireland—the nation’s foreign investment agency—has launched a trade mission aimed at securing €250 billion (about $300 billion) in new capital and creating 75,000 jobs over the next five years. Already, a West Coast company opens or expands in Ireland every month, with Apple, Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft among the major investors. Scott McGrew sits down with Ivan Houlihan of IDA Ireland to talk about Ireland’s evolving industries, the impact of Brexit, why U.S. tech companies keep choosing Ireland, and how the country is balancing record foreign investment with challenges like housing. | — | ||||||
| 8/18/25 | ![]() NEA's Aaron Jacobson on Robotics, AI Startups and Defense Innovation | NEA partner Aaron Jacobson joins Sand Hill Road to discuss the next wave of robotics and AI — from warehouse automation and drone manufacturing to autonomous construction and defense innovation. Jacobson explains why the future of robotics isn’t humanoids but specialized machines that perform one task perfectly. He shares insights on startups like Outrider, Built Robotics, Second Front Systems, and Firestorm, and why he believes AI-driven intelligence and flexible manufacturing will reshape industries from green energy to national security. | — | ||||||
| 8/8/25 | ![]() Steven Lee: From Last Kid Picked Up to Earliest Money In | Steven Lee raised $40 million in five weeks to fund his own venture firm — with just his reputation, network, and a bet on AI. From being the last kid picked up at school to becoming one of Silicon Valley’s earliest investors in breakout companies, Lee shares his journey from his parents’ clothing store in Los Angeles, to Twitter, to launching his own fund. | — | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | ![]() Rehan Jalil's Four Wins and a Vision | Rehan Jalil has sold three companies. His fourth, Securiti AI, might be his first to go public. A decade after we first met him as the founder of Elastica, Rehan returns to explain why protecting enterprise data is the gateway to unlocking AI’s full potential—and why building companies will always be his passion. From reading market signals to redefining data security, Jalil shares what it takes to keep winning in a fast-changing tech landscape. | — | ||||||
| 7/17/25 | ![]() The Meme is the Message: Kanyi Maqubela on Crypto, Culture, and the Future of Value | Kanyi Maqubela’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary—from fleeing apartheid South Africa as an infant, to living in a homeless shelter in New York City, to becoming a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. As managing partner at Kindred Ventures, Maqubela sits at the intersection of culture, finance, and technology. In this episode, he talks with Scott McGrew about why he believes crypto has already succeeded—even if it doesn’t look the way early critics expected. Maqubela argues that value isn’t just stored in physical assets or spreadsheets—it can also be stored in memes. Whether it's gold, real estate in Las Vegas, or Dogecoin, he suggests that cultural momentum and shared belief can give something staying power and real economic weight. “Mimetic value is value,” he says, making the case that virality itself is a form of capital. This conversation explores why the blockchain matters, how meme coins might be more serious than they seem, and why the next generation is right to question the financial systems they inherited. It's a provocative look at the future of value—and the stories we tell to justify it. | — | ||||||
| 7/10/25 | ![]() Heavybit Announces Its Largest Raise Yet: $180m | Scott McGrew sits down with Tom Drummond, co-founder of developer-first VC firm Heavybit, fresh off the announcement of the firm’s fifth fund and second opportunity fund. Drummond explains why the traditional enterprise sales model is fading, and why developers now hold the keys to software adoption. He talks about resisting the temptation of early revenue, the dangers of “cargo cult” startup thinking, and what it means to build for a future where code is free and infrastructure is everything. As Tom puts it: “We’re entering a world where code is free. Anyone can generate it. The consequence? We’ll need an entirely new layer of infrastructure." Sand Hill Road is produced by Andrew Mendez under the leadership of Sara Bueno and Stephanie Adrouny. | — | ||||||
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