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Is There an AI Bubble? VCs on Valuations and ARR Inflation
Jun 23, 2026
25m 59s
The return of the Consumer Gold Rush? What Chi-Hua Chien is betting on next
Jun 16, 2026
43m 34s
Runway and HOLYWATER TECH: Two AI Companies Trying to Upend Entertainment
Jun 9, 2026
31m 05s
What VCs think about SpaceX, AI-valuation fever and where to bet next
Jun 2, 2026
29m 21s
Eclipse Ventures Co-Founder Lior Susan's Insights Into a $1.3B Bet on Physical AI
May 26, 2026
20m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Is There an AI Bubble? VCs on Valuations and ARR Inflation | This episode features a conversation recorded live at StrictlyVC LA in El Segundo between Connie Loizos, Cheng Xu, partner at Basis Set Ventures, and Carter Reum, founder of M13. Together, they discuss whether today's AI boom represents a bubble, how investors are thinking about soaring startup valuations and ARR growth, and what it takes to build a lasting company in an increasingly competitive AI landscape. The conversation also explores the opportunities and risks facing founders, the impact of AI on venture investing, and where each investor sees the next generation of breakout companies emerging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 25m 59s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() The return of the Consumer Gold Rush? What Chi-Hua Chien is betting on next | In this episode, Connie and Alex talk with Goodwater Capital co-founder Chi-Hua Chien, whose career spans some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology shifts, from helping source Accel’s investment in Facebook as a young associate to backing a new generation of consumer and AI startups. While much of the venture world is focused on models, chips, and infrastructure, Chi-Hua argues that history suggests the biggest long-term winners of the AI era may be the application companies built on top of them. They talk about why AI startups are reaching unprecedented revenue levels with remarkably small teams, what’s driving today’s soaring valuations, and why he believes many infrastructure businesses will eventually face the same commoditization pressures seen in previous technology cycles. He also shares what he’s seeing inside consumer AI, from hyper-personalized entertainment and women’s health platforms to new products built around voice, agents, and individualized experiences. And they discuss the increasingly public tensions between founders and VCs, why some of the most interesting fintech innovation is happening outside the U.S., and why Chi-Hua believes one of the biggest opportunities in consumer technology may be helping people reconnect in the real world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 43m 34s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Runway and HOLYWATER TECH: Two AI Companies Trying to Upend Entertainment✨ | AIentertainment+3 | Anastasis GermanidisAnatolii Kasianov | RunwayHOLYWATER TECH | AthensKyiv | AI videocreative industries+3 | — | 31m 05s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() What VCs think about SpaceX, AI-valuation fever and where to bet next✨ | venture capitalSpaceX+3 | Ben BlumeAndreas Stavropoulos+1 | AtomicoThreshold Ventures+1 | — | venture capitalSpaceX+5 | — | 29m 21s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Eclipse Ventures Co-Founder Lior Susan's Insights Into a $1.3B Bet on Physical AI✨ | physical AIrobotics+3 | Lior Susan | Eclipse VenturesSpaceX | — | Eclipse Venturesphysical AI+3 | — | 20m 51s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Inside Stanford's Secret Tech Elite (And the Freshman Who Exposed It)✨ | Stanford Universitystudent journalism+5 | Theo Baker | StanfordSilicon Valley+1 | — | StanfordTheo Baker+6 | — | 27m 41s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() CEO Amjad Masad on How Replit Is Changing Who Gets to Build Software✨ | AI-driven software developmentsoftware accessibility+3 | Amjad Masad | ReplitApple | — | ReplitAmjad Masad+5 | — | 18m 50s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Is Airwallex Undervalued or is Stripe Overvalued?✨ | financial infrastructureAirwallex+4 | Jack Zhang | AirwallexStripe | — | AirwallexStripe+5 | — | 34m 00s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() How secondary markets are pricing SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they go public✨ | secondary marketsprivate companies+3 | Glen Anderson | Rainmaker SecuritiesSpaceX+2 | — | secondary marketSpaceX+5 | — | 24m 33s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() High tech herding with Craig Piggott, Halter✨ | agriculturetechnology+4 | Craig Pigott | HalterRocket Lab | agtech | HalterCraig Pigott+6 | — | 26m 28s | |
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| 3/24/26 | ![]() The wearable you’re never supposed to stop wearing with Will Ahmed of WHOOP✨ | wearable technologyhealth monitoring+3 | Will Ahmed | WHOOP | — | WHOOPwearable+5 | — | 35m 40s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Is Ring building towards safer neighborhoods or neighborhood surveillance?✨ | surveillanceprivacy+3 | Jamie Siminoff | RingFlock Safety | — | RingAI-powered Search Party+3 | — | 28m 24s | |
| 3/4/26 | ![]() The AI Safety Showdown: Max Tegmark on government, Anthropic, and what’s next✨ | AI safetygovernment regulation+3 | Max Tegmark | AnthropicFuture of Life Institute | U.S. | AIsafety standards+6 | — | 41m 22s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Future-Proofing work in the age of automation with Bill Gurley✨ | automationcareer paths+4 | Bill Gurley | BenchmarkRunning Down a Dream | — | automationcareer paths+5 | — | 42m 06s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Rethinking series A in the age of mega funds✨ | venture capitalSeries A funding+4 | Stacy Brown-Philpot | Cherryrock CapitalGoogle+4 | — | venture capitalSeries A+6 | — | 28m 42s | |
| 2/3/26 | ![]() How Tether became crypto's most profitable company—and what it's building next✨ | Tethercryptocurrency+5 | Paolo Ardoino | TetherUSDT+6 | El SalvadorLatin America | TetherUSDT+8 | — | 39m 51s | |
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Airtable is betting big on a standalone ai agent that could replace its own product✨ | AirtableAI agents+4 | Howie Liu | SuperagentAirtable | — | AirtableSuperagent+4 | — | 49m 11s | |
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Working in orbit: what happens when space goes blue-collar? | In this episode, Connie Loizos speaks with Mary Jane Rubenstein, a professor of religion and science and technology studies at Wesleyan University and author of "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse"—a book that served as research material for the Oscar-winning film "Everything Everywhere All at Once." As the space economy heats up and venture capital pours into startups promising everything from asteroid mining to lunar gas stations, Dr. Rubenstein offers a critical perspective on the ethics and values shaping humanity's expansion beyond Earth. Dr. Rubenstein discusses how religious stories have shaped space exploration from the Apollo missions to today's commercial ventures, examines how science fiction has influenced the industry (sometimes as cautionary tales that get misread as instruction manuals), and makes the case for why space debris might be the issue that brings nations together—ultimately challenging listeners to consider whether we're truly imagining new possibilities in space or simply extending the worst of what we have here on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 26m 44s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Why VCs think consumer AI hasn't lived up to the hype | This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're sharing a conversation with Goodwater Capital founder Chi-Hua Chien and Scribble Ventures founder Elizabeth Weil. They discuss why consumer AI hasn't lived up to the hype yet and what's coming next. Beyond ChatGPT and Gemini, the consumer AI landscape feels sparse. In this conversation, they explore why we're still in the "command line era" of AI, how form factors will unlock new use cases, and what it means to build AI-native products versus retrofitting existing platforms. They also dive into trust barriers, changing user behaviors, and why the next generation of founders needs to rethink everything from social networks to home maintenance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 23m 10s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | ![]() True Ventures' contrarian playbook: High ownership, low noise | This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove talk with Jon Callaghan, managing partner at True Ventures. Callaghan has spent two decades building True Ventures into one of Silicon Valley's most successful seed-stage firms, managing nearly $4 billion across 12 funds while staying deliberately quiet in an increasingly loud venture landscape. In this conversation, Callaghan unpacks why True prioritizes founders over headlines, how the firm maintains remarkably high ownership in portfolio companies despite the bubbly market, and why duration is a feature, not a bug, of early-stage investing. Jon also shares his contrarian views on the AI wave, explains why mega-rounds and consensus capital often miss the real outliers, and reveals where he sees the biggest opportunities in consumer applications, personal software, and AI-powered biology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 33m 36s | ||||||
| 12/31/25 | ![]() Competing in the post-Humane AI wearables era with Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi | This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re sharing a conversation from our event in Palo Alto, where TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin spoke with Mina Fahmi, the founder and CEO of Sandbar, and Toni Schneider of True Ventures. Mina Fahmi is the CEO and co-founder of Sandbar, a startup building the Stream ring—an AI wearable designed to capture your whispered thoughts. Toni Schneider is a partner at True Ventures who backed Fitbit, Peloton, and Ring, and was initially skeptical of AI wearables until he saw Sandbar's demo – and to be clear, Schneider says he’d seen a whole lot of demos. In this conversation, they unpack what it takes to build hardware that people actually want to wear, why "self-extension" beats AI companions, and how privacy through whispering changes everything. They also discuss competing with OpenAI's rumored device with Jony Ive, why devices must do one thing brilliantly before doing ten things adequately, and what Sandbar learned from two years of prototyping to get the interaction model right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 25m 01s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | ![]() Building and losing iRobot: Why Colin Angle thinks the FTC is to blame | This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos spoke with Conlin Angle, the founder and former CEO of iRobot. Fom his living room into a household name, Angle spent 30 years turning iRobot into one of the most pioneering companies in the robotics industry stepping down as CEO following the failed Amazon acquisition. In this conversation, he unpacks why he considers iRobot's bankruptcy "avoidable and a tragedy," what regulators got catastrophically wrong in blocking the $1.7 billion Amazon deal, and why the FTC's office walls covered with "blocked deals" as trophies revealed a deeply misguided approach to protecting innovation. Angle also shares the brutal reality of fighting regulators for 18 months while producing over 100,000 documents, why nascent American tech industries keep getting handed to overseas competitors, and what he's building next with his stealth startup, including his contrarian take on humanoid robots and why Rodney Brooks is "never factually wrong, but not necessarily answering the question you think he's answering." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 25m 23s | ||||||
| 12/16/25 | ![]() X-Light's Nicholas Kelez and Pat Gelsinger on government-backed chips | Pat Gelsinger spent 35 years across two stints at Intel, most recently as CEO. Nicholas Kelez is the CEO of X-Light, a semiconductor startup developing breakthrough EUV laser technology for next-generation chipmaking. In this conversation, they unpack what it takes to wake Moore's law from its nap, why the U.S. government just became X-Light's second-largest shareholder, and how faith and deep tech are shaping the future of American competitiveness in the AI era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 24m 43s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | ![]() Brain-computer interfaces are coming faster than you think | This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos spoke with Science Corp founder Max Hodak to discuss how brain-computer interfaces are arriving faster than anyone realizes. The Neuralink co-founder and former president shares how his company recently achieved what may be the biggest breakthrough in vision restoration in decades, enabling 80% of blind patients to read again with a tiny retinal implant smaller than a grain of rice. In this conversation, the two also explore the near-term commercial path for BCIs through medical applications, the long-term potential for cognitive enhancement and “binding” multiple brains together, and why Science, which has so far raised $260 million from investors, is keen to generate revenue while it invests in its future products. Not last, Hodak addresses the practical and ethical questions around hacking, enhancement, and why he thinks it may well be possible in the not-too-distant future to “move consciousness” outside of the body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 30m 11s | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | ![]() Why Kevin Hartz is betting big on teenage founders | In this episode, TechCrunch's editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Kevin Hartz, the serial entrepreneur behind Zoom and Eventbrite who's now managing partner of A-Star Capital, a $300 million generalist fund. Recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Kevin shares his unique perspective as a founder, investor, and LP—discussing why staying in the market matters even when two-month-old companies are raising at $60 million valuations. The two explore the dramatic rise in teenage founders, with Kevin revealing that 20% of his recent investments now include teams with a teenage founder, up from just 5% two years ago. Kevin also discusses A-Star's approach to differentiated deal flow through company incubations, including Sauron, his autonomous drone security startup applying self-driving car technology to home security. They dive into the controversial question of whether venture capital is truly an asset class, the lessons learned from taking companies public through both traditional IPOs and SPACs, and why the abundance of private capital is keeping quality companies out of the public markets indefinitely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 19m 13s | ||||||
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