Paradigm Shift Ashish Kundra and Zane Salim

In this episode we talk with Ali Partovi about lessons learned identifying, evaluating and accelerating talent across a long and storied career in Silicon Valley. We talk about his founder experience, great investments he's made, and his new accelerator Neo (which is something like YC 2.0).

You can learn more about Neo here, and follow Ali to on Twitter to connect with him. 

Michael Martocci is the Founder and CEO of SwagUp, a platform that makes it easy to create, automate and distribute swag globally.  

In this episode we talk about:
Lessons learned bootstrapping SwagUp to over $100M in revenueAdvice on managing cash flow and how Michael approached forecastingMichael's vision and SwagUp's unique position to reimagine the entire end to end workflow from the customer experience to the complex supply chain. This was a really fun conversation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
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Michael Stoppelman is the former SVP of Engineering at Yelp and profilic angel investor in 300+ startups. In early 2007, he left Google to join Yelp, and helped scale Yelp Engineering from 6 to 600 engineers.

In this conversation we talked about Michael's lessons learnt building and scaling a world class engineering team- from hiring to motivating to leading world class teams. We also talk about lessons learned from early days at Google, and his approach to angel investing where he has an extremely impressive portfolio and track record.

This was a really fun conversation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

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Cameron Peake is a Partner at Restive Ventures, an early stage fintech focused VC fund. Previously Cameron was co-founder and CEO of Azlo, a company that provided online banking services for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers, and quickly grew to almost $1B in deposits. 

Cameron understands fintech from multiple vantage points: building for international markets, building one of the first neobanks in the US, and now funding early stage companies. In this conversation we discuss what it takes to build an enduring fintech, drawing from Cameron's experiences as both a builder/operator and investor. 
Path to building fintech productsFounding, building and scaling AzloExperiences and advice on managing fraudFintech landscape and building enduring companiesCloseout questionsThis was a fun conversation. We learnt a ton, and hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

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