Venture with Grace

Grace Gong
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I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level/VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Lyft, etc. Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, etc.) Venture with Grace is my new spin-off series that features top LPs, GPs, solo GPs, Angel Investors, top AI founders, and other experts in tech and business to cover specific domain expertise. Watch this Live on LinkedIn/ YouTube: Grace Gong

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Dreamforce Special: CMO of Slack, Ryan Gavin

    Ryan Gavin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Slack and a seasoned business leader with over 25 years of experience driving growth, innovation, and go-to-market excellence across the tech industry. Before joining Slack, Ryan was the Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, where he led a $650M+ digital freight marketplace, improving margins by over 2000 basis points while scaling customer engagement with top global shippers. Earlier, Ryan held senior leadership roles at AWS and Microsoft—building the AI/ML business at AWS from the ground up and leading Microsoft’s Surface commercial business and Bing, where he helped bring the search engine to profitability and scale to 5 billion monthly searches. Across every role, Ryan has been known for his ability to unite product, engineering, and marketing teams to create new categories, transform markets, and build world-class organizations.Topics: Scaling Slack — what it takes to grow an already iconic brand in a changing SaaS landscape.AI, Product, and MarketingThe Go-To-Market Playbook for Builders#Leadership #GrowthStrategy #GoToMarket #AI #Slack #StartupLessons #MarketingLeadership

    24 min

  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Kathleen Estreich, Pear VC Partner on GTM, Marketing & Early Startups

    Kathleen Estreich is an investing partner at Pear. Prior to Pear, she was the co-founder at MKT1 & MKT1 Capital where she invested in and advised early-stage B2B startups. MKT1 Capital invested in pre-seed thru Series A startups and helped them build their marketing team and strategy. Prior to founding MKT1, she built and led marketing and operations teams at several high-growth startups including Intercom, Box, Facebook, and Scalyr (acq by SentinelOne). Kathleen holds a BA in Political Science & History from Brown University.Topics: Go-to-Market at the Seed StageB2B Storytelling That SellsThe Evolving Role of Marketing in AI Startups#VentureCapital #GoToMarket #B2BStartups #MarketingStrategy #SeedStage

    1 hr

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Dreamforce Special: President & CTO of Salesforce, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad

    Muralidhar Krishnaprasad is the President & CTO of Engineering at Salesforce, overseeing next-generation platforms for Agentforce, Data, MuleSoft, and Tableau. With over 25 years of industry experience, including over six years at Salesforce, Muralidhar has driven the rapid growth of Agentforce and Data Cloud. He plays a crucial role in shaping Salesforce's AI-driven future and previously held pivotal engineering roles at Oracle and Microsoft, building foundational services for Azure, Dynamics, and Synapse. His expertise spans databases, cloud services, and applications.Topics: Building Salesforce’s AI-first engineering cultureIntegrating Agentforce, MuleSoft, and Data Cloud for the enterprise AI eraLessons from leading engineering at Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce#AIEngineering #EnterpriseAI #CloudComputing #LeadershipInTech #Salesforce

    21 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    Rahul Vohra, Founder & CEO of Superhuman: AI, Product & Investing Insights

    Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO of Superhuman and Rapportive, with a successful track record of investing in over 100 startups including Placer, Mercury, and ClassDojo. He has a strong background in early stage investments and product development, with expertise in software as a service (SaaS) and user experience design. Highlights of Rahul Vohra's career include founding successful companies like Superhuman and Rapportive, as well as making significant investments in a wide range of startups across various sectors and stages of development.Topics: How to build a business customers become obsessed with (and pay 30x more)The contrarian playbook that turned email into an $825M businessHow AI meets human psychology in next-generation product design#SuperhumanCEO #ProductMarketFit #StartupSuccess

    57 min

  5. 3 DAYS AGO

    Xan Wood, Canvas Prime Investor on AI, Data & Application Startups

    Xan Wood joined Canvas in May 2024 as an Investor, focusing on artificial intelligence applications across healthcare and fintech. He brings unique insight into emerging AI technologies through his strong connections to UC Berkeley's AI ecosystem. As the writer of the weekly Built By Berkeley Newsletter, Xan has his finger on the pulse of what’s coming next. While getting his MBA at Berkeley Haas, Xan demonstrated his ability to identify and support promising technical founders by raising Courtyard Ventures, a $1M fund that has invested in 30 Berkeley-founded businesses. Prior to Canvas, Xan built an impressive track record in complex deal execution across multiple markets. He spent 7 years in Asia working in Private Equity at Development Finance Asia and Private Credit at TransAsia Private Capital, where he led nearly $1B of transactions across 19 countries. Notable deals included serving as interim CFO at a Mongolian logistics business after leading its acquisition, and incubating Myanmar's largest motorcycle leasing platform. At TransAsia Private Capital, he led the multijurisdictional restructuring of a $225M loan facility to a Hong Kong-listed company, involving taking control of a power plant in India and a mine in Indonesia.Topics: The Next Wave of AI-Native StartupsThe Future of Vertical AIBuilt by Berkeley#VentureCapital #AIStartups #HealthcareInnovation #Fintech #BerkeleyFounders

    54 min

  6. 3 DAYS AGO

    Jonathan DiVincenzo, Impart CEO on AI, API & Runtime App Security

    Jonathan is Co-Founder and CEO of Impart Security. Prior to founding Impart, Jonathan was the VP of Product at Signal Sciences, an application security startup that sold to Fastly for $825M. Prior to Signal Sciences, Jonathan was product lead at Edgecast Networks, a global content delivery network that sold to Verizon for over $400M. After the sale of Edgecast Networks, Jonathan served as VP of Product at Verizon shaping the digital product portfolio, leading to the acquisition of Uplynk, Volicon, AOL, and Yahoo. Jonathan started his career building secure applications as a developer at the Wall Street Journal, 21 Century Fox, and Resource (acquired by IBM).Topics: From Signal Sciences to Impart: lessons in scaling and selling category-defining security startupsThe evolution of web and API security — why runtime protection is the next frontierBuilding technical products for modern cloud environments and high-stakes security demand#Cybersecurity #APISecurity #StartupLeadership #AIProtection #VentureCapital

    1h 1m

  7. 3 DAYS AGO

    John Wang, Assembled Co-founder on AI & the Future of Customer Support

    John Wang is the CTO at Assembled, where he leads efforts to transform customer support through a unified platform blending human expertise with AI-powered efficiency. Previously, he was Co-founder and Chief Engineer at Zinc and an early engineer at Stripe. A Computer Science graduate from MIT, John’s career spans open source contributions to Ruby on Rails, applied mathematics research in fluid dynamics and pathogen dispersal, and economics studies on housing quality and academic achievement under renowned professors. Beyond technology, he is passionate about woodworking, applying the same commitment to craft, precision, and timeless design in both code and furniture.Topics: Building and scaling complex SaaS products integrating AI Innovation in customer experience through blending workforce intelligence and automationTechnical moats in an age of AI commoditization#AIandHumans #CustomerSupportTech #EngineeringLeadership #StartupJourney

    59 min

  8. 11 OCT

    Krishna Subramanian, Captiv8 Founder on Social Data & Creator Economy

    Krishna Subramanian is a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and commentator on mobile advertising. He is best known for being the CEO and Co-Founder of Captiv8, which was acquired by Publicis Groupe, and a founding employee of BlueLithium, one of the largest online ad networks acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for $300 million, and Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange network acquired by Velti in 2010. Subramanian has also written for Forbes, The Huffington Post, Advertising Age, and Mashable.Topics: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneurship with Three AcquisitionsThe Evolution of Digital Advertising: From Banner Ads to AIThe Influencer Economy: From Hype to Acquisition#KrishnaSubramanian #SerialEntrepreneur #AdTech #InfluencerMarketing

    1h 1m
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I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level/VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Lyft, etc. Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, etc.) Venture with Grace is my new spin-off series that features top LPs, GPs, solo GPs, Angel Investors, top AI founders, and other experts in tech and business to cover specific domain expertise. Watch this Live on LinkedIn/ YouTube: Grace Gong

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  • Creator
    Grace Gong
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    441
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Grace Gong
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