Trailblazers

Erica Wenger
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Trailblazers is your favorite tech + VC podcast, hosted by Erica Wenger, GP at Park Rangers Capital. Each week, Erica sits down with founders, operators, and investors who’ve found conventional success in unconventional ways. From billion-dollar exits to scrappy early pivots, Trailblazers brings you unfiltered stories of how the next generation of companies are really built. Guests share the hardest moments, the surprising wins, and the lessons that don’t make it onto LinkedIn. This podcast is presented by Brex. New episodes every Tuesday.

  1. Felix Levine: Partner at Bulletpitch

    5 DAYS AGO

    Felix Levine: Partner at Bulletpitch

    This week we chat with Felix Levine! Felix is an entrepreneur, investor, and media operator who began his career in podcasting back in 2019—recording interviews straight out of his freshman-year dorm room at UC Santa Barbara. After transferring to Boston University, where he earned a dual degree in Business Law and Management, Felix spent his college years traveling the country interviewing everyone from high-growth founders and world champion athletes to creators, reality TV stars, and even figures from the criminal underworld. Drawn early to entrepreneurship and venture, Felix knew a traditional career path wasn’t for him. After graduating, he went all-in on the podcast, which eventually led to the launch of Lynx, an events and tech company. While Lynx ultimately failed, it became one of his most formative experiences and clarified his desire to operate on the investor side of the table. Around that time, Felix met his business partner Brett and joined Bulletpitch, where he became a partner focused on bringing creators onto cap tables and bridging the gap between venture capital and the creator economy. Today, Felix is helping build a next-generation venture platform—one that uses creator influence not just for deal flow, but as a core de-risking mechanism for early-stage companies. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Felix Levine Older Hotter Wiser @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    1h 8m
  2. Terri Burns: Founder of Type Capital

    3 FEB

    Terri Burns: Founder of Type Capital

    This week, we chat with Terri Burns! Terri is the founder of Type Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on being the first check for ambitious founders at pre-seed and seed. Most recently, she was a partner at GV, where she made history as the firm’s youngest partner and its first-ever Black female partner, with a focus on digital consumer and emerging technology. During her time at GV, Terri led and supported investments that went on to raise follow-on capital from top-tier firms and achieve meaningful exits, including the social app HAGS, which was acquired by Snapchat. She’s also an active angel investor and cofounder of an angel collective that has backed companies like Clubhouse. Terri’s impact extends well beyond investing. She’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee for Venture Capital, a three-time co-chair of Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Tech Conference, and a frequent speaker at institutions like Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School. Her work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Fortune, and TechCrunch. Before venture, Terri began her career as an associate product manager at Twitter, studied computer science at NYU, and today serves on NYU’s Board of Trustees. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Terri Burns: @tcburning @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    1h 3m
  3. Solo Episode: 10 Pieces of Advice for Ambitious Twenty-Somethings!

    30 JAN

    Solo Episode: 10 Pieces of Advice for Ambitious Twenty-Somethings!

    Welcome back to Trailblazers by Park Rangers Capital! In this week’s solo episode, host Erica Wenger breaks down 10 pieces of advice for ambitious twenty somethings!  Drawing from her personal experiences in the business world, Erica covers topics like building a strong personal brand, making smart career choices, and other key strategies for growth and success. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up, these insights will help you approach your professional journey with confidence and clarity. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by Rocketreach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo (formerly OpenPhone): Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    28 min
  4. Shomik Ghosh: Newest Partner at Sierra Ventures!

    27 JAN

    Shomik Ghosh: Newest Partner at Sierra Ventures!

    Shomik is the newest partner at Sierra Ventures! A longtime venture investor and an inception-focused fund backing technical founders at day zero. He supported companies like Cloudquery, Kiln AI, and Ask-Y, and played a role in many other early investments. Shomik was an investor at Top Tier Capital, where he focused on growth-stage companies including CircleCI, Anaplan, Remitly, Shape Security, and Snyk. His path into venture was anything but traditional, with early experience spanning tech M&A, venture debt, a failed startup, and fixed income sales and trading. Originally from New Jersey and a Pittsburgh alum, Shomik is an avid hiker, an aspiring guitarist—progress very much still in flight—and the proud dad of a one-and-a-half-year-old son who now takes up all of his spare time. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Shomik Ghosh: @shomikghosh21 @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    1h 2m
  5. Haseeb Qureshi: Managing Partner at Dragonfly

    20 JAN

    Haseeb Qureshi: Managing Partner at Dragonfly

    This week we chat with Haseeb Qureshi! Haseeb is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a multibillion-dollar leading crypto VC firm, and is a longtime technology-focused crypto investor. He was previously a General Partner at Metastable Capital (now acquired by Dragonfly). Earlier in his career, Haseeb founded a stablecoin startup, worked as a blockchain engineer at Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), and served as an anti-fraud engineer at Airbnb. Before entering tech, he was among the top heads-up no-limit Hold’em poker players in the world, becoming a sponsored professional and self-made millionaire by age 19. He later authored a best-selling poker book, donated the bulk of his poker earnings—about half a million dollars—to charity, and pursued an earn-to-give path that led him into software engineering and eventually blockchain. Haseeb has taught a Web3 Entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley and is widely followed for his technical expertise in crypto. Today, he continues to write, invest, and contribute to the ecosystem while committing a third of his pre-tax income to charitable causes. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Haseeb Qureshi: @hosseeb @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    1h 8m

  6. 13 JAN

    Nicolas Cary: Co-Founder and Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com

    This week, we chat with Nicolas Cary! Nic is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com! He is responsible for bringing new adopters into the crypto ecosystem. A fascination with tech, money and politics led Nic to become deeply passionate about helping people reinvent their relationship with money. After an international upbringing, Nic worked as a teacher in India before becoming a founding team member at SaaS company PipelineCRM.com, where he focused on product development and management. A trilingual communicator, Nic is the Founding Commissioner of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and co-author of The Future is Decentralised. Deeply passionate about entrepreneurship, Nic is also co-founder and chairman of SkysTheLimit.org, the leading non-profit digital business accelerator. Regularly cited in the global press as one of the earliest crypto industry experts, Nic was named the European Digital Leader of the year in 2015 and honored with a Professional Achievement Award in 2017 by his alma mater, the University of Puget Sound. A proven leader, investor, public speaker, and brand ambassador, Nic focuses on designing performant cultures that persevere in adverse markets. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Nicolas Cary: @niccary Sky's The Limit: https://www.skysthelimit.org/ @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    58 min
  7. Paige Finn Doherty: Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

    16/12/2025

    Paige Finn Doherty: Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

    This week we chat with Paige Finn Doherty! Paige is the Founding Partner of Behind Genius Ventures, an early-stage venture firm managing nearly $14 million in AUM. Behind Genius makes concentrated investments in pre-seed and seed-stage companies led by technical storytellers across applied AI, frontier tech, and what’s next. A writer and former engineer, Paige first broke into venture capital in a truly unconventional way by writing a best-selling “children’s book for adults” about how venture capital works, Seed to Harvest. At the time, she was working as a Developer Success Engineer at WorkOS, a role she actually landed through Twitter! Paige’s impact and storytelling have earned her widespread recognition: she was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Cover in Venture Capital (2022), named a Rising SDSU Aztec Awardee, and most recently, inducted into the Rancho Bernardo High School Hall of Fame. Originally from San Diego and now based in San Francisco, Paige continues to bring transparency, creativity, and heart to the world of venture through storytelling and curio ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Paige Finn Doherty: @paigedoherty Behind Genius Substack: @behindgenius.substack.com @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    1h 1m

  8. 09/12/2025

    Claire Hughes Johnson: Corporate Officer and Advisor at Stripe

    This week we chat with Claire Hughes Johnson! Claire is the former COO of Stripe, where she played a critical role in scaling the company from 160 employees to more than 7,000 during its period of rapid global expansion. Before Stripe, she spent over a decade at Google, leading large international teams across multiple high-growth products and operations. She now serves on the boards of HubSpot, The Atlantic, Aurora, and several other organizations, is an active angel investor, and is the bestselling author of Scaling People, widely regarded as a modern classic on leadership, management, and organizational design. ✨ This episode is presented by Brex. Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena. RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger Follow Us! Claire Hughes Johnson: @chughesjohnson @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger 🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

    31 min
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Trailblazers is your favorite tech + VC podcast, hosted by Erica Wenger, GP at Park Rangers Capital. Each week, Erica sits down with founders, operators, and investors who’ve found conventional success in unconventional ways. From billion-dollar exits to scrappy early pivots, Trailblazers brings you unfiltered stories of how the next generation of companies are really built. Guests share the hardest moments, the surprising wins, and the lessons that don’t make it onto LinkedIn. This podcast is presented by Brex. New episodes every Tuesday.

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  • Creator
    Erica Wenger
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    158
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Trailblazers