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Investigating Pathways Investigating Pathways
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Each week on Investigating Pathways, 17 year old entrepreneur, Arnav Garg, talks with legendary Thought Experts, Entrepreneurs and VCs. Investigating Pathways was created to uncover the journey that successful individuals take leading up to the launch of their first major company, fund or similar project and how that has influenced their path since then, highlighting major obstacles and learning lessons along the way, helping fellow young entrepreneurs on their journey to success.
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Hooman Radfar on networking, angel investing in Uber and building for freelancers (CEO @ Collective)
Hooman is a co-founder of AddThis, Expa and most recently, Collective as well as an angel investor in multiple multi-billion dollar companies including Uber and SpaceX. Today, I had the pleasure of talking to Hooman about his origin story, how he developed his networks to achieve a 9 figure exit and angel investment philosophy that helped him land deals!
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Breaking into Venture Capital and the Future of DeFi w/ Kevin Zhang (Partner @ Bain Capital) | S2 E8
Kevin is a Partner at Bain Capital and a Venture Partner at Bain Capital Crypto. Today, I had the pleasure of talking to Kevin about his origin story, how he became the youngest partner in Bain Capital history and his takes on the future of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) as an investor involved in the space!
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This Startup is Pushing the Boundaries of Data Activation w/ Kashish Gupta (Hightouch co-founder) | S2 E7
Kashish is a co-founder of Hightouch, which syncs data from warehouses into something that business teams can use and rely on, through a unique process called Reverse ETL. They’ve raised over $50 million in funding and are growing faster than ever in the data activation space! Today, I talked to Kashish about his origin story, how the company pivoted 6 or 7 times before landing on data activation and where he sees the space moving in the future!
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Nihal Mehta on Building a VC Giant | S2 E6
Today, I’m joined by Nihal Mehta, who has founded a host of companies and VC firms, including Urbangroove Networks, ipsh!, India Internet Group and ENIAC Ventures. On today’s episode, we talk through Nihal's early childhood, how that led to him becoming an entrepreneur early on and how he applied lessons from being an entrepreneur to be a successful VC.
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Vasu Prathipati on Becoming An Entrepreneur Right After College | S2 E5
Today, I’m joined by Vasu Prathipati, who is the founder of MaestroQA, a platform that software that helps managers deliver better customer service. On today’s episode, we talk through Vasu’s early childhood, how that affected his decision to become an entrepreneur right out of college and how he improved as an entrepreneur by leveraging resources.
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Breaking into Venture Capital and the Creator Economy with Blake Robbins | S2 E4
Today, I’m joined by Blake Robbins, former partner at Ludlow Ventures and a current partner at Benchmark VC, which backs early stage startups. On today's episode, Blake and I talked about how he broke into venture capital right out of college and began to invest specifically in the creator economy, as well as where he sees the creator economy going in the future!
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