YESTERDAY Podcast

Episode #11 of Yesterday:

This week, we cover the life story of Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel.

Rauch grew up in Lanús, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself to code and by 11, he was freelancing online for clients abroad. In his teens, he became well-known for creating several influential open-source projects, including Socket.IO and Mootools.

Rauch then dropped out of high school ...

Episode #10 of Yesterday:

This week, we cover the life story of John Andrew Entwistle.

He was once a Formula race car driver, during which he broke his back multiple times, and he even threw a house party that shut down his entire town.

Amidst similar teenage years, John Andrew was sued by Microsoft, where he subsequently cc’d his dad on the email — a famed lawyer who did the Bernie Madoff and FTX cases.

Later on, John Andrew became a ...

Episode #9 of Yesterday:

Jessica Mah is the founder of inDinero and Mahway, a venture studio backing companies in aerospace, legaltech, and biotech.

We discussed growing up in Westchester to immigrant parents, teaching herself to code at 10, and burning out from her first startup by 14. At 15, she dropped out of high school, enrolled in college, and later founded inDinero through Y Combinator at just 19 — at the time, the youngest fe...

Episode #8 of Yesterday:

Joshua Browder is the founder of DoNotPay, a legal tech company that automates consumer rights protection.

We discuss the Russian mafia stalking his family, interviewing Warren Buffett at 18, building DoNotPay to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and much more.

Josh is also a Thiel Fellow, Stanford dropout, and prominent early-stage investor.

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Episode #7 of Yesterday:

Jack Altman is the founder of Lattice, a now multi-billion dollar company. He recently launched Alt Capital, a 150M early-stage venture fund.

We discuss Jack’s suburban upbringing and going from Princeton to quitting investment banking in his first year. This led to a start in venture capital, followed by a tenure at Teespring, the fastest-growing YC company at the time, and the eventual origins of Lattice.

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Episode #6 of Yesterday:

Haseeb Qureshi is a former professional poker player and now the founder of Dragonly, a crypto-focused venture firm managing $3B+.

We discussed growing up in Texas to immigrant parents, his foray into the internet, and how he turned $50 into many millions with poker—a feat his Muslim parents thought was fake. From there, we explored the controversial end of his poker career and his early beginnings in tech an...

Episode #5 of Yesterday:

Spenser Skates is the founder of Amplitude, a digital analytics platform.

We discussed growing up in Boston to immigrant parents, his struggle of feeling like he wasn’t amazing at anything, and his path to quant, YC, and Amplitude. Spenser was mentored by Sam Altman and the now legendary Matt Huang of Paradigm, among others.

Way back, Amplitude spun out of his previously hot yet failed company, Sonalight (YC ...

Episode #4 of Yesterday:Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, the leading research and consulting firm for AI infrastructure and buildouts. Their publication is broadly respected, and they sell data to many hyperscalers and AI labs. In this episode, almost all of what we discussed has never been said publicly. We cover Dylan’s small-town upbringing, a stretch where he felt lost in life & traveled the world, the start of S...

Episode #3 of Yesterday:

Brian Distelburger co-founded Yext, which he helped grow from a small startup into a public company valued at over $1 billion. He is also on the board of Tech NYC.

In this episode, we dive into Brian’s early years and the formative lessons that shaped his entrepreneurial mindset. We talk about his first ventures, building Yext, navigating the company’s growth, going public on the NYSE, and more.

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Episode #2 of Yesterday:Chad Byers co-founded Susa Ventures, now managing over $1 Billion. He’s the seed investor in many unicorns, most notably Robinhood, turning his first investment of $250K into $400M.In this episode, we start by discussing his early years and timeless principles instilled by his dad, Brook Byers, who co-founded the legendary Kleiner Perkins. We then discuss selling on Ebay in his teenage years, his time in col...

Episode #1 of Yesterday:

Kevin Hartz co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Xoom (IPO & acq. PayPal), and A*, an early-stage venture firm managing hundreds of millions of dollars. Recently, he also co-founded Sauron, a high-end home security company.

Kevin has been an early angel investor in PayPal, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, Pinterest, Palantir, Anduril, and many more companies worth tens of billions.

In this episode, we start...