The GoingVC Podcast

The GoingVC Podcast

The GoingVC Podcast - uncovering new paths into VC, diving deeper into alternative models, and addressing areas of weakness with Rachel (@rachmast), and JJ (@jjmaclean) from the GoingVC team. GoingVC is a global community and career development program for venture capital. To learn more or to checkout our guides, content, models and VC research checkout https://www.goingvc.com/blog Feedback? We'd love to hear it: podcast@goingvc.com

Episodes

June 16, 2025 • 38 mins

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Rachel Springate of Muse Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Manish Patel of Nava Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with David Neff of Ecliptic Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Rachel Zimmer of Simple Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Sunny Zhang, founding partner of Born Global Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.


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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Giuseppe Stuto, founding partner of 186 Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com.

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Elisabeth Tuttas of Unshackled VC.

As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Jay Patil and Rusty Ralston of SwellVC.

As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Matt Weinberg of Max Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Kimmy Paluch of Beta Boom. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Maggie Vo and Olivia Gaudree of Fuel Venture Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Jahn Karsybaev, a founding GP at Big Sky Capital. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Greg Ho, cofounder and President at Spring Mountain Capital, and founding partner at the West Harlem Innovation Network. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com


Books mentioned in the episode:


  • Life 3.0: Bei...
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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Brett Martin, Founding Partner of Charge Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Matt Cohen, Founding Partner of Ripple Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Jonah Midanik, Partner at Forum Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Joe Dormani, founding Principal at Thomson Reuters Ventures. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Ray Zhou (@rzhou186), cofounder of Affinity. As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

Episode Chapters:

  1. Introduction - 0:00
  2. Ray’s Origin Story - 1:22
  3. Relationship Intelligence and the VC Tech Stack - 5:43
  4. Affinity’s Evolution - 21:...
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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Stephanie Manning Cohen (@steph_manning07)! As always, if you've got any questions, feedback, guest ideas, or just want to say hey, don't hesitate to shoot us a message at podcast@goingvc.com

Episode Chapters:

  1. Introduction - 0:00
  2. Stephanie’s Origin Story - 1:03
  3. What is ‘Platform’? - 3:44
  4. The Platform Role - 5:43
  5. When Should Firms Star...
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We're really excited to be bringing to you today our conversation with Brad Feld (@bfeld) and Matt Blumberg (@mattblumberg) about the re-release of their book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors

Episode Chapters:

  1. Introduction - 0:00
  2. Brad & Matt’s Origin Stories - 1:31
  3. The Startup Board - 5:01
  4. VCs and the Board - 16:20
  5. Brad & Matt’s Superp...
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