Fundraising
Operators on capital raises, board management, IPO preparation, and what fundraising looks like from the COO chair.
AI in Operations
45 min read
Seth Levine of Foundry Group on Capital Evolution and AI
Jan 28, 2026
Fundraising
46 min read
Brad Feld on Emotional Operating Systems and Giving First
Jan 20, 2026
AI in Operations
33 min read
Anna Elwood, Cascade COO on Turning Chaos Into Clarity
Oct 28, 2025
AI in Operations
48 min read
Lance Willett, Automattic CQO on Powering 45% of the Web
Jul 23, 2025
AI in Operations
35 min read
Doug Hanna, Kustomer COO on Agentic AI and Modern Ops Teams
Jun 4, 2025
AI in Operations
49 min read
Evan Grossman, True Search MD on Landing a C-Suite Role
Jan 21, 2025
Fundraising
39 min read
Valentin Gruber, HomeToGo COO on M-and-A and Going Public
Jul 16, 2024
Fundraising
42 min read
Tao of GetYourGuide on Building a $2B Travel Giant
Jan 9, 2024
AI in Operations
60 min read
Dan Siroker of Rewind.ai and Optimizely on AI and Memory
Dec 5, 2023
Fundraising
41 min read
Kate Henningsen, Arcadia COO on Clean Tech and Energy
Nov 21, 2023
Hiring & Teams
44 min read
Holger Seim, Blinkist CEO on 21M Users and the 4-Day Workweek
Jan 16, 2023
Hiring & Teams
26 min read
Dale Pfeifer, Goodworld CEO on Social Impact and CSR
Aug 2, 2022
Second In Command
35 min read
Jenny Lawton on the Makerbot $400M Exit and Techstars Ops
Jun 14, 2022
Hiring & Teams
50 min read
Jonathan Stull on Building a $3.5B Marketplace at Handshake
Jun 1, 2022
Hiring & Teams
25 min read
Cyrus Mistry, GoGuardian COO on Google to Startup Jump
May 2, 2022
AI in Operations
42 min read
Art Harding, People.ai COO on Operating Leadership
Apr 11, 2022
Second In Command
37 min read
Angela Tucci, Uplight COO on $1.5B Valuation and B Corps
Mar 17, 2022
Hiring & Teams
35 min read
Nathaniel Manning, Kettle COO on Climate Risk Insurance
Feb 15, 2022
Fundraising
29 min read
Dave Weiss, Hatch COO on Shark Tank and 2M IoT Devices
Feb 8, 2022
Remote Work
19 min read
Doug Hanna, Grafana Labs COO on Open Source at $3B (Pt 1)
Jan 4, 2022
Second In Command
36 min read
Micah Rosenbloom on COO to VC at Founder Collective
Dec 20, 2021
Fundraising
26 min read
Jim Stewart, True Ventures COO on Taking 4 Companies Public
Nov 29, 2021