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Uncapped | Benchmark Breakfast
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Episodes
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastBenchmark Breakfast #1 | Jack and Ev
Benchmark Breakfast is a recurring conversation between Benchmark partners Jack Altman and Ev Randle. It’s a window into the firm’s Monday no-agenda partner…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #58 | David George from a16z
David George is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's growth fund. Before a16z, David was a General Partner at General Atlantic…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #57 | Andrew Feldman from Cerebras
Andrew Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, the AI chip company he founded in 2016 around a single radical insight: that winning in compute…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #56 | Brian Singerman from GPx
Brian Singerman is the co-founder of GPx, a fund launched in 2025 alongside Lee Linden of Quiet Capital. GPx backs elite emerging managers at the early stage…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #55 | Tony Xu from DoorDash
Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, the leading local commerce platform in the United States. Since co-founding DoorDash in 2013, Tony has built the…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #54 | Sam Blond from Monaco
Sam Blond is the co-founder and CEO of Monaco, an AI-native revenue automation platform built to replace the CRM as the system of record for sales. Before…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #53 | Trae and Delian from Founders Fund
Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company building autonomous…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #52 | Mike Volpi from Hanabi Capital
Mike Volpi is a General Partner at Hanabi Capital, with a background that spans senior operating roles and nearly two decades of investing. Mike currently sits…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #51 | Joe Lonsdale from 8VC
Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC, an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $6 billion in capital. In 2003, he founded Palantir…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #50 | Tobi Lütke from Shopify
Tobi Lütke is the co-founder of Shopify, where he has served as the company's CEO since 2008. Under his leadership, Shopify grew from an online snowboard shop…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #49 | Kevin Hartz & Bennett Siegel from A*
Kevin Hartz and Bennett Siegel are co-founders and GPs at A*, a five year old early-stage venture capital firm with $1B in AUM. A* has invested in companies…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #48 | Tarek Mansour from Kalshi
Tarek Mansour is the co-founder and CEO of Kalshi. Kalshi is a regulated prediction market exchange valued at $22B in 2026 where people trade on the outcomes…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #47 | Max Mullen from Instacart
Max Mullen is the co-founder of Instacart and an active investor having invested in 100+ companies including Gumloop, Mercury, Owner among others. He also runs…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #46 | Brad Lightcap from OpenAI
Brad Lightcap serves as OpenAI's COO, overseeing its business, operations, and strategic partnerships across Research, Applied AI, and go-to-market. He also…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #45 | Ron Conway from SV Angel
Ron Conway is the Founder and a Managing Partner of SV Angel. He has been an active angel investor since the mid-90s and has received wide recognition for his…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #44 | Max Junestrand from Legora
At 23, with no legal background, Max Junestrand co-founded Legora to transform how lawyers work. Legora recently (March 2026) raised $550 million at a $5.55…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #43 | Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, and Jared Friedman from YC
In this episode, the team behind Y Combinator reflects on what has — and hasn’t — changed since the early days of YC, and how AI is reshaping what it means to…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #42 | Bret Taylor from Sierra
Bret Taylor is the founder and CEO of Sierra, an AI agent company transforming customer service. Bret’s legendary career includes being CTO of Meta, co-CEO of…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #41 | The Benchmark Partnership
In this episode, the Benchmark partnership explains why they’ve resisted scale, eliminated residual economics, and built an equal partnership designed to…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #40 | Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois are Managing Directors at Khosla Ventures. Vinod is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed Khosla…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #39 | Daniele Perito from depthfirst
Daniele Perito is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #38 | Ben Horowitz from a16z
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $60 billion in assets…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #37 | Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners
Saam Motamedi is a General Partner at Greylock Partners working with enterprise software entrepreneurs at the seed and early stages who are focused on new…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #36 | Pat Grady & Alfred Lin from Sequoia
Pat Grady and Alfred Lin are partners at Sequoia and were recently named as the storied firm’s new co-stewards. Alfred joined the firm in 2010, where he has…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #35 | Trae Stephens from Founders Fund
Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund. He is also Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril, a defense tech company focused on autonomous systems, and…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #34 | Mel Williams from TrueBridge
Mel Williams is a co-founder and Partner at TrueBridge Capital Partners, a fund of funds with $8 billion in AUM focused on venture capital. Since 2007, Mel’s…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #33 | Vlad Tenev from Robinhood
Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), which transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading and…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #32 | Kyle Vogt from The Bot Company
Kyle Vogt is a serial entrepreneur and engineer often recognized as the co-founder and former CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company acquired by General…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #31 | Dylan Field from Figma
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #30 | Alex Pall from The Chainsmokers
Alex Pall is half of the Grammy Award-winning duo The Chainsmokers. Beyond music, Alex is entrepreneur and co-founder of Mantis VC, a venture firm that invests…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #29 | Thomas Laffont from Coatue
Thomas Laffont is the co-founder of Coatue, one of the world’s largest technology investment platforms active in both the public and private markets. Thomas…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #28 | Roelof Botha from Sequoia
Roelof Botha joined Sequoia in 2003 and serves as the managing partner and steward. Roelof led early investments in YouTube, Instagram, Natera, and MongoDB…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #27 | Vince Hankes from Thrive Capital
Vince Hankes is a Partner at Thrive Capital where he’s worked on investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks, and Stripe among others. Vince invests across all…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #26 | Ali Rowghani
Ali Rowghani is the founder of First Harmonic, a go-to-market program purpose-built for seed stage founders. Ali has had a long, distinguished career in tech…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #25 | Lulu Cheng Meservey
Lulu Cheng Meservey is the leading voice in the new age of PR and comms and is the founder of Rostra, an advisory firm helping founders go direct. Lulu has…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #24 | Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, and WSJ bestselling author of The Network State. He is currently the founder of The Network School, a…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #23 | Martin Casado from a16z
Martin Casado is a general partner at a16z, where he leads the firm’s $1.25 billion infrastructure practice. Martin has led investments in Cursor, dbt Labs…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #22 | Greg Rosen from BoxGroup
Greg Rosen is a Partner at BoxGroup. Greg was the first hire at BoxGroup outside of the founders, David Tisch and Adam Rothenberg. After moving to the West…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #21 | Brian Armstrong from Coinbase
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency company that provides exchange, brokerage, and custody services to 100M+…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #20 | Guillermo Rauch from Vercel
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 which is one of the most popular AI app building tools that’s helping power the online…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #19 | Dwarkesh Patel
In his early twenties, Dwarkesh Patel has become one of the leading podcasters with nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers excited to consume his…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #18 | Peter Fenton from Benchmark
Peter Fenton is the longest-serving full-time partner at Benchmark, a renowned venture firm known for its artisanal approach and deep alignment with founders…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #17 | Christina Cacioppo from Vanta
Christina Cacioppo is cofounder and CEO of Vanta, which is on a mission to secure the internet and protect consumer data. The trust management platform was…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #16 | Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner Perkins
Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #15 | Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures
Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed Khosla Ventures to focus on both for-profit and social impact investments…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #14 | Dan Feder from the University of Michigan
It was a pleasure to sit down with Dan Feder, Senior Managing Director with the University of Michigan Investment Office who leads the endowment’s investments…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #13 | Sam Altman from OpenAI
This was a fun one! Sam is my brother and the CEO of a small company in SF called OpenAI. I’m glad he was able to take time out of his busy schedule to give me…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #12 | Marc Andreessen from a16z
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $45 billion in assets…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #11 | Jordan Bramble from Antares
Jordan Bramble is the CEO of Antares, a nuclear energy company that has raised over $50M to become America’s industrial base partner for special-purpose…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #10 | David Tisch from BoxGroup
This week I enjoyed riffing with David Tisch, Managing Partner of BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an NYC-based seed stage venture capital firm that has invested in over…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #9 | Qasar Younis from Applied Intuition
I had a blast sitting down with Qasar Younis, Co-Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a company that’s on a mission to accelerate the world’s adoption of safe…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #8 | Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital
It was a pleasure to sit down this week with Josh Kopelman, one of the original architects of seed stage investing who continues to re-invent what it means to…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #7 | Garry Tan from Y Combinator
This week I sat down with Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator. YC has funded 5,000+ startups including Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Rippling, and Reddit…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #6 | Elad Gil
It’s always a pleasure to jam with Elad Gil, a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. As an early leader at Google, Elad helped build the initial mobile…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #5 | Sarah Guo from Conviction
I was pumped to chat this week with Sarah Guo. Sarah is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #4 | Adam Guild from Owner
Adam Guild is the CEO of Owner, a business he started when he was only 17. It now has tens of millions of revenue, hundreds of employees, and thousands of…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #3 | Aaron Levie from Box
This week I sat down with Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Box. Aaron came up with the idea behind the cloud computing company as a 19 year old college…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #2 | Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
This week I enjoyed speaking quickly with Keith Rabois, a Managing Director at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore. At Khosla, Keith led the first…
Uncapped | Benchmark BreakfastUncapped #1 | Shaun Maguire from Sequoia
This week I spoke with Shaun Maguire, a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He led their investments into SpaceX, The Boring Co, and X among others. Prior to Sequoia…