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StrictlyVC Download
Each week TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos, and Alex Gove, a former journalist, VC and operating exec who today runs StrictlyVC, interview a mover and shaker in the world of tech
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What Limited Partners Want Now with TrueBridge Partners and LGT Partners
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're sharing a conversation recorded live at StrictlyVC during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco. Connie Loizos sits…
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Public Backlash, Surveillance Expansion
This week we're sharing a conversation from TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where host Connie Loizos sits down with Flock Safety founder and CEO Garrett Langley to…
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Benchmark's Five Partners on AI, IPOs, and Silicon Valley's Comeback
This week we're sharing a conversation from TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, host Connie Loizos sits down with all five partners at Benchmark—Peter Fenton, Erik…
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Al Gore on the $4.5 Trillion Clean Energy Opportunity
In this episode, Connie and Alex are joined by former Vice President Al Gore and Lila Preston, head of growth equity at Generation Investment Management, to…
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Keith Rabois on Why the AI Bubble Fears Are Overblown
Is the AI boom a bubble, or just the biggest productivity unlock in a generation?For this episode, we're sharing a conversation from StrictlyVC New York 2026…
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Grindr CEO is betting on AI to solve online dating's biggest problem
In this episode of StrictlyVc Download, Connie and Alex sit down with Grindr CEO George Arison to talk about how he’s transformed the company since taking over…
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The Anti-a16z? Vijay Pande’s Bet on a Tiny, AI-Native VC Firm
In this episode, Connie is joined by Vijay Pande, co-founder of VZ and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to discuss why he believes AI is poised…
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Equity Replay: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough
This week we'r sharing a conversation from our colleagues at TechCrunch's Equity. Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9…
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Why Founders Fund Backed a Fish Robotics Startup
Much of American-caught fish is processed overseas, and often in China, before it comes back to the U.S. Shinkei wants to change that with robotics, computer…
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Reed Jobs Is Betting Cancer Doesn’t Have to Be Fatal
In this episode, Connie and Alex are joined by Reed Jobs, founder and managing partner of Yosemite, to discuss the firm’s ambitious mission to make cancer…
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Uber’s Chief Product Officer on Travel, AI Agents, and Playing Both Sides of the Robotaxi Race
In this episode, Connie Loizos sits down with Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal to discuss the company's expanding vision beyond ride-hailing, from…
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The Race to Build the First Real Humanoid Robot Business with Peggy Johnson from Agility
In this episode, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove sit down with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson following the company's announcement that it will go public…
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Is Your AI Actually Worth What You're Spending? with Parker Conrad
In this episode, Connie Loizos sits down with Rippling founder and CEO Parker Conrad to discuss the company's biggest product launch in years: Rippling Data…
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Is There an AI Bubble? VCs on Valuations and ARR Inflation
This episode features a conversation recorded live at StrictlyVC LA in El Segundo between Connie Loizos, Cheng Xu, partner at Basis Set Ventures, and Carter…
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The return of the Consumer Gold Rush? What Chi-Hua Chien is betting on next
In this episode, Connie and Alex talk with Goodwater Capital co-founder Chi-Hua Chien, whose career spans some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology shifts…
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Runway and HOLYWATER TECH: Two AI Companies Trying to Upend Entertainment
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're bringing you a conversation from our recent event in Athens. Connie Loizos spoke with Anastasis Germanidis: Co-Founder…
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What VCs think about SpaceX, AI-valuation fever and where to bet next
For this episode of StrictlyVC Download, we're bringing you a conversation from the StrictlyVC Athens event. Connie Loizos sat down with three seasoned…
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Eclipse Ventures Co-Founder Lior Susan's Insights Into a $1.3B Bet on Physical AI
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're sharing and interview from our 2026 event in San Francisco with TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin and Lior Susan who is…
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Inside Stanford's Secret Tech Elite (And the Freshman Who Exposed It)
In this episode, we talk with Theo Baker, a soon-to-be Stanford graduate and author of How to Rule the World, about what he found when he traded his coding…
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CEO Amjad Masad on How Replit Is Changing Who Gets to Build Software
This week, we're sharing a conversaiton from Strictly VC's recent event in San Francisco. Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad joined Connie Loizos to talk…
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Is Airwallex Undervalued or is Stripe Overvalued?
In this episode, we talk with Airwallex cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang about building a global financial infrastructure company by taking the long, unglamorous…
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How secondary markets are pricing SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they go public
In this episode, Connie Loizos talks with Rainmaker Securities managing director Glen Anderson about the surge in the secondary market as investors race to buy…
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High tech herding with Craig Piggott, Halter
In this episode, we talk with Halter founder and CEO Craig Pigott about building a $2 billion agtech company that’s transforming how farmers manage livestock…
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The wearable you’re never supposed to stop wearing with Will Ahmed of WHOOP
WHOOP founder and CEO Will Ahmed joins Connie Loizos and Alex Gove on StrictlyVC Download to discuss the company’s evolution from a niche wearable for elite…
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Is Ring building towards safer neighborhoods or neighborhood surveillance?
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff joins Connie Loizos and Alex Gove on StrictlyVC Download to discuss the company’s new AI-powered Search Party feature, which aims…
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The AI Safety Showdown: Max Tegmark on government, Anthropic, and what’s next
In this episode of StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove sit down with MIT AI researcher Max Tegmark to discuss the growing clash between AI…
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Future-Proofing work in the age of automation with Bill Gurley
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos talks with Bill Gurley, longtime venture capitalist, former Benchmark partner, and author of the new book…
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Rethinking series A in the age of mega funds
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos talks with Stacy Brown-Philpot, founder and managing partner of Cherryrock Capital. After a decade at Google…
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How Tether became crypto's most profitable company—and what it's building next
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos talks with Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, the company behind USDT, the world's largest stablecoin. With 536…
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Airtable is betting big on a standalone ai agent that could replace its own product
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove talk with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable. On Tuesday, Liu announced the launch of…
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Working in orbit: what happens when space goes blue-collar?
In this episode, Connie Loizos speaks with Mary Jane Rubenstein, a professor of religion and science and technology studies at Wesleyan University and author…
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Why VCs think consumer AI hasn't lived up to the hype
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're sharing a conversation with Goodwater Capital founder Chi-Hua Chien and Scribble Ventures founder Elizabeth Weil. They…
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True Ventures' contrarian playbook: High ownership, low noise
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove talk with Jon Callaghan, managing partner at True Ventures. Callaghan has spent two decades…
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Competing in the post-Humane AI wearables era with Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re sharing a conversation from our event in Palo Alto, where TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin spoke with Mina Fahmi, the…
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Building and losing iRobot: Why Colin Angle thinks the FTC is to blame
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos spoke with Conlin Angle, the founder and former CEO of iRobot. Fom his living room into a household name, Angle…
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X-Light's Nicholas Kelez and Pat Gelsinger on government-backed chips
Pat Gelsinger spent 35 years across two stints at Intel, most recently as CEO. Nicholas Kelez is the CEO of X-Light, a semiconductor startup developing…
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Brain-computer interfaces are coming faster than you think
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos spoke with Science Corp founder Max Hodak to discuss how brain-computer interfaces are arriving faster than…
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Why Kevin Hartz is betting big on teenage founders
In this episode, TechCrunch's editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Kevin Hartz, the serial entrepreneur behind Zoom and Eventbrite who's now managing…
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Equity: Startups should rethink how they pursue sales and traction, according to VC Tim Chen
This week we're sharing an interview from our friends over at Equity. After a small startup exit and being turned down by every VC firm he applied to, Tim Chen…
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Astro Teller isn’t afraid of killing ideas; here’s why
TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet’s X, to explore what it takes to build a factory for…
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Why Harvey's Hardest Problem Isn't AI—It's Multi-Entity Collaboration
In this episode, TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, and StrictlyVC’s Alex Gove, sit down with Winston Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Harvey, the…
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Vinod Khosla on softening the blow from AGI, and other future bets
In this episode recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, TechCrunch's editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, talks with Vinod Khosla about entrepreneurship in the…
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Roelof Botha on Sequoia, startup building, and Washington -- days before stepping down
In this episode recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, talks with Roelof Botha about Sequoia’s approach to…
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UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts on pushing his university into the AI age
This week on Strictly VC Download, Connie Loizos sits down with Lee Roberts, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to discuss his…
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How Hans Swildens pulled off a blockbuster Goldman Sachs sale, and what it means for venture liquidity
This week's episode of StrictlyVC Download features Hans Swildens, founder of Industry Ventures, discussing his firm's transaction with Goldman Sachs that…
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The politics of AI: OpenAI’s Chris Lehane on AI’s promise and peril
This week’s episode of StrictlyVC Download was recorded live at the Elevate Festival in Toronto. TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos sat down with Chris…
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How Monarch Collective scored some of the biggest early deals in women's sports
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos speaks with Kara Nortman, co-founder of Monarch Collective, the first fund dedicated…
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How Replit went from $2.8M to $150M ARR by pivoting away from professional developers
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos and StrictlyVC's Alex Gove spoke with with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit…
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Google Cloud's COO isn't stressed about landing the AI giants with Francis deSouza
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Francis deSouza, the renowned entrepreneur, operator and, since January…
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How the world's energy economics flipped with Al Gore and Lila Preston
his week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos sits down with former Vice President Al Gore and Lila Preston to explore their ninth annual…
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General Catalyst's plan to eat the $16 trillion services market
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos and StrictlyVC's Alex Gove sit down with Marc Bhargava, partner at General Catalyst, to explore…
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Adeo Ressi and Sarah Lacy call B.S. on the shrinking emerging manager narrative
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos and StrictlyVC's Alex Gove sit down with Adeo Ressi, founder of Decile Group, and Sarah Lacy…
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Uncork Capital on 21 years of venture cycles—and what's different about this one
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Techcrunch EIC Connie Loizos talks with Uncork Capital honchos Jeff Clavier and Andy McLoughlin. They discuss how their…
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Seven Seven Six bets on moonshots that are mining on the actual moon
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos speaks with Katelin Holloway, co-founder of Seven Seven Six, the generalist firm…
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The $20B LP View: AI Valuations, Solo GPs, and What's Really Happening in Venture
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos and Alex Gove of StrictlyVC speak with Lara Banks, who leads venture investing at…
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A VC's take on the billion dollar AI researcher gold rush
This week we're sharing an interview from the Equity podcast. Rebecca Bellan chatted with Deedy Das, principal at Menlo Ventures. Das has seen this shift from…
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This Greek startup is challenging defense giants, and attracting attention, with its low-cost autonomous weapon systems
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos and Alex Gove of StrictlyVC speak with Dimitrious Kottas, the founder and CEO of Delian Alliance…
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VC Aileen Lee Still Sees the Most Promise in Mundane Tech (Re-Release)
In this episode we're revisiting Connie Loizos' conversation with Aileen Lee, the founder of Cowboy Ventures. They discuss what’s on the horizon for Cowboy…
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Mayfield's Navin Chaddha on the $5 trillion AI services revolution
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Mayfield managing partner Navin Chaddha joins Connie Loizos at our event in Menlo Park to break down why the $5 trillion…
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Drive Capital's Columbus gamble is paying off
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch EIC Connie Loizos is joined by Drive Capital co-founder Chris Olsen. Chris explains how Drive's contrarian…