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The Slow Hunch
The Slow Hunch explores how big ideas form over long periods of time. Big innovations are often characterised as single “eureka” moments, when in fact they're often the culmination of many smaller ideas coalescing over a long period of time. On this podcast, USV's Nick Grossman explores how those ideas took shape, and the nonlinear paths of the people behind them.
Episodes
- The Slow Hunch
Meltem Demirors (Crucible Capital)
My conversation with Meltem Demirors, founder of Crucible. Meltem has spent much of her career thinking about the relationship between scarce physical…
- The Slow Hunch
Jesse Walden (Variant Fund)
My conversation with Jesse Walden, founder and managing partner of Variant. Jesse has spent most of his career pulling on one idea: technology is most…
- The Slow Hunch
Clyde Lawrence (Lawrence)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Clyde Lawrence, co-founder and co-band leader of Lawrence, about what it really means to build an independent…
- The Slow Hunch
Matthew Prince (Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare…
- The Slow Hunch
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Alex Komoroske, the co-founder and CEO of Common Tools. Alex has spent his career thinking about how individual…
- The Slow Hunch
MC Lader & Marvin Ammori (Uniswap)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with MC Lader and Marvin Ammori, who spent four years together helping build Uniswap into one of the most important…
- The Slow Hunch
Dan Romero & Varun Srinivasan (Co-founders of Farcaster)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, the co-founders of Farcaster. Farcaster is a social app and protocol that is…
- The Slow Hunch
Ben Leventhal (Founder & CEO, Blackbird)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird. Ben has spent the past two decades reimagining the restaurant…
- The Slow Hunch
Juan Benet (Protocol Labs)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Juan Benet, the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs. Juan is best known for creating IPFS and Filecoin—two…
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The Slow Hunch (Best of Season 1)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I’ve pulled together some of the best moments from Season 1. Across these conversations, what stood out was how many…
- The Slow Hunch
Aaron Wright (Co-founder & CEO of Tribute Labs)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Aaron Wright, the co-founder and CEO of Tribute Labs. Aaron has been exploring how to harness the collective…
- The Slow Hunch
Jay Graber (CEO of Bluesky)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky. Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter under Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was…
- The Slow Hunch
Fred Wilson & Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
In this special episode of the Slow Hunch, I sat down with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, founding partners of USV. Since founding USV in 2003, Fred and Brad…
- The Slow Hunch
Jake Heller (Co-founder & CEO of Casetext)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Jake Heller, co-founder and CEO of Casetext, a legal tech startup that pioneered the use of large language…
- The Slow Hunch
Amir Haleem (Founder of Helium, CEO of Nova Labs)
I spoke with Amir Haleem, founder of Helium and CEO of Nova Labs, about his journey building the world's largest decentralized wireless networks. Amir started…
- The Slow Hunch
Zoe Weinberg (Founder, ex/ante)
In this episode, I spoke to Zoe Weinberg, founder and managing partner of ex/ante, a venture fund focused on technology that enhances human agency. Zoe…
- The Slow Hunch
Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev)
In this episode, I spoke to Dani Grant, CEO of Jam.dev, a tool that reimagines the way software teams communicate about and fix bugs. Dani brings an infectious…
- The Slow Hunch
Steven Johnson (Author, Editorial lead at NotebookLM and Google Labs)
In this episode, I spoke to Steven Johnson - one of my favorite authors and thinkers. Steven has written 14 popular books, including “Where Good Ideas Come…
- The Slow Hunch
Muneeb Ali (Co-founder of Stacks)
In this episode, I spoke to Muneeb Ali, the co-founder of Stacks — a Bitcoin L2 that aims to make BTC more programmable and scalable. At USV, we originally…
- The Slow Hunch
Fraser Kelton (GP at Spark Capital, former Head of Product at OpenAI)
I spoke to Fraser Kelton, General Partner at Spark Capital and the former Head of Product at OpenAI. Fraser played a key role in the launch of ChatGPT, which…