Sand Hill Road

Sand Hill Road

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Sand Hill Road episodes

  • E03 Exploring chaos engineering with Gremlin co-founder and CTO Matthew Fornaciari

    Gremlin is a fast growing company in the chaos engineering space founded in 2016. The company has pioneered the space by offering failure-as-a-service. So far, Gremlin has raised almost $27m from the likes of Amplify Partners, Index Ventures and Redpoint. In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is joined by co-founder and CTO Matthew Fornaciari to talk about their founder, product and financing journey.

    Check out the Youtube version on: https://channel.sandhillroad.io

    29 min
  • E02 How open-source software is eating software with Joseph Jacks from OSS Capital

    In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Joseph Jacks, founder and general partner at OSS Capital, the first and only VC fund exclusively dedicated to supporting commercial open-source software founders. 

    We discuss the definition of commercial open-source software (COSS) companies and how open-source software is eating software.

    Check out the Youtube version on: https://channel.sandhillroad.io

    1 hr 4 min
  • The direct-to-consumer (DTC) playbook vs. the Amazon model: lessons from Harry's $1.37m exit
    This episode is about the tidal wave of startups which have been termed the direct-to-consumer (DTC) or digitally native vertical brands (DNVB). It's this fleet of niche brands, which are delivering products to consumers primarily online and outside of traditional bricks-and-mortar retail channels. It's the Warby Parkers, the Caspers and the Allbirds of this world. In this episode I'm introducing their business model and compare it to the more traditional Amazon-style online shop model. It's a long episode with lots of examples from the startup journey of firms like: Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, Away, Harry's, Allbirds, Casper, Wish, Brandless, Jet.com and Fab.
    42 min
  • Digitally native vertical brands (DNVB): lessons from Harry's $1.37bn exit
    Harry's, the razor startup, which has been acquired by Edgewell for $1.37bn last week, ist just one example of a tidal wave of startups in what has been termed the direct-to-consumer (DTC) or digitally native vertical brands (DNVB) brands. Other examples include Warby Parker, Casper, Glossier and Allbirds. In this episode I go into the strategy and the return drivers of this strategy and I compare it with the more traditional Amazon ecommerce approach, which is followed by companies like Jet.com, Wish and Brandless.
    35 min
  • No more ‘boring bonehead questions’: How Marc Andreessen is trying to save Silicon Valley from the bean counters

    Tech builders don't like bean counters that's why Silicon Valley has fallen out of love with the public markets over the past decades. In the week of Uber's disappointing IPO, we have seen two of Marc Andreessen's "projects" take the next step in transforming market allocation of tech stocks:  Carta raising $300m at a $1.7bn valuation to build the "world's largest marketplace for private companies" and  Eric Ries' Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) getting approval by the SEC to become the 14th regulated stock exchange in the U.S. I reflect on what this could mean to the way in which we finance innovation in Silicon Valley.

    17 min
  • A quick peek inside of Robinhood's revenue model
    In this episode I'm discussing the revenue model of Robinhood, the famous fintech unicorn, popular with the millenial demographic. It appears that Robinhood is routing a substantial part of its trades to high frequency traders like Citadel and Virtu.
    7 min

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