Smart Venture Podcast

083 Jason Kong is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in Series B and later enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jason has invested in and works with companies like Attentive, Brex, Compass (COMP), Cribl, Datadog (DDOG), Discord, Figma, Harness, Niantic, Podium, Slack (WORK), and UiPath (PATH), among others. Prior to a career in venture capital, Jason was a tech investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he worked on numerous IPO and M&A transactions for high-growth tech companies. He was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capital List in 2021.

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082 Kevin Rose is a partner at True Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. He focuses on blockchain, consumer internet, and health/ wellness. Prior to his career at True Ventures, he was a GP at Google Ventures and a serial entrepreneur. He founded Digg, Zero, Oak, and other tech companies. He also invested in Twitter, Facebook, Square, Solana, Ripple, Nextdoor, Medium, Blue Bottle Coffee, and many other iconic companies.

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081 Justin Osofsky is the Chief Operating Officer of Instagram, where he leads oversees Instagram's business functions and is responsible for helping the company scale globally. He is also VP, Global Operations at Facebook. Prior to these roles, Justin was Vice President at Facebook where he most recently led Global Operations and Corporate Development, working in close partnership with the product and policy organizations with the goal of creating a safe, inclusive community for people, businesses, and developers. Justin also oversaw mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and helped the company successfully integrate acquisitions and develop strategic opportunities across Facebook's family of applications.

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080 Devin Finzer is the Co-founder and CEO at OpenSea, the first peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets. OpenSea raised $100 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by A16Z to scale its open NFT marketplace. Prior to founding OpenSea, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma.

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079 Joe Sabia is the founder of Studio Sabia, a content strategy studio that serves companies like Amazon Audible, YouTube Originals, Spotify, Legendary Films and many others. Prior to founding the content studio, he served as the SVP of Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment, where he created Vogue's 73 Questions. Joe helped grow Conde brand's YouTube audience from 1.5M to 46M subscribers, reaching over 550M monthly organic views.

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078 Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of Alameda Research, the quantitative crypto trading firm where he manages $2.5 billion of assets. He also founded FTX, a crypto derivatives exchange. Prior to founding and serving as CEO of the companies, Sam was an ETF trader at Jane Street and a Physics student at MIT. According to Forbes, his net worth is $8.7 Billion at age 29. 

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077 Suzanne Kounkel is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte. She also ran Deloitte's US Consulting Tech sector industry practice, one of Deloitte's largest and fastest growing businesses. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council and is a member of the Adweek Diversity and Inclusion Council as well as ANA's Global CMO Growth Council.

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076 Grant Sanderson is the creator behind 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel using artistic visuals to teach people math. Prior to 3b1b, Grant had worked at Khan Academy where he teaches multivariable calculus. Before that he was an undergrad at Stanford studying maths and CS. Grant's YouTube channel has over 4.11 million subscribers and his videos received over 200 million views.

Fun Fact: We were recently at a cocktail/dinner party and our friends referred to him as the "Taylor Swift of the nerd world."

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075 Nick Thompson is the CEO at The Atlantic. Prior to The Atlantic, he was the former Editor in Chief of Wired. He is also a contributing editor at CBS, a frequent public speaker about technology, and a co-founder of The Atavist, a digital magazine and publishing platform acquired by WordPress. He was also a senior editor at The New Yorker and author of the book "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War."

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074 Chris Voss is the author of Wall Street Journal Bestselling book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On it. He was a former international hostage negotiator for the F.B.I. and he also taught business negotiations in top business schools' MBA programs such as USC, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern and many others. He is currently the CEO and founder of The Black Swan Group Ltd.

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