The Inquisitive VC

John Henderson is a Partner at AirTree Ventures, an Australia and NZ focused venture firm. Prior to AirTree, John was the Founding Principal of White Star Capital.

We talk about his journey to VC, investment biases, Olympus Finance, NFTs and more!

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Julia Lipton is the founder and GP of Awesome People Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on world positive investments. Prior to investing Julia led product and growth teams in Silicon Valley startups.

We talk about her journey to investing, investing in Web 3.0, investment DAOs, raising a fund and more!

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Brandon Kumar is a co-founder of Layer3, a platform that enables anyone to contribute to decentralized autonomous organisations (DAOs). Prior to this Brandon was a Vice President at Accolade Partners a fund of funds, where he focused on investments in crypto funds.

We talk about Brandon’s journey from investing to founding a company, DAOs, Layer3, raising money and more!

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Chris McCann is a General Partner at Race Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund that leads investments in pre-seed and seed-stage technology startups. Prior to Race, Chris was the Community Lead at Greylock Partners and co-founder of Startup Digest, which was acquired by Techstars.

We talk about his journey to investing, Solana, his anti-portfolio, art and more!

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Hayden Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Alpha Impact, a crypto copy-trading platform. Previous to this he worked at Crypto.com and Techemy and is an experienced founder.

We talk about how he got into crypto, starting Alpha Impact, how to balance token and equity investors, DeFi and more!

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Drew Austin is the Managing Partner of Red Beard Ventures, where he invests in Web 3.0 infrastructure and frontier technologies. He is also the former CEO & Founder of Wade & Wendy.

We talk about how Drew got into crypto and NFTs, what he looks for when buying NFTs, the Loot Project, NFTs on other chains and much more!

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Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage product-led growth companies in the future of work & the future of play. Paige is also the author of Seed to Harvest, a book demystifying VC for children and adults. Until recently she was also a Developer Success Engineer at WorkOS.

We talk about her interest in VC, Seed to Harvest, founding a venture fund, Pallet and more!

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Jeff Morris Jr. is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, an early-stage seed fund backed by Sequoia, Marc Andreessen, Kleiner Perkins and many other LPs. Jeff has invested in companies like Lyft, Dapper Labs, Pipe, Superhuman and many more. He was previously the VP of Product, Revenue at Tinder. 

We talk about his learning from deploying a fund, investing in crypto, how he determined his value add and more!

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Kinjal is an early-stage investor at Blockchain Capital, working with founders building the future of crypto. She is also a founding member of Komorebi Collective, a DAO making investments exclusively in female and nonbinary crypto founders. Previously, she spent time at Fidelity Investments and Tufts University.

We talk about Komorebi Collective, crypto consumer products, DAOs, access to information for new users and more!

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Madusha is the founder and CEO of Expo Labs, an Auckland-based venture studio. Currently, Expo Labs is building and scaling in-house brands but will soon invest in and help grow other products and technologies.

Previously Madusha was a founder of EMGN.com, an entertainment, media and gaming site which in 2015 was the 15th most viewed mobile website in the USA. After successfully exiting EMGN, Madusha went on to grow a range of successful e-commerce businesses.

We talk about his journey scaling EMGN, bootstrapping vs raising VC, crypto, e-commerce and more!

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