The Logan Bartlett Show

Mike Volpi is a top AI investor and GP at Index Ventures, where he’s invested in companies such as Confluent, Scale AI, Sonos, and many others. In our discussion, Mike reveals the frameworks he uses for making investment decisions and his predictions on the trajectory of the AI wave. He also shares stories from his early career at Cisco, what made him lean in early into machine learning, how he views his role as a board member, and much more.

(00:00) Intro

(02:49) The Genesis of AI Investments and Understanding Human Logic

(03:46) The Journey of Learning and Investing in AI

(05:34) The Evolution of Technology and its Impact on Investments

(09:17) The Role of Optimism and Pragmatism in Venture Capital

(15:43) The Influence of AI on Equity Value

(21:53) The Role of Government and Private Sector in AI Regulation

(25:56) Investment Strategies and Decision Making

(31:50) The Art of Investing in Young Entrepreneurs

(35:58) Reflections on Career and Lessons Learned

(38:55) Mentorship and Nurturing Young Venture Capitalists

(40:12) The Art of Mentoring in Venture Capital

(41:00) Empowering Partners: A Case Study

(41:35) The Power of Frameworks in Decision Making

(43:19) Understanding Your Weaknesses as an Investor

(44:24) The Painful Misses in Investment

(46:18) Redefining Yourself for Growth

(49:26) Embracing Mistakes in Venture Capital

(51:46) Learning from the Titans of Venture Capital

(55:18) The Value of Market Leaders in M&A

(59:17) The Journey from Italy to Silicon Valley

(01:11:18) Lessons from Being a CEO

(01:14:28) Reflections on Personal Growth and Learning

(01:15:29) Transitioning from Operator to Venture Capitalist

(01:17:30) The Philosophy and Strategy of Index Ventures

(01:20:20) The Role of a Board Member and Building Personal Brand

(01:32:20) Lessons from Serving on the Board of Ferrari

(01:38:08) Advice for Young Professionals in the Tech Industry

(01:41:30) State of the Venture Capital Industry Today

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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George Kurtz is the CEO of CrowdStrike, a $65B+ public cybersecurity company. In this episode, George reveals the surprising intricacies of paying ransom and discusses how CrowdStrike is dealing with increasing cybercrime in the age of AI. We also talk about CrowdStrike’s early days, including how the company found product market fit and the operating frameworks that brought them to the forefront of cybersecurity today. (0:00) Intro

(1:52) The Journey to Founding CrowdStrike

(2:38) The Difference Between Stopping Malware and Stopping Breaches

(3:27) Inspiration Behind CrowdStrike's Unique Approach

(4:30) Challenges of Building a New Architecture in Cybersecurity

(5:10) The Decision to Leave McAfee and Start CrowdStrike

(8:11) Early Days of CrowdStrike: Building the Product and Offering Services

(9:45) Unexpected Beginnings of CrowdStrike's Intelligence Product

(10:33) The Role of Incident Response in Cybersecurity

(11:16) Journey to Becoming a Software Business

(14:36) Evolution of CrowdStrike's Product Offering

(19:54) The Importance of Building Trust and Credibility in Cybersecurity

(20:27) The Role of Nation States and Cybercrime in the Growth of Cybersecurity Threats

(25:09) Experience of Handling High-Profile Cybersecurity Incidents

(26:16) The Importance of Having the Right Investors and Board Members

(34:08) The Strategy Behind Competing with Big Players Like Microsoft

(42:09) The Importance of Having the Right Team and Leadership

(43:53) The Challenges and Rewards of Scaling a Cybersecurity Company

(48:49) Hiring and Retaining the Right People

(49:49) Understanding Different Types of Salespeople

(51:52) The Importance of Marketing and PR in Business

(55:59) The Role of Nation State, E Crime, and Hacktivism in Cybersecurity

(1:05:03) Impact of AI on Cybersecurity

(1:09:36) The Importance of Password Security

(1:10:41) New SEC Reporting Rule for Cybersecurity Breaches

(1:14:48) The Role of AI in the Future of Cybersecurity

(1:17:42) The Journey to Entrepreneurship

(1:19:58) Importance of Timing in Starting a Business

(1:25:06) Impact of Early Life Experiences on Entrepreneurship

(1:26:58) The Role of Sports in Developing Leadership Skills

(1:29:41) Transition from Accounting to Entrepreneurship

(1:29:55) Importance of Timing and Market Readiness in Entrepreneurship

(1:35:32) The Role of Teamwork in Business Success

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

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Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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Eric Vishria and I both got into venture in 2014 and both focus on enterprise software. In episode 90, we discuss Eric’s unique approach to investments and what he looks for in founders and companies.

We go back and forth on his model versus mine, as well as Eric's background, having grown up in Memphis and graduating from Stanford at 19 years old before joining LoudCloud, which became Opsware with Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen.

(0:00) Intro

(1:20) The role of venture capitalists

(5:52) Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

(12:00) commonalities in investments that you haven't done

(14:05) The best CEOs

(17:40) The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Business

(21:16) The role of market trends in investment decisions

(27:46) Reflecting on investment successes

(39:41) Benefits as an investor vs board member

(42:17) From Memphis to Stanford

(44:29) The early days at LoudCloud

(46:49) The Aspiration to be a Great CEO

(49:33) The Journey to Joining Benchmark

(53:20) Bringing new people to Benchmark

(1:01:26) The Evolution of Early Stage Investing

(1:14:07) What career advice would you give?

(1:19:56) The value of Benchmark’s Dinners

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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It’s been a wild year for The Logan Bartlett Show, starting with a rebranding and ending with our 50th episode of the year. We’ve pieced together the top 12 most unforgettable moments from 2023, including our favorite wacky untold stories from tech’s inner circle & the most profound insights of 2023.

(0:00) Intro

(1:30) Satish and Scott (Partners, Redpoint) roasting Logan for becoming a media personality

(2:22) Matthew Prince (CEO, Cloudflare) exposing Cloudflare’s 1st customers: Turkish escorts

(8:37) Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic) predicts the future of AI

(23:47) Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB) gives 3 steps for holding people accountable

(30:03) Jack Altman (CEO, Lattice) joking about growing up with Sam

(33:24) Daniel Ek (CEO, Spotify) on money and happiness

(41:42) Matt Mochary (CEO Coach to Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Naval) shares his hiring and firing frameworks

(51:06) Elad Gill (Solo Capitalist) on how to build a legendary career in tech

(54:17) Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI Safety Expert) on the risks of AI doom

(1:00:05) Zach Weinberg (CEO, Curie.Bio) on the best way to learn anything

(1:07:38) Brian Halligan (Co-Founder, Hubspot) on surviving a terrible snowmobiling accident

(1:14:59) Keith Rabois (Partner, Founders Fund) lists key traits in founders and younger investors

(1:18:18) Emmett Shear (Co-Founder, Twitch) on his top advice for founders

(1:26:47) Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann (Co-Authors of Founder VS Investor) debate founder versus investor perspectives

(1:30:17) Laela Sturdy (Managing Partner, CapitalG) on what all the best investments have in common

Watch the full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw_q3IWeBJr6a8cgSaDGJhGWlKN3q5db

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In the episode, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps dives into Confluent's transformation from a LinkedIn spin-out to a publicly traded company. He discusses the challenges of turning an open-source project into a thriving commercial venture and the bold decision to launch a second product while the first was thriving. Additionally, Jay opens up about his transition into the role of CEO, how he only went to one year of high school, and his unique philosophies about steering startups to success.

(0:00) Intro

(1:26) How being a writer benefited Jay as a CEO

(3:05) Building a management team

(13:28) The Role of Titles in a Company

(17:54) Only Going To One Year of High School

(23:02) The Decision to Pursue Computer Science

(31:05) The Birth of Project Kafka

(34:32) Reflections on the Success of Kafka

(36:47) Launching an Open Source Project

(37:43) The Power of Product Marketing

(39:35) Should You Be A Founder?

(42:00) The Transition from Individual Contributor to CEO

(47:51) Navigating the Public Markets

(1:09:46) What's Wrong With Hybrid Work

(1:14:27) Navigating Politics in the Workplace

(1:17:36) Why Fairness Matters

(1:26:51) The Evolution of Open Source

(1:35:22) The Future of Artificial Intelligence

(1:43:41) The Shift from Using Software to Becoming Software

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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Nikesh Arora became the CEO of Palo Alto Networks with no cybersecurity domain expertise and has grown the company from $18B to nearly $100B in under 6 years. In the episode, we discuss some of the greatest learnings from revolutionizing Palo Alto Networks into a powerhouse, his celebrated M&A strategy, and stories from his wide-ranging career path.

Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh was Chairman and COO of Softbank, working alongside Masa to make investments. Before that, he spent time scaling T-Mobile in Europe as CMO then spent a decade at Google as CBO. Hear how Nikesh has consistently succeeded in each new role and built a prolific career across industries.

(0:00) Intro

(1:13) The Benefits of Being a Generalist

(2:20) Acquiring Domain Expertise

(4:05) The Constant Learning Curve in Cybersecurity

(5:07) Understanding the Cybersecurity Industry

(9:19) Nikesh's 3 Rules For M&A

(20:04) The Role of Marketing and Storytelling in Tech

(24:57) Leadership and Management in Large Companies

(35:49) The Challenge of Scaling and Managing People

(36:43) Transitioning Roles and the Importance of Skill Sets

(38:01) The Art of Making Successful Career Choices

(38:36) The Journey from Analyst to Tech Entrepreneur

(43:44) The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business

(50:43) The Importance of Product Obsession in Tech Leadership

(52:52) The Journey from India to the U.S. and the Pursuit of Education

(1:01:04) Venturing into the World of Investment and Venture Capital

(1:05:54) The Mission-Driven Aspect of Cybersecurity

(1:07:21) Romanticizing the Past: A Perspective on Life and Career

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

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Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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Luis von Ahn is the CEO and Co-Founder of Duolingo, the world’s #1 language learning application. In the episode, Luis shares the marketing formula they use to drive rapid user growth, including the backstory of Duolingo’s famous owl mascot that has become a viral internet sensation. Luis also dives into the A/B testing and product gamification experiments that have helped make Duolingo a $9B public company, as well as a handful of valuable lessons from his entrepreneurial journey.

(0:00) Intro

(0:54) Building a Culture of Iteration and Continuous Improvement

(2:29) The Importance of User Retention in Duolingo's Growth

(3:24) The Power of A/B Testing in Product Development

(7:57) Balancing User Feedback and Data in Product Design

(10:24) The Role of Marketing in Duolingo's Growth

(15:54) The Importance of Setting Constraints in Product Development

(18:35) The Role of Metrics in Decision Making

(24:02) The Power of Viral Marketing and Memes in Brand Building

(30:44) The Impact of Social Media Marketing on User Acquisition

(35:41) The Impact of Passive Aggressive Notifications

(37:42) Dealing with Controversial Content and Backlash

(42:40) The Importance of Being Scrappy in Marketing

(45:13) The Challenges of Teaching Languages

(49:25) The Importance of User Retention in Duolingo

(51:14) The Journey to Monetizing Duolingo

(56:40) The Challenges of Introducing Monetization in Duolingo

(1:04:16) The Expansion of Duolingo Beyond Languages

(1:09:13) Growing User Base and Utilizing AI

(1:11:16) Impact of Going Public on Duolingo's Operations

(1:16:00) The Importance of Employee Selection in Duolingo

(1:22:42) The entrepreneurial journey

(1:33:46) Improving the Education System

(1:37:21) The honeypot website to catch cheating students

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

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Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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Christian Chabot (Co-Founder, Tableau) dives into the journey from bootstrapping Tableau in the early days to eventually IPOing and selling to Salesforce for $15.7B. Christian shares the biggest operating lessons from scaling Tableau and thoughtful insights for founders, especially those in the business software industry.

(0:00) Intro

(0:55) Christian’s Early Career and Entrepreneurial Journey

(3:14) Finding an opportunity in the market

(6:12) Joining SoftBank

(7:14) Lessons on venture capital

(10:50) Company origin stories

(12:03) The Birth of Tableau: From Idea to Company

(16:20) Getting right in the early days

(20:55) Commercializing something out of academia

(23:42) Bootstrapping it

(28:23) The growth and success of Tableau

(32:38) Reflections on the journey and the future

(43:57) Patience and basic metrics in business growth

(45:33) The role of external investors in business expansion

(48:02) The impact of capital on business ambitions and control

(49:38) Choosing the right investor

(51:39) The importance of maintaining control in fundraising

(54:11) Competition in business growth

(58:28) The importance of team chemistry in scaling a business

(1:02:19) Impact of disruptive hiring practices on business growth

(1:21:26) Power of community and innovating marketing

(1:26:16) Global expansion

Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah Clapper

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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Alexandr Wang is a Co-Founder and CEO of Scale AI and one of the youngest self-made billionaires. At 19, he dropped out of college to found Scale AI and has since scaled it into one of the most important companies in the world of artificial intelligence today ($7B). In this episode, Alexandr shares the insights that are driving Scale AI, predictions on the future of AI, and other thoughtful tech and geopolitical takes.

(0:00) Intro

(1:01) Why data isn't the new oil

(2:42) Data is the new code

(7:47) Outsourcing problems

(10:34) Reinforcement learning and generative AI

(16:52) How execs and founders should think about AI

(18:59) AI VS computers, the internet, mobile, and other tech trends

(22:38) The next two to three years of AI will define decades

(26:05) Atomic bomb analogy

(28:30) Alexandr's biggest AI worries

(31:17) Undercover AI predictions

(35:55) Three components of model development

(39:57) Under-appreciating our reliance on Taiwan

(41:56) Democratization of AI

(43:54) The Turing Trap

(45:52) Misconceptions About AI

(47:29) Geopolitics and Artificial Intelligence

(53:00) The UK AI Summit

(54:45) What role does the government play in regulating AI?

(1:14:05) The risks of hiring from big brands

(1:19:36) The business of Scale AI

(1:22:25) Influence of playing violin

(1:24:19) Alexandr's childhood with physicist parents

(1:27:33) Being weird means being interesting

(1:29:09) The future of AI

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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In this episode, Logan sits down with producer Rashad Assir for a deep dive into the journey so far, including all the funny stories, mistakes, and insights from the last 85 episodes of The Logan Bartlett Show. If you’re interested in seeing behind the scenes, or if you’re a creator looking to build something, this episode is for you. We’ll be back to normal programming next week!

(0:00) Intro

(0:52) How to make a podcast

(2:31) The Logan Bartlett Show story

(11:07) Different mental milestones

(13:55) The crypto era with Zach Weinberg

(17:53) Find your niche

(22:20) Starting to do interviews

(27:14) Importance of consistency

(32:09) Describe the Logan Bartlett Show

(35:51) Same strategy as working with founders

(38:56) Far from a perfect product

(41:44) Benefits of YouTube

(47:44) Not looking back and agonizing

(53:05) Internet comments and feedback

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-logan-bartlett-show/id1606770839

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.

Executive Producer: Rashad Assir

Producer: Leah Clapper

Mixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky

Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA

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About the Show

Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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