Cody Barbo

Cody Barbo, founder and CEO of Trust & Will, comes back on the show with Scott Kitun. Cody catches up with Scott after three years of growing the Trust & Will business from a seed round CF raise on Republic to a $15 million Series B and recent venture round led by UBS. They talk…

Paige Finn Doherty

Paige Finn Doherty joins the show with Scott Kitun. Paige is a founding partner of Behind Genius Ventures and author of a children’s book – for adults! – about investing called Seed to Harvest. Paige talks about her journey into venture and her realization that you don’t need to come from generational wealth to invest…

Kim-Mai Cutler

Kim-Mai Cutler, a longtime tech journalist and currently a partner at Initialized Capital, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Kim-Mai has spent most of her life around Silicon Valley and knows from her experiences and studies just what the problems tech faces and its impact on California and the world as a whole. She dives…

Alda Leu Dennis

Scott talks to Alda Leu Dennis, general partner at Initialized Capital. Started by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanion and Garry Tan, Initialized was borne out of their early Y Combinator days and has become the “honeybadger” of venture with an emphasis on change making ideas with over 200 companies in their portfolio. Alda shares her journey…

Meet The Investors Swinging Big In The Midwest

If you buy into the mainstream narrative around the U.S. tech industry, California and New York are the two gleaming lights on either end of a dark and empty tunnel that runs between the coasts.  That makes Victor Gutwein the man with the flashlight, shining a glowing beam onto the hidden opportunities all around the…