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The Room Podcast

Claudia Laurie and Madison McIlwain

Welcome to the Room. A series interviewing your favorite tech founders and funders. Our guests were in the room where it happened and they’re sharing their stories.

The Room Podcast

S15E1: Building the Infrastructure for Voice AI with Russ d'Sa, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveKit

Building an Enterprise VC Firm with Jai Das, President and Co-Founder of Sapphire Ventures | Founding the Fund 4

Turning Content into Competitive Advantage with Packy McCormick | Founding the Fund 3

Backing Technical Founders with Amplify Partners Founder Sunil Dhaliwal | Founding the Fund 2

Investing in Trillion-Dollar Outcomes with Ben Ling of Bling Capital | Founding the Fund 1

S14E8: From a Shark Tank No to Billion-Dollar Exit with Ring Inventor, Jamie Siminoff

S14E7: Building the AI Layer for Legal Work with Scott Stevenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook

S14E6: The End of Waiting for Payday with EarnIn Founder, Ram Palaniappan

S14E5: Building the Red Bull for Relaxation with Ben Witte, Founder and CEO of Recess

S14E4: Why Usage-Based Billing Is Inevitable with Metronome Co-Founder Scott Woody

S14E3: Ryan Daniels, Founder & CEO of Crosby, on Legal Services in the Age of AI

S14E2: Alex Halliday, Founder of AirOps, on Content Engineering and the AI Marketing Stack

S14E1: Nirav Tolia, Nextdoor CEO, on Building Community Platforms, Product-Market Fit, and the Future of AI in Local Networks

From Stitch Fix to AI Search with Daydream Founder Julie Bornstein | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]

Ethical AI, Iteration Velocity, and the Future of Software with Grant Lee (Gamma), Noah MacCallum (Open AI), Malte Ubl (Vercel), Chris Messina (Product Leader), Ash Kumrah (The AI Collective) | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]

Navigating the New M&A Landscape with Indy Guha (VMG), Jared Roesch (OctoAI), Dan Kang (Mercury), Michelle Edwards (Perkins Coi) | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]

Solving Data Fragmentation at Scale with Michel Tricot, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbyte | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]

S13E8: Designing Payroll for Small Businesses with Gusto’s Co-Founder, Tomer London

S13E7: Reimagining Content, Provenance, and AI with Cloudflare’s VP of Product, William Allen

S13E6: How Almost Friday Media is Shaping the Next Era of Entertainment with Jack Barrett

S13E5: From Palantir to Hex — How Barry McCardel and Caitlin Colgrove Built the Modern Data Workspace

S13E4: From Sleeping at AOL to Building Bolt with Eric Simons, Founder and CEO of Bolt.new

S13E3: Creating Longevity Drugs for Dogs with Celine Halioua, Founder of Loyal

S13E2: Scaling Warp and Supercharging Developers with AI with Founder Zach Lloyd

S13E1: Reinventing Work Through AI-Native Communication with Craig Walker, Founder & CEO of Dialpad

New York Tech Week Special: Live Recording with Partiful Co-Founder and CEO, Shreya Murthy

S12E8: Direct-to-Consumer Pioneer to AI Psychology with Neil Parikh, Co-Founder of Casper and Slingshot

S12E7: From Tech Reporter to Media Founder with Alex Konrad, Founder of Upstarts Media

S12E6: Data Ownership in the AI Era with Anna Kazlauskas, Founder of Vana

S12E5: Bootstrapping to Billions in Corporate Travel with Elia Wallen, Founder and CEO of Engine

S12E4: The New Developer Experience with Factory Co-Founders, Matan Grinberg & Eno Reyes

S12E3: The Road to Driverless Vehicles with Tiancheng Lou, Co-Founder of Pony AI

S12E2: Supercharging Sales Teams Using AI with Alexa Grabell, Co-Founder of Pocus

S12E1: Building Global Trade Infrastructure with Ryan Petersen, Founder and CEO of Flexport

S11E9: A Law Firm for Founders with Agatha Kluk and Sonia Farber, Co-Founders of Kluk Farber Law, Now Part of Perkins Coie (Bonus Holiday Episode)

S11E8: From Bootstrapping to SaaS Industry Leader with Wade Foster, Co-Founder of Zapier

S11E7: The Future of Fintech for Founders with Mercury Co-Founder and CEO, Immad Akhund [LIVE]

S11E6: Building the Unified API with Merge Co-Founder, Shensi Ding

S11E5: Innovating Financial Inclusion and Pay Flexibility with Jason Lee, Founder of Salt Labs and DailyPay

S11E4: Transforming Sweet Treats using Clean Ingredients with Kevin McCarthy, CEO of Unreal

S11E3: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes using Tech and Nutrition with Sami Inkinen, Founder of Virta Health

S11E2: Branding, Bedding, and Wellness Innovation with Ariel Kaye, Founder of Parachute

S11E1: Empowering The Future of Generative AI Search with Johnny Ho, Co-Founder of Perplexity

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 Fireside Chat with Kashish Gupta Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Hightouch

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 The Future of DTC ft. Nik Sharma, Coterie, De Soi, and TYB

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 The Future of Platforms Panel ft. Beli, Saturn, Landing, and Diem

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 Next Gen GenAI Panel ft. Tavus, Multimodal, Dynamo AI, Canapi Ventures, and GenAI Collective

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 Fireside Chat with KJ Sidberry of Google Ventures

Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 Recap

S10E8: Pioneering Soda, Gut Health, and Lifestyle with Ben Goodwin, Co-Founder of OLIPOP

S10E7: Enabling Scheduling Mastery for Every Professional with Matt Martin, Co-Founder of Clockwise

S10E6: Democratizing Life Management for Every Consumer with Meghan Joyce, CEO and Founder of Duckbill

S10E5: Starting and Scaling a Venture Firm with Eva Ho, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fika Ventures

S10E4: Art Basel Miami Rewind: An Interview with Daniel Betts, CEO of Blue Frontier, and Tosh Ernest, Head of SVB Catalyst 2045 [LIVE]

S10E3: Revolutionizing Wellness and Community with Julie Rice of SoulCycle and Peoplehood

S10E2: The Next Wave in Digital Payments with Larry Diamond and ZIP

S10E1: Using Transparency and Innovation to Transform Wellness with Katerina Schneider and Ritual

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S9E8: Cristina Junqueira is Revolutionizing Digital Banking Services with Nubank

S9E7: Christelle Rohaut is Matching Employers with Modern Office Spaces using Codi

S9E6: Optimizing Security and Compliance Using Vanta’s Trust Management for SaaS Businesses with Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo

S9E5: Powering the Future of Blockchain with Kathleen Breitman of Tezos

S9E4: Guillermo Rauch, Co-Author of Next.js, is Revolutionizing Web Development with Vercel

S9E3: Julianna Lamb and Reed McGinley-Stempel are Unlocking Secure Authentication for Businesses of all Sizes with Stytch

S9E2: Devo Harris, Founder of Adventr, Is Producing Success From G.O.O.D. Music to Building AI Brands

S9E1: Iman Abuzeid and Incredible Health are Revolutionizing Healthcare via their Nurse Hiring Platform

The Room Podcast x Bessemer Venture Partners' Wish I Knew: Sarah Friar: Career lessons on community, conviction, and capital from Nextdoor’s CEO

S8E8: Ty Haney and Breana Teubner, CEO and COO of TYB, Share about the Future of Commerce by Leveraging Community as a Growth Chanel

S8E7: Yin Wu's Journey of Empowering Startups with Pulley's Equity Management Solutions [LIVE]

S8E6: How Rahul Vohra's Superhuman Revolution is Transforming Email for Professionals

S8E5: How Postscript and Adam Turner Help E-Commerce Businesses Build Stronger Customer Relationships

BONUS: Exploring Coda's Innovative Approach to a Workflow Document with Founder Shishir Mehrotra [From the Archives]

S8E4: Vlad Magdalin and Webflow are Revolutionizing Website Design by Making it Accessible to All

S8E3: Jaclyn Rice Nelson and her Expert Engineers at Tribe AI are Bringing Businesses into the Modern World of AI and Machine Learning

S8E2: Sampriti Bhattacharyya the CEO and Founder of Navier Is Changing Maritime Transportation through Electrification and Nautical Autonomy

S8E1: Cristóbal Valenzuela Brings Us into the Future of Creative Editing with Runway and their Generative AI-powered Suite

S7E8: Edith Harbaugh on Unlocking Feature Flagging and Feature Management at Scale with LaunchDarkly

S7E7: Samir Vasavada of Vise on Building a Fintech Unicorn and the Future of Investing

S7E6: Sarah Flint is Disrupting Footwear by Building Modern Luxury for Today’s Woman