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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

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

Welcome to The Room!

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

S7E5: Kashish Gupta and Hightouch Leverage “Reverse ETL” When Building Your Modern Data Stack