Samir Kaji

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769 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 28 Jul

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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Betting on Founders Who Build the Real World · 3 Dec 2025 podcast

Great seeing you.

And congrats on all the growth.

Thanks for listening to another episode of Venture Unlocked.

We really hope you enjoyed our conversation with Lior.

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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Unpacking "A Crisis Moment In Seed" · 12 Nov 2025 podcast

Welcome back to another episode

Our conversation was sparked by a three-part series of posts that Rob wrote, the first of which was called A Crisis Moment in Seed.

The link for Rob's posts are on the Venture Unlocked sub stack.

And during our conversation, we spent a lot of time talking about what inspired the post for him and how seed managers today should adapt to the shifted market.

For anyone investing in seed, this is a must listen as Rob shared so many insightful views.

Rob, I really appreciate you being on and this conversation is going to be really interesting for me because like you have thought a lot about it, but the world of venture capital, the evolution of it, you recently wrote over the last few months, a series of blogs around the seed universe, but I think it actually spoke more broadly toward where venture is today versus where it was.

And I want to get into that, but maybe a good place to start is giving us a little bit of your background and what led you to some of those thoughts that you had on the blog.

Yeah, let's start with a little bit of the foundation right now.

So you mentioned starting in your next few in 2011, I think you rolled out of Spark Capital, obviously a institutional firm.

And at the time, there weren't a lot of seed funds.

And if I kind of look back to 15 years ago, that was kind of the start.

And there's a number of things that made it possible, obviously cloud computing, making it easier to cheaper to start companies.

But, you know, here in Silicon Valley, there was folks like Jeff Clavier and folks like Aydin Senkhat and Steve Anderson and a lot of more angels that became known as super angels.

They weren't even called micro VC or seed funds.

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