415 Stories
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S2E3 - Justin Kan on gaming NFTs, Web 3, hedonic treadmill, negative visualization, life lessons, and more
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Kan's NFT Marketplace, Fractal is changing the dynamics in Web 3.0 world. We sat down with Justin to talk about things everything from Metavers...
S2E2 - Digging deeper on NFTs with Danny Povolotski (co-founder of Crypto Caveman Club)
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You've probably heard of the Caveman as an NFT enthusiast. We sat down with the co-founder of the project, Danny (aka OogaMan), and talked about every...
S2E1 - Is college worth it? A conversation around education, risks, self-taught careers, opportunities and more.
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back everyone! We're back with the second season. Now, Tarkan joins the podcast as the co-host! In this episode, Ata Onat (senior associate @ ...
E26 - Miami Mayor Francis Suarez on building a tech ecosystem in Miami
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in tech and on Twitter, you’ve probably seen something trending in the past couple of weeks, which is people moving from Silicon Valley....
E25 - Operators on 415 Stories - Sarah Wood of Upstream on building communities and creating meaningful connections
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah is the Head of Growth and Community at Upstream. Upstream helps people to grow their professional networks via communities and events. Prior to ...
E24 - Operators on 415 Stories - Jose Martins of Hubspot for Startups on helping startups and building a company in 2020
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jose Martins from Hubspot joined me to talk about his story, how Hubspot helping startups, his advice to the founders creating a comp...
E23 - Dennis Crowley (co-founder of Foursquare) on Marsbot for Airpods, creating the future of virtual assistance and more
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, Dennis Crowley (Co-founder & Executive Chairman of Foursquare) joined me for a fun chat. Dennis, previously founded Do...
E20 - Sahin Boydas on remote working, creating startups and more
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, I sat down with Sahin Boydas (Founder & CEO of RemoteTeam.com). He is a serial entrepreneur with three exits from ...
E19 - Robby Stein of Instagram on releasing Reels, creating the future of social media and maintaining a healthy user-platform relationship
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If the topic is Instagram, almost everything is exciting. In this episode, I'm joined by Robby Stein, the Product Director of Instagram. He told me ab...
E18 - Vedika Jain (Weekend Fund) on investing at remote working, audio technologies and tools for creators
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vedika Jain is the Chief of Staff of Weekend Fund. Vedika and Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt are investing in early-stage startups with check sizes rangi...
E17 - Leyla Seka of Operator Collective on Bringing a New Perspective to Venture Capital Scene
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leyla has an impressive background in tech. With several hats in different organizations, now, she is the partner of Operator Collective. They brought...
E16 - Hugo Tilmouth on building a massive network of charging stations, COVID-19 response, fundraising and more
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week in 415, Hugo Tilmouth told me about their amazing product ChargedUp. What if there would be a power bank station network all around the city...
E15 - Jessica Li (Soma Capital) on evaluating startups, dealflows and startup shadowing program
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week I'm joined by Jessica Li, investor at Soma Capital. We talked about their funding evaluation process, sourcing dealflows from YC, and the st...
E14 - Backing Sci-Fi Founders - Adam Draper (Managing Director of Boost VC)
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam told me about their investment focuses, Boost VC, ocean-tech, and more. Enjoy the episode! Apply to Boost VC! boost.vc/apply Adam on Twitter - t...
E13 - Yigit Ihlamur on creating a VenTech (venture technology) firm and finding amazing companies all over the World
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yigit (Co-founder & General Partner of Vela Partners) has started a venture technology firm. After 5 years at Google, he gave himself 6 months as ...
E12 - Charles Hudson on pre-seed investments, fundraising during COVID and more
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We had a chance to chat with Charles Hudson, the Managing Partner of Precursor VC. We talked about their funding mentality, his advice to startups on ...
E11 - Oguzhan Atay (CEO of BillionToOne) on enabling 1M COVID-19 Tests Per Day, YC experiences, fundraising, and more
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Oguzhan Atay, the CEO of BillionToOne, explained how they're enabling one million COVID-19 tests per day in the US alone. We also talked about their e...
Answering a few questions about 415!
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
E10 - Zehra Cataltepe on dealing COVID-19 related issues with Automated Machine Learning and Explainable AI
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week in 415, Zehra Cataltepe (CEO of Tazi AI) joined me to explain how we can deal with COVID-19 relating issues with Automated Machine Learning ...
E9 - Marina Mogilko on growing YouTube channels from zero to 3M subscribers and language education..
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marina Mogilko (co-founder of LinguaTrip) has various businesses including a language education company, online courses, YouTube channels. We sat down...
E8 - Emre Fadillioglu of App Samurai on fundraising, company story and more
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week in 415 Stories, we had a chat with Emre Fadillioglu (Co-founder & CEO of App Samurai) on their company's Series A round raised from 2...
E7 - Joshua Browder of DoNotPay on a new perspective to consumer rights and building a multi-horizontal app
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua from DoNotPay has a different perspective about consumer rights with creating a multi-horizontal consumer app, the World's first robot lawyer, ...
E6 - Tim Draper on next big thing, four decades of tech investing, and more.
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm hosting a legendary venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tim Draper. He invested in companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Hotmail, Skype, and many more g...
E5 - Aykut Karaalioglu (Mobile Action) on an Unlikely Silicon Valley Story, Scaling a SaaS Company
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aykut Karaalioglu (Founder & CEO of Mobile Action) joined me for probably one of the best stories I've ever captured. He told me ...
E4 - Leah Culver of Breaker: Fixing up an iconic San Francisco Landmark, Pink Painted Lady
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Culver, the co-founder & CTO of Breaker told me about her new house Pink Painted Lady. Find out how did she come up with the idea and what's ...
E3 - Jason Calacanis: investing in 20s, becoming the greatest investor, founder skills
22 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we had the chance to chat with Jason Calacanis, angel investor (Uber, Calm, Robinhood), serial entrepreneur and a podcast legend. We talked ...
E2 - Eric Bahn: General Partner at Hustle Fund
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked with Eric Bahn about Hustle Fund, changing trends for the new decade, his minivan enthusiasm and many other interesting top...
E1 - Chris Messina: Inventor of the Hashtag
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We had a great chat with Chris, he is a founder, technologist, speaker, product designer and beyond all the titles, he is famously known as the "Inven...