Sand Hill Road
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
E53 Going from no app to a super app with Henry Shi, co-founder of super.com
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Henry Shi, co-founder of super.com an all-in-one savings super app for everyday Americans. Having recent...
E52 Pricing strategies for generative AI with Orb co-founder and CTO Kshitij Grover
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kshitij Grover, co-Founder and CTO of Orb (www.withorb.com), a billing platform provider that solves usa...
E51 Raising $1bn to bringing entrepreneurship to Japan with World Innovation Lab founder and CEO Gen Isayama
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Gen Isayama, co-founder and CEO of World Innovation Lab, a Palo Alto and Tokyo based venture firm invest...
E50 Establishing a growth equity firm with Left Lane Capital founding partner Dan Ahrens
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Dan Ahrens, founding partner at Left Lane Capital, a New York based venture capital and early growth equ...
E49 Cooking up the future of digital food halls with Byte Kitchen founder Divyang Arora
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Divyang Arora, founder and CEO of Byte Kitchen about cooking up the future of digital food halls with By...
E48 Protecting passwords through open-source software with Bitwarden CEO Michael Crandell
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Michael Crandell, CEO Bitwarden about scaling open-source password manager Bitwarden. 00:00 In...
E47 Your fund size is your strategy with Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kyle Harrison, general partner at Country about everything from the economics of whale hunting, the vent...
E46 Uncovering tax credits (aka free money) for startups with MainStreet founder and CEO Doug Ludlow
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Doug Ludlow, co-founder and CEO of MainStreet, which helps startups and small businesses uncover tax cre...
E45 Building a nextgen, authentic professional social network with Candor founder Kelsey Bishop
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kelsey Bishop founder and CEO of Candor, which is a nexgen, authentic social network. 00:00...
E44 Shipping an open-source, low code enterprise tool builder with Appsmith founder Abhishek Nayak
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Abhishek Nayak the co-founder and CEO of Appsmith, which is an open-source, low code internal tool build...
E43 Opening a global hub for tech entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley with SkyDeck founding GP Chon Tang
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Chon Tang, the founding GP of the Skydeck Fund. Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, entrepre...
E42 Taking Zoom meetings like a pro with Fathom (YC W21) founder Richard White
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Richard White, the serial entrepreneur behind Uservoice and Fathom.video. Richard is a design engineer a...
E41 Replacing credit bureaus one API integration at a time with Argyle founder Shmulik Fishman
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Shmulik Fishman, founder and CEO of Argyle, about raising the Series A through an investment memo and th...
E40 The world is broken, let's fix it with 8VC founding partner Drew Oetting
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Drew Oetting, founding partner of 8VC, about building a multi-billion venture firm from the ground up wi...
E39 Trailblazing the silver tech category with Seth Sternberg co-founder of home-care unicorn Honor
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Seth Sternberg the co-founder and CEO of Honor, which is a managed marketplace for in-home care that has...
E38 Helping brands build sustainable products with Novi Connect found Kimberly Shenk
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kimberly Shenk of Novi Connect, B2B marketplace to help brands build and manufacture transparent product...
E37 Finding regulatory moats at the Series A with Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Jordan Nof of Tusk Venture Partners, a venture firm that invests in early-stage consumer technology star...
E36 Running the world's largest trust experiment with Couchsurfing founder Casey Fenton
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Casey Fenton, founder of Couchsurfing and Upstock, about the early days for Couchsurfing when Casey was ...
E35 Launching a startup acquisition marketplace with MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andrew Gazdecki, founder of MicroAcquire. The episode was recorded when MicroAcquire was still a fully b...
E34 Tackling the formalwear industry with Queenly co-founders with Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Queenly co-founders Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou about building a consumer marketplace and tackling th...
E33 Catching the perfect privacy wave one consent at a time with Didomi co-founder Jawad Stouli
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Didomoi co-founder and CTO Jawad Stouli about building consent management platform Didomi for the perfec...
E32 Incubating a space factory at Founders Fund with Delian Asparouhov
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Intro 00:24 Welcome to Miami 01:08 Operators Podcast 03:21 Finding the right guests 06:54 Delian’s founder/operator&nb...
E31 Building the future of remote work with Remote.com founder Job van der Voort
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Remote.com founder Job van der Voort about building the future of remote work. 0:00 Intro 00:49 Th...
E30 Fintech investing with Better Tomorrow Ventures co-founder Sheel Mohnot
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures about his journey as a founder, angel investor and ...
E29 "Billon Dollar Loser" author Reeves Wiedeman on the epic rise and fall of WeWork
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Reeves Wiedeman, author of "Billion Dollar Loser: the epic rise and fall of WeWork". 00:00 Adam's...
E28 Inside DCM’s Record IPO Streak with Kyle Lui, Partner at DCM
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kyle Lui, Partner at DCM, about the recent IPO roll that DCM has been on. The Menlo Park-based firm has ...
E27 Replacing PDF attachments one Docsend at a time with founder and CEO Russ Heddleston
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Russ Heddleston, founder of Docsend. The episode was recorded one month before the announcement that Doc...
E26 Deciphering Super Founders with author and DCVC partner Ali Tamaseb
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Ali Tamaseb, partner at DCVC, about his recently launched book "Super Founders: What Data Reveals About ...
E25 Bottoms-up product and go-to-market strategy with product leader and investor Vivek Saraswat
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Vivek Saraswat, who has been a venture investor at Mayfield at the time of the recording and previously ...
E24 Bootstrapping from zero to $1m+ in ARR with Justin Jackson, mega maker of Transistor.fm
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm about his journey as a mega maker, bootstrapping his podcast...
E23 Insights from building a VC firm in public with Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Garry Tan, co-founder of Initialized Capital about his journey as a content creator, founder and managin...
E22 Engineering the atomic cockroach of databases with Cockroach Labs co-founder Spencer Kimball
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs about building a database unicorn backed by some o...
E21 Building a distributed warehouse network one parcel at a time with STORD co-founder Sean Henry
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sean Henry, co-founder and CEO of STORD about building a digital warehouse and distribution startup back...
E20 Unpacking growth with Andy Johns, Partner at Unusual Ventures
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Andy Johns (@ibringtraffic), Partner at Unusual Ventures about his growth journey at Facebook, Twitter, ...
E19 Moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture with effx founder Joey Parsons
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner and Cameron Weibel are joined by Joey Parsons, founder of effx to talk about moving from the monolith to a microservic...
E18 Looking for the next Cal moonshots with Caroline Winnett of UC Berkeley's SkyDeck
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is joined by Caroline Winnett, Executive Director at UC Berkeley's accelerator and incubator SkyDeck. 00...
E17 Migrating lawyers to the cloud with legal technologist Richard Mabey, co-founder of Juro
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Richard Mabey, co-founder of London-based legaltech startup Juro, backed by Union Square Ventures.  ...
E16 Unpacking marketplaces and modern food delivery wars with Mike Ghaffary from Canvas Ventures
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Mike Ghaffary, GP at Canvas Ventures. 00:00 Intro 02:21 Swiss army knife of education 04:04 ...
E15 Building a cloud unicorn for developers with Digital Ocean co-founder Moisey Uretzky
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Moisey Uretzky, co-founder of Digital Ocean. Digital Ocean is a cloud infrastructure unicorn built...
E14 The great hits and misses of venture capital with Brendan Wales of e.ventures
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Brendan Wales, general partner at e.ventures on investing in data infrastructure unicorn Segment at the ...
E13 Uncoding the ‘Coding VC’ Leo Polovets, Co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Leo Polovets, co-founder and general partner at Susa Ventures. As a partner at Susa, Leo focuses o...
E12 Exploring the latest in data science with Sarah Catanzaro from Amplify Partners
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Sarah Catanzaro from Amplify Partners. As a partner at Amplify, Sarah focuses on startups that apply tec...
E11 Investing in the next frontier of open source with Bryan Offutt from Index Ventures
01 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Bryan Offutt from Index Ventures, which is an active investor in the open source vertical, having invest...
E10 Pioneering the gig economy with TaskRabbit co-founder Brian Leonard
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner talks with Brian Leonard (@bleonard), the technical co-founder of TaskRabbit, which has pioneered the gig economy alon...
E09 Investing in vertical SaaS and marketplace companies with Trinity Ventures Principal John Lin
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner talks with John Lin, who is a Principal from Trinity Ventures about his key learnings from being an entrepreneur himse...
E08 On financing hard tech with Root Ventures partner Lee Edwards
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Venture capital used to be about 'financing what would not otherwise be financed'. This is exactly what Root Ventures is all about. In this session I ...
E07 Simmer co-founders Richard Wu and Vaibhav Verma on challenging Yelp through dish level reviews
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Simmer is a recent Y Combinator company that is challenging Yelp's restaurant discovery through dish-level reviews. In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is...
E06 Investing in open source software with Patrick Chase from Redpoint Ventures
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Chase is an investor with Redpoint Ventures who specializes on investments in the open source vertical. In this episode, I talk with him about...
E05 Pioneering version control for data science with Pachyderm co-founder and CEO Joe Doliner
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
5 years ago, Joe Doliner and his co-founder Joey Zwicker decided to focus on the hard problems in data science, rather than building just another dash...
E04 Open sourcing code and companies with Gitlab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gitlab is a unique tech unicorn. Last valued at $2.75bn, the company is fully remote. The two co-founders worked fully separately on the company for m...
E03 Exploring chaos engineering with Gremlin co-founder and CTO Matthew Fornaciari
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gremlin is a fast growing company in the chaos engineering space founded in 2016. The company has pioneered the space by offering failure-as-a-service...
E02 How open-source software is eating software with Joseph Jacks from OSS Capital
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Joseph Jacks, founder and general partner at OSS Capital, the first and only VC fund exclusively dedicat...