Uncapped with Jack Altman
Episodes
Uncapped #44 | Max Junestrand from Legora
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At 23, with no legal background, Max Junestrand co-founded Legora to transform how lawyers work. Legora recently (March 2026) raised $550 million at...
Uncapped #43 | Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, and Jared Friedman from YC
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the team behind Y Combinator reflects on what has — and hasn’t — changed since the early days of YC, and how AI is reshaping wh...
Uncapped #42 | Bret Taylor from Sierra
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bret Taylor is the founder and CEO of Sierra, an AI agent company transforming customer service. Bret’s legendary career includes being CTO of Meta,...
Uncapped #41 | The Benchmark Team
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the Benchmark partnership explains why they’ve resisted scale, eliminated residual economics, and built an equal partnership design...
Uncapped #40 | Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois are Managing Directors at Khosla Ventures. Vinod is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed ...
Uncapped #39 | Daniele Perito from depthfirst
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Daniele Perito is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infr...
Uncapped #38 | Ben Horowitz from a16z
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $60 billion in as...
Uncapped #37 | Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saam Motamedi is a General Partner at Greylock Partners working with enterprise software entrepreneurs at the seed and early stages who are focused on...
Uncapped #36 | Pat Grady & Alfred Lin from Sequoia
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Grady and Alfred Lin are partners at Sequoia and were recently named as the storied firm’s new co-stewards. Alfred joined the firm in 2010, wher...
Uncapped #35 | Trae Stephens from Founders Fund
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trae Stephens is a Partner at Founders Fund. He is also Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril, a defense tech company focused on autonomous sys...
Uncapped #34 | Mel Williams from TrueBridge
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Williams is a co-founder and Partner at TruBridge Capital Partners, a fund of funds with $8 billion in AUM focused on venture capital. Since 2007,...
Uncapped #33 | Vlad Tenev from Robinhood
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), which transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading an...
Uncapped #32 | Kyle Vogt from The Bot Company
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Vogt is a serial entrepreneur and engineer often recognized as the co-founder and former CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company acquired b...
Uncapped #31 | Dylan Field from Figma
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people...
Uncapped #30 | Alex Pall from The Chainsmokers
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Pall is half of the Grammy Award-winning duo The Chainsmokers. Beyond music, Alex is entrepreneur and co-founder of Mantis VC, a venture firm tha...
Uncapped #29 | Thomas Laffont from Coatue
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Laffont is the co-founder of Coatue, one of the world’s largest technology investment platforms active in both the public and private markets...
Uncapped #28 | Roelof Botha from Sequoia
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roelof Botha joined Sequoia in 2003 and serves as the managing partner and steward. Roelof led early investments in YouTube, Instagram, Natera, and Mo...
Uncapped #27 | Vince Hankes from Thrive Capital
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vince Hankes is a Partner at Thrive Capital where he’s worked on investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks, and Stripe among others. Vince invests a...
Uncapped #26 | Ali Rowghani
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Rowghani is the founder of First Harmonic, a go-to-market program purpose-built for seed stage founders. Ali has had a long, distinguished caree...
Uncapped #25 | Lulu Cheng Meservey
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lulu Cheng Meservey is the leading voice in the new age of PR and comms and is the founder of Rostra, an advisory firm helping founders go direct. L...
Uncapped #24 | Balaji Srinivasan
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, and WSJ bestselling author of The Network State. He is currently the founder of The Network Scho...
Uncapped #23 | Martin Casado from a16z
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Casado is a general partner at a16z, where he leads the firm’s $1.25 billion infrastructure practice. Martin has led investments in Cursor, d...
Uncapped #22 | Greg Rosen from BoxGroup
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Rosen is a Partner at BoxGroup. Greg was the first hire at BoxGroup outside of the founders, David Tisch and Adam Rothenberg. After moving to the...
Uncapped #21 | Brian Armstrong from Coinbase
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency company that provides exchange, brokerage, and custody services to 100...
Uncapped #20 | Guillermo Rauch from Vercel
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 which is one of the most popular AI app building tools that’s helping power the onl...
Uncapped #19 | Dwarkesh Patel
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his early twenties, Dwarkesh Patel has become one of the leading podcasters with nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers excited to consume his deeply...
Uncapped #18 | Peter Fenton from Benchmark
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Fenton is the longest-serving full-time partner at Benchmark, a renowned venture firm known for its artisanal approach and deep alignment with f...
Uncapped #17 | Christina Cacioppo from Vanta
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christina Cacioppo is cofounder and CEO of Vanta, which is on a mission to secure the internet and protect consumer data. The trust management platfor...
Uncapped #16 | Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner Perkins
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software compan...
Uncapped #15 | Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed Khosla Ventures to focus on both for-profit and social impact invest...
Uncapped #14 | Dan Feder from the University of Michigan
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a pleasure to sit down with Dan Feder, Senior Managing Director with the University of Michigan Investment Office who leads the endowment’s i...
Uncapped #13 | Sam Altman from OpenAI
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was a fun one! Sam is my brother and the CEO of a small company in SF called OpenAI. I’m glad he was able to take time out of his busy schedule...
Uncapped #12 | Marc Andreessen from a16z
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $45 billion in...
Uncapped #11 | Jordan Bramble from Antares
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Bramble is the CEO of Antares, a nuclear energy company that has raised over $50M to become America’s industrial base partner for special-pur...
Uncapped #10 | David Tisch from BoxGroup
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I enjoyed riffing with David Tisch, Managing Partner of BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an NYC-based seed stage venture capital firm that has invested...
Uncapped #9 | Qasar Younis from Applied Intuition
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had a blast sitting down with Qasar Younis, Co-Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a company that’s on a mission to accelerate the world’s ado...
Uncapped #8 | Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a pleasure to sit down this week with Josh Kopelman, one of the original architects of seed stage investing who continues to re-invent what it ...
Uncapped #7 | Garry Tan from Y Combinator
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I sat down with Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator. YC has funded 5,000+ startups including Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Rippling, and ...
Uncapped #6 | Elad Gil
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s always a pleasure to jam with Elad Gil, a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. As an early leader at Google, Elad helped build the initi...
Uncapped #5 | Sarah Guo from Conviction
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was pumped to chat this week with Sarah Guo. Sarah is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve in...
Uncapped #4 | Adam Guild from Owner
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Guild is the CEO of Owner, a business he started when he was only 17. It now has tens of millions of revenue, hundreds of employees, and thousand...
Uncapped #3 | Aaron Levie from Box
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I sat down with Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Box. Aaron came up with the idea behind the cloud computing company as a 19 year old coll...
Uncapped #2 | Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I enjoyed speaking quickly with Keith Rabois, a Managing Director at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore. At Khosla, Keith led the firs...
Uncapped #1 | Shaun Maguire from Sequoia
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I spoke with Shaun Maguire, a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He led their investments into SpaceX, The Boring Co, and X among others. Prior to ...