Yesterday Podcast
Episodes
The Story of Mercury | $5B Bank With 300,000 Customers
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury, a San Francisco-based digital banking platform for startups.He was born in Pakistan, with his mothe...
Kayvon Beykpour | Selling to Twitter, Rejecting Elon Musk & Getting Trolled by Kobe
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kayvon Beykpour is the co-founder and CEO of Macroscope, an AI code review agent, backed by Lightspeed, Thrive Capital Google Ventures, and others.Pre...
Frank Guzzone | Head of Design at Thrive Capital
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Frank Guzzone, Head of Design at Thrive Capital. He grew up in Virginia, the son of an immigrant father. Frank and I are fro...
James Currier | How Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
James Currier is a Founding Partner at NFX and an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon.James grew in New Hampshire to a carpenter father and ...
David Tisch | The Life Story of Box Group's Founder
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with David Tisch, founder of BoxGroup.We talked about the importance of taste, why you can't replicate career paths, playing in the wor...
Zach Dell & Justin Lopas | Solving the Hardest Problem in America - Base Power
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Dell and Justin Lopas are the co-founders of Texas-based Base Power Company.They recently raised a $1B series C at a $4B valuation, fueling their...
Aaron Levie | He Cold Emailed Mark Cuban To Invest in His Startup (Now They’re Worth $5B)
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #18 of Yesterday:Aaron Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box (NYSE: BOX), a cloud storage company used by over 100,000 businesses worldwide, ...
Jonathan Neman | How Sweetgreen Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Salad Chain
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #17 of Yesterday:Jonathan Neman is the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen, Inc. (NYSE: SG), the mission-driven restaurant brand redefining fast ...
Zach Sims | The Codecademy Story: A $525M Exit That Almost Didn't Happen
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Sims co-founded Codecademy with Ryan Bubinski after dropping out of Columbia. And over a decade later in 2021, they sold to Skillsoft for $525M.W...
Joe Lonsdale | From Chess Prodigy to Co-founder of Palantir, 8VC
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir (now worth ~$400B) and went on to found venture firm 8VC, the University of Austin, OpenGov, Addepar, and several oth...
Gordon Ritter | The Story of Silicon Valley's Most Extreme Investor ($8B In Returns)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Ritter co-founded Emergence Capital, backing iconic brands like Salesforce, Veeva Systems, Zoom, and more.We cover his life story in great deta...
Akshay Kothari | $90M Acquisition to Co-Founding Notion ($10B+ Valuation)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the life story of Notion’s co-founder, Akshay Kothari. Notion is a productivity tool, valued at $10B+ with over 100M users. Akshay grew u...
Dwarkesh Patel | The $10,000 Email Behind Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella and Marc Andreessen
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we cover the life story of Dwarkesh Patel, host of The Dwarkesh Podcast. Dwarkesh grew up in India until the age of eight, when his family ...
Guillermo Rauch | The man behind Netflix, Ebay and More
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we cover the life story of Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel. Rauch grew up in Lanús, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos ...
John Andrew Entwistle | The Life Story of Wander.com’s CEO
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we cover the life story of John Andrew Entwistle. He was once a Formula race car driver, during which he broke his back multiple times, and...
Jessica Mah | Youngest YC Founder
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Mah is the founder of inDinero and Mahway, a venture studio backing companies in aerospace, legaltech, and biotech. We discussed growing up in...
Josh Browder | Putin’s Mafia, Raising Millions, and Investing
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Browder is the founder of DoNotPay, a legal tech company that automates consumer rights protection. We discuss the Russian mafia stalking his f...
Jack Altman | Investment Banking to Billion Dollar Startup
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Altman is the founder of Lattice, a now multi-billion dollar company. He recently launched Alt Capital, a 150M early-stage venture fund. We discu...
Haseeb Qureshi | Poker Pro to Investing $3B
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Haseeb Qureshi is a former pro poker player and now the founder of Dragonly, a crypto-focused venture firm managing $3B+. We discussed growing up in T...
Spenser Skates | Failed Startup to $300M in Revenue
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spenser Skates is the founder of Amplitude, a digital analytics platform. We discussed growing up in Boston to immigrant parents, his struggle of feel...
Dylan Patel｜Lost in Life to Founding SemiAnalysis
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, the leading research and consulting firm for AI infrastructure and buildouts. Their publication is broadly...
Brian Distelburger | From Farmlands to IPO
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Distelburger co-founded Yext, which he helped grow from a small startup into a public company valued at over $1 billion. He is also on the board...
Chad Byers | The Life Story Behind Robinhood’s Earliest Investor
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chad Byers co-founded Susa Ventures, now managing over $1 Billion. He’s the seed investor in many unicorns, most notably Robinhood, turning his firs...
Kevin Hartz | The Early Stories Behind Billions
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Hartz co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Xoom (IPO & acq. PayPal), and A*, an early-stage venture firm managing hundreds of millions of dollars. ...