Arnav Sahu is a Partner at Peak XV Partners (fka Sequoia India). ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.~~~~~Prior to that, he was a Principal at Y Combinator. YC is a leading startup accelerator and venture capital firm with a combined portfolio valuation of over $750 billion (some of their most successful investments include OpenAI, Coinbase, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash). He partnered with and invested in several successful startups such as Scale AI, Replicate, Luminai, Vanta, Rippling, PostHog, Fivetran, Mattermost, Salt Security, BuildBuddy, Stoke Space, Zepto, Secoda, Aquarium Learning, and Pylon. Previously, Arnav was an investor at Spark Capital. Prior to that, he worked at Cisco and AppDynamics, and was an investor at Blackstone, one of the most successful investment firms in history. Arnav graduated from Cornell University and grew up in India.Topics:

• What separates YC alumni that go on to unicorn status vs those that don't
• Next big AI opportunities
• How AI founders think about moats and defensibility differently

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Ben Sun is a Cofounder and General Partner at Primary. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.~~~~~Forbes' Midas List ranks him as one of the top 100 tech investors in the world. His founder-first approach originates from having been one: His experiences cofounding Community Connect, one of the first social networking companies, and LaunchTime, an incubator, inform how he supports founders in the portfolio.Ben focuses his investing activities on primarily consumer-facing companies. Ben has been active in the NYC tech community for over 20 years. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and investor, Ben worked at Merrill Lynch in the Technology Investment Banking Group, but he really began his career at the age of eight when he worked in his parents’ Chinese restaurant.Topics:

• Building the VC Firm Founders Actually Need
• Why incubate Companies Instead of Just Funding Them
• The Art of VC Team Building and What Most Get Wrong

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Packy McCormick (208k+ on X) is the founder and creator of Not Boring (243k+ subs). ~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.~~~~~~Not Boring is a media & venture capital firm. Not Boring Media produces content at the intersection of business, strategy, technology and web3. The Not Boring newsletter, is the #1 Business newsletter on Substack with over 243,000 subscribers. Not Boring also produces the "Not Boring Founders" podcast - which is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Not Boring Capital invests in companies with stories to tell, and helps tell them.Topics:

• Newsletter Empire Building
• Storytelling as Investment Thesis
• Contrarian Takes on Current Markets

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