Eric Tarczynski is the Founder and Managing Partner at Contrary, a venture fund that identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. They’ve backed some of the fastest-growing startups in the world including the likes of Ramp, Anduril and Zepto. Contrary’s LPs include the founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Airbnb, and many more iconic companies. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com ..read more

Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a modern media company. Since its founding in 2020, The Generalist has grown to more than 60,000 subscribers and is read by the most influential founders, investors, and operators across the tech world. Mario also runs Generalist Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on helping founders create and capture narrative power. He contributes to Philosophical Foxes, an on-chain storytelling initiative. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com ..read more

Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp who’s mission is to elevate developer productivity by building a blazingly fast terminal for the modern age. Warp is modernising the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. To date they’ve raised $23 million across a $6 million Seed round, led by GV and a $17 million Series A, led by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma. Before Warp, Zach was the interim CTO at TIME after spending over 7 years as a Principal Engineer at Googl ..read more

Patrick Ryan is the Co-Founder of Odin, an investment platform and community for people building the future. Odin are making it 10x cheaper and easier to launch and invest in syndicates, SPVs & funds. Before Odin, Patrick was the Project Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Coca-Cola European Partners. Prior to Coca-Cola, Patrick was Head of Inbound Equity Crowdfunding at Crowdcube. Patrick also built his own Vodka brand, Ishka, before selling in 2019. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com ..read more

Josh Bonhotal is Vice President and part of the founding team at Future, a platform that brings human connection to digital personal training. To date they’ve raised over $110M, recently closing a $75M series C round at the start of February, including participation from NBA star Kevin Durant’s firm Thirty Five Ventures, Fabletics Co-Founder Kate Hudson and golfer Rory McIlroy. Josh is also a Venture Partner at TXV Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, investing in the future of software and human performance. Prior to Future, Josh was Director of men’s bas ..read more

Jamin Ball is a Partner at Altimeter Capital, an investment firm focused on technology investments across both public and private markets globally. The firm was founded in 2008 by Brad Gerstner with just $3 million from friends and family. Altimeter now manages over $15 billion in assets with notable venture investments in the likes of Snowflake, Roblox, Twilio and Uber. Prior to Altimeter, Jamin was Vice President at Redpoint Ventures with investments in Workato, Monte Carlo, Cityblock Health and Root Insurance. Jamin began his career working in investment banking for Bank of America and Morg ..read more

Hassan Bhatti is an entrepreneur with experience in building deep-tech companies in North America. He currently works as ProductBD at Snowflake, focusing on the healthcare & life sciences industry. Hassan is also an Investment Partner at The Community Fund, allocating capital at an early stage across community driven companies. Prior to Snowflake, Hassan Co-Founded CryptoNumerics before being acquired by Snowflake in June of 2020. Before CryptoNumerics, Hassan was Head of Growth at Iris Automation, backed by the likes of Social Capital, Bessemer and GGV Capital. Hassan also spent time at T ..read more

Linda Lian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Common Room, a community growth platform for today’s fastest-growing companies. Linda founded Common Room in 2020 to help bring organisations of all sizes closer to their communities. To date, they’ve raised over $50M from the likes of Sarah Guo at Greylock, Danny Rimer at Index and Next Play Ventures. Before Common Room, Linda led product marketing for serverless computing at Amazon Web Services. Prior to AWS, Linda was an Associate at Madrona Venture Group. Linda began her career as an investment banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York. Download ..read more

Rex Woodbury is a Partner at Index Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Deliveroo, Discord, Dropbox, Notion and Slack. At Index, Rex focuses on early-stage and growth investments in the creator economy with a particular interest in consumer tech, Gen Z, web3 and digital economies. Prior to Index, Rex worked at Airtable, a leading no-code platform for building collaborative apps. Before Airtable, Rex was an investor for TPG’s $14B growth platform, backing the likes of Uber, Airbnb, Spotify and Calm. Rex began his career working as ..read more

Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a modern media company. Since its founding in 2020, The Generalist has grown to more than 60,000 subscribers and is read by the most influential founders, investors, and operators across the tech world. Mario also runs Generalist Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on helping founders create and capture narrative power. He contributes to Philosophical Foxes, an on-chain storytelling initiative. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com ..read more