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The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

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01:49:19

Illegal Immigrant to $160m Fund 1: Inside Villi...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/02/06

Villi Iltchev is the founder of Category Ventures, where he invests early in enterprise software startups. And he’s done it longer than almost anyone, building Salesforce’s corporate venture arm and investing early in companies like Airtable, Zapier, GitLab, Remote, Hubspot, Gusto, and Box.Fresh off raising his $160m Fund 1, we get into the opportunity he saw to start Category, and how San Francisco and Silicon Valley have changed over the past 30 years. He also shares his story growing up as an

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01:28:52

Lessons Selling Two Startups, Crash Course on Govtech...

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2025/01/30

Rahul Sidhu is the co-founder of SPIDRTech and Aerodome, two companies in the public safety space.He’s sold both of them, and our conversation unpacks all the lessons he learned, what he did differently with his second company Aerodome, and why he sold only 17 months after starting it.If you tuned into last week’s episode, Paul told us to never talk to the cops. Rahul gives us the other side of the story, sharing his playbook for selling to police, the government, how he met Nikita Bier in high

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01:53:13

🅱️ Infrastructure for AI Browsers with Paul Klein,...

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2025/01/23

Paul Klein is the Founder and CEO of Browserbase, building infrastructure for AI browsers.Our conversation gets into the future of software and AI agents, why authentication is a huge problem in AI, how the best infrastructure companies become product companies, and the memo he wrote that convinced him to start Browserbase despite not wanting to build another company.A year ago, Paul was a relatively unknown commodity, and definitely did not want to raise venture capital again. He shares the

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01:17:59

Robinhood Co-founder Baiju Bhatt on the Journey to...

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2025/01/16

You’re probably familiar with Baiju Bhatt’s work as the co-founder of Robinhood. But he’s also obsessed with space, and recently started Aetherflux, a space solar power company.We get into the physics of using lasers to beam solar power to the Earth, Aetherflux’s early roadmap, and how he went from zero to one going from building software to physical products.We also talk through the early days of Robinhood, getting turned down by hundreds of early investors, the accidental launch, how to know if

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01:32:10

Sheel Mohnot on All Things Fintech, Starting Better...

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2025/01/09

Sheel Mohnot is the Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early stage fintech focused fund leading rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies.Our conversation weaves through Sheel’s two decades of building and investing in fintech, starting BTV, and why they started a fintech-focused accelerator, The Mint.Fun facts on Sheel, he was a contestant on the Zoom Bachelor during COVID lockdowns, in a Justin Bieber music video, got married in the Taco Bell Metaverse, and was once banned from Uber.We

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01:21:21

Life360's 17-Year Journey to $3B | Chris Hulls,...

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2025/01/02

Chris Hulls is the co-founder and CEO of Life360, the social network for families. At the time of recording, its the 15th largest app in the US, with over $330 million in annual revenue, and valued at over $3 billion in the public markets.We go inside the two decade journey building Life360, competing against Sam Altman and Woz, almost getting cancelled on TikTok, and going public twice - first in Australia, then again in the US.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(02:04) Why CEO’s are getting more

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01:57:42

Unlocking AGI With Visual AI Agents | Joseph Nelson,...

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2024/12/19

Joseph Nelson is the Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, making the world programmable by building computer vision tools for developers and enterprises.We talk about how computer vision creates a new paradigm to program the world, and how visual AI is the missing piece of AGI. Joseph also shares multiple live product examples, how computer vision unlocks new data sources, lessons from Stripe and Palantir, building business models in developer tools, his experience working with David Sacks, and

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01:13:03

How Morning Brew Grew to 6 Million Subscribers and...

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2024/12/12

Austin Rief is the Co-founder & CEO of Morning Brew, building the Wall Street Journal for the next generation. They started the company in 2017, and grew it to 6 million subscribers and $70 million in revenue in six years.We talk through the journey starting Morning Brew with Co-founder Alex Lieberman while students at the University of Michigan, and Austin's playbook for starting a new media company from scratch today. We get into the creator economy, early stage investing, ad based business

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01:45:58

Teaching 2-Year Olds to Read | Niels Hoven, Mentava

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2024/12/05

Niels Hoven is the founder of Mentava, building software to accelerate kids’ education, starting with teaching two year old’s to read.We talk about how public education isn’t designed for ambitious kids, the power of hater marketing, product design from zero to one, how too much data leads to Frankenstein products, Seed stage fundraising advice, parenting hacks, why AI won’t have a big impact on education, and the future of elite higher ed. For full show notes,

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01:20:19

How Nextdoor Grew to 100M Neighbors + Why Founding...

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2024/11/21

Nirav Tolia is the co-founder and two-time CEO of Nextdoor. He started the company in 2011, stepped down as CEO in 2018, watched the company go public in 2021, and re-joined as CEO the summer of 2024. He also founded Epinions which IPO’d in 2004, and before that was an early employee at Yahoo. We go inside the decision to re-join the company after he thought he’d never come back, and how Nextdoor’s trying to act like a startup while running a public company. He also takes us back to the very early

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01:46:21

Recruiting From Zero to One with Nakul Mandan,...

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2024/11/14

Nakul Mandan is the founder of Audacious Ventures. Prior to Audacious, he was a partner at Lightspeed, joining from Battery, which he joined in ‘09 in the middle of the financial crisis while living in India.This conversation explores his journey immigrating to Silicon Valley and building an early stage venture firm from the ground up. We get into why most VCs aren’t helpful with recruiting at the zero to one stage, his thesis on starting an early stage venture firm to help founders hire A+ teams,

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01:04:45

Inside Rent the Runway’s Early Days and the Future of...

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2024/11/07

Jenny Fleiss is the Co-founder of Rent the Runway, and more recently started Roll Rider with her three kids.We get into the early insights that led to Rent the Runway, building the company with no fashion or tech background, fundraising advice, what she’s thinking about the future of AI and commerce, and the latest company she’s building with her kids, Roll Rider.For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/9bc59c07-05ab-41aa-b37e-f35a7c92092d Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(05:31) How social

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01:36:58

Startup Marketing Masterclass: How OpenPhone Grew to...

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2024/10/31

Daryna Kulya is the Co-founder of OpenPhone, the world’s best business phoneThis episode is a masterclass on startup marketing, chronicling the first six years of OpenPhone, how they acquired their first customers, and inside all the different channels they used to scale the business to over 100k customers, including FB Groups, Reddit, SEO, cold outbound.We also get into why founder-led content is so important today, and why design is a crucial core competency. For full show notes, visit:

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01:53:18

Beating the Market 15 Years in a Row, Lessons from...

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2024/10/24

Lisa Rapuano outperformed the market 15 years in a row in the 90’s and 2000’s. We go deep on how she did it, including early investments in AOL, Dell, and owning 24% of Amazon in 2002.She shares what she learned from Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell, what makes a good investor, plus her experience as a startup CFO and how it influenced how she thinks about investing. For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/883f2cc9-9771-4331-9a42-6ae236f50344 Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (03:18) Growing

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00:46:48

Gokul Rajaram | Lessons from Zuck, Jack Dorsey,...

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2024/10/17

Gokul Rajaram is an early stage technology investor. As a product leader, operator and board member, he’s helped build seven generational technology companies, including Alphabet, Block, Coinbase, DoorDash, Meta, Pinterest, and The Trade Desk.We talk about lessons learned from Zuck, Sergey Brin, and Jack Dorsey, when big acquisitions can go well, how to define your ICP, why you should always size markets bottoms-up, having a fast response time, how seed investing has changed since 2007, and Gokul’s

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01:12:51

How to Build in AI, Lessons From Early Days of Snyk...

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2024/10/10

Guy Podjarny is the founder of Blaze, Snyk, and now Tessl. He’s spent decades building at the center of developers and security. His newest company Tessl is reimagining software development, helping shape a new paradigm he calls AI Native Development.We talk through his four quadrant framework for building and investing in AI, plus go into the early days of Blaze and Snyk. He shares lessons on marketing to developers, hiring when no one wanted to work for him, overcoming multiple difficult funding

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01:20:54

The Rise of AI-Powered Services + Ultimate Sales...

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2024/10/03

Chris Hladczuk is the Co-founder and CEO of Hanover, where he’s building 1-click migration and 1-minute time to value fund administration for the $8 trillion in private market assets.Chris takes us through his story of building an audience online at nights while working at Goldman, breaking into tech and going from an IC to Chief Revenue Officer at a Series A startup in nine months. This episode is packed with advice on sales, getting your first startup role, and everything he’s up to at

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02:23:17

Lessons Building Five Unicorns + Building Pathlight...

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2024/09/27

Charley Ma and Mahdi Raza are the Co-founders of Pathlight Ventures, and were early employees at five unicorns, Plaid, Ramp, Alloy, Robinhood, and Stytch.They share tactical advice for early stage startup employees, lessons getting Plaid and Ramp their first customers, and deciding to build Pathlight together. Timestamps(00:00) Intro(02:30) Growing up in basements(05:15) Charley’s journey to first biz hire at Plaid(15:01) Advice on being a good startup employee(19:34) Mahdi’s path to

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01:43:51

How ClickUp Bootstrapped to $10m ARR and Scaled to...

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2024/09/19

Building an enterprise-ready SaaS app? WorkOS has got you covered with easy-to-integrate APIs for SAML, SCIM, and more. Start now at https://bit.ly/WorkOS-Turpentine-Network.He’s had six near death experiences, and we talk about how those influenced him throughout life. We also talk about some of his early businesses, including one that had the FBI at his house when he was a kid, and lessons driving the monorail at Disney. We also get into the founding story of ClickUp, bootstrapping to $10m in

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01:15:07

Teen Hacker to Founder, Building an Open Source...

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2024/09/12

Bobby DeSimone is the Founder and CEO of Pomerium, the best way to authenticate, authorize, monitor, and secure user access to any application without a VPN.Bobby explains why access control is so important, how it led to the biggest corporate hack ever, how its related to the day CrowdStrike took down the global economy, and how AI will change security. Pomerium has a unique open source approach, and Bobby takes us inside the early days of building the product, how he got the first customers,

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