Podcast
Mayfield Chat with Champions
Hosted by Mayfield, a global venture capital firm · EN
Chat with Champions features a series of conversations between Navin Chaddha, Managing Director of venture capital firm Mayfield, and successful entrepreneurs of enterprise and consumer technology companies. The 20-25 minute chats will cover the entrepreneur's journey, key learnings and guiding principles on leadership, culture, building teams and creating categories.
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How ecommerce startups can win against Amazon
May 1, 201800:14:56Tap to summarizeIn 2016, U.S. consumers spent $360 billion at online retailers, with Amazon accounting for a whopping $150 billion of that. In other words, almost 50 cents of every ecommerce dollar goes to Amazon. Amazon is hard to beat on price, selection,
Transcribe →Curiosity, Spark, and Building a Better Model
Feb 16, 201700:20:34Tap to summarizeJason Kilar’s interest in customer service was sparked by a visit to Disney World when he was 10 years old. The wonder he felt as he walked underneath the train station and out onto Main Street stays with him to this day. It was a pivot point for him,
Transcribe →Passion for health care and for helping people
Jan 3, 201700:12:51Tap to summarizeRon Gutman began his entrepreneurial journey leading a multi-dimensional group of graduate students and faculty that focused on personalized medicine. As a result, Gutman found his passion for health care and helping people.
Transcribe →Choose your people first
Aug 31, 201600:18:04Tap to summarizeJames Currier focuses on building businesses with network effects, but he builds those businesses by choosing the right people first. Currier started as a schoolboy entrepreneur, selling worms to fishermen at six and later selling boxer shorts in colle...
Transcribe →Making Sense of Digital Media
Aug 17, 201600:15:38Tap to summarizeJonah Goodhart started his entrepreneurial journey while still in college at Cornell University. What started out a bit haphazardly with an email list turned into solid learning opportunities that have informed his business decisions along the way.
Transcribe →Passion cannot be short term
Aug 4, 201600:14:39Tap to summarizeRehan Jalil came to the US to attend graduate school and then took a job at Sun Microsystems, accidentally ending up in Silicon Valley that would be the base for the rest of his career. Recognizing that he wanted to make a positive impact on the world,...
Transcribe →The Kitchen Sink Cabinet
Jul 7, 201600:18:11Tap to summarizeManish Chandra is founder and CEO of Poshmark. As a serial entrepreneur, he also founded Kaboodle in 2005, one of the industry’s first social shopping sites, which was acquired by Hearst, and prior to that,
Transcribe →The Accidental Entrepreneur
Jun 10, 201600:13:57Tap to summarizeJake Winebaum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Winebaum), founder & CEO of Brighter (www.brighter.com), a Saas-enabled dental marketplace, has been a serial entrepreneur for 35 years and throughout his career has been responsible for many successful...
Transcribe →The importance of letting go as a leader
Dec 15, 201500:21:04Tap to summarizeDheeraj Pandey is the co-founder and CEO of Nutanix, one of the private billion-dollar unicorns of Silicon Valley. In this episode, which closes out this first season of Chat with Champions, Dheeraj talks about his start in the technology business and ...
Transcribe →Having passion for the problem
Dec 2, 201500:22:00Tap to summarizeMax Levchin is a serial entrepreneur with a long list of credits to his name, including being co-founder of PayPal, chairman of Yelp, board member of Yahoo, and is currently involved in two exciting companies, Affirm, where he serves as CEO,
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