Consumer Tech Episodes

Nothing scales faster than a consumer tech startup in its heyday. But then again, a fall from those heights can kill you. Whatever happened to Clubhouse anyway? Consumer tech, is a grueling startup battlefield.

Can these consumer tech startup founders convince investors that they have what it takes to win?

September 20, 2023

#119 Amateur Golf Society: Venture Capital vs. Private Equity

Dan Hershberg loves golf. So much so that he founded the Amateur Golf Society – a PGA-style tour that any golfer can participate in. The investors think his flexible tournament model is a hole in one. But things get complicat...

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April 12, 2023

#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?

Founder Ariana Vargas wants to destigmatize talking about mental health. So she built a social app. No wait, now it’s a Slack app for the workplace? This founder is willing to do whatever it takes to secure investment - maybe...

Consumer Tech Media

April 05, 2023

#110 HandsDown: The Accelerator Pitch

Jenna Sereni believes the best product recommendations come from family and friends. That’s the genesis of her social shopping app, HandsDown. Her pitch starts out like normal - until the investors flip the script and start p...

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March 15, 2023

#107 Terrascope: A Computer Vision Tale

This tale starts with a problem Kehan Zhou found when trying to buy a hobby farm. Zillow didn’t have good search options for land and LandWatch.com was even worse, so Kehan ventured off to combine computer vision technology a...

Consumer Tech Marketplace

February 22, 2023

#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Clothing rental companies get a bad rap in the VC world. It seems like no matter how much money investors sink into them, they always just… fail? But today’s founder thinks she found a way to make it work. Capri Wheaton is go...

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April 01, 2020

#87 Uber for Pets

Last year, investors woke up to the fact that the biggest ridesharing companies still struggle to make money. But today’s founder, Aparna Srinivasan, thinks she can buck that trend by introducing pets into the equation. But o...

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