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18VC hosts 18VC Podcast - Next Gen Builders, a business show with 12 episodes published.
Gorest turns a napkin sketch into a playable, interactive 3D greybox in minutes, with zero AI-generated assets and full copyright ownership. On this episode of 18VC, we sit down with Heroza Zhang, Co-Founder & CEO of Gor
Toy Story took five years to make. Clarence Keith thinks the modeling, rigging, and animating behind work like that should take a fraction of the time – so he's building Nalana, an AI-native 3D design software he pitches
Most cold emails get a 1% reply rate and eat three hours of your day. Manuel David dropped out of Arizona State, moved to a San Francisco he'd never set foot in, and built Paradigm, an AI that runs the entire outbound cy
Most apps fight to keep you scrolling. Andy built Lullaby to do the opposite – get you off your phone and fall asleep. It started at 2 AM, after a consulting deadline, when her boyfriend made up a bedtime story and it wo
At 15 he was buying instant noodles off Alibaba and reselling them at a 200% margin to starving boarding-school kids – until the principal shut it down. Barry didn't know it yet, but that was his first lesson in supply,
TheVentures gets up to 3,000 pitches a year and reads them with an AI agent named Vicky before a human ever steps in. Ethan Cho, their CIO, explains what survives the filter — and why he'd rather hear a grammatically bro
From an investor's seat at Y Combinator China (Miracle Plus), Fernando watched AI startups get absorbed by the very models they were built on. Now he's building Model OS so they can own their intelligence instead of rent
He grew up in Artsakh — an unrecognized state he calls a real-world Neverland — fought in the 2020 war, then pulled off a "physically impossible" transfer to the US without losing a single semester. Now Tigran Ghukasyan
Tony Xiong has been building since he was 15 — first a portable drive 10x faster than anything on the market, then a camera he launched into the stratosphere for Sony. Now he's building Bubbl: an AI assistant that lives
70% of US apparel manufacturers still collect production data manually. Only 16% have real-time visibility across the floor. Most shops still run on WhatsApp threads, Gmail, and the foreman’s memory. Rylan Jimenez and Di
"You can't AI your way out of bad taste." Diana Melencio is the General Partner of XRC Ventures' Brand Capital Fund — a NYC-based seed-to-Series A consumer fund whose LPs include some of the largest public retailers, CPG
What does it actually take to break into venture capital as a new grad — and stay sharp once you're in? In Episode 4 of the 18VC Podcast, we sit down with Sabrina Li, an investor at Sunstone Management, an early-stage VC
Michael Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Yondu AI (YC W24), building the robotic workforce of the future starting with warehouse logistics. In this episode of the 18VC Podcast, Michael traces his path from building a ro
Episode Summary In the second episode of the 18VC Podcast , hosts Philip Zeng and Lucas He sit down with Jack Crawford , the Founding General Partner of CerraCap Impact Venture Capital (CIVC) and a professor at the USC M
Episode Description: Welcome to the inaugural episode of the 18VC Podcast , a student-run show featuring the stories of student founders, operators, and investors. In this premiere, co-hosts Phillip and Lucas sit down wi
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18VC Podcast - Next Gen Builders is hosted by 18VC. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 12 episodes.
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