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Breaking down how celebrities and creators build billion-dollar brands — hosted by Scott Van den Berg.
Scott van den Berg hosts The HotStart VC Podcast, a business show with 29 episodes published.
Deborah Benton is the founder and Managing Partner of Willow Growth Partners, an emerging growth consumer fund that has backed some of the most successful celebrity- and creator-founded brands in the market, including Ka
Kristina Subbotina is a creator entrepreneur and startup lawyer with tens of thousands of followers who built an audience sharing real legal horror stories from her decade in Big Law, and used that platform to launch Lex
John Foraker is the co-founder and CEO of Once Upon a Farm, a fresh organic baby and kids food brand co-founded with Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner that recently IPO'd at a $724 million valuation on the New York Stock
Sherry Wong is a creator entrepreneur with hundreds of thousands of followers across social media and the founder of Roster, an AI hiring platform for the creator economy trusted by some of the world's biggest creators l
Ghita El Haitmy, known online as TechBible, is a creator entrepreneur with over 400,000 followers teaching technology on social media and the founder of Eli, an AI-powered platform that auto-detects your entire tech stac
Haven Lough is a 19-year-old creator entrepreneur with over 5 million followers across social media and the founder of Haven, a skincare brand built for sensitive, acne-prone skin with ingredients you can actually trust.
Aris is a creator entrepreneur with over 3 million followers and 3 billion views, best known for his viral skits as a French rich kid on his account The European Kid. That platform became the foundation for Storytime, a
Jay is a creator entrepreneur with over 13 million followers teaching English on social media, and the founder of BigBean, a language learning app that teaches English through AI generated images and videos instead of tr
Matthew Postlethwaite is best known for his role in Peaky Blinders, but these days, he's spending less time on set and more time disrupting the beverage industry with Proda, a protein soda with 10 grams of protein, zero
Genevieve Gilbreath is a General Partner at Springdale Ventures, an early-stage consumer fund that has backed some of the most successful celebrity and creator-founded brands in the market, including Feastables by MrBeas
Jackie Fast is a General Partner at Sandbox Studios, a fund that exclusively invests in celebrity-founded brands, with a portfolio that includes Dr. Bombay by Snoop Dogg and Safely by Kris Jenner. Before launching Sandbo
Tayla Cannon is a creator entrepreneur and physiotherapist who built a 170,000-follower audience sharing her approach to rehab and training after years of chronic back pain. That platform became the launchpad for Rebuild
Megan Lightcap is a partner at Slow Ventures, where she leads a $60 million fund investing directly into creator entrepreneurs. Her thesis: the best creator bets of the next decade won't just be on great content. They'll
Zeke Bronfman co-founded The Absorption Company alongside Twilight and Vampire Diaries actors Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder, and deliberately kept them off the packaging and website. Because this isn't a celebrity brand
When London Lazar hit 10 million followers across social media by recreating Home Alone frame-by-frame every Christmas, he didn't follow the typical creator playbook of slapping his face on a white-labeled product and ca
When Hannah Williams discovered she was being underpaid by $25,000 as a senior data analyst in 2021, she didn't just negotiate a raise or quietly move on. Instead, she picked up a camera, started asking strangers on the
When Ben Guez sold his previous tech company, he didn't follow the typical founder playbook of taking time off or jumping straight into another startup. Instead, he picked up his phone during COVID lockdown, started crea
When Sam Cutler decided to take on the wellness industry, she didn't follow the typical creator playbook of launching another white-labeled supplement or skincare line. Instead, she bootstrapped Mindfull—a nutrition inte
When Avni Barman quit her dream product management job in Big Tech with literally no backup plan, she had already spent seven years trying to make her entrepreneurship dreams work—launching five different business ideas,
When Julia Straus partnered with 15-year-old creator Salish Matter and her father Jordan Matter to launch Sincerely Yours, she had no idea their American Dream Mall debut would draw over 80,000 fans and literally shut do
Nikki Reed
The Power of Purpose Pt. 1 · The Absorption Company
1 appearance on this show
Ian Somerhalder
award-winning actor turned entrepreneur · Brothers Bond Bourbon
1 appearance on this show
Sam Cutler
MINDFULL
1 appearance on this show
Jordan Matter
1 appearance on this show
Joshua Cohen
Area Coordinator · Project SHARE
1 appearance on this show
Kaley Cuoco
Oh Norman
1 appearance on this show
Katie Hunt
Founder · Strength Sanctuary
1 appearance on this show
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The HotStart VC Podcast is hosted by Scott van den Berg. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 29 episodes.
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