Top Decile Podcast

Tal Schwartz spent a decade building the Canadian fintech industry before he started investing in it. He founded the Canadian Lenders Association, now the largest financial services trade group in the country with every...

Javier Cueto has reviewed more than 12,000 startups across Latin America. Through Imagine Lab, he backed 120 of them at idea stage and hit a 30% survival rate, including two acquisitions that tripled his investments. He...

The word: "Hollywood." Seth Hallen spent 25 years on the technology side of film and television, including leadership roles at Panavision's Light Iron, Sony and Pixelogic, plus nine years as president of the Hollywood...

Eran Savir is a three-time founder with two exits who built and ran two prior seed funds together generating a 3.5X return and 79% IRR, taking one of them public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Now he runs Savyon...

Rob Mihalko grew Ariba Network into a $400 million B2B marketplace, has three exits to SAP, Microsoft, and Disney, and has invested in or advised more than 50 marketplace companies. He teaches the digital marketplaces...

Nikhil Mittal spent nearly two decades investigating fraud, money laundering, and sanctions for major banks and fintechs, a career his own father also built. He evaluated roughly 250 startups before writing his first...

Genevieve Lemarchal spent over a decade as a serial entrepreneur, logging more than 10,000 hours in early-stage sales, marketing, and growth strategy and coaching over a thousand founders, before she ever wrote a check...

Tahnoon Murtza is 22 years old, and has spent his entire life inside the entertainment industry as a touring musician. That put him in the group chats where celebrity brand deals get built long before any VC hears about...

Navneet Kaur has launched seven consumer brands from zero to scale, worked with over 200 startups across emerging markets, and built FemTech India, the country's first and largest women's health tech ecosystem, spanning...

Vijay Rajendran led portfolio value creation at 500 Global across 2,800 companies in 80 countries before co-founding gAI Ventures. Amit Goel brings 20 years as a payments and identity operator, including building and...

Anthony Atlas won first place at the International Science and Engineering Fair at 17, earning himself a minor planet in the process. He spent years noticing that science fair alumni kept turning up as exceptional...

Lorenzo De Leo spent more than a decade as managing director at Rocker, one of Miami's leading venture studios, where he helped build over 40 companies across the US and Latin America. That operator background is now...

<p>Lorenzo De Leo spent more than a decade as managing director at Rocker, one of Miami's leading venture studios, where he helped build over 40 companies across the US and Latin America. That operator background is now...

Radhika Iyengar was named one of the Top 100 Women of the Future and has advised startups that generated $4 billion in shareholder value. Her co-founder Jorden Woods is a Caltech astrophysicist with her own exits and...

<p>Radhika Iyengar was named one of the Top 100 Women of the Future and has advised startups that generated $4 billion in shareholder value. Her co-founder Jorden Woods is a Caltech astrophysicist with her own exits and...