Yesterday Podcast

<p>Zach Dell and Justin Lopas are the co-founders of Texas-based Base Power Company.</p><p>They recently raised a $1B series C at a $4B valuation, fueling their goals to modernize the electricity grid and provide...

<p>Episode #18 of Yesterday:Aaron Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box (NYSE: BOX), a cloud storage company used by over 100,000 businesses worldwide, including 67% of the Fortune 500. He co-founded Box in 2005 while...

<p>Episode #17 of Yesterday:Jonathan Neman is the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen, Inc. (NYSE: SG), the mission-driven restaurant brand redefining fast food through fresh, seasonal, and sustainable meals.</p><p>Born in...

<p>Zach Sims co-founded Codecademy with Ryan Bubinski after dropping out of Columbia. And over a decade later in 2021, they sold to Skillsoft for $525M.</p><p>We discuss his family, scrappy upbringing that led to...

<p>Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir (now worth ~$400B) and went on to found venture firm 8VC, the University of Austin, OpenGov, Addepar, and several other companies. In this wide-ranging conversation, Lonsdale traces...

<p>Gordon Ritter co-founded Emergence Capital, backing iconic brands like Salesforce, Veeva Systems, Zoom, and more.</p><p>We cover his life story in great detail — ranging from his father’s bloody face on the New York...

<p>We discuss the life story of Notion’s co-founder, Akshay Kothari. Notion is a productivity tool, valued at $10B+ with over 100M users. Akshay grew up in Western India in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the state of...

<p>This week, we cover the life story of Dwarkesh Patel, host of The Dwarkesh Podcast. Dwarkesh grew up in India until the age of eight, when his family moved to the United States for his father's medical career. His...

<p>This week, we cover the life story of Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel. Rauch grew up in Lanús, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself to code and by 11, he was...

<p>This week, we cover the life story of John Andrew Entwistle. He was once a Formula race car driver, during which he broke his back multiple times, and he even threw a house party that shut down his entire town...

<p>Jessica Mah is the founder of inDinero and Mahway, a venture studio backing companies in aerospace, legaltech, and biotech. We discussed growing up in Westchester to immigrant parents, teaching herself to code at 10...

<p>Joshua Browder is the founder of DoNotPay, a legal tech company that automates consumer rights protection. We discuss the Russian mafia stalking his family, interviewing Warren Buffett at 18, building DoNotPay to be...

<p>Jack Altman is the founder of Lattice, a now multi-billion dollar company. He recently launched Alt Capital, a 150M early-stage venture fund. We discuss Jack’s suburban upbringing and going from Princeton to quitting...

<p>Haseeb Qureshi is a former pro poker player and now the founder of Dragonly, a crypto-focused venture firm managing $3B+. We discussed growing up in Texas to immigrant parents, his foray into the internet, and how he...

<p>Spenser Skates is the founder of Amplitude, a digital analytics platform. We discussed growing up in Boston to immigrant parents, his struggle of feeling like he wasn’t amazing at anything, and his path to quant, YC...