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Creating Life at Home & a Founder's Journey in Infertility with Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche, Ph.D, CEO of PherDal

Essentially they were just trying to get sperm closer to the egg. And I thought, well shoot, I can do that myself at home. So we spell "fertile" with the PhD because I had to use my PhD to prove them wrong.

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Cleaning up "cloud waste" in the midst of the cloud wars with Kaveh Khorram, CEO of Usage.ai

"I have a prediction with 100% in 10 years you're going to have a billion dollar ARR company emerge out of this category"

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A safer way to release software and the 0 to 1 story behind LaunchDarkly with Edith Harbaugh, Co founder of LaunchDarkly

The Zero to One phase is the hardest stage because you're having to convince people to use a new product from a new company. And on top of that LaunchDarkly at the time was also a process change, and people weren't really used to continuous delivery.

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CEO Succession draft with my co founder and brother, Jeremy Vandehey

Breaking down the market, financial, and company performance of industry titans and the top 10 successors from the past 20 years.

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Crossing the second chasm and doing big BD deals with Kurt Davis, author of "Navigate the Lighthouse"

The game has changed because some of the deals now are so massive and so you can't walk in with a salesperson and a technology engineer to go close a deal in that first chasm

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Hiring and building with AI, life before and after raising $40M, and the startup scene in Chicago with Scott Kacyn, Co founder and CTO of Hunt Club

Creating the category of Network Relationship Management

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