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From Startup to Exit2026 Investment Outlook and PredictionsSend a textListen to our 2026 Annual Investment Outlook Panel with four top VCs. Get their perspective on the investment climate in 2026 and their plans to invest specifically in AI based startups. See how they did with their 2025 forecast and what their big predictions are for 2026.Tim Porter, Managing Director, Madrona VenturesTim joined Madrona in 2006 and invests in B2B software companies in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently interested in intelligent applications and SaaS, cloud-native software infrastructure, the modern data stack, machine learning, DevOps, and cybersecurity. He is also a board member...
2026-02-161h 51From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitBuilding Category-Defining AI Startups with Yifan Zhang (AI2 Incubator)Send us a textWe’re excited to feature Yifan Zhang, Managing Director at AI2 Incubator, one of the most successful AI incubators in the world, born out of the Allen Institute for AI and backed by a newly announced $80M Fund III.Yifan is a 2x founder and CEO, Entrepreneur “50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs” honoree, and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum. Her journey spans building and exiting venture-backed startups, navigating extreme founder adversity, and now helping the next generation of AI founders go from idea to impact.In this episode of From Startup to Exit, Yifan...
2026-01-2342 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitBest of 2025: From Startup to Exit PodcastSend us a textJoin us for a dynamic highlight reel featuring short segments from the 2025 season of From Startup to Exit, TiE Seattle’s flagship podcast showcasing world-class entrepreneurs, innovators, and industry leaders sharing candid insights from their journeys. Each mini-segment brings you the essence of these remarkable conversations — from foundational lessons in product and leadership to reflections on how technology shapes markets and culture. We kick things off with Paul Maritz, discussing his pivotal role in Microsoft’s product strategy during the Windows and server era and how a deep commitment to innovation shaped...
2026-01-0151 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitInnovating for Impact: TYE Global Winners 2025 Share their Entrepreneurial JourneySend us a textJoin us as Team Kymavi, the TYE Global winner, discusses their groundbreaking solution addressing environmental challenges through biodegradable bags, and Team Key Beauty, creators of an AI-driven makeup matching platform for women of color, shares their journey in redefining inclusivity in beauty.The teams dive into their experiences with market research, customer validation, and developing sustainable business models, highlighting how mentorship and the TYE program helped them refine their ideas, build essential entrepreneurial skills, and prepare for global success.Brought to you by TiE SeattleHosts: Shirish Nadkarni...
2025-12-0452 minSerienmord & Wahnsinn
Serienmord & WahnsinnDer Mann, der die Stadt fürchtete---werbung---Schließe dich mir und 60 Millionen Nutzer*innen an, die Revolut lieben. Registriere dich mit dem Link unten:  https://revolut.comMystery und Thriller auf Amazon Prime:https://amzn.to/4aeF1CE---werbung--- Einstieg – Die Nacht, in der die Maskerade zerbrach Es war kurz nach Mitternacht, als sich im Juli 1989 in einer Seitenstraße des damals noch Madras genannten Chennai mehrere Polizeifahrzeuge langsam durch die stickige Hitze drängten. Die Luft roch nach Abgasen, Meer und jener Mischung aus Staub und Diesel, die den Hafenbezirk von Thiruvanmiyur prägte. Anwohner spähten aus Fenstern, verwundert...
2025-11-1800 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitBuilding Responsible AI for the New Era: A Conversation with Ece Kamar, Director of AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft ResearchSend us a textIn this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ece Kamar, Director of the AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft Research, and one of the leading voices in Responsible AI.With over 15 years at Microsoft, Ece has played a pivotal role in shaping how AI systems are designed to collaborate with humans safely and effectively. She shares her journey from earning a PhD at Harvard University, where she researched how AI agents can become human partners, to leading responsible AI efforts at Microsoft and tackling challenges like fairness, reliability, safety, and hallucinations in...
2025-11-1758 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitStartup Spotlight: GONE.COM - Giving Goods a Second Life for a Healthy PlanetSend us a textYashovardhan Wagh is the co-founder & CEO of Gone.com, a Seattle-based circular commerce company giving quality goods a second life through local supply chains. He previously built supply chains for Amazon and other Fortune 100 companies. His mission: to build a national circular economy so future generations can thrive on a healthy planet.Brought to you by TiE SeattleHosts: Shirish Nadkarni and Gowri ShankarProducers: Minee Verma and Eesha JainYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@fromstartuptoexitpodcast
2025-10-2031 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Intelligent Applications in an Agentic World, A conversation with Sabrina Wu, Investor at Madrona VenturesSend a textIn this episode, we talk to Sabrina Wu who is an Investor at the famed VC firm Madrona Ventures. Sabrina shares her thoughts about closed source vs open source, agentic applications and the emergence of multi modal applications. Sabrina joined Madrona’s investment team in 2021 and focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities from Seed through Series C across Madrona’s core investment themes. She also supports the growth and strategy of current portfolio companies. Sabrina is particularly interested in intelligent applications, enterprise software, and data/AI products.Sabrina and M...
2025-09-1047 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: The Battle for the Internet, with Vice President for MSN, Laura JenningsSend a textIn the final installment of the Microsoft@50 series, we interview Laura Jennings, who was the Vice President in charge of MSN and one of the senior most female executives at Microsoft in her time. Laura was the Microsoft executive who shifted MSN's strategy as a proprietary online service to becoming one of the top portal's on the internet. I worked for Laura and together we bought Hotmail and got into the search business in partnership with Inktomi. In 1999, Laura Jennings launched a new version of MSN with personalization, integrated web email and search which...
2025-07-0954 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: The Launch of Windows 95, with SVP Brad ChaseSend us a textIn the 5th installment of the Microsoft@50 series, we interview Brad Chase, who was the SVP in charge of the launch of Windows 95. Later on, he took over the reins for MSN. Brad joined Microsoft in 1987 and was the first product manager responsible for the launch of the Microsoft Office on the Mac. Later he became the Group Product Manager for MS D0S 5.0. Brad negotiated the licensing of the famous Start Me Up song by the Rolling Stones that was used in Microsoft ads for Windows 95.At JPMorgan Private Bank...
2025-07-0247 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: Birth of Microsoft, with its Sixth Employee, Steve WoodSend us a textIn this 4th installment of the Microsoft@50 series we bring you Steve Wood who was the sixth employee at Microsoft. He was recruited out of Stanford where he completed his Masters in Electrical Engineering. He went on to work at Microsoft's Albuquerque office in 1976 where he had the opportunity to work closely with Bill Gates and Paul Allen. He worked on the FORTRAN compiler before becoming a General Manager. He left Microsoft in 1980 and later joined Asymetrix and found Starwave with Paul Allen. He became a serial entrepreneur starting companies such as Wireless...
2025-06-2551 minTED Radio Hour
TED Radio HourUncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdomFrom the bugs in our backyards to prehistoric reptiles, animal biology and behavior are full of puzzles and conundrums. On this episode, we hear from experts solving the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Original broadcast date: July 14, 2023.Guests include paleontologist Dean Lomax, biochemical engineer Saad Bhamla, herpetologist Gowri Shankar and conservation biologist Patrícia Medici.TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without s...
2025-06-2049 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: Birth of Xbox, with Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie BachSend us a textThis is the 3rd installment of the Microsoft@50 series. We interview Robbie Bach, who was the Chief Xbox Officer at Microsoft and the founder of Xbox at Microsoft. Before founding Xbox, he ran Microsoft Office and made it into the standard it is today. After 22 years at Microsoft, Robbie announced his retirement from Microsoft effective in the fall of 2010. Robbie has spoken to corporate, academic, and civic groups across the country and in 2015 completed his first book, Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal, followed by the Wikes Insurrection.
2025-06-181h 05From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: Birth of Microsoft Office, with President of Business Systems Division, Jeff RaikesSend us a textThis is the 2nd installment of the Microsoft@50 series. We interview Jeff Raikes, who was President of the Business Systems Division at Microsoft. Jeff was the one of the senior most executives at Microsoft after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Jeff served as a member of the company’s senior leadership team that set the overall strategy and direction for the firm. He began his career with Microsoft in 1981 and was instrumental in creating the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications.Jeff Raikes is a co-founder of the Raikes Foundation with hi...
2025-06-111h 00From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitMicrosoft@50: The Windows Battle, with SVP for Microsoft's Desktop & Server Software, Paul MaritzSend us a textIn this first installment of the Microsoft@50 series, we interview Paul Maritz who was the third most senior executive at Microsoft.From 1986 to 2000, he worked at Microsoft and was on its executive committee. He became executive vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group and part of the 5-person executive management team. He was often said to be the third-ranking executive, behind Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He was responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software, including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and...
2025-06-041h 05From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Gen AI in Security, Sumedh Barde, Chief Product Officer, SimbianSend us a textLearn about Simbian,  an AI security company. Simbian is the first security company to accelerate security by empowering every member of a security team, from the C-Suite to frontline practitioners, to craft tailored insights and workflows for their unique security needs - ranging from complex investigation and response to governance and reporting. Learn how they pivoted from providing security for Gen Ai to leveraging Gen AI to creating agents that speed up security workflows and investigations.Sumedh is the Chief Product Officer at Simbian, a cybersecurity startup that builds AI Agents t...
2025-03-021h 01From Startup to Exit
From Startup to Exit2025 Investment Outlook Panel - In the age of AISend us a textListen to our 2025 Annual Investment Outlook Panel with four top VCs based in Seattle and the Bay area. Get their perspective on the investment climate in 2025 and their plans to invest specifically in AI-based startups. See how they did with their 2024 forecast and what their big predictions are for 2025.Tim Porter, Managing Director, Madrona VenturesTim joined Madrona in 2006 and invests in B2B software companies in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently interested in intelligent applications and SaaS, cloud-native software infrastructure, the modern data stack, machine learning...
2025-01-211h 10From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series - The AI agent redefining travel: Managing Director Mike Fridgen, Madrona Venture LabsSend us a textLearn about the founding of Otto from Mike Fridgen, the Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs where this concept was incubated. Otto is your personal AI travel agent that seeks to be as valuable and insightful as a dedicated personal assistant. Otto offers enterprise-grade travel booking and servicing capabilities through an easy-to-use AI travel agent that autonomously plans, books, and manages your travel, even during your trip.As Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), Mike Fridgen leads the studio's mission to partner with founders from day one to create extraordinary...
2025-01-0343 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitBest of 2024: From Startup to ExitSend us a text2024 has been an incredible year for TiE Seattle’s From Startup to Exit podcast – featuring inspiring conversations with entrepreneurial leaders, innovators, and changemakers. As the year ends, we’re excited to share the Top 4 Episodes of 2024 that you don’t want to miss!The Founding of OfferUp - Nick Huzar: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2234096/episodes/13413716The Founding of Rover & the Vision Behind Pioneer Square Labs - Greg Gottesman: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2234096/episodes/13615903Mega-Successful Exits: Chronus & Ally.io - Vetri Vellore: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2234096/episodes/13899931Deve...
2024-12-291h 04From Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitFounding Smartsheet and its vision: Conversation w/ Praerit Garg, President of Product & InnovationSend us a textSmartsheet is a major success story for the Seattle Tech ecosystem. Smartsheet was founded in 2005 as a workplace management system based on a spreadsheet style architecture. In this episode, Praerit Garg (PG) talks about the early product vision for Smartsheet. How, unlike dedicated product management tools like Asana, Smartsheet is very flexible and adapts to a number of workplace management scenarios. PG discusses the new product innovations that Smartsheet has introduced based on AI. As a startup founder himself, PG shares some of the key lessons that he learned in starting a startup.
2024-12-0255 minHerpetological Highlights
Herpetological Highlights212 King Cobra Species SplitWe chat about vipers hissing before hitting on some massive news with multiple new species of king cobra being described. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/herphighlights Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/herphighlights/shop Full reference list available here: http://www.herphighlights.podbean.com Main Paper References: Van Zele N, Nicot T, Lengagne T, Ksas R, Lourdais O. 2024. Physiological costs of warning: Defensive hissing increases metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in a venomous snake. Physiology & Behavior 287:114708. DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114708. Species of the...
2024-11-0834 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Legalities of scraping data to build LLMs, a conversation w/ Adam Shevell, partner at Wilson SonsiniSend us a textMany of the large language model providers have built their LLM models by scraping data from websites and open source sites. Some have licensed the content like Open AI has done with Reddit. Nonetheless, many of these LLM providers have been sued for illegally copying data for which they have no permission. In this podcast, Adam shares his thoughts on the Fair Use doctrine and various legal opinions on the legality of scraping data to build LLM models. Here's also an interesting article that Adam has written for developing, extending and using Generative...
2024-11-0145 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitHow Louisiana is driving innovation, A Conversation with Josh Fleig, CIO for the State of LouisianaSend us a textYou may not think of the State of Louisiana as a software innovation hub but it is doing a lot to attract startups to its state. It has a $100 million seed capital fund to match VC investment dollar for dollar. It is willing to rebate 25% of your software development dollars for software development done in its state. It is alsoproviding sales tax rebates to attract large data centers to its state.Josh Fleig is responsible for fostering innovation and entrepreneurship across the state, while assisting small businesses with access...
2024-10-0254 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitModerating foreign accents using AI, A Conversation with Soundwave team, winners of the TiE Young Entrepreneur competitionSend us a textThese days you will often call into customer service for a company whose product you are using and will be connected to an agent with a foreign accent. For many Americans, this can be a challenging experience as they cannot understand what the agent is saying because of their accent. Foreign agents have also complained that it can be a dehumanizing experience. This can result in a low Net Promoter Score for the foreign call center which reduces the revenues they can charge for their services.Soundwave is an AI application...
2024-09-0333 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Using Gen AI in a startup environment, A conversation with Jay Bartot of Madrona Venture LabsSend us a textOn our one year anniversary, we are releasing this terrific episode with Jay Bartot, partner at Madrona Venture Labs (MVL). Jay talks about the model that MVL uses to work with startup founders and vet startup ideas.Like many technology entrepreneurs, over the last 18 months, Jay has been deeply immersed in Generative AI technology, building experimental products, and testing the capabilities as well as limitations of the new AI frontier. Having seen and worked with slowly evolving AI and machine learning technologies over 25 years, his early experimentation with LLMs (large language...
2024-08-1559 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Developer Joy through Generative AI. A conversation with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at AtlassianSend us a textRajeev embarked on his career at Microsoft as a developer after a sabbatical from his Ph.D. to build upon his internship experience in Seattle the previous summer. In this episode, he delves into how his journey and interactions with various leaders have influenced his own leadership style as the CTO of Atlassian.The theme of ‘Developer Joy’ has resonated with Rajeev throughout his tenure at Microsoft, META, and now Atlassian. He elaborates on how Generative AI is being integrated across all Atlassian products, emphasizing this core theme. Given his background as a...
2024-07-2849 minANTAPPAN TALKIES PODCAST
ANTAPPAN TALKIES PODCASTEPISODE 11 : Gowry Lekshmi | മുറിവ് ഒരു Victim Card ?? | Antappan Talkies Podcast | #trendingnews #gowrylekshmi In this video, we dive into the recent controversy surrounding Gowry Lekshmy's latest video and the cyber attack that followed. While we strongly condemn any form of cyberbullying, we believe Gowry might be playing the victim card in this situation. Watch the full video for our thoughts and analysis on this hot topic. Do you agree or disagree? Let us know your opinions in the comments! Don't forget to subscribe to the Antappan Talkies Podcast for more engaging content on trending issues. . . #gowrylekshmi #gowrylekshmycyberattack #cyberattack #trending #muriv #murivsong #gowri #aishwaryapisse #aishwaryapissefansclub #agnisakshiserial #agnisakshi #ujjani #aishwaryapissefans #aishwaryapissefansforever #aishwaryapissefc #gowrishankar #starmaa...
2024-07-1116 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Gen AI from a VC perspective, A conversation with Vivek Ramaswami from Madrona VenturesSend us a textGenerative AI has taken the industry by storm as we all know. Besides Open AI. a number of players like Meta, Google and Anthropic have announced new foundation models. In this episode, we get Vivek's perspective of the competitive landscape and how it will likely evolve. Will open source models start to match Open AI's GPT 4o in terms of capabilities? We also discuss Apple's recent announcements around "Apple Intelligence".Hundreds of millions of VC money have poured into Gen AI startups but who is really making any money? Vivek gives...
2024-07-0452 minFrom Startup to Exit
From Startup to ExitGen AI Series: Ensuring Data Transparency for Gen AI models. A Conversation with Jai Jaisimha and Rob Eleveld, The Transparency CoalitionSend us a textArtificial intelligence has the potential to be a powerful tool for human progress if properly trained, harnessed, and deployed. Policies must be created to protect personal privacy, nurture innovation, and foster prosperity. The Transparency Coalition (https://www.transparencycoalition.ai/). a non-profit, is focused on creating tools, systems, and policies that hold AI developers and deployers accountable for the legal and ethical creation and operation of AI systems. Listen to the two founders of Transparency Coalition, Jai Jaishima and Rob Elevelde as they articulate the strategy they have deployed to hold developers like Open...
2024-06-0959 min