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GritHow Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James CadwalladerWhat happens when AI becomes your most influential referrer?As consumers turn to ChatGPT for answers, James Cadwallader and his team at Profound help brands like Eight Sleep and MongoDB gain visibility and leverage inside AI models.On this episode of Grit, he explains why brand narrative has shifted away from content, and why Profound is scaling globally ahead of traditional SaaS timelines.Guest: James Cadwallader, co-founder and CEO of Profound and Ilya Fushman, partner at Kleiner PerkinsConnect with James CadwalladerX: https://x.com/thejamescad?lang...
2025-12-2250 min
Founders and BuildersGabe Pereyra on the Future of Legal AI at Slush 2025Today, we’re joined at Slush 2025 by someone right at the centre of one of the most influential AI companies in the world.Gabe Pereyra is the co-founder and President of Harvey - the legal AI powerhouse now used by more than 700 customers across 58 countries. Harvey is changing how legal teams operate, from major law firms to in-house teams, by giving them AI that’s fast, reliable, and actually built for the way lawyers work. Gabe comes to us straight off the back of a major announcement here at Slush: a new partnership with...
2025-11-2010 min
GritStord’s Plan to Take on Amazon’s Logistics Advantage | Sean HenryWhat does it take to build the logistics backbone for the next generation of commerce?Sean Henry, founder and CEO of Stord, joins Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman and Grit host Joubin Mirzadegan to talk about scaling a national fulfillment network that now moves 50 million packages a year and reaches 15% of U.S. households.They explore how Stored is using AI to connect warehouses, middle-mile routes, and delivery promises into one smart system. The goal: to give every brand an Amazon Prime-like advantage.Guest: Sean Henry, Co-Founder & CEO of Stord
2025-06-1658 min
Grit#231 CEO & Co-Founder Harvey, Winston Weinberg w/ Ilya Fushman: Worthy SacrificesGuests: Winston Weinberg, CEO & co-founder of Harvey; and Ilya Fushman, partner at Kleiner Perkins“If you think about pretty much any job out there in the world, we will have some sort of [AI] copilot,” says Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman. “The question is, who are the right folks to build it, and what’s their vision?”For Harvey CEO & co-founder Winston Weinberg, the vision is clear: Silicon Valley cannot and should not try to disrupt the legal profession by automating the job of lawyers. Instead, he says, they need to have “respect for the industry” be...
2025-02-241h 05
"Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and InvestingE63: How Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman Continued Kleiner Perkins’ LegacyThis week on Turpentine VC, we’re re-releasing Erik Torenberg’s 2023 interview with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins to talk about how they have taken over the firm's iconic history and helped drive the next chapter. For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/bc08c5ad-9680-4c40-8764-cba7fdf68d16 —📰 Be notified early when Turpentine drops new publication: https://www.turpentine.co/exclusiveaccess —RECOMMENDED PODCAST:🎙️ Unpack Pricing - Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Lear...
2024-11-0458 min
Grit#213 CEO & Co-Founder Loom Joe Thomas w/ Ilya Fushman: After the ExitGuests: Joe Thomas, CEO and co-founder of Loom; and Ilya Fushman, partner at Kleiner PerkinsLoom CEO Joe Thomas had a lot of things to think about before he sold his company to Atlassian for $975 million: The impact an acquisition might have on the product, how to keep the Loom brand alive, the risk of remaining independent... but it wasn’t until after the deal was announced that he really understood what it meant for his team. “I didn't know how emotional it'd be for me,” Joe says. “All of the Loom employees, current and former, t...
2024-10-2157 min
Grit#188 CEO & Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the RoomGuests: Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia; and Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner PerkinsWhen Victor Riparbelli wants to learn something, he’ll start with a YouTube video or a podcast: “I maybe buy the book on Amazon as like the fifth step,” the Synthesia CEO says. His company is trying to change the text-first (or text-only) way information is conveyed at work, making AI avatar-narrated videos to replace documents like customer profiles and HR manuals. Victor says that as the technology improves over many years, it could replace text entirely. “I think for most people, if they...
2024-04-2959 min
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2024-02-171h 22
"Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and InvestingE2: Kleiner Perkins Makes the Case for Craftsman VC, with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya FushmanThis week on Turpentine VC, Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins join Erik to discuss how they’ve seized the torch and helped drive the next chapter of the firm’s iconic history. If you’re looking to make fund administration easy and intuitive, check out: http://carta.com/turpentineWe're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.---
2023-08-1557 min
"Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and InvestingIntroducing: Turpentine VCOn Turpentine VC, host and venture capitalist Erik Torenberg delves deep into the art and science of building successful venture firms through conversations with the world’s best investors and operators. Hear about insider strategies on decision-making, investment theses, and building firms for the long term—from the ground-level, VC to VC. Guests in season 1 include Ben Horowitz of a16z, Mamood Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins, and Alfred Lin of Sequoia.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chie...
2023-08-0502 min
Grit#138 CEO Motive, Shoaib Makani w/ Ilya Fushman: Powering the Physical EconomyGuest: Shoaib Makani, CEO of Motive“When we fail,” says Shoaib Makani, “it is because we have not understood the customer problem deeply and allowed them to guide us.” This wisdom is hard-won: Motive’s first product, an app for fleet management of trucks, idled for four years before becoming a runaway success story. Emboldened by this, the CEO tried to make an orthogonal push into all kinds of freight, “guns blazing,” only to realize six months in that he had way overestimated Motive’s competitive advantage. Retreating from freight was “painful,” Shoaib recalls, but helped the company extend its e...
2023-05-151h 10
Upfront VenturesBack to the Future with Ilya Fushman and Mamoon Hamid of Kleiner Perkins | 2023 Upfront SummitOm Malik interviews Ilya Fushman and Mamoon Hamid of Kleiner Perkins to hear how the two of them came together, the learnings they brought to the firm from previous experiences, and the meaning behind "Back to the Future."
Recorded March 1, 2023 at the Upfront Summit.
2023-03-2223 min
Axial PodcastChemistry to Control Biology & Building a World-Class Lab with Bryan DickinsonIn our conversation, Bryan discusses everything from directed evolution and drugging RNA to what it takes to start a lab. The Dickinson Lab at the University of Chicago is a unique group composed of biochemists & synthetic chemists to cell biologists & synthetic biologists. The lab set up shop in 2014 to use chemistry to control biology with both evolutionary and rational methods. Bryan's research is heavily influenced by his career starting as an undergrad at Maryland with mentorship from David Fushman to graduate research with Chris Chang at UC Berkeley and a postdoc with David Liu at Harvard. At each point, p...
2023-02-1148 min
Grit#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing PerfectionProductboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan has made a point of studying the communication style of other leaders, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Elon Musk. But as the boss of a hot and growing tech startup, he’s realizing just how exceptional those people are. “You’re interviewing some of the top execs from companies are the Silicon Valley darling brands,” he says. “You leave the interview like, ‘This person has no idea what they’re doing. They just happen to be in the right spot at the right time.’” But that’s the necessary price, he explains, of doing something i...
2022-09-121h 06
Finding Genius SeriesMisha Esipov, CEO & Co-Founder of Nova CreditFor more videos such as this one, follow along on Substack (https://findinggenius.substack.com/) This interview was sponsored by Trinet and Anchin. For accounting, tax, and advisory services including R&D Tax Credits, please reach out to chris.noble@anchin.com.
Finding Genius with Misha Esipov, co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit (https://www.novacredit.com/). Nova Credit was founded 5-years ago to help immigrants integrate into the U.S. economy by democratizing access to credit. Nova Credit raised a $50m Series B in early 2020 led by Ilya Fushman at...
2021-06-2721 min
AugmentCognite raises $150M to digitize industrial operations | Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform | Portside raises $17M for its business aviation management platformChicago-based Spot Meetings raises $5 million in seed funding led by Ilya Fushman at Kleiner Perkins. That follows a $1.9 million pre-seed round led by Chapter One earlier this year. Spot Meetings wants to reinvigorate our meetings and displace Zoom as the default meeting medium at the same time.Esper, raises $30 million in Series B round. Esper builds tools to enable developers and engineers to deploy and manage fleets of Android-based edge devices. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and Haystack.Portside, an aviation startup that is building a p...
2021-05-2102 min
NLP Highlights102 - Biomedical NLP research at the National Institute of Health with Dina Demner-FushmanWhat exciting NLP research problems are involved in processing biomedical and clinical data? In this episode, we spoke with Dina Demner-Fushman, who leads NLP and IR research at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, part of the National Library of Medicine. We talked about processing biomedical scientific literature, understanding clinical notes, and answering consumer health questions, and the challenges involved in each of these applications. Dina listed some specific tasks and relevant data sources for NLP researchers interested in such applications, and concluded with some pointers to getting started in this field.
2020-01-2036 min
The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with IntercomIlya Fushman, General Partner at Index VenturesAs a General Partner at Index Ventures and the former Head of Product at Dropbox, Ilya Fushman knows plenty about how to scale your product and the challenges your team will face along the way. He shares his lessons learned on product roadmaps, building platforms and more with Matt Hodges, Intercom's Senior Director of Product Marketing.
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2016-09-2933 min