Running Through Walls

Bryan Roberts, Bob Kocher, Siobhan Nolan Mangini, Nick Beim, Nimish Shah

Booking Overview

Running Through Walls is a Venrock venture-backed podcast where investors and entrepreneurs trade candid, behind-the-scenes perspectives on building and scaling companies. For PR professionals, it’s a strong platform for founders and executives who want credibility with tech and healthcare venture audiences and discussion of go-to-market, fundraising, and product breakthroughs.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

publicrelations@venrock.com

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Host

Bryan Roberts - Not specified in the provided text beyond being a participant in the episode “Healthcare Prognosis 2026” with Venrock.

Bob Kocher - Not specified in the provided text beyond being a participant in the episode “Healthcare Prognosis 2026” with Venrock.

Siobhan Nolan Mangini - Not specified in the provided text beyond being a participant in the episode “Healthcare Prognosis 2026” with Venrock.

Nick Beim - Co-interviewer/participant on the episode “Arca's AI-First Vision for Human-First Wealth Management,” featuring Venrock.

Nimish Shah - Co-interviewer/participant on the episode “Building a Differentiated Obesity Biotech,” featuring Venrock.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Venture-scale founders and senior executives in technology and healthcare (e.g., CEO/founder roles at venture-backed companies), often with meaningful product differentiation and/or traction relevant to current investor themes.

Required Achievements:

Raised significant funding rounds, Built differentiated technology/clinical programs, Achieved notable assets under management or commercial scale (for relevant themes), Positioned a company as a strategic standout in its category

Recent Guest Discussions

Rron Rexha - Ai-native Wealth Management; Vision For Human-first Advice; Journey And Reflections On Time As An Entrepreneur-in-residence At Venrock

Whit Bernard - Ultra-long Acting Glp-1 Program; Positioning In Obesity Market; Pharma Competition; Lessons In First-principles Biotech Building

Recent Topics

Venture Capital, Biotech, Healthcare, Technology, Wealth Management

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Running Through Walls

Under Promise, Over Deliver

September 14, 2026

Venrock partners Andrew Gottesdiener and Nimish Shah sat down with Michael Henderson, CEO of Apogee Therapeutics, to talk about selling Apogee to AbbVie for nearly $11 billion, the hardest part of being a CEO, what it takes to build a great team and culture, Michael's three rules for first-time biotech CEOs, and more.

Primary Care's Win-Win-Win

August 17, 2026

Siobhan Nolan Mangini and Bob Kocher sit down with Patrick Nelli, founder and CEO of Aligned Marketplace, to discuss how rebuilding how we access advanced primary care can improve outcomes, lower costs, and better serve employees. Patrick shares his path from Health Catalyst executive to healthcare founder, why employer-sponsored primary care is ready for transformation, and how Aligned is building a national marketplace for high-quality, accessible care.

Healthcare Prognosis 2026

June 30, 2026

The results of Venrock's 10th annual Healthcare Prognosis are in. This year's survey covers some of the biggest questions in healthcare, from AI in medical care and the future of GLP-1s to consumer peptides, IPOs, M&A, and what's ahead for healthcare policy. In this episode, Bryan Roberts, Bob Kocher, and Siobhan Nolan Mangini sit down to discuss the most interesting findings, share their perspectives on what surprised them, and offer a pulse check on where the industry may be headed next.

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