
limbay@nbcuni.com
For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.
Episodes: 203
Frequency: Biweekly
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: USA
limbay@nbcuni.com
For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.
Scott McGrew - NBC Bay Area business and technology reporter and host of Press:Here.
Andy Chen - Startup Cofounder Formation, The Convenient Cofounder Penalty, Ai-era Solo Founders, Startup Exits, And Venture Capital.
PR Yu - Solo-gp Venture Capital, Rapid Investment Decisions, Ethical Investing, Healthcare Technology, Robotics, And Artificial Intelligence.
2026 Venture Capital Reading List
July 08, 2026
Leah Solivan — Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston Alice Bentink — A Work in Progress by Rene Redzepi David Spreng — All Money Is Not Created Equal by David Spreng Caitlin Holloway — Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull Grant Lee — Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer Vas Natarajan — Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke Alex Halliday — High Output Management by Andy Grove Andy Chen — Shoe Dog by Phil Knight PR Yu — Tao Te Ching by Laozi Christina Smolke — Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery A...
Andy Chen: The Convenient Cofounder Penalty
June 10, 2026
Andy Chen of Outcast Ventures spent 15 years at Kleiner Perkins and Coatue studying what actually makes startups succeed — and the data surprised him. After analyzing every U.S. IPO and acquisition over $1 billion in the past two decades, Chen found that founders who didn't know each other beforehand built more valuable companies than those who did. He calls the trap the "convenient co-founder penalty." Now he's doing something about it: Catalyst, a co-founder formation program launching this...
PR Yu: Ethical Capital at Speed
May 28, 2026
PR Yu is one of the largest solo GPs in the world — a sole decision-maker controlling hundreds of millions of dollars, with ~100 LPs heading into Fund IV who keep coming back. At Yu Galaxy, no partners means no committees, and deals can close in hours. His portfolio spans healthcare, robotics, and AI, anchored by contrarian bets like Leo Cancer Care — a hardware play Sand Hill Road largely passed on, now tracking toward a multi-billion dollar IPO. Yu calls it "ethical capital at speed": the f...
Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.
Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings