The IO Podcast: Investor + Operator
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The IO Podcast: Investor + Operator

by Sterling Snow and Tyler Hogge

The Investor + Operator (IO) Podcast hosts the most candid, vulnerable conversations about building companies with the world’s best operators and investors.

33 episodes
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1
David Haber of a16z: Building a Firm vs Fund + What a16z is focused on in 2026
43:28 Mar 10, 2026
2
Why The Second Decade Is The Best For Startups — A convo w/ Spenser Skates, CEO Amplitude Analytics
51:38 Dec 16, 2025
3
Ex Navy SEAL: When To Quit Vs Persevere In Business + How I Started A Successful Venture Firm!
42:26 Oct 14, 2025
4
Zero To $1 BILLION In Payments In Just One Year: How To Crush Product-Market-Fit w/ Joshua Silver
27:41 Sep 30, 2025
5
$500M Founder: Avoid These Critical Mistakes When Competing With Incumbents - A convo w/ Daniel Simon, Coast CEO
34:03 Sep 16, 2025
6
Kapital: The Future of Latin-American Banking With Mexico’s Best Startup
28:35 Sep 2, 2025
7
Kapital: The Future of Latin-American Banking With Mexico’s Best Startup
28:35 Sep 2, 2025
8
Lessons From Building Utah's Next $10B Company — A convo w/ Adam Edmunds, CEO of Entrata
40:03 Aug 12, 2025
9
Leading a $1B Revenue Startup AND $1.8B VC Firm – A convo w/ Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital + Kraken)
1:07:52 Jul 29, 2025
10
How The BEST Founders Go From Seed To Series A - a convo w/ Brett Berson of First Round
1:01:43 Jul 15, 2025
11
From whiteboard idea to $7 BILLION…How Flock Safety catches 20% of US crime — w/ Garrett Langley
36:06 Jun 10, 2025
12
How Benchmark Capital finds EXCEPTIONAL startups in the age of AI — A convo w/ Eric Vishria
56:47 May 20, 2025
13
How Great Founders SELL Before They BUILD — An Exceptional Startup Chat w/ The Founder of Wander
34:03 May 6, 2025
14
The Simple Tricks Founders Need To Build WINNING Teams — An IO Interview With Nakul Mandan
52:12 Apr 22, 2025
15
His Company Went Public At $1.8 BILLION...And His Next Idea Is Even Bigger
27:38 Apr 8, 2025
16
Building the Sales Machine with Pete Kazanjy, Author of Founding Sales | IO Podcast
59:56 Mar 25, 2025
17
The Best Podcast For Early Stage Founders - Season 2 of the I/O Podcast & the Exceptional Startups List
7:20 Feb 20, 2025
18
The Formula for Outlier Success with Dr. Gurner, a World's Best Executive Coach | IO Pod Ep 15
59:04 Nov 12, 2024
19
Building Lattice & Alt Capital: Jack Altman On Investing & Operating
1:10:16 Oct 1, 2024
20
Leading a16z's Growth Fund: David George On Investing Now and In the Future | Ep 13, IO Podcast
1:03:38 Sep 9, 2024
21
Emergency Episode of the I/O - Building Utah with Redo CEO Sterling Snow
27:22 Aug 20, 2024
22
Here's Why Shopify Will Be A 100 Year Company | Kaz Nejatian, Shopify COO & Former YC Founder | Episode 12
1:07:03 Jul 10, 2024
23
He Started A Business That Sold For $2.5 Billion. Here's What He Learned | Blake Murray, Divvy CEO | I/O Pod Episode 11
1:10:08 Jun 4, 2024
24
NEA's Scott Sandell May Have The Most IPOs Of All Time. Here's How He Did It | Ep. 10 I/O Podcast
54:44 May 7, 2024
25
The Kings of Fintech | How NerdWallet's Jake Gibson and Sheel Mohnot Are Funding The Next Generation | Ep. 9
57:22 Apr 10, 2024
26
How Mercury's CEO Immad Akhund Changed the Startup Banking Experience And Got Into Investing || Ep. 8 IO Pod
59:28 Mar 13, 2024
27
From TrialPay, Affirm and a16z | Alex Rampell on Investing & Entrepreneurship | Ep. 7 IO Podcast
1:08:19 Feb 13, 2024
28
Going All In On OpenAI, Rippling and Others | Bedrock Capital's Geoff Lewis On How How He Makes Investments | Ep. 6, IO Pod
1:04:05 Jan 3, 2024
29
How To Build A World-Class Revenue Org with Mark Cranney, Former a16z Partner | IO Podcast Ep. 5
55:37 Nov 28, 2023
30
Henry Ward, CEO of Carta | How This Second Time Founder Built A $7.4 Billion Company | Episode 4
49:32 Oct 24, 2023
31
How YC's Garry Tan Evaluates Startups | Episode 3 of the Investor + Operator Podcast
1:07:54 Sep 28, 2023
32
Keith Rabois, Founders Fund | The IO Podcast - Episode 2
54:24 Aug 1, 2023
33
Andy Rachleff from VC to Entrepreneur
34:02 Mar 22, 2023
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