The Slow Hunch
Conversations about the twisty and unexpected pathways from idea fragments to big things. Listen on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Overcast, or RSS. Named after the essay.
Ep 18
Clyde Lawrence (Lawrence)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Clyde Lawrence, co-founder and co-band leader of Lawrence, about what it really means to build an independent career in music. Our conversation traces h...
Ep 17
Matthew Prince (Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on...
Ep 16
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Alex Komoroske, the co-founder and CEO of Common Tools. Alex has spent his career thinking about how individual incentives can add up to significant col...
Ep 15
MC Lader & Marvin Ammori (Uniswap)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with MC Lader and Marvin Ammori, who spent four years together helping build Uniswap into one of the most important companies in decentralized finance. MC wa...
Ep 14
Dan Romero & Varun Srinivasan (Co-founders of Farcaster)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, the co-founders of Farcaster. Farcaster is a social app and protocol that is open, programmable, and crypto-native. Be...
Ep 13
Ben Leventhal (Founder & CEO, Blackbird)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird. Ben has spent the past two decades reimagining the restaurant industry, having previously co-founded Ea...
Ep 12
Juan Benet (Protocol Labs)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Juan Benet, the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs. Juan is best known for creating IPFS and Filecoin—two foundational technologies in the decentralized w...
Ep 11
The Slow Hunch (Best of Season 1)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I’ve pulled together some of the best moments from Season 1. Across these conversations, what stood out was how many ‘inevitable’ ideas were, at one point, anything
Ep 10
Aaron Wright (Co-founder & CEO of Tribute Labs)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Aaron Wright, the co-founder and CEO of Tribute Labs. Aaron has been exploring how to harness the collective knowledge, energy, and capital of online c...
Ep 9
Jay Graber (CEO of Bluesky)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky. Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter under Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was designed to transform Twitter from a cl...
Ep 8
Fred Wilson & Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
In this special episode of the Slow Hunch, I sat down with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, founding partners of USV. Since founding USV in 2003, Fred and Brad have backed companies like Twitter, Etsy,
Ep 7
Jake Heller (Co-founder & CEO of Casetext)
In this episode of the Slow Hunch, I spoke with Jake Heller, co-founder and CEO of Casetext, a legal tech startup that pioneered the use of large language models in the legal industry. Jake and his
Ep 6
Amir Haleem (Founder of Helium, CEO of Nova Labs)
I spoke with Amir Haleem, founder of Helium and CEO of Nova Labs, about his journey building the world's largest decentralized wireless networks. Amir started Helium in 2013, with the initial vision
Ep 5
Zoe Weinberg (Founder, ex/ante)
In this episode, I spoke to Zoe Weinberg, founder and managing partner of ex/ante, a venture fund focused on technology that enhances human agency. Zoe actively invests in a growing number of founders...
Ep 4
Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev)
In this episode, I spoke to Dani Grant, CEO of Jam.dev, a tool that reimagines the way software teams communicate about and fix bugs. Dani brings an infectious energy to her work. Before starting Jam,...
Ep 3
Steven Johnson (Author, Editorial lead at NotebookLM and Google Labs)
In this episode, I spoke to Steven Johnson - one of my favorite authors and thinkers. Steven has written 14 popular books, including “Where Good Ideas Come From” which inspired the name of this podcas...
Ep 2
Muneeb Ali (Co-founder of Stacks)
In this episode, I spoke to Muneeb Ali, the co-founder of Stacks — a Bitcoin L2 that aims to make BTC more programmable and scalable. At USV, we originally backed Muneeb and his co-founder Ryan Shea
Ep 1
Fraser Kelton (GP at Spark Capital, former Head of Product at OpenAI)
I spoke to Fraser Kelton, General Partner at Spark Capital and the former Head of Product at OpenAI. Fraser played a key role in the launch of ChatGPT, which is widely considered AI's "iPhone moment."...