Startupable
by Enzo Cavalie
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About this podcast
The outsider’s guide to Silicon Valley. I came here as a foreigner to learn what truly sets the best apart: the decisions, strategies, and mindsets that outsiders often see more clearly than insiders. Each week, I go deep with founders, investors, and operators to uncover the real reasons behind their success. Past guests include the founders of Vercel, Auth0, Nubank, Mercado Libre and Kavak.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 35 episodes
- 🎧 Clay’s Early Investor: How a “Slow” Startup Became a 300X | Andre Charoo · 1 h 1 minPresented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 https://rebrand.ly/ASHSP10 Presented by Jumpstart Immigration: 1,250+ founders…
- Netlify Co-Founder ($2B): How a Filmmaker Helped Build a DevTools Company | Chris Bach · 1 h 7 min · Episode 307Presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 https://rebrand.ly/ASHSP7 Presented by Jumpstart Immigration: 1,250+ founders…
- Ex-Kenvue CTDO: Your FDEs Should Teach Us to Fish, Then Leave | Bernardo Tavares · 1 h 6 min · Episode 306Presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 https://rebrand.ly/ASHSP6 Presented by Jumpstart Immigration: 1,250+ founders…
- 🎧 Built AI at Meta and OpenAI: 3 Must-Dos for Founders | Joaquin Quiñonero · 1 h 1 minPresented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 https://www.ashurstperkinscoie.com/en/people/paul-navarro/ Presented by…
- Hilbert: a16z $28M Bet on an AI That Can't Do Math | Nazli Tan · 1 h 0 min · Episode 303Presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 https://www.ashurstperkinscoie.com/en/people/paul-navarro/ Presented by…
- BCG CTO: Only 5% Use the AI You Pay For | Matthew Kropp · 1 h 10 minPresented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro…
- Resend CEO: Why Great Startups Enter Bad Markets | Zeno Rocha · 59 min · Episode 300Presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro…
- Manifest: The $100B Bet on AI-Native Law Firms · 53 minPresented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro…
- 🎧 The 25 yo Brazilian vs Scale, Mercor & Surge | José Nunes, Vetto AI · 1 h 2 minPresented by Ashurst Perkins Coie: 3,000+ lawyers in 23 countries for founders building globally 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro…
- The CTO Who Turned Down Pro Soccer to Build Firecrawl | Nicolas Silberstein, Firecrawl · 55 min · Episode 295At 12, one of Brazil's biggest soccer clubs offered Nicolas a spot on its pro track. Saying yes meant dropping out of school. He said no. Today he's playing the "main league" of…
- From no English at 18 to founding Reach Capital ($1B fund) - Esteban Sosnik · 60 minFive years ago Esteban Sosnik brought me to the US, helped me get my visa, and gave me a seat at Reach Capital. Those have been the best and highest-growth years of my life…
- 0 to $1.2B: HappyRobot’s anti-Silicon Valley playbook · 54 minHappyRobot went from zero to a $1.2B valuation in three years. DHL, Repsol and Koch Industries on the customer list. Four industries, three continents. The company just raised a…
- BoldVoice: How 7 People Built a $10M AI Company · 43 minBoldVoice reached $10M+ in ARR with a team of seven. Five million users across 150 countries. In January, the company raised a $21M Series A led by Matrix. What looks like a…
- GitHub's Plan for the Agents War Isn't an Agent · 1 h 21 minGitHub Copilot started the AI coding market. Today, barely a serious developer touches it. Not even a vibe coder like me: we mostly live in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex…
- 5 Ways LatAm Founders Break Into Silicon Valley · 59 minSantiago Zavala sat me down in front of the 500 Global community in San Francisco.The room was full of founders spending a few weeks in the Bay trying to crack the city.So…
- How I Sold 8 US B2B Clients in 3 Weeks as a Foreigner | Carlos Chavez, Braven · 44 minCarlos Chávez grew up watching his father work in insurance. Today he’s building Braven, AI agents that take over what underwriters still do by hand: processing submissions…
- How Act One VC Became One of LA’s Top Seed Funds · 1 h 15 minAct One Ventures’ Fund 1 was $4M. Their second investment was AuditBoard. Every other investor passed. “The market is too small”, they said. In 2024 it sold for $3.1 billion…
- The 25-year-old Venezuelan coming for US banks with AI | Victor Cardenas, Slash · 40 minHis name is Victor Cardenas, founder of Slash.$250M in revenue. 65 people. Profitable.2% of all Facebook ad spend runs through Slash. More than 5,000 businesses spend almost $10B…
- Techstars’ CEO: The Venn Diagram Of Billion Dollar Ideas (How To Create Unicorns) · 48 minDavid Cohen (founder of Techstars) was an angel investor in Uber. He also had the opportunity to invest in Lyft — and passed. Same market. Same timing. Two completely different…
- Freepik CEO: "The Day I Realized AI Would Destroy Us" — A Company That Refused To Die · 1 h 12 minJoaquín Cuenca, CEO and founder of Freepik, had built a $70M revenue company with a team of 500 people. For over a decade, Freepik focused on building the largest image library…
