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Interview with Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew about always-on media startups

I spoke with Jeremy Liew, general partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and the first investor in Snapchat, about his interest in media startups whose content runs in the background while we do other primary tasks. Read our transcript on TechCrunch >>

Interview with Remagine Ventures, the Israeli seed fund focused on AI in Media

Check out my interview with Remagine partners Eze Vidra and Kevin Baxpehler on TechCrunch >>

TC Interview: Northzone’s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming

Paul Murphy is a London-based general partner at VC firm Northzone who previously founded the popular mobile game Dots when he worked at betaworks in NYC. Paul looks at a range of startups but 2 of his 4 first investments at Northzone have been related to gaming. I interviewed him on his current investment theses […]

Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs

I talk to startup founders every day, a portion of who are inevitably fundraising. I noticed successful serial entrepreneurs I know have more methodical approaches to how they raise money from VCs and create competition among potential investors. So I asked several of them to share their tactics. Read the post on TechCrunch >> Fundraising […]

Where top VCs are investing in media, entertainment, & gaming

In my TechCrunch column, I just posted long-form quotes from these 9 sharp VCs on their investment interests in the media, entertainment, & gaming space. If you’re an entrepreneur planning to raise money (or an investor curious what your peers are focused on), I suggested you give it a read. Cyan Banister (Founders Fund) Alex […]

Interview with Northzone’s PJ Pärson

Today I posted an interview in TechCrunch that I did with Northzone general partner PJ Parson at the SLUSH conference in Helsinki. We talked about the core investment thesis that has guided him for 20 years, how he went from running a fish distribution to running a VC firm, his best practices for effective board […]

The tactics behind The Athletic’s breakout success in sports subscriptions

Read my post on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/31/theathletic-interview/

Old media giants turn to VC for their next act

Read my post on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/old-media-giants-turn-to-vc-for-their-next-act/