Kevin
person on 21 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes · said 109 times in 57 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 33 
20VC 14 
How I Built This 12 
Startups For the Rest of Us 9 
American Optimist 6 
My First Million 6 
BigDeal 4 
TBPN 4 
Founder's Journal 2 
We Live to Build 2 
Latent Space 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
In Depth 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
the Neon Show 1 
Sourcery 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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Top Founders 3320VC 14How I Built This 12Startups For the Rest of Us 9American Optimist 6My First Million 6BigDeal 4TBPN 413 more shows
2026 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
- AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- 🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
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2025 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
- What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
- The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
- Lemlist Revenue Hits $40M: CEO Charles Breaks Down $25M Claap Acquisition Deal
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
- Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Inst...
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2024 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Ep 81: How Palantir Star Tyler Scriven Is Helping Small Business Compete With Amazon · Joe Lonsdale
- Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- 500K Subscriber Livestream! | All-In Podcast
- Mikhaila Peterson: What All Women Need to Know About Money and Marriage
- This legend gave away 3 crazy cash-flowing business ideas
- Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped
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2023 34 mentions in 7 episodes 5 per episode
- Lessons From $1bn in Exits: Behind The Scenes of the ThriveCart Exit
- Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504)
- Episode 648 | Competing with a Non-Profit, Driving Traffic to A L...
- Stringent Flexibility: How Apollo 21 Gets Teams to Stop Fighting Change
- Peter Lacaillade: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers | E1096 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- A Conversation with Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify Partners
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2022 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- How Tenfold went from $5m ARR, Burning $1m per Month to 100% YoY Growth and a big exit
- Zach Latta: Founding Hack Club & Inspiring the Next Generation of Builders · Joe Lonsdale
- Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cambly CEO Sameer Shariff: Why I Raised $60M and Didn't Touch a Dollar | 20VC #914 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- $10m revenue founder uses debt to get leverage in $22m Series B for help desk software
- Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
- The Power of Becoming a Feedback Magnet with Kat Cole | Where It Happens
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2021 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- SalesImpact In Talks to Raise $6m at $80m Valuation as they pass $4.5m Run Rate For Their Sales Coaching Platform
- Founder's Mailbox
- Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale
- Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
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2020 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
- 20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
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2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 1010 The Boston Poker Player Turned B2B Advertiser Breaks $10m Revenue Mark
- 20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
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2017 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- Giovanni Vigna
- 20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
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2016 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
- Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
- EP 482: Snip.ly $50k MRR, 1000 Customers For Lead Gen on Social Media Sharing with CEO Michael Cheng
- EP 354: $1.3M in Monthly Revenue to Get You Leads with Alex Berman of Inspired Beats
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5 statements about Kevin, every show
McPartlon: Chai's research team largely lacks formal biology backgrounds
“Like the whole research team at CHI except for me and Kevin, really like we're the only people with quote bio background. Even still, like we're pretty far removed. So I think like we try to like look at every problem as a core ML problem.”
Scriven: True Glory Brands grew to nearly $18M revenue in four years
“And he ended up
over the course of four years, growing that business to nearly eighteen million dollars in revenue.”
Scriven: Major US banks blackballed True Glory Brands over false drug suspicions
“And one of the things that I learned in the course of acquiring the business was that he had been blackballed from virtually every major bank in the United States.
And the reason for this,
Was because they all presumed which is boldly false, obviously, but pre…”
ThriveCart's Founder Chose Rapport Over Better Terms Among 11 Bids
“Out of, I think we had 11 offers on this business. Kevin was the one that won, and it wasn't necessarily because his terms were the best, it's because Josh liked Kevin.”