In the 30th episode, William Hockey joins for a conversation on founding Plaid, what it’s like running Column with his wife, and the state of startups and fintech. Plus author of “The Cult of We” Maureen Farrell and founder of Common Brad Hargreaves join to discuss Adam Neumann and his latest real estate venture in Flow.
(0:00) Intro
(1:55) Introducing William
(4:48) Kids today
(6:22) William’s first pitch to Zach
(10:44) Data prioritization
(12:21) Providing services others don’t want to do
(21:29) Strategic decisions
(25:48) Organizing a new UI
(31:38) Selling Plaid to Visa
(33:13) Fintech in current market conditions
(38:27) William bought a bank
(44:00) Running Column as a couple
(52:03) Crypto’s role in finance
(59:57) Funding
(1:05:45) A changing path for entrepreneurs
(1:11:21) Neumann and Flow
(1:13:46) Introducing Maureen and Brad
(1:15:30) WeWork recap
(1:22:06) Common vs WeLive
(1:27:23) Community Narrative
(1:33:21) Flow’s potential use cases
(1:36:36) Why Andreessen would back this
(1:42:58) Does it help when founders are crazy?
(1:47:38) What will Neumann need to do?
(1:52:03) Outro
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Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.