

Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital
Sarah Chen-Spellings
Lead, build, and invest better.Join us as we hit the streets globally to uncover billion dollar ventures of unicorn founders & funders.In venture, every move can make—or break—a billion-dollar outcome. Hosted by Sarah Chen-Spellings, award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and venture insider, Billion Dollar Moves pulls back the curtain on the strategies, stumbles, and breakout moments that define the world’s most iconic companies.From boardroom power plays to investor backchannels, you’ll hear the untold stories behind iconic companies like YouTube, Canva, and Vimeo, and go inside the minds of those moving capital at firms like Sequoia, Lightspeed, and beyond.Whether you're chasing your first $10M—or your next billion—this show is your front-row seat to how the smartest founders and funders win. Think raw, unfiltered, no-BS insight—designed to help you move faster, smarter, and bolder.Billion Dollar Moves is proud to be part of the Hubspot Podcast Network with 10 million downloads a month as a group.
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Jun 11, 2021 • 36min
Big Tech & The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution with Chris Schroeder
This week, we went deep on the Global Entrepreneurial Revolution shaping our future with renowned American investor & entrepreneur, Christopher Schroeder.From the dominance of big tech, to the digital divide to startups rising in the Middle East - we cover it all with Chris.Chris is the co-founder of Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund focused on the next billion digital consumers across global emerging markets and is also a Network Partner for Village Global, an early VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman et al. Chris started in politics with the George W Bush (Senior) presidential campaign before becoming the CEO of the Washington Post/ Newsweek interactive. He then co-founded Health Central which was backed by the likes of Sequoia, Polaris Ventures and the Carlyle Group and was acquired by Remedy Health in 2012. In 2013, Chris published the first book on the Middle East & North Africa’s entrepreneurship scene called: Startup Rising — The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East — with a forward by renowned investor Marc Andreessen.--👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:- What it takes to shift from being an intrapreneur to entrepreneur- How entrepreneurship has become a global lingua franca- Startups thriving across the world and yet a growing digital divide- The challenge of big tech and increasing monopoly, can markets self-correct?- Landscape of innovation in different regions: the rise of superapps⏳ TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Intro02:49 - Chris' personal chapters as founder to funder & actualizing multiple visions04:49 - Are entrepreneurs born or made?06:16 - Shifting from intrapreneur to entrepreneur12:06 - The lens of a venture capitalist and the lingua franca of entrepreneurship17:06 - The Venn diagram between impact and profit closing in on each other18:39 - The role of government and entrepreneurship, big tech25:33 - Copycat models or real innovation?27:50 - Chris' interest in Middle East and the startup revolution in the region31:33 - Chris' advice for founders—Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar-episodesWatch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobalJoin the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondollarmovesFOLLOW SARAH:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobalInstagram: instagram.com/sarahchenglobalTwitter: twitter.com/sarahchenglobal

Jun 1, 2021 • 2min
TRAILER: Billion Dollar Moves: Get from underestimated to iconic.
Get smarter, get inspired.From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, to building empires in new markets; all of these efforts require vision from the leaders at the helm. Join venture capitalist & strategist, Sarah Chen-Spellings as she asks the hard questions, and learn through the triumphs, failures and hard lessons of the crème de la crème — so you too, can make #BillionDollarMoves in venture, in business & in life.PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar...Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondol...