Smart Venture Podcast

092 Richard Oppy is the VP of Global Brands at Anheuser Busch InBev, the largest consumer goods company in the world with leading beer brands in over 100 countries. He is responsible for the global marketing efforts of some of the world’s most iconic beer brands, including Corona, Stella Artois, Michelob Ultra, and the world’s most valuable beer brand – Budweiser. Under his leadership Budweiser purchased Beer.eth domain, updated the brand’s Twitter PFP to the rocket NFT as well as launched its own NFT drop officially taking fans to the budverse.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= Brought to you by: https://www.pair.com/grace =======================    

091 Ravi Mehta is the Co-founder and CEO of Scale Higher, a company that helps professionals match with career coaches to accelerate their career growth. Prior to starting a company, Ravi was the Chief Product Officer at Tinder where he led the product strategy for the world's #1 monetizing app. He also led teams on Gen Z engagement and consumer products at Facebook and Tripadvisor.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= https://www.pair.com/grace Use Promo Code GRACE https://ftx.us/home/#a=24319970 =======================  

090 Colin Bryar is the former VP of Amazon, Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos, COO at IMDb and COO at Singapore-based RedMart. He is also the co-author of the book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, which takes you in the room and show how the principles and practices were used to create four key Amazon business: Kindle, Amazon Prime, Prime Video and Amazon Web Services.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= https://www.pair.com/grace Use Promo Code GRACE =======================    

089 Amy Kelly Lauer is the Senior Vice President of Sephora, General Manager at Sephora @Kohl's. Prior to leading Sephora @ Kohl’s, Amy was the VP, Head of Digital at Kendo Holdings, Inc., where she led and managed end-to-end eCommerce, paid digital & social marketing, and product management for Kendo Brands (including Fenty Beauty, Kat Von D Beauty, Marc Jacobs Beauty, etc.) Prior to that Amy spent over 20 years working at Gap, Inc., where she served as SVP, VP, and other leadership positions at brands like Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Gap.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= https://www.pair.com/grace Use Promo Code GRACE =======================    

088 Emmanuel Straschnov is the Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble, a no-code platform that helps non-technical founders build influential tech companies. Bubble has raised $100 million in series A. Prior to founding Bubble, Emmanuel worked as the special assistant to the CEO of Prada USA. He also received an MBA from Harvard Business School.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= https://www.pair.com/grace Use Promo Code GRACE =======================  

087 Trevor McFedries is the CEO of Dapper Labs’ Dapper Collectives. He is also the founder of Brud, a Sequoia-backed startup that created a popular robot transmedia influencer Lil Miquela with over 3 million followers on Instagram that had collaborated with top brands like Prada and supermodels like Bella Hadid. Trevor is also the founder of Friends with Benefits, one of the most influential DAO. Prior to working in tech, he was a DJ and music producer who worked with top talents like Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Chris Brown, Steve Aoki, and many others.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company. ======================= https://www.pair.com/grace Use Promo Code GRACE =======================

086 Rasesh Patel is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at AT&T Business, where he has responsibility for AT&T Business’ portfolio-wide P&L with $36 Billion of annual revenue as well as its cutting-edge integrated platforms, products and solutions including Mobility, 5G, Edge Compute, Internet of Things, SD-WAN, Cybersecurity, Voice, Collaboration and Cloud Connectivity. Prior to AT&T, Rasesh was the Senior Vice President of DIRECTV where he was in charge of customer experiences.  Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.  

085 David Sobeski is the SVP of Data and Analytics at Adidas. Prior to Adidas, he was the SVP of Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce, the SVP of Innovation at Nordstrom, and CTO at The Walt Disney Company and Playdom. He also served as the SVP of Yahoo and an executive at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows, Internet Explorer, Mobile and many other high profile products.   Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.  

084 Vanessa Dew is the Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Health-Ade Kombucha, where she helped grow the product from a farmer’s market commodity to a nationwide brand with retail sales over $200M annually. Today, Health-Ade can be found in over 45,000 stores nationwide. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

083 Jason Kong is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in Series B and later enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jason has invested in and works with companies like Attentive, Brex, Compass (COMP), Cribl, Datadog (DDOG), Discord, Figma, Harness, Niantic, Podium, Slack (WORK), and UiPath (PATH), among others. Prior to a career in venture capital, Jason was a tech investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he worked on numerous IPO and M&A transactions for high-growth tech companies. He was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capital List in 2021. Check out our brand new YouTube Video Podcast!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.