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Keith Rabois on Why the AI Bubble Fears Are Overblown

Is the AI boom a bubble, or just the biggest productivity unlock in a generation?For this episode, we're sharing a conversation from StrictlyVC New York 2026. TechCrunch'

Grindr CEO is betting on AI to solve online dating's biggest problem

In this episode of StrictlyVc Download, Connie and Alex sit down with Grindr CEO George Arison to talk about how he’s transformed the company since taking over in 2022 an

The Anti-a16z? Vijay Pande’s Bet on a Tiny, AI-Native VC Firm

In this episode, Connie is joined by Vijay Pande, co-founder of VZ and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to discuss why he believes AI is poised to transform

Equity Replay: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough

This week we'r sharing a conversation from our colleagues at TechCrunch's Equity. Anthropic leaped to ⁠a $47 billion revenue run rate by May,⁠ compared to $9 billion in

Why Founders Fund Backed a Fish Robotics Startup

Much of American-caught fish is processed overseas, and often in China, before it comes back to the U.S. Shinkei wants to change that with robotics, computer vision, and

Reed Jobs Is Betting Cancer Doesn’t Have to Be Fatal

In this episode, Connie and Alex are joined by Reed Jobs, founder and managing partner of Yosemite, to discuss the firm’s ambitious mission to make cancer nonlethal by bu

Uber’s Chief Product Officer on Travel, AI Agents, and Playing Both Sides of the Robotaxi Race

In this episode, Connie Loizos sits down with Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal to discuss the company's expanding vision beyond ride-hailing, from hotels and trav

The Race to Build the First Real Humanoid Robot Business with Peggy Johnson from Agility

In this episode, Connie Loizos and Alex Gove sit down with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson following the company's announcement that it will go public, making it one o

Is Your AI Actually Worth What You're Spending? with Parker Conrad

In this episode, Connie Loizos sits down with Rippling founder and CEO Parker Conrad to discuss the company's biggest product launch in years: Rippling Data Cloud. Parker

Is There an AI Bubble? VCs on Valuations and ARR Inflation

This episode features a conversation recorded live at StrictlyVC LA in El Segundo between Connie Loizos, Cheng Xu, partner at Basis Set Ventures, and Carter Reum, founder

The return of the Consumer Gold Rush? What Chi-Hua Chien is betting on next

In this episode, Connie and Alex talk with Goodwater Capital co-founder Chi-Hua Chien, whose career spans some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology shifts, from helping

Runway and HOLYWATER TECH: Two AI Companies Trying to Upend Entertainment

This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're bringing you a conversation from our recent event in Athens. Connie Loizos spoke with Anastasis Germanidis: Co-Founder & Co-CEO, R

What VCs think about SpaceX, AI-valuation fever and where to bet next

For this episode of StrictlyVC Download, we're bringing you a conversation from the StrictlyVC Athens event. Connie Loizos sat down with three seasoned investors to break

Eclipse Ventures Co-Founder Lior Susan's Insights Into a $1.3B Bet on Physical AI

This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're sharing and interview from our 2026 event in San Francisco with TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin and Lior Susan who is dresh off

Inside Stanford's Secret Tech Elite (And the Freshman Who Exposed It)

In this episode, we talk with Theo Baker, a soon-to-be Stanford graduate and author of How to Rule the World, about what he found when he traded his coding ambitions for

CEO Amjad Masad on How Replit Is Changing Who Gets to Build Software

This week, we're sharing a conversaiton from Strictly VC's recent event in San Francisco. Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad joined Connie Loizos to talk about AI-driv

Is Airwallex Undervalued or is Stripe Overvalued?

In this episode, we talk with Airwallex cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang about building a global financial infrastructure company by taking the long, unglamorous path. Rather

How secondary markets are pricing SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic before they go public

In this episode, Connie Loizos talks with Rainmaker Securities managing director Glen Anderson about the surge in the secondary market as investors race to buy shares in

High tech herding with Craig Piggott, Halter

In this episode, we talk with Halter founder and CEO Craig Pigott about building a $2 billion agtech company that’s transforming how farmers manage livestock. Using solar

The wearable you’re never supposed to stop wearing with Will Ahmed of WHOOP

WHOOP founder and CEO Will Ahmed joins Connie Loizos and Alex Gove on StrictlyVC Download to discuss the company’s evolution from a niche wearable for elite athletes into