Join Thomas McGannon on his journey to learn - what makes great partnerships? We explore stories of people working together throughout business building, investing, community and family. While much of this is brought to you through Thomas’ work as a limited partner investor, our hope is that this podcast project finds a way to share themes and lessons for anyone looking to learn from the best partnership has to offer.
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Alexander Campbell of Rose.AI | Understanding Markets and Self Through Data
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This week's Unlimited Partner is Alexander Campbell of Rose.AI a "cloud data platform designed to help users find, engage, visualize and share data". Alex got his start at Lehman Brothers just before they collapsed. He learned a lot during that time about what not to do, and having a longer term data set to backtest trades. He then moved Bridgewate…
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Semil Shah GP Haystack Ventures | How One of the Best Seed-Stage Investors Operates as a GP (Figma, HashiCorp, DoorDash, Instacart)
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This week's Unlimited Partner is Semil Shah the GP for Haystack Ventures, one of the best performing seed-stage funds around. see: DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Opendoor, HashiCorp, Carta, People.ai among others. Semil gives great insight into how he is as a leader, investor, parent. He's calm, structured, thoughtful and measured in his responses. Al…
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Zenbusiness Co-Founders Rafael Lopez and JC Glancy on Persevering to Build a Platform for Day One Entrepreneurs
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This week's Unlimited Partners are Rafael Lopez and JC Glancy of Zenbusiness, a platform that helps SMB users automate their business needs. They've been known to be a LegalZoom killer. Today's episode is a bit of a pivot from us at Unlimited Partners. We recorded a 2 hour long convo and cut out the fluff to bring you a 25 min excerp, narrated by T…
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Divergent Capital | Lucy Wang & Katie Shea, What's It Like To Be a Pre-Seed Machine Learning Venture Capitalist?
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This week's Unlimited Partners are Lucy Wang and Katie Shea of Divergent Capital. They are both Co-Founders and General Partners. Divergent is a "first check investor backing teams taking deeply technical and scientific innovations to market with unique insights on business models and GTM beyond just enterprise and SaaS." Topics Include: Lucy's bac…
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Matt Gialich (Co Founder/CEO of AstroForge) & Joe Wilson (Founder of Undeterred Capital) | Day One Partners on a Mission That Could Change Everything
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This week's Unlimited Partners are Matt Gialich and Joe Wilson, Co-Founder at AstroForge and MP at Undeterred Capital respectively. Matt had been working on a submarine project and decided to pivot to freaking astro mining! How cool is that? Joe and Undeterred stepped into become the first investors on the cap table. This is an amazing conversation…
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Ben Dahl, Co Founder of Unspam and Managing Director of Signal Peak | Cloudflare and the People Who Made the Internet a Better Place
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This week's Unlimited Partner is Ben Dahl , an early-stage investor based in Salt Lake City. He is a Managing Director at Signal Peak Ventures, a $500M fund which specializes in relatively underserved geographies around the United States. He was also the Co-Founder at Unspam, which was the predecessor company that led to Cloudflare. He held a board…
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Heather Loomis Tighe, Family Office Strategist & Advisor (BlackRock, JP Morgan); Lessons from One of the World's Best
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This week's Unlimited Partner is Heather Loomis Tighe a Venture Capital Advisor and Partner and Strategic Advisor to Family Offices. She has made quite the name for herself in the fixed income world over the past 20 years. From Blackrock (Head of West coast institutional family offices), JP Morgan Chase (fixed income manager overseeing a portfolio …
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Episode 25! What We've Learned -- with Brent Beshore, Amanda Groves, Tripp Jones and Kyle Harrison
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This is the episode where we go back and hear some gems from some of our favorite guests so far. Kind of like when your favorite tv show of the 90s put out a recap of best-ofs and passed it off as a new episode. We've had an incredible amount of soundbites and we welcome you to go back and listen to our growing catalog of guests. Here's a brief com…
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Paul Santos, Founder of Wavemaker Partners (Singapore) | Investing into Southeast Asia & Going Further Together, Than Faster Alone
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Paul Santos Founder and Managing Partner at Wavemaker Partners, a VC fund based in Singapore. He's built one of the best performing VC funds by finding a great niche in SE Asia. Wavemaker is based in Singapore. His leadership skills and wisdom are very apparent while listening to this discussion, it's no wonder his repu…
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Jenny Bloom, Former CFO at MailChimp & Zapier | Tegus Talks w/ Akash Khanolkar (Octane), Jenny Bloom, Thomas McGannon
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Today is a first for UP. We share our favorite use case for Tegus - connecting our partners with industry legends! We sit down with Jenny Bloom (former CFO of MailChimp and Zapier) and Akash Khanolkar (Co-Founder of Octane). We get a great deep dive into how MailChimp and Zapier became successful. We get into how Jenny was able to lead and make piv…
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David Rosenthal, Acquired / Kindergarten Ventures | Why They Invested in Vanta, an Automated Compliance Company
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Today is a special episode of UP with our first returning guest David Rosenthal from the Acquired Podcast (Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)! David also started a venture fund called Kindergarten Ventures with his friend (from kindergarten) Nat Manning (Kettle). Thomas and David discuss their investment in Vanta, an automated compliance company whic…
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Jake Beebe CEO AllRec Awards | What Actually is Good Company Culture?
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Jake Beebe, CEO of AllRec Awards, a manufacturing provider of letterman jackets and Scholastic awards and apparel based in Waco, TX servicing the southern United States. Topics include: Morgan Housel The Psychology of Money Key quotes from Jake's grandfather "People don't decide their futures, they decide their habits, …
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Steve Ressler, Co-Founder The Brydon Group | What Is It Like to Operate an ETA (Search) Fund?
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Steve Ressler, Co-Founder of The Brydon Group, an ETA fund focused on "partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs to acquire small businesses. We invest in significant stakes in traditional searches and through our Brydon Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) program. We bring our experience and expertise from CEO roles, larg…
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Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary | Cinematographer Turned Investor, Time as a Resource, Ramp, Pave and Investing in Talent
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, a venture fund that "identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. Backed by iconic founders from Tesla, Airbnb, Facebook, and more" in early stage rounds. Kyle joined to lead their Breakout Fund. He's also a writer with his blog Investing 101 2.0 where he tackles investin…
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Jake Hoffberg of Equifund | How a Jazz Musician Got into Publishing; Private Equity Crowdfunding in the Digital Age
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Jake Hoffberg the Publisher for Equifund, which helps "retail investors diversify their portfolio, increase passive income, and grow their net worth using private market investments. Companies can use Equifund’s technology to raise money under multiple US exemptions: Reg D, Reg A+, Reg CF and Reg S." After learning that…
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Katelin Holloway, Co-Founder of 776 | From Pixar to Reddit to Investor, Building Teams that Change the World
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Katelin Holloway Co-Founder of Seven Seven Six, a venture capital firm with Alexis Ohanian."Founded by builders, built with software, in order to be the very best at supporting founders that are changing the world". Katelin has dedicated her career to building teams and advancing the HR function at some of the internet’…
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Nick Moran, Founder of New Stack Ventures / The Full Ratchet Podcast | Make Your Mark, Earn Your Freedom and Build Something to Last
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"Investing in Outsiders", From Danaher to New Stack Ventures to The Full Ratchet Podcast, Nick Moran Joins Us Today's Unlimited Partner is Nick Moran from New Stack Ventures and The Full Ratchet Podcast. New Stack was founded in 2015 with a mission to invest in the Outsiders. Nick launched the first VC podcast, one of the first AngelList Syndicates…
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Jason Corsello, Acadian Ventures | Endurance and Building the Future of Work From Anywhere,
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Jason Corsello from Acadian Ventures. Jason is the Founder & CEO for The Acadian Company and General Partner for Acadian Ventures, an early stage venture fund. Previously, Corsello was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for Cornerstone OnDemand [NASDAQ: CSOD]. Corsello joined Cornerstone in 2011…
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Tony Perez, Founder of Peregrine Capital Group | Investing in Government Modernization Through Dual-Use Technology Companies
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Tony Perez from Peregrine Capital Group. He's been in the United States Air Force for 16 years, and has started projects like Spark for AFWERX which helps tie together many moving parts of the AF. He's a proven leader with experience leading cross-functional teams in dynamic and complex environments. Able to bridge an o…
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Joanna Shevelenko and Kelly Graziadei, f7 Founders | From Facebook to Seed Investing, Execution Is Everything
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Today's Unlimited Partners are Joanna Lee Shevelenko and Kelly Graziadei from f7 Ventures. f7 Ventures is comprised of 7 female operators and leaders with over 20 years of experience in the fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley. During their tenures at Facebook, Google, Yahoo and beyond, they managed and developed thousands of peop…
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Tom Shea, Adgile Media Group | Selling Trust First
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Tom Shea, Co-Founder & COO of Adgile Media Group. Adgile boasts itself as the leading data-driven truck-side media company. Tom is a detail-oriented tech wiz with experience as a full stack developer and operations manager. He graduated from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Tom holds a degree in Fin…
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Sasha Kaletsky, Creator Ventures | Shares His Unconventional Journey to Enabling Creatives Around the World with His Cousin, YouTube Icon, Caspar Lee
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Hey it's our 10th episode! Thanks for listening. Today's Unlimited Partner is Sasha Kaletsky, Co-Founder of Creator Ventures along with his cousin Caspar Lee, a YouTube sensation. Sasha's unconventional story on how he got into venture capital involves passing out club fliers to Oxford students, choosing to launch Uber in Birmingham, England instea…
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Jessica Lyons and Tamara Hills, Brooks Running | Best Friends on Billion Dollar Brand-Building, Special-Needs Parenting and Being Like Water
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Oh wow where to start with this one! Get your tissues ready. We get to hear the amazing story of best friends, Tamara Hills and Jessica Lyons. How they met working at Brooks Running, became best friends and running partners. But it turns out that was just the beginning. Tamara then shares the story of her son Benton (16). He was born with a rare co…
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Julian Posada, CEO at LiftUp Enterprises
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Today's Unlimited Partner is Julian Posada, CEO at LiftUp Enterprises. Julian has over 19 years of experience in building, transforming and leading a variety of organizations in media, professional sports, digital start-ups and professional services in addition to extensive community involvement. He has a heavy focus on generating revenue and creat…
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This week's episode is with Gerard Ramos, CEO at Revelry. Revelry is a digital innovation lab based in New Orleans with satellite offices in Chicago and Dallas. Revelry's Innovation Stack is a suite of cloud-native intelligent automation tools enabling businesses to rapidly deliver innovative products to market. Specialties: Product Delivery, Agile…
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Thomas is delighted to have Tripp Jones of Uncork Capital on the Unlimited Partners pod today. He discusses his investing philosophies, and Uncork's ability to make a name for itself in the VC marketplace. Most of his investments are a focus on digital transformation. They also discuss Uncork's Founder, Jeff Clavier (formerly SoftTech VC) who is a …
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Special Episode: Andy Trattner (The Andy Pod) Interviews Thomas McGannon
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In this episode, Thomas McGannon joins Andy Trattner on his podcast as his guest. We are reposting in our feed. Andy is a great dude and recent friend of Thomas. He's an MIT grad, living in Ecuador, building a Venmo-type company. Please enjoy! Topics: -Thomas attending Creighton University -His views on religion -The Three-Body Problem (book) and h…
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Episode 105 of Unlimited Partners features Bruce Felt, CFO of Domo, a data refinement SaaS company. Bruce brings more than 25 years of financial operations and management excellence to Domo. For almost six years, he was CFO of SuccessFactors, guiding the company through a public offering, six acquisitions, and its $3.4 billion sale to SAP. Bruce ha…
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Amanda Groves From PLUS Capital
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Amanda Groves is a General Partner at PLUS Capital, leading the due diligence team and spending a majority of her time on structuring, sourcing, investor and client relations, and portfolio management. Amanda was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for venture capital in 2019. Amanda joined PLUS from J.P. Morgan, where she worked most recently on …
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Brent Beshore, Founder & CEO of Permanent Equity
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My guest today is Brent Beshore, Founder & CEO of Permanent Equity. Permanent Equity invests - with no intention of selling - in family-held companies headquartered in North America. With 9 portfolio companies and a current capital base in excess of $300 million, the firm seeks opportunities to invest in and partner in companies with $2.5 million t…
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Welcome to the second episode of Unlimited Partners. My guest today is Rahat Ahmed from Anchorless. He's the Founding Partner & CEO of Anchorless Bangladesh. He's an investor, advisor and strategist in technology and emerging markets with a focus on long-term value creation. Passionate about emerging technologies and how consumer behaviour will evo…
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Welcome to the inaugural episode of Unlimited Partners. My guest today is a good friend and one of the people who encouraged me to start this podcast, David Rosenthal, the host of the wildly popular podcast “Acquired.” Acquired tells the stories of great companies. David and his partner Ben Gilbert began the show in 2015 to explore what made great …
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