Origins - Inside Venture Capital, Hosted by a GP and an LP
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Origins - Inside Venture Capital, Hosted by a GP and an LP
Hosted by a General Partner (GP) and a Limited Partner (LP), Origins dives into the venture capital ecosystem to learn how the people behind the money make decisions: How LPs choose VC funds to invest in, what drives performance in venture, the dos and don'ts of fundraising, what founders/entreprene...
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Minisode: Is It 2021 All Over Again?
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent convers...

Fundraising as a Fund of Funds with Alex Edelson
Alex Edelson’s Slipstream is a fund of funds that focuses on firms that are “difficult to find, evaluate and access.” Together with Beezer Clarkson, P...

Minisode: Curiosity, Chemistry, and Keeping Relevance Across the Partnership
Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP is rejoined by Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures to unpack her recent...

Backing Outliers in Venture with Sunil Dhaliwal & Mike Dauber
Sunil Dhaliwal founded Amplify in 2012, and was joined by his longtime friend and colleague Mike Dauber in 2014. Beginning as one of the first solo GP...

Minisode: Are Major Incumbents Finally at Risk in the Age of AI?
Origins hosts Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, dig into their recent convers...

Merchant Banks: Venture’s Next Act with Will Manidis
Before he sold his company to Veradigm, Will Manidis’s Science.io developed an AI model that allowed doctors to translate mountains of medical documen...

Minisode: Innovation Energy And the Future of Biotech
Origins hosts Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, unpack their conversation wit...

Building The YC of Biotech with Zach Weinberg
Zach Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Curie.Bio, is redefining early-stage biotech investing with an operator’s mindset and a founder-first philosophy....

Minisode: How Novel Strategies Become the Venture Industry’s Standard
Origins hosts Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, unpack their conversation wit...

AI Agents Will Supercharge the Future of VC with Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures, is widely recognized for his analytical approach to venture investing. Now, he’s building Theory with a phi...

Minisode: Franchise Funds: Index Ventures & Picking Winners Early
Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Nate Leung, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to riff on her recent conversation...

Inside the ServiceTitan IPO with Nina Achadjian
Nina Achadjian is a Partner at Index Ventures, where she invests across seed, venture, and growth stages in AI, enterprise software, and vertical SaaS...

Minisode: Franchise Funds: Is Venture Broken?
Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to riff on her recent conversati...

Franchise Funds: Is Being a VC Franchise the Ultimate Goal with Thomas Kristensen
Thomas Kristensen, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, has decades of experience backing the top players in venture, but as an LP, doesn’t love the term...

Revisiting Power Law VC Performance with David Clark
Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners, revisits her conversation from 2023 with David Clark, Investment Director at VenCap International plc. In th...

Minisode: Franchise Funds: Grading Performance
Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to unpack her recent conversatio...

Franchise Funds: Metrics To Be Extraordinary with Jessica Archibald
Jessica Archibald is a GP and member of the Investment Committee at Top Tier Capital Partners, where she is co lead of the funds team and participates...

Minisode: Franchise Funds: Why do LPs & Founders Care?
Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to discuss her recent conversati...

Franchise Funds: Becoming (and Remaining) One with Stephen Bluestein
Stephen Bluestein has had an impressive career in Venture, beginning at Bessemer Venture Partners before moving to TCV, Light Street Capital, and the...

Minisode: Building Google & Betting Big: Lessons from Wesley Chan
Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners go deep into their recent conversation with Wesley Chan, the Co-Foun...

Finding Founders Who Will Change the World with Wesley Chan
Wesley Chan is a true legend in Silicon Valley. He spent time at Microsoft and HP, and in 2002 he jumped to Google. There, he worked as Sergey Brin’s...

Minisode: Seed vs Growth Investing - What Changes and What Stays the Same
Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners, unpack their recent conversation with Jai Das, President + Partner...

Finding Pattern Breakers & Winners from Seed to Growth with Mike Maples and Jai Das
With a few dozen software exits under his belt (including Box, Square, Mulesoft & JFrog), nobody knows enterprise investing like Sapphire Ventures’ Pr...

Coming Soon to Origins…
A look at what’s to come on a brand new season of Origins, where we’ll dive into the VC ecosystem with the people who know it best, to learn how the p...

Minisode: Jack Altman’s VC Career Arc and the Launch of Asylum Ventures
Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners, go inside their recent conversation with Alt Capital’s Jack Altman...

From VC-backed Founder to Angel to Institutional Investor with Jack Altman
Jack Altman of Alt Capital has led quite a life in Silicon Valley. He’s gone from angel investing to founding a venture-backed company (HR platform La...

Minisode: What’s the Real Value Add of VCs?
Nick & Beezer go inside their recent conversation with Jason Shuman and Will Quist to discuss the right way to be a contrarian investor, how to do no...

Being Non-Consensus and Right in VC with Jason Shuman & Will Quist
What do Primary GP Jason Shuman and Slow Ventures Partner Will Quist have in common? At first glance, not much, given how differently their firms appr...

Endowment Investing with University of Chicago’s Joanna Rupp
Joanna Rupp, Managing Director of Private Equity at the University of Chicago, sits down with Nick & Beezer to shine a light on the often opaque world...

The Three Body Problem of Venture Capital w/ Frank Rotman (CIO, QED Investors)
Nick and Beezer sit down with Frank Rotman, a founding partner and CIO at QED Investors to talk about his early days as the chief credit officer of Ca...

Building a venture firm w/ Scott Kupor (a16z)
In the first Origins episode of the year, Nick Chirls (Notation Capital) and Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire Partners) host Scott Kupor, a Managing Part...

Power Law VC Performance with David Clark (VenCap)
In the last Origins episode of the year, Nick Chirls (Notation Capital) and Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire Partners) host David Clark, Investment Director...

Q4 Market Predictions w/ Ed Sim (Boldstart) & Seyonne Kang (StepStone)
In this episode of Origins, Nicholas Chirls (Notation) and Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire Partners) host Ed Sim, founder of Boldstart and Seyonne Kang, Par...

Navigating difficult markets w/ Adam Valkin, General Catalyst
Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners and Nick Chirls of Notation host Adam Valkin, Managing Director of General Catalyst at their NYC office.
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The family office episode - Nick & Beezer co-host Melissa Lucas, Your OCIO
Melissa Lucas currently serves as the CIO for the investment vehicles of two extended families. She has decades of experience handling the unique inve...

Deep Dive on Series A - Nick & Beezer co-host Beth Ferreira, Firstmark
Origins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. We're joined by our...

LP Market Perspective - Nick & Beezer co-host Atul Rustgi, Accolade Partners
Origins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. In this episode, we...

Investing in AI - Nick & Beezer co-host Dr. Lan Xuezhao
Origins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. In this episode, we...

Nick & Beezer co-host David Tisch, Box Group
Origins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. On this episode, we...

Nick (Notation) & Beezer (Sapphire) co-host Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred)
Origins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. On this episode, we...