Podcast

Running Through Walls: Priority One… People Matters

Giovanni Colella, co-founder of RelayHealth and Castlight Health, was a practicing psychiatrist in Italy, but after moving to New York City he needed to obtain the proper licensing before obtaining a medical residency. He pulled shifts as a…

Running Through Walls: Data Driven Healthcare

Is it possible to make changes to the American healthcare system that will benefit patients, doctors, and society? It’s what Farzad Mostashari is aiming at with Aledade, the company he founded in 2014. As Mostashari explained to Venrock partner Bob…

Running Through Walls: No Straight Shots in FinTech

Ryan Gilbert, co-founder of SmartBizLoans, knows the path to entrepreneurial success is filled with curves and unexpected detours. “I wish life was about straight shots,” laughs Gilbert, who is now a partner at Propel Venture Partners, in…

Running Through Walls: Genetic Truths, No Veneers

Anne Wojcicki’s passion for empowering consumers to take control of their healthcare goes all the way back to her days on Wall Street, as a healthcare investment analyst. When she went to medical investment meetings, “everything looked pretty —…

Running Through Walls: The Serial Entrepreneur

High school, says Kevin Ryan, may have taught him one of the most important…

Running Through Walls: Healthcare. It’s Complicated.

Changing the healthcare system with an entrepreneurial approach sounds logical — but as Blue Shield of California CEO Paul Markovich explains to Venrock’s Bob Kocher, it’s not as easy as it seems. Markovich, who’s been hooked on…

Running Through Walls: How Pinterest Manages Diversity

Diversity in tech has been getting a lot of press coverage in recent years — both positive and negative.

During a conversation with Venrock’s Richard Kerby, Candice Morgan, head of diversity at Pinterest, says…

Running Through Walls: The Right Place at the Right Time

YouNow CEO and founder Adi Sideman dreamed of an interconnected and livecasted world. With more than 100 million user sessions a month broadcasted on YouNow, his dream is now a reality. We spoke on this episode of Venrock’s podcast…

Running Through Walls: Going for the Gold

Vocera’s Brent Lang has accomplished something that few CEOs have done. While taking his company public in 2012 was a major milestone, what I’m referring to is winning an Olympic gold medal in swimming at the 1988 games in Seoul, South Korea. Lang has…

Running Through Walls: The Yoda of Genomics

John Stuelpnagel’s path to entrepreneurship started in a barn — as a large animal veterinarian. After more than a decade, Stuelpnagel felt compelled to follow his heart and become an entrepreneur. “For me, it really wasn’t a choice,” he says…