Mike Gelb

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I didn’t grow up in venture.

My background was in the music industry - producing, promoting, and trying to make sense of creativity and business.

But something kept pulling me toward the world of startups. I was fascinated by how brands get built, funded, and scaled.

I didn’t know anyone in VC.

I just started asking questions.

The first few podcast episodes? Awkward.

I overdubbed my voice. 

I stuttered. 

But I kept showing up.

300+ episodes later, Consumer VC has become one of the most trusted platforms in the space - a home for real conversations between founders, investors, and operators who are shaping what we buy and why we buy it.

- 7.5K+ newsletter subscribers
- Listeners in 100+ countries
- Events in LA, NYC & Austin

I focus on what actually drives scale - from pre-seed to $500M+ in revenue and how people navigate the messy middle of brand-building.

If you’re building or backing something in CPG, wellness, retail, marketplaces, social or consumer tech - I’d love for you to be part of it.

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Venture Scout

A podcast serving founders and investors that want to learn how some of the top venture capitalists that invest in B2C businesses make investing decisions.

Past guests include:
Mark Gainey, Founder of Strava
Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos
Ariel Kaye, Founder of Parachute
Denise Woodard, Founder of Partake Foods
Nagraj Kashyap, Managing Partner at Softbank Investment Advisors' Vision Fund
Wayne Wu, General Partner at VMG
Mike Duda, Managing Partner at Bullish
Brendan Rogers, Co-founder of Wag! and 2am
Madeline Haydon, Founder of nut pods
Matteo Franceschetti, Founder of Eight Sleep
Bret Thomas, Founder of CAVU Venture Partners
Carter Reum, Founder of M13
Soraya Darabi, Founder of TMV
Elizabeth Yin, Founder of Hustle Fund
Ariana Thacker, Founding Partner of Conscience VC
Henri Pierre-Jacques, Founder of Harlem Capital
Greg Bettinelli, Partner at Upfront Ventures
Daniel Gluck, General Partner at Powerplant Ventures
Kiva Dickinson, Founder of Selva Ventures
Adelle Archer, Founder of Eterneva
Kanyi Maqubela, Founder of Kindred Ventures
Steve Hughes, Founder of Sunrise Strategic Partners
Seth Goldman, Founder of Honest Tea, Eat the Change and PLNT Burger
Spike Mendelsohn, Celebrity Chef & Founder of Eat the Change, PLNT Burger
Jesse Draper, Founder of Halogen Ventures
Nick Saltarelli, Founder of Mid-Day Squares
Charles Hudson, Founder of Precursor Ventures
Rick Desai, General Partner at Listen Ventures
Michele Romanow, Founder of Clearco
Mac the VC, Founder of Rarebreed
Michael Ronen, Founder of Branded
Jason Karp, Founder of Humanco, Hu Kitchen and Hu Chocolate
Jackie Fast, Founder of Sandbox Studios
Joe Kudla, Founder of Vouri
John Foraker, Founder of Once Upon a Farm
Kate Beardsley, Founder of Hannah Grey
Mike Ghaffary, General Partner at Canvas
Nisha Dua, Founder of BBG Ventures
Ben Sun, Founder of Primary Ventures
+ more

Ranked by Listen Notes as one of the top 1% most popular shows globally.

To learn more, head over to www.theconsumervc.com

Heading to Winter FancyFaire next week?

You'll spend 3 days walking the show floor.

But some of the best conversations happen before the badge scanning even starts.

That's why we're hosting "Rise, Roast, & Meet CPG" on Monday morning, January 12th.

Before the show floor opens.

A coffee meetup for brand founders, operators, investors, and industry experts.
It's a chance to connect with the CPG community before the chaos of the convention center begins.

Just a short walk from the venue.

Grab a coffee. Meet some great people. Then head to the show together.

Bridge is delighted to be partnering with Glimpse, ForceBrands, and Highline Brands to bring the ecosystem together.

If you're going to be there, come say hi.

RSVP Here – https://luma.com/ta52nqln

Dustin Cherry, Martin Forde, Merry Nebiyu, Matt Holden – I appreciate the partnership.

Stay classy San Diego.

Founder and Host of Consumer VC | 300+ Unfiltered Conversations with Top VCs & Founders | Building the #1 Community for Consumer Investors and Founders

Beyond Meat is now just "Beyond."

And they're launching a beverage.

Beyond Immerse drops January 2026.

Sparkling plant-based protein drinks. 20g pea protein. 7g fiber. 60-100 calories.

Three flavors: Peach Mango, Lemon Lime, Orange Tangerine.

Available DTC through their Beyond Test Kitchen platform.

This isn't random innovation.

The category that built Beyond is contracting.

So they rebranded mid-2025. Dropped "Meat" from the name.

The signal? We're not a meat alternative company anymore.

We're a plant-based protein company.

And the global functional beverage market is projected to hit $339.6 billion by 2030.

That's where the growth is.

Here's what I find interesting:

They're not abandoning their core. They're expanding the definition.

The rebrand came first. The product followed.

It gives them permission to play in new categories without confusing their 
identity.

The DTC launch through Test Kitchen is smart too.

Lower risk. Direct feedback. Build demand before retail.

Will it work?

That depends whether consumers see Beyond as credible outside meat 
alternatives.

And if the product is delicious.

It's hard because I still think of Beyond as Beyond Meat.

But I wanna try it.

The move is a big swing.

When your category shrinks, you either own a smaller pie or find a bigger table.

Beyond chose the bigger table.

But will it work?

Tyler Mayoras has been investing in food and beverage since the Boca Burger days.

And he's seen the category go through multiple cycles.

From early plant-based pioneers to today's better-for-you brands.

On last week's episode of Consumer VC, I chatted with Tyler, Managing Partner at Manna Tree, to talk about what's actually working in food and wellness investing right now.

Not the hype. The reality.

Manna Tree is a private equity investing in consumer health and wellness brands and was started in 2018. Some of their investments include Health-Ade, good culture, New Primal, Plant People, Vital Farms

Fund I (2020)
Size: $141.5 million

Fund II (2023)
Size: $390 million (including co-investment capital)


We covered:
• Which plant-based food brands lost consumer trust
• What "better-for-you" means to serious investors
• How ingredient labels matter more than marketing claims
• Why frozen is one of the hardest categories in grocery
• When brands should (and shouldn't) scale into mass retail
• Why profitability now trumps growth at all costs
• How strategic buyers think about M&A today
• Why they didn't invest in Olipop & their investment strategy

Tyler's been through enough boom-and-bust cycles to know what separates durable brands from flash-in-the-pan trends.

Tyler – Thank you again for your time & for coming to Austin to our summit last November. I appreciate all your support of Consumer VC

Link to the full episode in the comments 👇

#consumervc #consumer #CPG #wellness #venturecapital #privateequity #investing

Head of Partnerships @ Glimpse (AI Deductions for CPG)

I'm looking for some top weirdos to join the partnerships team at Glimpse this year. (5 days a week in-office in NYC) (no recruiters please)

In the short term I'm primarily looking for someone to cover the outsourced finance and accounting firms who are powering their trade/deductions services with Glimpse or otherwise reselling our services. This person needs to be a bit of a blend of sales, marketing, and account management. Revenue and license activation are the KPIs, not just relationship management. 

At some point in the next couple months I will also need someone to manage the more traditional ecosystem referral partnership stuff... connecting our clients and prospects with relevant partners as well as making sure our sales team have a steady flow of consumer brands to speak with. 

Glimpse is automating finance back office and recovering lost revenue for hundreds of cool (and even uncool) consumer brands you've seen on-shelf at the likes of Whole Foods, Target, or Walmart. 

Partnerships and ecosystem alliances have been major sources of growth for us over the past 1.5 years and I'm excited to add some folks to the squad. 

Please DM me if you know someone or are someone who would be a good fit. 

Pictured below: the aftermath of a killer partner kickoff event that Merry Nebiyu threw with The Accountrepreneur, LLC and Mimi Cheng's Dumplings a few months back.

Grace Gong is the founder of Smart Venture Media and the host of two well-known VC podcasts: Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com) and Venture with Grace, a daily show. She is an angel investor in the AI sector, a super angel & venture scout for Alumni Ventures, Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. 

Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Adidas, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the VC category on Amazon New Release. Before founding Smart Venture Media, she worked in venture capital and private equity. If you share her interests, feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong.


2025: Spoke at AWS, Seattle Startup Summit, event collab w/ various funds. Hosted Smart AI Leadership Summit and Smart AI 100 Summit SmartVentureMedia.com (10M+ impressions/ yr) Companies/ funds we have worked with including Microsoft, Snowflake, Sequoia, Vercel, Alumni Ventures, Amazon AWS, Auth0 among others.
2024: Venture with Grace daily live podcast (top 10%) features top GPs, LPs, execs, and founders. Angel investing in the AI space. 1.5M+ impressions in 7 days end of 2024.
2023: Spoke at LinkedIn HQ, ads clients: VC funds, startups, big tech.
2022: LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance, LinkedIn's creator accelerator fellow; clients including big tech & unicorn startups, speaking engagements: Dell, Microsoft
2021: CEO of Smart Venture Media (monetized, joined VC fellowship)
2020: Podcast - Smart Venture Podcast (top 1.5% among 3.4M podcasts globally, listeners in 100+ countries)
2019: PE 
2018: VC  
2017: Book 2 - How To Be A VC (No.1 new release on Amazon VC category; ft. 22 investors on the Forbes Midas List - investors who invested in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple, etc) 
2016: Book 1 - The Last Key To Success (ft. 21 founders on Forbes 30 under 30)
2014: Master's + PE
2013: UIUC

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CEO CLUB is officially live! 

20 handpicked founders and VCs in the room: Founder who raised $100M at seed/Series A. VCs who backed the hottest companies in Silicon Valley like Higgsfield and Micro1. Big tech SVP. W26 Y Combinator companies we knew would be the ones to watch.

Mid-dinner, a founder pulls out his laptop—because the work doesn't stop.
That's CEO CLUB.

Michelin-trained chef. Private venue. One minute you're talking about Disneyland, the next you're solving a bug so your customer can process million-dollar transactions.

This isn't another founder dinner where people swap LinkedIn profiles and ghost each other by Tuesday.

It's a curated series connecting the sharpest founders with the VCs writing meaningful checks and the builders who need what you're making. Breakout sessions. Real intros. A community that actually picks up where dinner left off.
You weren't in the room. But next time? That could change.

↓ Apply below ↓

CEO CLUB by Venture with Grace.

None of this happens without our incredible partners Vanta and WilmerHale.
 
Thank you for believing in this vision and making CEO CLUB possible. 🙏

#CEOClub #VentureCapital #FounderDinners #SiliconValley

Just saw Guy Kawasaki in Hawaii.

The guy who made the Macintosh a religion before anyone called it “evangelism marketing.”

40+ years in tech and still going.
That’s the game. Longevity isn’t about one big win. It’s about showing up for decades.

2026 is going to be wild for Smart Venture.
Can’t announce what we’re building yet, but it’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done.

More soon. ☀️

#VentureCapital #Startups #AI #Marketing #Entrepreneurship

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My top takeaways from Denise Persson, CMO at Snowflake:

Sales and Marketing are “one brain in two bodies.” The classic friction between these departments is a growth killer. At Snowflake, they functioned as a single unit. Marketing doesn’t "hand off" to Sales; they co-pilot the entire revenue journey.

Kill the MQL; focus on Pipeline. Stop celebrating 20,000 leads if they don’t convert. Denise’s team measured success by qualified meetings with the specific accounts Sales actually wanted. Align your metrics with business outcomes, not department vanity.

Say “Yes” before you’re ready. Denise accepted a Global Head of Marketing role at 27 while feeling completely unqualified. Don’t wait for the "perfect" moment of readiness. If a leader you respect bets on you, bet on yourself and learn on the fly.

Positioning must be “Believable” for the stage. Snowflake didn't start by claiming to be a "Data Cloud"—no one would have believed a tiny startup. They started with "Data Warehouse built for the cloud." You earn the right to a massive category by winning a specific, high-pain wedge first.

Verticalize to win the Enterprise. To scale from millions to billions, you must stop "selling technology" and start "selling business outcomes." Speak the specific language of finance, healthcare, and retail. Generalists get ignored; specialists get hired.

AI is about “Hyper-Personalization at Scale.” AI won't replace great marketers, but it will replace the manual drudgery. The goal is a closed-loop process that serves the right message to the right person in real-time, without a human pulling every lever.

Preserve a “Truth-Telling” circle. Success creates an echo chamber. You need a board of advisors (or a partner) who will ground you and tell you the painful truth about your strategy. Feedback is a gift you have to earn through radical trust.

None of it matters—and that’s liberating. We’re on a blue marble drifting through space. Play the sport with everything you’ve got—be intense, be world-class—but never forget it’s just a sport. That perspective is the backstop that makes the intensity sustainable.

Full pod link in first comment. 

#VentureWithGrace #Snowflake #GTM #MarketingStrategy #TechLeadership #SaaS

10pm work call. Walking out of the airport. Rainbow waiting.

January 1st.

Everyone’s posting their crazy goals today. I’m thinking about something different.

You don’t need the perfect plan on day one.
You just need to walk through the rain.

The rainbow shows up when it shows up. Not before. Not because you manifested it or built the perfect strategy deck.

Because you kept walking.

2026 isn’t about the goals you set today. It’s about what you do when it’s 10pm and you’re tired and it’s raining and you still show up.

The rainbow shows up when you keep walking.

#Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #FounderJourney #VentureCapital #2026

Never thought I’d be so important that people are DMing me to “go back to work” 😂

I’m on vacation til Friday. But let’s be real - work doesn’t wait.

I work through every vacation. Last one? 10 days before our conference, grinding til 2 AM every night.

I don’t believe in work-life balance.
If you want to build something that matters, you have to go ALL IN.

But here’s what I DO believe in:
Building something so meaningful that “work” stops feeling like work.

When the mission is clear, vacation becomes optional.

The grind becomes a choice, not a burden.

That’s the difference between building something you tolerate and building something you can’t stop thinking about.

#founder #startup #entrepreneur #business #ceo

Allison Baum Gates is a General Partner at SemperVirens VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in healthcare, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. An experienced technology investor, author, and speaker, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from global LPs and backed more than 70 companies—with nine unicorns, 24 exits, and 10 board roles among them. Previously, she co-founded Fresco Capital, invested at Trinity Ventures, and was an early team member at General Assembly, acquired by Adecco for $413 million. A Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs trader, Allison has lived and worked across five countries, lectures at Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley-Haas, and is the author of Breaking into Venture (McGraw-Hill, 2023), a guide to understanding and entering the VC industry.

Topics: 

- Pattern recognition at scale: what actually separates durable venture returns from hype cycles

- Building and managing institutional LP relationships across geographies and fund vintages

- Board dynamics, power, and governance in venture-backed companies from seed to exit

#VentureCapital #InstitutionalInvesting #BoardGovernance #StartupScale #SmartVenturePodcast

Allison Baum Gates, SemperVirens GP on Future of Work & HR Tech

How to land a whale 🐳 in B2B sales.

You don’t chase it.
You don’t rush it.
You don’t scare it away.

Whale watching made this painfully obvious.

The biggest deals surface when buyers are ready — not when your quarter needs help.

#B2BSales #EnterpriseSales #Startups #Founders #GoToMarket

I've chatted with 200+ AI founders backed by a16z, Sequoia, Lightspeed and other top VC funds on my podcast and at my dinners. Here's what actually happens in 2026.

I'm joining Matt Wolfe (800k+ YouTube subs), Jeremiah Owyang (GP at Blitzscaling Ventures), and Chappy Asel from The AI Collective for a forecasting session where we're actually putting money down.

What we're betting on:
→ Who's the best AI lab by Dec 31st: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or xAI?
→ Does anyone claim AGI in 2026?
→ Will AI close a $50k+ deal on its own?
→ Can AI actually ship code without breaking everything?
→ What are we all missing?

Here's what I know: The gap between AI demos and actual revenue is massive. 

Every founder I talk to is building agents. Almost nobody's buying them at scale yet.

That changes in 2026. Or it doesn't.

Hosted by our friends at The AI Collective (150k+ AI builders), Kalshi (regulated prediction markets), and Roam (AI-powered virtual HQ).

See you there.

#AI #AIAgents #AGI #TechPredictions #Startups

David Zeng is Co-Founder and CTO of Beacons AI, the Y Combinator-backed all-in-one platform powering 9M+ creators with AI-native tools for link-in-bio pages, websites, email marketing, ecommerce, and monetization across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more—helping solopreneurs turn brand deals, affiliates, and digital products into sustainable businesses without tech headaches. A Stanford PhD in signal processing and machine learning whose medical imaging research deployed globally in hospitals, David previously led ML at Azumio (launching Calorie Mama AI) and interned on computer vision at Google, bringing hardcore AI engineering to the $250B creator economy where Beacons handles unique creator mixes on every major US social network.

Topics:
  - Using ML signal detection to spot viral patterns before platform algorithms react.
 - AI link-in-bio 3x's conversions – predicts TikTok/IG/YouTube audience overlap
 - Why the creator economy needs AI-native tools, not more dashboards

 #CreatorEconomy #SaaS #Startups #YC #TechInvesting

David Zeng, Beacons CTO on AI Tools for Creator Economy

Joseph Ros is a Partner and General Manager at Entrepreneur First(EF), the pioneering global platform that invests in exceptional individuals before they have an idea or co-founder. Based in San Francisco, Joseph has backed early-stage technology companies across AI, biotech, robotics, hardware, and climate tech in markets including Singapore, India, Europe, and North America. At EF, he leads talent investing and follow-on capital while driving EF’s global pipeline that connects top technical talent from Europe and India to Silicon Valley. Before joining EF, Joseph was a founder and self-taught engineer, building and scaling consumer web products that reached millions of users across industries like gaming, legaltech, and edtech.

Topics: 
- Talent-first investing: Why backing individuals before ideas produces outlier companies
- How EF evaluates founders at day zero (signal, grit, and technical edge)
- Building global founder pipelines: Europe & India as the next AI power centers

#VentureCapital #TalentInvesting #EarlyStageVC #AIStartups #GlobalFounders

Joseph Ros, Partner at EF on Talent-First Investing & Global Scale

Distribution for startups 101.

Stripe didn’t buy growth — they embedded into platforms that already had users.

#startups #founders #distribution #growthstrategy

entering my villain era 😈

#2026 #founder #ceo

🎉 Week 102 Recap — Venture with Grace  

Week 102 explored cutting-edge AI infrastructure, VC investment strategies, GTM mastery for SaaS, causal AI innovations, and usage-based billing revolutions — unpacking commercialization, diligence, scaling, and growth in tech.

Week 102 lineup:

Deepak Prasad, Qualcomm Director: Qualcomm's US tech deals, long-term technical advantage, cloud-to-edge diligence

Priya Ramachandran, Foster Ventures Founder: GTM for international SaaS, proving PMF for cross-border founders, operator investor eval

Ray Wu, Alumni Ventures Managing Partner: Global AI & SaaS investing, corporate venture lessons from HP & Cisco, building startups across markets

Abby Kearns, former CTO of Alembic Technologies on AI and OpenSource: Modernizing Puppet to cloud-native, causal AI for marketing ROI, scaling global eng teams

Scott Woody, Metronome CEO: Usage-based billing as core infra, scientific modeling in SaaS, Dropbox-scale lessons for startups

Week 102 delivered battle-tested insights on turning research into VC-backed reality, diligencing edge tech, and fueling SaaS growth amid 2026 shifts. The big theme: Builders and investors are redefining infrastructure for an AI-driven world.

See you live next week for more exciting episodes! 👋

#VentureWithGrace #AI #startups #founders #vc

Vignesh Ravikumar is a Partner at SIERRA Ventures. Vignesh Ravikumar joined Sierra Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Vignesh has a background in M&A transactions for enterprise software companies, having worked at AGC Partners, a Boston-based investment bank. Vignesh holds a BS in Management Science (cum laude) and a Minor in Math from UC San Diego. 


Topics: 
- Underwriting AI-heavy SaaS when infra, pricing, and competition shift
- Pricing and packaging playbooks for AI-native SaaS at seed/Series A
- Vertical SaaS 2.0: deep workflow, compound products, and moats

#VentureCapital #EnterpriseSaaS #VerticalSaaS #DigitalHealth #HealthcareIT

Vignesh Ravikumar, Dhanush Ram and 5 other attendees

Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures Partner on Enterprise & Vertical SaaS

Aaron Cannon — CEO of Outset — on Venture with Grace, sharing how AI is reshaping the pace and depth of research.

Aaron walked through how this approach unlocks faster understanding without sacrificing nuance, helping teams learn more, sooner, and make better decisions with confidence.

Episode is live now — a compelling look at how AI can accelerate research and insight at scale. Link in Bio.

#AIResearch #UXResearch #ProductDiscovery #QualitativeResearch #QuantitativeResearch

Scott Woody is Co-Founder and CEO of Metronome, the leading usage-based billing platform empowering SaaS companies to model flexible pricing strategies, iterate rapidly without engineering bottlenecks, and turn billing into a growth engine amid 2026's shift from seats to consumption models. With prior stints as CTO at Metronome since 2019 and Director of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled core infrastructure for 12 million+ users, Scott brings hands-on builder credentials from co-founding Foundry Hiring—an ultra-simple ATS that handled full-stack from marketing to code. A Stanford grad whose computational biology research spanned protein folding simulations, DNA mutations, and motor protein assays, he bridges academic modeling rigor with enterprise software at scale, having engineered Dropbox's evolution from startup to public giant before tackling SaaS monetization's biggest pain point.

Topics
- Why usage-based billing is becoming core infrastructure, not a finance feature
- How a scientific modeling background shaped a SaaS infrastructure founder
- Lessons from Dropbox-scale systems applied to early-stage startups

#UsageBasedBilling #SaaSGrowth #PricingInfrastructure #FounderInsights #BuildInPublic

Scott Woody, Metronome CEO on Usage-Based Billing & SaaS Growth

How to build distribution for your startup (without burning cash).

Nike didn’t hire Kim Kardashian. They partnered with her company SKIMS. 

Here’s how. Follow me so your startup doesn’t die.


#startups #founders #distribution #businessstrategy #entrepreneurship

Aaron Jacobson  — Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) — on Venture with Grace, spotlighting the next major frontier in cybersecurity.

As devices, applications, and data become more secure, identity is emerging as the critical layer left to solve. With agents operating across systems, knowing who has access — and proving it in real time — matters more than ever.

Aaron shared why identity sits at the center of modern security and how real-time verification will define the next generation of protection.

Episode is live now — a sharp conversation on cybersecurity, identity, and what comes next. 

#Cybersecurity #Identity #EnterpriseSecurity #VentureCapital

Howard Wright — VP at NVIDIA — on Venture with Grace, sharing a simple but powerful leadership habit.  

Being fully present when someone is speaking sounds obvious, but in a world full of notifications and constant distraction, it’s a rare skill. Howard framed deep listening as a sign of respect — and of quiet confidence.  

He shared how leaders who truly listen build stronger trust, make better decisions, and lead with humility.  

Episode is live now — a thoughtful reminder on presence, leadership, and the power of listening.

#Leadership #ActiveListening #Management #ExecutivePresence

Lior Susan  — founder & CEO of Eclipse — on Venture with Grace, sharing a framework for spotting the next wave of disruption.

To find industries ready for transformation, Lior looks bottom-up: study how work actually gets done, layer in the macro forces at play, and examine the technologies powering the ecosystem today.

He pointed to how e-commerce reshaped logistics as a reminder that when technology meets the right market conditions, entire industries can change — raising the question of what’s next.

Episode is live now — a thoughtful conversation on innovation, venture investing, and identifying inflection points.

#VentureCapital #Innovation #Disruption #EmergingTech

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