Episode 16 of @TradingVCs featuring Adrien Gautier of Bridgespan VC is out now! This week: @Oracle's debt crisis sends shockwaves through AI infrastructure stocks, the IPO market heats up for 2026 with @SpaceX, @OpenAI & @AnthropicAI eyeing historic exits, and Adrien Gautier

Dave McClure tries to count Bay Area millionaires. Ben Black explains why so many of them are stuck with illiquid bags and why they call wealth managers for help. "At least one out of 10 of them hits the big time... we're talking at least, I would say tens of thousands of

Episode 15 of the @TradingVCs featuring @benjamindblack of Akkadian Ventures is out now! Ben shares his wild journey from losing his biggest LP in the 2008 crisis to building one of the most successful secondary funds in venture. In Market News, @davemcclure and @AmanVerjee

While OpenAI signed $1.15 trillion in compute contracts through 2035, DeepSeek trained a frontier model for $6 million. This was 2025’s central question : are we building on bedrock or quicksand? The top 10 posts of 2025 examined some of these topics : Are we in a bubble

Most people don’t realize Invest America accounts are real and it’s law and it’s a really great thing. Congrats and thanks @altcap for making it happen.

Episode 14 of the @TradingVCs is out now! Welcome to Trading Places, the extremely terrible, very bad podcast on VC secondaries. Hosts @davemcclure and @amanverjee unpack the biggest news in venture capital, late-stage funding, crypto valuations, and this week's explosive

on ep10 #TradingPlaces VC #secondary podcast, we interview @rcsbaker @blackbirdvc about @Canva + how he used GP-led secondary sale to deliver 3.5X DPI for Blackbird Fund I early (now @ 40X TVPI / 10X DPI wow!) https://t.co/uxAC0spOYS + thanks to Rick, Bill Tai @KiteVC,

"smart VCs & tech founders never donate cash!" watch our latest @TradingVCs podcast on how to 1) setup a #DAF (Donor Advised Fund) 2) donate startup equity / VC fund investments 3) get an immediate tax deduction learn more about donating public stocks, crypto assets, and

ep11 of the #TradingPlaces VC podcast is now live! this week, #DanielBlake, @AmanVerjee & I explain: 1) what a #DonorAdvisedFund (#DAF) is 2) how to setup a DAF with https://t.co/9pWyMRHaoz 3) how to #donate illiquid assets (startup equity, VC funds) to your own DAF and get a

episode 6 of [trading places] feat. @PeterJ_Walker of @cartainc —is out now! pod highlights this week: -@davemcclure and @AmanVerjee react to controversial VC takes of the week heard on @HarryStebbings' 20VC whether the golden rules of VC math are now ancient texts (is “triple

[ trading places ] #4: a very bad 💩podcast about VC #secondary 2️⃣, broken unicorns 🦄💔& busted carry 😱 this week in 2ndry: we talk #SPVs #KYC and #liquidity w/ @NikTalreja CEO @SydecarIO [ tech + vc news ] 01:14 — the #IPO window is WIDE OPEN: @klarna @figma @netskope

Iron Man is DEAD but [trading places] #2 is ALIVE! come watch our very bad podcast on VC #secondary before Thanos makes half of all broken unicorns disappear. this week on [trading places] with @davemcclure @amanverjee: •⁠ ⁠@msuster 5️⃣rules for buying secondary •⁠

Heard from VC LPs this week: In so many ways, the VC market has evolved quite similar to PE -- the industrialization of Venture. In PE - for well over a decade - secondary sales have represented 15-25% of exits, and greater in slower IPO markets. Not a surprise that VC

ep 1 of [trading places] is here @davemcclure & @amanverjee talk to @cupazhou about: – openai’s $500B tender – Canva @ $42B vs. Databricks @ $100B – busted DPI - “moolah in the coolah” – 6-layer SPVs – and @eriktorenberg's rap origin story?? a very bad podcast about broken

short clip “The Science of Selling” #secondary with @cupazhou from our new & very bad [trading places] podcast launching tuesday #TVPI #DPI #MoolahInThaCoolah 💰🧊 cc @TradingVCs @AmanVerjee @PractialVC h/t @cDouvos

BG2. Inside China’s Tech Surge: EVs, AI, and How America Can Compete 👊💥@bgurley

The only show you have to listen to every week. No politics. Just tech. - Databricks at $100BN: Is it Undervalued? - OpenAI Staff Cash Out Billions & Sam Altman Will Spend Trillions - CoreWeave’s $11BN Debt Bet - Nubank’s $2.5BN Profit Shocker @jasonlk @rodriscoll better than

the 5 chapters of secondary selling 🧵 never sell i didn’t sell… and regret it sell 10–20% teach your founders set up your own SPV & sell to yourself @Jason & @davemcclure break it down on @twistartups full episode coming soon on [trading places]

“winners keep winning. losers keep losing. tweeners keep tweening.” brutal vc wisdom from @davemcclure on portfolio triage. be helpful… but be the voice of reality. full episode soon on [trading places].

.@davemcclure on @twistartups: why raise a series b… when you’re already profitable? $3M revenue 10-person team no board seat no distributions founders win. early VCs hold paper. first episode drops soon on [trading places]