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We the Builders
43 episodes · by Suffiyan Malik
About We the Builders
We the Builders is a podcast with 43 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Conversations with practitioners at the edge of their craft across business, media, startups, frontier technologies, investing. PodLexicon indexes every episode of We the Builders and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on We the Builders
Travel Pain Points as Opportunity Acquisition Philosophy and Autonomy Focus in Corporate Strategy Storytelling and Culture Building Leadership Selection and Uncertainty History and Randomness CEO Operating Style Building Story and Planet
Notable Guests on We the Builders
Recent Episodes
Justin Lopas on the Business of Base Power and Lessons from SpaceX & Anduril — August 12, 2026Scott Kupor on A16Z Origin Story, White House Role and Office of Personnel Management — August 08, 2026Ian Cinnamon on Building a $2.3B Satellite Manufacturing Campus, Palantir Alumni & The Apex Space Thesis — July 20, 2026E41: Austen Allred on X Posting, Lambda School, Getting Sued, ISAs, Lobbying & Future of Education — July 15, 2026Brian Hooks, CEO of Stand Together & President of Charles Koch Foundation on Venture Philanthropy — July 13, 2026In Conversation with Dan Wright, Cofounder & CEO of Armada ($2B neo-hyperscaler for the edge) — July 08, 2026E33: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas, The Alpha in Long Form Writing and Investing with Eric Jorgenson — July 08, 2026E32: Chauncey Hamilton, GP at XYZ on Media, Apprenticeship, Conviction and Founder Networks — June 30, 2026E31: David Ulevitch on Creating the $1.776B A16Z American Dynamism Practice — June 24, 2026E30: Sunil Dhaliwal, Founder of Amplify Partners on Lessons from 27 Years in VC — May 21, 2026E29: Todd Klein, Managing Partner at Revolution Growth on VC, AI, Board Meetings and Hollywood — May 15, 2026E28: Christian Keil, Partner at A16Z on Lessons from Scaling Astranis and Traits of Elite Operators — May 12, 2026E27: Jonathan Lacoste, Founder of SpaceVC on Building & Investing in Frontier Tech & His Own Founder Journey — May 02, 2026E26: Matt Ocko, Cofounder DCVC on Lessons from 30+ Years in DeepTech Venture Capital — April 28, 2026In conversation with Billy Thalheimer, Cofounder & CEO of Regent — April 25, 2026E25: Seth Winterroth, Partner at Eclipse: Investing $10B in the Physical Economy — April 17, 2026In Conversation with Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, Cofounder & CEO of Chapter ($3B retirement company) — April 16, 2026E24: Rob Leclerc on Building AgFunder, the Biggest Media Platform & Venture Fund focused on Food & Ag — April 11, 2026E23: Leland Miller Breaks Down the China Threat. IP Theft, GDP Fabrication, Taiwan Takeover. What is Really Going On? — April 09, 2026In Conversation with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital, $7B Fund Accelerating SciFi — April 08, 2026E22: Colin Greenspon on Private Boards, Business Model Innovation, Competent Founders and Narya — April 02, 2026In Conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch, Cofounder of CrowdStrike, a $100B company — March 31, 2026In Conversation with David Friedberg, Cohost of All-In Podcast — March 27, 2026E21: Jason Carman on Building Story and Inspiring The Next Generation of Technologists through SciFi — March 26, 2026E20: Seth Berman, Cofounder of Susa and Kivu Ventures on History and State of Early Stage Venture Capital — March 21, 2026E19: Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, The Renaissance Man behind the Multibillion Dollar House of Jahangir Siddiqui — March 04, 2026E18: Jonathan Levin on Building Chainalysis, a $8.6B Company — March 02, 2026E17: Bharat Vasan on Lessons from Raising $1B, Multiple Startup Exits and Hero's Journey for Founders — February 20, 2026E16: Mike Solana, architect of new media on building Pirate Wires — February 15, 2026E15: Mike Maples of Floodgate on Pattern Breaking Founders, Investing and Seeding Twitter, Lyft & Digg — February 11, 2026E14: Packy McCormick on Writing, Investing, Media and Creative Process — January 23, 2026E12: Dropping out of MIT to Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund and Space Factories w/ Delian Asparouhov — January 01, 2026E11: Glenn Fogel, CEO Booking Holdings, the world's largest travel company — December 04, 2025E10: Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz on Building Chapter with Vivek Ramaswamy, a $1.5B company redefining retirement — November 13, 2025E9: Working w/ VP JD Vance, Peter Thiel & Thesis Driven Investing w/ Colin Greenspon — October 10, 2025E8: Auren Hoffman: Founder of LiveRamp ($RAMP, $1.85B), SafeGraph and Flex Capital and NQB8 — September 25, 2025E7: Building a Mach 5 Jet backed by Sam Altman, Founders Fund & Khosla Ventures — September 13, 2025E6: Vivas Kumar: Building Mitra Chem & Securing America's Energy Supply Chain — September 02, 2025E5: Karan Talati: SpaceX engineer to raising $30 million for First Resonance — August 23, 2025E4: The future of home robotics with Mehul Nariyawala, Cofounder & CEO Matic Robots — August 16, 2025E3: Christian Garrett: Investing at 137 Ventures (founded by former Thiel Associates) and Connecting Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley — August 02, 2025E2: Omri Amirav-Drory: Investing at NFX, TechBio and Race To 160 — July 30, 2025E1: Shahin Farshchi: Investing at Lux Capital and Accelerating a Sci-Fi Future — July 26, 2025
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