The Serial Entrepreneur
Kevin Ryan, co-founder of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Gilt Groupe (among others), speaks with Nick Beim at Venrock about building teams and what to look for in a VC. Ryan advocates taking risks as an entrepreneur, even if it leads to a failure or two. You can learn a lot from unsu...
The Future of Globalization: The Digital Revolution
On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, in conversation with Nick Beim from Venrock.
Richard is the president of the Council on...
Altruist CEO & Founder, Jason Wenk - What Financial Advice Should Be
In today's episode, Ally McCloskey sits down with Jason Wenk, Founder & CEO of Altruist. Altruist is an all-in-one digital platform for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and their clients that helps make financial advice more efficient, more affordable, and accessible to more people. Using Al...
Mission-Focused Artificial Intelligence w/ Nick Beim
Investor and Venrock partner Nick Beim joins ACME General Corp. to talk about Rebellion Defense and building mission-focused artificial intelligence products for the defense industry.
Nick is a partner at Venrock and one of the lead investors in Rebellion Defense. Follow him on Twitter at @NickBe...
Be Humble About What You Know (And Don't Know)
Venrock partner Nick Beim speaks with Bill McNabb, former chairman and CEO of Vanguard, an asset management company that pioneered low-cost investing for the consumer. McNabb shares important leadership lessons including the importance of being humble, having a clear definition of success, and kn...
The Innovation Frontier of Wealth Management
Venrock's Nick Beim speaks with Steve Lockshin, founder of Vanilla, about lessons learned as a serial entrepreneur in wealth management services. Lockshin shares what drives him as an entrepreneur, the need for more digestible information in estate planning, and his most valuable lessons learned ...
Rebuilding Financial Markets
Dylan Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Moment, joins Venrock investor Nick Beim to discuss how Moment is transforming the fixed income market, starting with rebuilding execution and portfolio management for some of the largest players in U.S. wealth management. Their discussion ranges from how to wi...
E305: Why 95% of AI Startups Will Never Build a Moat
Why are vertical AI applications emerging as some of the most defensible opportunities in technology today?
David Weisburd speaks with Nick Beim about why context—not raw intelligence—is becoming the key driver of AI performance, and how vertical software is reshaping wealth management, legal se...
Arca's AI-First Vision for Human-First Wealth Management
As Arca launches with $64 million in funding and more than $1 billion in assets under management, founder and CEO Rron Rexha joins Nick Beim to share his vision for AI-native wealth management built around human-first advice. Rron reflects on his journey from Kosovo to fintech, his year as an Ent...
