The Investor + Operator (IO) Podcast
The Investor + Operator (IO) Podcast hosts the most candid, applicable conversations about building companies with the world’s best operators and investors.
Brought to you by Pelion Venture Partners
Recent Episodes
July 15, 2025
How The BEST Founders Go From Seed To Series A - a convo w/ Brett Berson of First Round
What are the questions founders and VC firms should be asking when raising a Series A? How will AI impact things? What are the common pitfalls for Seed-stage startups? In this episode, Tyler and Sterling sit down with Brett B...
June 10, 2025
From whiteboard idea to $7 BILLION…How Flock Safety catches 20% of US crime — w/ Garrett Langley
How on earth do startup founders with zero experience in the security industry sell millions of dollars in contracts to police stations around the US? In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Garrett Langley, founder and CEO ...
May 20, 2025
How Benchmark Capital finds EXCEPTIONAL startups in the age of AI — A convo w/ Eric Vishria
With so many AI startups these days, how do you identify which will be home-runs and which will be flops? In this episode of the I/O Podcast, Tyler and Sterling sit down with Eric Vishria, a General Partner at the legendary B...
May 6, 2025
How Great Founders SELL Before They BUILD — An Exceptional Startup Chat w/ The Founder of Wander
How do you get paying customers...before you've even built your product? Time to find out! In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Tyler sits down with John Andrew Entwistle, Founder and CEO of Wander, the platform that's tr...
April 22, 2025
The Simple Tricks Founders Need To Build WINNING Teams — An IO Interview With Nakul Mandan
In this episode of the IO Podcast, Nakul Mandan (founder of Audacious Ventures) shares his tips and tricks for recruiting top talent, the most critical assets for successful companies. He also shares his story of how he becam...
April 8, 2025
His Company Went Public At $1.8 BILLION...And His Next Idea Is Even Bigger
In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Brandon Rodman (founder of Weave and now Previ) breaks down how he’s quietly building a Costco for the modern workforce — one that’s already grown from 300K to 1.5M users in 3 months, ...
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