Alex Oppenheimer
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Founder and General Partner at Verissimo VenturesAppears in 40 Episodes
Finding People Was Never the Hard Part. Jeff Shapiro on 30 years of Executive Search, What AI Eats, and What it Can't
In this episode of Very True, Alex sits down with Jeff Shapiro, a thirty-year executive recruiter now at Altira Search, former Partner at Viola Group, and one of Alex'...
Cool People Have Cool Hobbies - How to Become an Expert in Anything with Tim Lim
In this episode of Very True, Alex sits down with his college friend Tim Lim, FP&A exec, whiskey connoisseur and Executive Director at Edgewood Companies, for a conver...
Is Software in Its Final Form? Innovation, Commoditization, and Why Alex De Simone Left AWS
Alex sits down with Alex De Simone, a friend since their Stanford days and a fellow mechanical engineer, for a conversation that starts with a VCR turned into a Hot Wh...
Why Good Video Looks Effortless (and Isn't)
In this conversation, Alex reconnects with his friend Itai Joseph, filmmaker and founder of Fondu, to explore what actually goes into making video content that feels e...
Growth, GTM, Marketing, Sales and Business Models that Work with Nick Greenfield
Alex and Nick Greenfield close out their three-part conversation with the episode that's most useful to anyone running or funding a company. Nick walks through the yea...
Early Days Lyft: When PMF is Obvious but Scaling is Still Hard with Nick Greenfield
Alex sits down with Nick Greenfield for part two of a three-part conversation. This one is the Lyft story, told by someone who was inside it close to the start. Nick j...
Why the Multi-Sport Kid Wins - Nick Greenfield on range, burnout, and the case for working too hard young
Alex sits down with Nick Greenfield, one of his oldest friends, for the first of three conversations recorded in a single sitting. They met at Stanford in 2008 through...
The Physicist who Hacked Health - Yaron Hadad
In this conversation, Alex reconnects with his long-time friend Yaron Hadad, physicist, mathematician, and serial entrepreneur, to explore the changing mechanics of te...
Zeta: The New Magic Number - Why SaaS metrics break on AI companies, and what to measure instead
In this solo episode of Very True, Alex makes the case that the biggest mistake an AI-powered business can make is treating itself like a SaaS business. It isn't one. ...
Everyone's Wrong About AI Moats — Lessons from Inside Early Google
In this episode of Very True, Alex reconnects with his friend of fifteen years, Michael Stoppelman, recorded 7,000 miles apart — Alex in Israel, Michael in the Bay Are...
When Pattern Recognition is a Liability - How VC is updating its priors for AI and which ones still hold
In this episode of Very True, Alex reconnects with old friend Nic Poulos, early stage investor at Euclid and former cofounder of Bowery, to dissect how venture capital...
AI Companies Are Trying to Run Uber's Playbook but Missing a Critical Ingredient
In this solo episode of Very True, Alex tackles one of the hottest and most scrutinized topics in tech today: the elusive business model of Artificial Intelligence. Ri...
Bet on yourself. Don't be someone's option bet.
In this solo episode of Very True, Alex talks about how venture math actually works and why it looks completely different depending on your fund size, the stage you in...
No Easy Answers: A Founder’s Reality Check on the LLM Boom
The honeymoon phase for AI applications is officially over. In this episode of Very True, Alex Oppenheimer sits down with long-time friend Isaac Heller, Co-founder and...
What Actually Is Enterprise Software Anymore? with Roy Rubin of Magento
In this episode of Very True, Alex sits down with Roy Rubin, Founding Partner of R2 Ventures and former founder of Magento, to dissect the shifting foundations of ente...
All ARR Taste Like Chicken with Elliot Comite
In this episode of Very True, Alex sits down with Elliot Comite, VP of Finance at Perchwell, to dissect the "full-stack" operator mindset. Elliot shares his journey fr...
Turning Ambient Restlessness into Productivity Through Movement
In this solo episode of Very True, Alex introduces a concept he calls Ambient Restlessness, the low-grade mental noise that modern life has wired into most of us, and ...
From 10 Employees Down to 3: Scaling Sales, Search, and Social with Matt Pru of Stackmatix
In this episode of Very True, Alex sits down with Matt Pru, Founder and CEO of Stackmatix, to explore the reality of startup go to market strategies and how the rules ...