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Riding Unicorns
5 episodes
Shah Ramezani, Founder of Noah: Hiring Exceptional Talent, Stablecoins and Building Ahead of the Market
4 Nov · 29 min
- Noah raised a $38M seed round to build stablecoin payment infrastructure, pivoting from its original blockchain thesis.
- Shah Ramezani says Noah kept its hiring bar high during rapid growth even as support tickets and customer demands outran staffing.
Yaron Valler, Founder of Target Global: Backing 15+ Unicorns, Why Outsiders Win and the Future of AI
28 Oct · 28 min
- Yaron Valler, founder of Target Global, argues outsiders make strong entrepreneurs because they see problems others overlook, citing Wise's founders horrified by money transfer costs.
- Valler says integration is the key to immigration, a two-way obligation governments must provide, support and enforce, and that open borders cannot coexist with a social safety net.
Inside Fuse Energy: Alan Chang on Building a $5B Energy Giant and Chasing £1B ARR
29 Apr · 23 min
- Fuse Energy is buying its first grid, betting that owning the grid is the only way around connection delays of fifteen to twenty years.
- Alan Chang says Fuse has cut its energy cost about 15 percent against an industry benchmark and saves roughly 30 percent in utility-scale capital expenditure through automation and its EPC team.
Pioneering the AI-rollup model in the property management space with Dan Lifshits, Co-Founder @ Dwelly
12 Nov 2025 · 46 min
- Dwelly, a UK AI-first lettings platform, grows by acquiring traditional letting agencies because landlords rarely switch agents, making acquisition the fast route to growth.
- Dan Lifshits says Red Bus and Episode One passed on Dwelly several times, and that early investors need to believe later-stage investors will back the story.
Alan Chang, Founder & CEO of Fuse Energy: From Revolut’s First Five Employees to Reinventing the Energy Industry
18 Jan 2023 · 29 min
- Alan Chang says Tesseract Energy will build and own renewable generation, then sell customers virtual renewable power, aiming to undercut energy suppliers that just resell bought power.
- Alan Chang, an early Revolut employee, says the only way to beat bigger rivals is hiring better people and working harder, a lesson he is applying to a team of about 26.