Focal

Episode Transcript

‍Exciting news! I’m going live with a brand new podcast 🎙️ 5 Year Frontier.

Fast forward five years to view the future of an industry through the eyes of its most innovative entrepreneurs and CEOs.

👉🏼 Subscribe today to listen 👈🏼

5 Year Frontier Podcast

Here’s what you’ll hear:
🔮 Learn what key industries could look like in 5 years.
👩🏻‍🚀 Witness the evolution through the eyes of leading CEOs.
🤖 Discover who gets disrupted and who wins big.
👽 Hear of mind blowing technology set to reinvent all the rules.
🧬 Reshape your mental model to thrive in the change ahead.
‍

Delivered as short (~30 mins), insight-packed discussions, that will spark imagination and leave listeners with a preview of what lies ahead.

Episodes coming your way on: Earth’s largest drone network, robotic restaurants, fighting COVID with light beams, diseases hiding in our voice, predictive customer service, 100x team performance, sustainable cities, and plenty more!

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Subscribe and you’ll be first to receive fresh episodes in your inbox every two weeks. And please take 1 minute to forward to a friend who might enjoy it — the future is better with company!

⚡️ The first episode is just around the corner.

Daniel Darling

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Featured Resources

June 6, 2023

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Introducing findfunding.vc 🧨

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our open source VC database - findfunding.vc

company news

April 26, 2023

January 29, 2025

focal is live 👋

We just launched our firm's new name and bold brand: focal

company news

February 22, 2024

January 29, 2025

Early vesting is broken!

At startups, too often, too much of the cap table is owned by individuals who left before things started to work, causing resentment amongst the ones who made it work. Early vesting needs rethinking.

pascal's notes

October 19, 2023

January 29, 2025

What it takes to raise capital in 2023

The fundraising environment remains tricky to navigate for startups. Frameworks, like Point 9’s renowned SaaS funding napkins, offer a good a good temperature check on the early stage funding market.

pascal's notes

September 29, 2023

January 29, 2025

Cold Outbound is Under-Appreciated

To get to their initial B2B customers, most founders first tap into their network. That works well for some, but leads many others down a wrong path. Cold outbound is an under-appreciated alternative.

pascal's notes

July 13, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#8: The VC Rebrand Guide

Rebranding and revamping your website is no easy task. We lay out step-by-step how we did it for focal, all the way to launch.

brick by brick

April 12, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#7: Navigating Year-End

Now that the busy year-end season is (mostly) behind us, we look back at the operational lessons we've learned in the last six months.

brick by brick

March 20, 2023

January 29, 2025

🧱#6: On Point Offsite

In January, we had a week-long team offsite across Virginia & Miami. While the primary draw was to see each other, reconnect, & align, we also got a ton of work done. Here's what we learned.

brick by brick

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February 19, 2025

February 19, 2025

5YF Episode #31: Voltron Data CEO Craig Dunham

Unlocking 90% of Data, AI Bottlenecks, DeepSeek vs. Stargate, Precision Forecasting, and the Future of Data Processing w/ Voltron Data CEO, Craig Dunham

5 year frontier

February 5, 2025

February 5, 2025

5YF Episode #30: Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao

DeepSeek Deployed, How Open Source Wins, The Small Model Revolution, AI Infrastructure Wars, and the Future of AI Infrastructure w/ Fireworks AI CEO, Lin Qiao

5 year frontier

January 29, 2025

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5YF Episode #29: Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin

Floating Data Centers, Decarbonized Compute, New AGI Infrastructure, Foundation Models for Molecules, and the Future of Material Science w/ Orbital Materials CEO, Jonathan Godwin

5 year frontier

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