Vinay Iyengar (VC @ Two Sigma Ventures)

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This week we had on Vinay Iyengar (@VinIyengar) of Two Sigma Ventures.

Two Sigma is a multi-strategy fund that invests from seed to Series B across a number of industries. Vinay helps lead up the San Francisco office, and he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and infrastructure.

In this talk, we discuss:

• Why now is the golden age to start a business

• Implications and second order effects of software becoming commoditized

• Ways to demystify the job search process

Check out the full episode below:

🧠 Venture advice straight from the Confluence.VC community

🅺 How to get your first thousand community members / customers

🛍 How to beat Amazon as an e-commerce company

📝 The creator playbook according to Roll

🔥 The era of the curator has begun

✨ Analyzing NFTs using the status-as-a-service framework

🔑 How marketplaces can unlock more power

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