Hemant Taneja
Indian-born American venture capitalist; CEO of venture capital firm General Catalyst since 2021
Indian-born American venture capitalist; CEO of venture capital firm General Catalyst since 2021
Every podcast episode featuring Hemant Taneja that Attunex has found: 54 interviews and appearances across 42 shows between 2017 and 2026. Most often on The All Turtles Podcast (9), The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (2) and "Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and Investing (2). Follow Hemant in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Hemant Taneja’s essay is a diagnosis of a shift in venture, but it overstates the novelty of the prescription and underestimates the continuing value of judgment, distribution, and founder support.…
I recently sat down with General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja to understand how his firm is deploying and building during this incredible period in the private markets. He believes that AI has changed…
Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst, joins Sourcery to unpack GC's first-ever quarterly Review. We cover why he wrote it, the state of GC's $43B ecosystem, why the software buyout model is broken,…
What happens when AI-driven scale meets the challenge of shared prosperity? This condensed take distills an hour-long conversation into ~15 minutes for busy listeners. Host Molly O'Shea sits down…
In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, our hosts Telis Demos and Miriam Gottfried get into why the market still hasn’t made up its mind on Kevin Warsh’s nomination as the Federal Reserve…
This edition of Deal Talk features a conversation with Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst, one of the world’s most prominent venture firms with more than $40 billion in assets under management…
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(0:00) Guest intros: Jasons introduces Bob Sternfels (McKinsey) and Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst) (2:52) The pace of innovation and why VC's are buying hospitals (9:30) CFOs vs CIOs and unlocking…
Hemant Taneja believes you can sneeze and reach a billion dollars in healthcare revenue, but that most of that revenue tells you nothing about whether the system is actually getting better. This…
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General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the AI sector's "peak ambiguity" and how a new focus on labor budgets is justifying massive investments. We also talk with…
Nvidia will invest $100B in OpenAI, a deal announcement that boosted chip stocks abroad. After nearly two decades at Disney, Kevin Mayer left to lead TikTok U.S. and serve as COO at its parent…
Hemant Taneja is the CEO and leader of General Catalyst, the firm he has scaled over the last decade into one of the largest with over $40BN in AUM. He has been one of the most influential investors…
Hemant Taneja is the CEO and Managing Partner of General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that has evolved into what he describes as a "strategic conglomerate with venture capital at its core." Under…
The often hard-charging venture capital industry hasn’t been immune to the economic uncertainty that has hung over markets this year. There were 79 venture capital transactions surpassing the…
In the inaugural episode of the Augmented Intelligence Podcast, host Omar Haroun, co-founder and CEO of Eudia, converses with Hemant Taneja, a renowned investor and CEO of General Catalyst. The…
Jacob sits down with Hemant Taneja, the CEO & Managing Director of General Catalyst. GC is one of the world’s largest venture capital firms, most recently raising an $8B fund in 2024. The firm has…
Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst discusses the firm's evolution from an artisanal business to an enduring venture platform, focusing on operational rigor, fund size, talent strategy, and…
What makes General Catalyst a unique VC firm? How does Hemant identify companies and founders full of potential? What advice does Hemant have for companies, founders, and startups? We are joined by…
Connie & Alex talk to Hemant Taneja and Pranav Singhvi of General Catalyst about their “Customer Value” strategy, a funding model in which General Catalyst pre-funds a company's customer acquisition…
Hemant Taneja, CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst and Teresa Carlson, Inaugural President of General Catalyst Institute (GCI), discuss the launch of GCI, and how they are shaping AI policy…
"If there are two things that have been foundational to my journey, it's been learning, and it's been the importance of taking risk." Hemant Taneja, managing partner and CEO of General Catalyst,…
My guest today is Hemant Taneja. Hemant is the CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst, the global venture capital firm you’ll hear us refer to as GC. GC has set out to build resiliency across…
The NFL's chief media and business officer Brian Rolapp talks about sports in the streaming era and how the league is using machine learning. Then, General Catalyst CEO and managing director Hemant…
Upfront Partner Kevin Zhang sits down with Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst to discuss what it takes to build an enduring firm, what approaching ecosystems in healthcare look like, and the biggest…
Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, joins Washington Post Live to discuss his company’s work with the Commerce Department to develop AI guidelines…
Hemant Taneja He is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that partners with founders from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that…
General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja shares his insights on the venture capital landscape, society’s digital transformation, and the firm’s mission-based approach to investing in the latest episode of…
Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst, and runs the firm like a true business: defining its mission and values, approaching the product from a problem-solving perspective, and more. If you’re…
Candid Conversation with Fareed Zakaria & Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of global VC firm General Catalyst on how changing geopolitics are changing the game for VCs as well. In a new world…
A regional bank in the United States sends ripples across global financial markets. Silicon Valley Bank the banking hub for startups not just in Palo Alto but had footprints in India, Canada EU and…
Our anchors begin today’s show with Evercore ISI Head of Internet Research Mark Mahaney explaining his decision to cut price targets on Amazon and Alphabet, and CNBC’s Steve Kovach reports on YouTube…
On episode 6 of season 3, I continued my conversation with Dr. Stephen Klasko, who was the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership,…
Hemant Taneja (@htaneja), managing partner at General Catalyst and author of Intended Consequences, joins Anne Dwane and Village Global’s newest partner, Prateek Alsi, to discuss: - What responsible…
In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst. Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking…
Welcome to the 100th episode of the Health Technology Podcast! Hemant Taneja is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst. Hemant is a visionary leader in the healthcare…
Venture capital funds provide the gasoline startups need to get from an initial sketch on a cocktail napkin to a global-scale giant like Uber, Amazon, or Airbnb. With so much change over the last…
Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst, and has been an early investor in market-leading companies like Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, and Stripe. His…
Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst, and has been an early investor in market-leading companies like Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, and Stripe. His…
Hemant Taneja, a managing director at General Catalyst and the founder of the firm’s Silicon Valley operations, joins Scott to discuss the venture capital space, why he’s bullish on the healthcare…
Hemant Taneja, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Author joins the show to discuss the importance of health assurance, shares why tech shouldn't disrupt health and reminisces over Bob Marley.
The THCB Book Club is a discussion with leading health care authors, which will be released every month. And this is the first one! We kicked off with a new book from Hemant Teneja (VC at General…
The story of Theranos, a company that falsely claimed it could perform a full range of medical tests using just a tiny blood sample drawn by pricking your finger. Manuela Saragosa speaks to John…
Hemant Taneja — an investor in big names like Airbnb and Stripe — shares the basics of venture capital. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our…
After a summer of bonus episodes and the release of our Unscaled series, we're back for season 2 with a slate of exciting upcoming guests and fresh discussion segments. In this season 2 preview,…
Can it be that now is the best time in the history of the universe to build meaningful products? The final episode of the Unscaled series considers how access to APIs, broader sources of funding, and…
Hemant Taneja, the Managing Director of General Catalyst and author of Unscaled, joins us to chat about A.I. and the economy of the future. The great unscaling will touch everything.
Does the "company" still make sense as the default operational unit for doing business? Or is it an archaic method of organizing the development, manufacture, and sale of goods and services? For…
The proliferation of AI is spurring calls for regulation. But what should these new rules look like? Who will enforce them? And does AI require a new definition of monopoly? Historically, monopolies…
Is personalization really the golden ticket that some product creators think it is? In the tech industry, it's a widely-held opinion that personalization is the answer to everything, and that…
Airbnb, Uber, and Facebook have had the public turn against them when their products caused damage. Even if the founders of these companies had good intentions, they could have made better use of…
How can you tell if the product that you're creating will cause harm? What signs should Facebook have noticed long before its product wreaked havoc on democracy? There are "algorithmic canaries" to…
There's been a big change in the way businesses are built: they no longer need to have sky-high valuations and thousands of employees before they can make an impact. "Scale" as we know it has run its…
Welcome to the Unscaled Series, eight new episodes from the All Turtles Podcast featuring Phil Libin in conversation with General Catalyst's Ronda Scott and Hemant Taneja. Hemant's book Unscaled…
Hemant Taneja '97, MNG '99, SM '99 discusses his new book, Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future, published in spring 2018. Episode transcript:…
Hemant Taneja is Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the world's leading venture firms of the last decade with Airbnb, Stripe, Snapchat, Hubspot and Gusto all in their portfolio. As for…
On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about…
Artificial intelligence can render the concept of scale meaningless and enable startups to compete with global giants. Investor Hemant Taneja explains how size becomes a liability in his new book,…
Venture capitalist Hemant Taneja sees a huge problem looming for America. Technology is increasingly taking over jobs that were once done by people. As this trend accelerates, there will be fewer and…