This week we chat with Jason Feifer!

Jason is the Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, where he’s spent nearly a decade studying and telling the stories of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. He’s also a startup advisor, keynote speaker, and a nonstop optimism machine.

He’s the author of the best-selling book Build For Tomorrow, host of the hit podcast Help Wanted with over one million monthly downloads, and the writer of the weekly newsletter One Thing Better, read by more than 70,000 leaders. LinkedIn has named him a Top Voice in Entrepreneurship.

Beyond media, Jason is the cofounder of CPG Fast Track, Chief Content Officer for the business community Uncharted, and a trusted advisor to startups. He’s delivered keynotes for global brands like Google, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Alibaba—helping teams turn adaptability into a competitive advantage.

And above all, Jason is a husband and proud father of two, bringing heart and clarity to everything he builds.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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This week we chat with Felix Levine!

Felix is an entrepreneur, investor, and media operator who began his career in podcasting back in 2019—recording interviews straight out of his freshman-year dorm room at UC Santa Barbara.

After transferring to Boston University, where he earned a dual degree in Business Law and Management, Felix spent his college years traveling the country interviewing everyone from high-growth founders and world champion athletes to creators, reality TV stars, and even figures from the criminal underworld.

Drawn early to entrepreneurship and venture, Felix knew a traditional career path wasn’t for him. After graduating, he went all-in on the podcast, which eventually led to the launch of Lynx, an events and tech company. While Lynx ultimately failed, it became one of his most formative experiences and clarified his desire to operate on the investor side of the table.

Around that time, Felix met his business partner Brett and joined Bulletpitch, where he became a partner focused on bringing creators onto cap tables and bridging the gap between venture capital and the creator economy. Today, Felix is helping build a next-generation venture platform—one that uses creator influence not just for deal flow, but as a core de-risking mechanism for early-stage companies.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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This week, we chat with Terri Burns!

Terri is the founder of Type Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on being the first check for ambitious founders at pre-seed and seed. Most recently, she was a partner at GV, where she made history as the firm’s youngest partner and its first-ever Black female partner, with a focus on digital consumer and emerging technology.

During her time at GV, Terri led and supported investments that went on to raise follow-on capital from top-tier firms and achieve meaningful exits, including the social app HAGS, which was acquired by Snapchat. She’s also an active angel investor and cofounder of an angel collective that has backed companies like Clubhouse.

Terri’s impact extends well beyond investing. She’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee for Venture Capital, a three-time co-chair of Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Tech Conference, and a frequent speaker at institutions like Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School. Her work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Fortune, and TechCrunch.

Before venture, Terri began her career as an associate product manager at Twitter, studied computer science at NYU, and today serves on NYU’s Board of Trustees.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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Welcome back to Trailblazers by Park Rangers Capital!

In this week’s solo episode, host Erica Wenger breaks down 10 pieces of advice for ambitious twenty somethings!

Drawing from her personal experiences in the business world, Erica covers topics like building a strong personal brand, making smart career choices, and other key strategies for growth and success.

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up, these insights will help you approach your professional journey with confidence and clarity.

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This episode is supported by Rocketreach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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Shomik is the newest partner at Sierra Ventures! A longtime venture investor and an inception-focused fund backing technical founders at day zero. He supported companies like Cloudquery, Kiln AI, and Ask-Y, and played a role in many other early investments.

Shomik was an investor at Top Tier Capital, where he focused on growth-stage companies including CircleCI, Anaplan, Remitly, Shape Security, and Snyk. His path into venture was anything but traditional, with early experience spanning tech M&A, venture debt, a failed startup, and fixed income sales and trading.

Originally from New Jersey and a Pittsburgh alum, Shomik is an avid hiker, an aspiring guitarist—progress very much still in flight—and the proud dad of a one-and-a-half-year-old son who now takes up all of his spare time.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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This week we chat with Haseeb Qureshi!

Haseeb is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a multibillion-dollar leading crypto VC firm, and is a longtime technology-focused crypto investor.

He was previously a General Partner at Metastable Capital (now acquired by Dragonfly). Earlier in his career, Haseeb founded a stablecoin startup, worked as a blockchain engineer at Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), and served as an anti-fraud engineer at Airbnb. Before entering tech, he was among the top heads-up no-limit Hold’em poker players in the world, becoming a sponsored professional and self-made millionaire by age 19. He later authored a best-selling poker book, donated the bulk of his poker earnings—about half a million dollars—to charity, and pursued an earn-to-give path that led him into software engineering and eventually blockchain.

Haseeb has taught a Web3 Entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley and is widely followed for his technical expertise in crypto. Today, he continues to write, invest, and contribute to the ecosystem while committing a third of his pre-tax income to charitable causes.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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This week, we chat with Nicolas Cary!

Nic is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com! He is responsible for bringing new adopters into the crypto ecosystem.

A fascination with tech, money and politics led Nic to become deeply passionate about helping people reinvent their relationship with money.

After an international upbringing, Nic worked as a teacher in India before becoming a founding team member at SaaS company PipelineCRM.com, where he focused on product development and management.

A trilingual communicator, Nic is the Founding Commissioner of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and co-author of The Future is Decentralised. Deeply passionate about entrepreneurship, Nic is also co-founder and chairman of SkysTheLimit.org, the leading non-profit digital business accelerator. Regularly cited in the global press as one of the earliest crypto industry experts, Nic was named the European Digital Leader of the year in 2015 and honored with a Professional Achievement Award in 2017 by his alma mater, the University of Puget Sound.

A proven leader, investor, public speaker, and brand ambassador, Nic focuses on designing performant cultures that persevere in adverse markets.

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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Nicolas Cary: @niccary

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This week we chat with Paige Finn Doherty!

Paige is the Founding Partner of Behind Genius Ventures, an early-stage venture firm managing nearly $14 million in AUM. Behind Genius makes concentrated investments in pre-seed and seed-stage companies led by technical storytellers across applied AI, frontier tech, and what’s next.

A writer and former engineer, Paige first broke into venture capital in a truly unconventional way by writing a best-selling “children’s book for adults” about how venture capital works, Seed to Harvest. At the time, she was working as a Developer Success Engineer at WorkOS, a role she actually landed through Twitter!

Paige’s impact and storytelling have earned her widespread recognition: she was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Cover in Venture Capital (2022), named a Rising SDSU Aztec Awardee, and most recently, inducted into the Rancho Bernardo High School Hall of Fame.

Originally from San Diego and now based in San Francisco, Paige continues to bring transparency, creativity, and heart to the world of venture through storytelling and curio

✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

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This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

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Paige Finn Doherty: @paigedoherty

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Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger

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