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VC10X - Investing, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Family Office, Wealth Management

Prashant Choubey

300 episodes

VC10X brings you inside the minds of top venture capitalists, investors, fund managers, and family offices shaping the future of global investing. Each episode dives deep into proven investment strategies, portfolio construction, due diligence, valuations, risk management, exits, and wealth creation frameworks used by leading experts.

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Whether you’re an investor, founder, or finance enthusiast, you’ll gain rare insights into how capital is deployed, returns are generated, and long-term value is built.

Hosted by Prashant Choubey

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  1. Allocator10x - Inside $50Bn+ Wealth Firm - Aoifinn Devitt, Managing Director, Global Wealth, Moneta

    · 44 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.com Aoifinn Devitt is Managing Director of Global Wealth at Moneta, a wealth management firm with $50.54 billion in assets under management. She previously served as…

  2. VC10X - Lean AI Playbook - Yash Patel, Managing Partner, Capra Ventures

    · 53 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.com Yash Patel is Managing Partner at Capra Ventures, a fund built around Lean AI: AI native companies that do more with less. Capra takes high conviction bets in seed…

  3. Allocator10x - Capital With a Soul - Jessie Jia Guo, Investment Partner at Next Legacy Partners

    · 46 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.beehiiv.com Jessie Jia Guo is an Investment Partner at Next Legacy, a venture fund-of-funds that has been investing since 1999 on behalf of philanthropists, nonprofit…

  4. VC10X Pulse - Jev: What it can really do?

    · 5:04

    Jev by TypeSafe is a different kind of AI model. It doesn’t write essays, generate images, or try to replace frontier LLMs. Instead, Jev is designed to make fast, structured decisions — which tool to use, which model…

  5. Allocator10x - How This $11B Allocator Picks Venture Managers - Tom Duffy, Director, Private Markets, TIFF

    · 30 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.beehiiv.com Tom Duffy is a Director on the private markets team at TIFF Investment Management, an institutional investment firm founded over 35 years ago to serve…

  6. VC10X Pulse - AI Slowdown? - What it really means

    · 3:08

    AI spending isn't slowing down. But the AI investment story may be changing. Global AI spending is still accelerating, Nvidia is reporting extraordinary growth, and hyperscalers continue committing hundreds of…

  7. VC10X - What if it goes right? - Morgan Flager, Managing Partner, Silverton Partners

    · 1 h 01 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.beehiiv.com Morgan Flager is Managing Partner at Silverton Partners, the longest-running and most active early-stage venture firm in Texas. He joined Silverton in 2006…

  8. VC10X Pulse - Will AI Kill Us All?

    · 9:55

    AI researchers are resigning — and some are warning that the technology is getting dangerously good. The latest is Jacob Coxon, who recently resigned from Anthropic after previously working at OpenAI and publicly…

  9. FamilyOffice10x - I Can't Eat IRR - Ned Brines, Chief of Investment Strategy at Arnel & Affiliates

    · 1 h 10 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.beehiiv.com Ned Brines is Chief of Investment Strategy at Arnel & Affiliates, a single family office in Southern California, where he runs the portfolios for both the…

  10. VC10X Pulse - Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion: Here's what that means

    · 6:03

    Nvidia just announced its acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — one of its biggest moves yet. But this isn't simply Nvidia buying another AI company. Hugging Face sits at the developer and model layer of…

  11. FamilyOffice10x - Inside Eric Schmidt's Family Office - Ken Goldman, Fmr. President, Hillspire

    · 58 min

    Get new episodes in your inbox - https://vc10x.beehiiv.com Ken Goldman spent five years as President of Hillspire, Eric Schmidt's family office, an organization of over five hundred people spanning investments, legal,…

  12. VC10X Pulse - Nvidia Earnings: $5T Growing at 100%+ YoY - Date: 27 Aug '26

    · 8:09

    Nvidia is now a roughly $5 trillion company—and it's still growing at more than 100% year over year. In its latest earnings, Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 106% year over year, with Data Center…

  13. VC10X - 24 Year Old Partner Sourcing Deals on Tiktok - Sydney Landau, Partner, Shakti VC

    · 50 min

    Sydney Landau joined SHAKTI as an intern with no background in venture. Two years later, she became a Partner, at 24. Sydney breaks down how she reads founders using the psychology training she picked up as a psych…

  14. VC10X Pulse - Etched Just Doubled Its Valuation to $21B in 1 Month — Here's What They're Building

    · 7:20

    Etched just raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from around $10.3 billion in less than a month. But the headline valuation isn't the most interesting part. Etched is…

  15. VC10X - 900 Fund Ones Raised in 2021/22. Only 200 Made It to Fund Two - Matt Curtolo, Advisor to LPs & GPs

    · 38 min

    Matt Curtolo is an independent advisor to LPs & GPs with over twenty years on the LP side of private markets, across Hamilton Lane, Hirtle Callaghan, MetLife, and Allocate. He now works directly with fund managers on…

  16. VC10X Pulse - Nvidia's $500B AI Financing Plan: What Does It Really Mean?

    · 6:38

    Nvidia just announced partnerships with some of the world's biggest financial institutions to mobilize more than $500 billion of capital for AI infrastructure. But there's an important distinction: Nvidia isn't…

  17. VC10X - 12 Years at a Seed Fund - Andrea Hippeau, Head of Portfolio Management, Lerer Hippeau

    · 54 min

    Andrea Hippeau is Head of Portfolio Management at Lerer Hippeau, an early stage venture firm based in New York. She has been at the firm for twelve years and recently moved into this role from Partner, shifting her…

  18. VC10X Pulse - Nvidia v/s AMD: Who is winning the semiconductor race?

    · 2:56

    This week, one tweet from Elon Musk reignited one of the biggest debates in AI investing. After AMD reported strong earnings, Musk posted that SpaceX has committed to using Nvidia GPUs exclusively because they are the…

  19. VC10X - Why the Labs Suddenly Love Open Weights - David Epstein, GP, USF Ventures

    · 53 min

    David Epstein is General Partner at USF Ventures, the venture fund backing companies connected to the University of San Francisco. He was previously a General Partner at Crosslink Capital and has held management and…

  20. VC10X Pulse - Why Big Tech Is Suddenly United Behind Open AI

    · 3:24

    Some of the biggest names in AI—including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Palantir, OpenAI, and Google—came together this week to support open-weight AI models. In an industry defined by intense competition, that level…

  21. FamilyOffice10x - Talent Over Thesis - Lara Nuchowicz, Principal, AR Capital

    · 45 min

    Lara Nuchowicz is the Principal at AR Capital, a next-gen allocator at the family office, where she manages the private markets portfolio. She started attending investment meetings with her father at fifteen, sitting…

  22. VC10X Pulse - Google's Earnings Just Strengthened the AI Thesis

    · 3:29

    Google's latest earnings weren't just about another strong quarter. They offered one of the clearest signals yet on the health of the AI investment cycle. From resilient Search revenue to continued Cloud growth and…

  23. VC10X Pulse - ASML Earnings: The Biggest AI Signal This Week

    · 3:33

    ASML may have delivered the most important earnings report of the week for semiconductor investors. The company raised its full-year sales guidance again, reported a sharp increase in memory-related revenue, and…

  24. VC10X Pulse - The Rise of AI Unicorns

    · 4:26

    Has the AI funding boom peaked? Many investors expected higher interest rates, rising infrastructure costs, and questions around AI monetization to slow venture capital activity. Instead, the opposite is happening.…

  25. VC10X - Dancing Among The Giants with David Hornik, Founding Partner, Lobby Capital

    · 49 min

    David Hornik is the Founding Partner of Lobby Capital, an early-stage venture firm built on concentrated, conviction-driven investing. Before founding Lobby, he spent 20 years as a General Partner at August Capital,…

  26. VC10X Pulse - Is Meta Selling Excess Compute?

    · 3:59

    Reports that Meta is selling excess AI compute sparked an important question across the investment community: Is this the first sign that AI demand is slowing? Or is the market reading too much into a normal part of…

  27. VC10X - The AI Bottleneck Keeps Moving - Ashmeet Sidana, Founder & Managing Partner, Engineering Capital

    · 44 min

    What does it take to back a technical founder before there's a product, a customer, or a dollar of revenue? Ashmeet Sidana has been doing exactly that — and he's been oversubscribed on every fund he's ever raised.…

  28. VC10X Pulse - Micron's Blowout Earnings Report: What it means for the AI trade?

    · 4:53

    Micron just delivered one of the most important earnings reports of the AI era. The company reported record fiscal Q3 results and issued a blowout forecast for the next quarter, sending the stock sharply higher. But…

  29. Allocator10x - The $600Bn Perspective: What Institutions Get Wrong About Risk, Diversification & AI - Jeffrey Blazek, co-CIO of Multi-Asset, Neuberger Berman ($600B+ AUM)

    · 42 min

    What does managing $600 billion teach you about risk that most investors never learn? Jeffrey Blazek, Co-CIO of Multi-Asset at Neuberger Berman, joins Prashant on VC10X to challenge the assumptions that have quietly…

  30. VC10X Pulse - Is SpaceX Pulling The Market Down?

    · 4:02

    For years, investors have focused on the same AI winners: Nvidia. Microsoft. Amazon. Alphabet. Meta. Now a new question is emerging: Is SpaceX becoming so large that investors are selling other stocks to make room…

  31. VC10X - Why the UK Fails to Produce Trillion-Dollar Companies - Duncan Johnson, CEO, Northern Gritstone

    · 42 min

    Duncan Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Northern Gritstone, joins VC10X to break down why the UK produces world-class science but struggles to turn it into globally significant companies. We dig into the £24 million vs.…

  32. VC10X Pulse - 4 Reasons Fueling The Market Selloff

    · 3:41

    Markets sold off this week, but not because of a single headline. Instead, investors were forced to digest multiple developments at the same time: • A potentially historic SpaceX IPO • Stronger-than-expected…

  33. FamilyOffice10x - What 400+ Annual Manager Meetings Teach You - Dave White, Founder, Wayfinder

    · 44 min

    Dave White is the founder of Wayfinder, a boutique advisory firm serving families and institutions across portfolio construction, manager selection, and governance. Before Wayfinder, he spent nearly twelve years at…

  34. 300 Episodes Special - AI interviews Prashant

    · 45 min

    This is the 300th episode of VC10X — and instead of bringing on a guest, host Prashant Choubey turns the mic on himself. AI generated the questions. Prashant answered them. The result is one of the most honest…

  35. VC10X - Multi-Asset Investing in a New Macro Regime - Paul Flood, Head of Multi-Asset, BNY Investments Newton ($106B+ AUM)

    · 44 min

    The old playbook is broken. Free capital, dormant inflation, and stable geopolitics defined the last decade of investing. That era is over — and the investors who haven't updated their framework are running the wrong…

  36. VC10X Pulse - Micron at $1 Trillion: Bubble or Still Underpriced?

    · 2:42

    Micron just briefly crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark after UBS raised its price target to $1,625. That’s a stunning rerating for a company that, for years, was viewed as a highly cyclical commodity memory…

  37. VC10X - Why Infrastructure Will Win the Fintech Cycle - TX Zhuo, GP, Fika Ventures

    · 34 min

    TX Zhuo is General Partner at Fika Ventures, an early-stage venture firm with over $500 million in AUM backing B2B companies across vertical AI, fintech, commerce enablement, and healthcare in North America. Before…

  38. VC10X Pulse - Google I/O - Is Google the underdog in the AI race?

    · 7:53

    Google I/O may have changed the way investors should look at the AI race. For the last two years, Google has often been framed as the incumbent under threat — especially as ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Anthropic captured…

  39. FamilyOffice10x - From $40 Billion PE CIO to Deploying Family Capital - Jean-Baptiste Wautier, Wautier Family Office

    · 46 min

    Jean-Baptiste Wautier spent nearly thirty years in private equity, including over two decades as Partner and CIO at BC Partners, one of Europe's leading buyout firms, where he helped manage approximately forty billion…

  40. VC10X Pulse - Bond Yields 📈 vs Stocks📈 : Who Bends First?

    · 7:40

    Stock markets are pushing higher, but bond yields are telling a very different story. In this episode of VC10X, we break down the growing tension between rising bond yields and resilient equity markets — and why…

  41. VC10X - How Defy Owns 17% of Their Best Companies Without Following On Every Round

    · 49 min

    Most VCs talk about ownership. Few actually build it. Neil Sequeira, Co-Founder and General Partner at Defy, breaks down the unconventional strategies his firm uses to average 17 percent ownership across their seven…

  42. VC10X Pulse - Anthropic and SpaceX Deal: Who Gets What?

    · 7:25

    Anthropic has signed a major compute agreement with SpaceX — giving it access to massive AI infrastructure capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. On the surface, this looks like a simple compute…

  43. LP10X - How Vintage Deploys $4.5 Billion Across 3 Strategies - Iren Reznikov, Partner, Vintage Investment Partners

    · 56 min

    Most GPs walk into LP meetings ready to prove they have access to the best deals. Iren Reznikov, Partner at Vintage Investment Partners, barely cares. In this episode, Iren breaks down what sophisticated LPs actually…

  44. VC10X Pulse - BigTech Earnings Report - Quick Analysis

    · 5:09

    Big Tech just reported — and for the first time, AI is clearly visible in the numbers. Cloud growth is reaccelerating. Ad performance is improving. Enterprise demand is holding up. But there’s a second story…

  45. VC10X - $13M to $2 Billion in 18 Months - Marlon Nichols on Conviction, Pivots & the Pipe Bet

    · 37 min

    Marlon Nichols is Co-Founder and Managing General Partner at Mac Venture Capital — a seed-stage firm that closed its first fund at $110M with institutional backing from day one and has grown to over $600M in AUM across…

  46. VC10X Pulse - When Design Costs Approach Zero: Implications for SaaS

    · 4:39

    If the cost of design and iteration approaches zero, what happens to software economics? This week, updates from Anthropic highlighted a meaningful shift: AI models are getting better at generating UI components,…

  47. FamilyOffice10x - He invested in Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Anthropic, xAI, Stripe.. - Vishal Verma, Managing Partner, Edgewood Ventures

    · 53 min · Explicit

    Vishal Verma's family office has been operating out of Silicon Valley for over thirty years. His father arrived from India in 1977 with eight dollars in his pocket, worked as a rocket scientist, and eventually became…

  48. VC10X Pulse - Iran-US Talks Fail. Markets Rally. What’s Driving the Disconnect?

    · 3:36

    In this episode of VC10X, we break down one of the most counterintuitive market moves in recent weeks. Despite the failure of the first round of Iran–US talks and rising geopolitical tensions — including increased…

  49. FamilyOffice10x - Family Office Governance, Next Generation Wealth Transfer, and the Culture Gap - Mark Tepsich, UBS

    · 58 min

    Most families worth $2.4 billion still struggle to govern themselves. That's not an opinion — it's what the data says. In this episode, Prashant sits down with Mark Tepsich, Executive Director of Family Office…

  50. VC10X Pulse - How to Position Portfolios in a Fragile Ceasefire Market

    · 4:52

    In this episode, we break down why investors should be cautious about chasing market rallies driven by fragile ceasefire headlines in the Middle East. While headlines suggest de-escalation, continued strikes in…

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