Origins - Inside Venture Capital, Hosted by a GP and an LP

OpenLP from Sapphire Partners

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Minisode: The Speed of Iteration in Venture

12/16/2025 • 8 min

Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent conversation with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner at Founder Collective. They discuss the EQ and self-awareness required to switch from operator to investor, how to separate signal from noise in venture cycles, and how… Play episode

Staying Small Despite Billion-Dollar Backings with Micah Rosenbloom
Minisode: What Early Stage Venture Can Learn from Crypto Traders
Internet Capital Markets with Kyle Samani
Minisode: Can LPs Diversify in an AI-Obsessed World?
Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel
Minisode: Is It 2021 All Over Again?
Fundraising as a Fund of Funds with Alex Edelson
Minisode: Curiosity, Chemistry, and Keeping Relevance Across the Partnersh…
Backing Outliers in Venture with Sunil Dhaliwal & Mike Dauber
Minisode: Are Major Incumbents Finally at Risk in the Age of AI?
Merchant Banks: Venture’s Next Act with Will Manidis
Minisode: Innovation Energy And the Future of Biotech
Building The YC of Biotech with Zach Weinberg
Minisode: How Novel Strategies Become the Venture Industry’s Standard
AI Agents Will Supercharge the Future of VC with Tomasz Tunguz
Minisode: Franchise Funds: Index Ventures & Picking Winners Early
Inside the ServiceTitan IPO with Nina Achadjian
Minisode: Franchise Funds: Is Venture Broken?
Franchise Funds: Is Being a VC Franchise the Ultimate Goal with Thomas Kri…
Revisiting Power Law VC Performance with David Clark
Minisode: Franchise Funds: Grading Performance
Franchise Funds: Metrics To Be Extraordinary with Jessica Archibald
Minisode: Franchise Funds: Why do LPs & Founders Care?
Franchise Funds: Becoming (and Remaining) One with Stephen Bluestein
Minisode: Building Google & Betting Big: Lessons from Wesley Chan
Finding Founders Who Will Change the World with Wesley Chan
Minisode: Seed vs Growth Investing - What Changes and What Stays the Same
Finding Pattern Breakers & Winners from Seed to Growth with Mike Maples an…
Coming Soon to Origins…
Minisode: Jack Altman’s VC Career Arc and the Launch of Asylum Ventures
From VC-backed Founder to Angel to Institutional Investor with Jack Altman
Minisode: What’s the Real Value Add of VCs?
Being Non-Consensus and Right in VC with Jason Shuman & Will Quist
Endowment Investing with University of Chicago’s Joanna Rupp
The Three Body Problem of Venture Capital w/ Frank Rotman (CIO, QED Invest…
Building a venture firm w/ Scott Kupor (a16z)
Power Law VC Performance with David Clark (VenCap)
Q4 Market Predictions w/ Ed Sim (Boldstart) & Seyonne Kang (StepStone)
Navigating difficult markets w/ Adam Valkin, General Catalyst
The family office episode - Nick & Beezer co-host Melissa Lucas, Your OCIO
Deep Dive on Series A - Nick & Beezer co-host Beth Ferreira, Firstmark
LP Market Perspective - Nick & Beezer co-host Atul Rustgi, Accolade Partne…
Investing in AI - Nick & Beezer co-host Dr. Lan Xuezhao
Nick & Beezer co-host David Tisch, Box Group
Nick (Notation) & Beezer (Sapphire) co-host Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred)
Venture market deep dive with Beezer Clarkson
Austin Clements, Slauson & Co.
Sapphire Partners hosts Jaclyn Hester, Foundry Group
Accolade Partners hosts Santiago Santos

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