<![CDATA[nextNYC: Startups, Venture Capital, Made in New York City]]>The nextNYC podcast is the audio feed for a community built around one idea: founders and investors learn more from each other's actual situations than from anyone's keynote.

Every episode is a room we recorded. Founders who just closed a seed round walking through what worked and what didn't. Lawyers and CFOs untangling the cap table and comp mistakes that surface two years later. VCs talking through the parts of the job nobody puts on a panel. How I Raised My Seed, Checkwriters, the equity and finance webinars — if it happened in a nextNYC room, it ends up here.

No pat on the back for deciding to start something. Just the conversations people in the New York startup ecosystem are actually having when the stage lights are off.

Hosted by Charlie O'Donnell, longtime NYC investor and author of Founder Unfriendly.

]]>www.next.nycRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:24:15 GMTFri, 10 Jul 2026 16:49:08 GMT60Charlie O'Donnell<p>The nextNYC podcast is the audio feed for a community built around one idea: founders and investors learn more from each other's actual situations than from anyone's keynote.</p><p>Every episode is a room we recorded. Founders who just closed a seed round walking through what worked and what didn't. Lawyers and CFOs untangling the cap table and comp mistakes that surface two years later. VCs talking through the parts of the job nobody puts on a panel. How I Raised My Seed, Checkwriters, the equity and finance webinars — if it happened in a nextNYC room, it ends up here.</p><p></p><p>No pat on the back for deciding to start something. Just the conversations people in the New York startup ecosystem are actually having when the stage lights are off.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by Charlie O'Donnell, longtime NYC investor and author of <i>Founder Unfriendly</i>.</p>episodicCharlie O'Donnellcharlie@brooklynbridgeventures.comno<![CDATA[Datadog's Alexis Lê-Quôc: What Actually Happened]]>Alexis Lê-Quôc, co-founder and CTO of Datadog, on building one of New York's biggest tech companies before the city was ready for it.

He and Olivier Pomel had worked together since 1999 and decided to start something before they knew what. The problem they picked was their own: developers and sysadmins without the right tools, pointing fingers at each other. Then came two years of signups who never came back, pitch meetings where investors asked why they weren't in ad tech or mobile, and a wait until December 2014, about four and a half years in, before it felt like there might be something there.

Also: why so many of Datadog's earliest employees are still there, why you can't design a culture, and why "action tends to be the best antidote to fear."

Hosted by Charlie O'Donnell, author of Founder Unfriendly. Recorded as part of the Founder Unfriendly Live AMA series.

]]>https://www.next.nyc/acfd86d0-9862-4947-9c27-e2de8e7dc356Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:20:00 GMT<p>Alexis Lê-Quôc, co-founder and CTO of Datadog, on building one of New York's biggest tech companies before the city was ready for it.</p><p>He and Olivier Pomel had worked together since 1999 and decided to start something before they knew what. The problem they picked was their own: developers and sysadmins without the right tools, pointing fingers at each other. Then came two years of signups who never came back, pitch meetings where investors asked why they weren't in ad tech or mobile, and a wait until December 2014, about four and a half years in, before it felt like there might be something there.</p><p>Also: why so many of Datadog's earliest employees are still there, why you can't design a culture, and why "action tends to be the best antidote to fear."</p><p>Hosted by Charlie O'Donnell, author of <i>Founder Unfriendly</i>. Recorded as part of the Founder Unfriendly Live AMA series.</p>no00:29:0711Datadog's Alexis Lê-Quôc: What Actually Happenedfull<![CDATA[The Best Tech & Startup Conversations - Made in New York City]]>A preview of the best moments from nextNYC events and conversations — founders and investors dropping the pitch and telling the truth about raising money, building, and the parts nobody puts on a slide. Interviews, live AMAs, and teardowns -- all coming soon to our new podcast. Like and subscribe!

]]>https://www.next.nyc/9285a185-f495-4852-b431-1b3c11263ea4Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:04:45 GMT<p>A preview of the best moments from nextNYC events and conversations — founders and investors dropping the pitch and telling the truth about raising money, building, and the parts nobody puts on a slide. Interviews, live AMAs, and teardowns -- all coming soon to our new podcast. Like and subscribe!</p>no00:02:15The Best Tech & Startup Conversations - Made in New York Citytrailer