Very True by Verissimo

Alex

Brought to you by Verissimo Ventures, The Very True Podcast features candid startup insights and conversations with early-stage founders, operators, and investors shaping the future of tech. From behind-the-scenes startup stories to hard-earned lessons on fundraising, scaling, and staying resilient, each episode offers a window into what it really takes to build something bold.

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Very True by Verissimo

Episodes (35)

Jul 29th Everyone's Wrong About AI Moats — Lessons from Inside Early Google
Jul 16th When Pattern Recognition is a Liability - How VC is updating its priors for AI and which ones still hold
Jul 2nd AI Companies Are Trying to Run Uber's Playbook but Missing a Critical Ingredient

Very True by Verissimo

Jul 29, 2026
54 minutes
50 MB

In this episode of Very True, Alex reconnects with his friend of fifteen years, Michael Stoppelman, recorded 7,000 miles apart — Alex in Israel, Michael in the Bay Area. Michael's path runs from a Purdue computer science and biology double-major, through Google's earliest, wildest pre-IPO days building the click-fraud detection systems that got him promoted from post-sales support into engineering, to becoming the SVP of Engineering who joined his brother Jeremy at Yelp and helped scale it into a public company. Today Michael is a Venture Partner at Verissimo Ventures, an active angel investor across hundreds of companies, and the builder of...

Very True by Verissimo

Everyone's Wrong About AI Moats — Lessons from Inside Early Google

Alex

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