Ep 85 - The New Capitalism and What It Means for Founders Today, With Elizabeth MacBride and Seth Levine

This episode of Invisible Ink features a dynamic conversation between host Shubha K. Chakravarthy and guests Elizabeth MacBride, a long-time financial journalist, and Seth Levine, a seasoned venture capitalist and co-founder of Foundry.

In this episode, Elizabeth and Seth discuss the shift in the American economy toward dynamic capitalism and offer strategic advice to founders navigating this new landscape.

Check out this wide-ranging conversation for their key insights on:

1. Why this moment in fundraising feels broken and why it is actually something else entirely
2. The subtle signal investors are responding to now that most founders are not even naming
3. How capital concentration quietly reshapes who gets funded and who never gets a second look
4. Why ownership has become more than a compensation issue and what it reveals about long-term company strength
5. What happens when founders keep playing by yesterday’s rules and why the game has already shifted
6. The structural split inside venture capital that explains so many confusing investor reactions
7. Why location has re-entered the funding conversation and how geography changes access in ways founders underestimate
8. The real bottleneck facing AI and deep tech companies and why it has nothing to do with ideas
9. Where truly patient capital is starting to show up and why most founders are still looking in the wrong places
10. Why waiting for policy clarity is a losing strategy and what consistently outpaces regulation
11. The overlooked way strong founders reduce risk before they ever raise a dollar
12. Why persistence alone is not enough and when refusing to pivot becomes the real failure
13. What credibility actually looks like in an AI-saturated world and why it cannot be automated
14. The one mental shift that determines whether founders navigate this transition or get stuck in it

and much more!