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Trailblazers

Trailblazers

By: Erica Wenger
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Trailblazers is your favorite tech + VC podcast, hosted by Erica Wenger, GP at Park Rangers Capital. Each week, Erica sits down with founders, operators, and investors who’ve found conventional success in unconventional ways.

From billion-dollar exits to scrappy early pivots, Trailblazers brings you unfiltered stories of how the next generation of companies are really built. Guests share the hardest moments, the surprising wins, and the lessons that don’t make it onto LinkedIn.

This podcast is presented by Brex. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Episodes
  • Solo Episode: 10 Pieces of Advice for Ambitious Twenty-Somethings!
    Jan 30 2026

    Welcome back to Trailblazers by Park Rangers Capital!


    In this week’s solo episode, host Erica Wenger breaks down 10 pieces of advice for ambitious twenty somethings!

    Drawing from her personal experiences in the business world, Erica covers topics like building a strong personal brand, making smart career choices, and other key strategies for growth and success.


    Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up, these insights will help you approach your professional journey with confidence and clarity.


    ✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

    Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod



    This episode is supported by Rocketreach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

    RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers

    Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers

    Quo (formerly OpenPhone): Quo.com/trailblazers

    Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger



    Follow Us!

    @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

    Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger

    🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

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    28 mins
  • Shomik Ghosh: Newest Partner at Sierra Ventures!
    Jan 27 2026

    Shomik is a longtime venture investor who most recently was a partner at boldstart ventures, an inception-focused fund backing technical founders at day zero. While at boldstart, he supported companies like Cloudquery, Kiln AI, and Ask-Y, and played a role in many other early investments.

    Before boldstart, Shomik was an investor at Top Tier Capital, where he focused on growth-stage companies including CircleCI, Anaplan, Remitly, Shape Security, and Snyk. His path into venture was anything but traditional, with early experience spanning tech M&A, venture debt, a failed startup, and fixed income sales and trading.

    Originally from New Jersey and a Pittsburgh alum, Shomik is an avid hiker, an aspiring guitarist—progress very much still in flight—and the proud dad of a one-and-a-half-year-old son who now takes up all of his spare time.


    ✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

    Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod


    This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

    RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers

    Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers

    Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers

    Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger



    Follow Us!

    Shomik Ghosh: @shomikghosh21


    @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

    Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger

    🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Haseeb Qureshi: Managing Partner at Dragonfly
    Jan 20 2026

    This week we chat with Haseeb Qureshi!

    Haseeb is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a multibillion-dollar leading crypto VC firm, and is a longtime technology-focused crypto investor.

    He was previously a General Partner at Metastable Capital (now acquired by Dragonfly). Earlier in his career, Haseeb founded a stablecoin startup, worked as a blockchain engineer at Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), and served as an anti-fraud engineer at Airbnb. Before entering tech, he was among the top heads-up no-limit Hold’em poker players in the world, becoming a sponsored professional and self-made millionaire by age 19. He later authored a best-selling poker book, donated the bulk of his poker earnings—about half a million dollars—to charity, and pursued an earn-to-give path that led him into software engineering and eventually blockchain.

    Haseeb has taught a Web3 Entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley and is widely followed for his technical expertise in crypto. Today, he continues to write, invest, and contribute to the ecosystem while committing a third of his pre-tax income to charitable causes.


    ✨ This episode is presented by Brex.

    Brex: brex.com/trailblazerspod


    This episode is supported by RocketReach, Gusto, OpenPhone & Athena.

    RocketReach: rocketreach.co/trailblazers

    Gusto: gusto.com/trailblazers

    Quo: Quo.com/trailblazers

    Athena: athenago.me/Erica-Wenger



    Follow Us!

    Haseeb Qureshi: @hosseeb


    @thetrailblazerspod: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

    Erica Wenger: @erica_wenger

    🐘 Learn more about Park Rangers Capital!



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    1 hr and 8 mins
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