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Brydge Club by Ruffin Mitchener

Ruffin Mitchener

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 69

Brydge Club is the must-watch show for anyone inspired by the founders and investors building the next generation of iconic companies. Hosted by Ruffin Mitchener — Deloitte alum, UCLA MBA, and startup operator and investor — Brydge Club brings a rare insider perspective to these conversations. Each episode, Ruffin sits down with the women building their empires — getting the unfiltered stories behind the wins, the pivots, and the hard lessons of building and backing world-class companies. Subscribe to learn from the most inspiring female founders and women in venture!

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How One Honest LinkedIn Post Became Old Girls Club, a $500K+ ARR Community for Women

Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 48:32

Mallory Contois is the founder of Old Girls Club (OGC), a curated Slack community of more than 3,300 ambitious women, and she now builds community at Lovable. Her career has taken her from starting the product operations team at Pinterest, to LinkedIn, to serving as COO of a Series A gaming startup, to building community from the ground up at Mercury, Maven, and Lovable. She also recently launched her own talk show, Good Work.

In this episode, Mallory talks about the hardest stretch of her time as a Series A COO. From the outside she was succeeding. Inside, she felt panicked and isolated. She explains how one honest LinkedIn post led to a free Slack group, and how that group grew into OGC. She describes why she designs virtual community the way she would host a dinner party, how building for introverts changes the experience, and why selling is banned everywhere except one dedicated channel. She also shares why she chose slow, sustainable growth over scale, why referral rate is the metric she trusts most, and the bold email that got her hired as Mercury’s head of community even though her resume didn’t fit the role.

Mallory also explains how community as a product differs from community as a distribution strategy. She covers how to show the ROI of community without tying it to a sales number, and how she structures her days around a full-time role while running a portfolio of side projects. She closes with her advice for building a career in the age of AI, why being a “personality hire” is a strength, and what she hopes the next generation of women takes away: just keep moving.

I hope you enjoy!

More on Host Ruffin Mitchener:

https://beacons.ai/ruffin

About Brydge Club:

Brydge Club, hosted by Ruffin Mitchener, aims to bridge the $1.7 trillion financing gap for female founders. Every Wednesday, the show features in-depth interviews with industry leaders and innovators, educating and empowering women in venture capital and entrepreneurship. Through insightful discussions, Brydge Club seeks to inspire listeners to break barriers and achieve success in the business world.

More on Host Ruffin Mitchener:

https://beacons.ai/ruffin

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Why a $1B VC Fund Needs a $100B Exit | Elizabeth McCluskey, TruStage Ventures

Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 49:10

Elizabeth McCluskey invests in fintech for a living as Managing Director of the TruStage Ventures Discovery Fund, and backs early-stage founders with her own money as an angel investor. In this episode, she breaks down how venture capital and angel investing actually work, from SPVs and cap tables to the fund math that decides which companies a VC can back, and why a “no” from a mega fund often has nothing to do with your business.

Elizabeth shares her path from investment banking at UBS to wealth management, business school and impact investing, and why, after a decade of pitching deals to investment committees, she decided to become an investment committee of one. She explains what she looks for in a founder’s inner circle, why she won’t invest in a 6 out of 10 founder, the partnership slide red flag that ends a deal for her, and how to read between the lines when a VC says “too early.” Plus, the story of how a single LinkedIn post about a decaf coffee brand turned into an oversubscribed Brydge Club deal.

Connect with Elizabeth McCluskey:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethcmccluskey

TruStage Ventures: https://www.trustage.com/

More on Host Ruffin Mitchener:

https://beacons.ai/ruffin

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From $3.5K to $21K a Month After One Video: How Natalie Barbu Saved Rella

Monday, October 5, 2026 • Duration 53:50

Natalie Barbu is the Co-Founder of Rella, the social media management platform that helps brands and social teams plan, approve, and publish content in one place. Natalie started her YouTube channel in 2011 at just 15 years old, studied industrial engineering at NC State, and quit her consulting job at Accenture after nine months to create full time. She has since earned over $1 million as a content creator and raised a $1 million pre-seed round for Rella from investors including Charge Ventures and Liquid 2 Ventures.

In this episode, Natalie breaks down how creators actually make money, why a unique point of view matters more than follower count, and why creators with around 20K followers convert best for Rella as a brand. She gets candid about pitching over 200 VCs, waiting seven months for her first check, and watching the first version of Rella top out at roughly $5,000 a month. Natalie shares how the team scrapped the product, rebuilt it for businesses in two months, and still ended up telling investors they were shutting down with $25,000 left in the bank. Days later, a single skit took monthly revenue from $3,500 to $21,000 and put Rella on the path to profitability. She also covers founder-led content, why content is revenue, and her goal of reaching $50 million in revenue.

I hope you enjoy!

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More on Host Ruffin Mitchener:

https://beacons.ai/ruffin

How Alinea Invest went from a college business plan to raising $10 Million

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 33:05

Eve Halimi and her co-founder Anam wrote a 100-page business plan on Saturdays while working full-time on Wall Street. Today, Alinea Invest, the AI-powered investing app they built, is used by roughly 1% of the U.S. population. In between: a Y Combinator acceptance won on founder-market fit alone, two years of iteration before anything worked, a $10 million Series A led by Play Ventures, and a $20 million cohort-financing facility that fuels their growth without touching equity.

In this episode, Eve breaks down the onboarding rewrite that took Alinea from near-zero to $80K in a single month, and the founder-led TikTok strategy that turned one 60-second story video into 50,000 downloads in a day. She gets specific on the mechanics of debt financing for consumer apps, why they waited far too long to charge for the product, how "Gen Z messaging" ended up converting 40-year-old construction workers, and what an AI investing companion that "thinks and acts for you" actually looks like.

I hope you enjoy!

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