Flyover Labs Podcast: Recent Episodes

Dave Kruse

A podcast on business and innovation in the Midwest and beyond.

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Part of our Big Ideas series, this is a great interview with Michael Vickerman, Program And Policy Director At RENEW Wisconsin

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Part of our Flyover Big Ideas series, this is a great interview with the Owner of Madison Solar Consulting, Niels Wolter.

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Part of our Flyover Block series, this is a great interview with the CEO of Synapse AI, Dan Gailey.

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Part of our Big Idea series, this is an excellent in-person interview with Tim Bartholow, VP and Chief Medical Officer at WEA Trust.

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Part of our Big Idea series, this is a great interview with Tim Sylvester, Founder and CEO at Integrated Roadways.

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Part of our Big Idea series, this interview is with Karla Thennes, Executive Director of Porchlight.

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Part of our Flyover Block series, this is an excellent podcast with the co-Founder and CEO of SteamChain.io, Mike Cromheecke.

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Part of our Flyover Block series, a great podcast with the CEO and Founder of CapchainX, Beryl Li.

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Part of our new Flyover Block series, this is an excellent interview with Joey Garcia, Blockchain Financial Services Partner at the law firm ISOLAS.

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Part of our Big Idea series, this is an excellent interview with Mark Bakken, talking about the big idea of funding 10,000 high growth startups. Mark is the Founder and Managing Director of HealthX Ventures.

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Part of our new Flyover Block series, this is a great interview with Vignesh Sundaresan, Lead and Architect at Lendroid.

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An excellent interview with Busy Burr, Vice President and Head of Health Care Trend and Innovation at Humana, and Founding Partner of Humana Health Ventures.

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Part of our new Flyover Block series, this is an excellent interview with the Founder of MyEtherWallet, Taylor Monahan.

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A great podcast with Spencer Lazar, Partner at General Catalyst Partners.

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An excellent podcast with the Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS, Melinda Richter.

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An excellent in-person interview with John Neis, Executive Managing Director at Venture Investors.

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An great in-person podcast with the CEO of Isomark, Joe Kremer.

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A great interview with William Mougayar, Author of The Business Blockchain.

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An excellent interview with John Dunne, faculty member at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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An excellent podcast with the Founder of Presearch, Colin Pape.

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An excellent interview with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner at Freestyle Capital.

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A great interview with Randy Villahermosa, Executive Director of Innovation at The Aerospace Corporation.

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A great interview with the Head of Innovation Management - Asia at RGA, Georgio Mosis.

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An excellent interview with Brian Hirsch, Founder and Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners.

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A great interview about autonomous vehicles in Wisconsin, with Peter Rafferty, Rob Fischer and Eric Nutt.

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An excellent in-person interview with the CEO of Understory, Alex Kubicek.

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A great podcast with Christian Noske, Partner at BMW i Ventures.

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An excellent interview with Isaiah Kacyvenski, co-Founder and Managing Director of Sports Innovation Lab. Oh, and he also played pro football.

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An excellent podcast with Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner at Urban.Us.

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This is a great podcast with Wende Hutton, General Partner at Caanan Partners.

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An excellent interview with Hans Tung, Managing Partner at GGV Capital.

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An excellent interview with the Founder of CrowdFlower, Lukas Biewald.

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I had the chance to talk with Cyan Banister, Partner at Founders Fund.

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A great interview with Vince Ball, Vice President of Innovation at Nytec.

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In this episode I had the chance to talk with Morgan Housel, Partner at Collaborative Fund.

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In this podcast, I had the chance to talk with the CEO and co-Founder of DataFox, Bastiaan Janmaat.

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A wonderful in-person interview with Rimas Buinevicius, EVP and Principal at M Barc Investment Group.

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A great interview with Ellie Wheeler, Partner at Greycroft Partners.

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An excellent in-person interview with the CEO and Founder of Wellbe, James Dias.

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A great interview with the Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, Adam Coates.

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In this episode I had the chance to talk with Sylvain Kalache, co-Founder of Holberton School.

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A wonderful in-person interview with the Founder and Managing Partner at HealthX Ventures, Mark Bakken.

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An excellent interview with Dennis Crowley, co-Founder and Executive Chair at Foursquare.

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A great interview with Arvind Gupta, General Partner at SOSV and Founder of IndieBio.

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An excellent interview with Alan Patricof, Managing Director at Greycroft Partners.

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I had the opportunity to talk with Chris Douvos, Managing Director of Venture Investment Associates.

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This is the second time I've had the pleasure of interviewing Nolan Bushnell. Currently he's working on a fascinating VR project, as the co-Founder and Chairman of Modal VR.

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This is a great interview with Niko Skievaski, co-Founder and President of Redox, a modern API for Healthcare located right here in Madison.

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An excellent interview with Andrea Wong, Head of Programming at World Economic Forum USA.

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A great podcast with Tim Woods, Founding Partner of POCO Labs and General Manager of Autonomous Vehicle Alliance.

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In this podcast I was fortunate to talk with Eric Shamlin, Managing Director and Executive Producer at Secret Location.

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In our 100th episode I have the pleasure of talking with the Founder & CEO of Greenlight, and former NFL running back, Clifton Dawson.

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A great interview with Andy Weissman, Partner at Union Square Ventures.

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An excellent in-person interview with fellow Madisonian Gary Weis. Gary is the CEO and CTO of Sonic Foundry.

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In this podcast I had the pleasure of talking with the Founder and CEO of AltspaceVR, Eric Romo.

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In this episode I had the opportunity to talk with the CEO and co-Founder of nuTonomy, Karl Iagnemma.

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This is a great podcast with the Managing Director of Ubimax, Percy Stocker.

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I talked with Chris Nundy about his role as Innovation Manager at BBC.

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In this podcast, Christian Dieckmann and I talk about his role as VP of Strategic Growth at Cedar Fair.

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A great interview with Brian Hemesath, Managing Director at Global Insurance Accelerator.

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This is a great chat with Amos Winter, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

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This is a great interview with the co-Founder and CEO of uBiome, Jessica Richman.

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In this podcast I had the chance to talk with Anibal Ollero, Full Professor at the University of Seville. Anibal is also the Head of the GRVC, Robotics, Vision and Control Group.

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This is an interesting podcast with Deputy Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Darwin Caldwell. He's also Director of the Dept. of Advanced Robotics at IIT.

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In this podcast, I talk with David Wilson, Chief Innovation Officer at Bechtel.

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I was fortunate enough to do an in-person interview with fellow Madisonian, Todd Hoffmaster, the co-Founder and CEO of AkitaBox.

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This is a great interview with the co-Founder of High Fidelity, Philip Rosedale. He also led the creation of Second Life.

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I had a great time talking with Tobin Ellis, principal of BarMagic of Las Vegas.

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In this episode, I talk with Joscha Bach, Research Scientist at the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and the MIT Media Lab.

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In this podcast I had the opportunity to interview the Founder and CEO of Kinema Systems, Sachin Chitta.

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I was lucky enough to interview Abhik Banerjee, Staff Data Scientist at Kohl's Department store. We talk about bringing machine learning and data mining into retail.

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In this podcast I had the chance to talk with Julie Kientz, Associate Professor in Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of Washington.

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This podcast is a great discussion with Jeffrey Graham, VP of Market Insight and Analytics at Twitter.

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This is a great interview with Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor and Head of the Bioelectronics Group at MIT.

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This podcast is a great interview with the Founder and CEO of Autonomous Solutions, Inc., Mel Torrie.

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In this episode I have the chance to talk with Mitchell Weiss, CTO of Seegrid, which develops and sells robot that navigate manufacturing and distribution centers.

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In this podcast I had the opportunity to talk with Shahin Farshchi, Partner at Lux Capital.

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In this great interview with Adam Kell, we talk about b2b robotics, AI and his role as Investment Partner at Comet Labs.

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In this episode I talk with the Director of Machine Intelligence at TripAdvisor, Jeff Palmucci.

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I had a great interview with Will Allen, an HP Fellow and VP at HP Labs.

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In this podcast I talk with David Fogel, President of Natural Selection, a company that applies sophisticated, nature-inspired, computational intelligence algorithms for predictive analytics and forecasting.

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I had the opportunity to talk robotics with Hanna Kurniawati, Research Scientist at the University of Queensland.

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I had the opportunity to talk with Jim Fish, Chief Innovation Officer at Bosch, which sells and manufactures a variety of products from power tools to gasoline systems to battery systems.

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A great interview with Linden Tibbets, CEO of IFTTT, an online service that connects a huge variety of apps, services and smart devices.

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In this interview I talk with Louise Poubel, Software Engineer at Open Source Robotics Foundation, about her exciting international background and her projects at OSRF.

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JD Stier and I go way back. In this podcast I get to talk with him about the many things he has done with his life, including a stint in prison, working in the white house, and becoming and expert on leading campaigns to end crises around the world.

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A great interview with Bo Morgan, Technology Lead at DreamWorks Animation, where we talk about bringing emotional intelligence to machines.

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In this podcast I interview Shivani Siroya, CEO and Founder of Tala (formerly InVenture), a mobile tech company that provides credit scoring and accounting tools for emerging markets.

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I had the chance to interview Naveen Jain, founder of many cool companies, including Moon Express. Anyone want to go to the moon?

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A great podcast with Cory Kidd, the Founder and CEO of Catalia Health, creator of a personal healthcare companion robot.

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I had a great discussion with Julie Shah about her role at MIT as Assistant Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics. We also talked about her leadership role in the Interactive Robotics Group.

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A great podcast with Group Chief Strategy and Innovation Offer at Sime Darby, Hari Nair.

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This week I interviewed Celeste Baranski. She's VP of Engineering at Numenta, a company that develops machine intelligence technology.

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An excellent podcast with Hao Li, CEO and co-Founder of Pinscreen, and Computer Science Professor at University of Southern California.

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A great podcast with Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University, Tak-Sing Wong.

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An excellent podcast with John Michel, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer and President at MV Global.

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An excellent podcast with Jody Holtzman, Senior Vice President of Market Innovation at AARP.

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A great podcast with the CEO of Savioke, Steve Cousins.

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An excellent podcast with Katherine Manuel, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Thomson Reuters.

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A great podcast with the President and CEO of Granular, Sid Gorham.

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An excellent podcast with Ryan Pulliam, co-Founder and CMO of Specular Theory.

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An excellent podcast with Timo Mappes, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Carl Zeiss Vision.

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An excellent interview with the Director of Visual Trends at Getty Images, Pam Grossman.

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An excellent podcast with Fred Leichter, Founding Director of the Claremont Center of the Collaborative Creativity Center.

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An excellent podcast with Sr VP and Chief Innovation Officer of Ingredion, Tony DeLio.

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A great podcast with Matthew Putman, the Founder and CEO of Nanotronics.

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An excellent podcast with the Head of Microsoft Research, Peter Lee.

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An excellent podcast with Trish Barbato, the Senior VP of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Revera.

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A great podcast with the Sr VP of Digital Transformation at Mahindra, Jaspreet Bindra.

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An excellent podcast with RG Conlee, Chief Innovation Officer at Xerox.

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A great podcast with Scott Jens, CEO of RevolutionEHR and Rev360.

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A great podcast with the co-Founder of Blockstack Labs, Ryan Shea.

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An excellent podcast with Max Lynch, co-Founder and CEO of Ionic, and fellow Madisonian.

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An excellent podcast with NYU Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Julian Togelius.

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An excellent podcast with Peter Semmelhack, the Founder, President, and CEO of Bug Labs.

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A great podcast with Christine Lemke, the co-Founder and President of Evidation Health.

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An excellent interview with the CTO of The Climate Corporation, Mark Young.

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A great podcast with Paul Asel, Managing Partner at Nokia Growth Partners.

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An excellent podcast with Kevin Kelly, author of the new book "The Inevitable", and founding executive editor of Wired magazine.

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An excellent podcast with the CEO of 7Summits, Paul Stillmank.

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An excellent podcast with Nolan Bushnell, Founder Chairman at Snap Institute and Founder of Atari.

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A great podcast with Jake Heller, the CEO of Casetext.

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An excellent podcast with the President/CEO/Founder-Owner of Authenticom, Steve Cottrell.

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A great interview with the President and CEO of Allen Edmonds, Paul Grangaard.

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A great podcast with Mike LaVigne, co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Clue, a period tracking and fertility app.

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A great podcast with fellow Madisonian Mark Gehring, co-founder of HealthMyne and Propeller Health.

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A great podcast with the Chief Medical Officer at Figure1.

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A great podcast with the Senior Director of Tech Outreach at Indiegogo.

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A great podcast with the Co-Founder and COO of Mattermark.

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A great podcast with Founder and CEO of Forward Health Group, Michael Barbouche.

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A great podcast with Ryan, Founder and CEO at CircleUp.

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A great podcast with Joel Fields about the changing role of CFO.

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An excellent podcast with the co-founder of Rainforest.

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A great podcast with UW Professor Emeritus and Wisconsin business legend, Rock Mackie.

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An excellent podcast with the growth hacking extraordinaire, Sean Ellis.

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A great podcast with the CFO of Milwaukee Tool.

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A great podcast on the intersection of music and technology.

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Great podcast with Genevieve talking about Sittercity.com and why opera singers are great entrepreneurs.

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An interview all about growth in the media industry.

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A great interview with venture capitalist David Hornik, the first investor in Splunk.

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A great interview with Rand Fishkin.

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Here's an interview on all things business intelligence.

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An interview with the founder of one of the leading industrial product design firms in the world.

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Great interview on Troy's background and gener8tor.

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A great interview with one of the leaders of the medical cannabis industry.

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An interesting interview with Mark Cook on innovation at universities and how to commercialize those technologies.

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A great interview on Liz's background, location intelligence, internet of things and toys.

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In this podcast Steve talks about the start of Midwest Prototyping, its growth and the future of 3d printing and prototyping.

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An awesome interview on the future of the insurance industry.