Delta(Δ) X Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ellen Xu
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Three graduating high school seniors (who have each received full-rides to college) reveal their regrets, lessons learned, and defining moments that made their last 4 years memorable.
Have you ever wondered how differently things would be looking back? Aaryan, Kyler, and Sneha have recently graduated high school and are heading off to their respective colleges next fall on full-ride scholarships. They are the founders of Unitopia, Spark Teen, and Encode Justice, respectively -- all having grown incredible initiatives and built lifelong experiences in their high school years.
Join the conversation to hear stories about life moments, the bus ticket hypothesis, and figuring out what you want to do:
- Obsessing over projects
- Defining moments - what mattered looking back? What didn’t?
- Going out of your bubble and networking meaningfully
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Guests
Aaryan Shah
Founder @ Unitopia
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaryan-shah-44b19117b/
Kyler Wang
Founder @ Sparkteen [@sparkteen_]
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyler-wang/
Sneha Revanur
Founder @ Encode Justice [@encodejustice]
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneharevanur/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/sneharevanur
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Unitopia: https://www.unitopia.foundation/
Sparkteen: https://www.sparkteen.org/
Encode Justice: https://encodejustice.org/
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Join us around the campfire: talking with teens who have coded some incredible (and popular!) open-source projects, with hundreds or thousands of stars on Github ⭐
Aiden, Ishan, and Pranav are 3 amazing high schoolers programmers and hackers who built Million, Devzat, and Kobra, respectively. Each has a unique story about how they got started and their journey — but they all share a common theme of hacking, building, and having fun in the process.
Listen in to hear stories about using iframes to bypass school Wifi, meeting Jerry from Ben & Jerry’s, GPT-2 on Trump speeches, search engine wars, and more!
- Why open source?
- Fun first projects
- Hacking ft. coolmathgames
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Guests
Aiden Bai
Creator of Million
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidenbai/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/aidenybai
Ishan Goel
Creator of Devzat
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/quackduck/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/usrbinishan
Pranav Teegavarapu
Co-creator of Kobra
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavnt/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/_pranavnt
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Resources
Devzat: https://github.com/quackduck/devzat
Kobra: https://github.com/kobra-dev/Kobra
Million: https://github.com/aidenybai/million
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Aryan Sharma (@aryxnsharma) on leveraging Web3, building in public, and a page from the book of game theory—the signal behind the layers of complexity and hype.
Aryan Sharma is a 17-year-old builder and hacker in Web3. He’s also previously built two small startups in the education and hyper-local jobs space, and posts his thoughts on Twitter to over 10K followers.
“Many people have been thinking about Web3 as an isolated market... but the behavior has been existing for years. That’s a fundamental thing about the market. You can’t create a new behavior, you have to ride on waves of behavior in the market. And that form of serving the behavior has been changing.” ~Aryan Sharma
In this episode, we talk:
- Distribution is key - and how you can leverage it
- Philosophies driving Web3
- What's up with Schelling points, tokenization, decentralization, etc?
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Guest
Aryan Sharma
Hacker @ Layer3xyz [@layer3xyz]
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-sharma-2628aba2/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/aryxnsharma
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Host
Ellen Xu
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3 years. $3-8. 100% biodegradable. Ziyaan created For the Menstruator from a school project, following a transformative life experience as a teenager in Kenya. They’ve changed lives for 13,500+ girls.
“Over 500 million menstruators don’t have access, in Kenya 65%, in Africa an average of 1 in 10 girls don’t have access. These numbers are huge and no one is talking about this.”
After a near-death experience when he was 15, Ziyaan had a wake up call. When he saw a documentary about menstruators not having access to sanitary products, he started off with a local effort with helping 22 girls in Tanzania. This grew into a grassroots movement and organization in For the Menstruator. For his contributions, Ziyaan has been awarded the Princess Diana Award, Global Teen Leader, and more.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Effective altruism - how to actually make a difference
- Empowerment vs solution
- The “Why” and “How” of social impact
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Guest
Ziyaan Virji
CEO at For the Menstruator
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziyaanvirji/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/virjiziyaan
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Okezue Bell is a 16-year-old developing biocompatible human and brain-computer interfaces. His first research experience was culturing materials at home; since then, he has jump started his research to work on neuromedical engineering at Harvard MS/Mass Gen Hospital, machine learning at Microsoft and MIT Media Lab, and computational genetics and genomics at Stanford School of Medicine.
The key was learning how to engineer opportunities and open doors for unique life experiences.
“Engineering luck by putting yourself out there in so many different spaces.”
In this episode, we talk:
- How to open doors to opportunities (even when they explicitly say “No” on their website 😶)
- Research with top institutions
- Neurorobotics and Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)
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Guest
Okezue Bell
Research @ Stanford, Harvard, MIT Media Lab, and Microsoft
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/okezuebell
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/okezuebell
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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If only learning science was like playing Minecraft or being inside The Magic School Bus… 🤔 This may soon be a reality — rethinking education from first-principles using VR and the metaverse.
Aditya Vishwanath is the founder and CEO of Inspirit, an immersive virtual reality education company. He is also currently pursuing a PhD at the Stanford Graduate School of Education as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
“I think the metaverse is an opportunity to rethink from first principles how we can build a safe and democratized space of creativity.”
In this episode, we talk:
- Virtual reality / Human-computer interactions
- Science education
- Future of metaverse
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Guest
Aditya Vishwanath
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityavishwanath/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/Adi_Vish
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Inspirit VR: https://inspiritvr.com/
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“There’s a place in tech for everyone.” Tyler Menezes, Executive Director of CodeDay, is changing the narrative of CS education -- simply by getting students excited to learn and create.
Tyler describes his spark with building cool things using tech after stumbling across a programming book for slot machines. Since then, Tyler has been helping thousands of other students find that moment -- “seeing your ideas come to life”.
After dropping out of university to found a tech startup in Silicon Valley and going through the startup accelerator Y Combinator, Tyler joined CodeDay, a nonprofit providing opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech. They have helped nearly 60,000 students in 50 cities around the world to create their own projects in tech.
In this episode, we talk:
- Tech education
- Learning on one’s own terms
- Creative thinking + Tyler’s own favorite projects
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Guest
Tyler Menezes
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermenezes/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/tylermenezes
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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CodeDay Website: https://www.codeday.org/
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Nikin discovered his love for electronics at 9, and became the youngest research assistant at India’s DoD. He discusses his journey in accelerated learning pathways and founding a medtech startup.
“Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help or to ask for opportunities. Very few opportunities land in your lap… you have to hustle and create the opportunity.”
From piloting projects on anti-train collision and smart homes starting from when he was 9 to attending Northeastern on a full ride scholarship when he was 16, Nikin Tharan describes how he paved his journey through curiosity and a passion for reading/learning.
In this episode, we talk:
- Accelerated learning
- Entrepreneurship
- Social impact
For anyone interested in generating social impact, this podcast episode provides actionable insights, lessons, and mindsets for future founders and technologists.
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Guest
Nikin Tharan
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntharan/
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Ellen Xu
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Harvard CS and English undergraduate student, Catherine Yeo, talks about her journey founding an AI ethics organization with tens of thousands of article views and discovering her interests through her love of writing.
Besides founding her organization Fair Bytes, Catherine is also lead venture partner at Contrary Capital and has previously worked at Disney’s StudioLab, Dover, IBM Research, and Apple in AI research and software engineering roles.
“I want to help others really look at AI from both technical and ethical perspectives… and also consider who they are also designing this algorithm for and how they can maximize the help for them.” - Catherine
In this episode, we talk:
- AI ethics
- Computer science + English
- Education and impact
For anyone interested in developing tech solutions to impactful problems, this podcast episode provides insight into important implications and how we can work together as a society to de-bias our algorithms.
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Guest
Catherine Yeo
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-yeo/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/catherinehyeo
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Fairbytes: https://fairbytes.org
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Nicolas is creating the next reality for online learning using VR - the intersection of accessible education and movement towards the metaverse.
After realizing the difficulties and lack of immersiveness of online learning, Nicolas took a gap year from his studies at Cornell as an Applied Mathematics major to found a VR company, combining technology with his passion for educational accessibility. They have now taught over 10,000 students and are currently the 3rd largest VR events producer.
But education isn’t the only application for VR. 3D interactions in a virtual setting form the foundations of the “metaverse”.
“A new reality but a digital life, just like you would do things in real life in a new location and meet people, but in a digital sense and represented as a 3D avatar.”
Nicolas discusses the applications of VR to education, trends of online and in-person education, and the rise of the metaverse.
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Guest
Nicolas Barone
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-barone
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Host
Ellen Xu
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In this special Black Hat episode, Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser explain “Disinformation At Scale: Using GPT-3 Maliciously for Information Operations” - the double-edged sword of large language models.
The Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, or GPT-3, is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text, created by OpenAI. In other words: “Autocomplete on steroids.” It is currently the largest and most powerful natural language model in the world, and can write realistic text from almost any genre.
In this episode, I discuss with guests Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser:
- How can GPT-3 be used to amplify disinformation?
- What are the implications GPT-3 has for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Can GPT-3 be considered “creative”?
- What are the future trends for this technology, cybersecurity, and society?
- And… Did I use any GPT technology to write parts of this show notes? I guess we’ll never know for certain ;)
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Guests
Andrew Lohn
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anlohn/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/andrewjlohn
Micah Musser
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-musser-a485b5121/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/mrmusser
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Resources
Georgetown CSET Report: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/truth-lies-and-automation/
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What are the dangers of deep fakes? How is it related to cyber and cognitive psychology? Dr. Canham explains Deepfake Social Engineering: Creating a Framework for Synthetic Media Social Engineering.
Deepfakes (a combination of “deep learning” and “fake”) leverages Artificial Intelligence to repurpose existing media to appear to be someone else. It’s the technology responsible for numerous applications in animation, entertainment, and... meme videos of Tom Cruise. But deep fakes have also been maliciously used for phishing campaigns, virtual kidnappings, and disinformation newscasts.
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Guest
Dr. Matthew Canham
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-c-971855100/
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Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Black Hat Presentation Slides: https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-Deepfake-Social-Engineering-Creating-A-Framework-For-Synthetic-Media-Social-Engineering.pdf
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Scott Kominers is the Associate Professor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. His love for math started with a research project on quadratic form representation theory.
“It’s like it’s always been there; you just didn’t know how to express it.”
Through his high school research project, Kominers got into the world of mathematics, which later led him to discover his deep interest in economics. Now, he teaches courses on market design to students at Harvard University, investigates the optimization of economic systems to vaccine allocation and other pressing problems, and writes a column of original puzzling conundrums.
In this episode, we’re talking about the fascinating world of math, economics, scientific research… and how solving puzzles and conundrums draws a fun parallel to delving into complex topics.
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Guest
Scott Kominers
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/skominers
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-kominers/
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Ellen Xu
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Kominers' Conundrums: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/storythreads/2021-03-21/kominers-s-conundrums-a-treasure-trove-of-puzzles
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Inspiration for a project can come from anywhere. For Krithik, a game of Just Dance and love for Grey’s Anatomy emerged into a project which won the top award at ISEF 2019 out of millions worldwide.
In this episode, Krithik shares his research on developing a live-time navigation system for spinal reconstruction surgery using AR and ML, the future of AI and mitigating algorithmic bias, and advice for high schoolers in conducting research and science fairs.
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Guest
Krithik Ramesh
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/propulsionnerd
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Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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ISEF: https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/
Krithik Ramesh ISEF Abstract: https://abstracts.societyforscience.org/Home/FullAbstract?ProjectId=17147
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The Cryptocurrency Village at DEF CON 29 will explore blockchain technologies, the regulatory landscape, and the general cryptocurrency ecosystem — the intersection of cryptocurrency and cybersecurity.
In this episode, I connect with two organizers of the Cryptocurrency Village for a preview of what’s to come at DEF CON 29 and the crypto landscape. We discuss security and privacy, the biggest problems faced by crypto today, and future potential for innovation.
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Guests
Justin Ehrenhofer
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/JEhrenhofer
On LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinehrenhofer
Michael Schloh Von Bennewitz
On Social Media 🤔
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Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Imperva: https://itspm.ag/imperva277117988
ReversingLabs: https://itspm.ag/reversinglabs-v57b
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Resources
Cryptocurrency Village Website: https://cryptocurrencyvillage.net/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/DEFCONCCVillage
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16-year-old startup engineer, Calix Huang, has sold 2 EdTech companies, scaled to 20k users in 6 months, and underwent a 6-figure acquisition. Here’s his story on how he did it.
From self-learning Python and web development online to getting his first software engineering internship at 14, Calix talks about his approach for rapidly learning new skills and how going out of your comfort zone can be a faster, and more fun, way of building new things. Learning is not a linear journey - you’ll hear about the hidden challenges behind growth, getting your product in front of people, and the unconventional method of community-based user acquisition.
This is the authentic and down-to-earth story of how Calix built, scaled, and sold his startup Hours (among others), and valuable lessons for anyone wishing to learn or build something new.
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Guest
Calix Huang
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/calix-huang/
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/calixo888
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Ellen Xu
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Hours: https://hours.zone/
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What do Elon Musk, dinosaur-shaped Arduinos, and the largest network of HS coders have in common? Zach Latta brings us through his journey dropping out and moving to SF at 16 to founding Hack Club.
“To Meet Interesting People, You Have to Work on Interesting Things.”
At age 7, Zach took apart his parents computer, then created top chart games and apps used by 5 million people at 16 after moving away alone to SF. In doing the unconventional, Zach set himself on a path to doing interesting things - and meeting and working with interesting people, including Elon Musk and Tom Preston-Werner.
In this episode, you’ll hear about how to get in rooms with interesting people, why you need to prioritize actually helping people, and getting backed/raising money to support your causes.
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Guest
Zach Latta
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlatta
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/zachlatta
Guest Co-Host
Aadit Gupta
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/aaditgupta21
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Ellen Xu
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Hack Club: https://hackclub.com/
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Engineering, automation, and… chaos monkeys? 🤔🙊Amy Smidutz, Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, explains how breaking things during production helps increase resilience to failure.
In this episode, you’ll learn how large companies like Netflix deliver content seamlessly to hundreds of millions of subscribers. Spoiler alert: it’s not what you might expect.
Counterintuitively, chaos experimentation and breaking things during production can actually help reduce fail-overs for millions and improve resiliency to outages. You’ll hear about the importance of reducing blast radius, why regional failures can prevent large outages, and how automating away certain tasks reduces human error.
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Guest
Amy Smidutz
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-smidutz-a0310526
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Ellen Xu
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This is a journey into the infinite possibilities of human ingenuity and space exploration. The future of human and robotics collaboration.
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Manuel Retana
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Ellen Xu
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At 16 years old, Avi Schiffmann built the very first and most popular website for COVID-19 with 30 million daily visitors at its peak. Listen along to his incredible backstory and what's coming next.
Avi created nCoV2019.live when the first signs of COVID-19 hit - little did he know it would quickly become one of the most popular COVID-19 tracking sites with 30 million+ daily visitors at its peak, and help inform the public and epidemiologists in monitoring and curbing the spread of the pandemic.
Since then, Avi has been recognized by Webby Awards as the 2020 Person of the Year presented by Dr. Fauci, created numerous other websites on causes ranging from protests to voting information, and recently has been accepted into Harvard University!
His message? “You can learn anything online."
Listen along to this Delta X podcast episode to hear about his journey and vision for the future (spoiler alert: includes cybernetics, vertical farming, reading/writing to the mind, and more!)
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Avi Schiffmann, Creator @ nCoV2019.live (@AviSchiffmann on Twitter)
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Ellen Xu
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$40. 12 years old. Self-taught from the Internet. That’s how Zach Cox got his start in investing. Since then, he has made high gains on his portfolio- and in this episode, you’ll learn how you can too.
Investing is often seen as inaccessible, too difficult, and requiring high amounts of prior knowledge. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Zach is changing the landscape of investing by showing that anyone can get started and learn about investment - regardless of age or background. From stumbling upon an ad to investing his first $40 to where he is now, Zach shares his tips and tricks for those wanting to get into investing and his journey to investment success. Since then, he has amassed 28k+ followers on Twitter and 7k+ subscribers on Youtube listening to his perspective on stock choices.
This podcast episode is one you won’t want to miss - and it’s kickstarting a new wave of podcasts to come from young changemakers and innovators who are redefining the status quo.
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Zach Cox, Young Investor (@investor_2 on Twitter)
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Ellen Xu
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