Forward Thinking Founders: Recent Episodes
Mat Sherman
Forward Thinking Founders is a podcast where Mat interviews high potential founders with early stage companies. This allows us to see inside the brain of genius founders before the rest of the world knows they even exist. On this show, you'll learn all about how to start a startup, pros and cons of different verticals, and learn the backstory and vision of tomorrow's billion-dollar companies, straight from the founders. With guests coming from Y Combinator, The Thiel Fellowship, Pioneer, and the Growthmeter network, you're sure to get a sneak peek at world-class founders at work, every day. This is Forward Thinking Founders.
Olivia Chu is the cofounder of CytoBay. CytoBay is a platform company for AI facilitated cancer diagnosis using cytology specimens. Our staining methodology allows tumor marker expression and morphology to be evaluated on the same cytology slide, allowing doctors to clearly recognize tumor cells.
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Lisa Wehden is the cofounder of Plymouth Street. Plymouth is a different type of immigration company — Their mission is to accelerate US innovation through faster and more transparent immigration services.
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Julian Alvarez is the cofounder of Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards with questions & answers for any article, PDF, or YouTube video so that you can better ingrain what you learn.
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Diana Muturia is the founder of Clyn. Clyn makes great cleaning services accessible to more people without compromising the cleaner’s pay.
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Sven Radavics is the founder of InTribe. InTribe helps companies, social enterprises and non-profits grow faster and increase their reach by making partnerships easier.
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Slava Heretz is the founder of Calmann. Calmann is democratizing video game discovery & helping studios productize game release to massively increase sales
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Capri Wheaton is the founder of Dressd. Dressd is a peer-to-peer clothing rental marketplace.
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Brooke LeBlanc is the founder of Edge. Edge is building for the next generation of sobriety.
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With AudioPen, just hit record, start talking, then AudioPen will clean things up when you're done.
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Arjun Mahadevan is the cofounder and CEO of Doola. They're on a mission to help 1 billion people start their dream business by making it click button easy for a founder from anywhere in the world to start a US business.
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Tim Qin is the cofounder of Roame. Roame simplifies credit card rewards for the average person. They want to help you find the best redemptions for your credit card points and airline miles.
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Dmitry Obukhov is the founder of Paste. Paste is a new way to keep, search, and organize everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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John Kirtley is the founder of PostureFix. They help you with your posture with posture-focused exercises and stretches.
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Tyler Denk is the cofounder of Beehiiv. Beehiiv is on a journey to help the next million creators, publishers, and companies scale and monetize their audiences.
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Marin Smiljanic is the founder of Omnisearch. They make it seamless for users to search through all data regardless of file type: audio and video, documents, presentations, images, you name it!
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Ben Wunderman is the cofounder of Packsmith. With Packsmith, your orders are fulfilled closer to their final delivery location, decreasing last mile delivery costs and the carbon footprint of every order, and speeding up delivery times for your customers. Everybody wins.
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Sun Sachs is the founder of Rewire Fitness. Rewire is a mental fitness platform that helps athletes reach their full potential and avoid burnout by providing tools that improve mindset, readiness and resilience
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Dan McCormick is the founder of Create. Their mission is to improve the health and wellness outcomes of their customers through proper creatine supplementation.
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Chelsea Lamego is the cofounder of FundMinder. FundMiner is the most effective solution for fundraising organizations to track their funds and achieve maximum impact.
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Roya Pakzad is the founder of Feminade. Feminade was built on the belief that everyone has a unique hormone story and that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. They give you more accurate data about your hormones and access to a group of specialized health coaches so you can live your healthiest life.
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Ardy Naghshineh is the founder of Browse AI. Their mission is to give every individual and business equal opportunity to benefit from information on the internet.
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Son Ca Vu is the cofounder of Alta. Alta's AI helps you quickly launch mobile apps with smart design and text recommendations.
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Phillip Rather is the founder of Musical. Raise money upfront from your loyal Fans and reward them with access. Find the musicians you need now for your song and collaborate. Sell your songs together as Tokens, and Everyone gets paid automatically!
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Alex Edquist is the founder of Good Agriculture. Good Agriculture is supporting current & future regenerative farmers with business services so they can do what they do best: produce food that regenerates ecosystems and nourishes people
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Dhaval Patel is the founder of Lotus. Lotus is the world’s first ring to control your home.
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Andrew Therriault is the founder of Civin. Founded by the City of Boston's former Chief Data Officer, Civin is building tools for local government that makes analytics accessible for communities of all sizes, without the need for teams of data scientists and engineers.
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Doug Brian is the cofounder of Mynd. Mynd brings together world-class technology and local expertise to make it simple and convenient for investors to find, finance, insure, lease, manage, and sell single-family rental properties, and for residents to find great homes to rent in more than 25 markets across the country.
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Jonathan Fudem is the founder of OneText. OneText allows you to outperform your traditional SMS program with text-to-buy and 2-way messaging.
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Zach Holman advises and invests in startups. He was one of the first engineers at GitHub, has founded two companies, and have advised and invested in companies like GitLab, StackShare, and WorkOS.
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Lisa Russell is the founder of Aleria, who also came onto the podcast in in 2020 for episode #334. Aleria takes the guesswork out of Diversity & Inclusion. In this interview, she comes back on to talk about what's changed in the 2 years since the last podcast and what she has learned. Hope you enjoy!
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Ricky Marton is the founder of Philanthrofi. Our AI-driven platform connects companies to active projects implemented by impact organizations.
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James & Amber are investors at Bloomberg Beta. Find their bios below.
James Cham is a Partner at Bloomberg Beta, a firm focused on investing in the future of work. James invests in companies working on applying machine intelligence to businesses and society. He’s currently invested in companies like Orbital Insight (satellite imaging), Primer (analyst tools), Domino Data Labs (AI model management), and AppZen (expense management). James speaks and writes on the implications of AI for companies, including a landscape of machine intelligence companies (https://t.co/jnBX6Wdr5R). In the past, he's been involved in investments with companies like LifeLock, LinkedIn, Twilio, DropCam (now Nest), and Skybox Imaging. James was previously an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and Trinity Venture Partners, a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and a software developer. He has an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an undergraduate in computer science at Harvard College. He currently resides in Palo Alto with his family and children.
Amber Yang is an investor at Bloomberg Beta, where she invests in companies at the pre-seed and seed stages working on machine intelligence, robotics, data infrastructure, and developer tools. In the past, she founded Seer Tracking, a startup working on creating a sustainable space environment by predicting satellite collisions with space debris, which led her to be named Forbes 30 Under 30. She did her master’s and undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford University and spent a quarter abroad studying philosophy at Oxford University. While she was in college, she was an investment partner at Dorm Room Fund and a fellow at 8VC. She is based in San Francisco and writes about tech and philosophy on Twitter and Substack.
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Katelyn's Bio
Katelyn is an investor and entrepreneur. Katelyn is the founder and Managing Director of Avalanche VC, an early-stage venture firm investing early in companies enabling decentralization and empowerment, focusing on how people earn, learn, and own.
She is also a founder and board member of Delivery Associates, the leading public sector advisory firm implementing technology and large-scale reform worldwide.
Constantly curious, she has invested in and advised funds, companies, and entrepreneurs who are building companies behind trends that are obviously the future. She has lived and worked globally, including in London, San Francisco, Lagos, and Lahore. Katelyn grew up in Minneapolis and now can frequently be found in New York City and Seattle.
Previously, she co-founded and served as the Managing Director of Pearson Ventures (prior PALF), a $65M venture fund that invests in global EdTech companies. At Pearson, Katelyn served on the board of SPARK schools, APEC schools, Avanti, HarukaEDU, and Omega Schools. She also co-founded the Global Schools Forum, a trade organization for private schools in emerging markets. Katelyn also led the strategy and implementation of Pearson’s global efficacy agenda and was on the founding team of the FT125 Club, a division of the Financial Times.
Katelyn is a member of Duke University's Learning Innovation Advisory Council, helping Duke imagine the future of learning both on-campus and online.
Katelyn started as a consultant at McKinsey in San Francisco, serving technology companies and large financial institutions. She worked on credit market sustainability with the World Economic Forum and presented at the Annual Meeting in Davos in 2011.
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Amy Cheetham is a partner at Costanoa Ventures.
Amy's Bio
Before joining Costanoa, I ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, I spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where my investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. I began my career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where I spent time as a technology investment banker and as a cash equities trader focused on biotechnology and financial services.
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David Paul is the CEO and a founding member of DWP Capital. For more than seven years, Mr. Paul has been actively engaged in growth equity and venture capital investing, primarily in software and tech-enabled services.
In 2016, he joined Canal Partners (2016-2020), a multi-family office specializing in growth capital opportunities, after working at seed-stage venture fund Tallwave Capital as an Associate (2015-2016). During his five-year tenure at Canal Partners, he was jointly responsible for software investing. In addition, he was one of two lead partners for seven investments, serving on the board of directors of 6 companies. Mr. Paul left Canal Partners in 2020 to focus his time on his other investment interests, including DWP Capital.
David started DWP Capital in January of 2021. This investment vehicle focuses on investing in Seed and early Series A stage companies technology companies.
David received his B.A. from Springfield College in 2009 (Cum Laude) and his MBA from Northeastern University in 2013. He is a Trustee of the Linda Tuero Foundation and a Board Member of Social Venture Partners Phoenix. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Stacy.
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Amy Ouzoonian is the cofounder of Moodconnect. MoodConnect's vision is to create healthy, enjoyable work environments where employees and businesses can grow as a team, together.
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Chris Bakke is the founder of Laskie. Laskie runs the job search for you. Apply once and get matched with jobs that meet your requirements at companies that want to interview you.
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Graham & Walker were two unstoppable leaders that made history, and with us, exponentially more will do the same. In 1963, Katharine Graham was the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And sixty years before, Madam C.J. Walker went from founder to the first-ever self-made female millionaire. Like our inspirations taught us: underrepresented doesn’t mean unworthy. It just means underestimated. Learn more here --> https://grahamwalker.com/
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Leslie Omaña Begert is the cofounder of FabuLingua. FabuLingua is a language learning app for kids that combines the latest advancements in language acquisition sciences to teach your child Spanish or other languages (coming soon!) in a way that is fun, interactive, captivating and inspirational.
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Christian Besenbruch is the founder of Deep Render. By developing the next generation of compression technology using AI, we’re here to completely rethink, reshape and revolutionize what’s possible.
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Nicole Tj is the founder of Travis. Travis is the best way for travelers to plan, book and earn through social recommendations.
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Adam Laor is the cofounder of Sinatra. Sinatra is building a platform for the hospitality industry.
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Andrew Hutton is the founder of Day One. Day One provides you with the connections, education, support, and confidence to supercharge your path forward as an entrepreneur.
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Madison Savilow is the founder of Oco. Oco provides low-carbon material solutions to consumer product brands and helps them take steps towards reaching their ambitious, world-saving climate goals.
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Yash Kothari is the founder of Kindred Minds. Kindred minds provides live group sessions designed by experts to tackle life’s challenges and live aligned with what matters most.
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Carl Palme is the founder of Boundless Robotics (maker of Annaboto). They're on a mission to enable anyone, anywhere to grow at least 5% of their food at home, effortlessly.
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Abubakar Sial is the founder of OctiLearn. OctiLearn is an integrated learning ecosystem with personalized learning pathways.
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Andrea Orrego is the founder of Atelier. Atelier connects high-quality and planet-conscious makers to design-savvy users who want to create their own interior design projects and we do it all in an interactive design app and marketplace!
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Arham Habib is the founder of VO2. VO2 is new fan engagement platform that turns sports teams from observers to stakeholders in their favorite teams and athletes.
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Peter Difilippantonio is the founder of CarLocity. CarLocity is an anonymous car shopping service focused on transforming the car dealership sales experience into an enjoyable buying experience.
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Jordan is the founder of CryoCase. The CryoCase is a case that gets colder in the sun instead of hotter. Utilizing the blackbody effect, the CryoCase uses radiative cooling to dissipate heat into the vacuum of space.
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Viola Carmona is the founder of Champion Lender. Champion Lender is addressing the loan gap with a two-sided solution. HOME stands for Home Ownership & Mortgage Education; it is a dual-platform, total home buying/refinancing solution that reduces denials in underwriting.
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Dmitry Kiryukhin is the cofounder of CleverFleet. CleverFleet is an EoR/payroll platform where businesses of all sizes from anywhere in the world can easily onboard remote specialists from Ukraine, pay them and be compliant with local laws.
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Jordan Plows is the founder of LightAI. LightAI makes understanding, translating and reviewing code blazingly fast
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Kashif Ali is the founder of DAO Helper. DAO Helper is an open platform to create courses for the Web3 community.
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Justin Clegg is the founder of Allset. Allset makes it easy for businesses to automate payments, unlock revenue, build an online presence and much more.
More On Justin Clegg (According to LinkedIn)Justin is an entrepreneurially minded business leader with experience in software as a service. He co-founded three Silicon Valley startups and was selected by The Guardian as a rising star in AI and conversational commerce. Prior to startups Justin led product and marketing efforts for Fortune 500 software companies including Intel, Oracle, and Adobe.
Justin Clegghas studied, lived and operated in a variety of international locations including Singapore, China, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mozambique and New Delhi and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French and conversational Hindi. He has been profiled by VentureBeat, Deseret News and Entrepreneur.com and is a frequent public speaker. In his spare time, Justin enjoys playing indoor soccer, tennis and mountain biking.
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Tyler Tringas is the GP and founder of The Calm Company Fund. He's building an ecosystem of founders and funders of profitable, sustainable, calm businesses.
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Mai Shimada is the founder of Isha Health. Isha Health enables online ketamine assisted therapy with a team of licensed clinicians.
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Johannes Cortez is the cofounder of Gamer Points. Gamer Points is a a platform where you can play your favorite video games and earn crypto by doing so through ads. No NFTs, scholarships, managers, and crypto needed.
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Jürgen Pretsch is the founder cofounder of Relocate. Relocate is the first independent marketplace for global migration. Navigate the complex web of immigration with a north star and compass.
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Geoffrey See is the founder of POKO. POKO helps you pool capital, deploy capital and manage your communities effortlessly.
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Dylan Rose is the cofounder of Evergreen. Their low power device mines cryptocurrency using upcycled hard drives. It's simple to use and features dApps from the Chia, Bitcoin lightening, and Akash ecosystems.
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Soner is the founder of PONS. PONS`s AI-driven mobile Ultrasound will allow for continuous monitoring of patients no matter where they are, not only on the surface of the skin but also deep inside the body.
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George Oni is the founder of Ancillary. Ancillary enables anyone to start, raise & manage a fund to trade stocks, crypto, options & more.
This episode of FTF is sponsored by Recruit.so. With Recruit.so, hire pre-vetted ex-YC engineers in days, not weeks.
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Manni Okim is the founder of Locoom. Loocum's cloud-based technology enables healthcare professionals find work they love and healthcare facilities fill vacancies and open shifts easily.
This episode is sponsored by Journey.io. Ditch your memo, Loom, and pitch deck and just use Journey to tell your story instead.
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Laila Chima is the cofounder of Winter. Winter helps businesses sell NFTs with a credit card.
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Setsabile Mkhabela is the founder of Boast ID. They make it easier for Brands, Creatives and social impact initiatives to gain access to their markets and the necessary tools to sell their items.
This episode is sponsored by Journey.io. Ditch your memo, Loom, and pitch deck and just use Journey to tell your story instead.
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Emmanuel Ndifor is the founder of Skilbi. Skilbi has made it simple for anyone to intentionally connect with students seeking career guidance.
Have a website that doesn't look amazing? Change that by reaching out to Anebi over at Eikon Labs to help make your brand pop and website convert.
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Liam Gerada is the founder of Krepling. Krepling’s platform empowers your brand to sell online and in-person, powering payments for subscriptions, digital products, marketplaces, and everything the world of e-commerce has to offer.
This episode is sponsored by recruit.so. They help you recruit engineers who deliver.
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Kaben Clauson is a cofounder of Pigeon Loans. Pigeon Loans is a private place to create, import, or keep track of loans you make with friends, family & loved ones.
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In this video, I do an analysis on the conversation between Jason Calacanis and Del Johnson that happened on April 2nd, 2022. More context in the the podcast.
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Kojo Osei is a partner at Matrix Partners.
A Little More On Kojo (from the Matrix website)
I grew up in Accra, Ghana’s commercial capital known for its bustling street markets. My mother was an entrepreneur who ran a small retail business. She was the first entrepreneur I worked with. From her, I learned that doing what you love leads to persistence and ultimately, success.
In college, I fell in love with math and computer science. I was drawn to programming as a way to turn imagination into reality. I bought in fully to the promise of technology as a tool to solve hard problems. Espresso-fueled late-night coding sessions were common. That and squash round robins were the twin pillars of my college years.
After college, I turned down a corporate job to join a startup called Sirona as the first employee and founding engineer. After building our initial product and early engineering team I took on the challenge of building out a product organization as Head of Product. At Sirona, we built managed cloud infrastructure and machine learning workflows for radiology clinics. Building critical infrastructure and innovating with our users every day was a highlight of my career.
My startup experience at Sirona gave me a deep appreciation for the founder journey and influenced how I approach investing. I look for founders who radically challenge the status quo and have the self-awareness to chart a practical path to their vision.
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Philo Hermans is the founder of Unlock. With Unlock, Set yourself free from billing and logistics so you can focus on building software instead of packaging, versioning, and distributing products to your customers.
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Elizabeth Dell is the founder of Amorus. Amorus makes delicious relationships more private, more engaged and more inspired!
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JT Garwood is the cofounder of bttn. bttn helps hospitals, medical offices, dental clinics, home health care, surgery centers, and other healthcare professionals lower their medical supply bills a lot.
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Andy Cabasso is the founder of Postaga. Postaga’s all-in-one outreach platform helps you build personalized outreach campaigns, with AI-powered tools to connect you with the right people.
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Tom Ward is a cofounder of Epoch. Epoch Boats is building a new generation of boats that combines innovative engineering and eco-friendly technology with the performance & wow factor that today's boaters want.
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Derek Osgood is the founder of Ignition. Ignition is the first dedicated GTM platform for PMMs. From customer research, to launch comms & measurement — it has everything you need to get your product to market.
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Hannah & Nick Ippolito are the cofounders of Squarekicker. SquareKicker is an intuitive no-code design extension which allows you to bring your Squarespace sites to the next level.
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Bash Jones is the cofounder of Homeplan. Homeplan enables you to put your home on autopilot with a personal home manager - from bill pay to maintenance, their assistants manage your entire home, from a-z.
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David Abaev is the founder of Databar. With Databar, access hundreds of APIs without writing a single line of code. Download custom datasets on finance, sports, and much more in under 3 clicks.
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Mekkie Bansil is the founder of Nonfik. On. NonFik, filter the best free business ebooks, read our juicy summaries, and attract engaged readers for your own content.
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Chase Lee is the founder on Trustpage. Trustpage lets your entire team easily collaborate on and communicate trust. Earn customers' confidence, close deals faster, and give back time.
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Sebastian Fischmeister is the cofounder of Palitronica. Palitronica has built a next-generation cyber-protection system for critical electronics and computers where existing solutions cannot operate. Their Palisade Suite is a retrofittable, hardware-based security control that enables organizations to add cybersecurity to their most vital, critical assets without recertification.
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Christian Schultz & Simon Hestermann are cofounders of Masterchannel. Masterchannel is an online mastering service for music producers, powered by Artificial Intelligence and advanced audio technology.
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Ted Mann is the cofounder of CollX. CollX (pronounced “collects”) is the fastest way to figure out what your cards are worth. Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price.
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Jacob Wolf is the founder of Overcome. Overcome tells gaming and esports stories for the masses authentically and independently.
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Tyson Kunovsky is the cofounder of Autocloud. With Autocloud, maintain visibility into multi-cloud security, compliance, cost, and drift with automated infrastructure diagrams, change tracking, and a GraphQL API.
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James Sun is a cofounder of Inloop. With inloop, your customer base with a checkout flow that accepts credit cards and onboards users without wallets
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Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She's worked with some of the most prestigious founders like Vitalik Buterin and Ritesh Agarwal. Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in San Diego, a K-8 charter school serving 400 students, with a focus on student-led project based learning and other alternative programs.
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Michael Marra is the founder of Entre. Entre is a network for founders, investors, and tech enthusiasts to connect, learn, and earn in a virtual environment.
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Ramin Bozorgzadeh is the cofounder of Carrot. Carrot is an extension that automatically collects your carts as you shop.
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Caspar von Wrede is the founder of KeepTheScore. Track points for competitions, sports and teams. Share the live results via link.
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Taylor Crane is the founder of Clubs Poker. Clubs is the new home for weekly home games, poker nights, or virtual company outings.
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Kshitij Singh, Rahul Bhadoriya, and Balaji Ingole are the cofounders of SuperDMs. With SuperDMs, send bulk Twitter DMs to all your tweet replies within 2 minutes.
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Vlad Lokshin is a cofounder of Turtle. Turtle is a platform where the world’s best developers, designers, and clients come together to collaborate.
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Amit Bansal is the cofounder of 91Squarefeet. At 91Squarefeet, they have advanced AI Driven Technological systems to navigate the myriad of possible challenges involved in opening a retail store; a diverse network of reliable and cost-effective suppliers spread across the country, and a proven track record to save you both time and money.
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Greg Fragin is the founder of Loop. Consolidate your digital focus to simplify your workflow and increase your productivity, creativity, and your time—offline. With just one place to interact with all of your messaging and media, you will always know what’s new, next, and most needed.
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Christian LaRosa is the founder of Rosotics. Rosotics produces hyper-efficient metal additive manufacturing solutions that address tougher problems in industrial engineering.
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David Vargas is the founder of RoamJS. RoamJS is the most extensive library of roam research extensions.
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Aditya Mehta & Oleksii Sidorov are cofounders of Suggestr. Amazon-quality product recommendations for your brand leading to increased conversions and higher AOV.
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Camille Lehujeur is the cofounder of Work With Data. Explore data in all its forms on 4M+ topics and entities - backed by their knowledge graph combining numerous reliable sources.
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Zécca Lehn a GP at Responsibly Ventures. Their mission is to back remarkable teams focused on Venture Scale Positive Impacts.
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Katarina Lotrič is the cofounder of Gentler. Gentler translates raw numbers into meaningful words. It shows your progress, hints when to slow down, step up or rest. Check your daily condition in the morning and plan your day around it!
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Mathias Nestler is the founder of AccessOwl. AccessOwl simplifies access approval processes using Slack while documenting who has access to what application automatically. Get access reports in minutes using a central web application.
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Rav Roberts is the cofounder of Medsii. Medsii uses data and AI to predict, inform & prevent future health problems.
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Ryan Komori is the founder of Savor Lining. Savor Lining partners with businesses and organizations to offer live, online, MindSculpt™ mental fitness classes & listening sessions led by licensed therapists.
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This episode wis with a former guest, Henry Johnson. We jam on on all things internet entrepreneurship in this podcast. I hope you learn something new by being a fly on the wall in our conversation.
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Quimby Melton is the cofounder of Confection. We care about collecting, storing, and distributing user data in a way that aligns with your personal preferences and complies with data protection laws like CCPA, GDPR, and LGPD.
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Dave Goldblatt is the founding GP at Vibe Capital. Dave was employee 180 at Facebook in 2007, was there until 2017. Afterward, he started a company + started angel investing which led to Vibe Capital.
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In this episode, we interview an operator and early startup sales leader, DeWayne Roy. DeWayne has had stints at Truebill, Lambda School, Panther, and now Pesto. In this episode, we walks us through all things business development for early stage startups. Enjoy!
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David Levine is the founder of Scoby. Scoby is a Web3 Creator Ecosystem on a live, audio-video centered app where you can share the experience of health, wealth, wisdom and love.
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Isabelle Gough is the cofounder of Cercula. Cercula is the UK's leading life cycle assessment software for building projects.
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Meddy Daryadel is the founder of de. myViTrend is the online hub for fitness videos.
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Saket Kumar is the cofounder of Vitt. With Vitt, get upfront, non-dilutive financing against your monthly recurring revenues. Never trade growth off against dilution again.
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Tela Andrews is the cofounder of BearTax. BearTax helps you to fetch trades from everywhere, identify transfers across exchanges and auto generates tax documents.
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Michael Houston is the founder of ElevateU. Elevate makes it easy to replace textbooks with digital learning experiences that instructors can customize and track student progress.
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Oscar Pedroso is the founder of Thimble. Thimble teaches kids STEM skills through weekly 1-hr classes taught by tech professionals. Kits are shipped every 3 months. Invest in Thimble here.
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Neel Ganu is the founder of Finch. Finch is an all-in-one account that seamlessly integrates the benefits of investing and the flexibility of checking.
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Cory Hoffart is the cofounder of Stylez. Stylez is the next-gen beauty platform created to empower 3 million beauty pros through educational content, community, client engagement, commerce and soon, augmented reality.
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Yevgen Kotukh & Daniil Tretiakov are the cofounders of UnlinkVR. UnlinkVR enables Wireless data transmission solution for VR sets based on laser radiation.
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Evalyn Oloo is the founder of Manyactive. With Manyactive, track, book, or deliver fitness and mental health services close to you.
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Marko Hozjan is the cofounder of Taia. With Taia, self-translate your documents up to 3x faster or simply outsource them to their highly skilled team of professional translators.
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In this bonus episode, I talk through the pros and cons of going through an accelerator. This episode will be most helpful for first time founders who are evaluating going through an accelerator.
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Victoria Duben is the founder of Viewst. Viewst is the workspace that allows you to create, collaborate, and launch ads at scale.
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Kareem Abukhadra is the founder of Relentless. Relentless enables its customers to get 10+ interviews a month at your favorite companies with no effort.
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Dornubari Vizor is the founder of GroupApp. GroupApp gives you the tools to build and launch your learning community, create online courses, host your content and monetize your knowledge.
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Madi Rifkin is the founder of Mount. Mount provides tools for property owners to rent or list amenities, from scooters to golf clubs to e-bikes — and beyond.
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Adi Diner is the founder of iFocus Health. iFocus is using eye-tracking technology combined with a proprietary AI algorithm to provide data-based treatment efficacy measures.
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Josh Kline is the founder of HaveNeed. HaveNeed is a free mobile app that enables you to trade for goods and services like never before! HaveNeed also makes it easy to donate items directly to members of your community.
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Andrew Gluck is the founder and GP of irrvrntVC. irrvrntVC has a tight thesis around DTC, AdTech, and NextG. Generally, they invest $150k-$350k and are very comfortable committing without a lead in place and galvanizing the round.
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Ivan Huerta is the cofounder of Parabeac. Parabeac is the only Sketch to Flutter and Figma to Flutter Continuous Integration (CI) tool that integrates app design and development workflows for faster & more.
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Jake Aronskind is the cofounder of Pepper. Pepper is streamlining the process of finding your next meal, sitting down at the dinner table after cooking it, and sharing with your family & friends when you’re done!
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Viet York is the founder of Lectron. Lectron protects the metaverse, game server, and any online application from DDoS attacks. Then supercharge it with 210+ anycast edge locations around the world to enhance your end user experience
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Cristina Vanko is the founder of Arrow. Arrow is a swipeless, audio dating experience that feels personal. See someone you like? Shoot your shot with a voice note.
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With TIKI, see what data you share online and make informed decisions on who else can see it.
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Tim Connors is the cofounder of Pearl. Text Pearl your interests, they'll intro you to founders who are hiring.
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Nicholas Hinrichsen is the cofounder of Clutch. We had him on the podcast almost a year ago and since then, his company has refocused, raised from a16z, and is not in full scale mode. Listen to his learnings in this episode.
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Sébastien Robaszkiewicz is the cofounder of Jitter. Jitter is the easiest motion design tool on the web.
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Lorea Coronado-Garcia is the cofounder of Spoor. Spoor is building next generation biodiversity monitoring that enables industry and nature to coexist.
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Alex Pennington is the cofounder of Finish and Feast. Finish & Feast is on a very simple mission: to bring fine dining to everyone, anywhere in the UK. To achieve this mission, they have created the UK’s premier fine dining meal assembly kit platform, which allows people across the UK to enjoy food from some of the best chefs and restaurants on offer.
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Sagnik Ghosh is the cofounder of Worqhat. Worqhat aims to create a better life and a better future for University Students and Graduates.
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Rohan Agrawal is the cofounder of Incentify. Incentify is fostering a community that engages around music, and make connections with people who share your same music taste.
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Ken Babcock is a cofounder of Tango. With Tango, create process or product documentation on-demand.
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Joshua Salins is the founder of The Hobby Tribe. Hobby Tribe believes everyone should have the ability and chance to learn something new In this ever-expanding world of opportunity.
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Abu Bakr Kamal is the founder of Let's Dunch. They helping like-minded professionals collaborate over food and events around the globe.
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About Chris McCann
Chris McCann is a general partner at Race Capital, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including: Binance, Solana, Serum, among others.
Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – of the earliest technology focused publications – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University. He also writes a newsletter covering the fintech & tech sectors and reaches 15,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors on a weekly basis.
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Matt Caplan is the cofounder of Biscuits n Groovy. They partner with artists to debut exclusive music and album art to their most devoted fans.
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Diana Chen runs the Unstoppable Domains podcast and works on their content team to spread the word about their company, web3, and the greater blockchain ecosystem. This episode is an early bet on Diana.
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Daniel Lewis is the cofounder of Winno. Winno helps people understand the world better.
Want to learn more about Wino? Look them up on Seedscout.
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Rebecca Jones is the founder of Clutch. Clutch is a crypto wallet built by women, for women, to invest in digital currencies.
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Paul Gross is the cofounder of Remora. Their device captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and greenhouses, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments.
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I am very excited to be chatting with Elizabeth Yin, who is the co-founder of Hustle Fund. The following is a bio I pulled from her persona website:
Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has helped numerous portfolio founders raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Her work and writing on startup fundraising has been featured in numerous publications including TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, BetaKit, and more.
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Hunter Wagenaar is the founder of Idea. Idea is creating interactive, comprehensive health education modules that are inclusive of all identities & medically accurate for parents, students, and organizations.
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Sergey Kulinkovich is the cofounder of Timestripe. Get super focused on your goals every day! Boost your productivity with a beautiful calendar, shared to-do lists & powerful notes with Timestripe.
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Julie Kaplan is a senior at Arizona State University studying Global Politics and Finance. This is an early bet.
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Zach Coelius is a four-time entrepreneur and now investor in early-stage technology companies. Learn more about his rolling fund here or follow him on Twitter here.
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Miriam Dorsett is the founder of QUOKA. QUOKA is an anonymous messaging exchange designed to improve the mental health of founders.
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Kirby Winfield is a seasoned startup operator and investor, and is currently the Founding General Partner at Ascend.vc, a pre-seed stage venture fund investing in marketplace, e-commerce/DTC, and B2B software startups in the Pacific Northwest.
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Prateek Srivastava is the cofounder of Terraview. Terraview is a complete operating system for vineyards. Improve yield, reduce costs, and run your operations from one dashboard.
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Shiv Thakker is the cofounder of Fleetbase. Fleetbase is an API-first logistics platform for developers and businesses.
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Artavazd Yeritsyan is the founder of Podcastle. Their AI-powered, production-quality tools can help bring your stories to life.
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Wallace Torres is the founder of Sidha Health. Sidha Health is bringing respiratory care into the home.
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Lars Vågnes is the founder of Personate. With Personate, get a 20-second promo-video automatically from any url.
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Gordon Hempton is the cofounder of Spot. Spot is the virtual hub for your organization– bringing the spirit and utility of being in the same physical office to a digital experience.
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Edvarts Gaigals is the cofounder of Roibox. Their data-driven marketing tool will beat your Google Ads results in 30 days.
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Nick Vantzos is the founder of LeagueDay. LeagueDay is bringing the audio experience to gaming to a new level with a live Esports radio with content gamers need and want.
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Hunter's Bio
Hunter Walk is a co-founder and Partner at Homebrew, which is an early-stage venture capital firm based in the Bay Area. Before Homebrew, I led consumer product management at YouTube, starting when it was acquired by Google. I originally joined Google in 2003, managing product and sales efforts for AdSense, Google‘s contextual advertising business. My first job in Silicon Valley was as the founding product and marketing guy at Linden Lab. Before graduate school, I was a management consultant and also spent a year at Late Night with Conan O‘ Brien. My parents are proud of my BA in History from Vassar and MBA from Stanford University.
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Daniel Liebeskind is the founder of Topia. Topia is a more human video chat in a customized virtual world.
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Georg Molzer is the founder of Shadowmap. Shadowmap visualizes sunlight and shadows in an interactive 3D web-based maps app, considering buildings and terrain.
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Paige Mcpheely is the founder of Base. Base is the only platform built for assistants.
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Ping and Andy are the founders of ShareOrb. ShareOrb is a social media platform that lets you create one album a day.
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James Chapman is the founder of Plain Sight. Plain Sight is the best way to make great connections wherever you go, online or in-person.
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Ser En Low & Liang Chun are the cofounders of Sendjoy. Sendjoy helps you reach out to a celebrity who can help to create a unique experience for your loved ones.
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Stéphane Nasser is the maker behind OpenVC. OpenVC is a list of all VC firms by thesis. Radically free and open.
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Stedman Cleveland is the founder of Aura. Aura is shaping a safe and sustainable future with a more humanized shopping experience.
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Jason Crystal is the founder of Miventure. Miventure is enabling anyone older than 18 to invest in startups with as little as $25.
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Jesse Meek is the founder of CodeLingo. Codelingo is helping teams share links for them to write better code, faster, together.
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Gilad Rom is the founder of Huan. You or someone you know can use Huan to help find your missing pets automatically.
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Kingsong Chen is the founder of Techintern.io. With Techintern.io hire the best software developers from top colleges across North America for your company.
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Gabe G'Sell is the founder of Songcraft. Songcraft is an online platform for songwriters to write, organize, and collaborate.
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Michael Sayre is the founder of Cognicept. Cognicept is empowering the future of work with humans and robots working hand in hand.
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Jonathan Hillis is the founder of Creator Cabins. With Creator Cabins remote workers can enjoy completing their tasks at a remote cabin
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Avi Muchnick is the founder of BurnerPage. Validate ideas with burner pages in less than 60 seconds
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Ryan Myher is the founder of FlowZ. FlowZ provides you with the easiest way to connect your apps & automate tasks
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Nicholas Mohnacky is the founder of BundleIQ. Whether you’re part of a workplace team, class, or a community that works together, bundleIQ makes it easy to share and access knowledge at the right time.
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Chen is the cofounder of Nototo. They are building the information canvas for knowledge.
This episode is sponsored by Seedscout. Check them out on Product Hunt today!
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Ritwik is the cofounder of Vade. Vade is building the largest source of real-time curb data.
This episode is sponsored by Seedscout. Check them out on Product Hunt today!
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Mat Sherman is the founder of Seedscout. Seedscout is a professional network anyone can get paid to scout talent, founders, and customers.
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Juan Medina is the founder of Lalo. Lalo is a private community for friends and family to experience the calm of an intimate, ad-free space.
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Sanghitaa De is the founder of YourMauka. YourMauka provides candidates complimenting your team's culture and sufficing the behavior, cognitive ability, skills required for your job in minutes
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Harris Stolzenberg is the cofounder of Flok. They'll find your ideal destination, book your work-optimized venue, and coordinate flights so you can finally get your team together. Safely and efficiently.
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Erik Demar and Mitch Billion are the cofounders of Munch Microgreens. Their mission is to provide sustainable and nutrient-dense Microgreens to consumers. They are a technology-focused company committed to sustainably and ethically growing microgreens
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Keith Petri is the founder of LockrMail. With LockrMail, own the power to organize and protect your email inbox.
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Jay Huffman is one of the founders of Idk.inc. Idk.inc is a holding company for innovative projects built in partnership with your favorite creators.
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Nimrod Kramer is the cofounder of Daily Dev. With Daily Dev, get the hottest coding news from the best tech blogs on any topic you can think of. Stay updated daily, and unlock more time to do fun stuff, relax, or just code.
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Therese Maggie is the founder of Spiti. With Spiti it's easy to organize and access all your team's video content.
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Andy Su is the founder of Pry. With Pry founders use a model that allows for a better understanding, planning, and forecasting of their financials.
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Cory Cooper is the founder of Town. With Town experience the convenience of shopping locally and contribute to your community.
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Jeremy Bell is the founder of MayDay. With MayDay, take control of your day & protect your time with Adaptive Scheduling.
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Nikhil is the cofounder and GP of Footwork. Prior, Nikhil was Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, where he invested in Canva, ClassDojo, Frame.io, Imperfect Foods, Lattice, Literati, Pill Club, Tally, and The Farmer's Dog. He was previously at Insight Partners and on the founding team at Artsy. Nikhil found his footwork growing up in the UK, India, and the San Francisco Bay Area, playing cricket and tennis.
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Morten Hjelmso is the founder of Snakker™. Snakker™ is a platform made to help you grow your business, audience, revenue, sales, clicks, likes, and loves. Whatever you want to get out there, create a Snak™ in minutes, share it within seconds.
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Ankit Gordhandas is the cofounder of Intersect. Intersect is a collaborative data workspace for business teams.
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Jeremy is the cofounder of Indicative. Indicative is the only product analytics platform for product managers, marketers, and data analysts that connects directly to your data warehouse.
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Lauren Washington is the cofounder of Fundr. Fundr is a platform that automates diversifies and democratizes seed funding by creating portfolios of startups vetted by our algorithm for investors to fund.
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Erik Pavia is the founder of Pantheon. Pantheon is a fitness and wellness app designed for teams.
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Neeraj Kashyap is the cofounder of Bugout.dev. With Bugout, measure the success of your dev tool and get usage metrics and crash reports.
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Ron Gura is the cofounder of Empathy. Empathy is here to help you with everything that comes next. They guide and support you along your journey of loss, giving you the tools to navigate and prioritize every task.
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Aly Murray is the founder of UPchieve. UPchieve aims to democratize access to academic support so that all students have an equal opportunity to finish high school, attend college, and achieve upward mobility.
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Jibril Sulaiman is the founder of Incluzion. Incluzion is a community of Black & Latinx professionals working remotely and we’re a startup that connects companies with diverse full-time, part-time and contract talent.
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Ario Tamat is the cofounder of KaryaKarsa. KaryaKarsa helps creators sell books, comics, audio and other digital goods directly to their fan communities
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Stephanie is the cofounder of Jellatech. Jellatech is transforming the collagen and gelatin market by harvesting pure, high quality gelatin and collagen from cells instead of from animals.
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Ken Kruger is the cofounder of Moon. Purchase Moon Visa® Prepaid Cards with crypto. Pay at millions of online merchants with secure virtual cards.
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Shaun Simon is the co-founder of ServiceGanja. With ServiceGanja, achieve your Cannabis Dispensaries sales goals using our easy-to-use and agile software that delights new and repeats customers.
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Sidney Haitoff is the cofounder of Mishe. Mishe provides Pay-As-You-Go Healthcare™; no insurance needed.
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Oscar Rovira is the cofounder of Neuro. With Neuro, train, predict, and deploy ML models. Get instant production-grade infrastructure with our API.
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Aaro Isosaari is the cofounder of Flowrite. Flowrite turns words into ready-to-send emails, messages, and posts in your personal style.
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Tim Ward is the cofounder of Opportuni. With Opportuni, get super relevant tenders delivered to your 📥 inbox, access tender documents 📁 with no portal madness and connect with some of the world's most skilled ✍️ bid writers.
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Dalton Skach is the cofounder of Gold Gate. Participate in Gold Gate's Upcoming $100M Luxury Real Estate Fund and Receive 1% Ownership Interests and 45 Days of Annual Use in 20 Exclusive Properties Throughout the World
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Tyler Beaty is the cofounder of Sero. Sero is building connected devices to treat the millions of people suffering from PTSD.
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Calvin Cooper is the founder of Rhove. Rhove allows anyone to invest in real estate so they can own the places they love.
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Chris Federspiel is the cofounder of Blackthorn.io. Blackthorn’s innovative software lets you plan and run events with ease and create effortless payment processes by tapping into the power of the Salesforce platform
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Chino Lex is the cofounder of Keyring. Keyring allows you to create bundles of your favorite streaming services.
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Jess Gartner is the founder of Allovue. Allovue helps school districts budget, manage, and evaluate their spending.
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Daniel Li is the cofounder of Marble. Marble provides virtual rental management at a $50 flat fee per month per unit, period.
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Nikita Jerschow is the founder of Sendblue. Sendblue is the world's first iMessage API.
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Michael Vega-Sanz is the cofounder of Lula. Lula helps companies handle all of their insurance needs, from industry-standard coverage and policy management to claims handling and more.
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David is the founder of Jeni AI. With Jenni AI, do more with fewer writers, and rank higher with lower costs. Use AI-assisted content writing to supercharge your SEO.
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Kyleigh Smith is the founder of Harold. With Harold, unlock your potential, one text message at a time by tracking your habits.
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Swapnil is the CEO and cofounder of Zeni. With Zeni, unlock real-time financial insights and a full-service finance team with Zeni's intelligent bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO services.
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Enzo is the cofounder of June. June is lightweight product analytics for subscription businesses - just connect your Segment account.
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Dami Odufuwa & Odun Eweniyi are the cofounders of Backdrop. Backdrop helps you discover the perfect backdrops for your pictures.
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Alex Bystrov is the cofounder of Voices. Voices helps creators monetize through a brand new format.
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Andrew Gazdecki is the founder of MicroAcquire. MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace.
Free. Private. No middlemen.
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Dr. Roshawnna Novellus is the founder of EnrichHER. EnrichHER connects pre-qualified companies led by women and founders of color to capital, coaching, and community so they can take their businesses to new heights.
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Simon Brami is the cofounder of Pictalio. Pictalio offers free portrait videos from a community of story makers, Engage your audience with real authentic content.
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Martin Sosic is the cofounder of Wasp. Wasp is a simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code.
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Khalief Brown is the co-founder of Renno. With Renno, transform your kitchen or bathroom in as little as 2 weeks and manage the entire process online - from design to financing, to execution.
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Todd Miller is the cofounder of ReferralCloud. ReferralCloud is an online clearinghouse for real estate agents to send and receive real estate referrals to each other.
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Jordan is the founder of WXLLSPACE. WXLLSPACE is connecting muralist to legal and commissioned wall space.
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Kseniya Papova is the cofounder of TeenUP. A learning platform designed for teens by teens!
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Alejandra is a cofounder of Flywallet. Flywallet is a Fintech helping people afford travel to anywhere in the world.
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Ethan is the founder of 1Feed. 1Feed is your quiet place on the internet, where you can focus on the people and content you care about.
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Matthew Green is the cofounder of Bodyguide. BodyGuide empowers you to self-solve aches, pain and tension. Click on the area you’re having trouble with, answer some questions and in two minutes we’ll build you a custom exercise program.
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Kathryn Finney is the founder of Genius Guild. Genius Guild is a business creation platform that builds and invests in market-based innovations that end racism.
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Guglielmo Schenardi & John Arts are the cofounders of Rita Personal Data. With Rita, Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.
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Makosa Munyaradzi & Ryan Katayi are cofounders of Farmhut. Farmhut is the biggest farm to folk marketplace in Zimbabwe. It is an online platform whose mission is to disrupt the food supply systems across Africa. Farmhut supports smallholder farmers to attain productivity and profitability.
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Jake Schonberger & Jake Singer are the cofounders of Swapstack. The purpose of Swapstack is to make it easier for brands and newsletter writers to connect. We built Swapstack because we are writers, and we were seeking out an easier way to monetize our work through sponsorships.
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Jamie Lee is the founder of Flox. Flox is the place to find new people with your friends
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Dexter Talbert is the founder of Fanwagon. FanWagon™ gives sports fans the best platform to give gifts to other fans.
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Bobby Quinn is the founder of Paypixl. With Paypixl, create a new project, upload your imagery, and see it on the map. Share your project easily with your customers and friends via email, SMS, and social media. Control who can share, see, and download your images.
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Terry Xu & Tianlun Chen are the cofounders of Cuely. Cuely's mission is to help companies take care of their employees through technology-assisted behavior changes.
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Ian Janicki is the founder of Outfit. Outfit is a DIY home renovation kit delivered right to your door.
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Capri Wheaton is the cofounder of Thryft. With Thryft, turn your Instagram page into a website in 1 click.
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Dan and Scott are the cofounders of Text Blaze. Text Blaze is the most versatile way to speed up typing on Chrome.
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Austin Allison is the cofounder of Pacaso. Pacaso empowers people to own a share of a second home, from 1/8 to 1/2, and experience true real estate ownership.
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Nick Ornitz is the cofounder of ProPhone. ProPhone is the Communications suite for home service professionals (e.g., painters, cleaners, lawn care pros).
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Ope Adeoye is the cofounder of OnePipe. OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
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Katharine Lau is the cofounder of Stuf. Stuf integrates into commercial real estate to provide members with safe and convenient access.
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Rahul is the cofounder of Modfy. Modfy is Figma for video - a browser-based video tool that converts and compresses your videos without uploading your files anywhere.
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George Simons is the cofounder of Solosuit. SoloSuit helps you respond to a debt lawsuit. They ask a few simple questions about your case. Based on your answers they prepare a legal response for you.
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Sanchali Pal is the founder of Joro. Joro empowers people to take climate action that matters.
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Otto Hanson is the cofounder of Termscout. Termscout has developed the first non-biased ratings and review system for contracts across a spectrum of industries and categories.
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Doug Neumann is the cofounder of Arpio. With Arpio, get instant recovery protection for your AWS applications with Arpio.
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Karanvir Singh is the founder of Pariksha. Pariksha is a one-stop solution for all Government exams including free daily tests, mock test series, preparation strategies and mentoring.
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Nir Minerbi is the cofounder of Classiq. Classiq allows you to automatically translate your innovative ideas into original quantum algorithms, and start making a profound impact on your industry.
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Jeremy Hurst is the founder of Idenati. Idenati allows you to organize everything you do online in one place.
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Matt is the cofounder of Dreamfully. Dreamfully provides visually-guided mindfulness aids that relieve stress, gather focus, and put you in a better place. Just watch, and breathe.
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Igino Cafiero is the cofounder of Bear Flag Robotics Bear Flag Robotics was founded to reduce the cost of growing food while increasing global food production through automation technology.
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Nirali Zaveri is the cofounder of Friz. Friz is a credit card for freelancers in southeast Asia.
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Blair Silverberg is the founder of Capital. Capital is the creator of The Intelligent Credit Market. The Intelligent Credit Market is a powerful technology that helps leading global investors find, understand and finance companies non-dilutively bringing modern, Silicon Valley technology to the world’s $5T private capital markets
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Shantal Anderson is the founder of Reel Mood. Experience LIVE stream content from your favorite artists, musicians & creators on the network. Reel Mood's operating staff are the entertainment industry's recognized and trusted professionals coming together to establish a new medium that reflects todays music trends and pop culture phenoms.
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Joshua Hsu is the cofounder of Introhm. Introhm makes the Q-System. The Q-System is a compact set of 5 motion capture, waterproof modules, capable of full body motion capture. This gives you insights such as: type of exercise, sets, reps, tempo, & form.
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Timothy Hall is the cofounder of Simporter. Simporter makes AI software that predicts demand for new consumer products.
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Demetrius Curry is the founder of College Cash. College Cash allows people with student debt to use their everyday lifestyle to pay off their debt by capturing moments inspired by their favorite brands.
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Greg Davidson is the cofounder of Lalo. Lalo provides essentials for your little one’s milestones—from first foods to first playdates.
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Tom Hundley is the founder of Street Cred. Street Cred is a platform to rate and review gamers. Team up with better players to strengthen the gaming community.
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Lyn Johnson & Sara Sparhawk are the cofounders of West Tenth. West Tenth connects you to the home-based businesses in your town.
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Todd Rovak is the cofounder of Carefull. Carefull analyzes your loved one’s spending, bills, account balances and due dates. If something looks unusual, you’ll get an alert via text and email.
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Jake Soberal is the cofounder of Bitwise Industries. Bitwise Industries creates a bridge between humans from marginalized communities and stories of systemic poverty to skills and resources necessary to access opportunities in the tech industry.
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Ashleigh is the cofounder of Bagboard. With Bagboard, promote, spend and save with brands that
are kind to people and the planet, simply by carrying one of our eco-friendly, reusable smart bags.
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Sherif is the founder of Reshift Security. Reshift makes shifting security left seamless with security bug detection and remediation at compile time.
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Rodney Gainous Jr. is the founder of Safe. Safe is a simple Chrome extension that verifies emails with encryption.
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Timo von Bargen is the founder of Covalo. Covalo is a platform that enables efficient and sustainable sourcing as well as collaboration within the beauty industry.
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Ryan Horrigan is a founder of Artie. With Artie, discover games from your favorite celebrities, athletes, music artists, and influencers.
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Ali Abramovitz is the cofounder of Chorus. Chorus is online group meditation classes led by trained instructors.
At Chorus, you’ll breathe to the beat of an awesome playlist with an amazing community and feel an immediate release of stress in your body and mind.
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Mat Sherman is the founder of SeedScout. SeedScout is building a global scout force to build relationships with every pre-seed founder in the world to connect them with the resources they need to succeed as a founder.
Thank you to Hamid from AZ Tech Podcat for letting me use this audio. Check out that podcast here.
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Jason Patel is the founder of Transizion. Transizion provides college counseling, done better.
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Arnob Mukherjee and Nishant Arora are the cofounders of Olvy. Olvy enables you to create beautiful release notes that add joy to shipping software.
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Emily is the founder of Della Terra. Della Terra is a sustainable and inclusive shoe brand creating real shoes for real people.
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Matthew is the director of content marketing at Fast. Before that, he ran the social media accounts for the NYSE. His insights on building brands and marketing companies is second to none. I wanted to bring him on FTF to learn from his experience, and I know that any startup founder listening will get value out of listening as well. Hope you enjoy!
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Yaseer is the founder of Axiom. With Axiom, use browser automation without all the coding experience to automate your repetitive tasks.
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Ben Laufer is a founder of Gensight. Gensight is building tools to help digital creators make more informed decisions with data.
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This is a segment of Forward Thinking Investors, featuring Jenny Fielding! Jenny is the Managing Director of Techstars New York and Managing Partner at The Fund.
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Emmanuel Massenez is a co-founder of Kwali. Kwali automates the quality control of food franchises.
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Preeti Suri is the founder of AdventureTripr. Explore and book extraordinary experiences with local guides directly.
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Joris Delanoue is a cofounder of Fairmint. Fairmint help founders turn their equity into the most powerful
tool to engage with their|stakeholders, whoever they may be.
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Alex Kolchinski is a cofoudner of Mezli. Mezli creates healthy Mediterranean bowls filled with flavor, cooked by robots!
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Guillaume Moubeche is the cofounder of Lemlist. With Lemlist, send cold emails that get replies.
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Chris, Dan, and Matt are the cofounders of Omnia Fishing. Omnia Fishing is your one-stop-shop for smart fishing gear online. Try our shop-by-lake map and get better resources to land more fish.
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Jonathan Woahn is on the founding team of Bookclub. Join book clubs, led by the authors themselves.
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Pavel Ershov the cofounder of Directual. Directual is a no-code platform for building scalable and sophisticated apps in an intuitive visual interface. Create your app 10 times faster!
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Adam Berke is the cofounder of WorkPatterns. WorkPatterns is a reimagined people management system, helping modern managers and their teams stay connected and operate more effectively in the present reality of workplaces.
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Topher Haddad is the cofounder of Albedo. They build satellites that capture the highest resolution satellite imagery.
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Beenu Arora is the cofounder of Cyble. Cyble's ultimate objective is to provide organizations with real-time visibility to vulnerabilities in their digital footprint to help combat cyber threats effectively.
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Brennan is the cofounder of Patch. Patch makes carbon removal as simple as writing a few lines of code. Build sustainable products with ease and put your climate goals on autopilot.
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Seb Poole is the cofounder of Frankie Health. Frankie is a B2B mental health platform that delivers personalised mental healthcare to modern teams.
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Benjamin Ha is the cofounder of Muse. Muse enables anyone to build a 3D website.
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Will Schmitt is the cofounder of Rightfoot. Rightfoot is how developers, creators, and businesses break apart the debt crisis, starting with student debt.
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Rod Danan is the founder of Prentus. Prentus sources and vets diverse tech talent that you can trial on demand. Save $10,000 in salary and start hiring with confidence.
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Cory McKane is the founder of WeStrive. The best personal training app for growing your business. Earn more money, save more time, and seamlessly manage your clients - all in one place!
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Madeline is the Founder of Arthena. Arthena is a quantitative investment and research firm. Arthena's models afford superior clarity in assessing the inherent financial value and underlying risk in works of art.
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Ravi Vadrevu is the cofounder of Kalendar AI. Kalendar AI sends personalized and exclusive invitations to your ideal customer profiles with time-sensitive bidding on your availability.
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Tomer Molovinsky is the cofounder of Per Diem. Per Diem gives you all the tools you need to sell subscriptions online. Build loyalty, increase average order value, and start expanding your customer base today.
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Su Han is the founder of Privoce. With Privoce APIs, netizens will take ownership of their data--digital profile, social connections, and developers will also benefit from the interoperable user APIs.
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Nicolas Rabault is the founder of Luos. Luos is building open source and real-time architecture for designing, testing, and deploying embedded applications.
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Alex Emmanuel is the cofounder of 1v1Me. With 1v1Me, play 1v1s for cash. Wager with friends and pay 0% fees.
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Sharath Kuruganty & Curtis Cummings are the cofounders of Shoutout. Shoutout makes it incredibly easy to tap into your existing social proof and turn it into a beautiful "Wall of Love". Capture, curate, and publish a wall in less than 3 minutes 👇
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Mariam Hakobyan is the cofounder of Softr. With Softr, build powerful websites, web apps and client portals on Airtable, in 10 minutes.
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Connor Murphy is the cofounder of Bridge. With Bridge, own, build and help your personal network—starting with intros.
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Ondrej Hrebicek & Patrick Thompson are the cofounders of Iteratively. Iteratively helps teams who rely on data to capture clean, consistent analytics they can trust.
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Taj Adhav is the co-founder of Leasecake, which is the operating system for location management. Leasecake is the sole source of truth that helps business owners stay on top of all the time-sensitive, mission-critical events in their business.
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Emanuel Frauenlob is the cofounder of Mesg.ai. Mesg.ai helps salespeople achieve a higher response rate on their outreach messages by providing unique prospect insight and improving their sales copy.
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Swarup Nanda & Preeti Chib are the cofounders of Pencil. Pencil is the perfect platform to read, write and get your story discovered by the power of community
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Alex is the co-founder of Questo. Questo provides city exploration games for travelers and locals
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Miri Buckland & Ellie Buckingham are cofounders of The Landing. The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together.
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Xander Oltmann is the cofounder of Scope. Scope matches you with the right expert for your implementation, and provides the tools to manage the project effectively.
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Adar Hay is the cofounder of Jiga. Jiga allows you to get custom parts easily from top suppliers in CNC machining, 3D printing and sheet metal.
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Margaux Avedisian & Deborah Metts are the cofounders of Beyond The Runway. Beyond the Runway is a multi-brand fashion retail app that allows you to create a 95% customized fit avatar. By using AI and your pictures, BTR finds the accurate size for you. Try outfits before you buy them and see how they look on you
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Ajay Saini and Vahid Fazel-Rezai are the cofounders of Overfit. Overfit provides a human trainer that holds you accountable and AI creates the best workouts for you.
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their thing yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
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Chris Edwards is the cofounder of Sensory Robotics. Most collaborative robots are weak, slow, and expensive. However, their system creates a safety envelope around a conventional robot and human operator, allowing them to work together as partners.
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Aakash Shah is the co-founder of Wyndly. Wyndly gives allergy sufferers lifelong relief with personalized allergy drop immunotherapy.
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Alexandre Borowczyk is the cofounder of Notos Technologies. By using the same techniques birds use to harvest energy during flight, we have created a novel Mission Management System (MMS) which allows UAVs to autonomously find and exploit sources of wind energy in the atmosphere before and during your mission, using a three-module system.
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Fehintolu Olaogun & Olorunfemi Jegede are the cofounders of CredPal. CredPal is a revolutionary credit solution geared towards providing seamless credit access for businesses and individuals across developing economies.
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Timothy is the founder of Call Your Friends. Call Your Friends helps you build closer connections with the people you love. We believe quality relationships are the source of happy, successful lives.
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Jillian Schuller is the founder of Sundayy. Sundayy is the social network you check once a week, on Sunday. See a different side of your friends, family, and yourself. Start reflecting intentionally on what matters most, together.
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Andrew is the co-founder of Doorvest. Doorvest allows you to own income-generating rental homes entirely online.
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Sedale Turbovsky is the cofounder of OpenGrants. OpenGrants is a search engine and expert marketplace that unlocks non-dilutive U.S. funding for organizations around the world.
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Chris Price and Nathan Frey are the cofounders of AtomicAI. AtomicAI ingests your synthesis data and provides insights to help you converge to the perfect chemical recipe - and nail it every time.
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Conor Gleeson is on the founding team of Sacra. Sacra gets you the data and research you need to be a better private markets investor.
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Vernita Brown is on the founding team (and is CEO) of Natalist. Natalist is everything you need to increase your chances of conceiving and kick-start a healthy pregnancy.
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Rian is the cofounder of FloWaste. Bringing downstream analytics to the food supply chain… Starting with cafeterias.
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David Bromberg is the cofounder of Sellerant. Sellerant is an AI-enabled Customer Success Platform built to optimize upsell opportunities.
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Vahan Melkonyan is the cofounder of Cauldron. Cauldron is software that redefines the job application process and lets you meet the best candidates in the shortest time.
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Anastasia Logvinenko is the cofounder of Pudding.ai. Pudding.ai manages a complete view of all your ad creatives & performance across multiple platforms - visuals, videos, and copy
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Alex Masmej is the co-founder of Showtime. Showtime allows anyone to discover and showcase digital art, memes, and more.
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Matt Mireles is the founder of Oasis. Oasis allows you to videochat through an avatar that looks totally real. Be your alter ego or your ideal self.
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Cameron is the founder of Keyma.sh. Keyma.sh is an online multiplayer typing game that allows typists from all around the world go against each other and find out who comes on top.
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Moe Salih is the cofounder of Hypercharts. Hypercharts is building clear and simple fundamental financials and business metrics of public companies.
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Ranjith Parasuraman is the founder of Postal. Postal is a paywall for your email. Make unknown senders pay a fee to reach your inbox.
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Samara is the Founding Partner of an institutionally-backed pre-seed stage fund, Chingona Ventures, focusing on investing in technology and technology-enabled companies all over the U.S. Prior to this she was an early stage investor at MATH Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund investing in technology start-ups with differentiated approaches to customer acquisition. In this capacity, she led new investment review, diligence and execution. Prior to venture capital, Samara worked at Goldman Sachs, where she was continually ranked top 5 in selling financial products, providing market insights, advising on portfolio construction, and consulting on business practices.
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Sophie Mona Pagès is the founder of LVRSNFRNDS. LVRSNFRNDS is a safe online social club centering intimacy & relationships for you to thrive, one conversation at a time.
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Yuliya Belyayeva is the founder of Notus, a productivity workflow tool where all work and collaboration for comms and marketing teams happens.
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Dejan Pralica is the cofounder of SoleSavy. SoleSavy is a tight-knit members-only community that brings together sneakerheads, enthusiasts, and collectors to help them purchase the shoes they want for retail.
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Zeb is the founder of LegalQ. LegalQ provides access to independent attorneys at your direction.
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Travis Hyde is the founder of YoYoBoat. An online peer-to-peer boat rental platform where you can list your boat(s) for rent when you’re not using it. They focus on USED boats under 26-feet (pontoon, ski boat, fishing boat, jet ski).
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Jason Alvarez-Cohen & Nick Eischens are the cofounders of Popl. Popl is a small tag placed on the back of your phone that lets you instantly share your social media, music, payment platforms and contact info just by tapping your phone to a compatible smartphone!
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Lex Oiler is the founder of Billbox. Billbox is a digital solution that makes it easier for patients to pay medical bills while improving their credit, straight from their phone. Healthcare professionals get paid faster and patients can improve their financial health while improving their physical health.
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Allison Swihart is the cofounder of Syndetic. Syndetic provides software that enables instant data storefronts, for on the spot data sales.
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Amy is the cofounder of Heartcade. Their mission is to make dating more fun and more human by forgoing endless swiping in exchange for a chance to develop more meaningful connections, romantic or otherwise.
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Nicolas Rosencovich is the co-founder of The Mind Company. The Mind Company helps you end your smoking habit today with our smoking cessation toolkit by using a unique combination of virtual reality, mindfulness and CBT.
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Ravi Vadrevu is the cofounder of Krya AI. Krya enables you to scale your outreach with powerful AI-personalized messages.
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Paul Yang is the founder of Bubble. With Bubble, find the best boba shops and individual drinks around you, currently working for SF bay area and Irvine.
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Matheus is the cofounder of Tint. Tint empowers any company to embed insurance into its products
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Diego Rojas is the cofounder of Finantier. Finantier allows startups to build the next big thing leveraging their Open Finance Infrastructure across Southeast Asia
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Kari Clark is the cofounder of Breakout. Breakout fosters cross-team connection through all-staff events like competitions & celebrations that are custom-designed to reinforce your unique culture and values.
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Brandon and Frank are cofounders of Coverified. CoVerified provides custom software tools created to help schools and employers get back to activity safely
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Tom Schulz is the cofounder of Together. Together helps people in tech organize or join a community focused co-living experience.
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Dan is the founder of SafetyNet Technologies. SafetyNet Technologies uses light emitting devices to help fishermen catch the right fish and tackle some of the biggest issues facing the commercial fishing industry.
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Isaac Wesley is the cofounder of Trainn. Train helps anyone train customers or users to become power-users of their products. Customer education leads to higher upgrading revenue and lower churn.
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Eugene Lee is the founder and CEO of ChannelMeter. ChannelMeter simplifies discovery, onboarding, management, and payments for Creators.
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Jan Kalthoefer is the founder of Type Studio. Type Studio is a text-based online video editor. We transcribe your video so you can easily edit it by editing the text and add subtitles automatically.
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Deep is the founder of ReactiveQ. ReactiveQ researches NISQ algorithms as well as conduct fundamental research in preparation for the post fault-tolerant quantum computing era that will be realized decades from now. A key area they are tackling is Materials Design where functionality, durability, life, cost, and sustainability are desired characteristics for optimization.
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Tatiana Rice is the founder of BlkArthouse. BlkArthouse promotes and sells original and contemporary art by emerging black artists that reflects the complexity and richness of our culture
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Chad Wittman is the cofounder of Persona. Persona is a social audio-first space built around questions with friends + experts.
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Andrew Yates is the cofounder of Promoted.ai. Promoted.ai is building a native promotion platform as a service
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In this episode, we go over high-level questions that investors have about ClimateTech, and we have our guest, Josie Stoker, answer all of them. This is a great episode for investors looking to make investments in ClimateTech but aren't educated about the space yet.
In this episode, we cover:- What's going on in ClimateTech
- Do people actually care? How much?
- Is there money in ClimateTech?
- Is it too early to invest in ClimateTech?
- And more!
Josie is the CEO and co-founder of Capture.
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Arda Helvacılar is the founder of Sertifier. Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
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John Quinn is the cofounder of Exos Aerospace. Exos is a leading developer and operator of reusable space vehicles.
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Oscar Pedroso is the co-founder of Thimble. Thimble teaches kids STEM skills through weekly 1-hr classes taught by tech professionals. Kits are shipped every 3 months.
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Alexander is the cofounder of Quick'r Care. They've worked to fix the broken systems that get in the way of good immediate care by uniting modern patients and providers.
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Morgan Gallant is the founder of Operand. Operand is a next-generation personal virtual assistant.
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David is the co-founder of Internalyze. Internalyze is an online sales and emotional intelligence bootcamp, built to help underrepresented communities break into sales in high-demand industries without prior experience, while increasing diversity within our partner companies.
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Ibukunoluwa Salau is the cofounder of AfrikTrip. AfrikTrip allows you to Explore Africa by booking tours, activities, and things to do today for the holiday.
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Mat Sherman is the founder of Growthmeter. Growthmeter helps Silicon Valley grade, global startups, get funded by tier-one VCs.
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DuMarkus Davis is the founder of Musicbuk. Musicbuk offers a variety of instructors, giving you the ability to find your perfect fit instructor to make learning music fun and engaging.
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Michelle Kwok is the cofounder of Flik. Flik is connecting and empowering driven women at all stages of the female founder pipeline through meaningful apprenticeships.
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Ali El Idsrissi is the cofounder of Upchoose. With Upchoose, receive premium organic baby clothes you'll love at each phase of your baby's growth! Return them after use to save money while reducing clutter and waste.
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Gaurav Jain is a GP at Afore Capital. Afore Capital is a $124M venture fund focused on investing in Pre-Seed.
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Michael is the co-founder of Ethi. Ethi is web-app where you can analyze the data companies have collected about you, and decide what you want to do with it, if anything.
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David Friedman is the cofounder of Knox. Knox makes turning your home into an investment property frictionless; delivering passive income and a fantastic value growth investment.
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Dalia is the founder of Presently. Presently helps cut out gift waste, stress, and clutter, while also making it easy for groups to give gifts and cards that’ll be talked about for years to come!
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Madison Campbell is the cofounder of Leda Health. Leda Health transforms existing systems of sexual assault prevention, care, and justice to better serve survivors and the communities in which they live.
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Delian Asparouhov is a principal at Founders Fund. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer.
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Mariam is the founder of Grid. Grid creates mobile games that educate, engage and empower people towards positive behavior change.
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Sheldon and Amir are the cofounders of The Players Company (TCP). TPC acts as the intermediary between athletes and service providers adding a layer of guided protection and curation to ensure their needs are met
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Veetahl Eilat-Raichel is the co-founder and CEO of Sorbet. Sorbet Legitimizes and incentivizes employee time off for maximum wellness, productivity and performance.
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Kim Stiefel is the cofounder of Repeat. Repeat powers frictionless reordering experiences that are better & more delightful for your e-commerce customers, resulting in more repeat revenue for your business.
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Kai is the founder of InfoPop. Infopop is an information management system that augments your reality with meaningful data.
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Mallun and Leyla are partners at Operator Collective. Operator Collective was founded because we believe the power in venture capital is concentrated among a homogenous group that doesn’t represent where our industry is now or where it’s going. Despite the essential role operators play in Silicon Valley, they’ve been largely missing from the venture world. So we’ve created a new access point for operators from diverse backgrounds; they may not be household names, but they’ve spent their entire careers building and scaling companies, and now they’re ready to actively support founders and their teams as they bring new visions to life.
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William Stringer is the founder and CEO of Chisos. Chisos writes checks of $15,000-$50,000 to invest in idea-stage startups and side-hustle businesses.
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Reginald Parker is the CEO and founder of Optimal Technology. Optimal is lowering electricity bills by up to 70% by combining proprietary hardware & software.
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Andrew is one of the cofounders of IncentivePilot. With IncentivePilot, easily pilot and scale incentive programs across your sales org. Ditch the spreadsheets, forget about prize distribution, and finally prove ROI.
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About Sheel:
I'm co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) in San Francisco, with Jake Gibson. We're a $75m fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in fintech companies globally, generally with a first check of $500k-$1.5m. We take a pretty broad view on fintech, and many vertical SaaS and marketplace businesses fit in our purview too. We invest for a better future and genuinely believe that our companies make the world better; fintech is a great way to improve people's lives.
We like investing at the seed stage because it allows us to have the greatest impact. Founders need help and support and we love being the first call - we are both entrepreneurs first, investors second. We love thinking through strategy, figuring out distribution, helping companies hire, and helping founders raise the next round. We roll up our sleeves and try to be the biggest cheerleaders and most trusted partners for our companies.
I’m also on the investment committee for the Catalyst Fund, an initiative to support entrepreneurs building financial solutions for the underserved in India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa.
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Adam Jones is the founder of FanFest. Fanfest is building the Shopify for virtual sporting events and beyond!
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Caroline is a GP at Metrodora Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the health and education sector. Previously, Caroline was a Partner at Blockchange Ventures and the Executive Director of Beanstalk Labs, an innovation lab concentrated on the development of new business ideas for a New York-based venture fund that invests in early-stage retail technology companies.
Caroline was also an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom LLP where she practiced corporate law focusing on mergers & acquisitions and investment management. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She is a passionate mental health advocate and a producer of documentary films focused on social justice and human rights issues.
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Rebekah Bastian is the founder of OwnTrail. OwnTrail is a platform that advances women individually and systemically through the scalable owning and sharing of the trails we blaze through life.
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Erin Quick is the founder of PairTee. PairTree is the modern approach to adoption. By shedding the age-old constraints of the conventional adoption process, PairTree uses future-forward technology to connect adoptive parents with birth moms – creating happier families, faster, for much less money.
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Liz is the cofounder and CEO of Soona. Soona provides pro photo and video shoots in 3 easy steps for Ecommerce brands.
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Minh is the founder of Potfolio. Potfolio allows regular people to invest intelligently, with all the bells and whistles of a portfolio manager.
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Jeff Morris is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One. He was previously the VP of Product, Revenue at Tinder. In the role, Tinder became the #1 top grossing app in the App Store and one of the top grossing products in mobile history.
As a product leader, Morris is passionate about building high performing teams and creating profitable products that delight customers.
At Tinder, Morris built the revenue team and led the creation of multiple blockbuster hits including Tinder Gold and Boost. These products broke industry records and helped increase the Match Group market cap by $8B+.
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Ish Baid is the founder of Virtually. Virtually is an online school builder that brings together live conferencing, payment-processing, and student management in one place.
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Megha Agarwal is the founder of Neon. Neon is a one-stop bill pay solution for essential household or business bills such as rent, utilities and insurance.
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Rachel Lo is the cofounder of Struck. Struck is a dating app that looks back at the entire solar system the minute you were born, then pairs you with romantically compatible users accordingly.
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Tucker Schreiber is the cofounder of Combo. Combo is the best way to play with your most loyal viewers on Twitch.
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This is an Early Bets segment on Forward Thinking FM, featuring Rahul Rana. Rahul is the author of Making Moonshots and an Associate intern at Lux Capital. In Making Moonshots, investor and operator Rahul Rana asks the question: Why should we live in a world of incremental scientific and technological progress when the human race has proven in past eras that we are capable of so much more?
This episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.
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In this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, we have Susan Sierota, who is the founder of Waggit. Waggit is the only health & well-being monitor that provides key indicators to help detect health conditions early, improving and possibly extending the life of our dogs. The episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.
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In this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, we have Dominique Soucy, founder of PürInstinct. PürInstinct is a sport that mixes basketball, rugby, football, soccer without contact for a super-fast game. The episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.
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In this episode of Forward Thinking Investors, we have Clara Brenner, Co-founder and Managing Partner at the Urban Innovation Fund. The episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.
About Clara
Clara is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in the future of cities. The fund provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies.
Previously, she co-founded Tumml, a startup hub for urban tech. The organization has provided 38 startups with seed funding and mentorship, and hosts thought leadership events around urban innovation. In 2014, Forbes listed her as one of its “30 Under 30” for Social Entrepreneurship. Clara’s work energizing urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including MSNBC and TechCrunch, among others. She serves on the Board of Tumml, as well as the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Bay Area Local Advisory Committee. Clara earned her MBA from MIT Sloan and BA from NYU.
Clara's Twitter: Here
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Nevena Sofranic is the founder of Recrooit. Recrooit is a recruitment platform that helps companies find and hire qualified candidates by harnessing the power of the community.
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Michael Martocci is the founder and CEO of SwagUp. SwagUp focuses on creating high-quality swag packs for employee welcoming, client gifting, event attendees, and more. They pair this with our warehousing and fulfillment services to ensure your swag gets where you want it, when you want, without you having to break a sweat through our centralized dashboard and API
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Jasmine Wang is one of the cofounders of Copysmith. Copysmith allows you to write product descriptions, ads, taglines, SEO metadata and more in seconds. Never start from a blank page again.
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In this episode of Forward Thinking Investors, we have Charlie O'donnell, Founder and Partner at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. The episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.
About Charlie O'donnell (From BBV Website)Charlie O'Donnell is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. The fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised. Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of The Wing, Canary, Hungryroot, Ample Hills, Clubhouse, Imagen, and goTenna among others.
Charlie has a reputation for being early to identifying important companies. Nick Bilton identifies him as an influence on early Twitter investors in his book, Hatching Twitter. Dennis Crowley credits him as having helped kick off the first funding of Foursquare before other VCs had said yes. At First Round Capital, he helped source the firm's investments in Singleplatform (sold to Constant Contact), Moat (Sold to Oracle) and GroupMe (sold to Skype). Charlie discovered GroupMe at the hackathon where the service had been built. He also sourced investments in Backupify (which was an idea he had tweeted to the founder, a friend of his), Moat, chloe + isabel, and Refinery29.
Working in venture capital since 2001, he apprenticed his way through the asset class with analyst roles on the original Union Square Ventures team as well as at the General Motors pension fund--a long time limited partner in many top tier funds.
Charlie is one of only a dozen individuals to be named to Business Insider's 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech five or more times. He served on the founding board of the New York Tech Meetup and is one of the group's first 100 members. He was recently named to City & State Magazine’s Tech Power 50. His blog, This is Going to Be BIG!, is one of the ten most widely read VC blogs in the country and over 13,000 people read his weekly NYC tech newsletter. He has spoken at SXSW and Techcrunch Disrupt.
Charlie bikes to work, has done four Ironman 70.3s, four marathons, and founded the kayaking program in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The longest he has consecutively been outside of the five boroughs of New York City is three weeks.
About Brooklyn Bridge Ventures (From BBC Website)
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the first VC fund founded in Brooklyn, NY, is the most accessible early-stage partner for startups in NYC. We foster a thriving community both online and offline open to founders and innovative professionals of all backgrounds.
BBV manages approximately $30 million and counting across three funds, leading or co-leading investments of up to $400,000 in New York City pre-seed and seed companies that have yet to raise $750,000 in prior rounds. Conversations often start pre-product and pre-deck and no warm intros or other systematic barriers prevent us from engaging with the community. Pitches and outreach generally start by e-mail or via a calendar request.
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Chris Motley is the founder of Mentor Spaces. Mentor Spaces's vision is to help high-performing, Black students and young professionals navigate the road to success through mentorship with experienced and influential leaders.
This is an episode of Forward Thinking Founders, hosted on Forward Thinking FM, recorded in Forward Thinking City Studios.
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Devika Thapar is the cofounder of Wilbe. Wilbe is the home for entrepreneurial scientists. Wilbe educates, supports and invests in scientists solving the realest problems at scale: climate, health and security.
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Axel Thomson is the founder of Ribbon. Ribbon allows you to video chat instantly with your own users. Discover product opportunities, do usability testing and get to know your users.
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Andreas is the co-founder and CEO of Aerial. Aerial is the easiest and most simple way to track your carbon footprint.
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Armando is the Cofounder and CEO of Breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs allow for the quick creation and iteration of lead scoring by you. Identify, deliver and close on the best leads… No SDR Army required.
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Ablorde Ashigbi is the founder of 4Degrees. The 4Degrees CRM identifies the right connections to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships, and activate your network when you need it.
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Chad Hall is the founder of Remodelmate. Remodelmate uses technology and world-class customer service to make your bathroom renovation effortless.
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Yorgos is the founder of Screenbreak. Their browser extension transforms any online article you want to read into a format that's designed for paper. Print-at-home or create collections and have them delivered as paperbacks. For all the articles you bookmarked "for later" and never read.
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Christopher Dengsø is the founder of Cueup. Cueup is the easiest way for you to book a great DJ for your event, simple as that!
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Amin Bahari is the cofounder of Elite Sweets, which creates the Elite Donut. The Elite Donut is a protein-packed (13g to be exact), gluten-free, naturally sweetened donut. Satisfy your sweet tooth and created the anytime donut, perfect for any occasion
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Adam is a co-founder of Neurable. Neurable builds full-stack neurotechnology tools that interpret human intent, measure emotion, and provide telekinetic control of the digital world.
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Peter Gao is the cofounder of Aquarium. Machine learning models are only as good as the datasets they're trained on. Aquarium helps ML teams make better models by improving their dataset quality.
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Alec Ellin is the cofounder of Laylo. Stop losing out when your fans forget. Share your drops anywhere and collect email, phone number and Facebook Messenger.
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Deniz Binay is the founder of Classalog. Classalog is the marketplace to find and connect with remote instructors to learn new skills.
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Tim Smits & Jorn Rigter are the cofounders of Unpluq. Unpluq helps you to regain control over your smartphone usage. It enables you to focus on the meaningful things in life, by giving you the power to decide when to remove distracting apps.
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Adam Hardej is the founder of Open Scout. Open Scout connects founders with investors based on shared interests rather than shared networks.
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Alex Taub is the co-founder and CEO of Upstream. With Upstream, join communities, give and get help, attend events to meet other professionals, and spend meaningful time together.
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Auston Bunsen & Dmitry Shklovsky are the cofounders of QuikNode. QuikNode makes it simple to power your blockchain applications and scale up as you grow. From elastic APIs & dedicated nodes, to powerful tools & analytics, all at your command through a simple control panel.
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Jaimin is the founder of Reconcile. Reconcile is a voice-controlled financial tracker, empowering busy professionals to track and manage their expenses on-the-fly using Siri.
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Siqi Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Runway. Runway is working on a business financial tools built for the 21st century. Siqi was was formerly the VP of Growth at Postmates and ran Sandbox VR before starting Runway.
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Heather Payne is the founder and CEO of Juno College Of Technology. Juno College of Technology is a Canadian post-graduate coding school that helps you build a fulfilling career as a web developer, live online from anywhere in the world.
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Manik is the founder of Therma. Therma builds Smart Refrigeration monitoring tools that protect your inventory, guests, and brand. Their mission is to create the Clean Coldchain of the future.
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Eric Ingram is the founder of SCOUT. SCOUT is developing small, inexpensive satellites to perform in-space inspections of large, expensive satellites.
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Dryden is the founder of Bluebook Cities. They are building a new kind of city to give more people the opportunity to realize their potential.
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Matt Tillman is the founder of OpenEnvoy. More than 25% of monthly invoices are wrong. OpenEnvoy audits every invoice, so you're never overcharged again.
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Humaira is the founder of Walzay. Their vision is for people to take control of their lives, and for companies to compete for the best talent in the world to build their brand.
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John Lee is the cofounder and CEO of Loopie. With Loopie, order your laundry to be picked up, washed, dried, folded, and returned within 24 hours by their network of Certified Drivers and Washers.
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Chris Armstrong is the founder of Niice. Niice brings all your guidelines, libraries and projects together in a collaborative hub that evolves with your brand.
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Daniel is the founder of Docoh. Docoh allows you to search, analyze and compare millions of SEC filings and companies, updated in real-time.
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Peter is the founder of Staffy. Staffy is an on-demand platform that digitally connects skilled workers with shifts in healthcare, hospitality, and general labour.
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Arwina Mogul is the founder of Beam.gg. Beam.gg is an online community software that lets users launch custom online community websites with built-in gamification features.
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Matt Villarreal is the founder and CEO of Infinite Composites. Infinite Composites is building the future of energy storage and composite materials for space, defense, and sustainable transportation.
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Sean Li is the co-founder and CEO of Magic. Magic is creating a single SDK for passwordless, WebAuthn, and social login - fully customizable.
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Josh Israel is the co-founder and CEO of Hava Health, maker of Hale. Hale makes a device that automatically eases you off nicotine in a way that minimizes the discomfort of nicotine withdrawal while you learn to live a smoke-free life.
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Albert Tai is the co-founder and CEO of Hypercare. Hypercare is a mobile and web coordination platform built for clinicians by clinicians to securely connect and collaborate for patient care.
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Benjamin is the founder and CEO of Wand. Wand connects vetted, background checked cleaning professionals to consumers through their secure, end-to-end platform
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Amy Molk is the founder of Beanstalk. Beanstalk delivers the best live and on-demand interactive kids classes from the comfort of home.
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Ben Zlotnick is the founder and CEO of Eden. Eden is a professional lawn care, landscaping, and snow removal company that offers an array of services to enhance the curb appeal of your property.
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Khushboo Jha is the founder and CEO of BuyProperly. BuyProperly allows you to easily grow your wealth by investing in fractional real estate.
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Max is the Cofounder and CEO of Sherpa. Sherpa helps travelers move freely around the world and shift the way the world's leading travel providers think about travel identification. Guide your customers safely and confidently through the COVID-19 travel landscape by providing the information they need and documentation they require.
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Yoav is the co-founder and CEO of Walnut. Walnut is the world’s first failure-free, codeless and 100% customizable platform that empowers every sales rep to own their successful sales demo experience.
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Muath Juady & Kinana Joudeh are the cofounders of DyNotify. DyNotify allows you to track & receive alerts on price changes & availability for any product or service.
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Louis Beryl is the founder of Rocketplace. Rocketplace is a curated marketplace of top-quality professional service providers. Find Rocketplace on Twitter here.
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Lyonel is the founder of TipSnaps. TipSnaps is a social media marketplace where social media celebrities/icons(Makers) can share and sell exclusive content to their Loyal followers(Tippers).
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Mike Adams is the co-founder and CEO of Grain. Grain helps you instantly record, transcribe, and highlight the best parts of your Zoom video calls.
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Graham Atlee is the founder of Triton. The Triton AR Headset is a 3D printed headset that uses off the shelf hardware to deliver immersive augmented reality.
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Nick Dangerfield is the founder of Oda. Oda is creating building speakers meticulously designed for live performance, so your home becomes the venue.
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Anu is the cofounder of Ananya Health. Ananya Health makes affordable, appropriate technologies to address the biggest issues in global public health.
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Kirill Goryunov & Vlas Lezin are the founders of HumanIPO. HumanIPO is a marketplace for capitalizing human potential.
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Wendy Gilch is the founder of Selling Later. Selling Later is A free resource that let's future sellers and buyers connect in advance, without selling their information to real estate companies.
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Kim is the founder of névé Apparel. névé has come up with the best solution for various cold-weather sports & conditions, from spring skiing in 50 degrees to cycling in a flurry to snowboarding at 14k feet in a -2 degree blizzard, we understand the need for multiple levels of temperature control. we currently offer 3 weights for women: light, medium & ultra & 1 weight for men-light- while all 3 are waterproof & windproof, each has a varying degree of warmth
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Lola Priego is the founder of Base. Base helps you Improve your diet, sleep, stress, brain with affordable at-home lab testing. Get insights, motivation and in-app recommendations.
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Anita Hossain is the Co-founder and CEO of The Grand. The Grand is a platform and community that actively supports each other in navigating professional and personal life transitions
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Michelle is the founder of Waste Not. Waste Not is a searchable site of sustainable suppliers. With listings for packaging, interiors, retail, textiles, restaurants and more: they are working to make it easier to reduce waste at the scale of business.
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Bryanne is the founder of Unruly Studios. Unruly Studios empowers students to learn critical STEM skills through active, social recess-style play!
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Andreea Bunica is the founder of mean-bean. mean-bean is a snappy AR pocket projector enabling wearable and screen-free remote interactions- because being far away doesn’t have to mean being stuck in place and talking to a screen.
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Roy Nallapeta is the cofounder of Glance. Glance is your copilot that gives intelligent cross-channel recommendations. No manual report creation, no data collation, and no digging for insights.
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Alli Young is the founder of The Forem. The Forem’s comprehensive end-to-end Career Advancement Program empowers employees to own their career development. By mastering a curriculum grounded in the 5 Critical Skills, developed by founder & CEO Alli Young,
employees are armed with a toolkit they can leverage throughout any stage of their career.
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Alex Cohen is co-founder of CommandDot. CommandDot adds a supercharged shortcut directly to your inbox. Never between calendars, schedules, and emails ever again.
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Cardin Campbell is the cofounder of Trac. Trac empowers independent artists and musicians with the tools needed to launch & grow their career.
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Mat Sherman is the founder of Forward Thinking City and Seedscout. These companies are aiming to build a meritocracy in startups; The best founders should get funded, not the most networked.
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Sarah Hardy is the cofounder of Bobbie. Bobbie creates organic, european style recipe infant formula launching direct to consumer this year.
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Roy Nallapeta is the cofounder of Glance. The world's first marketing graph and personal marketing expert for your business. Glance is your copilot that gives intelligent cross-channel recommendations. No manual report creation, no data collation, and no digging for insights. Save 30%+ of your time.
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Jake Gafner is the founder of Wayward. Track and Share your Adventures. Wayward is part of Lost Travel, a company that organizes one-of-a-kind events and builds software to help people share their adventures.
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Eduard Cristea is the cofounder of Holofy. Holofy takes customer experience to the next level by building software tools that create authentic connections between businesses and their customers. All through the power of Video.
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Alec Ryncavage is the founder of Cybiot. Cybiot brings together everything that’s required to protect your business’s retail storefront, office, guest network, employees, and customers while removing the friction of cost, time, and talent.
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Adam Anagnostopoulos is the cofounder of Wandr. Get out and share the world. Explore video travel tips from around the world. Share your advice with friends, family and the community.
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Val Yermakova is the cofounder of Warmly. Unlock LTVC, your Lifetime Value of Champions. Warmly sends you a weekly list of warm leads by finding your users & prospects when they move to a new company
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Joe Mahavuthivanij is the cofounder of Mythic Markets. Mythic Markets is investing for geeks. Invest in iconic pop culture collectibles, with as little as $30. Buy shares in rare finds from your favorite fandoms — like vintage trading cards, comics, and memorabilia.
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Matt Redler is the founder of Panther. Panther take's care of global payroll, benefits, and compliance, so you can work with the best people, anywhere in the world.
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Abby Mercado is the founder of Best Shot. Best Shot is a patient’s companion in fertility treatments, providing medication management & education, streamlining the pharmaceutical ordering experience and enabling safe, supportive micro-communities led by experts.
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Bethany Stachenfeld is the cofounder of Sendspark. Sendspark is a video platform that helps people connect with customers with personalized video messages.
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Amelie-Sophie Vavrovsky is the founder of Formally. Formally is a legal tech company that simplifies immigration application.
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Jordan Plows is the cofounder of Light. Light is building a computer designed for the 21st century.
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Jared Hsu is the founder of StreamWork. StreamWork is an academic platform where hundreds of students come together to live-stream their studies, tutor their friends, and learn from A+ classmates all for free.
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Josh Fabian is the cofounder of Metafy. Metafy provides 1:1 coaching from the best players in the world in gaming.
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Kell Rakowski is the cofounder of Lex. Lex is the text-centered social app that connects queer lovers and friends.
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Alice Albrecht is the founder of NeuralCypher Labs. NeuralCypher Labs is building products that help humans tap into more creativity, with the help from brain-machine interfaces
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Brian Leonard is the cofounder of Grouparoo. Grouparoo is real-time data infrastructure that puts marketers and operators in control.
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Julian is the founder of Kingdom. Kingdom is a fun way to promote your startup. 50% of revenue will be reversed to We forest for planting trees.
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Airel is the founder of Knac. With Knac, companies can identify quality talent that would otherwise get overlooked.
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Ryan is the co-founder of 6AM City. 6AM City is a hyper-local media company, focused on activating communities through daily email newsletters that aggregate the most positive, impactful local news + events.
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Zach Hudson is the cofounder of Deft. Deft is building a better e-commerce search. Type like you speak and search by image (or both) across all product sites.
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Julian, Lucas, and Florian are the cofounders of Generative Board Games. At Generative Boardgames you simply come up with the name of a fictional game that you’d like to play, press • bling! • and we’ll generate rules and box art for the game.
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Dani Grant is the cofounder of Jam. Jam allows you to comment and react directly on the pages of your product.
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Paul Doherty is the founder of Hanhi. Hanhi allows people to create peer-reviewed competitions for hiring and finding the best ideas.
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Matt Greenleaf is the founder of Supertribe. Supertribe makes meaningful professional connections over online games.
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Martin Lien is the cofounder of Respond Flow. Respond Flow enables you to automatically send mass personalized text messages to grow your business and connect with your loyal customers.
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Danielle Baskin is the cofounder of Dialup. Dialup is a voice-chat app that serendipitously connects people in 1 on 1 conversations to discuss a variety of topics—from books to recipes to politics.
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Amira Valliani is the founder of Glow. Glow makes it easy to monetize directly from your biggest fans with exclusive podcasts.
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Avni Patel Thompson is the founder of Modern Village, a software that lightens the load of running a family. Modern Village is on a mission to build products that give parents the confidence and tools to parent like a pro, everyday.
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Anthony Mattana is the founder of Hooke Audio. Hooke Audio is the leaders in Bluetooth hardware and software recording technologies. Check out their Kickstarter here.
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Sid Bharath is the founder of Broca. Broca generates marketing copy and content using AI.
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Mariel Davis is the founder of Spokn. Spokn is an app for professional development - all in audio, so learning can fit into the daily routine of busy employees.
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Asra Nadeem is the founder of Opus. With Opus, you can create interactive stories and games in real-time. No technical skills or capital investments needed.
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Amelia Lin is the founder of Saga. Saga is building a new kind of social app that helps families save life stories of loved ones in their voice—it's like getting a podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories.
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Ron Miasnik, Raya Ward, and Joseph Rubin are the co-founders of Adora. Adora offers a world-class experience to visitors virtually or in person. Prospective and incoming students can also stay safe while visiting campus by taking socially distanced, self-led tours.
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Brandon Jacoby is the founder of Bulletin. Bulletin is a community-driven local news publication. Subscribers will receive a recurring newsletter with what's happening in their area. No fluff. No clickbait.
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Aditi Shekar is the founder of Zeta. Using a combination of technology and advice, we want to help millions of American couples get ahead of their finances. From planning for your first paycheck to paying for college debt, saving for your first house to prepping for child #1, Zeta’s mission is to help couples get smarter about money and have more successful relationships.
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Adarsh Alphons is the founder of Wardrobe. Wardrobe allows you to rent exclusive luxury and vintage dresses, bags and shoes for affordable prices.
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Carey D'Sourza is the founder of Activeconnect. Bring intelligence to every access request, transaction or security challenge. Passwordless Identity and access for any application.
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Dr. Quinn Wang is the founder of Quadrant Eye. They building rapid remote eye exams.
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Donald Hawkins is the founder of Tenth. Tenth is building a digital bank designed to ERASE the wealth gap for Black Americans through legit financial education.
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Zeeshan Sheikhis the founder of Space. In Space, join audio-only conversations, and interact with interesting people on topics that matter to you.
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Chandra Duggirala is the founder of Founderpool. FounderPool de-risks entrepreneurship by pooling startup equity.
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Baran Korkmaz is the founder of Arway. Arway is powering camera devices with AI to recognize their surroundings for hyper-accurate location apps.
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Michael Ogunsanya is the founder of Mindstand. Mindstand provides an Artificial Intelligence platform trained by clinical psychologists to identify hate speech, harassment, sexual misconduct, and more.
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Justin Intal is the founder of Forage. Use Forage to compare your shopping list to nearby stores to find the best deals.
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Dan Rowden is the founder of IIlo. Ilo helps you understand and grow your Twitter audience with detailed analytics.
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This is a segment of Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Bart Macdonald, the founder of Bloom Venture Partners. Follow Bart on Twitter here.
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Nir Kabessa is the cofounder of Yup. Yup allows you to build influence & earn money for rating content on any website.
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Troy is the co-founder of Omnipanel. OmniPanel is an analytics platform that surfaces key user insights from your customer support tickets so you can identify when, where, and how user friction impacts your retention and profitability.
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Ime Essien is a student at Morgan State University studying electrical engineering. He is a student partner at HBCUvc, a student-led investment fund dedicated to HBCU and HSI student and alumni founders. He is also the cofounder of UrConvey
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Sheridan Clayborne is the CEO and co-founder of Lendtable. They give you money to take advantage of your employer 401(k) match. You pay us back through a simple, one-time service fee. Simple as that.
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Aashni Shah is the founder of Taonga. Whether you're moving to another country, applying for a mortgage or downloading the latest FinTech app, everyone wants your documents. Taonga lets you store and share these documents securely.
Find Aashni's personal website right here.
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Sarah Greisdorf is the founder of Holdette. Holdette creates women's professional workwear with real pockets. Made for women, by women.
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- You want suits with pockets too
- Want to hear the big vision for Holdette
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Justin is the cofounder of YAC. YAC helps you cut down on meetings & calls with voice messages, searchable transcriptions & async screen sharing.
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- Asynchronous team communication
- Want to hear the future vision for YAC
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Sudarshan Sridharan is the cofounder of Fion. Their software utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm to detect fires as soon as they start, accurately predicts when and where fires will spread to, and how much financial damage they’ll cause.
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- Want to hear the origin story of Fion
- Want to hear the future vision for this company
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Kris Lachance & Loren Cohen are the cofounders of Skillful. Skillful helps you get the business skills you need for Strategy & Operations roles at leading tech companies.
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- Want to try the Lambda for X model
- Are interested in their big vision for Skillful
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Ann Garnier is the founder of Lisa Health. Lisa Health helps you make small changes to prepare for menopause,
manage symptoms, and improve your midlife well-being.
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- You want to better prepare for menopause
- You want to know why Lisa started this company
- Are curious about the big vision for Lisa Health
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Anne is the cofounder of Ethena. Get your team compliant with engaging, evidence-based training. Their easy-to-use software handles all the administrative and legal details.
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- You want your workplace to have harassment prevention training
- You want to hear the origin for this company
- You're curious what types of companies Ethena works with
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Dominic Monn is the founder of MentorCruise. Work with leading tech mentors and gain access to personalized guidance to reach your potential. Ongoing sessions and expert advice, on your terms, all for a flat monthly price.
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- You want to be a mentor
- You want to know how he got started with this idea
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Lazar Stojkovic is the cofounder of Devshopper. Skip the expensive middlemen and discuss your project with some of the world's top service provider firms directly.
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- You want to hear about how he got the origin for this story
- Want to hear the big vision for Devshopper
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Puja Balachander is the founder of Devie. Devie is a caring coach who supports you to understand and manage behavioral challenges with your child.
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- You are wondering what parenting is like
- Want to hear about Puja's story behind Devie
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Amy Fan is the founder of TwentyEight Health! They offer birth control pills, patch, ring and emergency contraception (Plan B or equivalent) prescriptions and delivery.
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- Want to hear about how she gets the word out about it
- Curious about was the vision is for this TwentyEight Health
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Garrett McCurrach is the cofounder of Pipedream. Pipedream is a network of underground tubes that offers near-instantaneous delivery of objects to and from homes and businesses.
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- You want to see underground transportation more ubiquitous
- You want to hear the big vision for Pipedream.
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Alistair McLeay is the cofounder of Thirdweb. Thirdweb’s Chrome Extension allows you to seamlessly contribute to all of your favorite publishers from $10/month.
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- Want to know what Thirdway is building
- Are curious to know the future of journalism and where Thirdweb fits in
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Anshu Agarwal is the founder of Nimbella. Nimbella is a serverless cloud that helps developers and organizations adopt a cloud strategy focused on rapidly delivering business value in a changing cloud landscape.
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- You want to learn about the origin story of Nimbella
- Want to learn more about the power of serverless technology
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Matteo Franceschetti is the cofounder of Eight Sleep. More than just a comfortable mattress, their technology offers everything you need to achieve sleep fitness.
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- Want to learn more about sleep fitness
- Are curious about Matteo's big vision for the future of sleep.
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Lisa is the co-founder of Aleria. Aleria shows you how inclusion can help you improve recruitment strategies, increase employee satisfaction and loyalty, achieve diversity goals and drive business performance.
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- Want to learn more about why that matters
- Are curious to hear the big vision for Aleria
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Isaac Eaves & Kevin Bunarjo are the cofounder of Joon. Joon is a habit and routine building app that's easy for you and fun for your children.
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- You want to learn about a new habit building app
- You are curious to hear the origin story for Joon
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Steve Glaiser is the cofounder of Jobsurv. Jobsurv unlocks critical insights that help companies retain their people. Growing companies need Jobsurv to maintain their culture as they scale.
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- You are looking for jobs that are a culture fit for you
- Want to hear the bug "why" behind Jobsurv
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Michel Bock is the creator behind Selfdriving.fyi. Selfdriving.fyi is the most comprehensive database of companies working on autonomous vehicles and related technologies.
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- You want to work in the self-driving car industry
- You want to know why Michael is so interested in self driving cars
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Jeremy Navarro is the founder of DormOps. DormOps helps brands get an A+ on their marketing with their passionate student marketers.
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- Want to hear about how Jeremy manages the team
- Curious to hear what his plans are after he graduates.
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Sebastien Mannai is the founder of Acoustic Wells. Acoustic Wells combines sound-based hardware and artificial intelligence to determine the operating conditions and health of oil wells, including gas leakage, in a way that is cheaper for well owners, and less harmful to the environment.
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- You want to hear the origin story for Acoustic Wells
- Are curious how the product helps the environment
- Want to hear the big vision for Acoustic Wells!
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Kimberly Jolasun is the creator of Villie, which makes the Gender Reveal Game. Raise money for a bundle of joy by having friends and family (or the whole damn internet) guess the baby’s gender.
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- You are expecting to have a baby soon
- You are interested in this new parent market
- You want to hear more about Kimberly's big vision for her company!
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Alex, Yucen, James, & Courtnie are the cofounders of Indify. Level up your Notion docs with widgets. Fully customizable, and seamless to set up.
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- You are a power user of Notion
- You want to better understand the power of Notion
- You are curious to learn what types of widgets you can build
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Matt O'Leary is the founder of Treasure. Treasure is a money management app built with kids in mind. We make it fun for kids to learn, and easy for parents to teach, money management.
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- You want kids to have smart money management skills
- You want to brush up on your own financial literacy
- Are curious to hear the big vision for Treasure
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Dawn Ho is the cofounder of Seam. Seam is building the API to the Physical World. Their mission is to weave the world’s homes and buildings with devices and sensors, to enable developers to build novel applications.
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- You are into IoT technology
- Need help running a large IoT operation
- Want to hear Dawn's vision for the future of Seam
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Chris Buttenham is the co-founder and CEO fo Obie. Obie is the fastest and easiest way for you to build an internal knowledge base at work. Securely connect knowledge and documents that you already have into one searchable, intelligent, single source of truth.
Listen to this episode if:
- You want to hear how Chris thinks about growth
- You need a better knowledge base management tool
- Want to hear the big vision for Obie!
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Allison is the founder of Scroobious. Scroobious is building a way for investors to efficiently source diverse deal flow and a humanized way for underrepresented founders to establish investor relationships.
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- You want to build more relationships with venture capitalists
- You want to better understand the funding gap
- Want to hear the big vision for Allison and Scroobious
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Leon Klepfish is the founder of Callingly. With Callingly every lead gets a call within seconds, every result is tracked and your CRM is always up-to-date. Perfect for remote teams.
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- You run a sales team
- You want to improve your sales lead follow up time
- You want to hear more about Earnest Capital
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Amanda DoAmaral is the founder of Fiveable. Fiveable provides livestream social learning for students and teachers, mostly in AP classes.
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- You have children taking AP classes
- You are curious to know the future oh HS education
- You want to hear Amanda's big vision for Fiveable
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Naseer Sathyala & Mathew Samuel are the cofounder of SundayGrids. Instead of panels on your roof, you can own portions of it that are hosted elsewhere.
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- You are interested in innovative solar companies
- Are curious to hear about the origin story for Sunday Grids
- You want to know their big vision for solar
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Farhaj Mayan is the cofounder of Kanna. If you're looking for a job in cannabis, Kanna is for you. Create your profile, get matched to local grows and dispensaries, and start earning today.
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- You want to work in the cannabis industry
- Are curious to hear the big vision for Kanna
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Michaela Brezinova & Adithya Sireesh are the cofounders of Knovo. They are building an online community platform for anyone to create and share learning paths for others to get guidance on where to begin looking and how to approach learning various topics.
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- You are a lifelong learner
- You like curating content
- You want to hear the big vision for Knovo
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About this episode: Florence is the founder of Press On Shop. Press On Shop allows you to buy and discover handmade, press-on nails from artists all around the world.
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- Are curious to learn something new about nails
- Want to hear the big vision for the next 10 years
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Woody is the founder of Hearhere. Hearhere is a hands-free experience that delights, informs and entertains by fostering a deeper connection with the people, places and histories of the land you are traveling through.
Listen to this episode if you:- Like trying out new consumer apps
- Enjoy going on road trips
- Need to entertain your family on a road trip
- Are curious to try out a new form of entertainment.
- And tons more
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About this episode: Doug Ludlow is the founder of Mainstreet. You're owed over $50,000 by the government. Mainstreet will get it back for you.
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- Run a startup or are an investor in startups
- Are looking for free money (who doesn't love free money)
- Want to hear Doug's founding story
- Why this is perfect timing for Mainstreet
- And tons more!!
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Laura Del Beccaro is the cofounder of Sora. People teams trust Sora to connect HR tools, sync employee data, and automate HR processes.
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Will Chertoff is the cofounder of Clerk. Clerk is a native Slack app that enables SMS and MMS messaging all through Slack. Link a Business Phone Number and simplify your team's communication.
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Xavier is the cofounder of Index. Index lets you visually build your own beautiful dashboards with the tools you already use.
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Jonathan Bree is the founder of WFHLAND. Recreate the social and instant connection vibe of your office with WFHLAND.
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Elena Guberman & Emin Israfil are the cofounders of Rubbish. The rubbish iOS app maps litter, and then rubbish can evaluate each block’s footprint to identify better solutions for cleaner communities.
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George Sehremelis is the founder of Overlooked. Their mission is to be The Social News Network that ends fake news by being the safest way for you to share news articles with your friends.
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Robert Yuen is the founder of Monograph. Manage and collaborate on your firm’s projects, budgets, timesheets, and forecasts in one easy-to-use solution
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Delphine Carter is the founder of Boulo. Boulo connects smart, driven women with talent seeking companies offering jobs with flexible schedules; helping both reach their highest potential.
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Zach Schleien is the founder of Filter Off. Instead of sitting and swiping, they schedule dates for you and you meet real people live on video.
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About: Ashley Matula is the founder of Pongo. With some of the most customizable plans on the market, you can give each pet the personalized care they need.
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Josh Clemente is a cofounder of Levels. Levels tracks your blood glucose in real time, so you can maximize your diet and exercise.
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Collin Waldoch is a cofounder of Watercooler Trivia. They send your team a weekly trivia contest. You can customize the timing, difficulty, and categories. Low-stakes, low-maintenance fun.
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Fazal Mahmood is the cofounder of Phaseshift. Phaseshift allows rapid alloy composition discovery through materials property predictions and behavior modeling.
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Jay Shah & Hannah Burrow are the cofounders of Kiroku. Kiroku is a note-taking app that uses AI to help you complete notes in half the time.
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Mckay Wrigley is the founder of LearnFromAnyone. They build GPT-3 powered 1-on-1 learning software.
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About: Levi Martinez is the cofounder of Kitkaton. Kitkaton is a software that enables creators to create curated storefronts.
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This episode: Nikolas Huebecker is the founder of Zoomer Company. ZoomerCo works with brands, communities and organizations to help support all corners and cultures of Gen Z.
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About: Todd is the cofounder of Reflect. Reflect enables people to run automated regression tests without a line of code.
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About: Madison Mikhail is the founder of Point. Point is One app to volunteer or give to any cause, during and after COVID.
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Alejandro Leon is the cofounder of Spline. Spline enables you to create 3D web experiences without coding. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results.
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About: Helen Chen is a cofounder of Nomad. Nomad is the all-in-one way to buy and rent homes online, around the world.
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About: Matt is the founder of Paperstreet. Paperstreet helps you engage your investors, advisors, and users through beautiful company updates.
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About: Justin is the founder of visionaryPass. visionaryPass is a customer art piece that Justin creates for each customer, paired with near field communication technology.
Sponsored By: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Jesse is the founder of Easyupp. Easyupp let's car salesmen sell cars from any dealership.
Sponsored By: Sponsored By: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Nadia Eghbal is the Head of Writer Experience at Substack. In this Forward Thinking City AMA, we ask Nadia questions on all things Substack. This AMA is part of our new community, Forward Thinking City.
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About: Charles is the co-founder of Bifrost. Bifrost enables you to generate your own synthetic datasets using 3D graphics. Do away with months of data collection and costly labeling.
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Arkadiy is the founder of Plutoview. PLutoview is the most straightforward tool for remote research collaboration. Share your active Web session with your co-browsing partner and at the same time see your partner’s active Web session.
Our sponsor This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Luke is the cofounder of Perfect Venue. Perfect Venue allows you to easily accept reservations online with a system built for the Covid era and beyond
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Nick is the founder of Elementl, which creates Dagster. Dagster enables you to define your pipelines in terms of the data flow between reusable, logical components.
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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This is a segment called Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Wes Barton, a GP at Third Prime Capital.
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About: Dayton is the cofounder of Branch. Branch brings back serendipity with spatial conversations.
Sponsored By: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Sherif Ali is the cofounder of Funnelll. It helps you capture meaningful actions users take on your website and optimize your sales funnel for driving Conversions and Sales. No Coding needed!
Sponsored By: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Jason and Annie are the cofounders of Jemi. Jemi helps creators make money selling interactions to their audience.
Our Sponsor:This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Ali Jiwani is the founder of Rally. Rally makes it easy to stop taking turns to speak. Hop in and out of conversations with one click. Hear the chatter of tables around you.
Sponsor: his episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Himank Yadav is the founder of Reploy. Reploy is the easiest way to generate unique production-like environments for every feature, complete with a shareable link.
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Kirill Avery is the founder of Matt. Matt is a place for cool & funny live streams
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: David Miranda is the founder of Remake. Remake is a web app framework that makes it possible to ship a product faster than ever.
About our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Josie and Abdul and the cofounders of Capture. The Capture app makes it easy to track, reduce and remove CO2 emissions from everyday life.
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Milad Zabihi is the cofounder of Peekage. Peekage increases your sales through targeted product exposure, insights, and
streamlined feedback collection.
Our Sponsor:This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Daniel Dixon is the cofounder of MIxy. As an exclusive catalog of brand name gift cards, Mixy is made to introduce you to new great products for a fraction of the cost.
Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Sam Abrika is the cofounder of Cash Coach. Want to Improve Your Spending Habits? Let The Game Begin!
About Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About: Indra Sofian is the cofounder of Sora Schools. Sora Schools is a live, virtual high school designed to accelerate your student toward their wildest dreams
About Our Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $30/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their thing yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
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This is a segment of Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Leo Polovets, a GP at Susa Ventures
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This is the Sunday Roundup! TSR is where chat with 1-4 other people in tech about what's going on in the world. The format is very casual. Today's roundup is co-hosted by Jad Esber!
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About this episode: Michael is the founder of Jungled. Jungled helps you keep your house plants alive and healthy with intuitive technology and embedded expertise.
Listen to this episode if:
- You have house plants and want to keep them healthy
- Want to have a house plant in the future
- Are curious how the technology works for Jungled
- Want to hear the origin story of Jungled
- Want to hear the big vision!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Chris Pattison is the founder of HackerStash. HackerStash is a weekly tournament designed to help makers support digital projects and services they love, and keep their own project moving forward too.
Listen to this episode if:
- Are a maker/hacker
- Want to learn about new incentive models for founders
- Want to hear about the origin story of this co
- Want to become a potential maker on Hackerstash
- Want to hear the big vision for Hackerstash!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: James McAulay is the cofounder of Encore. Encore is the fastest way to find and book great musicians.
Listen to this episode if:
- Want to learn about Encore
- Are curious how they weathered the COVD storm
- Want to hear more about the origin story of Encore
- Want to book a musician for a wedding in the future
- Want to hear the big vision for Encore!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Colin Keeley is the cofounder of Avocado Audio. Avocado is a platform for the world’s best audio courses. Ditch the screen and turn your spare listening into productive learning time.
Listen to this episode if:
- Are a podcast host
- Want to create a course, but don't want to create a video
- Want to hear how to monetize audio in a more efficient way
- Want to hear the origin story of this company
- Want to hear the big vision for Avacado
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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This is a segment of Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Mac Conwell, the founder of Rarebreed Ventures. In this episode, we talk about:
- How Mac got into VC
- Mac's path into tech
- Breaking down how venture capital funds work
- What he looks for in founders to invest in
- The power of Twitter
- What he looks for in founders who want to break in
Follow Mac on Twitter here.
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Jonathan Moed is the cofounder of Startup Universal. Startup Universal is a content platform covering technology startups globally with a focus on emerging startup ecosystems—those with untapped growth potential that are currently under-covered and underserved.
Listen to this episode if:
- Want to learn about new startup hubs
- Are curious who to evaluate a geography for their startup scene
- Want to hear more about Jonathans background
- Want to hear the origin story
- Want to hear the big vision for Startup Universal!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Chris Herd is the cofounder of Firstbase. Firstbase lets companies supply and manage all the physical equipment their remote teams need to do great work at home
Listen to this episode if you:
- You have a remote team
- Are curious about supplies a remote team would need
- Want to hear how Chris got the initial idea.
- Are curious how Firstbase works with different teams
- Want to hear the big vision for Firstbase!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Wes Wagner is the cofounder of Align. Align makes it easy to launch and scale income share agreements.
Listen to this episode if:
- You want to launch a program using ISAs
- You want to understand what ISAs are
- You're curious about the idea maze Wes went through to figure this out
- Want to hear the origin story
- Want to hear the big vision for Align!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Buchi Okoro is the cofounder of Quidax. Quidax makes it safe and easy to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies using your local currency.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in cryptocurrency exchanges in different countries
- Wonder why fintech needs to always focus on a specific geography first
- Want to know the origin story for Quidax
- Want to know how Buchi spends his time
- Want to hear the big vision for Quidax!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Dylan and Sam are the cofounders of Wavium. Wavium helps you create a blog with a built-in newsletter in under 5 minutes, totally free.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to start a newsletter, blog, or both!
- Are a creator looking for better tools for your stack
- Wonder how they get the idea for Wavium
- Want to know what the future for creators looks like?
- Want to hear the big vision for Wavium!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Aidan Fitzpatrick is the cofounder of Reincubate, which makes Camo.Use your iPhone or iPad as a pro webcam and get powerful effects and adjustments for Zoom, Meet, and more.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Were going to buy a webcam but think they are too expensive.
- Have a smartphone with a great camera
- Want to hear how he got the idea for Camo
- Want to understand the distinction between Camo and Reincubate
- Want to hear the big vision for Camo!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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This is a segment of Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Charles Hudson, the founder and Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures. In this episode, we talk about:
- Portfolio construction
- Different types of risks
- How he evaluates founders
- Cold emails
- Insider vs. outsider founders
- And a ton more!
Follow Charles on Twitter here.
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
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About this episode: Francesco Di Lorenzo & Fabrizio Rinaldi are the are the cofounders of Mailbrew. Mailbrew helps you get the best content from your favorite sources, in a daily email.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Enjoy newsletters, Twitter, or other forms of only info
- Have newsletter or information fatigue
- Miss valuable information in the world based on the signal to noise ratio
- Want to know the Origin story for Mailbrew
- Want to hear the big vision for Mailbrew!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Matt is the cofounder of OthersideAI. OthersideAI is building communications tools that work like magic, starting with email.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are curious to understand all the hype around GPT-3
- Want to know how they are improving on the email experience
- Are curious to understand how OpenAI plays a roll in all of this
- Want to know Matt's background in technology
- Want to hear the big vision for the OthersideAI
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Matt is the cofounder of Taskable. Taskable captures all the stuff you need to get done in one place, and helps you decide what to do next. Have multiple Asana and Slack teams? Bring them all into one dashboard.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are on multiple teams using different project management platforms
- Want to be more focused when you start your day
- Want to know the origin story for Taskable
- Are curious who their ideal users are for their GTM
- Want to hear the big vision for the Taskable
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Alyssa Atkins is the founder of Lilia. Lilia is everything you need to make an informed decision about freezing your eggs.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have considered freezing your eggs but weren't sure how to navigate
- Want to know the origin story behind Lilia
- Are curious why Alyssa decided to go with an education-first approach
- Want to know how she says productive and why she loves naps
- Want to hear the big vision for Lilia!
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Anish Agnihotri is a member of the Gen Z Mafia. Gen Z Mafia is a community of young builders dropping products every few weeks, starting with Vibes
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know what Vibes is
- Are curious about how they all met
- Want to know how they leverage GPT-3 within vibes
- Are curious about how Anish uses Twitter
- Want to hear the big vision for the Gen Z Mafia
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Anton Viborniy is the cofounder of ApiWay. ApiWay allows you to connect your favorite apps in a few clicks, for free, without coding.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn no-code API work
- Are sick of paying for Zapier
- Want to understand a new business model for this space
- Are looking to hear the origin story on ApiWay
- Want to hear the big vision for ApiWay
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Michael Aubry is the founder of StoryCreator. Storycreator helps you easily create videos that grow your brand on social media.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to hear about how Storycreator works
- Are curious about Michael's journey into SF
- Want to know how he balances selling and shipping
- Want to know his advice for others trying to break into tech
- Want to hear the big vision for Storycreator
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Jean-Luc Martineau & Ashley Belleau-Dame are the cofounders of Bagsort. Bagsort allows you to drop off your bags and belongings in certified shops & hotel for just $5.95/day/item.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are curious about how Bagsort works
- Want to know how they get shops to sign up with Bagsort
- Want to know how they got the idea for this company?
- Are curious about how they are adapting for COVID-19?
- Want to hear the big vision for Bagsort
Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Gaby Goldberg & Dheera Vuppala are the cofounders of Hiatus. Hiatus is a new community for gap year students.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are thinking about doing a gap year starting this Fall
- Want to hear about how they both met on Twitter
- Are curious to hear about how they think about building Hiatus to distribute ideas
- Want to hear what they spend their time thinking about when they aren't working on Hiatus
- Want to hear the big vision for Hiatus
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Ankith Harathi is the cofounder of Macro. Macro is a customizable meeting interface built on top of Zoom, reimagined for collaboration and inclusive conversation.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Use Zoom for most of your meetings
- Wish zoom had better functionality to run a meeting or take notes
- Want to know who's talking more/less in a meeting as its happening.
- Want to hear the origin story of Macro
- Want to hear the big vision for Macro
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.
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About this episode: Jonathon Cottrell is the cofounder of Journeyage. Journeyage allows founders and CEOs to empower their people to accomplish their purpose through personalized training at scale.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are running a company and plan on hiring people
- Want to make sure you get the culture right
- Are curious about a different to think about growing a company
- Want to hear the origin story of Journeyage
- Want to hear the big vision for Journeyage
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About this episode: Andy Chen is the cofounder of Sidekick. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call
Listen to this episode if you:
- Work on a remote team (everyone)
- Deal with productivty problems while working on your remote team.
- Want to hear about how the UX of Sidekick works
- Want to hear about the origin story of Sidekick
- Want to hear the big vision for Sidekick
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About this episode: Hayoung Park is the founder of HYP. HYP partners with brands for exclusive release auctions
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- Are interested in the streetwear drop culture
- Want to learn about the economics of product drops
- Want to know how Hayoung got into this type of work
- Want to learn more about how to price hype
- Want to hear the big vision for HYP
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About this episode: Ara Ghougassian is the cofounder of Fluent. Fluent makes it easier to practice French by translating select English words to the language you want to learn, all while you browse the web.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have struggled with Duolingo
- Want to know how the product works
- Are curious to know how he thinks about spending his time.
- Want to know what makes them different from other language learning tools
- Want to hear the big vision for Duolingo
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About this episode: Marlon Wayne is the cofounder of Impulse. Swipe to leave feedback for brands. Win dope stuff. Do it every week.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in methods to survey companies
- Are curious about the value of Twitter in tech
- Want to know how Marlon came up with the idea
- Are curious about the role of fun and humor in Marlon's life
- Want to hear the big vision for Impulse
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their thing yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
About Anisha: Anisha is a recent Lambda School grad who is active in the Twitterverse.
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About this episode: Adam Moelis is the co-founder and CEO of Yotta. Yotta helps people get paid more on your savings plus the chance to win up to $10 million every week.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in innovative FinTech models
- Want to know how Adam got this idea for savings
- Are curious how this would work for you
- Want to know how Adam gets the word out about it
- Want to hear the big vision for Yotta
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
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About this episode: Sebastien Jimenez is the cofounder of Rilla. Use their voice-recognition AI to capture insights from the thousands of conversations your store associates have with your brick and mortar shoppers every day.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Operate any type of retail store and want analytics on the conversations
- Want to hear about how they are targeting this very complicated technical challenge
- Are curious to hear about their very interesting origin story
- Want to know how Sebastien spends an average day
- Want to hear the big vision for Rilla
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About this episode: Stephen McKee is the cofounder of Back Porch Homes. Back Porch Homes, or BPH, uses the tiny home concept to increase suburban housing capacity while preserving neighborhoods … and does so in weeks rather than the months and years associated with building accessory dwelling units.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested n Tiny Homes
- Are wondering to know the history behind the Tiny Home movement
- Are curious what it is like to raise a funding round on Republic
- Want to know how they weathered COVID and will live to see another day
- Want to hear the big vision for Stephen
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
About Alexis: Alexis is a venture partner at Contrary Capital.
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About this episode: Dominic Wells is the founder of Onfolio. Onfolio helps more people invest in online businesses around the world.
Listen to this episode if you:
- How to come up with a valuation of an online business
- Are wondering who the players are in the internet m&a game
- Want to know how Dominic got into this line of work.
- Are curious how Dominic spends an average day while working on Onfolio
- Want to hear the big vision for Onfolio
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Chen and Matt are the cofounders of Aquifer Motion. Aquifer helps creators with instant cinematic animation for their videos and media.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in cinematic automation
- Are curious about the next big format for media
- Want to hear about how they landed on this idea
- Want to know how it works
- Want to hear the big vision for Aquifer!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: David Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Curu. Curu helps lenders improve their lending portfolio by showing applicants the actions they need to take to get approved.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in FinTech
- Are a bank or someone who works with evaluating credit
- Want an in-depth look at how David spends his day
- Want to know the origin story of Curu
- Want to hear the big vision for Curu
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Jo Lynn Clemens is the co-founder and CEO of I've Been Vetted. I've been Vetted helps organizations to boost company culture by creating greater transparency and accountability in the human capital supply chain.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are looking to create a safer workplace for your employees
- Want a safer and more scalable solution for transferring trust from role to role
- Are curious to hear about the origin story for I've Been Vetted
- Want to know how she spends her time on an average day
- Want to hear the big vision for I've Been Vetted
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Saoud Khalifah is the founder and CEO of Fakespot. Fakespot helps quickly tells you if a seller is reputable and offers alternatives if they are not to save you time, money, and frustration.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a consumer that shops online often
- Cares more about the quality of reviews, not quality
- Are curious about how Saoud spends his time
- Want to know the origin story of Fakspot
- Want to hear the big vision for Fakspot
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Martel Metellus is the co-founder and CEO of Soko. Soko is the first discovery network for the Black community to connect, collaborate, and find new opportunities.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a black person looking for other black people to do business with and to befriend
- Are practicing allyship and want to work with anyone in the black business community
- Want to know why LinkedIn could never replicate this
- Are curious to hear the origin story for Soko
- Want to hear the big vision for Soko
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Ben Dobkin is the cofounder and CEO of Ode. Ode helps podcasters mobilize their fans and turn listeners into new consumers.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a podcaster looking to know who your listeners are in more details
- Are a brand looking to best understand a podcaster's audience before sponsoring
- Are curious to hear how Ben landed on solving this problem for podcasters.
- Want to understand the core challenge of attribution in podcasting today
- Want to hear the big vision for Ode
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Nash is the CEO and co-founder of Undock. Undock allows you to Instantly schedule, host and document meetings with your network.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Don't love meetings and want a better management solution
- Want to hear about the way Undock tackles the time zone issues
- Are curious to hear the origin story of Undock
- Want to know how nash got the domain and the name
- Want to hear the big vision for Undock
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Stacey is the CEO and cofounder of Law Wurk. With Law Wurk, you get fast legal work done by their network of legal freelancers.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the legal tech world
- Are curious about the difference between lawyers and paralegals and what this means for startup founders
- Want to know how Stacey is jumping through the hoops of the regulatory environment
- Are curious about the vision for Law Wurk
- Want to hear the big vision for Law Wurk
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Colm Hayden is the CEO and co-founder of Cadoo. Cadoo is the app that makes it easy to incentivize the people you love to use the apps and services you love.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to get more in shape (or want a loved one to)
- Are already an avid user of Strava or Fitbit
- Want to understand how the incentives work on Cadoo
- Are curious to hear the origin story of Cadoo
- Want to hear the big vision for Impossible Cadoo!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Vanessa Onuegbu is the founder and CEO OF Bawler. Bawler is a social sharing and networking platform for written content, that allows any user to create, share, view, and connect for free.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a writer
- Want to discover new writers
- Want to hear about Vanessa's strategy to get writers paid more
- Are curious to hear the origin story of Bawler
- Want to hear the big vision for Bawler!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Ryan is the CEO and co-founder of Impossible Diamond. Impossible Diamond allows people to create diamonds from thin air.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in climate tech
- Are wondering to hear the science behind how this is possible
- Are curious to hear the origin story behind this company
- Want to know Ryan's background to allow him to build this
- Want to hear the big vision for Impossible Diamond!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Michelle is the CEO and founder of Life School. Life school is a modern approach to learning life's most important skills
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know what Life School is
- Are curious about how Michelle decided to start working on this
- Wondering how she thinks about raising capital vs. bootstrapping
- Are curious how Michelle built her app for practically free of cost with no code
- Want to hear the big vision for Life School!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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This is a new segment of the show called Sunday Roundup. Every Sunday, we will publish an episode with different cohosts where Mat and whoever is joining him that day discuss current happenings in tech and startups. This is meant to be a more casual segment, as opposed to The founder interviews (FI's). Today's guest is Jack Chapman the managing partner at Alpha Bridge Ventures
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About this episode: Sid Yadav is the co-founder and CEO of Circle. Circle helps creators engage their audience, turn customers into super fans, and offer group experiences.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a creator and want to build a community for your fans
- Are a fan of a creator and want more of an experience
- Are curious to hear the history of Sid's experience in working in the creator space
- Are curious to hear the origin story of Circle
- Want to hear the big vision for Circle!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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In this episode, I have on Albrey Brown to chat about a multitude of issues going on in our country today regarding opportunity and diversity, and specifically in tech. Albrey leads diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at Airtable, so it was a treat to be able to have him on the podcast to ask him questions relating to where we are as a tech industry on the diversity front (and how we can do better). In this episode, we talk about:
- The history of diversity efforts in the Bay Area
- Why white people should aim to practice allyship, not just aim to be allys
- How people with a platform and power can help amplify the voices for people of color, women, and marginalized voices
- How if you weren't thinking about this actively before last week, you were part of the problem. But that's okay!
- How the excuse of "not being able to find any black people to ...fund, interview, hire....is a horrible excuse not to
- How anyone, even the high school with no power or platform, can help change tech and make it a more equitable industry for all people.
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About this episode: Nicholas and Christopher are the founders of WithClutch. WithClutch helps you refinance your car, allowing you to get cash or lower your payments today! Check out their loan refinance calculator.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are intersted in learning more about the refinancing business
- Want to know why refinancing homes is more common than refinancing your automobile
- Want to know how they landed on the idea of With Clutch
- Are curious how the process of refinancing a car is so simple
- Want to hear the big vision for With Clutch!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Jomari Peterson is the founder of Finite Games. Finite games is a re-imagining of gaming where scarce game assets and limited durability creates games with real stakes.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into esports
- Aren't intro esports but like playing rock paper scissors
- Want to hear a useful application for blockchain technology
- Are curious to learn how interoperability for games works
- Want to hear the big vision for Finite!~
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Nicholas Donahue is the cofounder and CEO of Atmos. Atmos brings together people, processes, and tools into one seamless, convenient place for homebuyers to design and build the home of their dreams.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to move away from the Bay Area
- Want to build a home in a secondary market
- Want to hear the origin story of Atmos
- Want to hear about how they built a tool to 10x growth
- Want to know how suing Atmos working for building your own own
- Are curious about the big vision for Atmos!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
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About this episode: Jonathan Siddharth is the cofounder and CEO of Turing. Push a button to hire remote developers , pre-vetted for a Silicon Valley bar.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a founder who wants to hire SIlicon Valley-style developers from anywhere in the world
- Are a developer who wants to get paid well and use forward thinking software to do their work
- Are thinking about the pros and cons of running a remote workforce
- Don't want to compete with Facebook and Google and recruit developers in the bay
- Are curious about the big vision for Turing!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Luke O'Brien is the founder of Journey. From skydiving to knitting, choose from hundreds of communities that support, motivate, and inspire you to accomplish your big dreams.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn about a social network built around your dreams, and other people with similar ones
- Are curious about how Luke got started with Journey
- Wondering what are some activities that can be done on Journey
- Are curious to know what Luke spends his time on during the day
- Are curious about the big vision for Journey!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Jason Shatsky is the founder of TicketRev. Their unique bidding model allows users to choose exactly where they want to sit and what they want to pay. You'll never have to scroll through listings ever again.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Like going to live events but hate overpaying for tickets
- Are wondering what a reverse ticket marketplace is
- Are curious to know how Jason spends his days
- Want to know how Jason got the idea for TicketRev
- Are curious about the big vision for TicketRev!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Masud is the cofounder and CEO of Queue. Queue is your collaborative workflow in sync—from start to finish Upload dailies, stills, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more to Queue and access securely from anywhere.
Listen to this episode if you:
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- Are interested in the process of reviewing gaming tapes
- Wonder why people want to review esports footage
- Are wondering on what the big deal with esport is
- Are curious why they started working on this product
- Want to hear the big vision for Queue
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Joe Braidwood is the co-founder of Scener. Scener syncs Netflix and other streaming services with friends and lets you video chat together.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Like watching Netflix
- Would prefer to watch Netflix, but with friends
- Are wondering how COVID-19 helped/hurt their growth
- Are wondering how they got this idea in the first place
- Want to hear the big vision for Scener
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Jehron Petty is the founder of ColorStack. ColorStack is increasing the entrance, retention, and success of Black and Latinx students pursuing technical careers.
Listen to this episode if you:
- You are a Black or Latinx student wanting to break into tech
- Want to know why Jehron started ColorStack
- Want to hear about why Jeron started Colorstack when he started it...Why now?
- are curious about how ColorStack works for its students
- Want to know some actionable ways that anyone can help make the world a safer place for Black and Latinx people.
- Are curious about the big vision for Colorstack!
Here are ways people can directly help the Black community during this time: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#
Here are ways people can educate themselves on the Black experience, the injustice that exists around us today, and its historical roots: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#educate
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Jason Bade is the founder of Pico. Pico delivers best-in-class conversion rates for both free signups and payments. From newsletters and memberships to virtual events and donations, you can finally manage it all in one integrated platform.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a creator who wants to make money from subscriptions (a subcreator)
- If you feel like you haven't found the right monetization tool stack
- Want to learn more about the tools in the subcreator world
- Are curious to hear Jason's thought on what the future for subcreators is
- Are curious about the big vision for Pico!
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Vitaly Davydov is the founder of Adapty. Adapty helps you grow your in-app subscriptions for your mobile app.
Listen to this episode if you:
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- Are working on a mobile app
- Are interested in the business models for mobile apps
- Want to know how to optimize your in-app subscriptions
- Want to know why he started working on this company
- Want to hear the big vision for Adapty
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking MediaFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Turner Bohlen is the cofounder of Beagle Learning. Beagle measures the quality of ideas teams choose to focus on and automatically maps thinking to allow for iteration on past work.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have a lot of different tasks you could work on
- Want ta more systematized way to decided what to work on
- Are curious about how he decided to work on Beagle
- Are curious to know what Turner spends his time on
- Want to hear the big vision for Beagle learning
Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info:Founder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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This is a new segment of the show called Sunday Roundup. Every Sunday, we will publish an episode with different cohosts where Mat and whoever is joining him that day discuss current happenings in tech and startups. This is meant to be a more casual segment, as opposed to The founder interviews (FI's). Today's guest is Michael Marra, founder of Entre.
Sunday roundups are a paid part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and business content. You will get a sample of today's Sunday Roundup, but if you want the whole episode, plus every segment on the network, like Partner Mondays, Early Bets, and others, then become a paid subscriber today. By the way, if you want to be featured as a guest on the Sunday Roundup, you can come on! Subscribe, then email me and we can make it happen.
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About this episode: Sean Herman is the founder and CEO of Kinzoo. Kinzoo is a better way to share with loved ones—one that's designed from the ground up for children and their parents.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have a family you want to better connect with
- Feel your kids spending too much time on social media and less time with you
- Want to use innovative ways to connect with your family online
- Want to know how Sean decided to work on this
- Are curious how the team knows what features to build
- Want to hear the big vision for Kinzoo
This episode is on the Forward Thinking Media networkFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Galen Wolfe-Pauly is the cofounder of Urbit .Urbit is a clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are curious about what Urbit is
- Want to know why Galen wanted to start working on Urbit
- Are curious who Urbit is built for
- Want to know how Galen knows what to work on every day
- Want to hear the big vision for Urbit
This episode is on the Forward Thinking Media networkFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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About this episode: Vita Benes is the founder of Deprocrastination. Deprocrastination helps you learn 30+ simple techniques to stop procrastinating and go to bed happy.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Procrastinate a lot
- What to learn more about the sources of procrastination
- Want to know how Vita is structuring the business to combat procrastination
- Are curious to know what Vita spends his time on
- Want to hear the big vision for Deprocrastination
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About this episode: Everett Berry is the cofounder and CEO of Perceive. Perceive allows you to get the what and how from people interacting in your space.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in computer vision
- Want to hear how Everett is using computer vision with Perceive
- Are curious about why Everett decided to work on this company
- Want to know how he knows how to spend his time as CEO
- Want to hear the big vision for Perceive
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About this episode: Tom Uebel is the co-founder and CEO of Command E. The faster way to navigate your workspace. An easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into efficiency while working at your computer
- Like keyboard commands
- Want to hear how Tom decided to start Command E
- Are curious about how Tom and his teams knows what to ship next.
- Want to hear the big vision for Command E
This episode is on the Forward Thinking Media networkFounder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!
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On this episode of Partner Mondays, Daniel Lobaton (founder) chats with Elizabeth Yin (GP at Hustle Fund) about his startup. Learn more about Daniel on Twitter.
Partner Mondays are a paid part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and business content. You will get a sample of today's Partner Monday, but if you want the whole episode, plus every segment on the network, like Partner Mondays, Early Bets, and others, then become a paid subscriber today.
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This is a new segment of the show called Sunday Roundup. Every Sunday, we will publish an episode with different cohosts where Mat and whoever is joining him that day discuss current happenings in tech and startups. This is meant to be a more casual segment, as opposed to The founder interviews (FI's). Today's guest is Adam Mcbride, an expert on Costa Rica and Twitter friend of Mat.
Sunday roundups are a paid part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and business content. You will get a sample of today's Sunday Roundup, but if you want the whole episode, plus every segment on the network, like Partner Mondays, Early Bets, and others, then become a paid subscriber today. By the way, if you want to be featured as a guest on the Sunday Roundup, you can come on! Subscribe, then email me and we can make it happen.
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About this episode: Samuel is the founder of Tap. Tap helps you find water anywhere.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into water innovation
- Want to hear the evolution of the water fountain
- Are curious to hear how Samuel landed on this idea
- Wonder how the QR codes work for water fountain owners
- Want to know how this works for consumers as well as business owners
- Want to hear the big vision for Tap
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About this episode: Justin Jackson is the cofounder of Transistor.fm. Transistor is a simple, yet powerful, podcast hosting platform.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a podcaster or want to be a podcaster
- Are interested in where podcasting is going as an industry
- Want to get an in-depth look at how Justin knew it was the right time to go full time on Transistor
- Are curious to know how Justin knows what to build next
- Are curious to hear Justin's 10 years prediction for podcasting.
- Want to hear the big vision for Transistor
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About this episode: Lauren is the co-founder and CEO of Multitudes. Multitudes provides analytics to unlock inclusive, high performing teams starting by analyzing Github usage.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into people analytics
- Want to hear why they analyze Github to get data on people
- Wonder how Lauren came up with the approach for Multitudes
- Want to know what it's like building a company in New Zealand
- Want to hear how they plan on expanding by analyzing data fro different tools
- Want to hear the big vision for Multitudes
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About this episode: KP is the founder of Cuppa. Cuppa enables 1-1 virtual coffees ☕️with interesting people from Twitter.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know what Cuppa is
- Are curious about how KP launched it in days
- Want to know KPs no code stack
- Want to know about how KP thinks about fundraising
- Want to know how to get your own cuppa coffee
- Want to hear the big vision for Cuppa
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About this episode: Andrew is the cofounder of Nomi. Nomi is a creature that you feed with your heartbeats
Listen to this episode if you:
- Liked Neopets when you were kid
- Are interested in new healthTech
- Wondering wht Andrew decided to work on this
- Wonder how Nomi works, how to grow it etc.
- Want to know how he thinks about expanding the offerings of Nomi
- Want to know the big vision for Nomi.
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About this episode: Alexander Shevchenko is the founder of Safewatch. For only $5/month per camera you can set up alerts for any kind of object, and get 14 days of footage backup.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know what SafeWatch is
- Are curious to hear this unique approach to home security
- Want to know how Alexander got into this type of business.
- Are a homeowner
- Are interested in security companies
- Want to hear the big vision for Safewatch
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About this episode: Ali Fardos is the founder and CEO of Loftit. Collect rent. Export rent roll reports. Get valuable insights. Manage your contractors. Fix repairs. Chat with renters.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a landlord or property manager
- Are a tenant working with an old software system
- Want to hear how Ali plans to take on this fragmented industry
- Want to know how Ali decided to work on this
- Are curious about where Ali sees the industry going
- Want to hear the big vision for Loftit
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About this episode: Marta is the cofounder of KgBase. KgBase helps you build your own knowledge graphs without writing code.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in knowledge graphs
- Are curious howno code knowledge graphswork
- Want to know how Marta got this idea to start KgBase
- Want to know some of the ways to use KgBase
- Want to hear the big vision for KgBase!
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About this episode: Gaurav and Nupur are cofounders of Arboreum. They are working to creating peer-to-peer lending networks that are more appealing to lenders and borrowers alike, with reduced risk, lower interest rates, and easier access to capital.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the evolution of loans
- Like Fintech innovations
- Want to hear a moonshot idea that could actually work
- Are curious how they came up with the idea of this
- Want to know the big vision
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About this episode: Alex Shrestha is the cofounder of Oqqur. Oqqur. Oqqur helps people experience the world, remotely. In real-time. And 360 Degrees.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Like the concept of Justin TV
- Want to stream your life in VR
- Want to hear about how Oqqur works
- Want to know where the idea came from
- Want to hear the big vision for Oqqer
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About this episode: Matt is the founder of Visos. Visos is building the first VR headset designer for healthcare.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interesting in the state of VR
- Want to know what future VR headsets will look like
- Wonder what big players will enter the VR market and if Facebook can fend them off
- Are curious on Matt's thoughts on consumer VR
- Want to know how he feels about AR vs. VR.
- Want to hear the big vision for Visos
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About this episode: Kevin Kim is the cofounder and CEO of Stadium Live. Follow live scores, play, earn & shop around
sports with friends.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Interested in consumer trends
- Are wondering what the future of sports look like
- Curious what the big deal with avatars are
- Wondering what gen Z expects startups to be building for them
- Wanting to hear the big vision for Stadium Live!
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
About Pavel and Saneel: Pavel and Saneel are both investors at Contrary Capital, and are both involved in the Berkeley startup scene. Both dive into how to get ahead as a student into startups.
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About this episode: Jason is the founder of Broker Buddha. They help commercial insurance brokers grow sales by simplifying the application and renewal process for you and your clients.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the current state of insurance brokers
- Are an insurance broker yourself
- Want to learn the benefits of vertical SaaS products
- Want to hear the Origin story of the company (and the name!)
- Want to hear the big vision
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About this episode: Nathan Baschez is the founder of Divinations. Divinations is a newsletter on business strategy featuring interviews with founders, investors, execs, and academics.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in business strategy
- Want to learn more about Substack
- Are curious how Nathan defines strategy
- Are curious how to "make it" as a creator
- Want to hear the big vision for Divinations!
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar
About Nina Khera: Nina works on various projects in human longevity. Among these projects, one to use gene sequencing to diagnose schizophrenia at an early stage, and another to find phenotypes in the mitochondria of senescent cells. The umbrella company is Biotein.
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About this episode: Robbie Ferguson is the cofounder of Immutable. Immutable produces games with Immutable Assets: player-owned and openly programmable. Anyone can build tools or services around these assets and market them in an open, real-world economy. Freedom to trade.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the fusing of gaming and real-world commerce
- Want to know how the came up with this idea
- Want to know the types of games that can be built on top of Immutable
- Want to hear their biggest game, God's Unchained
- Want to hear the big vision for Immutable
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About this episode: Jeremy Stern and Michael Mckain are the founders of Loft Radio. Loft Radio is exploring new ways to pay creators online through a 24/7 radio station featuring lofi tunes
Listen to this episode if you:
- Like Lofi music
- Want to hear how to make a radio station in 2020
- Want to learn about how to pay with Ethereum
- Want to know how they find artists to work with
- Want to hear the big vision for Loft Radio!
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About this episode: Kai is the founder of Kai XR. Kai XR is a kid-friendly virtual reality platform where kids can explore, dream, and create.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in VR
- Want to know VR applications for kids
- Are curious how Kai got this idea
- Want to know how Kai built the platform herself
- Want to hear the big vision for Kai XR!
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About this episode: Daniel is the founder of Paperchain. Paperchain delivers early access for streaming revenue to artists, management and label teams.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a musician wanting to get paid faster
- Are interested in how the music industry works.
- Want to know how money flows from listener to artist
- Want to know how he is getting his early users
- Want to hear the big vision for Paperchain!
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About this episode: Jakub Krcmar is the creator of Veracity Protocol. Veracity Protocol enables any camera to create a tamper-proof Physical Code™ based on an item’s material structure. This secures its authenticity, identity, and security — without special hardware, embedded tags, chips, or markers.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are nterested in the concept of trust in hardware
- Want to know how he got this idea
- Want to know what the Veracity protocol looks like day to day
- Are curious about how it works
- Want to hear the big vision for Veracity!
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About this episode: Kirill Zubovsky is the founder of Smashnotes. Smashnotes is a curated collection of podcast notes.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are an avid podcast listener
- Want more distribution as a podcast host
- Want to hear how Smashnotes is different from other similar apps
- Are curious why he started this company
- Want to know how he is getting his early users
- Want to hear the big vision for Zelos!
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About this episode: Derek Chiang is the Cofounder of Zelos. Zelos enables you to collect points by finishing in-game missions and trade them for new games or in-game currency.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interesting in gaming or esports
- Want to know the future of social networks
- Are curious why Derek started this
- Want to know how Zelos works
- Are wondering what future trends Derek is betting on for this to be a big company
- Want to hear the big vision for Zelos!
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About this episode: Nikhil is the founder of Get Real and Out Of Pocket. Get Real is s a social experiment in creating more genuine relationships. Out of pocket is a newsletter about healthcare, but funny.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn about the story of how Nikhil quit his job to start these projects
- Are wondering how comedy is working out for Nikhil
- Wonder why Nikhil chose Substack as his preferred newsletter platform
- Wonder how he thinks about making money
- Are curious about the idea of subscription fatigue
- Want to take a dive into the future of the creator economy
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About this episode: Daniel Shein is the founder and CEO of Agnoris. Agnoris is a guest intelligence tool for great restaurants to position their menus for maximum sales, engagement and profit.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Own a restaurant
- Want to better understand what metrics owners should be tracking
- Are curious about how Daniel got into this business
- Want to hear how restaurant owners should brace the impact of COVID-19
- If you want to know the metrics Daniel think are important for restaurant owners to track
- Want to hear the big vision for Agnoris
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About this episode: Suril Kantaria is the founder of Savvy. The easiest way to get health benefits for your startup, remote / distributed team, or small business.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a startup founder
- Lead HR for your company
- If you want to hear about innovative ways to offer health insurance
- If you want to know how COVID-19 is affecting the market
- Want to learn to retain and attract amazing employees
- Are curious about the big vision
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About this episode: Oona is the cofounder of Lance. Lance is your freelancing sidekick. Your finances, legal, and taxes done all in one place, so you can do you.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a freelancer and want to learn about accounting and legal
- Want to learn more about the challenges of being a freelancer
- Want to learn how freelancers can push through Covid-19
- Want to hear about mistakes freelancers make most often
- Want to hear about the origin story behind Lance
- Are curious about hear about the big vision for Lance
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About this episode: Chrissy is the cofounder of Stagger. Stagger allows you to have Visual storytelling for your brand to stand out from the crowd of competitors.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a designer who needs help keeping up the brand
- Are a nondesigner sho wants a brand to just create itself.
- Are interested about the relation between machine learning and Branding
- Want to hear how Stagger works in the background
- Want to hear about the big vision for Stagger
- Want to know how you can help Stagger with their vision
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
About Lachlan: Lachlan isa web designer-developer, head of storytelling @ Hack Club, & NYU ’23, studying Interactive Media Arts. Follow him on Twitter.
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About this episode: Carl is the cofounder of Grain. Grain provides you with a line of credit based on your income, using your existing debit card. This is a founder interview (FI).
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn about the coolest credit (not) card I've ever seen
- Are interested how credit moves around
- Want to learn about the Brex model, but for consumers
- Are interested in #FinTech
- Want to know about the origin of this company
- Are curious about hear about the big vision for Grain
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About this episode: Henry is the founder of Rocketship Jobs. Rocketship jobs helps ambitious people find jobs at fast-growing, high potential companies! This is a founder interview (FI)
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to work at a high growth startup
- Want to know how to find rocketship before they take off
- Want to hear the pros and cons of Substack
- Are curious about some of Henry's previous companies he's listed.
- Want to know how Henry got into this in the first place
- Want to know the big vision for Rocketship Jobs
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About this episode: Dilan and Cix are co-founders of YUR. YUR is the VR Fitness Tracking tool that records your progress in some of the biggest VR games on Steam. This is a founder interview (FI).
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into VR
- Want to learn about a practical use for VR
- Are wondering how the founders developed a brilliant UX with a virtual watch
- Are curious about how they are getting the word out to developers about YUR
- Want to hear how they think about them being the anti gym company
- Want to hear about the big vision for YUR
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Jack Altman is the founder of Lattice. Lattice makes performance management software for forward-thinking organizations.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Manage people
- Want to manage people
- Are curious how to make something so qualitative, quantitative.
- Want to learn how to avoid mistakes fundraising in the early stages
- Want to fundraise but aren't located in SF
- Are curious how to evaluate potential investors
- Want to hear the big vision for Lattice
- And tons more!
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I am starting a new segment on the show called Mat's Thoughts. This is where I talk about a topic that I want to get out to my listeners. I will do these periodically, not every day. Todays' thought is on why you shouldn't use ads, even if they are on a discount.
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About this episode: Didrik is the CEO of Young Sustainable Impact. YSI gathers young talent from all around the world to develop impact startups, with the 17 Sustainable development goals as a framework.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Wondering what YSI is
- Are curious about how he's been able to build a global brand
- Are wondering about his thoughts on remote working, consdering every startup he puts together is remote
- Want to know the bar YSI sets for talent, and the thing they look for in applicants
- Wonder about the big differences from where he lives in Norway and the USA
- Want to know about the big vision for YSI
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About this episode: Ian is the founder of Charthop. Charthop allows you to visualize, plan and understand the past, present and future of your organization — with confidence.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a CEO of a scaling company
- Are a founder of a recently funded company and are hiring
- Want to learn more about the power of org charts
- Are curious about how to plan the people side of your business in different scenarios
- Are curious to hear the big vision for Charthop
- And tons more!!!
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About this episode: Richard is the founder of MoneyMade. Money made helps you discover online investments from Real Estate, Collectibles, Loans, Farmland, Stocks and more.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into investing
- Want to learn about investing
- Don't know any other asset class other than stocks
- Want to get some tips on how to think about investing based on your risk tolerance
- Want to know how he adds more asset classes
- Are curious about the big vision
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Justin is the co-founder and CEO of Avenify. Avenify offers Income Share Agreements (ISAs) as an alternative to student loans. Rather than pay back a fixed principal with interest, borrowers pay a fixed percentage of their income each month.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in a new type of finance company
- Are interested in an alternative to student loans
- Thinking deeply about equity in people
- Want to learn about a new and exciting asset class to invest in
- Want to hear how you can invest $$$ for equity into Avenify
- Want to hear the big vision
- And tons more!
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Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
About Jack: Jack is a computer science student at Boston College. He is also very involved in the entrepreneurship club, is working on a startup, and investing as a part of the contrary capital network.
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About this episode: Rachel is the founder and CEO of Geosite. Geosite gives organizations with a large desk-less workforce the ability to coordinate and maintain clarity on operations with satellites, drone imagery, and IOT devices.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to believe tools in mission impossible is actually real
- Are curious how selling into the government works
- Want to know how Rachel got into this line of work
- Want to start a startup but don't know what idea to pick
- Want to hear about the big vision for Geosite
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Sarah is the co-founder of Glisten. Glisten transforms your existing product information and images into workable data, by generating structured attribute information using computer vision and NLP.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Work in eCommerce
- Are in an org that has people manually tagging data
- Are curious how recommendation engines work
- Want to know why she cares about this problem
- Want to know what a world with clan data looks like
- Wants to know the big vision for Glisten
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Mathew is the founder of Battlecard. Teams use Battlecard to manage their growing playbook and then automate the roleplaying process for effective training.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in sales handbooks
- Want to know how they got their domain name
- Are curious to dive into the different flows for sales managers
- Are wondering their plans for the awesome brand they have already put together
- Want to hear about a story in a castle
- Are curious about the big vision
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About this episode: Michael and Ryan are the cofounders of Arist. Arist helps students Instantly improve learning, training, and reinforcement with text message courses, which have completion and satisfaction rates of over 90%.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in building a course
- Are wondering about what a text message course means
- Are curious how they got this idea
- Want to know about the UX of both the course creator and the course taker
- Are open to framing the value of courses
- Want to hear about their big vision
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Clay is the Cofounder and CEO of Flutter. Flutter is a real-time dating app with matches and messages expiring at midnight to move relationships off the app.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are Single
- Are into dating apps
- Don't think dating apps can innovate anymore
- Want to hear the amazing story about how the idea was formed
- Are curious about how Clay makes product decisions on what to build
- Want to know the big vision for Flutter
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Sara is the cofounder of she256. she256 aims to increase diversity & break down barriers to entry in the blockchain space by broadening the pipeline through increasing accessibility to industry professionals & education specifically to those who are underrepresented.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into Blockchain
- Want to know what a protocol is
- Want to know what she256 does
- Want to hear different applications of blockchain outside of crypto
- Want to know the big vision for she256
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Mohammed is the cofounder of Tradeplan. Tradeplan is a simple to use Crypto Scanner & Tracker for people who use technical indicator to make buy and sell related decisions and assessments.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Interested in trading cryptocurrency
- Want to know the benefit of using a technical indicator to trade
- Are curious to know about Mohammed's take on utility uses cases for tokens
- Wondering what inspired him to build this
- Are curious to learn about trading card games built on top of Ethereum
- Want to know the future of Tradeplan
- And tons more
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About this episode: Annabel is a senior studying computer science at Brown. She is also a Rough Draft VC, startup founder, and very involved in the East Coast startup scene
Listen to this episode if you are:
- A student in the Boston area
- Want to know how to break into tech as a college student
- Wondering the value of being in the right place at the right time
- Curious how she got into startups
- Wondering what company she's interning with this Summer
- Wanting to know how she thinks about her future
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Wowa is the founder of Unminus. Unminus provides free premium music for your projects
Listen to this episode if you :
- Are interested in getting music you can use on YT for free
- Want to know why Wowa started working on this
- Are curious about the business model behind the project
- Want to know how people use the product in different ways
- Are curious to hear his take on different creator monetization platforms
- Want to hear the big vision
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking. Each year, they power over 200 weekend-long invention competitions that inspire innovation, cultivate communities and teach computer science skills to more than 65,000 students around the world.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Interested in the founding story of MLH
- Interested in hackathons
- Are a college student wanting to learn to code
- Losing your internship for the summer and want some help finding a gig
- Are interested to get a look into the world of working with college students
- Wondering the big vision for MLH
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About this episode: Rob is the co-founder and CTO of Giraffe. Giraffe is a 3D platform for data-driven collaborative Urban Design.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Wondering what Giraffe does
- Interested in urban planning
- Interested in smart cities
- Interested in what goes into planning a city
- Wondering how future cities differ from older ones
- What does the "smart city look like
- Want to know the vision for Giraffe
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About this episode: John is the cofounder and CEO of Art in Res. Art in Res is a marketplace for fine art by independent, working artists. They let you buy art you really want in manageable installment payments.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Curious about the makeup of the founding team
- Wondering what got them all so into art
- Wondering if this product is built for you (it is)
- Curious about how to have better art taste
- Want to know the vision for Art In Res
- And tons more
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About this episode: Thariq is the co-founder and CEO of Multiverse. Multiverse is an online video game platform making it as easy as possible to make, play, stream, and share tabletop role-playing games, with a creator-focused marketplace.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Wonder what Multiverse is
- Want to hear the backstory of how he got the idea for this company
- Have kids that play Roblox or Mincraft
- A gamer
- Interested learning more about gaming
- Curious to know how Multiverse fits into Esports
- Want to know the big vision for Multiverse
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Andrew is the co-founder and CEO of Insured Nomads. Insured Nomads exists to provide the level of coverage needed by those living a global lifestyle, while impacting the lives of vulnerable communities around the world.
Listen to this episode if you :
- Want to learn about the nomad lifestyle
- Are curious how Andrew got into being a digital nomad before it was cool
- Wonder how COVID-19 is impacting the digital nomad market
- A dive into Pieter Levels and the movement he started
- Want to hear about his vision for the world in 15 years
- Want to hear about the big vision for Insured Nomads
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About this episode: Brooke is the founder and CEO of Velour Imports. Velour Imports is on-demand delivery platform of craft beer, wine, hard cider, and spirits for commercial resale. Think Uber Eats for wholesale.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Wondering what Velour does
- Wondering how the wholesale buying and selling process works
- Want to know why she made the switch from analog to digital systems
- Wondering about how she thinks COVID-19 will impact startups
- Curious about how Brooke thinks about fundraising
- Wants to know the big vision for Brooke
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Rusudan and George are the cofounders of Giveinternet.org. This organization enables people to donate Internet access to underprivileged high-school students.
Listen to this episode if you :
- Wondering how to start a non-profit in the tech sphere
- Are curious how they got the idea and what lit the flame to start
- How does the money end up resulting in internet for the kids?
- Want to hear about their expansion plans into the states
- Wondering how they think about grassroots fundraising
- Want to hear their big vision for Giveinternet.org
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Bottomless. Bottomless enables you to get freshly roasted coffee based on your consumption. Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know what Bottomless does
-Want to hear how a scrappy team learns on the job
- Wonder why they started with coffee
- Are curious how they got the skills to create Bottomless
- Wonder what types of skills are needed to execute on this idea
- Want to hear about the big vision to expand past coffee
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Meha is the founder and CEO of Silk + Sonder. They make planning, reflecting, and achieving easy and fun by bringing a new pen to paper experience every month.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- What is journaling?
- How do you convince people who don't value the idea of journaling
- Where did you get the inspiration from for journal from?
- Interested in how they raised money as a journaling platform
- Wondering what gap she saw in the market
- How to raise a seed round
- How does she connect journal users and her online community
- Interested in the big vision for Silk + Sonder
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Sumukh is a venture fellow at Rough Draft VC and is the founder of Teendemy. Rough Draft is a student-run venture capital firm, backed by General Catalyst. Teendemy is bridging the gap between academic education and professional success.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- A student wanting to break into startups
- Want to become a VC later in life
- Are curious about what being a student at Babson is like
- Want to know where to connect with smart people online
- Are in college wondering how to make the most of it
- Curious about how student VC firms work
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Ishmael is the cofounder and CTO of Paragon. Paragon gives you the power to visually create production-ready API workflows so you can build, ship, and scale faster.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Looking for a solution to work w/ APIs without coding
- Are curious about different use cases for Paragon
- How Ishmael hacked his way into working with his current cofounder
- Curious about the big vision for Paragon
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Alex is the co-founder of MarkUp. MarkUp allows you to turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback and collaboration. Streamline your feedback with a quicker, easier, and clearer process.
Listen to this episode if you are:
-Looking for feedback on your product
- Curious to learn about Intrapreneurship
- Want to know ho Alex knows what to work on every day
- Curious how to stay focused when there are 100 different paths you could go down as a CEO
- Curious about how Alex thinks about fundraising.
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Helena and Brian are the cofounders of Glimpse. Glimpse enables you to have 2-minute, 1-on-1 video chats with friends in the click of a button.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- into b2c startups
- Are feeling lonely/isolated during COVID-19
- Want to understand how consumer product decisions get made
- Wondering how to know which users to listen to when building product.
- Wondering about the stories of both founders dropping out of college to work on startups
- Want to know what the big vision is for Glimpse
- And tons more!
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In this episode, Eric Ries and I talk all about COVID-19 and how early-stage founders can weather the storm and come out on the other side even stronger. Specifically in this episode, we dive into:
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and how founders can apply to this situation
- Priorities for founders in a demanding time
- How founders can become calm in order to make the hard decisions
- How founders can increase revenue instead of reducing costs (laying people off)
- The responsibility of organizations large and small to contribute and help
- How your company failing could be a good thing, you'll only know in hindsight.
- How any founder can get involved and help fight the virus and lower the spread
Links mentioned in the podcast:
SchoolClosures.org
HelpwithCOVID.com
Resist Bot
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About this episode: Kelsey and Dan are the co-founders of AlgenAir. They develop a product that removes carbon dioxide and produces oxygen as effectively as 25 house plants for a fraction of the cost, time, and space.
Listen to this episode if you are:
- Interesting in Algae
- interested in reducing indoor Co2 emissions
- Interested in learning what got them so into Algae
- Are curious to know if they see this as a venture scale company or not
- Wondering what their roles are on the team
- Are curious about the big vision for the team
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Chris is the creator of Jetboost. Jetboost enables real-time search, dynamic filtering, and more for Webflow — without writing code
Listen to this episode if you are:
- A fan of no code
- A power user of Webflow
- Looking for more advanced workflows for your Webflow stack
- Wondering about Chris's take on makers raising capital vs. bootstrapping
- Want to know why Chris picked on this idea to work on
- Curious about the big vision for Jetboost
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Jas is the co-founder and CEO of CabTreks. Cabtreks focuses on connecting under-utilized fleets to businesses struggling to meet the demands of same-day delivery. Listen to this episode if you are:
- A Pharmacy owner
- interested in competing with Amazon Prime's one-day shipping
- Interested in understanding how logistics work
- Wondering what type of model is best for bringing a startup into life (lean startup vs. raboisism)
- Wondering about trends that he's Jas's learned about since starting CabTreks?
- Curious about the big vision for CabTreks
- And tons more!
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This is Early Bets
This is a new segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. We'll be interviewing these people on a recurring basis so we can keep up with their journey. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
My First Guest
On this episode of Early Bets, we interview Surya Dantuluri. I found Surya on Twitter and it was clear that he was a brilliant technology better than people 10 years older than him at developing AI. His humility is striking and with a skill set like his, he can do anything he wants in life. And we're going to give you a glimpse inside of what make Surya different and why we're placing an early bet on him.
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About this episode: Kyle is the co-founder and CEO of Punch List. Punch List makes it easy for contractors
and homeowners to work together. Listen to this episode if you are:
- A homeowner or contractor
- Curious about the inefficiencies in the home remodeling process
- Wondering how Kyle came up with the idea
- Want to know what areas Punch List puts on software and what areas its leaves to humans
- Are wondering what Kyle took from his previous experience at two giant tech companies when starting PunchList
- Wondering how Kyle leads his team and tips to do it for you
- Curious about the big vision for Punch List
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Will is the founder and CEO of Endless Events, a leading event production company in the industry for the past decade. In the last week, he pivoted his while company so he and his 30 employees can weather the storm. Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- First-hand experience of what's going on in the events industry w/ COVID-19
- How it personally affected Will and his company
- Knowing the "Oh shit" moment for Will and when he decided to pivot his company in an instant
- How to run your own virtual event
- Are curious about questions to be asking yourself on if you should have a virtual event
- Will's tips on how everyone can help out the events industry
- What the future looks like for WIll and Endless.
- And tons more!
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In this episode, you get to overhear a real founder-investor conversation. Mariam El Sheikha and Adin Roemer, cofounders of NeXST Rehab, are talking to Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund for the first time, trying to get a 2nd meeting from her. None of this is staged, so I hope you learn a lot from this episode. This episode is perfect for:
Founders wanting to understand what actually happens in an investor conversation.
Founders wanting to know what types of questions an investor might ask in a first meeting
How a preseed investor thinks about first meetings
Hope you enjoy this edition of Partner Mondays on Forward Thinking Founders.
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I am starting a new series on the FTF network called Forward Thinking Founders Save The World. In this series, I will be talking about ways the Forward Thinking Founders of the world can build solutions to help solve serious problems in their households, communities, states, and countries. We will be diving into topics such as:
- Thinking ahead of the market
- Making essentials from raw materials
- Building platforms with no code apps
- How to educate your kids and yourself
- And tons more
I cannot do this alone. This is isn't Mat saves the world. It's Forward Thinking Founders save the world. This is all of us. We're in this together, now let's get through it together.
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About this episode: Max is the founder and GM at 8020, who helps companies move faster without code (AKA, a no-code agency) Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- What is 8020?
- What 8020's no code stack
- What does building on no code allow Max that other agencies cannot do
- What are the limitations of 8020?
- What is Tiny Capital and how was it involved in the creation of 8020?
- Will there be more models like Tiny's down the line?
- What's the big vision with 8020
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Anthony is one of the cofounders of Vinovest. Vinovest helps you diversify your portfolio by investing in the world's most sought-after wines. Professionally stored for you, and always insured.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Wine (to drink)
- Wine (as an asset class)
- Investing
- The LA startup scene
- Risk when starting a company
- What Anthony spends his time on
- Fundraising for seed-stage startups
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Jeanna is the co-founder and CEO of Layla Wellness. The LaylaTechnology device is an intravaginal ring fertility monitor that predicts the entire fertile window and ovulation. Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Fertility
- Starting a Hardware startup
- Getting tens of thousands of dollars through grants
- When to hire a CEO (if ever)
- The knowledge gap between SF investors and founders not in SF
- How to be resourceful
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Nick is the co-founder and CEO of Balto. Balto is the sports gaming platform made for the casual, everyday fan.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Sport pools
- The legalities behind betting
- What interests Nick in this space
- How to stay lean as a team
- Other spaces that Nick is interested in
- How to think about fundraising as an early-stage startup
- The big vision of Balto
- And tons more!
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About this episode: Mariam and Adin and cofounder of NeXST Rehab, the world's first home vagus nerve stimulator to help with stroke rehabilitation.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Starting a startup at ASU
- Remote teams
- Virtual reality
- Raising VC outside of SF
- And tons more!
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About this episode: John is the co-founder and CEO of Plato Design. Plato works with the most innovative companies in the world to make them more valuable through design. They are effectively scaling the agency model.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Design challenges
- How to scale services
- Challenges that freelancers go through
- Me geeking out on the Gig economy
- What is the future of work?
- The big vision for Plato
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About this episode: Ammon is the co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte. Triplebyte offers a test that evaluates your technical skills. Go through the Triplebyte test once, then skip straight to final interviews with top tech companies. Once you pass, you're accepted for life.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Hiring developers
- How recruiting systems work
- A new Triplebyte product release
- Homeschooling
- Credentials
- Knowing what to work on/invest time appropriately
- The big vision for Triplebyte
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In this episode, you get to overhear a real founder-investor conversation. Dave Goldblatt from Wavechat is talking to Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund for the first time, trying to get a 2nd meeting from her. None of this is staged, so I hope you learn a lot from this episode. This episode is perfect for:
- Founders wanting to understand what actually happens in an investor conversation.
- Founders wanting to know what types of questions an investor might ask in a first meeting
- How a preseed investor thinks about first meetings
Hope you enjoy this special edition of Partner Mondays on Forward Thinking Founders.
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About this episode: Susanne is the founder and CEO of Wingspan Health. Wingspan Health automatically compiles all of your medical information into one always-accessible platform so that you (and your doctors) can get the full picture, no stress.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Healthcare
- How doctors compete with eachother
- Mental Illness
- Kleine-Levin Syndrome
- Knowing what to work on
- How to erase the stigma around health challenges
- The big vision for Vessel!
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About this episode: Arjun is the cofounder and CEO of WorkClout. WorkClout centralizes on-the-job training, knowledge building, and issue tracking to give your workers the tools they need to do their jobs at their full potential.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:- Industrial Tech
- Knowing what to work on
- Future of factories
- Palmer Luckey
- AR and VR
- Future of work in general
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About this episode:
Mishka is the founder of thiscodeWorks. thiscodeWorks is the Pinterest of code snippets.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Code snippets
- International startup scene
- Pioneer and YC's signal
- Mercenaries and missionaries
- Credentials of the 21st century
- And tons more!
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About this episode: John and Micheál are cofounders of Cropsafe; Using satellite data to better inform the farmer's decision-making process.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- AgTech
- Farming
- Vertical farming
- How farms make money
- How farming is just like venture capital
- Satellite imagery
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About this episode:
Matthew and Aashay are cofounders of EnKoat. Enkoat is an energy-efficient coating that can be applied to the exterior and interior of existing building walls. A thin layer of EnKoat can replace thick fiberglass insulation in the wall
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Paint
- Sustainability
- ASU's startup resources
- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Seed Fundraising
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Joseph is the cofounder of Roboflow. Roboflow helps you organize your images, convert image annotation formats, preprocess, augment, and ship more.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Computer vision
- VR and AR
- How computer vision applies to our world
- Pioneer
- How to win Pioneer for 10+ weeks in a row
- The vision for Roboflow
- And tons more!
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Today's Episode
Today, I'm talking to Zak Slayback who is a Principal at 1517 Fund. This fund spun out of the Thiel Fellowship. We go deep into:
- Pro-rata and what it means for founders
- Raising from VCs at the right time in their fund
- Why Zak doesn't care too much for Harvard grads
- Portfolio construction and why it matters to founders
- And tons more!
About Partner Mondays
This partner monday, where we talk to VCs about fundraising. The point of these podcasts is to give founders an better idea of VC incentives and why they do what they do. We go deep into a day in the life of a VC so founders can better understand them to come fundraising time.
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About this episode:
Ariel is the co-founder and CEO of H1. H1 is building tools for medical affairs organizations to identify, analyze and apply the critical information surrounding opinion leaders to their engagements.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- HealthTech
- Hiring after product-market fit
- Work-life balance
- Knowing what to work on
- Business strategy
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Ziyad is a founder of Safepay. Safepay allows vendors in Pakistan to accept payments on the internet.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- International opportunities - FinTech
- How governments and regulation affects innovation
- Y Combinator Startup School
- The vision for Safepay
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
David is the founder of Passbox. Passbox gives your loved ones access to your data if something happens to you.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Data protection
- Morbid, yet profitable opportunities
- Being an outsider
- YC Startup School
- How to recruit users
- How to spend your time once going full time
- And tons more
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About this episode: Vidy is the cofounder of Phonogram, which is a tool to help listeners categorize and search snippets of podcasts they are listening to.
This podcast covers:
- Podcasting
- Audio
- Airpods
- Future industries that are opening-up
- How to run a beta program
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About this episode:
Matthieu is the cofounder of Tagai. Tagai enables you to tag and categorizes incoming customer support tickets, as well as manage the full customer support stack
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Customer support efficiency
- Pivoting
- The New York tech scene
- Pricing strategies
- The future of Tagai
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Vera and Hayley are the cofounders of Modernbasket. They do all the work of curating and delivering healthy products every week so you don't have to.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Healthy Eating
- Understanding operations
- Founder time management
- Pros and cons of moving to SF
- Fundraising
- Activites in an early stage startup
- The vision for Modernbasket
- And tons more!
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This is VC partner Monday, where I bring VCs onto the show to talk about the other side of the table. Turner Novak is a General Partner at Gelt VC. Listen to this episode if you're a founder who wants to understand how to think about raising money from VCs. Hope you enjoy!
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About this episode:
Andriy is the cofounder of Plai. Plai helps teams of all sizes manage their OKRs
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Being a good manager
- Learning OKRs
- Knowing when its too early to implement OKRs
- Freemium models
- The future of Plai
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Paran is the cofounder of DeWaste. Dewaste provides the easiest way to quickly and reliably reduce food waste.
Listen to this episode if:
- Are interested in sustainability
- Want to know how to create a technical solution to solving food waste
- Are curious to know what his sales process is like into colleges
- Want to know what its like to be a college student living in the bay area
- Are interested in the emergence of artificial general intelligence
- Want to know Paran's thoughts on VR and AR.
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Landon is the cofounder of Wren. Live carbon neutral with Wren. Offset your carbon footprint through a monthly subscription.
Listen to this episode if:
- You are interested in saving the environment from climate change
- Want to know how he came up the idea
- Are curious how they can offset their carbon footprint
- How do you spread the word about Wren?
- Are wondering about the science of climate change
- Want to hear the vision for Wren
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Pranay is the CEO and cofounder of Windsor. Windsor indexes events across all your company's tools so you can easily find what a user did using just their name or email address.
Listen to this episode if:
- You are interested in user analytics
- You're in a product role at a company
- You are interested in the power of Credentials
- Are curious to hear about how products get spread around within YC
- Are interested to hear about if bootcamps will continue to grow
- Want to hear the vision for Windsor
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Ben is the CEO and Founder of Makerpad. Makerpad teaches you to build tools & automate at work without code.
Listen to this episode if:
- You're interested in in the potential of no code
- You want to know how Ben got started with Makerpad
- Want to know what some of the top no code tools are
- Are curious about why Ben doesn't like the term "no code"
- Want to know why Ben tool money from Earnest Capital
- Are interested in the bootstrappers movement
- Have an appreciation for humility
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Ben is the CEO of Beam. Beam provides a full-stack solution that lets you monitor transactions, detect suspicious activity, manage investigations, and file suspicious activity reports.
Listen to this episode if:
- You have a FinTech product
- You're interested with patterns of data could be perceived as fraudulent
- Are curious about compliance once blockchain and cryptocurrency come into fruition
- Want to know the backstory to Beam
- Want to know how to think about hiring a team
- you just raised a seed round and are in hypergrowth mode
- Want to hear the vision for Beam
- And tons more!
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About this episode:
Farhan is the CEO of Grafiti. Grafiti enables you to search, discover & share charts from top publishers.
Listen to this episode if you want to know:
- How he got the idea for Graftii
- How we thinks about journalism and how its changing
- How to know how much to listen to users.
- How they raised their seed round
- Why they didn't raise $$$ from SF investors
- Wants to hear what the vision for Grafiti is
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About this episode:
Jason is the CEO of FreeWorld. FreeWorld will keep 26 million ex-felons prison free through living-wage employment.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know the type of childhood that most felons go through
- Are curious how felons hear about FreeWorld
- Want to know what the FreeWorld program provides
- Are curious why Jason went with the nonprofit route
- Wonder how Jason got funding for FreeWorld?
- Wonder how Jason thinks about the ever-changing job market
- Want to know how Jason become a felon himself
- What is the vision of FreeWorld
- And tons more!
Check out Jason on Twitter here.
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Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Tenzo Tea. Tenzo™ is ceremonial grade matcha green tea, a beverage that has been celebrated for centuries in Japanese culture. It’s the perfect coffee alternative because it heightens energy and focus for 4-6 hours without causing jitters & crashes and only contains 1/3 the caffeine per cup.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to know the benefits of coffee vs. tea
- Like reading or want to like reading
- Are a fan of Paul Grahams essays
- Want to know how Steve thinks about raising money
- Want to know which legendary VC Steve stays in touch with via email
- Are curious to know about Steve's systems he has in place to maintain high levels of productivity and happiness
- And tons more!
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Rachel is the founder of Kanary. Kanary lets you find out who's using your info online and how to stop it. Scan 300+ sites with one click.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have an interest where and how your data is being used
- Want to know what a data broker is and how one works (in-depth)
- Are curious to know the type of team it takes to create Kanary
- Want to know how Kanary is different from Unroll.me
- Want to hear the original reason why Rachel wanted to build Kanary.
- And tons more!
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Andrew is the Cofounder and CEO of Delphia. Delphia is an investment collective that turns personal data into personal wealth.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the power of data
- Want to earn money from your data through Delphia
- Are interested in moonshot startups
- Want to know how to think about AI, and how Delphia is using it
- Are curious about how Andrew raised money for Delphia
- Want to hear about the team that he assembled to build this company
- And tons more!
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Jille is the cofounder of LuxBalance Lighting. Their latest innovation project is focused on creating better outcomes with lighting for tissue culture labs.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are a plant owner
- Interested in the power of light
- Want to learn about working on hardware products
- Are curious how Jille thinks about spending time as a first time founder
- Are curious about how Jille picks up different business skills
- Want to hear what the big vision is for LuxBalance
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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Sean is the cofounder of Placement. Placement provides a new way to move forward. We are Everyone’s Talent Agent, enabling our customers to land opportunities in fast-growing and affordable cities.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to make more money (AKA all of us)
- Are interested by the modern-day recruiting model
- Are wondering why Placement built their own internal ISA platform
- Want to know about how Sean's background at Flexport helps with Placement
- Are curious about how PLacement has such a successful launch on their fist day
- Are wondering about the big vision for Placement
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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Grayson is the cofounder and CEO of Halen. Halen's firest product is gatesense, which is a smart gate lock that can be controlled with a smartphone
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to hear how Grayson evaluates this market
- Wonder why he decided to build this company
- Want to know how he convinces four other developers to work with him for equity
- Are curious on his mindset on VC since he doesn't live in SF
- Wondering if Grayson wishes he lived in one of the tech hubs
- Want to know tips on when to approach investors and when not to
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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David is the CEO and cofounder of Carbon Infinity. Carbon Infinity is bringing Direct Air Capture technology to market on a path to a carbon-negative energy and industrial economy.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to hear about practical ways to reduce CO2 emissions
- Are curious to know how to learn about how to create renewable CO2 sources
- Want a layman's terms description of how to make the aviation industry carbon neutral
- Are curious to know about starting a company in China
- Want to know how China's tech giants perceive Americas
- Are curious about how the Chinese perceive the 996 work culture
- Want to hear about Carbon Infinity's big vision
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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Mehak is the founder and CEO of OnDelta. OnDelta is a school for people who want to break into marketing positions at tech companies, all for $0 upfront.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to break into marketing
- Are curious to know how to start an ISA driven school
- Are wondering how Mehak found her way to San Francisco
- Want to know what did Mehak focus on first to start OnDelta
- Want to know where she got the name OnDelta from
- Are curious about tips for starting your own company
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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Ricky is the founder and CEO of Barrage Training Technology. Barrage makes an interactive Wrap For Your Punching Bag. This device is made to wrap around your free-standing or hanging punching bag. It has LEDs and pressure sensors indicating where to strike.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in workout technology
- Want to build hardware products
- Are curious to know how he went from idea to inception
- Went to Arizona State University
- Enjoy boxing
- Are debating on whether or not to raise capital
- Are from somewhere outside SF
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
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Edouard is the co-founder and CEO of SharpestMinds. SharpestMinds enable you to work on a project with a professional data scientist. Prepare for interviews, polish your resume, and get hired.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are looking to get a data science job
- Are interested in mentorship being productized
- Want to learn more bout how ISAs work
- Are interested in the future of education
- Wonder how to explore new ideas that haven't been explored before
- Want to hear about the future of investing in people
- Are intrigued to learn more about the SEC changing the definition of accredited investor
- And tons more!
Want to be an angel investor in FTF?If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:
- Access to all premium content
- Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
- Will be invited to the FTF Meetup in SF in late January
- Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
- And more stuff I haven't thought of yet
If this interests you at all, you can learn more here. I hope to have your support :)
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Bruna is the co-founder and CEO of Iubi. Iubi was created to increase adherence to treatment and empower children to improve their health.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in building hardware products
- Are interested in Health Tech
- Want to know some good use cases for robots
- Are curious to hear from the perspective of an international founder
- Want to hear the vision that inspired this company
- And tons more!
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In this episode, Ethan Naluz (Pepper) interviews me about my wild 2019. In this episode, we dive into:
- An in-depth look into how we got into Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH Accelerator
- A good look into the experience in working with Jason early in the year
- Learning about the point where things started to go downhill and where I should have been a better founder
- Tactical points where I could have made different decisions that would have led to a better outcome
- The months after the accelerator when we ran out of money
- Why I decided to stop working on PubLoft (Hint - to get my own shit together)
- The vision for my podcast and where I see myself in a year
- My dream podcast guests I would have on, dead or alive
- What I learned about myself in 2019
- And TONS more.
I hope you enjoy this special episode of Forward Thinking Founders.
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Andy is the cofounder of Lesabl. Lensabl allows you to keep your old glasses but update them with new lenses or add sunglass tinting.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in subscription D2C offerings
- Wear glasses and have the problem Lensabl is solving
- Are interested in starting a subscription company
- Want to hear the "Why" behind Lensabl
- Are curious to hear the vision and direction they are headed in.
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David is the cofounder and CEO of On Deck. On Deck is where top tech talent goes to explore what’s next. It's mainly targeting people who are thinking of starting or\ joining their next company in the tech world.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to start a company in the next few months
- Want to break into tech but don't live in SF or NY
- Are interested in the concept of a credential
- Want to hear how On Deck got started
- Want to hear about On Deck upcoming product, cosign
- Want to hear David's thoughts on spotting talent
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Valentin is the cofounder of Monthly. Monthly allows anyone to learn anything in a month. Take immersive, month-long classes with the world’s best instructors and master a craft in 30 days.
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- Are into #EdTech
- Like learning new things
- Have once been users of EdX or Udemy
- Want to know what the learning experience is like inside of Monthly
- Want to hear about how Monthly thinks about distribution
- Are interested in how they think about courses to add in
- Want to hear the vision for Monthly
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Zack is the founder of Haiku and Diez. Haiku and Diez aim to make keeping brand/design consistency in a company easier.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in branding
- Work on a technical team that is struggling to scale both technically and design sides coherently
- Are interested in breaking up the difference between design and branding
- Are wondering how to think through a product launch
- Are interested in higher-level philosophy of business
- Want to hear the perspective of a YC founder
- Interested in the no-code movement
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Introducing Early Bets
This is a new segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. We'll be interviewing these people on a recurring basis so we can keep up with their journey. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.
My First Guest
On this episode of Early Bets, we interview Abhi Vyas. I found Abhi on Twitter and once I got to his website, I knew he was special. Most podcasts are about people who have everything figured out. In this episode, I ask Abhi about what he's thinking about and dig into his why. I won't reveal too much in here, because you'll need to listen to the podcast to understand. With all of that, I hope you enjoy!
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Nathan is the cofounder of Nat Bot. Nat Bot is building an algorithm to let you know who you're losing touch with online.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have an interest in the personal CRM space
- Have a hard time keeping up with all of your relationships
- Are interested in product-first approaches to solving the personal CRM problem
- Want to hear how to take feature requests for a personal CRM
- Are interested in learning more about how Pioneer works.
- Are interested in product development.
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Mark is the CEO and cofounder of Weldon. Weldon provides personalized parenting guidance from child development experts. Because great parenting makes great kids.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have kids
- Want to have kids
- Are worried about being a good parent or are worried about not being a bad parent.
- Are interested to get advice on how to be a more present parent
- Want to know how to use a community to grow your company
- Want to know how Weldon has grown up to this point
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Dave is the co-founder of Wavechat, an app where its users can send short-form audio messages (or micropodcasts) to their friends and connections.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the audio industry
- Are into the podcast movement and want to see where it can go.
- Like micro content and want to see how it will apply to audio-first.
- Are curious to know what the next generation of social networks will look like
- Are interested to hear what the learning opportunity is like inside of Facebook
- Are interested to hear about predictions for the audio industry
- Are wondering about the innovation that Airpod's unlock
- Want to see how you can help with Wavechat's vision!
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Teague is the cofounder and CEO of Starting 11. Starting11 is a Fantasy football (US Soccer) app, where you make substitutions to your squad in real time - just like a real-life manager.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in US Soccer and building software around it
- Play fantasy sports and want better tech for it
- Would play fantasy sports if there were more options other than a single season league
- Are working in a regulated industry and want to know the best way to navigate
- Are wondering if taking the Uber approach to regulation is the best way to go
- Are curious about how to build a team to break into regulated markets
- Are wondering how you can help Teague and the Starting11 team on their mission!
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Michael is the cofounder of Whistle. Whistle aims to remove the barriers and inefficiencies out of scheduling and coordinating game officials.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Have an interest in sports technology
- Like playing pickup soccer or organizes pickup leagues
- Are interested to hear the backstory of Whistle
- Want to learn about how to get users from scratch
- Wondering how to think about different growth channels
- Want to know how to evaluate growth channels in the early days of a startup
- Are curious about what Whistle could use help with!
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Emily Is the co-founder and CEO of Arch Rift. Arch Rift aims to make spaceflight safer and more comfortable. They are developing an automatically deploying oxygen helmet for use in space tourism and the space settlements of the future.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in space exploration or space tourism
- Want to know how to build a product in the space industry
- Are curious to know how to pitch a SpaceTech company
- Are building a hardware startup
- Want to know how to succeed as a student entrepreneur
- Have a big idea and don't know the best ways to get started
- Want to know what to watch out for when using university resources
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Vlad Is the co-founder and CEO of Webflow. Webflow envisions a world where everyone can create powerful, flexible websites and apps as easily as they create documents today.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in learning about how Webflow works/how it got started
- Are curious how Webflow is different from Squarespace or Weebly?
- Are interested in learning about how Webflow go the "timing" right for their growth, as well as No Code's growth
- Want to understand the history of technological advancement in the technical space
- Want to know how Vlad decided how much to raise and when to raise it
- Are curious about how to think about sales in an early-stage startup
- Are wondering when you'll be able to make Webflow with Webflow.
- And tons more!
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Rahul Is a co-founder of TRM. TRM helps financial institutions fight money laundering, prevent fraud, and stay in compliance. They have a focus on cryptocurrency.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- The Future of money
- Regulating fraud and security in cryptocurrency
- Are interested in starting a company/startup
- Want to know how to build an MVP
- Are curious about using an MVP before starting a company
- Using data vs. gut when building out products
- Are interested in #nocode
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Yuval Is the co-founder and CRO of Hunterz.io. Hunterz.io connects vendors with medium to large enterprises, utilizing individuals with established connections within the organization to make relevant introductions.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in Israeli Startups
- Work in an enterprise sales org or are needing the results of an enterprise sales org
- Are interested in marketplace models applied to new verticals
- Are interested at all in revenue operations
- Are curious about how to grow a sales team
- Want to know how to think about sales in an early-stage startup
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Braden Ream Is the co-founder and CEO of Voiceflow. Voiceflow enables anyone to collaboratively design, prototype and build Alexa Skills and Google Actions - without coding.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the audio/voice space
- Want to hear how quickly a company can move in 8 months
- Are interested to know how podcasters can use voice apps
- Want to hear where the voice/audio industry is going
- Want to know how to leverage a community to grow a company
- Want to dive into the unit economics of Uber
- Are intrigued to know where the VC is industry is going. Where is the innovation?
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Darius Monsef is the Cofounder and CEO of Brave Care. Brave Care provides excellent primary and urgent care for children. They create a comfortable environment for little ones, and reduce the stress and cost of their healthcare.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the healthcare industry
- Are interested in the role of a parent when dealing with a child's health
- Want to know how YC has changed in a decade (from a 2x YC founder)
- Want to learn how to build a great product
- Are interest to hear what a great story sounds and feels like
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Shanif Dhanani is the cofounder and CEO of Apteo. Apteo helps you organize and analyze data in a single, secure catalog powered by A.I.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into data collection and data analysis
- Are interested to hear some very practical use cases of AI
- Want to learn about in the ins and outs of hiring a technical team
- Needs a way to think about whether to hire a senior developer or a junior developer
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Sahil Khoja Is the co-founder of Students Who Design. This is a online product design school, where you only pay once you get a job!
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the future of education
- Want to know how to break into product design
- Are a younger founder looking for role models to learn from
- Want to hear about the product iteration process
- Want to learn more about ISAs
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Tomas Hoyos is the Cofounder and CEO of Voro. Voro is a community where you can search and find doctor recommendations from people you trust. They just raised a $2.5M seed round led by Floodgate.
Listen to this episode if you:
- If you or your loved ones have health complications,
- If you are building a company in NYC
- If you want to learn about fundraising and how to raise a seed round
- Want to know what the fundraising process is actually like, not from hat you hear on headlines
- Are curious how to close out a round once you've found a lead
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Katia Damer is the Cofounder and CEO of Prolific. Prolific builds the most powerful and flexible tools for online research, starting with scientists and researchers.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn more about tools for doing user research
- Are interested in a founder's thought on how/when to expand to a different market
- Want to learn about the nuances of having product-market fit
- How to think about decision making when affecting business strategy
- How Y Combinator was to go through
- How to go through the "scale up" phase of a startup.'
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Mark Lutter is the Founder and Executive Director at Charter Cities Institute. CCI is a nonprofit dedicated to creating the ecosystem for charter cities. They believe charter cities are the future of development in emerging economies.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in understanding what Charter cities are
- Are curious to know if a Charter City would work in the states
- Are interested in solving the global poverty crisis
- Want to learn about current charter cities underway?
- Want to see how you can get involved in the charter city movement.
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Travis Hedge is the Cofounder of Vouch. Vouch provides business insurance for startups.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are wondering if you should get insurance for your startup
- Are curious how to capitalize on an old industry into a quickly growing startup.
- Are interested in how the process of selling within the YC network works.
- Are interested in learning how to raise a seed round
- Want to learn how to tell a story that the investors will align with
- Are curious about how to think like an investor, as a founder.
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Greg Head is the CEO of Scaling Point and founder of Gregslist. Greglist is a network of lists that map all software companies in different geographies (Phoenix, Dallas, Utah , etc.). It's important to note that Greg was also the CMO that scaled Infusionsoft from the low millions to over $100M+.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to learn about how tech hubs outside of the coasts can improve their scene and presence on a national scale.
- Want to hear about early days of growth at Infusionsoft
- Are curious to learn about the stages of growth of a scale-up, and what changes need to be made at each stage
- Are interested to hear the perspective of an accomplished tech leader, but outside a traditional tech hub.
- Want advice on how to think about growth as an early (or late) stage founder
- How to scale exponentially with your company, not linearly.
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I read outloud one of the short posts I wrote this year. This won't be the last time I do this, as I want to explore the options with an RSS feed. Stay tuned. To get more of my writing, head over to my Substack: I write free posts, but have most posts gated behind a paywall. Would love to see you over there.
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François Baldassari is the Cofounder and CEO of Memfault. Memfault can automatically catch, triage, and fix issues on any hardware platform.
Memfault has raised 2.7M from Uncork Capital, Y Combinator, and others.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are working on a hardware product and dislike the debugging process
- Are a consumer of hardware products and want to help the companies be more successful
- Are interested to know more about what happens inside Y Combinator
- Want to know how to get early users for your platform
- Want to hear what an experienced tech veteran thinks about the world
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Sara Mauskopf is the Cofounder and CEO of Winnie. Winnie helps parents find childcare and preschools in their area.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Are interested in the ideation process (Learn how it took a while for Sara to hone on on this big idea)
- Are interested in building a big audience before you monetize
- Want to learn about the nuances of having product-market fit
- Are curious about what hypergrowth feels like?
- Want to learn about distribution channels like SEO and content marketing
- Are wondering if you should run ads for your product
- Are dealing with the chicken and egg problem of a marketplace
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John Xie, Cofounder of Taskade. Taskade combines tasks, notes, and communication all in one place. Taskade has raised $5,000,000 and is a Y Combinator alumni.
Listen to this episode if you:
- Want to hear productivity hacks for your life and work
- Are wondering what platforms you should start off with
- Want to learn how to operate and manage a lean team
- Are interested in remote work or future of work trends
- Are into the nocode/creator movement
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In this episode, we're talking to Austin Petersmith, founder of Capiche. In this episode, we talk about:
- What is Capiche?
- How does a user interact with Capiche?
- Is getting pricing transparency the main goal with Capiche?
- Where did this idea come from?
- What's the big vision for Capiche?
- What would happen if prices for software companies were compared like Amazon compares prices?
- What tech trends interest you right now?
- What have you learned over your career so far?
- Any advice for first-time founders?
- How can our community help you?
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In this episode, I interview Kevin Sun, who is the founder of Dex. Dex is a personal CRM. In this episode, we dive into:
- What is Dex?
- What's the inspiration behind Dex?
- How does someone use Dex?
- Why didn't our parent's address books transfer to the digital age for us?
- How do you know what features to build with Dex?
- What features do you plan on building in the next decade to make Dex better?
- What are your tips on relationship management?
- How do you think about getting users?
- How should I manage my 10,000 LinkedIn connections?
- What are the coolest products you use?
- How can the forward thinking founder community help you?
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In this episode, I talked to Peer Richelsen of Mage, which is a Magic The Gathering card marketplace. In this wide-ranging episode, we dive into:
- What is Mage?
- What is Magic The Gathering?
- If I wanted to play, where would I get my starting Magic cards?
- Does Mage allow its users to get more valuable cards?
- Have you ultimately built a stock market for Magic The Gathering cards?
- What made you fall in love with Magic The Gathering
- Do you have any competition up in SF?
- How did you explain this to investors?
- How are there cards worth six figures?
- How do you get users?
- What's the big vision for Mage?
- How can the Forward Thinking Founders community help you?
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It was great talking with Jijo Sunny, Founder of Buy Me A Coffee, as we talk about the creator economy. His platform helps creators get paid for their work. Check out my own Buy Me A Coffee page here.
In this episode, we dive into:
- What is Buy Me A Coffee?
- What did you feel the need to build Buy Me A Coffee?
- Can you break down different features on your platform?
- Is a "coffee" a unit in the website? if so, what does a "coffee" equal?
- What are some of your favorite examples of creator pages?
- Does Buy Me a Coffee replace the sponsorship model?
- Why is everyone thinking about creators now? What happened?
- What do you think of the no-code movement?
- What tips do you have for a new creator who joins Buy Me A Coffee?
- How do rewards work on Buy Me A Coffee?
- What's the big vision for Buy Me A Coffee?
- How do you think about picking a winning market?
Hope you enjoyed today's pod! See you tomorrow.
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In this episode, we talk to Daryna Kulya, Cofounder of Openphone. Openphone is building the world's best business phone number. We dive into these questions:
- What is Openphone?
- What did people do before Openphone? What was the market like?
- Where did the inspiration for Openphone come from?
- Can you walk through the logistics of Openphone? How does it work?
- What's your vision for Openphone?
- Are you building Zapier for phone calls?
- Who are some of the personas that are the best fit for Openphone users?
- What do you spend your time thinking about when you're not working on your company?
- How do you think about operations for scaling? What's growth mode like?
- What have been some of your biggest learnings you've had since you started Openphone?
- How can our community help you?
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In this conversation with Chandan Lodha, the cofounder of Cointracker, we dive deep into the world of cryptocurrency. Cointracker is a product that helps you track your crypto portfolio and makes sure you stay compliant within the IRS. In this conversation, Chandan answers some of these questions:
- What is Cointracker?
- How does your portfolio tracker product work?
- Is cryptocurrency taxed by the government?
- Why did you decide to start Cointracker?
- Were you working on this during the 2017 hype cycle? What was that like?
- Did you know the market was about to blow up before it did when you first started?
- What is the state of cryptocurrency in 2019?
- Is being a first-mover in the cryptocurrency domain a good idea? Are there good apps being built on blockchain tech right now?
- How should someone think about opportunities to build in the crypto space?
- What's your vision for Cointracker?
- What do you think of Libra?
- What are tips you have for aspiring founders?
- How can the Forward Thinking Founders community help you?
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In this episode with Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, we dive into:
- What is Holloway?
- How does the publishing process go from ideation to publication to promotion?
- Will you allow others to write book on Holloway?
- What is it like to read a book on Holloway?
- What do you think about the advertising model, and why didn't you go with it for Holloway?
- Are you building for the Passion Economy?
- Who is your ideal author on Holloway?
- How have you worked on your public speaking in the past? How so?
- What's the biggest vision you can think of for Holloway?
- What is your favorite book(s)?
- What tips do you have for aspiring founders?
Find Andy on Twitter here.
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In this episode with Mark Thomas, CEO of Zensports, we talk about:
- What is Zensports?
- How do people bet on sports today?
- How could I use Zensports to bet with someone else?
- How do you use cryptocurrency within Zensports?
- Why did you decide to use cryptocurrency vs. the US Dollar?
- Is your currency a utility that can be used outside of just speculation?
- How do you plan to get your token to reach critical mass?
- Were you an early adopter to cryptocurrency?
- What do you spend time thinking about when you're not working on Zensports?
- If humans could live to 150, what would you do with your extra time?
- How have you liked the LAUNCH Accelerator?
Find Mark on Twitter here. Thanks for tuning into #55!
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In this episode with the Cofounder and CEO of Goodly, Greg Poulin, we dive deep into these questions:
- What is Goodly?
- How does Goodly exactly work?
- How do employees and employers react to Goodly when they hear about it?
- What is the cost of not offering great benefits to their employees?
- How do you think about distribution channels for Goodly?
- What are some of the similarities or differences between being an early hire at a company and a founder of a company?
- How should a new employee take advantage of working at an early stage company to learn?
- What do you spend time thinking about when not working on Goodly?
- What advice do you have for someone listening but doesn't know the first step to do it
Find Greg on LinkedIn here.
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In this episode, I interview Spencer Burleigh from Rent The Backyard, the company that lets you set up a house in your backyard and make money off of it for no cost. In this episode we talk about questions like:
- What is Rent The Backyard?
- What got you interested in this market?
- How does it work for homeowners who want to rent their backyard?
- Why did you start in SF?
- Can someone have more than one home in their backyard?
- How do you know when housing laws are changing in SF?
- How do you use Twitter as an asset for your brand or business?
- Are there social interactions between the renters and the rentees?
- Are you also a construction company as well?
- What's your vision for SF in 20 years?
- What do you think about building a personal brand via a newsletter?
- What tips do you have for aspiring founders?
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In this episode with CEO of Demodesk, Veronika Riederle, we dive into these questions:
- What is Demodesk?
- How does it work for an SDR or AE?
- What type of analytics do you track in the meeting?
- What was the inspiration behind DemoDesk?
- What's the product vision for the next decade?
- Can you give us insight into the fundraising process?
- How do you think about picking the right VC partner?
- What do you think about when you're not thinking about your company?
- Why is videochat tech so hard to build? Is it getting easier?
- What advice do you have for aspiring founders?
Find Veronika on Twitter here.
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In this episode with the Bhav Ashok, the founder of Nuron Labs, we dive into these questions.
- What is Nuron Labs?
- What is a neural network?
- Is a neural network a type of AI? Is it something else? How do you break it down?
- Is OpenAI using neural networks when it plays in DOTA tournaments?
- Why did you want to start Nuron Labs?
- Does Nuron Labs tackle the long tail or short tail data of a distribution?
- What excites him about this space?
- How do you sell your software
- What will be possible when we have a wordlist neural net layer that isn't possible today?
- Can you unpack the AR layer world for me?
- Is Mark Zuckerberg a bad person?
- What advice do you have for aspiring founders?
Learn more about Nuron Labs here.
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Amos is the Cofounder and CEO of Carve, which allows you to rent out unused cars in a dealership lot. In this wide-ranging conversation, Amos covers some of the following questions:
- What is Carve?
- How does the platform work for a dealer?
- Do you market it to used car dealerships or all dealerships?
- Can you dive into the sales process for Carve?
- How did you come up with the name?
- How long have you been working on Carve and what have you learned in the process
- What the big vision for Carve?
- What advice would you give aspiring founders?
Learn more about Amos on Twitter here.
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In this episode, we dive into many different topics, as Domm answers the following questions:
- What is Fast?
- How does it work for consumers? Businesses?
- Why didn't you just build a chrome plugin like everyone else?
- How do you think about growing Fast?
- How should a growth team be made up of?
- What is the future for Fast?
- What did you do in your first month after moving to SF?
- How did you break through the noise and build a network here?
- What tips do you have for aspiring founders?
- What is an "ask" you have for the Forward Thinking Founders community?
Find Domm on Twitter here.
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In this episode, we cover many questions, including but not limited to these ones:
- How did you get this idea and the inspiration for this company?
- What are some of the skillsets needed to build this product?
- Is the product software or hardware?
- How does the AI work/think to identify Respiratory Illnesses?
- What was the Thiel Fellowship like?
- Did you ever get to meet Peter Thiel? What's he like?
- How can founders better balance their work and their life?
- What are some of the best learnings you've had while working on this company?
- What advice you have for an aspiring founder?
- What is your ask for the Forward Thinking Founders community?
Learn more about Emily on Twitter here and find Canairy online here. Thanks for tuning into #48! See you tomorrow.
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Is this episode Francis covers some of these questions:
- What is Ascen?
- Why do you believe that remote work is the future?
- How would I use Ascen for my own recruiting needs?
- How did the remote work adoption come to fruition and become as popular as it is?
- How do you find talent around the world to come on your platform?
- What other areas of life do you think the internet will improve?
- Where are people coming into your platform getting their skills from?
- What was it like cofounding Leif?
- What was Austen Allred like when you first met him (Leif supplies Lambda School's ISAs)
- What's your vision for Ascen?
- What does the world look like in a decade (or more!)
- What other companies need to exist to fill spaces to make your vision come into reality?
- What have been some of the biggest lessons you've learned along the way?
Find Francis on LinkedIn here. Thanks for tuning into #47! See you for the next one.
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Some of the questions we dive into in this episode including:
- What is MIdtype?
- What featur3s did Midtype build so others didn't have to
- How does a team implement Midtype in their product?
- Why go through YC?
- What is open source?
- What are some of the reasons to go open source from the beginning?
- What are some of the most successful open source companies?
- What advice do you have for someone wanting to start a company?'
- And tons more!
Learn more about Jay on Twitter here. Thanks for listening to #46! Catch you tomorrow.
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In this episode, Krish answers some of the following questions:
- What is Fireflies?
- What is the "why" behind Fireflies? Why did you start it in the first place?
- How dos Fireflies work if we were using it right now? (we were)
- Where do you see Fireflies in a decade?
- How co you think about distributing for Fireflies?
- What are the biggest learnings from raising your seed round?
- How does someone break in and get into the "inner circle" of investors
- What advice do you have for someone who wants to start their own company?
Learn more about Krish on his website here and on Twitter here. Thanks for tuning into #45
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In this episode, we talk about so many topics related to real estate. Some of the questions that I ask Abhi are:
- What is Hutsy?
- What is the New York Tech scene like?
- How does Hutsy feel to a user? Walk through a user experience with me.
- Where are the big three waves of real estate tech innovation?
- Are you similar to Atrium for real estate?
- What was Y Combinator like for you?
- How do you know when the right time to pivot is?
- What interests you in the world right now?
- What framework do you have for picking good ides to work on?
- What are your biggest learnings from startup a startup in college?
- What does Hutsy look like in a decade?
- Any advice for first-time founders just getting started?
Find Abhi on Twitter here. Find Hutsy here.
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It was so nice to reconnect to Jack Morrison to talk about his company, Scythe Robotics. Scythe builds autonomous lawnmowers to sell to commercial lawn care companies. Jack and I first got connected at Boulder Startup week in 2016, and three years later, here we are. On this episode, we dive into questions like:
What are you building at Scythe?
What fundamental problems does Scythe help solve?
Is the lawnmower owned by the city, a family, or a commercial company?
What knowledge did you have going into Scythe?
What goes into building an autonomous lawnmower?
What is Lidar and Radar, and which one did you pick for Scythe?
Do you have plans to go beyond commercial neighborhoods
What is the sales process for Scythe’s lawnmowers?
Do you see other companies using autonomous robots in different verticals?
What do you think about Boston Dynamics?
How do you see cities using parking lots in the future?
What do you think about Tesla?
Tips for starting a company
And more!!!
Learn more about Jack on his website here. Thanks for tuning in!
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (f20r)! f20r is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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This was a fascinating conversation with Justin who is the creator of Matrix, which is a venture-backed ESports team. This was a deep dive into this space, and it was super interesting to talk to a pro like Justin who is on the ground floor making it happen. He answers questions such as:
What is Matrix?
What are Esports?
How are Esports growing so quickly?
How did you get into Esports?
How does someone make a team within Esports?
What elements make up a team? Coaches, players, sponsors? What else?
How do you use democracy within the Matrix team?
How far off are we from playing and watching Esports in virtual reality?
Can Esports teams be venture-backed or is it entirely sponsorship based?
What interests you about interplanetary inhabitation and cryptocurrency?
How do you think about innovation in the crypto space? Is being a first-mover too risky?
What do you think of Libra?
What advice do you have for someone who wants to start a company?
Find Justin on Twitter here and find Matrix on Twitter here. Thanks for tuning in and see you next week! :)
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (f20r)! f20r is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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I had a great time talking to Hamza Zia, who is the CEO of GitStart. They are creating a whole new way that companies can recruit technical talent + a new way to engage developers looking for work. He also has many insights on the future of education in this awesome conversation. Today, we dive into:
What is GitStart?
How does the model work for companies? For developers?
Is GitStart considered a coding competition?
How do you pay fort coding tasks within GitStart?
Your model feels ripe for blockchain technology. Have you thought about implementing blockchain?
Does GitStart feel like an agency to the companies?
Where did the inspiration for GitStart come from?
Are you going horizontal or keep it vertical for near to mid future?
What’s the master plan for GitStart?
Who’s innovating on the social side of the college experience?
What does the future of education look like in next 50 years?
What advice do you have on starting a company?
Learn more about GitStart here. Thanks for tuning in! See you tomorrow.
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (f20r)! f20r is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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This was a great conversation with Elena Nadolinski, who is the CEO and founder of Beanstalk. She is a whiz and super insightful person when it comes to blockchain, crypto, and all the way to remote work. She is also a Pioneer, like many of my other guests.
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In this conversation I ask her some of the following questions:
Can you dive into your background?
What is Beanstalk?
What is the difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin?
What are some practical use cases of blockchain and cryptocurrency?
Why does privacy matter in cryptocurrency?
How are you making your own blockchain?
When’s the killer app coming? Why hasn’t it come yet?
What is Libra and will Libra matter in a century?
Is it too early to build on blockchain technology or is it perfect timing
What do you think about when you’re not thinking about Beanstalk?
What is the remote ecosystem missing to help it breakthrough?
If you had $100,000,000 to invest, what areas would you invest in first?
Will investors be more remote-friendly in the future?
What advice do you have for early professionals who want to have a great career?
What tips do you have for someone who wants to start a company but doesn’t know the best step?
Thanks again for tuning in. You can catch Elena on Twitter here. You can find Beanstalk right here. Thank all for tuning in and I’ll see you tomorrow :) And if you haven’t subscribed yet, you know what to to do. 👇
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (f20r)! f20r is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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Neal is a legend at growth. Period. He co-founded Bell Curve, a premiere agency to help startups with growth that have worked with Outschool, Clearbit, Envoy, and many others. From there, he co-founded Demand Curve, a company aimed to teach founders how to do growth themselves, for a fraction of the cost of an agency. On this episode, we dive deep into many topics, including:
What is Demand Curve?
What is the origin story of Demand Curve?
What was it like transitioning from an agency to a tech startup. Is there a difference?
Is Demand Curve good for CEOs who want to hire for a growth lead, or is it better for founders who want to grow their company themselves?
What space would you consider Demand Curve In?
What’s the 10-year vision for Demand Curve?
Steps to think about growth as a startup founder:
Where should a founder focus on first if they want to grow their company?
How would you invest $100,000 into growth for a startup?
How does someone evaluate when to push the pedal on growth for their company?
What is the biggest mistake that early-stage startups make around their growth?
What tips do you have for a first-time founder?
This was such a fun episode to do with Neal and I hope you learned something new about startup growth. I know I sure did! As a reminder, find Demand Curve right here and you can find Neal on Twitter right here.
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (f20r)! f20r is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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It was such a blast to have Chris, the CEO of Trainual, on the podcast. Chris is a friend from the Phoenix startup scene and is one of the nicest guys out there. He is also one of the most successful, with Trainua being one of the hottest companies in the valley. In our conversation, he answers some of these questions:
What is Trainual?
How does Trainual work for users?
How did you get the idea?
How did you get your first users?
What is it like building a rocketship in Phoenix?
How do you think about fundraising vs. bootstrapping when starting a startup?
What have been some of the biggest learnings from this journey so far?
What advice to you have for future business owners?
And tons more!
Chris is such a smart guy and it was so fun having him on the podcast. If you want to learn more about Trainual, check it out here. Want to catch Chris on Twitter? Find him right here.
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (FTF)! FTF is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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Hannah was a blast to talk to. She is the Founder and CEO of YC backed company, Localyze, which helps international employees relocate without needing to deal with dozens of websites to stay compliant. Localyze does it all. In this conversation, we dive into:
What is Locayze?
What is the current way that people relocate for a job?
How does Localyze improve the process?
What’s the origin story?
What is your big vision for Localyze?
What industries interest you outside of what you’re actively working on?
What was it like scaling from Founder to now becoming a CEO and manager?
What tips do you have for people wanting to start their own company?
And tons more!
I hope you enjoy this episode with Hanna. Find her on Twitter here and learn more about Localyze here.
What is Forward Thinking Founder?
Welcome to Forward Thinking Founder (FTF)! FTF is a podcast and publication where I interview high potential startup founders, usually before they hit their Series A. Past guests include Austen Allred, Daniel Gross, Leah Culver, Laura Behrens Wu, and many more.
Consider it the opposite of “How I Built This”. Instead of interviewing someone after they are successful, we interview early founders with a little traction and a big vision, and hear what they want to will into the world and why. This is Forward Thinking Founder.
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Ashutosh is a startup CEO monk if I ever met one. What an insightful conversation all about productivity, tying in his company perfectly. Sunsama is one of the cleanest and most helpful tools I use to plan my day, and It was super interesting to dive into a lot of the “why” behind it hearing straight from the CEO. In this conversation, we dive into questions such as:
What is Sunsama?
What is the backstory for Sunsama?
Can you explain the user flow for a Sunsama user?
How do you advice startup founder users to get the most out of Sunsama
Do you tie mindfulness into Sunsama and what do you think of the mindfulness boom in the tech scene today?
Where did you get the name for Sunsama?
How do you balance reactive activities (Putting out fires) and proactive activities (planning out your day and doing things that you plan)
Where do you see Sunsama going in the next decade
Does Sunsama replace Asana or Todoist?
What are some general tips for productivity?
And more!
I really hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. And with that, this week is a rap! Hope you all have a great weekend and see you on Sunday with a roundup of the last week on f20r (Forward Thinking Founder). Not on the email list? Think again! Sign up below :)
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James is one of the smartest people I’ve ever talked to on the podcast, and he’s also one of the youngest! Right now, he’s a researcher at CareerKarma, writing long-form posts about all things future of education and work. I have no doubt he’ll be a very successful founder one day, but I didn’t want to wait to have him on the show.
Please PLEASE listen to the episode if you have any interest in learning about Income Share Agreements. I feel as if there is no one more knowledgeable on the topic than James. On this episode, some of the questions James answers are:
What are ISAs?
What happened historically to allow ISAs to occur?
What did they only get popular in the last 5 years?
Are ISAs going to put universities out of business or will they compete?
Is it possible to have ISAs for people with potential?
Who are some of the leaders in ISAs right now?
What was it like going through Pioneer and being one of the first winners?
What tips do you have for other young people to use the internet to break into startups?
And tons more!
Follow James on Twitter here and make sure to watch him on his career journey. He’s doing big things in life! Thanks for tuning in and see you next time :)
- Mat Sherman
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It was such a pleasure to talk to Stefania Olafsdottir, who is the CEO of Avo. Avo is a tool that product leaders can use to track the right data in their app at the same speed that that code is being shipped. Avo recently went through Y Combinator in their W19 batch.
We had a really insightful conversation about tons of different topics, including but not limited to:
What is Avo?
What is the relationship between shipping code and tracking the right data?
What happens when startup don’t track their data properly?
What have you learned while building Avo?
What industries interest you outside of tracking data?
We dive deeper into remote work
Global warming
San Francisco
What makes San Francisco so special?
What are channels with San Francisco?
What tips do you have for someone wanting to start their own company?
And tons more!
You can learn more about Stefania on Twitter here. Thanks for checking out today’s episode. If you have subscribed to the pod yet, there’s no time like the present :)
That’s it for me. See you next time!
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Joshua Browder has built one of the coolest products I have ever used, DoNotPay. What started as a way to fight parking tickets has grown into an app the waits in phone lines for you when calling companies, cancels trials for you automatically, and can get through legal matters that you don’t want to spend time on. Funded by Founders Fund, a16z, Index Ventures and more, this is a unicorn in the making. On this show, Joshua and I dive into:
What is DoNotPay?
Why did you start DoNotPay?
What are some of the use cases for DoNotPay?
How do you trick companies to treat DoNotPay users like gold?
How do you get the word out about DoNotPay?
How do you help your users find hidden money?
What does the future of DoNotPay look like in a decade?
What are the plans for future features for DoNotPay?
What movements in the tech world interest you as a technologist?
Is AI taking our jobs? Are you helping this move faster?
What advice would you have for someone wanting to start their own company?
And tons more!
I really appreciate you tuning in to today’s show with Joshua. If you want to learn more about DoNotPay, check it out here. Find Joshua on Twitter here.
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I got the chance to talk to the CTO of Glide, which is a powerful platform that enables you to build mobile apps with Google Sheets. Yes, you heard me correctly. Apps powered by Google Sheets. Fresh out of Y Combinator, Glide is one of the leaders in the no-code space right now, as their simple interface but powerful functionality enables creatives to build whatever they want. When I sat down with Mark, I asked him several questions, including topics like:
What is Glide?
What is the big vision for Glide
Why is now the time the #nocode is getting so big?
How did you come up with the idea for Glide/what is the backstory?
What are some of the coolest apps that have been built with Glide?
Do you have any idea you wish someone built?
Where do you think the #nocode movement is going?
What tips do you have for someone wanting to start a company?
And more!!!
Learn more about Glide here and learn more about Mark here. Thanks for tuning in and see you for the next episode!
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In today’s episode, we talk to Rajiv Ayyangar, who is the CEO and Cofounder of Tandem. Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams. Fresh out of YC and coming off a big raise from a16z, Tandem is on a tear building tools for the ever-growing remote world. In this conversation, we talk about:
What is Tandem?
Is remote work actually growing? If so, why?
What does a typical user get when they use Tandem?
How does he think about replicating the office experience, but online
What are other companies pushing Remote Work forward?
What other industries interest you other than remote work collaboration?
What does the future of work look like in 100 years?
What advice would you give to a first-time founder who wants to get started?
And plenty more!
I also wanted to note, Tandem is hiring. Check out their job board and if anything looks interesting to you, email me and i’d be happy to make an intro if it makes sense. (Mat at Matsherman.com). Also, if you want to join Pioneer, the game I mentioned at the beginning of the recording, you can do that here.
Alright, I’m signing off. See you next episode!
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I had the pleasure of speaking to Sankaet Pathak, who is the CEO of Synapse. Synapse provides building blocks to build financial software products. They enable anyone to compete with Chase Bank or Bank of America on top of Synpase’s infrastructure. With funding from a16z and Trinity Ventures, this is a rocketship in the making. Some of the questions I asked are:
What is Synapse?
What can a startup build on top of Synapse?
What is wrong with the current system of banking?
What are some of the companies are Synapse powering
What have you learned while building Synapse?
What is the big vision for Synapse?
What advice do you have for new founders wanting to start a company?
Learn more about Synapse here and learn more about Sankaet here. Thanks for tuning into another episode of Forward Thinking Founders. See you next week :)
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It was a pleasure to speak to Jude Gomila about his company, Golden. Golden is building a smart knowledge base that is easily searchable of topics in the realms of technology and science. Jude has raised money from the likes of a16z, FoundersFund, SV Angel, and tons more where that came from. In this wide-ranging interview, some of the questions I ask Jude are:
What is Golden?
How did you get into tech?
Where did he get the idea for Golden?
What is the user experience like on Golden?
How do you think about getting all the world’s knowledge onto Golden?
How does Golden use AI to help with the efficacy of information?
What makes Golden have perfect timing in the markets?
How does Golden know what to listen to in the world to document?
What does Golden look like in a decade?
What problems interest him in the world?
What about Golden makes him so excited to work on it every day?
What advice does Jude have for aspiring founders?
You can learn more about Golden at Golden.com. You can find Jude on Twitter @judegomila. This was one of the coolest interviews i’ve done and I hope you really enjoy it too.
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It was so fun to chat with Pavle about what he is working on with Mine VR. Mine VR is a VR Adventure Game for the Blind. Pavle was also one of the first Pioneer winners. which is the game that Daniel Gross started over a year ago. Fun stuff! On this episode, we talk about:
What is Mine VR?
What problem does it address in the world?
What was it like playing and winning Pioneer?
What has he learned while working on Mine VR?
Why didn’t he use haptic gloves when developing Mine VR?
How does he think about VR headset distribution?
Thoughts on how to start a company if you have an idea?
And tons more!
Relevant links:
Mine VR’s website
Kaleidoscope
Pavle’s Twitter
Prune Games’ Twitter
I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did! See you for the next episode :)
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It was a treat to interview the CTO and co-founder of Lunchclub, Scott Wu. Lunchclub is a brilliant platform that helps connect like-minded people together for lunch meetings or coffee conversations in select cities. They also just announced a $4M raise from a16z as well, so congrats to them. It’s invite-only right now, but click the link above and you’ll get access. In this dynamic conversation with Scott, we cover topics like:
What is Lunchclub?
Why are they focusing exclusively on meeting in person?
What was the path leading up to Lunchclub?
What category does Lunchclub put themselves in, or are they making a new category?
How does Lunchclub democratize opportunity and how does that tie into their vision?
What other industries interest Scott?
How did Scott become the world-leading competitive programmer?
What is the vision for Lunchclub?
And what are Scott’s top tips to start your own company?
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Get access to Lunchclub here and learn more about Scott here.
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There are few people more knowledgable about the future of work and education than Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma. Ruben is a wealth of knowledge on all things future of work and I was thrilled to get the chance to sit down and talk with him about some of topics like:
What is Career Karma?
How did the coding bootcamp era get started
Where is the coding bootcamp era headed?
What does Ruben see as the future of work?
How does the democratization of opportunity matter in the future of work?
What are Ruben’s 100-year predictions on where work will end up
What tips does he have to get started building the future
And tons more!!!!
Learn more about Ruben on Twitter here and check out his podcast, breaking into startups, here.
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I am so excited to publish this episode. My guest today, Julia Enthoven, is the CEO of Kapwing. Kapwing makes it simple to create videos for the internet and social media platforms. Recently coming off a big series A, Kapwing is growing rapidly. I am thrilled to get the chance to ask Julia tons of questions about what she’s building, why, and how. We talked about topics like:
What is Kapwing?
What makes Kapwing different from iMovie?
What did she learn from Google before starting Kapwing?
Use cases for a tool like Kapwing
How did they come up with the name, Kapwing?
Where did your “first principles” thinking come from?
What do workers expect in software in the next decade?
What tips does Julia have as a first-time and younger founder?
And way more!
Listen to the podcast to hear the rest of the topics! Learn more about Kapwing here and chat with Julia on Twitter here.
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If there’s one movement I’m most excited about right now, it’s the #nocode movement. One of the companies powering this is Adalo, a platform to build mobile and web applications without coding. Today, I talked to Jeremy Blalock about Adalo and several other topics, including:
What does Adalo do?
How did Jeremy get started on Adalo?
How does one build a platform to allow someone else to build anything?
What is Adalo’s place in the no-code movement?
What does no code mean for entrepreneurship and access?
What are the apps you wish were built on Adalo that haven’t been built yet?
What advice would you have for someone trying to build the future?
And tons more!
Learn more about Adalo here and find Jeremy on Twitter here.
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I had an incredible conversation with Yoshi Yokokawa, who is the CEO and co-founder of Alpaca. Alpaca is building an API to let anyone start their own version Robinhood, anywhere in the world. Exciting stuff! In this episode, we talk about:
How Alpaca works
What did Yoshi get started on it
What’s happening in the world to allow Alpaca to exist
He explains the shift of power from East to West in the financial markets
Yoshi has some predictions for the financial markets
He gives tips to anyone wanting to break into business
And much more!
Learn more about Yoshi on Twitter here.
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Immad Akhund is my next guest, who is the founder and CEO of Mercury. Immad is a 4x founder, was a part-time YC partner, and is an investor in over 100 tech startups. Mercury is a bank for startups, simple as that. As a customer myself, I am so excited with what Mercury is building, as I have had horrid experiences with other banks in the past. In this episode, we talk about:
What is Mercury?
Why did he start Mercury?
What is the typical banking experience for a startup like
Is working 12 hours a day the right decision?
Is it easier starting a startup now than as a first time founder?
What areas interest Immad as an investor?
What is Immad’s big vision for Mercury?
What tips would he have for anyone just getting started in business building.
Learn more about Immad on Twitter here.
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I had a really great conversation with Kate Swanson who is the CEO of Ensembl, which pioneering a new type of cookware system. On the podcast, we covered a range of topics, including:
What is Ensembl?
The history of pots and pans ng
What is the actual use of a handle in the kitchen?
What is the vision for Ensembl?
Thoughts on co-living
Thoughts on China
Thoughts on Fintech
What advice she has for people wanting to start a company.
If you haven’t yet, you gotta check out their website and look at the design of these pots and pans. Too cool! Learn more about Kate here and find Ensembl on Twitter here.
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In this episode, I talk to Jack Forbes, CEO of PadPiper. Yes, you read that right. The name is a spin off of Silicon Valley “unicorn”, Pied Piper. PadPiper is a platform that helps you find a place to live in a new city, hooks you up with roommates, and helps you find places to hang out around town. Jack and I cover many topics on this episode, including but not limited to these topics:
What is PadPiper?
What differentiates you from Airbnb?
What are some of the use cases for PadPiper?
What generational forces at at play that allow PadPiper to exist?
What is work integrated learning and why does it matter?
What about mental health is important to founders and what does happiness mean in startup life?
Startups Jack is betting on in the future to help create the future
Tips Jack has for people wanting to build the future
And more!
Learn more about Jack on LinkedIn here.
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On this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, Mat Vogels, the CEO and Founder of Zestful comes onto the podcast. Zestful is a company that rethinks how startups offer company perks. In this episode, we go deep into:
What is Zestful?
What was the first version of Zestful?
How did Mat get through the darkest times before Zestful found product market fit
Thoughts on how founders should handle adversity
Rethinking the incentives of employees and how founders can be aware about what incentivizes their team
Tips for listeners wanting to build something impacting the future
Find Mat on Twitter @matvogels. Thanks for tuning in and we will catch you next week 👌
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Today, I had the pleasure of talking to Cofounder and President of Postscript, Alex Beller. Postscript is like Mailchimp for SMS. In this episode, we go deep into several different areas. This includes, but isn’t limited to:
What is Postscript?
What does this team see in the SMS market that other don’t?
What was their experience like in the recent batch of YC?
We go into other sectors of the SMS market and the biggest gaps in it
We talk about what it’s like to build a remote team
We get Alex’s top bets in startups that other’s haven’t heard of before
We get his advice on how to build the future
Learn more about Postscript here. Find Alex on Twitter here.
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In this fantastic episode of Forward Thinking Founders, I interviewed Paul from Keeper Tax. Keeper Tax helps freelancers save as much as possible by maximizing the tax writeoffs they get. In this future of work certified episode, we talk about:
-All about Keeper Tax
- Why Keeper Tax needs to exist?
-Why is the system rigged against freelancers?
-What is the OS of the future of work?
-What makes finance such a hard industry to build for
- Tips on how to build the future
Learn more about Keeper Tax here. Find Paul on twitter here.
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It's such a fun time when i get to jam about a whole bunch of different tech topics with other smart people. Kashish is 100% one of these people. He's the founder of Carry, which is a travel planner software that lives in your Slack. Need to book a flight and get a hotel? Just ping Carry and it's done. Amazing! This conversation took us well past Carry, though. Some of the topics we covered are:
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How to build trust within your product
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Why trust is so important to compete in 2019
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What does Kashish think about Libra, and how it will affect the travel industry
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A deep dive into self driving cars and the brands that will lead the charge
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A look into robots that can make food, and what that means in the future
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Top companies he knows about that most people are sleeping on
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AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
You can find Kashish here: https://twitter.com/kashgupta_
You can learn more about Carry here: https://carry.travel/
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Wow, it was such an honor to talked to Nick Soman about his vision for Decent, the startup he founded and is leading. Decent helps self-employed people get health insurance. Nick is a former exec of growth at Gusto and is one of the nicest guys I've talked to! On the podcast, we cover:
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What is Decent?
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What shifts in regulation happened which opened up an opportunity for Decent?
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Why is getting health insurance so dang hard for the self employed?
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What does he think of Libra and it's implications on Decent and the whole industry.
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How does he plan on using blockchain technology within Decent
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Why does Nick do what he does
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Why Nick things you should SAVE the world, not change it 🔥
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What advice would you have for people aiming to change the world, just like you are?
And many other questions!!!
Nick can be found on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/nicksoman
You can learn more about Decent here - https://decent.com
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My oh my, what a fantastic episode this was. I'm SUPER EXCITED to bring this episode with Isaac Morehouse, CEO of Crash.co, to you all. Isaac has to be one of the most knowledgeable people I know on the topic of work and education. Of the WIDE RANGE of topics we cover, some of the include:
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What is Crash and is it comparable to Product Hunt?
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What broke down in the system to have a need for Crash in the first place
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Why Isaac wants to turn the job hunt into an "event"
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How the degree has cheapened and how the thing taking its place is accessible to anyone
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For kids skipping college, how do they get that social experience that college provides?
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What freedom means to Isaac and why its important for him to help others to live free as well
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He gives some killer advice on how to start building the future.
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And much more!
You can learn about Crash at https://www.crash.co and you can find Isaac on Twitter @isaacmorehouse. Until next time!
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I had an awesome conversation with Cadran Cowansage, who is the cofounder and CEO of Elpha, an online community for women In tech. Elpha is going through the current YC batch. In today's enlightening episode, we dive into:
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What is Elpha?
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What problems does it address?
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Is Elpha a movement more than a product?
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How can founders can think about making sure there is equal representation among applicants?
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What are the benefits and downsides of not having a diverse company?
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Is the goal to have a 50/50 workforce or is it something else entirely?
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How can male CEOs like myself be part of the solution?
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What advice would you have for people aiming to change the world, just like you are?
And many other questions!!!
Cadran can be found on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/cadran_c
You can learn more about Elpha here - https://elpha.com/
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Today, I got the pleasure of talking to Daniel Gross. Daniel is one of the smartest people I know of and you'll likely agree by the end of the podcast. Daniel is the founder of Pioneer.app, former Y Combinator Partner, former director of AI at Apple, and it all started with his first startup, Cue. In today's episode, we cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
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What is Pioneer?
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What has he learned about people since starting pioneer (and how does it affect product decisions)
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What does he want Pioneer to be?
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Is Pioneer a game? Why?
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Is Pioneer starting a new way to develop games?
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How big could Pioneer get?
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Why did he start working on Pioneer?
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Why Yellow?
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Does he plan on implementing VR and AR into Pioneer
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The best advice for changing the world that i've ever head at the very end.
Daniel can be found on Twitter @danielgross and you can learn more about Pioneer at www.pioneer.app.
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Today, we had a very insightful conversation with Kristen, who is the COO and Cofounder of Catch. Catch is the company that provides benefits to people who don't get benefits from their employer. Today we dive into all types of topics and answer questions, including but not limited to:
What is Catch?
What types of people need Catch?
Is Catch like Gusto for contractors?
What is the "employment stack" and how is it changing?
What role does lifelong learning play in the future?
Why do millennials change jobs so often?
What benefits does Catch have in the Pipeline?
Who else is building the future other than Catch
Does being a contrarian help you build the future?
And more!
Catch can be found at www.catch.co and Kristen can be found on Twitter @Kristentyrell. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, share it with a friend or two 🙌
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This is was an awesome conversation with Shaan Hathiramani about the future of education. Shaan is the CEO of Flockjay, the school that teaches you sales and helps get you job. Did I mention that you only pay once you get a job? Amazing. In this episode, we dive into:
What is Flockjay?
How do they fund the education ?
The role of ISAs(income share agreements) in the future
The stats of college success stories (or lack thereof)
Making the case for traditional college
An analysis into student debt
A look into longevity and elder-tech
What the future of K-8 looks like
And much more!
Learn more about Flockjay here ---> https://flockjay.com/
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This week, I jammed with Alex Bouazi, the CEO of Deel. Deel is a product that helps companies pay their freelancers in one click. They also handle compliance, which most remote companies aren't thinking about right now. In this episode, Alex and I talk about:
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All about Deel
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The process of payments and compliance in the future of work?
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Dive into the mission of Deel
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How crypto ties into the future of work
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What does the future of work 20 years from now look like?
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How people like Alexis Ohanian and Austen Allred are becoming role models
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And many more topics!!!
I hope you enjoy this episode of Forward Thinking Founders
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Today, I talked to the founder and CEO of Curious Fictions. Curious fictions is a way to discover new authors and readers who enjoying writing or consuming fiction.
What is Curious Fictions?
The role of AI in the creative process
Universal basic income and single payer healthcare
Why every company will turn into a tech company
Automation vs. augmentation
The value of "eyeballs" on the internet
And many more topics!!!
I hope you enjoy this episode of Forward Thinking Founders
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Today, we have Leah Culver, who is the cofounder and CTO of Breaker AND one of the authors of Oauth. Breaker is the best social podcasting app on the internet. Today on the podcast, we talk abut:
What is Breaker?
The future of audio and podcasting
Thinking about car ownership
City living and transportations options
Health and fitness options
Is Peloton the future?
Airpod APIs
How to get started building the future
- Much more!!!!
I hope you enjoy this podcast episode of Forward Thinking Founders!
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In this episode, I am VERY excited to have on Austen Allred, CEO of Lambda School. In this action packed 25 minute conversation, we cover a lot of ground. Some of the questions Austen answers are:
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What is Lambda School?
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What is an ISA and how it affects education in the future?
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What do you tell anxious parents when they heart about Lambda School and their kid not wanting to go down the traditional path?
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Do you see yourself as an investor?
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What advice would you have to people building the Lambda School for for X.
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Why did you partner with Pioneer?
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What synergies do you and Daniel Gross have?
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How can anyone start to build the future, just like you are doing?
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And plenty more!!!!
You can find Austen on Twitter @Austen and learn more about Lambda School at LambdaSchoo.com.
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In this episode with the insightful and thoughtful Laura Behrens Wu, CEO of Shippo, we talk about a varsity of far ranging topics. A few of them include:
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The future of Logistics and Shipping
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The evolution of a startup CEO
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The API Economy
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Machine/brain interfaces
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The impact of Sci Fi Novels
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Black Mirrors Bandersnatch and that type CYOA entertainment avenues
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AND SO MUCH MORE
I hope you enjoy the episode!
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In this insightful episode with the Jonathon Barkl, CEO and co-founder of AirGarage, a parking operating company built for the 21st century. In this episode, we talk about:
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The difference between Phoenix and SF
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Parking operating software
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The future of real estate
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Scooters and other forms of transportation
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How education will evolve into a an Uber model
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The future of hospitals
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And more!! 🚀🚀🚀
I hope you enjoy the episode!
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Today, we talk with Cooper Harris (CEO of Klickly) about the future of online shopping, AI, education, the sharing economy, and more! Listen into this insightful conversation from one of the smartest (and nicest) people i've ever talked to. I hope you enjoy :)
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In this awesome episode with Andrew, we talk about his company, Papa, which he explains as Grandkids on demand. He wants to reimagine how elder care and general care is delivered...and he's starting with college students. Other than Papa, we dive into:
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The future of healthcare and how Papa plays a role in that
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How Apple is a leader in healthcare
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How companies like BOOM Supersonic are reimagining transportation
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How any person can get started on building the future
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In the episode, we talk about everything from the future of work to different models of healthcare for freelance workers. I'm excited to bring you this awesome episode of Forward Thinking w/ Mat Sherman.
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