The Biznerd Podcast with Pranesh Umashankar: Recent Episodes
The Biznerd Podcast
Nikhil R Gupta, CEO of Determinant Materials talks about the path to creating Determinant, a company that specializes in precious metal extraction, engineering at scale and more!
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Friend of the podcast Saurabh Vij, formerly CEO of QBlocks returns to talk about their pivot to focusing more on LLM tools for the indie developers, how to approach building useful applications using LLM, the state of the AI market and more.
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Shima Jahani joins us to talk about her foray into industrial design, her approach to innovation and why she decided to enter the crowded market of noise suppression headphones for the construction industry and more!
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I discuss QBlocks, a marketplace to let those with excess special purpose compute to sell it to those who need it, building a company, raising money and financial planning for a startup in the middle of a global recession.
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In this episode, I have a discussion with Brandon Brooks, GP of Overlooked Ventures about the art behind portfolio construction, the story of founding Overlooked Ventures and more!
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This is an electric episode where we explore the context, technological and cultural implications of Web3 with Massey Branscomb, founder of gethr, a startup focused on music distribution in the NFT space and is a participant in the Launch House.
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We dive into the nuances of building Profitpay, a payment processing upstart, Chase's principles and tactics around hiring at Profitpay and more!
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Many great entrepreneurs have a talent in addition to running their business. In addition to being the CEO of Solugen, a company figuring out how to decarbonize manufacturing using biology, Dr Gaurab's is working on research that gets drugs into drug trials! Tune in to listen to this very interesting conversation, with who I think is a once in a generation scientific and business mind.
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We speak about love, life, business and most importantly, being a philosophy influencer.
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We explore the career of Dan Dawes from being an operator at DuPont to being a community builder at AgriNovus, an institution aimed at catalyzing greater activity in ag/bio-science in Indiana.
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This episode conducts a dive into Aclima, a company focusing on block-by-block measurements of pollutant concentration. Pranesh discusses who they are, why they're really important, and finally, their financial background!
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In this episode we do a deep dive into the past, present and future of The Anvil, a student organization that focuses on fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in the Purdue community.
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This interview explores the current state of affairs with the student visa situation, financial markets, acting and college life.
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This interview explores the current state of affairs with the student visa situation, financial markets, acting and college life.
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This interview explores the current state of affairs with the student visa situation, financial markets, acting and college life.
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Quick dive into Stripe, the internet payments company that powers millions of internet businesses to accept and send payments between buyers and sellers.
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In IPO season, it seems appropriate to rant about going public and the issues surrounding it. This episode hopes to use this sporadic rant to catalyze conversations around going public.
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In this episode, we explore what it takes to build hard technology, as well as the professional and personal experiences of Gonzalo that prepared him to co-found and build Watfly, the flying car startup he's currently working on.
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We explore Atif's entrepreneurial experiences in university ,his transition toward a career in software engineering and more.
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Saildrone is a revolutionary company founded by Richard Jenkins that focuses on using unmanned surface vehicles to map the world's ocean data, which by implication, is crucial to our understanding of climate change. Tune in to get a quick bite of understanding about the company's mission, technology and long term value.
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Meet Keagan Stokoe a thoughtful writer and budding technologist from South Africa. We explore his public writing, his approach to hacking on new tech projects as well as his transition from law/finance into his current work.
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I ramble on about the awesome stuff Tesla did in 2019 and other interesting engineering breakthroughs that happened in 2019.
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I explain in great detail about why I am doing this podcast. I address tech, funding and business in a very spaghetti-like fashion.
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In this episode, we take a deep dive into what industrial engineering really is.
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This episode is a quick take about formally learning entrepreneurship vs doing projects and experientially learning.
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