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This podcast covers the intersection of social issues and technology. I interview high impact leaders in the nonprofit and business worlds and explore what it means to be a good citizen in today's world ㅡ of the internet, society and the planet ㅡ and the challenges we face on the road to becoming more socially conscious citizens.
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Ashley Werhun of Mentorly discusses (1:15) starting her career as a ballet dancer, (2:36) her aspirations to be a ballet dancer as a child, (5:13) her transition into tech, (6:41) the seeds of Mentorly being planted through mentoring relationships with ballet students, (9:47) the evolution of Mentorly in the early years, (11:20) the pivot from a B2C to B2B product, (12:49) a defining encounter with MIT, (16:40) going from a MVP to a full product, (18:40) Mentorly as we know it today, (19:03) leveraging AI on her team, (22:22) what channels Mentorly is active on, (24:47) current goals for Mentorly, (27:34) navigating challenges as a woman founder, (29:59) parental leave policies in Canada, (38:28) achieving profitability and sustainable growth, (40:20) company policies and (43:46) advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Josh Collin discusses (2:08) starting Crescent Health from his dorm room, (4:41) moving to a founder house called the Atmosphere House with his co-founder Jason, (10:24) picking up funding from angel investors, (11:40) building Crescent Health from scratch, (13:52) bringing on big name coaches to Crescent Health, (17:40) early growth, (19:04) building for two different marketplaces, (25:22) path to acquiring first customers, (27:47) selling Crescent Health to BetterUp, (33:37) maintaining good relationships with people, (36:31) signing terms sheets and doing due diligence to sell Crescent Health and (39:18) his plans going forwards.
Ricardo Alanis describes his work at Nowports including (5:50) visibility with data in shipping logistics, (7:14) increasing trust in data points for his customers, (15:12) providing financial data like inventory financing, (17:40) representation of goods imported from and exported out of Latin America, (19:48) his role at Nowports, (21:10) the role of AI in his work, (22:30) the Nowports platform, (24:29) the challenges that Nowports faces, (28:35) augmenting and informing data for clients and (30:18) delivering the data. We also discuss (33:38) Ricardo's past experiences including (36:00) digitalizing services for the public in Mexico, (44:44) his thoughts on AI (1:00:10) and thoughts on opening up company data to the public.
Cristina Vanko discusses her journey to building Arrow, an audio dating app. Cristina discusses (0:30) her upbringing and her early experience as a designer and advertiser on the agency side, (3:32) jumpstarting her freelancing career and how an article about handwriting her text messages went viral, (5:00)(32:20) getting picked up by Penguin Randomhouse to write books on handlettering and adulting, (5:54) getting back into product design during the pandemic and getting the idea for starting an audio dating app, (7:56) building a community for Arrow, (11:20) features on Arrow, (12:48) feedback on Arrow, (14:43) what gave her the idea to build Arrow and why she wants to fight for an audio dating app, (19:00) the landscape for dating apps, (24:24) her search for a co-founder and (30:30) finding side jobs while building Arrow.
Chris Baek discusses how he got to working to provide IoT software services for domestic electrical goods manufacturers in Japan with his company InCloud. He discusses (3:01) his beginnings and reinventing himself at USC, (8:53) his first experience at a corporate job after college and what it taught him, (12:02)starting InCloud and his relationship with his cofounder, (15:00) InCloud's IoT services and market in Japan, (17:59) the importance of empathy for business and personal growth and (24:02) his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Alana Karen (@alanatkaren) discusses getting her start at Google, making a switch from sales and marketing to the engineering team, the scrappy go-getter mentality in the early days at Google and leading the Google Fiber and Search platform teams. She also discusses finding work-life balance and documenting stories of women in tech along with their successes and challenges in her book The Adventures of Women in Tech.
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www.alanakaren.com
www.adventuresofwomenintech.com
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Shriya Nevatia (@shriyanevatia) discusses joining On Deck with Erik Torrenberg in the early days and growing the On Deck community through the pandemic. Shriya talks welcoming the second cohort of the On Deck Catalyst program, learnings from the first cohort including hitting ceilings and growing from Build Weekend and catering to an ambitious and younger audience.
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https://www.beondeck.com/catalyst
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Catherine Winfield (@winfield_c) discusses her transition from architecture to design, working in healthcare design to take care of people with chronic health conditions and creating opportunities for students to thrive in education design. She gives us the scoop on what inspires her day-to-day design work, her philosophy on design leadership, measuring success in a nonprofit plus building Along, a tool for remote learning during the pandemic.
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www.catherinewinfield.com
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Julian Rachman (@julrach) discusses Two Sigma Ventures’ investment in Remote including the benefits of remote hiring in companies like managing data governance and healthcare across countries. He also touches on data-driven companies working to improve everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative machine learning principles and open source data projects, as well as data privacy issues vs the democratization of data science.
Taylor Burton (@TBurton86) discusses creating smarter spenders through a collaborative banking app for kids. He talks over (3:05) how his experience with his first lease motivated him to create an app that increases your credit history, (15:45) creating an app that releases financial agency from parent to child, (17:58) partnering with banks to hand off teenagers in the Launch Offers Market after Till Financial, (25:15) raising a $4M seed round and launching the app, future goals and more.
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https://twitter.com/TBurton86
http://twitter.com/Tillfinancial
http://tillfinancial.io
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Atin Batra (@batraatin) talks about reevaluating the current education system through investing in edtech startups that cultivate different modes of learning including peer-based learning and cohort-based education; (21:50) receiving funding from the government and nonprofits to sponsor students from underserved populations; (26:52) investing in a startup that helps you learn languages through their chrome extension; (34:53) and lessons learned from working at Q Venture Partners, a venture firm based in Hong Kong investing in hardware startups.
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http://twitter.com/TwentySevenVC
http://27v.vc
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Sharath Kuruganty (@5harath) talks about gaining experience from building Naval Ravikant’s website, helping startups launch on ProductHunt, tips for building in public and his journey building @shoutoutso_ from inception to launch and gives tips on how to grow your customer list with Shoutoutso’s Wall of Love.
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www.shoutout.so
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Juan Salas (@jmzlx) of Celerative (@celerative) discusses his route to growing a distributed software team, the turbulence he has faced during Covid and an unexpected growth trajectory since 2020. Juan lays out what makes a remote team really work.
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http://twitter.com/celerative
www.celerative.com
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Paige Hewlett (@paigehewlett) of Margo (@call_margo) talks about the importance of the customer experience and journey in marketing and how everything ties back to the customer and meeting them where they are. In this episode, Paige touches on companies addressing diversity and inclusion in marketing to represent the communities they serve and creating an effective feedback loop between listening to customers and creating meaningful content.
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http://twitter.com/call_margo
www.callmargo.com
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Mustafa Khundmiri (@mkhundmiri) describes his early journey and experience from building RSS feeds for websites at RapidFeeds, competing with FeedBurner and moving on from a data crash and his time at Plugmatter in the 2010’s building early-on plugins and providing WordPress support. Mustafa also provides perspective on social media today and building Wordew, his new collaborative blogging platform.
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https://gumroad.com/l/cold-email-that-works/
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Iris Guo (@IrisGuoo) shares her journey as the founder of Neutrify informing consumers about decreasing their carbon footprint through food choices. She describes her current journey managing a growing team, seeking partnerships with grocery stores and food startups and exploring different ways to align people with health consciousness through her product including nutritional information, purchase history and food carbon footprint. Iris also touches on her journey at OpenMeal working with influencers to increase distribution and her experience with adapting to remote work.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-guo/
https://devpost.com/software/neutrify
https://linkt.ree/irisguo
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Kurt Daniel (@kurtodaniel) of Ubersmith reflects on his experiences at Kearney, Microsoft and MongoDB leading to his role as CEO of Ubersmith, a subscription business management solution for the cloud. Kurt discusses the evolution of the cloud services market, shares his insights on effective leadership styles and proactive ways to incorporate social responsibility in the workplace and be an inclusive employer today.
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www.ubersmith.com
www.twitter.com/kurtodaniel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtdaniel/
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Gemma Bull (@GemmaCBull) and Tom Steinberg (@steiny) address the challenges that modern grantseekers and grantees face in the grant application process including website accessibility, an open and equitable application process and open data for the grantmaking process. Drawing on their own experience, they wrote Modern Grantmaking to address the lack of advice in the field that can cause the preventable mistakes for grantmakers and pain and upset for grantseekers.
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www.moderngrantmaking.com
www.twitter.com/GemmaCBull
www.twitter.com/steiny
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Chloe Duckworth (@duckworthchloe) comes on to talk about her work creating a product to help neurodivergent people communicate at Valence Vibrations. She got her start doing an internship at Stanford during high school and participating in a contest run by David Eagleman of Neosensory (@neosensory). Valence Vibrations is an iPhone app that operates on the Neosensory wristband to augment emotional perception for people with neurological conditions like autism through vibrations. Chloe discusses the onboarding training process for Valence Vibrations, current clinical trials to create more nuanced emotions and plans to launch in 2022.
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www.chloeduckworth.com
www.valencevibrations.com
www.instagram.com/valencevibrations
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Philip Toussaint (@ecopreneurphil) comes on the first episode of the show to talk about his work with Ecopreneur Media. We have an excellent discussion covering: his mission for leveraging media (particularly video content) as a platform for environmental activism, working with brands to create incentivized activism, sustainable fashion as a hot industry, the appeal for environmentalism in marketing for brands, the rising role that Gen Z plays in environmentalism, the definition of an ecopreneur, shifting priorities for brands to embrace environmentalism and more.
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http://twitter.com/EcopreneurM www.ecopreneurmedia.com
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