For Starters brings you the stories of the entrepreneurs building our future. Hosted by Alexa von Tobel (Founder/CEO of LearnVest and now Founder + Managing Partner of Inspired Capital), listen to the tales of guts, inspiration, and drive behind the people and companies at the forefront of technology. Each weekly conversation digs into each founder's professional playbook — and starts to uncover what makes them tick as people.
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LearnVest and StockTouch are two companies helping to change the way people manage their money. From pairing members with CFPs to helping them budget better, to an app that demystifies the stock market, they’re part of a movement to make financial information more approachable for everyday people. LearnVest founder Alexa von Tobel and StockTouch founder Jennifer Johnson talk about what inspired them to start their businesses, and share their secrets to entrepreneurial success. Moderated by K ...
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I'm Dr. Lara Devgan, and I'm a plastic surgeon in New York City, the CEO of Scientific Beauty, and of course, a major beauty enthusiast. You are listening to Beauty Bosses, where we chat with fellow industry leaders who are shaping beauty, fashion, wellness, and all things pretty.
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Lattice co-founder Jack Altman interviews industry leaders on their unique management styles — uncovering actionable insights around topics like championing low-ego leadership and creating a culture of extreme transparency.
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Life is short. How do you know you're living it to its full potential? When do you stay put? And when do you change things up?When to Jump is dedicated to exploring the fundamental question we all think about: When do you chase your dreams? Hosted by Mike Lewis, who left his comfortable job in finance to become a professional squash player, and featuring inspiring conversations with all sorts of "jumpers"--from entrepreneurs and athletes to artists and side hustlers.
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Flashback: How to Adopt a Learner’s Mindset with Rachel Carlson of Guild Education
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What if workers could acquire new skills and training, without taking on debt? That’s the value Guild Education strives to provide. Guild Education unlocks opportunities for America’s workforce through education and upskilling and counts Fortune 500 companies (such as Chipotle, Disney, Walmart, and Taco Bell) among its partners. Since founding Guil…
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On this episode of ‘Beauty Bosses,’ e-commerce maven Vanessa Torrivilla Ariel, co-founder of Goldbelly, discusses utilizing her passion for e-commerce and marketing to develop the innovative food app, the connective power of food, and the future of UX.By Lara Devgan, MD
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Flashback: How to Craft a Viral Product, with Ivan Zhao of Notion
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As we all strive to increase our productivity, it's no wonder that productivity startup Notion has taken off. Since co-founder and CEO Ivan Zhao launched a prototype a few years ago, Notion has gained a cult following of over one million users. With a team of less than 30 employees, the company has already achieved a sky-high valuation of $800M. Iv…
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Flashback: How to Put Kindness First with Sarah Friar of Nextdoor
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Do you know your neighbors? When Nextdoor was founded in 2008, 50% of Americans knew one or none of their neighbors. Fast-forward and Nextdoor now connects 81 million neighbors across 11 countries, building both digital and real-world connections. Sarah Friar joined Nextdoor as CEO in 2018 and took the company public in 2021 under the ticker symbol…
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How to Understand your Users with Shivani Siroya of Tala
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Shivani Siroya started Tala not because she wanted to build a company, but because one problem consumed her thoughts: 4 billion people were excluded from the traditional banking system and lacked access to essential financial tools to help them use, protect, and grow their money. After conducting over 3,500 interviews with micro-entrepreneurs globa…
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How to Disrupt a Trillion-Dollar Industry with Paul Monasterio of Kalepa
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What does it take to disrupt a trillion-dollar industry? According to Paul Monasterio, Co-Founder and CEO of Kalepa, it starts with a fresh outsider’s perspective. In 2018, Paul launched Kalepa with its flagship product, an AI-powered copilot empowering commercial underwriters to write more profitable business, faster. And just a few years in, Kale…
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Antoniette Costa talks Her New Album 'Pitupatter,' Her Medical Journey with Dr. Devgan, and Her Nonprofit Work Building Community
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and lawyer Antoniette Costa stopped by the offices of Dr. Lara Devgan to discuss the inspiration behind her latest album ‘Pitupatter.’ After healing from a major health crisis, Costa pledged to record the music she had written in recovery. Along the way, Costa speaks about her work with Dr. Devgan, who hel…
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How to Own the Problem with Hari Ravichandran of Aura
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When serial entrepreneur Hari Ravichandran discovered that his credit score had taken a hit due to identity fraud, he realized that consumers were facing an increasing burden to protect their digital safety—and there wasn’t an existing product that provided a holistic solution. So, as an engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, he set ou…
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On this episode of Beauty Bosses, we speak with fashion designer, leather accessories queen, author, and podcaster Rebecca Minkoff about her iconic bags, 5 NYC fashion must-haves, and how she got her big break in the early 2000s. Delve into the world of this iconic fashion maven as she discusses her experience navigating an ever changing industry.…
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How to Harness the Power of Curiosity with Trevor Martin of Mammoth Biosciences
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While Trevor Martin was an undergraduate at Princeton, he decided on a whim to take a class called Integrated Science, a course dedicated to encouraging students gifted in physics, math, or computer science to pursue an academic focus in biology. Unbeknownst to him, this class would end up being the catalyst that led him to his successful career as…
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How to Prepare for the Future of AI-Workers with Nami Baral of Niural
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As the world of work becomes increasingly global, how can technology fuel the transfer of funds around the world? In 2022, Nami Baral started Niural, on a mission to build a generational product that enables businesses to manage payroll, HR, benefits, payments and compliance in 150+ countries—all in one powerful system. Nami is no stranger to lever…
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How to Build Conviction with Jett McCandless of project44
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From selling everything he owned to meet payroll to achieving a $2.7 billion valuation, Jett McCandless' journey with leading logistics company—project44—has been a story of grit and determination. Founded in 2014, project44 now operates the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for o…
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On this episode of Beauty Bosses, we sit down with the inimitable Alexa von Tobel to discuss personal finance, entrepreneurship, and revolutionizing Fintech. She is a founder of various enterprises including LearnVest and Inspired Capital where she currently serves as a Managing Partner. She also is a New York Times best-selling author, with three …
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How to Go Slow to Go Fast with Sami Inkinen of Virta Health
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Growing up on a farm in Finland and training as a physicist, the path to entrepreneurship might not have been an obvious one for Sami Inkinen. But to date, he has founded two companies: Trulia, the online real estate marketplace that IPOed and eventually sold to Zillow Group in 2015, and Virta Health, the modern healthcare solution on a mission to …
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On this episode of Beauty Bosses, we speak with Dr. Maria Zalewska, Media and Memory Scholar. Her work focuses on questions like: What does it mean to take a selfie at Auschwitz? What does it mean to consider medical experimentation by Nazis at concentration camps? What is the power of recipes and food in generational memory? What is society going …
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How to Raise Powerful Girls with Jes Wolfe of Rebel Girls
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When Jes Wolfe was in highschool her dad and grandfather taught her how to invest. Fast forward to today, Jes contributes much of her success to that early encouragement that she belonged, and in fact, had a knack for business. After more than a decade of various finance and strategy roles, she set out on a new challenge as CEO of Rebel Girls: rais…
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How to Balance Vision and Timing with Naveen Rao of MosaicML
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Armed with a PhD in computational neuroscience, Naveen Rao has built not one, but two, AI companies at the forefront of his field. In 2014, he started deep learning company Nervana Systems, which was acquired by Intel. And in 2020, he started MosaicML to enable developers to maintain full control over the AI models they build. Just last year, Datab…
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How to Reimagine the Entrepreneur's Playbook with Melissa Bernstein of Lifelines
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There are a special few founders whose contributions are so prolific that they are better known as inventors. Melissa Bernstein is one of those founders. She spent 30 years at the helm of iconic toy company, Melissa & Doug, where she designed over 5,000 innovative products for children of all ages and sold billions of dollars of toys around the wor…
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Introducing For Starters with Alexa Von Tobel
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After five seasons, sometimes a rebrand is in order. Join host and repeat entrepreneur Alexa Von Tobel for a new season of podcasts with a new title: What was The Founders Project is now For Starters with Alexa von Tobel. You can expect the same deep-dive into the journey of being a founder, from future insights to "pinch me" moments to big wins. J…
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Celebrity Memoir Book Club talks Matthew McConaughey's life-changing memoir and the multifaceted impact of TikTok on reading books
On this episode of Beauty Bosses, the ladies of Celebrity Memoir Book Club stop by Dr. Lara Devgan’s NYC office. The aforementioned literary podcast, helmed by best friends Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton, emerged from the Brooklyn stand-up comedy scene. Listen along as they talk Matthew McConaughey's life-changing memoir, the most surprising and…
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On this episode of Beauty Bosses, Dr. Devgan chats with Dr. Rocio Salas-Whelan, double board-certified endocrinologist practicing on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Dr. Salas-Whelan went to Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico, following which she completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center as part of …
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This episode of Beauty Bosses, Dr. Devgan chats with Jessel Taank, New York-based fashion publicist, brand consultant, and cast member of the new Real Housewives of New York City. Jessel holds an impressive resume in the fashion world for her work with Conde Nast International, Stella McCartney, Celine, Victoria Beckham, Michael Kors, Westfield and…
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How to Build a Differentiated Product with Shiza Shahid of Our Place
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Shiza's career path has been one of pivots: she went from a childhood in Pakistan to college at Stanford. Post-college, she started off at McKinsey, but left for the non-profit world, co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. And then in 2019, she co-founded Our Place,a mission-driven startup reimagining kitchenware for t…
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How to Create a Beloved Consumer Brand with Andrew Dudum of Hims and Hers
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As the co-founder of Atomic, a venture fund that builds new companies, Andrew was no stranger to being a founder. But starting Hims in 2017 proved to be his biggest swing yet. He launched Hims to tackle the largest industry in the country that had not yet been touched by modern technology: healthcare. Today, Hims and Hers is a leading consumer heal…
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This episode of Beauty Bosses, Dr. Lara Devgan welcomes Fortune Dushey. Fortune Dushey is a NYC-based former fashion stylist and blogger behind Fortune Inspired, a curated digital destination that captures Fortune's personal style, health + wellness tips, and travel diaries. In addition to blogging and content creation, Fortune is also a seasoned e…
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This week on Beauty Bosses, Dr. Devgan chats with Dr. Rabia Malik. Dr. Malik is an holistic aesthetic doctor based at The Wellness Clinic in Harrods, London who chooses not to work with injectables and instead specializes in collagen stimulating skin treatments and pigmentation management. Dr. Malik used her expertise to found Skin W1, a skincare l…
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How to Be Forward-Thinking with Greg Williams of Acrisure
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What does it take to build the fastest-growing insurance brokerage in industry history? According to Greg Williams, it’s all about thinking three to four years ahead. When he cofounded Acrisure in 2005, he initially questioned the need for another insurance broker. Yet, by bringing his vision of the future into the day-to-day, Acrisure is now the s…
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Today on Beauty Bosses, Dr. Devgan chats with Inge Theron. Inge previously was a beauty and wellness columnist for the Financial Times and had a reputation for being a ‘Spa Junkie’. Through her experience with invasive and non-invasive procedures, she founded FaceGym, a facial workout utilizing different massaging techniques and traditional Chinese…
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This week on Beauty Bosses Dr. Devgan chats with Ben Varadi, Director, Chief Creative Officer & Executive VP at Spin Master. Spin Master is the group behind some of your favorite children's toys and franchises including Paw Patrol, Bakugan, Hatchimals, Kinetic Sand and Air Hogs. Ben graduated with his honours business administration degree from Wes…
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How to Adapt Beyond Your Vision with Grant LaFontaine of Whatnot
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What does it take to start one of the fastest-growing consumer marketplaces? According to repeat founder Grant LaFontaine, it starts with an open mind. When he and his co-founder Logan Head launched Whatnot in 2019, they went into it know that their starting place and ending place would be completely different. The team opted to be customer-centric…
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How to Keep Moving Forward with Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers.com
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In 1976, Jim McCann had spent a decade working in a group home for boys and was bartending on the side. A customer at the bar gave him a tip that there was an opportunity to buy a flower shop for $10,000. Jim took the leap and turned that single flower shop on Manhattan's East Side into a billion-dollar omni-channel retailer. He grew store by store…
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