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A podcast by Arlan Hamilton that goes behind-the-scenes and teaches you how to make your first million dollars, get your first million downloads, or find your first million customers. Arlan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, has raised more than $10M, and has invested in over 100 companies led by people of color, women, and/or LGBTQ.
Here you'll find the raw, personal stories of some of the world’s greatest business people: founders of companies like Slack, BrewDog and Jo Malone; investors like Arlan Hamilton and thinkers like Jim Collins. We reveal the key turning points, biggest challenges and most valuable learnings from their journeys, so you’ll get inspiration and tangible ideas to succeed at life.
Inspirational, intimate and disarmingly-unfiltered conversations about living a fully-engaged, fiercely-connected and meaning-drenched life. From iconic world-shakers like Elizabeth Gilbert, Brene Brown, Sir Ken Robinson, Seth Godin and Gretchen Rubin to everyday guests, every story matters.
Inside Outside Innovation explores the ins and outs of innovation with raw stories, real insights, and tactical advice from the best and brightest in startups & corporate innovation. Each week we bring you the latest thinking on talent, technology, and the future of innovation. Join our community of movers, shakers, makers, founders, builders, and creators to help speed up your knowledge, skills, and network. Previous guests include thought leaders such as Brad Feld, Arlan Hamilton, Jason Ca ...
Whatever your business conundrum, there’s a TED Talk for that—whether you want to learn how to land that promotion, set smart goals, undo injustice at work, or unlock the next big innovation. Every Monday, host Modupe Akinola of Columbia Business School presents the most powerful and surprising ideas that illuminate the business world. After the talk, you'll get a mini-lesson from Modupe on how to apply the ideas in your own life. Because business evolves every day, and our ideas about it sh ...
Inside Outside Innovation explores the ins and outs of innovation with raw stories, real insights, and tactical advice from the best and brightest in startups & corporate innovation. Each week we bring you the latest thinking on talent, technology, and the future of innovation. Join our community of movers, shakers, makers, founders, builders, and creators to help speed up your knowledge, skills, and network. Previous guests include thought leaders such as Brad Feld, Arlan Hamilton, Jason Ca ...
Get your dose of insights with Sequent Learning Networks in just 15 quick minutes by tuning into the Masters of Product Management podcast.
Welcome to "The Forbidden Apple" podcast, where we explore the relationship between queer people and spirituality. Melissa Weisz, a former Orthodox Jew and Pelayo Alvarez a Spanish raised Catholic meet weekly and sink our teeth into "The Forbidden Apple". We interview LGBTQ artists, activists & clergy from unique religious backgrounds. Recent guests include Arlan Hamilton, Mary Lambert, Sushant Divgikar, Rev. Troy Perry, Ryan Cassata & Senator Weinberg. Join our conversations as we discuss o ...
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The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructio ...
TOA is Europe’s leading technology festival. Our mission is to help people, organisations and the planet become futureproof. Aim high, right?! In this podcast we will give you context around the latest trends so you can make better decisions moving forward. Subscribe for unquarantined ideas and learnings from leaders across the field.
ZigZag, the business show about being human, returns as a member of the TED family of podcasts. Join this zig-zagging quest with Manoush Zomorodi (Host of NPR’s TED Radio Hour; Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business) to discover new ways we can align our ambitions with systemic change that’s good for our fellow human beings. On Season 5, Manoush profiles six unusual dynamos reinventing business, their industries, and even capitalism in the name of humanity. It will change the wa ...
Join Deena McKay as she shares the authentic stories of Blacks in the tech. Not only will you learn their stories, but you'll also learn about their successes, failures, resources and most importantly the skills you need in your toolkit to be successful. Each episode is meant to inspire, motivate, and empower those in tech or looking to get into the industry.
What Comes Now: soul snacks for the insatiably curious. Show creator Rosie von Lila discusses books with authors and friends, and in the LIVE event series interviews extraordinary leaders (all of whom are people of color) on stage. We discuss anything that brings people together or pulls us apart: politics, religion, art, mental health, money, race, history, futurism, the present.
The Creatives on the Rise Podcast, hosted by LaTecia Rising, is the premiere podcast for creative entrepreneurs who want to learn how to level up their output + turn their side hustles into full-throttle careers.
The Relentless is a podcast about finding new ways to approach business, sales, and success. Join host Dr. Julie Gurner as she talks to business leaders across industries about the mindsets and behaviors that set them apart and drive their success. Whether you work in sales or are simply interested in what it takes to close a deal, The Relentless will inspire you to think about success differently. This paid podcast is produced by Slate Studios and Century 21 Real Estate.
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ZigZag: Arlan Hamilton says capitalism is still the great equalizer
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"Today we're sharing an episode from another TED podcast: ZigZag, hosted by Manoush Zomorodi. In 2018, Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton was on the cover of Fast Company magazine. The headline was irresistible: homeless, gay, Black woman becomes hot-shot Silicon Valley investor. But the reality is that Black female founders still get token amounts…
In this special episode, we revisit Your First Million’s very first episode from the summer of 2019. Such a timely and important conversation then and today. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
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The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You ...
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Josh Silverman is the CEO @ Etsy, leading the company as it builds a platform that empowers creative entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to their IPO, Etsy raised funding from some of the best in the business including Danny Rimer @ Index, Albert Wenger @ USV and Jim Breyer @ Accel to name a few. Prior to Etsy, Josh served as President of Consume…
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To make a company change, turn up the heat | Vinay Shandal
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What do you do when a company doesn’t act in line with your values? Boycott? Divest? In essence, stop the flow of money? That's the typical advice. But sustainability consultant (and former comedian) Vinay Shandal says we’re missing a whole set of tools more effective than walking away. He looks to the most intimidating and influential profit-chasi…
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Unlocking Your Brain's Potential | Dr. Ryan D'Arcy
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For generations, when it came to your brain, we pretty much assumed that once you reach adulthood, it pretty much is what it is. That meant you couldn’t get smarter or faster or wittier or optimize it to perform at a higher level and, on the other side, if you suffered an injury, there was very little you could do to help your brain recover or even…
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MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech [Oslo, 1964]
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Martin Luther King’s Acceptance Speech, award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
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20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
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Ali Ghodsi is the Founder & CEO @ Databricks, bringing together data engineering, science and analytics on an open, unified platform so data teams can collaborate and innovate faster. To date, Ali has raised over $897M for the company including from the likes of a16z, NEA, Microsoft, Battery, Coatue, Greenbay and more. Prior to Databricks, Ali was …
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Kat Vellos ⎮ Cultivating Better Friendships
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Question, when was the last time you made a really good new friend, as a grown-up? Like the kind that actually knows you, not just online, but the real you? Turns out, it’s not actually so easy to create those kinds of friendships. But it is critically important to our ability to live good lives, especially during challenging times. My guest today,…
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Ep. 233 - Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation on New Models for Transformative Innovation
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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation. Elliott and I discuss why innovation is getting harder and what to do about it, as well as new models for tackling transformative and disruptive innovation. Inside Outside Innovation is podcast to help new innovators navigate what's n…
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Ep. 233 - Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation on New Models for Transformative Innovation
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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation. Elliott and I discuss why innovation is getting harder and what to do about it, as well as new models for tackling transformative and disruptive innovation. Inside Outside Innovation is podcast to help new innovators navigate what's n…
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Sir Ronnie Cohen: Refugee to father of British venture capital
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If you’re a budding entrepreneur, you can’t learn to swim by doing exercises on the beach, says Sir Ronald Cohen. “You can't keep preparing yourself for an entrepreneurial career. You learn by doing. And by your mid to late 20s, you're ready to do that. You don't have to prepare beyond that.” Sir Ronald is Chairman of the Global Steering Group for …
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20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
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Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and the author of National Bestseller, "Thinking in Bets" & "How To Decide". During her poker playing days, Annie was a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the winner of the 2004 Tournament of Champions and the only woman to win the NBC National Poker Heads Up Championship. Today, Annie is also th…
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The foundations of confidence | Brittany Packnett
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Confidence. We talk about it all the time. We know it matters. And still, educator and activist Brittany Packnett thinks we underestimate it. "Confidence,” she says, “is the necessary spark before everything that follows.” In this talk, Brittany identifies the three basic elements of this elusive force, which can be especially valuable for people w…
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Reinvent Yourself | Spark Your Work
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What if your work could make you come alive? What if it could fill you with meaning, purpose, and excitement like you're fully accessing and expressing all parts of yourself and stepping into your fullest potential? Like you're doing the thing you're here to do. We call this state being "sparked." The first step isn't about big, painful or disrupti…
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Rachel and Arlan on Covid lockdowns in the UK and U.S.
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An impromptu interview with my friend Rachel, in the UK. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
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20VC: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on The 3 Stages of Wealth, The Return To Twitter in 2017 and the Associated Missions and Challenges & Why Silicon Valley is not an "Insiders Only" Universe?
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Biz Stone is best known as the Co-Founder of Twitter and Medium. Biz is also an investor in the likes of Slack, Square, Intercom, Beyond Meat and Blue Bottle Coffee. Biz also co-founded Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, which was acquired by Pinterest. Due to his many successes, Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of …
When I think about Peter Frampton, I’m immediately transported back to my teens when Peter’s musical juggernaut of a live-album, Frampton Comes Alive, took the world and my life by storm with anthemic songs like Do You Feel Like We Do, Show Me the Way, Lines On My Face and Baby, I Love Your Way. I cannot think about those songs without also hearing…
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The Superpower of Neurodiversity & How It Can Make Every Product Team Better
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Neurodiversity - having a team whose minds and brains work differently from each other - can be a superpower for organizations, leading to more innovation and better products. Marton Gaspar, The Product Whisper, joins us on this episode to discuss what companies can do to leverage this superpower. More information on neurodiversity in tech and prod…
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Ep. 232 - Kevin Depew, RSM's Deputy Chief Economist on Actionable Insights for a Turbulent Economy
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On this week's episode, Inside Outside’s Susan Stibal sits down with RSM's Deputy Chief Economist Kevin Depew. This episode was recorded live at the IO2020 New Innovators' Summit on Oct. 22, 2020. Susan talks to Kevin about actionable insights for a turbulent economy. Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's n…
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Ep. 232 - Kevin Depew, RSM's Deputy Chief Economist on Actionable Insights for a Turbulent Economy
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On this week's episode, Inside Outside’s Susan Stibal sits down with RSM's Deputy Chief Economist Kevin Depew. This episode was recorded live at the IO2020 New Innovators' Summit on Oct. 22, 2020. Susan talks to Kevin about actionable insights for a turbulent economy. Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's n…
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Samantha Moyo - addict-turned-shaman who created sober raving
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How do you get sober when AA isn’t working for you? Well, if you’re Samantha Moyo, you found the global sober raving movement, Morning Gloryville. A business designed to get people to wake up at 6am and go dancing, sober, to famous DJs such as Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and Carl Cox. She sold just 26 tickets to their first event, but such is Sam’s …
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20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
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Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a leading investment firm with more than $120 billion in assets. Prior to founding Oaktree, Howard spent 10 years at The TCW Group, where he was responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds, and convertible securities. Howard has also written two books, mo…
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WorkLife: We don’t have to fight loneliness alone
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Today, an episode from WorkLife with Adam Grant, another TED podcast. Many workplaces have become increasingly lonely, even before the coronavirus pandemic made more of us literally remote. It’s not just an unpleasant feeling—loneliness can hurt our health and our job performance. Find out why it's time for happy hours to finally die—and how it mig…
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To Succeed at Anything, Do This [2021]
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Success is not just about knowing what to do. It's about doing it. Information, plans and goals, alone, will not get you where you want to go. Nor will willpower. Success at anything truly meaningful is about something bigger. Today’s show is going to be very different. Instead of deep-dive conversations with guests, it’s just going to be Jonathan,…
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Music & Poetry That Stirs the Soul: A Retrospective
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Over the history of this show, we’ve been incredibly blessed to not only have hundreds of guests in the physical and now virtual studio for conversation but also live performances from a wide variety of acclaimed artists, many of whom are icons in their chosen form of creation and expression. The performances have ranged from unaccompanied to fully…
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DECIEM - a tale of tragedy and beauty with CEO Nicola Kilner
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The massive beauty disruptor, DECIEM, was founded in 2013 by “the beauty world’s most exciting disruptor”, Brandon Truaxe, and co-CEO Nicola Kilner. From the beginning, they weren't like any other cosmetic company, they acted more like a startup incubator launching 10 brands in rapid succession. They were hugely successful, did everything in house,…
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While wearing a mask?? O Holy Night sung by Jaime Korkos
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My dear friend Jaime Korkos sang this traditional Christmas song recently while wearing a mask. I dig masks and I dig Jaime, so wanted to share. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
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Coping with COVID - Fares Ksebati, Crowdfunding & Creating Your Future
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In this final episode of Coping with COVID, we round out the series through our interview with Fares Ksebati, founder and CEO of MySwimPro, which centers on technology and media through mobile apps and wearables that help people improve on exercise performance and health. Fares is a U.S. swimming champion and certified USA Triathlon Coach, as well …
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20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director ...
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Quentin Clark is a Managing Director @ General Catalyst, one of the most prominent firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Stripe, Airbnb, Snap, Anduril, Deliveroo and Cazoo to name a few. As for Quentin, at GC he has led deals in the likes of Kernel, Coda, Commure just to name a few. Before entering the world of venture Quentin was the…
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Mark Nepo | Why We Need Each Other [Best Of]
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There’s something about the sound of Mark Nepo’s voice that just puts me at ease. He’s been immersed in a path of spiritual inquiry for more than forty years, taught all over the world, authored more than twenty books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening, More Together Than Alone and others. His books have been translat…
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Welcome to the Good Life Project podcast with Jonathan Fields
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We’re on a quest to help you live a more meaningful, connected and vital life. Every week we share inspirational, intimate and disarmingly-unfiltered conversations about living a fully-engaged, fiercely-connected and purpose-drenched life. We’ve been on a quest to find “embodied teachers,” then co-create in-depth, unscripted, often deeply-moving an…
My wife got me a zen garden for Xmas. I love ASMR—particularly the zen garden variety—so I decided to give it a whirl. This was recorded Dec 24, 2020 in my home office. I like to listen while I work on emails or if I can’t fall asleep at night. Give it a try! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message…
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If you’re feeling lonely or down during the holidays...
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This one is for you:)--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
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Farewell, open-plan: Reconstructing the post-pandemic office. With Brian Chen, Co-Founder & CEO of ROOM.
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COVID has forced an unprecedented examination of the role that offices play and has shown us that office as we knew it wasn’t that great in the first place. Moving forward, employees will be given more flexibility in where they choose to work, and this will significantly influence what an office needs to offer. For this episode of TOA ON AIR we had…
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Christen Brandt & Tammy Tibbetts | Making a Difference
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Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts are on a mission to unlock the potential of girls and women, especially in parts of the world where they’re often excluded from education and, in turn, much of life and the opportunity to help shape their communities and lives in a meaningful way. Both Christen and Tammy grew up in households where they were loved…
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Ep. 231 - Martin Babinec, Co-founder of TriNet & Author of More Good Jobs on Building Startup Communities
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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Martin Babinec, Co-founder of TriNet and author of the new book More Good Jobs. Martin and I talk about the importance of community dynamics, and the creation of new businesses and the changing trends, that are affecting building startup communities outside the Valley. Inside Out…
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Ep. 231 - Martin Babinec, Co-founder of TriNet & Author of More Good Jobs on Building Startup Communities
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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Martin Babinec, Co-founder of TriNet and author of the new book More Good Jobs. Martin and I talk about the importance of community dynamics, and the creation of new businesses and the changing trends, that are affecting building startup communities outside the Valley. Inside Out…
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Could a startup solve homelessness? With Beam CEO Alex Stephany
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Wondering what to give as an unusual gift this year? How about donating in someone’s name to a social enterprise solving homelessness? Simply purchase a gift card for someone from Beam, and help a homeless person get back on their feet. “There's billions of pounds being spent on homelessness. More than 1,000 organisations are tackling homelessness.…
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20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
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Avlok Kohli is the CEO of AngelList Venture which has facilitated the funding of over 5,000 startups including 47 unicorns and is home to 4,300 funds and syndicates with $2.2B in assets under management. This year, AngelList Venture launched the much-discussed, Rolling Funds and Avlok recently launched his own rolling fund, Avlok Capital. Prior to …
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Beyond performative diversity | Rosalind G. Brewer
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This year we’ve heard a lot of companies step up—or at least, say they’re stepping up—and making diversity a priority. But what does it mean to truly build an inclusive workplace? In this interview from TED@BCG, Starbucks COO Rosalind G. Brewer lays out how to bring change to companies from the grassroots, by focusing not on metrics, but relationsh…
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Avanti Kumar-Singh, MD | Ayurveda & Healing
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I’ve been fascinated with alternative approaches to healing and medicine for my entire adult life. Especially when so many millions of us are walking around with pain and inflammation that doesn’t seem to fair well with a more Western approach. But, at the same time, I’ll also admit, I’m equally skeptical of a lot of solutions, practices, and claim…
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Coping with COVID - Alisyn Malek, The Future of Mobility
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On this episode of Coping with COVID, we talk with Alisyn Malek, founder and CEO of Middle Third, Executive Director of the Commission on the Future of Mobility, and former co-founder and COO of May Mobility. One of her many previous roles include Venture Capital Investor at GM Ventures, and she shares her years of expertise in venture capital, sta…
