Jack D. Hidary is a successful serial tech entrepreneur. In 1995, established EarthWeb a company dedicated to the needs of tech professionals. Jack now serves as Senior Advisor to Google X Labs. Committed to community and philanthropic causes, he has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of To…

Dave Zaboski picked up a crayon as a child and never put it down, dedicating his life to the creative arts. He is a classically trained painter and illustrator. As a Senior Animator with Disney, Sony and Warner Bros., he has contributed his talents to the contemporary classic films Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, the Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunch…

Lauren Kunze built her first chatbot at age fifteen, and is now Principal at Pandorabots: the world’s leading platform for building and deploying chatbots. She is a published author and graduate of Harvard College, where she studied Literature and Language, and Neuroscience. Liste to episodeBy Link Daniel

Josh Bersin founded Bersin & Associates in 2004 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning, leadership, talent management, and HR technology. Today he is responsible for Bersin by Deloitte’s long-term strategy, research direction, and market eminence. He has a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in engi…

Kevin Kelly is the co-founder of Wired Magazine, a best-selling author and a leading thinker on technology. After the release of his new book, The Inevitable, I had a chance to talk with him about how about his life, his journey and how technology will continue to change our lives. Link to episode here…

Dr. Hemalee Patel is a practicing physician and Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospital specializing in preventative medicine specifically in the field of nutrition, resilience and mindfulness. Dr. Patel's mission is to bring awareness of the effects stress, lack of exercise and poor nutrition has on the body and th…

Maxine Ryan is the co-founder of Bitspark, the world’s first cash in, cash out blockchain remittance platform for Money Transfer Operators and Individuals to send Asia wide. Her startup has won international awards for its innovation in payments and is redeemed as one of the pioneers of the bitcoin/blockchain remittance space. Maxine is an advocate…

Barbara Houis the former executive co-director for Harvard Innovations and Ventures in Education (HIVE), a campus organization that supports educational entrepreneurship at Harvard University. Previously, she founded the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project, a 501(c)(3) educational startup dedicated to establishing a global women’s le…

Salim Ismail is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. Prior to that, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse…

Rob is the CEO and Associate founder of Singularity University. He brings a unique entrepreneurial and globally-focused approach to growing a non-traditional university as a platform to create a future of abundance where exponential technologies empower us to solve the global grand challenges. Prior to Singularity, he co-founded Velocity11 in 1999,…

David Roberts is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on disruptive innovation and exponentially advancing technology. His passion is to help transform the lives of a billion suffering people in the world through disruptive innovation. David served as Vice President of Singularity University and two-time Director (and alum) of the Global Solu…

Will Weisman heads up the Exponential Conference Series at Singularity University. His background leading, investing in, and advising technology and consumer product companies has enabled him to acquire a unique blend of operational, investment and entrepreneurial experience. Will is passionate about people and ideas and has spent his life working …

Marcus Shingles is the Chief Executive Officer of The XPRIZE Foundation, a non-profit founded by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Peter Diamandis. XPRIZE is the leading expert in designing and implementing innovative models that utilize gamification, crowd-sourcing, incentive competitions, and exponential technologies to solve the world’s grandest socia…

Brad Templeton is a developer of and commentator on self-driving cars, software architect, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, internet entrepreneur, futurist lecturer, writer and observer of cyberspace issues, hobby photographer, and an artist. Templeton has been a consultant on Google’s team designing a driverless car and lectures…

Jane Barratt is the founder & CEO of GoldBean. She is a long-term investor and champion of financial literacy. Jane spent more than 20 years driving growth for Fortune 500 companies, including many Financial Services institutions. Her frustration with the disconnect between personal consumption (which drives the economy) and personal finance (from …

Ric Edelman is the chairman and CEO of Edelman Financial Services, the author of several personal finance books and the host of The Ric Edelman Show. Edelman has been ranked multiple times the #1 Independent Financial Advisor in the United States by Barron’s. In the late 1990s, his company was named by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing pr…

Ben Milne is the founder and CEO of Dwolla, a payments startup building the ideal way to move money, as quickly and safely as possible. Under Ben, the Des Moines-based company has raised over $32 million from investors, like Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, and has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the world’s “50 Most Innovat…

Brian Forde has spent more than a decade at the nexus of technology, entrepreneurship, and public policy. He is currently the Director of Digital Currency at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads efforts to mainstream digital currencies like Bitcoin through research, and incubation of high-impact applications of the emerging technology. Most recently h…

At the Hilton Union Square in the heart of San Francisco, during Infosys’ annual flagship conference Confluence, the chief executive talks about his deeply held beliefs and lessons learned through his journey in the world of innovation and how technology can move us forward. Dr. Vishal Sikka is a champion of technology, and clearly sees it as an am…

Tom Ding is the CEO and co-founder of String, a venture backed FinTech startup developing a decentralized permissionless global financial environment for Ethereum smart contract developers that aims to help programmers become the world's bankers. In other words, he is passionate about creating products that would otherwise not have existed. Tom for…

Camilo Buscaron is a rising champion in the world of robotics. He has won many awards for his work, and is currently based in San Jose, CA where he is inventing the future robot that won’t disappoint society. In this episode, we talk about his robotic journey and the benefits and challenges that a world filled with robots will bring. Listen to epis…

Max Brody is a multi-disciplinary designer & developer. He designs things (from websites, logos, apps, to interfaces), and programs full-scale web and mobile applications for individuals and businesses. He believes that software is art, and that art should be perfect. He likes to say that art is perfect only if it is guided by a singular vision fro…

Louis Mikal is a scientist entrepreneur and traveler. Louis co-founded Serendipia Nest coliving/ coworking house for solutionners in San Francisco. He is very interested in decreasing the boundaries between individuals and sharing ideas freely. Having studied biochemistry and then transitioned into technology management Louis has a broad overview o…

Featured in Forbes, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine and more, Justin Lafazan is an acclaimed entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author and consultant. The Founder of Next Gen Summit and best-selling author of What Wakes You Up?, he’s on a mission to inspire the world’s young people to design the lives they want to live, through entre…

Frederick Meyer is a lifelong practitioner of Shambhala Buddhism. He is co-founder of Medivate, a web app to help users maintain a regular meditation practice, and works as a web developer. Listen to episode here.By Link Daniel

Emerson was an American essayist and poet who led the 19th century transcendentalist movement. In this adapted essay called "Self-Reliance", he champions self-reliance and individualism as a virtue, and contrasts it with other concepts such as dependence or conformity. He emphasizes to follow your own voice. Because the original can be difficult to…

Since he quit his investment banking job, Brian Smith has built and sold a multimillion dollar portfolio of businesses. He has built, bought, and sold businesses in the retail, service, and commercial real estate sectors. Now Brian coaches and studies entrepreneurs, helping them to make transformations at both the personal and organizational levels…

Nick Hanauer is co-founder and partner in Seattle-based venture capital firm, Second Avenue Partners. He has managed, founded and financed over thirty companies, creating aggregate market value of tens of billions of dollars. For example, he co-founded aQuantive, which sold to Microsoft for $6.4 billion, and was the first non-family investor in Ama…

Bryan Johnson made a decision at age 21 and never looked back. He told his family and friends that he would start a company and retire by age 30. In 2013, he sold his company Braintree, an online and mobile payments provider, to eBay for $800 million in cash. One year later, he dedicated $100 million of his own capital to invest in entrepreneurs wo…

At the Exponential Finance conference hosted by Singularity University in New York, I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Diamandis, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University. Diamandis counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their bu…

Bob McDonald is eighth Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining VA, he was Chairman, President, and CEO of The Procter&Gamble Company (P&G) He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the top 2 percent of the Class of 1975. He is personally committed to values-based leadership and to improving the lives of o…

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and was named as one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek Ries serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard …

A pioneer in applying social data analysis to investing and also the co-founder of Ticker Tags, which is a crowdsourced association taxonomy that connects trending social content to investable companies. I first heard about Camillo on CNBC where he talked about how he turned 20K into 2M. By now he has grown this figure to $8 million and besides inv…

Tetrick started Hampton Creek, a San Francisco food startup that is going to make it easier for millions of people to eat better. Bill Gates selected his company as one of three companies that will shape the future of food. He has led a United Nations business initiative in Kenya and worked for former President Bill Clinton. As a Fulbright Scholar …

The second part of the interview of Doug Carmichael, a strategy consultant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. We talk about his advice to younger people, news media consumption, what he did to understand the world, his regular get togethers in Palo Alto, his experience as a psychoanalyst and his daily ritual. Carmichael started physics at …

This pilot episode features Doug Carmichael, a strategy consultant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. We talk about how to understand the world, where he grew up, how he developed his interests, his influences, what you should study to understand the world, the importance of history and physics, the origin of capitalism. Carmichael started…