Failure is the greatest Shifu. On this podcast, we dive into conversation with founders, VC's, and innovators to learn about their success through their failures.
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MindGravity: Simpl CEO, Nitya Sharma On Starting a Buy Now Pay Later Startup In India And The Opportunity Landscape.
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Nitya Sharma, CEO, and Co-Founder of Simpl. Simpl is a technology company that offers Pay-later solutions in India. Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a market-leading Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. Before s…
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MindGravity: Upshift CEO, Ezra Goldman On The Importance Of Conviction And Going All In
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Ezra Goldman is the founder and CEO of Upshift that offers fractional car leasing service for low mileage drivers. Ezra cofounded a dockless bike-share in 1999 and helped design a shared folding electric scooter at the MIT Media Lab with Piaggio in 2006 while doing his Master's in City Planning. He's consulted on innovation for HP and was managing …
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MindGravity: Stride.ai CEO, Vijay Nadadur On His Journey From India to the US, And His Startup Journey And Learnings
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Vijay Nadadur is the founder and CEO of Stride.ai. Stride's AI platform enables development, deployment, and adoption of enterprise-grade, smart applications. We leverage cutting edge AI and Natural Language Understanding to build and deliver solutions, keeping in mind the pain points of a financial services organization. When these AI-powered appl…
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MindGravity: Finding The Right Financial Advise w/ Taylor Matthews (CEO), Farther Finance
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Taylor Matthews is the Co-Founder and CEO of Farther Finance. He has raised over $1.6 Mn in venture capital from Cota Capital, The Tiffin Group, and other investors and is developing an investment advisory platform created to provide modern technology with trusted advice. The company's platform offers investment advice on allocations of exchange-tr…
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MindGravity: Building And Scaling a Startup As a Couple With The Founders Of KidzJet Benny Shaikh (CEO) and Ashish Chhaparwal (CFO)
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KidzJet was started by parents with a vision to provide Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Transportation. Breaking the barriers of transportation opens up a world of exploration and learning for children. With the students no longer limited by distance, schools can expand to new avenues to attract talent. Benny Shaikh (CEO), after the birth of her twi…
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MindGravity: The Ins And Outs Of Startup And Corporate Partnership w/ Dmitry Norenko (CEO, Upswot) and Martin Bailey (Director of Innovation, Temenos)
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Dmitry Norenko is the Founder and CEO of Upswot, powering SMB-focused sales efficiency of online and offline channels of the Banks with continuous monitoring & insights into 92 alternative data sources. They are working with dozens of Banks and Insurers in Europe and North America. Martin Bailey is the Director of Innovation at Temenos, where he ru…
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MindGravity: JB Capital's Jeremy Hill On The Hustle Behind Entrepreneurship And The Power Of Just Doing It.
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As the Founder and Managing Director of the JB Capital Group of Companies, Jeremy Hill is responsible for the overall strategic direction and leadership of the firm. His role contributes to the development and execution of our strategic and corporate goals, which includes oversight of relationships with capital partners and the evaluation and consu…
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MindGravity: Journey From A Simple Luggage Storage Idea To A VC Backed Venture w/ CEO Of Bounce, Cody Candee
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Cody Candee, co-founder of Bounce, who aims to give you a place to leave your things anywhere in the city by providing short term bag storage in hotels and shops. Before starting Bounce, Cody worked at Intuit, the makers of the accounting software Quickbooks, and at the venture studio FactoryX. That’s where he learned about the importance of rapid …
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MindGravity: Psychic Entropy And The Power of Daydreaming
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Our minds wander but does not mean it's lost. In fact, let it wander and allow it to connect the dots of imagination.
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MindGravity: The Importance Of Lifelong Learning
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The key to evolution and prosperity is all about learning and imparting that knowledge to the world. Never stop learning.
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MindGravity: Life, A Function Of Perspective.
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Have you ever been in a life-threatening or life-ending situation or condition or diagnosis? Do you remember what it feels like? People tend to promise themselves and everyone around them that they will live differently. They promise to live differently because they understand, or rather forced into understanding the fragility of life, and the unfu…
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MindGravity: Growing Startups And Measuring Success w/ SaaS Growth Ventures's, Artem Gassan (GP)
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Artem Gassan is the General Partner (GP) at SaaS Growth Ventures and has +4 years of early-stage investing and was a founder of 4 startups with 2 exits. Former Partner and EIR at Upshift Partners and 500 Startups where he invested and helped to scale sales, and revenue for over 50+ portfolio companies. He has and reviewed over 1,000 investments for…
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Ever wonder why we sometimes get so engrossed in certain activities that we lose track of time? Listen on to learn more.
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MindGravity: Cryptocurrency and Stable Coins Discussion w/ Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
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Dr. Mihaela Ulieru is currently the Chief Alchemist at SingularityNET and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. The broadness of her background and expertise enable Dr. Ulieru to tackle problems from original perspectives which require a high level of interdisciplinarity - such as her large scale international collaborative pro…
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MindGravity: Intellectual Humility And Healing The Wounds Of Polar Thought Disconnect.
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We are living in a world where no one wants to listen, and everyone wants to be heard. In that world, truth, facts seeking, and credible information doesn't matter as long as you are the loudest voice in the room. There is no intellectual humility, and the race is always on to make a point. This episode discusses the importance of intellectual humi…
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MindGravity: Synapse's CEO Sankaet Pathak On Building the AWS Of Banking And The Journey Of a Product.
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Sankaet Pathak is the Co-founder and CEO of Synapse. Synapse is a San Francisco-based startup that operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services products. It closed a $33 million Series B in 2019 bringing the total funds raised to $50 million, aiming to democratize and become the AWS of financial serv…
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MindGravity: XMargin's CEO Darshan Vaidya Discussing Zero Knowledge Proofs and Cross Margin Trading.
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Darshan Vaidya a derivatives trader from the UK turned founder of the startup called X-margin. X-Margin is looking to transform the way derivatives are margined and settled, using zero-knowledge technology to disintermediate traditional clearinghouses. X-Margin recently closed its seed round raising capital from renowned venture funds like Polychai…
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Loneliness can be emotionally and physically draining. Don't let your loved ones, friends, and family suffer through it alone. Reach out, and be there. You can follow me on Twitter, Linkedin, or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com.
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MindGravity: Starsky Robotics CTO Kartik Tiwari Discusses Unmanned Trucks and Building the Right Team.
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Kartik Tiwari has a background in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and was the CTO and co-founder of Starsky Robotics, a driverless truck startup that aimed to make roads safer and allow truck drivers to work closer to home. Starsky began moving freight on the highway in early 2017, and one year later became the first company to take the sa…
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MindGravity: Yoga, and the 8 stages to sync mind and body
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My personal interest in meditation and yoga is the inspiration behind this episode and how Eastern practices teach us how to attain sync with mind and body. In this episode you will get to learn the 8 stages of Yoga, and what those stages mean. Enjoy! You can follow me on Twitter, Linkedin, or email me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com…
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MindGravity: CLC Advisor's CEO Cindy Chin Discusses the NASA Datanaut Program, Innovation, and Mentorship.
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Cindy Chin is an entrepreneur, venture strategist, solutions leader, and cultural ambassador of the arts and sciences. As CEO of CLC Advisors, LLC, she is an advisor and board member on startup teams, opportunity scout for strategic investment partners, a global thought leader, and speaker. She is also a NASA Datanaut, an open data innovation progr…
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MindGravity: Epictetus and mental resilience
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This episode is dedicated to Epictetus and his framework on mental resilience. Epictetus grew up a slave in Rome and then became a Stoic philosopher. Both of these positions were incredibly precarious – slaves could be abused or killed by their owners, while Stoic philosophers were constantly falling foul of the imperial authorities (Epictetus hims…
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MindGravity: DeFi, and discussing challenges for an early stage startup with Snowball Money
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Parul Gujral is the Founder and CEO of Snowball Money within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, building a high-interest investment account product. Snowball has so far raised $1.1 Mn from world-class investors like Richard Blum, Sam Zaid, Greg Kidd, Reese Jones, Kevin Lin, and Jeff McDonald to name a few. Parul believes, blockchain technology…
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I created this episode in hopes for you to think about things that are important for us to enhance our daily experience from its mundaneness. This episode is inspired by the writings of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of the book Flow. We as a race are constantly looking to optimize our experience and happiness, but most of us are not utilizing…
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MindGravity: Airwallex's Head of Strategy, Toshi Kameoka and what it actually takes to expand a non-US fintech unicorn in the US.
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Toshi Kameoka is the Head of Strategy at Airwallex US and Canada. Airwallex is a fintech unicorn founded in Melbourne, Australia (not the HQ as I mention in the opening remarks...yikes ) helping global businesses move funds cross-border in the fastest, cheapest, most transparent, and most predictable way possible. In short, they are looking to beco…
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Here's a quick introduction to the MindGravity podcast. If you would like to get in touch with me, just ping me at mindgravity2020@gmail.com or via LinkedIn. Hope you enjoy this journey with me!
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Episode 4 - We're Feeling... Mischievous...
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This week, we return from BlizzCon and jump back into Battlerite! Join us as we discuss the happenings within the game, and do a deep dive on the game's newest character -- Ezmo, the Mischievous!By RiteCast
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Episode 3 - I Feel Like We're Beasts.... #JumongHype
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Welcome! In this episode, we briefly discuss the announcement/reveal of Jumong, the next hero in the game, as well as talk about the upcoming unranked matchmaking! We also do a deep dive on Pearl, and offer some insight on how to play her semi-effectively.By RiteCast
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Episode 2 - We Would 3v3, But Shifu Is AFK Again
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Welcome to the podcast! In this episode, we discuss the potential longevity of the game and its community, and do a deep dive on Bakko!By RiteCast
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Welcome to the show! In this episode, we introduce ourselves, cover what exactly Battlerite is, and do a deep dive on Jade!By RiteCast
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