We are back from our hiatus with a very exciting episode! In this interview, I sat down with Palak Vani - founder and CEO of Curated Goals and author of Vlnrbl. Curated Goals is a phone coaching enterprise that helps clients that are struggling with anxiety and stress. In this episode, we talk about her origin story, the difficulties associated wit…

Who says social media is a wormhole? While scrolling through my Twitter feed (@justinsaintil), I came across a gif of two people sending rap lines to each other. I follow some innovative accounts, so on the daily I run through the gambit of seeing the new decentralized technologies, uses for the sexy magic leap, voice platforms, etc — but when I ca…

What do you tell your employees when your bank account is empty and payroll is tomorrow? What do you tell MJ when you find yourself sitting next to him at his Birthday party uninvited? In the first ever recorded episode of Wantra, I sat down with investor, founder, UPenn compsci major who can't code, bucket-getter, and blogger, Vasu Kulkarni. Vasu …

On Episode 3 of Wantra, I sat down with Vladimir Vukicevic, the founder and CEO of Meural, to talk about art, the various phases of NY tech, and the difficulties of building a hardware startup. From the 15 million dollar acquisition of his first company Rockethub to his unique view on the power of nostalgic capital, we delve right into what makes t…

I have a special episode for you today. For Episode 2 of Wantra I sat down with Sumeet Shah, the resident VC at Galvanize, to talk about his venture capital origin story [3:10], how successful companies build brand [17:25], confident vs. arrogant founders [25:55], competitor relationships in the sex toy industry [38:15], locating your entrepreneuri…

The 11th employee at Lyft, Nick Greenfield, sits down with me in the inaugural episode of the Wantra Podcast to discuss his life in Silicon Valley, the differences between the west coast and east coast tech start-up scenes, and the obstacles he has faced in building his revolutionary teeth straightening orthodontics startup Candid Co — a year-old c…