PODFOLIO

🎧 Former Facebook Engineer Inspired by the Opportunity to Work with Silicon Valley Pathfinders with CEO Sameer Madan | Ep 485

Neura Health’s CTO and Co-Founder, Sameer Madan,  joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. He shares his early journey at Facebook as young engineer being inspired by having the opportunity to work with some really smart engineers and Silicon Valley influencers.

🎧 1/2 Gorillas Can Dance: Shameen Prashantham

We are all aware that business, as usual, is over. In many ways, agility is the new certainty. Every startup hopes and dreams that one day they’ll have the power and leverage of an industry giant. However, in becoming so big, those industry giants lose a lot of their agility. But what if these two very different ways of doing business found a way to come together.

🎧 E96 – Building India’s leading Consumer Food Brand w/Epigamia’s Rohan Mirchandani

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Rohan Mirchandani, Co-Founder & CEO of Epigamia.  Epigamia is one of India’s most loved consumer food brands, building delicious & healthy dairy products for millions in the country. Hinged on the core belief that this decade will produce new-age brands that will dominate the Indian lifestyle for the century that awaits us, Epigamia has successfully established a presence for itself by curating a category with its hero product Greek Yogurt and expanding on top of it, with spreads, milkshakes and entire line of plant based products.

🎧 Stefan Ytterborn On Raising $75 Million To Create High Performance Electric Motorcycles

Stefan Ytterborn started building companies when he was just 19 years old. He has now been at it for 30 years. He has launched, grown, funded, and exited. His first venture POC was acquired by Investcorp and his second startup, Cake Bikes, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like AMF, Creandum, and Headline.

🎧 Digital Health Roundup – March Mad About Medtech Conferences; Telehealth Legislation

In this month’s podcast, Medtech Insight’s Reed Miller reports on Amazon’s new deal with North Carolina-Triangle company Thread Research to create decentralized clinical trials and HIMSS coverage. Marion Webb discusses highlights from her live coverage at the AAOS and Sensors Summit conferences. Medtech Insight articles addressing topics discussed in this episode: Silicon Valley Bank Advisor Predicts 2022 Will Be Year For Healtech, Massive Consolidation

🎧 Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies on Work from Home (WFH), Apple and Silicon Valley

COVID-19 greatly impacted technology efforts and continues to do so rapidly. Tim Bajarin joins us from Silicon Valley to discuss work from home shifts and the newest innovations from Apple. Tim Bajarin On WFH Shifts Over the last eighteen months, businesses have realized that bringing everybody back to the office isn’t realistic.

🎧 Negotiate Like a CEO: How to Get Ahead with Lessons Learned From Top Entrepreneurs and Executives, with Jotham S. Stein

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Jotham S. Stein about his new book, Negotiate Like a CEO: How to Get Ahead with Lessons Learned From Top Entrepreneurs and Executives. See the video here: Jotham S. Stein ( is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S.

🎧 Mem: Eliminate note taking friction

Dennis Xu is a Stanford graduate, entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and the co-founder of Mem. They recently raised a $5.6mm seed round on zero revenue. Since Mem’s founding in 2019, they went from writing the first line of code to attracting over 100k users.  Mem.ai is a new entry in notetaking software’s hectic market space.

🎧 S04 Call #3: Southeast Asia payments infrastructure pioneer as CEO and co-founder of Xfers, Silicon Valley engineer, and Deputy CEO of regional fintec

Fazz Financial Group Deputy CEO and Xfers CEO and co-founder Tianwei Liu, an engineer by training, founder by experience, and angel on the side, goes on call to share how gifting Kindles and a LinkedIn search led him to return to Southeast Asia to pioneer fintech infrastructure through Xfers, how a Slack message from fellow Y Combinator alum Hendra Kwik led to the formation of regional fintech group Fazz Financial, and how being early adopters of crypto led Xfers to building Singapore’s first stablecoin.

🎧 Tech, Federalism, Procurement, & Starlink with Katherine Boyle, a16z

Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle), GP at a16z, joins Anne Dwane (@adwane) and Lucas Bagno (@lucasbagnocv) on this episode to discuss: – What needs to change inside the federal government for more contracts to go to startups. – How startups should think about working with state and local governments. – How trust has declined in public institutions over the last several decades and how companies can credibly step into that void by building in public and telling their own story.

🎧 Selling Twitch for $1B, Creating a Gaming NFT Startup, Leveling Up in Life with Justin Kan of Fractal

Whether you’ve already invested in NFTs, are skeptical of the crypto movement, or getting ready to market in the burgeoning Web3 space, it’s undeniable that a lot of change is happening. This week on the show Eric gets together with Justin Kan (Cofounder of the mega streaming platform, Twitch, and Cofounder of the new gaming NFT marketplace, Fractal) to talk about his career in Silicon Valley, the most important lessons he’s learned, and how focusing on internal goals have transformed his life.

🎧 Selling Twitch for $1B, Creating a Gaming NFT Startup, Leveling Up in Life with Justin Kan of Fractal #2037

Whether you’ve already invested in NFTs, are skeptical of the crypto movement, or getting ready to market in the burgeoning Web3 space, it’s undeniable that a lot of change is happening. This week on the show Eric gets together with Justin Kan (Cofounder of the mega streaming platform, Twitch, and Cofounder of the new gaming NFT marketplace, Fractal) to talk about his career in Silicon Valley, the most important lessons he’s learned, and how focusing on internal goals have transformed his life.

🎧 One of the Dumbest Marketing Campaigns Ever with Christopher Lochhead (2 of 2)

In this replay episode (part 2 of 2) John Rougeux talks to Christopher Lochhead, 3-time Silicon Valley CMO and host of the Legends and Losers Podcast.

🎧 The Intersection Series: Tale of Two Tech Sectors – Apolitical vs Equitable?

In this episode of The Intersection Series, Aarti Shah talks with two influential tech leaders about justice, race, gender and how Silicon Valley is (or is not) responding to these challenges. Tale of Two Tech Sectors – Apolitical vs Equitable asks Charles Hudson, Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures and Syreeta Mussante, EVP of B2B & Enterprise tech at Praytel questions like: Can a company be both equitable and apolitical.

🎧 Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet. Is it?

Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others.

🎧 E34 – Yi Jean Chow – The Energy Imperative, CVC in Silicon Valley, Climate Change, Saving Humanity

Yi Jean Chow, Investment Principle at E.ON, and Future Energy Ventures. What is it like to work in Silicon Valley? What are the challenges, and how does a Venture Capitalist and corporate venture capital fund work? More importantly, find out why solving energy is so important for humanity and how it is related to climate change.

🎧 Stop Telling People What They Should Be Doing: How to Motivate and Acknowledge Employees On An Individual Level (with Paul Parisi, Head of Silicon Val

Don’t assume employees want to continuously grow in a company!  Today’s guest is Paul Parisi, former President of Paypal Canada and today, the Head of Silicon Valley Bank Canada. In this episode, Paul shares how philosophy and psychology play a powerful part in leadership.

🎧 Mindtree invests in COPE Health; PhonePe plans to fill 2,800 jobs to double strength; Speciale closes second fund at $38 mln

Speciale Invest, a VC firm in Chennai that focuses on early-stage deep tech ventures in India, has announced the final close of its second fund at $38 million. The fund was oversubscribed twice over since the firm announced its first close in April last year. “This fund is 4X our first fund, and we are excited to play an active role in influencing the deep-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India,” Vishesh Rajaram and Arjun Rao, who founded Speciale in 2017, told Forbes India.

🎧 Perfecting Your One-Inch Punch with Matt Lerner

Matt Lerner spent 15 years in Silicon Valley – including a decade leading the growth of PayPal – before becoming a venture capitalist with legendary investors 500 Startups. He’s now CEO of Startup Core Strengths, which helps early-stage startups boost growth. Listen in as we discover how Matt leverages his addiction to learning – from often painful failure – to create rapid growth in business.

🎧 EP#53 Shiv Sharma – Building Stocktwits in India, pioneering social finance & cracking a new market with an established product

In this episode, Shiv Sharma (VP International, Stocktwits), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to Stocktwits, the reducing gap between startups from India & The Silicon Valley, making the switch from venture capital to the operating side, how Stocktwits is building the world’s largest social finance app, leveraging community to drive financial literacy, why now is the right time for the company to enter India, launching a product in a new market & importance of collaborating with local partners when doing so.

🎧 Episode #19 : Mr Jojo Flores (Co-Founder Plug and Play Tech Center) Silicon Valley Early Stage Investor & Technology Startup Accelerator

About the Speaker: Mr Jojo Flores (Co-Founder Plug and Play Tech Center) Jojo is Co-Founder at Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley based early stage investor and technology startup accelerator, which he started in January 2006. Plug and Play accelerates over 2,000 tech startups yearly from all around the world in 20 countries in 35 global offices, which access a network of over angel investors, venture capital firms, and over 520 large corporations.

🎧 Jaime Ramirez, CEO and Founder of Preventor, discusses the future of AI for identity verification to prevent fraud online

Jaime Ramirez, CEO and Founder of Preventor, and stalwart of the Miami tech scene, shares how banks and brands are using new authentication technology to make life online safer. Automating authentication to verify age and other personal attributes is cheaper than manual verification and also more accurate.

🎧 How to Tell An Effective and Inspirational Data Story with Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte, author, speaker and principal and chief executive officer of Duarte Inc., sits down with Matt to discuss data, storytelling and how to effectively communicate data with a human-centered approach. Duarte Inc. is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley and the fifth largest employer in the Silicon Valley area.

🎧 Trusting Opportunity Over Fear with John Hagel

When you operate with an opportunity-based narrative over a fear-based one, you can move beyond fear to instead view new things with hope and excitement. This is the message of John Hagel, a Silicon Valley management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker, and author who for 40 years has been driven by a desire to help people and organizations around the world take advantage of new possibilities in this rapidly changing world.

🎧 Find purpose and happiness will come to you | Gary Fowler

About this Episode: Gary Fowler, an award-winning serial entrepreneur and investor with 17 companies, two Unicorns and a successful IPO, states that purpose is about doing the right thing – meaning treating people how we want to be treated. Whatever we think is fair, true and just, follow that path and then spread positive energy along the way.

🎧 Comcast partners with health care center providing vital services to Native Americans and community in Silicon Valley, Podcast

In the metro region that serves as the global hub of cloud and technology giants, the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley serves people and communities that are often less visible, but no less integral to the Silicon Valley. “We are the only agency here in Santa Clara County that was founded to specifically serve the American Indians,” says Gerardo Loera, Director of Development and Communications, Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley.

🎧 Winner Take All #194 | Bolt vs. Y Combinator, DoorDash Delivery Engineers, Sonos Beats Google

I start the show with a look at the epic Twitter battle between (now former) Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow and Y Combinator. Are Breslow’s claims anointing Y Combinator and Stripe as mob bosses of  Silicon Valley accurate? Next, a story that DoorDash engineers are outraged at the company policy requiring all employees to do a food delivery once per month.

🎧 How achieve financial independence by house hacking w/Craig Curelop

Craig Curelop is an author and the co-founder of The FI Team, a group that focuses on helping people attain financial independence through real estate investing. In 2017, Craig took a 50% pay cut to move to Denver to work with bigger Pockets and begin his house-hacking journey. Craig achieved financial independence in about 2 years, climbing over a mountain of student debt on the way.

🎧 112: Designing & Commercializing Robotics Inventions

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics which supports the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. She has headed up Venture Capital rounds, is a fellow lecturer, TedX speaker, and an XPrize judge. Her office is also just down the hall from our Mako Design California office at CircuitLaunch.

🎧 Raimie Tang: Student Founder, Redefining Dating & Going All In

Raimie is the Co-Founder and CEO of dateideas , a mobile app that provides couples with unique date experiences for their every date. Having launched just 6 months ago, they have sold over $80,000 worth of date experiences and impacted over 9,000 couples. Today, Raimie runs the largest community of couples in Singapore with over 50,000 subscribers.

🎧 Rapid Response: Putting an end to hustle culture, w/Reshma Saujani, author of Pay Up

“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own.

🎧 Growing a Six Figure Podcast with Data & Automation With Ben Shapiro

Need Help Launching a Top 100 Ranking Podcast? Visit: (Top10podcasts.com) Do you want to know what tools, tips, and tricks world-class marketers use to achieve massive success? Today, I have my very good friend, marketing technology expert Ben Shapiro, on the show.

🎧 Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 7: My hope is, entrepreneurs even crazier than us will rise and build for India — Rohan Verma

Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years.

🎧 IAM1317 – CEO and Author Helps Companies Institutionalize Innovation

Rebecca D. Costa is an American sociobiologist and futurist. She is the preeminent global expert on the subject of “fast adaptation” and recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her career spans four decades of working with founders, executives, and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

🎧 Dancing with Uncertainty with Michael Lee & Rosemary Rein

In this episode we talk about dancing with uncertainty with Rosemary Rain and Michael Lee. Rosemary Rein is the SVP, Product & Sales of Innovation Minds. Michael Lee is SVP, Strategy and Marketing of Innovation Minds.  Rosemary Rein is an author, consultant, and international speaker on leadership, employee engagement, and innovation.

🎧 LE TRAIT – Episode 25 – Les métiers d’art : «une Silicon valley » à la française

Martin Pietri, président des manufactures Emblem Normale Sup puis Bercy puis retour à l’histoire familiale : les métiers de l’art et de l’artisanat. La cinquantaine juvénile et souriante, Martin Piétri est en effet le président-fondateur de Emblem qui regroupe 4 manufactures cumulant plus de 400 années de savoir-faire (Taillardat, Craman-Lagarde, Vernaz & Filles et Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy) dont il parle avec passion.

🎧 The “Moneymaker to Moonshot” Ecosystem

As a proven entrepreneur, Lewis Schiff has had a bird’s eye view of how the innovation ecosystem has changed in the past 25 years… specifically, the transition from the “Silicon Valley” ecosystem to the “moneymaker to moonshot” ecosystem – a new phenomenon that explains “where does innovation come from.

🎧 The value of building diverse teams – William Adams

William is an award-winning Diversity & Inclusion innovator, an engineering trailblazer, and a philanthropist. He is also a busy husband and father of three children. William was named the first Technical Advisor to the CTO at Microsoft after helping develop critical code for many of Microsoft’s core products.

🎧 Joe Hudson: The Man Behind Silicon Valley’s Unicorn CEOs

I talk to a lot of founders and CEOs in Silicon Valley.  They started telling me “you know, I couldn’t have done it without…” When I heard that multiple times, I just had to meet the guy they were talking about – Joe Hudson. Turns out, Joe Hudson is a sought after executive coach and creator of The Art of Accomplishment, an online learning platform for personal development.

🎧 [Achieving AI ROI] Data Quality Assessment for Non-Technical Leaders – with Dr. Charles Martin

Today’s episode is part four out of five in our Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects series. This week, we have published one episode per day, starting with the Head of the AI Centre of Excellence for Intel. Today, we’re bringing it down to more of a consultancy and vendor perspective from someone who has worked with some of the largest enterprises in the world.

🎧 Elizabeth Warren Claps Back at Elon Musk

Few people draw more ire in Silicon Valley than the Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. She’s long fought against the power of big banks and corporate behemoths, so it’s natural that she’s turned her attention to breaking up dominant tech companies and taxing the billionaires behind them.

🎧 MBS406 – Steve Blank The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

The Startup Owner’s Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, co-creator with Eric Ries of the “Lean Startup” movement, and tested and refined by him for more than a decade.

🎧 Theranos and Silicon Valley

What does the conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tell us about tech startup culture? The BBC’s James Clayton is joined by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn to ask if any lessons are being learned by Silicon Valley, where startups are encouraged to promise world-changing technology, and investors demand sky-high valuations.

🎧 La alianza Wall Silicon

En el pod-newsletter de hoy: 1. Clarida. 2. Políticos traders. 3. Balance bancos. 4. Price stability. 5. Wall Street Silicon Valley. Puedes leer el podcast, consultar los enlaces de las noticias comentadas y suscribirte a la newsletter en este link: Otros enlaces de escucha en: Más en: ¿Te ha molado el podcast? Invítate a algo, ¿no? 😉

🎧 Episode 762 – How To Scale Your Business Through An Ecosystem with Steven Hoffman

Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, a global innovation hub for entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books.

🎧 Babbage: The fountain of youth

Billions of dollars are being pumped into technologies that hope to reduce the effects of ageing. Host Alok Jha explores the latest research in the field—from regenerating organs to rejuvenating cells—and whether these efforts could help to conquer debilitating human diseases. Is anti-ageing more than just a pipe-dream for Silicon Valley startups.

🎧 The Elizabeth Holmes trial: Fraud, funding and a reckoning for Silicon Valley

Elizabeth Holmes became a tech billionaire through fraud. Now, she faces years in prison. Will Silicon Valley’s ‘fake it till you make it’ culture face an overall reckoning? Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh, Micah Rosenbloom and Kara Swisher join Meghna Chakrabarti.

🎧 128. – The Year of Magical Thinking (ft. Wendy Liu)

Kicking off the new year, we are joined by returning champion Wendy Liu – author of Abolish Silicon Valley – to look back on all the very dumb things the tech sector has forced us take seriously in 2021. We talk about how free flowing capital has both created and accelerated a world built on sand.

🎧 S02E15: Ten z NeXorem

Warto rozmawiać, jak mawiał klasyk. W tym odcinku zdania są podzielone, a jednak łączą. A zdania są o różnych doświadczeniach z technologią, o tym jak z nią żyć i co zmienia w naszym życiu. Gościem specjalnym jest NeXor! I zapowiada się, że jeszcze z nim porozmawiamy – stay tuned! Poniżej znajdziecie linki do materiałów, o których wspominamy: Blog Nexora:

🎧 S03 E01 The Empowered Organization with Marty Cagan

Ever since Agile started, different frameworks have emerged. There has been an abundance of training and hyped certificates to get people up to speed. After a few days of following a course, they are now the experts of agility. But does that really support you and your organization in creating the right value.