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🎧 E101 – Building the Operating System of Indian Debt Markets w/CredAvenue’s Gaurav Kumar

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Gaurav Kumar, Founder & CEO of CredAvenue.  CredAvenue is building the Operating System for Indian Debt Markets and has soon become the leading infrastructure platform in India’s fintech ecosystem. It became a Unicorn in a record 18 months, which is the fastest for any fintech company in the country.

🎧 Nate Pierotti of New Stack on why betting on Outsiders is a winning strategy

Being an outsider these days has a lot of advantages. It can allow ideas to crystallize in ways that someone who is too close to an industry may avoid. Today we welcome Nate Pierotti, Principal of New Stack Ventures, an early-stage fund whose mission is to invest in outsiders and founders that don’t come from the same educational pedigrees or locations we typically see in the venture world.

🎧 Google leads $300 mln funding at Sharechat parent; Airbus sets up an H2 R&D facility in the UK; One AI raises $8 mln

Amid a funding slowdown, Sharechat’s parent Mohalla Tech is expected to announce a $300 million funding round led by Google, India’s Times Group and Singapore’s Temasek, Reuters reports. Airbus has set up an R&D facility in the UK for cryogenic fuel technologies for its proposed hydrogen planes.

🎧 771: How to Own Your Career and Build Your Dream Job with Ann Hiatt

Ann Hiatt shares valuable lessons learned on career development from her 15 years working alongside Silicon Valley’s top CEOs.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The top three things you can do to develop your career  2) How to deal with the pressures of big-impact opportunities  3) How to carve out your path to promotion when there is none  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.

🎧 Kings of Crypto with Jeff John Roberts

For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000—the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw the moment as an apotheosis. Everyone else saw a bubble.

🎧 136 Selling your Company with Shawn Flynn

135 Selling your Company with Shawn Flynn Shawn Flynn started as a business owner, founding, and growing a successful company in Beijing China before returning to the US to work with companies ranging from fast growing Silicon Valley startups to established overseas public companies. He brings his international experience working with all stages and sectors of businesses to his role as Principal at a premier middle market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation.

🎧 Content Planning Made Easy With Planable

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Xenia Muntean. Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Prior to launching Planable, at 20 years old she built a digital marketing agency and led social for clients such as Coca-Cola.

🎧 Matthew Stoudt On Raising $70 Million To Solve Your Pain Through Immersive Therapeutics

Matthew Stoudt’s latest startup has not only raised tens of millions of dollars in funding but hit Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. The venture, Applied VR has attracted investment from top-tier investors like Jazz Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, SVB Capital, and Sway Ventures.

🎧 20VC: Oren Zeev on Raising 3 Funds and $1BN in 12 Months; Why Temporal Diversification is BS, Why Both LPs and GPs are Way Over-Diversified & Why Vent

Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner @ Zeev Ventures and one of the OGs of solo capitalism. Oren has an incredible portfolio including investments in Audible, Houzz, Chegg, Riverside, Tipalti, TripActions, and Firebolt to name a few. Oren is also very unlike any other VC firm, he does not employ any associates, principals, or staff.

🎧 Ep. 172: Airbnb’s Hiroki Asai on Designing Environments for Creative Teams to Thrive

Airbnb’s Global Head of Marketing, Hiroki Asai, grew up riding his BMX through the orchards of Cupertino, CA. But it was the visual language of skateboard culture that ensnared his creative imagination and grew into a passion for graphic design. Always industrious, he took night school art classes as a teenager, went on to earn a BA in Graphic Design, and then got straight to work freelancing.

🎧 91. On Revitalizing Manufacturing – Jason Azevedo

In the episode 91 of IDEAS+LEADERS podcast I am speaking with Jason Azevedo about starting and running a manufacturing business. Tune in for an amazing inspiration for action. Jason Azevedo has had his heart in business development since an early age, starting a very successful apparel company that grew from humble garage beginnings to annual gross billings of over a million dollars at age 15.

🎧 EP#57 Ben Mathias – Investing in growth stage startups, value add beyond Series A and why founders should focus on building capital efficient busine

In this episode, Ben Mathias (Managing Partner, Vertex Ventures), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to Vertex Ventures, history & thesis at Vertex, key defining moments in evolution of India’s startup ecosystem, why it is important for startups to focus on building capital efficient businesses, advice for first time VCs, nuances of investing in growth stage startups, adding value to founders beyond Series A rounds, outlier founders from the Vertex SEA portfolio & what differentiates them from the rest, how being a VC has influenced Ben’s personality over the years an

🎧 Bilal Zuberi on Unifying America

Bilal Zuberi (@bznotes), partner at Lux Capital, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: – Bilal’s investing thesis of finding companies building solutions to interesting problems that impact a lot of people. – Why he’s investing in space and defense companies. – What keeps him up at night and how his investments are working on those areas.

🎧 Improving Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence for Video Processing – Use-Cases and Adoption – with Arun Iyengar of Untether AI

Today’s guest is Arun Iyengar, CEO at Untether AI. Untether is a semiconductor firm based in Toronto, but with employees all over North America, including Silicon Valley. Arun previously worked with AMD, another major hardware and software firm in the Bay Area, before stepping into his current CEO role at Untether AI.

🎧 Anduril: Building the Future of Defense – [Business Breakdowns, EP. 59]

Today, we are running a special episode of Business Breakdowns. With geopolitics playing an increasingly important role in society again, this episode with Anduril’s CEO offers an inside look at the state of the defense industry and how it is changing. If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to Business Breakdowns on your preferred podcast player, where you’ll find past episodes on Block, Goldman Sachs, AutoZone and many others.

🎧 Subway’s Global Market Strategies with Carrie Fischer

Carrie Fischer is the Globalization Services Manager at Subway, headquartered in Milford, CT. She is responsible for all globalization-related strategies for the company. She has over 28 years of localization experience and has held previous localization positions at Bodybuilding.com as the Localization Program Manager; Hyperion/Oracle as the Director of the Worldwide Product and Translation Group, and Transparent Language as the Managing Editor.

🎧 David Johnson: Design, Law, and Climate

TODAY’S GUEST   Dave Johnson is a lecturer at the Stanford Law School and at the Stanford d.school, where he teaches negotiation through design thinking. Before Stanford, he worked as a lawyer for 20 years in Silicon Valley tech companies. His most recent articles are designed for legal systems and designing online mediation.

🎧 144: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (Part 2)

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs–a real-life Tony Stark–and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”

🎧 Anduril: Building the Future of Defense

Today, we are breaking down Anduril. Anduril builds high tech defense systems for the US Department of Defense and its allies. Crucially, it does so with speed that emanates from Silicon Valley. Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, who previously built and sold Oculus to Facebook, Anduril has achieved the rare feat of challenging the established order in the defense industry.

🎧 Andrea Feinberg, Paul Smith & Mauri Schwartz on Thought Leader Life Credibility Specials

Get to know these successful thought leaders and find out how they present themselves and their crafts as experts in their fields. Andrea Feinberg is the President of Coaching Insight LLC. She has more than 25 years of experience helping clients articulate, achieve and exceed their goals. She is a graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business (Marketing).

🎧 Optimising Main Images On Multi Million Dollar Products

Today I am joined by 9 figure seller Ash Thompson, 8 figure seller Brandon Young and John Hefter, a co-founder of Thrasio, the fastest growing profitable start up in history. You could say these guys know a thing or two about optimising main images; on products doing millions of dollars per year on Amazon.

🎧 [$6.5B Exit] Auth0’s Founder, Eugenio Pace on prioritizing people over segments

At the age of 42, Eugenio Pace was a late bloomer in the startup game. But he more than made up for lost time when he built up identity authentication platform Auth0 from scratch in 2013, before the company was acquired by Okta in May 2021. The Co-Founder joined Adam for a chat about: Why developers are so important in the tech industry The first sale being a valuable milestone for any startup How the right timing (and luck) both play their part in company growth Zendesk for Startups partner Silicon Valley Bank: Learn more here.

🎧 3 Success Tips from a Silicon Valley CEO with ELSA Founder Vu Van

Get English pronunciation corrections Get immediate feedback and corrections using the ELSA AI tools! Special limited time offer available for All Ears English listeners! Get 85% off your lifetime pro membership Get 40% off your 1-year pro membership What is ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant): Get your own personal pronunciation assistant.

🎧 #153 – How to Talk with People Who Might Fund Your Business

How do you ask someone for money (for your business)? In this podcast, you will learn how. Learn from 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.

🎧 Startup Fundraising Free Office Hours with Angel Investor Scott Fox

Bring your startup questions to the Startup Council’s FREE founder fundraising “Office Hours”. You’ll get FREE expert Silicon Valley advice to help diverse entrepreneurs start, raise money, and grow new ventures. Have questions about raising venture capital? How to find product/market fit? Angel investors.

🎧 Using Solution Tests to Make Sure You’re Building Products Users Want (with Jim Morris, Founder @ Product Discovery Group)

A message about mentoring I’m passionate about mentoring & think it is a high leverage activity for product managers as they develop in their careers. I mentored 76 people in Q1 2022 but have realised I don’t scale so am working with a buddy to match mentors & mentees. Sign up here to be a mentor, mentee or both.

🎧 China’s Race to the Top: Authoritarianism in Technology and Global Affairs, With Keith Krach

China is taking an authoritarian approach in its quest to be a dominant power in technology and global affairs. Silicon Valley innovator and former Under Secretary of State Keith Krach has a unique perspective on both aspects. Rob and Jackie sat down with him to discuss how China is impacting global market competition and what it means for U.

🎧 My Amazon Guy PPC AMA with Matt Davis and Frederick Vallaeys

Frederick (Fred) Vallaeys is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author, and leading influencer in pay-per-click search marketing. One of Google’s first 500 employees, he helped pioneer PPC marketing as the company’s first AdWords Evangelist. Today he serves as Co-Founding CEO of Optmyzr, a leading and award-winning PPC management platform.

🎧 Amber Deibert: The Only One You’re Fooling Is You

Mindset coach Amber Deibert: helps Silicon Valley business leaders get past impostor syndrome, which she once battled herself. She says too many top performers miss out on life’s joys because their accomplishments only reinforce a sense of unworthiness. She turns that thinking on its head, saying, “You cannot feel impostor syndrome unless you’re a success.

🎧 Ep. 184: Bharat Kanodia – “That company is worth what!?” – an insider’s view of business valuations.

Adam Larson speaks with Bharat Kanodia about his critical role as a leading business appraiser in Silicon Valley. As the founder and chief appraiser at Veristrat, Bharat helps startup founders and venture capitalists by telling them what their companies are worth. Over the course of career Bharat has valued over 2000 businesses and unique assets including Uber, Airbnb and even the Golden Gate Bridge. Tune in for an insider’s view of the analytics and conversations that drive business innovation and investment.

🎧 Amazon Walk Out Stores, Silicon Valley Remote Culture Shift, Top 10 Most Annoying Cybersecurity Issues, Small Business Consulting

The Transformation Ground Control podcast covers a number of topics important to digital and business transformation. This episode covers the following topics and interviews: Hot Topics: Amazon Walk Out Tech Stores, Silicon Valley Remote Culture Shift, NHL Edge, USAF Cybersecurity Mascot, AI Poisoning (Eric and Kyler) Top 10 Most Annoying Cybersecurity Issues (Chad Baker, LAE Software) Being a Small Business Consultant in Digital Transformation (Kristy Barber, Third Stage Consulting) We also cover a number of other relevant topics related to digital and business transformation throughout the

🎧 Mighty Networks & Community Mindset with Gina Bianchini

“A community sits at the center of how we do this: how we go through life together and how we learn from other people’s stories, experiences, and ideas; how we tackle things that we didn’t think were possible; how we find meaning and purpose from being a part of something bigger than ourselves.

🎧 #130 How to make pricing a game changer with Jeffrey Tjiok, Director at Simon-Kucher

Pricing is part science, part art. And huge for profitability. Jeffrey Tjiok worked with 25+ B2B Tech companies, many of them VC-backed unicorns. 👉 Here are 5 Insights from him on how to make pricing a game changer for you with Jeffrey Tjiok on our Europe’s B2B SaaS Sales Podcast (1st comment).

🎧 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.

🎧 The 3 Key Leadership Skills You Cannot Fake – Sabrina Horn

Selling With Love is more than a podcast! Join the community of like-minded entrepreneurs ready to overcome their sales blockages and transform the planet at: ======= Have you ever felt that what you were saying wasn’t completely true but it wasn’t such a big deal.

🎧 kwELITE’s New Leader Shares How to “Empower Agents to Fight Next Year’s War, Not Last Year’s” w/Dakotah Smith

Real estate is evolving rapidly, but too many leaders are focused on solving yesterday’s problems instead of anticipating tomorrow’s. We hear a lot about tech disruption, and institutional buyers but no one has zeroed in on the most pivotal problem – the supply/demand imbalance in housing. What will this issue mean for real estate agents.

🎧 Kim Scott on Candor and Justice in the Workplace

Kim Scott is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected leadership experts. She has previously worked as an executive at Google, and as a CEO coach with Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and several other leading organizations. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of two top books on leadership, Radical Candor and Just Work. In her second appearance on the show, Kim joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss the importance of Radical Candor, effective management techniques, and how to create a more inclusive workplace. 

🎧 #102 Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity)’s Co-Founder & Growth Lead Jiho Jeffrey Zirlin

Jeff Zirlin (Jiho) is the co-founder and growth lead at Sky Mavis. Sky Mavis is revolutionizing how people play, live, work and earn within virtual worlds through the use of blockchain technology. Sky Mavis’ first game, Axie Infinity, is one of the largest NFT gaming ecosystems and has amassed millions of players around the world.

🎧 Overcoming Resistance To Innovation with Jim Euchner – #330

  Many large companies today have begun to adopt the principles of Lean Startup, a methodology first adopted among Silicon Valley tech startups in order to become more innovative and agile in implementing new products, services and business models. However large corporations are not just bigger versions of startups. My guest today, Jim Euchner has […]

🎧 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.

🎧 Scaling a Nonprofit Like a Silicon Valley Startup – Matt Hill // One Tree Planted

In episode 138 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, I speak with Matt Hill, founder of the global reforestation organization One Tree Planted on scaling a nonprofit like a Silicon Valley startup.

🎧 472: Jimmy Soni – An Indispensable Guide To Innovation, Curiosity, & Leadership (The Founders)

Text Hawk to 66866 for Mindful Monday… A carefully curated email sent to you every Monday to help you start your week right… Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Twitter/IG: @RyanHawk12      Jimmy Soni is an award-winning author. His book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, won the 2017 Neumann Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Mathematics for the best book on the history of mathematics for a general audience, and the Middleton Prize by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

🎧 Two Corporate Cultures & Angel Investing in Southeast Asia with Yaw Yeo

“If you look at the tech universe revolves around the U S and China, I spent a lot time almost 10 years in the [Silicon] valley ecosystem. But I haven’t really seen the China technology ecosystem. So I was really curious on how it works, how is it like, how is it different? There was like a great opportunity for me to learn and see how it worked from the inside.

🎧 Hospital Life Hacks (w/Dr. John Cunniff)

A longtime hospitalist colleague and mentor shares hospital hacks that improve life for our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves 🔥 Dr. John Cunniff, MD, MBA is a 22 year veteran hospital doctor with the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group in practice at Stanford and other local hospitals in the Silicon Valley. Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email:

🎧 True AI & The Future of Networking: Rami Rahim – CEO Juniper Networks

Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks is someone who truly can be labeled a pioneer in the building of the Internet. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with over 9000 employees, operations in 50 countries and over $4.7 billion in revenue, Juniper Networks played a pivotal role in how we all communicate today.

🎧 247: What’s Wrong with the Revenue Growth At All Costs Model

Matt Melymuka joins Sarah Hicks on this episode of the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss what’s wrong with the revenue growth at all costs model. Matt is the Founder/Partner of PeakSpan Capital, a growth equity firm that takes a “contra-silicon valley” approach to scaling. Highlights include: the origins of PeakSpan’s focus and specialization model (1:56), what the capital loss ratio is and what it means for your company (6:15), the overlooked issue of liquidity (8:55), the problem of prioritizing growth at any cost (12:25), what leaders should focus on instead (15:09), how sale

🎧 Rapid Response: Stay scrappy, deliver fast, w/Gopuff’s Yakir Gola

Has Gopuff cracked the code of instant delivery — a field where even Amazon has struggled? Co-founder Yakir Gola talks about the challenge of owning the customer journey from app to warehouse to doorstep, and the reasons why being outside Silicon Valley is giving Gopuff a big advantage as it expands across the United States and around the world.

🎧 Suman Das, Founder & CEO, DDM Systems, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Suman Das and DDM Systems: Founder of DDM Systems, a Silicon Valley venture backed digital manufacturing company. Entrepreneur in the commercialization of disruptive technologies for additive manufacturing. Chair Professor of Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Georgia Tech with broad expertise in advanced and additive manufacturing techniques.

🎧 Everything You Need to Know About the Metaverse with Kirin Sinha, Founder of Illumix

As founder, CEO, and tech lead of Illumix, an AR technology and media platform, Kirin Sinha is turning her company into a portal to the metaverse—connecting brands and consumers in the new world. Started in 2017 to push boundaries and elevate the quality of augmented reality in the fields of fashion, game design and film, Illumix is currently beating some of the world’s most popular mobile games—now she’s building the meta verse for disney.

🎧 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