Episodes

March 5, 2024

The Future of Battery Technology | Nick Kateris, Stanford University

Nick Kateris is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, where his research is focused on new battery technology, and computer modeling to help develop new types of battery technology, as well as on detonation engine...

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Jan. 16, 2024

Are Startup Accelerators Worth It For Founders? | Collin Wallace, Lob…

Collin Wallace is the Former Head of Techstars Silicon Valley (one of the top startup accelerators), co-teaches the Startup Garage accelerator class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), and is a partner at Lobby...

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Nov. 14, 2023

How Did Famous Successful Startups Get Their First 1,000 Customers? |…

Ali Abouelatta is the author of the First 1000 newsletter on Substack (with over 85,000 subscribers at the time of publishing this episode), which is about just that! It also contains all kinds of tips, tricks, and hacks rela...

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Sept. 26, 2023

Can This AI Startup Cure Cancer? | Damir Vrabac, Valar Labs | E3

Damir Vrabac is the Co-Founder & COO of Valar Labs, an AI startup that analyzes cancer tissue samples and predicts which type of cancer treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc.) would be most successful for each indi...

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June 27, 2023

How a Top Seed-Stage Venture Capital Firm Picks Startups | Leeor Mush…

Leeor Mushin is a Principal at Floodgate, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Floodgate has been an early investor in such iconic companies as Lyft, Twitter, Okta, Twitch, Task Rabbit, and many others. Leeo...

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April 24, 2023

Can This Clean Hydrogen Startup Disrupt the Energy Industry? | Caleb …

Caleb Boyd is the Co-Founder & CEO of Molten Industries. Molten is commercializing breakthrough technology to produce the lowest-cost, cleanest hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors such as steel, fertilizer, fuels...

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