Best Guardian Insight Group Podcasts (2025)

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Staying Connected When Your Phone Isn't: The Story Behind MobileyMe 39:20

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Host: Keith Koo, Host of Silicon Valley Insider | Managing Partner, Guardian Insight Group LLC Guests: Myra Durrani, Founder & CEO, MobileyMe Jon Ryan, CFO, MobileyMe Episode Overview: What happens when you lose access to your phone—mid-meeting, mid-flight, or mid-crisis? For most, it’s a moment of panic. For MobileyMe, it’s a solvable problem. In …

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Designing the Future: Strategic Surprise with Mickey McManus 41:36

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Episode Title: Designing the Future: Strategic Surprise with Mickey McManus Episode Description: Join host Keith Koo in this episode of Silicon Valley Insider as he welcomes Mickey McManus, a renowned expert in design thinking. Mickey delves into the world of strategic surprise and synthetic biology, sharing his unique insights and experiences from…

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RYLTI's Quest: Shining a Light on the Dark Data Within Your Company 40:32

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Title: Rylti's Quest: Shining a Light on the Dark Data Within Your Company Guests: Peter Fiorillo, Co-Founder and CEO Lawrence Baisch, CTO In this week's episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo welcomes Peter Fiorillo, Co-Founder and CEO, and Lawrence Baisch, CTO of RYLTI (pronounced "Royalty"), a company at the forefront of dark data dis…

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Annika Monari, CEO of Coral using AI to help Retailers with Wholesale Price Discovery 41:54

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During this installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo conducts an interview with Annika Monari, the CEO of Coral, an application created to transform the way vendors engage with customers in the B2B industry. Annika discusses her entrepreneurial drive, which originated from her background as a particle physicist at CERN, her successful launc…

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Chatri Sidyodtong: CEO of ONE Championship on his Origin Story & Overcoming Adversity 40:46

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In this encore installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo hosts an interview with Chatri Sidyodtong, Founder and CEO of ONE Championship, a global media platform headquartered in Singapore and the star of “The Apprentice ONE Championship Edition.” As a 5-year old boy, Chatri’s mother told him “you will go help people” and that was something h…

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Arthur Mrozowski, Silicon Hill Ventures & CEO of Looptronic on Teaching Netflix how to burn DVDs! 39:33

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On this installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo hosts an interview with Arthur Mrozowski, who serves as the Managing Partner of Silicon Hill Ventures LLC and as the CEO of Looptronic. Arthur's claim to fame on Silicon Valley Insider is that he taught Netflix how to create DVD copies. In addition to this notable achievement, Arthur boasts a…

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”Satellite Writer” a SaaS Platform to Democratize the Creation and Distribution of Content with Sal Peer, CEO of AI Exosphere and Social Brim 41:54

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews returning guest Sal Peer, CEO of Social Brim, a digital marketing agency and also the CEO of AI Exosphere, to discuss "Satellite Writer" their SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform that allows anyone to create professional quality content anywhere for virtually any use-case. This …

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Cytokind: Harnessing Light to Combat Inflammation 41:49

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews Ben Wang, Chief Science Officer and John MacMahon, Chief Technology Officer who are the co-founders of health tech startup Cytokind. Listen as Ben and John share their story of how they discovered that light can be used to battle inflammation and other related conditions including…

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Improving the Practice of Law using NFTs with Ron Dekoven, CEO of myLawyer & Justice NFT 41:50

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Ron DeKoven, Founder & CEO myLawyer & Justice NFT talks about his many decades in the legal profession from U.S. Corporate Attorney to English Barrister Ron took that experience and create the my Lawyer Network a Global network of attorneys. Ron's vision is to help attorneys and clients around the world to…

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Dave Liu, CEO of Liucrative and Author ”The Way of the Wall Street Warrior” Conquer.the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks and Smartcuts 41:03

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Dave Liu, CEO of Liucrative Endeavors discusses his journey to the top of the corporate ladder and how he applied his learnings into his new book "The Way of the Wall Street Warrior" Conquer the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks, and Smartcuts. Dave shares insights into why he wrote the book and how he wan…

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Get Back Money with R&D Tax Credits with Joshua Lee, CEO of Ardius (now Gusto) 41:48

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Joshua Lee, CEO of Ardius (a Gusto company) discusses how any company that has research and development expenses in technology, science or process can be eligible for significant R&D tax credits. Ardius has helped companies recover millions of dollars in tax credits from things like research and developmen…

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Scott Henderson, Simplicity by Design 36:49

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is world-renowned industrial designer Scott Henderson of Scott Henderson, Inc. Scott shares his story of how he developed his passion for design and how he gets his inspiration for his designs by being in a state of "flow". Scott discuss what it means to be in a "flow" state and how that …

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Dr. Andrew Kim on his new book ”Culture for the Left-Brained Leader” 39:18

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Peter Drucker once said “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast” which means that no matter what you try, the culture of your organization will always determine the outcome of your future. On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Dr. Andrew Kim, author of the new book “Culture for the Left-Brained Leader: Strategy, Tactics and I…

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Tina Guo: The Grammy Nominated Wonder Woman of Music, Social Media & Entrepreneurship 40:36

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Want to meet a real “Wonder Woman”? On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is rock star and Grammy nominee Tina Guo. Tina has performed in over 30 Hollywood movies and composed, produced and performed on the Wonder Woman soundtrack. Tina is a virtuoso in classic and electric cello and is an innovator. During the show: …

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Steve Cadigan, Talent Hacker on his new book "Workquake - The Case for a Human-Centric Future of Work" 41:12

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s returning guest is Steve Cadigan, first Chief Human Resources Officer of LinkedIn who will discuss his new book “Workquake – the Case for a Human-Centric Future of Work”. In the aftermath of the pandemic there has been a shift in how employers and employees think about work. Steve discusses how…

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Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of a Silicon Valley backed Unicorn & Star of the Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition 40:46

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Chatri Sityodtong founder, Chairman and CEO of One Championship, Asia’s largest global sports media company. Chatri will discuss his rags to riches story with his family losing everything during the Asian financial crisis to becoming the CEO of billion dollar Silicon Valley unicorn backed …

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Music Unchained with Preetham Vishwanatha, Founder & CEO of Kena.ai 40:54

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Preetham Vishwanatha, Founder and CEO of Kena.ai Preetham shares his early history learning violin at a young age as both an academic and religious experience. After a very successful career as a technology executive and innovator Preetham turned his focus towards his passions …

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PR Legend Bill Imada, Founder & CCO of IW Group on "Leaning In and Making Change" 41:37

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is P.R. legend Bill Imada, founder, chairman and Chief Connectivity Officer of I.W. Group, a multicultural marketing agency based out of Los Angeles and that has served such brands as Coca-Cola, Lexus, General Motors and HBO. Hear Bill’s story about his humble beginnings which led to transfor…

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Embrace Your Edge with Hang Black, Author and Vice President, Juniper Networks 40:45

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May is AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Heritage Month. In honor of AAPI, Keith is hosting a series highlighting leaders in the AAPI community. On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith’s guest is Hang Black, author of “Embrace Your Edge: Pave Your Own Path as an Immigrant Woman in the Workplace” who discusses insights from her…

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E-Commerce Fulfillment Made Easy 39:33

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guests is Danny He, CEO of Soapbox, Inc. a next generation fulfillment operations company that is laser focused on making order entry, management, fulfillment and shipping simple, fast and cost-effective. Find out how Soapbox as a B2C company has doubled its user base every month since …

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Growing Cross-Border Business via Blockchain 39:17

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Wayne Huang, CEO & Co-Founder of XREX (“x-rex”) a blockchain trade technology that enables cross border trade. Wayne shares his background of how the CEO and Co-Founder of Armorize Technologies a cybersecurity company that was acquired by Proofpoint in 2013. From there he went …

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IMVU - First Company to Receive an SEC "No Action Letter" 40:08

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest are John Burris, Chief Strategy and Blockchain Officer and Nancy Beaton, Vice President of Strategy of IMVU the 20+ year old online metaverse game and social networking site. John and Nancy share how IMVU is the first company to ever received a “no action” letter from the SEC resu…

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Build Life Changing Connections through Epic Business 40:28

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Justin Breen, Founder and CEO of BrEpic Communications, LLC. Justin shares his humble beginnings as a 20+ year career as journalist who through a series of career transitions ended up starting a PR firm with zero business experience. In building BrEpic, Justin empowers his clie…

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Knowing your Entrepreneurial Archetype is the Key to Success 40:37

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guests are Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp, co-authors of their new book: “The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed” Jonathan and Susanna share with Keith the story behind “the why” of writing their book which is that entrepreneurs come in 10 different a…

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Soaring to the Next Level of Innovation with Lt. Col. JJ Snow, CTO of USAF - AFWERX 40:04

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Lt. Col. JJ Snow, Chief Technology Officer of the United States Air Force’s innovation center, AFWERX. JJ shares her story on how she got her start in the military and the different roles she took, including combat, on her way to becoming an innovation leader. During this episode J…

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Fred Chesnais, CEO of Atari: Leveling up with a new VCS and Cryptocurrency 39:10

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What does Atari, the iconic video game maker and cryptocurrency have in common? Find out on this episode of Silicon Valley Insider when Keith Koo’s guest is Fred Chesnais the CEO of Atari who discusses their new Atari video computer system (VCS) and Atari Token, their in-game virtual currency. Hear why video game companies like Atari are embracing …

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A Blockchain Legal Pioneer on the State of DeFi and Crypto 40:51

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Jacob Farber, Co-Founder and Partner of Ouroboros, LLP. Jacob is an early pioneer in legal matters regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency having worked with dozens of clients on token sales and white papers before becoming the R3 blockchain consortium's general counsel. Keith and Jaco…

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Adoraboos: Leveling Up Distance Learning by Gaming 39:11

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo talks to the founders of MyDream Interactive, Allison Huynh, CEO and Tammy Laverty, CMO. MyDream has built a series of free learning mobile apps for test prep like S.A.T. and A.C.T. called the “Adoraboos” using current examples such as cryptocurrency and blockchain. Hear their story of how they came …

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Chooch A.I.: Innovating Visual A.I. on the Edge and in the Cloud 40:35

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Emrah Gultekin, Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch A.I. a company innovating visual artificial intelligence on the edge and in the cloud. Emrah discusses why Chooch is trying to solve a fundamental problem for visual A.I. to acquire visual expertise in a structured way similar to how hum…

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Upland the Top Blockchain Game: Monopoly Money as Virtual Currency 41:50

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is serial entrepreneur Dirk Lueth, Co-Founder of Upland a Monopoly-like mobile game built on blockchain that connects virtual worlds (called metaverses) to their corresponding physical world addresses. Dirk explains how in Upland, a game powered by blockchain, the player doesn’t need …

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Overcoming Burnout and Stress with Cathy Trinh 39:50

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s special guest is Cathy Trinh. Cathy is a seasoned executive recruiter with Logic Consulting group and focuses on filling executive roles in finance and accounting. Cathy is also a personal coach and the author. Cathy discusses a number of topics on the show: Self-care for professionals duri…

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From Disruption to Digital Transformation with NTT DATA 39:54

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s returning guests are Eric Clark, Chief Digital Officer and Kris Fitzgerald, Chief Technology Officer of NTT Data. Eric and Kris discuss how companies have been adapting to work in the “new normal” by embracing new procedures and technologies to safely come back to work. Digital Transformati…

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ICON Foundation - Pubic & Private Partnerships on a Decentralized Network 39:48

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Title: ICON Foundation - Public & Private Partnerships on a Decentralized Network On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Min Kim, Co-Founder of the ICON Foundation, a decentralized network of private and public blockchains. Min discusses the latest developments with the ICON Foundation and ICONLOOP and some of their rec…

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Keeping FreshBooks Fresh with Mike McDerment, Founder and CEO 39:27

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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo’s special guest is Mike McDerment, Founder and CEO of FreshBooks the billing and invoicing software used by millions in over 100+ countries. The show begins with Mike and Keith reminiscing about Mike starting in his parent’s basement. Since Mike is from Toronto, it was a basement, not a gara…

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LinkedIn’s First Head of HR – Where does Work go from here? 40:27

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo very special guest is his friend, Steve Cadigan, Talent Hacker, and advisor. Steve and Keith have known each other for decades and reminisce about their time working together during Cisco’s dotcom era working in Cisco’s famed M&A Integration team. They even mention a time when they had to wo…

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Icecap – Tokenization of Investment Grade Diamonds 39:33

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On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Jacques Voorhees, CEO of Icecap Diamonds a company that is creating a two-way marketplace for investment-grade diamonds using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Jacques is very well known in the diamond industry, but not so well known in the blockchain/cryptocurrency world (however you ne…

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California’s Registered Apprenticeship Program a Model for the Future 42:08

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Did you know that there are currently over 70,000 open and unfilled Cyber Security jobs in California? The market salaries for these jobs can range from $100,000 to $150,000. The volume of traditional four-year college graduates has not been able to fulfill the demand. This is also true for other technology related jobs. On this episode of Silicon …

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Would You Sell Your Data for Ice Cream? 42:34

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Would you be willing to sell your data for ice cream? Sadly, many people do not realize they do this daily when given a free offer of a product in exchange for their personal information. In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is technology industry veteran Kevin Coppins, CEO of Data Protection company, Spirion. www.spirion.co…

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Raising Capital Beyond Silicon Valley 39:05

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s returning guest is Jonathan Nelson, Managing Director of the Hack Fund and founder of Hackers and Founders. Jonathan updates Keith on how the Hack Fund is moving forward with putting their next fund, “Hack Fund Five” as an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. (Tune in to hear how two years ago, Jo…

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Commercial Drones: Aeronyde Corporation 38:41

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo special guest is Alexander “Alex” Bilous, Chief Technology Officer of Aeronyde Corporation. Aeronyde is a next-generation drone-as-a-service and drone-as-a-managed service provider located in Melbourne, Florida (aka the “Space Coast”). www.aeronyde.com Alex begins the show discussing how he follo…

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Advanced Air Mobility – Securing the Supply Chain for UAV and eVTOL 41:09

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s returning guest is Dr. Parimal Kopardekar (PK), Director of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) who discusses the importance of a safe and resilient supply chain for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). AAM is dedicated to ensuring the safe operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and eVTOL…

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Innovation in Insurance and Insurtech 38:20

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Paul Chen, Partner at Mayer Brown in their Silicon Valley and San Francisco Corporate & Securities Practice. Paul is an internationally recognized legal expert in complex transactions in the insurance, financial services, and health care sectors, especially in deals involving t…

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CloudCoin - Monetary Systems as Information Systems 38:51

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Sean Worthington. Sean is the president of the CloudCoin Consortium, CEO of the RAIDA Protocol, a professor and author of the books: “Perfect Money” and “Beyond Bitcoin”. Keith and Sean enjoy a deep discussion around Sean’s hypothesis that monetary systems are really informatio…

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Senior Living Innovations in the New Normal 38:57

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Rob Henderson, Senior Vice President of Operations at Westmont Living, company committed to being a model of innovation in senior living. With all the news regarding how COVID19 has adversely affected the senior population, Keith felt it was important to address what senior liv…

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Collaborating the “New Normal” with Slack 40:00

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Allan Leinwand, SVP of Engineering at Slack. Allan is an engineering legend inside, and outside Silicon Valley and he tells what it is like to be powering the “new normal” via Slack’s collaboration platform. Allan is known for helping companies in “hyper-growth” mode and has li…

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Chief Mentor of Next-Gen Leaders, Jason Ma 39:39

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Chief Mentor of Next-Gen Leaders, Jason Ma. As the founder and CEO of ThreeEQ, and acclaimed author of “Young Leaders 3.0”, Jason is a globally recognized coach and mentor of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z clients, including C-suite executives and high-potential candidates in the…

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Navigating the Digital New Normal 40:52

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Guillermo Diaz, CEO of Kloudspot and former CIO of Cisco Systems, Inc. In the first part of the show, Keith and Guillermo reminisce about their time working closely together at Cisco Systems and the lessons the learned in leadership throughout their careers and how that has sha…

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Safer Crypto with Miko Matsumura 41:37

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Miko Matsumura, General Partner of Gumi Ventures and founder of U.S. based virtual currency exchange Evercoin. Miko shares how his passion for open-source software began as a Java evangelist for SUN Microsystem and how that passion led to Miko to embrace the decentralized world…

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Flip Critts Kickstarter & Prototyping with Guardian Insight Group 40:01

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is 11-year-old inventor Carter Waugh, a 2018 innovation award winner who talks about how he started Flip Critts critts.com. Carter shares his passion for outdoor adventuring and how he got his inspiration to start his shoe company because he was not satisfied with the current shoe design.…

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Startup Survival Advice from Zoom’s First Investor 40:30

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In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is 4-time unicorn angel investor Dan Scheinman. Dan ran corporate development for Cisco Systems before becoming a private investor using his own capital to fund unicorns such as Arista Networks, SentinelOne, CyCognito, and of course, Zoom. In the early part of the show, Dan and Keith remi…