Business Trip tells the story of businesses at the frontier of mental health and brain health. Each episode features founders, investors, and researchers in psychedelics, neurotechnology, metabolic psychiatry, digital therapeutics, and more.
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Join host Pauline Fetaui as she chats with entrepreneurs and leading innovators about the intersection of personal motivation and excellence. They’ll share their stories on driving change, taking action and living intentionally. Each episode we dive deep into the profound impact of choices and the ripple effect of decision-making in shaping life, business and society. Perspective X is made possible by our wonderful partners. - Vanta: Vanta is the all-in-one solution for startups to become co ...
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The Private Practice Startup is owned by Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT & Katie Lemieux, LMFT, two therapists who built their 6-figure private practices from the ground up. We're passionate about inspiring mental health professionals on their private practice journey from startup to mastery! On our podcast, we interview entrepreneurs, experts in the mental health and business arenas and successful private practitioners to provide a wealth of information for our listeners! We LOVE interviewing all ...
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Science VC explores the intersection of deeptech startups and venture capital. Each episode features conversations with startup founders, venture capitalists, and industry experts. Discover their stories, lessons learned, and predictions for the future. Learn more about the challenges and opportunities of fundraising for venture-backed startups innovating in agtech, biotech, energy, foodtech, healthtech, and sustainability.
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Raw, long-form conversations with world-class entrepreneurs and undiscovered thinkers on purpose, society, and the nature of reality. Over 2 to 4 hours, we dive into their entrepreneurial journey, adversity, mental health struggles, self-development, and how it shaped their worldview and sense of purpose.
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The ZenFounder podcast is a combination of interviews with successful entrepreneurs, conversations with experts, and honest reflections on entrepreneur life, focused on helping entrepreneurs practice better mental health. Forbes called it one of the 12 best podcasts for entrepreneurs. Host, Dr. Sherry Walling, is a clinical psychologist, coach for entrepreneurs and startups, and best-selling author. She is an expert in trauma, stress and burnout, and her research has been published in academ ...
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Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview industry leaders, engineers and academics, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view.
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Game changers, category creators, wellness mavens – and that’s just your hosts! A new podcast series from Zoe Sakoutis and Erica Huss, the founders of the iconic juice brand, Blueprint. As female entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches of “The Business of Being Well” themselves, they’re bringing their battle-tested point of view to the podcast world, swapping stories with wellness entrepreneurs and industry leaders, striking a healthy balance between snark and sincerity, with a giant dos ...
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The Evolving Minds Podcast, by Pink Elephant. Insightful conversations with the entrepreneurs, executives, and changemakers shaping the future of mental health and psychedelic medicine. From ambitious startups to established industry leaders, we spotlight the people and ideas behind the next generation of digital health, alternative therapies, and psychedelic ventures. Meet the Minds Changing the Business of Healing
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A collection of things I found and/or events I participated in + things Im listening to that weren't available as podcasts. ie: stuff im thinking about and wanted in a pod feed ... Instapaper for audio (HT GOB!)👂
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Impaktful - Conversations with Mariya Pak is a podcast about business, technology, personal development, relationships, experiences and advice that aims to help us design life through growth and connections. https://mariya.blog/
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An audio show featuring the forces of good in the world of business. Join hosts Doc & Walo as they dive into the stories of founders, investors and operators, working to turn the world we live in, into a better place. The heroes. The irreplicable. These ones are “too weird to live, and too rare to die”. Hosted by Bill Kerr & Walo Olapoju, produced by Matías Rosenberg, creative direction by Josefina Cordoba, and sponsored by Athyna. Hire, manage and retain world-class global talent at www.ath ...
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king The One-Eyed Man is a podcast about navigating complexity with curiosity. It’s a noisy, messy world out there. The challenges we face - whether in business, leadership, or life - are seldom simple. But instead of pretending to have all the answers, I prefer to have conversations with people who ask better questions. From entrepreneurs and innovators to impact-driven leaders and technologists, these conversations explore what it really takes ...
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Transforming Skin Cells into Neurons to Treat Alzheimer’s with Brendon Boot of Skin2Neuron
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54:11Greg and Matias interview Brendon Boot of Skin2Neuron. Brendon is a neurologist at Harvard and Mayo Clinic with prior experience as Medical Director at Biogen overseeing their Phase 1b Alzheimer’s trials. In this episode, we discuss: How skin-derived cells can be turned into neurons to repair the brain. Why replacing lost neurons may succeed where …
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Dr. Prash on Building a $100M+ Crypto Brokerage and Pioneering Psychedelic Therapy
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1:24:20Episode Summary From surgeon to psychiatrist, Bitcoin investor to billion-dollar crypto brokerage founder, Dr. Prash Puspanathan has lived one of the most unconventional founder journeys in tech. After co-founding and scaling Caleb & Brown into a global crypto powerhouse, later acquired by SwiftX in 2025, Dr. Prash is now pioneering the future of m…
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275: From the Battlefield to the CBD Boardroom: Craig Henderson of Extract Labs
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1:12:40Craig Henderson is the CEO of Extract Labs, a Boulder, Colorado-based full-service hemp extraction laboratory offering a proprietary line of boutique CBD-infused products. Craig started the company in his garage in 2016. This Episode is Sponsored By: Jon Ostenson, Founder of FranBridge Consulting and Top 1% US Franchise Consultant is here to help y…
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Why Psychedelic Startups Hit a Wall? Ronan Levy on Field Trip’s Rise, Ketamine Clinics & What’s Next
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49:36Today’s guest is Ronan Levy, co-founder and former CEO of Field Trip Health, joins Jason Najum to reflect on the explosive rise and collapse of one of the first public psychedelic therapy companies. #PsychedelicStartups #KetamineClinics #mentalhealthinnovation #mentalhealthpodcast In this raw and insightful conversation, Ronan shares: - How Field T…
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Mitochondria and the Future of Health with Natalie Yivgi-Ohana of Minovia
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51:30Greg and Matias interview Natalie Yivgi-Ohana of Minovia. Natalie is a life science entrepreneur with twenty years’ experience in mitochondrial research and received her PhD in Biochemistry at The Hebrew University in 2007, after which she performed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science until 2010. In this episode, we dis…
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The Hidden Criteria Behind a YC Yes: Yotam on Founder Signals, and the Real Work Behind a Yes
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1:21:00Episode Summary Yotam Rosenbaum never planned to be a startup founder, let alone one of Australia’s most active investors in Y Combinator companies. He started out as a musician, marketing his own band in Los Angeles, until the frustration of promoting music online became the spark for building Earbits, a platform once described as “Google AdWords …
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The 4-Hour Sleepers Redefining Human Limits with Ying-Hui Fu of UCSF
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33:11Matias and Greg interview Ying-Hui Fu, PhD, is a Professor of Neurology at UCSF and a world leader in the genetics of sleep. Her lab has discovered the first-known genes behind “natural short sleepers”. Her work bridges human genetics and neuroscience to uncover how to modulate sleep for brain health, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases. In this …
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What It Really Takes to Scale to $100M: Ricky Sevta on Burnout, Breakthroughs, and Building Again
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1:35:34Episode Summary Ricky Sevta isn’t afraid of hard truths, or hard problems. As the former Chief Revenue Officer at simPRO, Ricky helped scale the company from $10M to $100M ARR, led a $550M capital raise, and expanded the business into global markets. Now, as CEO of Deep Space and a partner at Venture On, he’s back at the beginning, building again. …
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Episode 409: How to Actually Integrate Psychedelic Insights into Daily Life
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15:58Entrepreneurs are keen to push themselves to grow and become the best version of themselves. As early adopters, they’re often open to immersive experiences that accelerate their personal and professional development. But when it comes to non-ordinary state experiences like psychedelics, deep retreats, even personal breakthroughs, too many skip the …
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274: The Cable Cowboy Who Went from Broke to Broadband 🤠 | Terry Koosed of Bel Air Internet
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2:16:14Terry Koosed is the Founder of Bel Air Internet, a Los Angeles based Internet Service Provider, and a leading authority on successful entrepreneurship. He has founded and successfully run seven companies in the high-tech industry during the past 40 years, sometimes concurrently, and is what some would call, a serial entrepreneur. Listen to Part II,…
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Episode 408: 5 Traits Entrepreneurs Share with Artists
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17:41Is Entrepreneurship a Creative Act? In this episode, Dr. Sherry Walling shares what producing a full-scale circus show taught her about the creative process of entrepreneurship. From the vulnerability of putting your work in public to the emotional risk of innovation, Sherry explores how the mindset of an artist can unlock better products, deeper a…
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How Paul Stovell Built Octopus Deploy to $100M by Ignoring Silicon Valley’s Rules
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1:38:58Episode Summary Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, shares his journey from coding side projects in a Brisbane library to building a $100M+ ARR global business in the competitive world of DevOps. Paul reveals how a relentless focus on product excellence, profitability, and customer value enabled Octopus Deploy to scale without relying …
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My guest on this episode is Dale Hefer, CEO of the IMC (the Integrated Marketing Collective) Conference. Dale is a former SA Businesswoman of the Year (awarded during her time running her ad agency Chillibush, which she sold in 2014). She is a best-selling author and a still life artist whose prints sell around the world. Dale launched the Nedbank …
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Bryony Cole on Sex Tech, Self-Discovery, and the Future of Intimacy
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1:21:43Episode Summary Bryony Cole is the founder of Future of Sex and Sex Tech School, and a global authority on the intersection of sexuality and technology. In this episode, she shares how she left a career in corporate tech to build the sex tech industry from the ground up. She opens up about the personal rebellion that drove her early experiments, fr…
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Episode 407: Navigating Family Pain Without Shutting Down
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15:41Did you know that 27% of Americans are actively estranged from at least one family member? In a world where ideological division is high and screens are the most consistent recipient of our attention, our families are quietly fracturing. In this special episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling reflects on the beautiful, painful, complicate…
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Initia: Incentively Aligned Appchains - Ezaan Mangalji, Anil Lulla & Jose Maria Macedo
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1:02:08Blockchain architecture is constantly being forced to adapt to new technologies, as well as to meet new demands from users and builders. While the idea of apps building their own chains was first explored by Cosmos, it lacked the support and tooling to see it succeed. Later on, rollups also took the centerstage of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, but du…
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Do you ever ask yourself what you really want? Not what’s profitable. Not what’s a good business decision. Not what’s righteous, or best for your team. Just… what you want. In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling invites you into a deeply personal—and radically freeing—conversation about desire. As a founder or leader, you’ve been…
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Eden Shirley on Disrupting Yourself, Surviving Crisis, and Building a Culture of Warriors
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1:39:37Episode Summary Eden Shirley, founder and CEO of AutoGuru, shares how he turned a near-collapse during COVID-19 into a high-growth B2B success story with FleetGuru. Eden breaks down how AutoGuru evolved from a consumer marketplace for car servicing into a powerful SaaS platform processing over 35,000 fleet transactions a month across Australia and …
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Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak
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1:10:21As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censorship resistant global settlement layer? Ever since the rise in popularity of Solana with its inflow of retail capital in a memecoin gold rush, Ethereum became even more criticized for sticking true to …
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Episode 405: How to Regulate Big Emotions
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20:19Ever find yourself saying things you regret in the heat of the moment? Or spiraling after a client complaint, a bad email, or your kid melting down in public? In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling breaks down how high performers lose control of big emotions—and how to get it back. Inside this episode: – What’s actually happening…
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Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes
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1:08:05Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently while maintaining security and decentralization. Being a type I zkEVM, Taiko retains full Ethereum equivalence, which creates a seamless DevEx, although this comes at the expense of UX as slower proo…
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Founder + startup Guide to to the Restructuring of the Global Trading System in the Midst of an AI Revolution.
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23:09otebookLM summary of substack post
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273: Publishing to EdTech: The Unlikely Road to Evolution Labs with Founder Peter Kraft
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1:26:53Peter Kraft is the Founder and President of Evolution Labs. Prior to founding Evolution Labs, Kraft was instrumental in forming and re-envisioning two educational software companies that led the industry in recruitment, enrollment and retention of college students. He co-founded GoalQuest in 2000 and served as its CEO until 2007 when he spearheaded…
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Introducing Perspective X | Hosted by Pauline Fetaui
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1:19What drives bold decisions, intentional leadership, and the courage to create something entirely new? In Perspective X, host Pauline Fetaui dives deep into conversations with extraordinary entrepreneurs and leading innovators to explore not just their successes—but the overlooked decisions, mindset shifts, and personal turning points that sparked t…
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Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun
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1:03:09Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. It uses an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to enable transaction parallelization which can handle >200,000 txs/s. Sui’s goal is to combine the benefits of blockchains with …
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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell
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54:49With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the transparency & capital efficiency of blockchains with the regulatory framework of TradFi. Unlike many DeFi protocols that require over-collateralized loans (e.g. Aave), Maple also specializes in under-co…
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Episode 404: How Founders Can Make Better Decisions: The Framework You Haven’t Tried
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16:25Do you ever feel like you’re at war with yourself? One part of you wants to hustle, scale, dominate the market. Another part wants to sell the business, move to the woods, and sleep 10 hours a night. And then there’s the voice panicking about churn, cash flow, and that very unhappy customer email you can’t stop thinking about. You're not broken. Yo…
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What's wrong with US healthcare and how startups can fix it, with Justin Mares
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37:39Matias and Greg interview Justin Mares, co-founder of TrueMed and Kettle & Fire on current US healthcare and how startups have the opportunity to change the system. In this episode, we discuss: How the US system profits from chronic illness Fixing the food system, environmental toxins, pharma incentives & more Opportunities for founders building in…
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Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram
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1:01:21Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto communities. It provides tools for launching tokens, governing protocols, and enabling staking to foster community participation and growth. Tally facilitates onchain governance, allowing transparent and de…
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Why Not All Traction Is Equal | Aligning Latam’s Agtech Innovation with Industry Needs | The Role of LPs in Early VC Investing | Long-Term Thinking in Fundraising, with Galit Flasterstein, Managing Partner ...
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54:46Biodiversity as an Advantage Galit is a Managing Partner at Danta Fund, a VC firm that backs early-stage agritech startups in Latin America. Danta Fund has the mission of filling three main voids in Latin America: funding in early-stage agri-tech startups, mentorship to guide their founders, and connection with larger markets to help them grow. Top…
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Unlocking Unsung Potential | LATAM Biotech’s Global Path | What Investors Really Look For | Avoiding Unforced Errors | Why Tulsa? | Building Cross-Border Deeptech Startups, with Michael Basch, GP and CEO ...
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52:53Why not Tulsa? Michael is the Founder, CEO, and General Partner of Atento Capital, a pre-seed and seed-stage VC firm focused on partnering with founders to build technology around healthcare, climate-tech, and business services. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:13 Michael’s Career Journey: From Founder to VC 4:07 The Origin Story of Atento Capit…
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ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson
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48:42Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed to work in tandem with ENS V2, which introduced a hierarchical registry system for more efficient subdomain management and custom resolvers. A key vision for Namechain is to unify multi-chain user iden…
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Why No Idea Is Truly Unique | Leveraging Warm Intros and Mentorships | Communicating Urgency and Opportunities to VCs | Success Beyond Funding | Inside NYU’s Acceleration Program with Khoa Ma, Associate ...
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1:03:13Are there unique ideas anymore? Khoa Ma is an Associate Director at Endless Frontier Labs, a program at NYU Stern School of Business for early-stage science and technology startups. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:07 Khoa’s Career Path 3:22 How Endless Frontier Labs Evaluates Startups 8:45 What Gets Startups Into Endless Frontier Labs 11:22 Mos…
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Lido V3: Ushering in Institutional Staking Through stVaults - Hasu
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1:19:32Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake created a unique set of conditions (i.e. lack of protocol-level delegation, 32 ETH requirement, long exit queues, etc.) that led to Lido’s liquid staking model to gain huge traction, significantly eclipsing other LSD providers on native PoS chains. stETH added on-demand liquidity, bypassing…
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Episode 403: Feeling Alone in Business? How to Find Your People
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13:54Entrepreneurship is lonely—but it doesn’t have to be. In this video, Dr. Sherry Walling dives into one of the most overlooked challenges in the entrepreneurial journey: finding your people. Starting, growing, and even exiting a business can be incredibly isolating. That loneliness can quietly erode both your mental health and your ability to lead. …
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Balancing Risk Across Two Industries | From Scientist to VC to Founder | Building Trust Among Co-founders | Protecting IP & Unlocking Markets | Fundraising Insights from Brazil with Larissa de Farias Viana ...
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57:22Can a single innovation unlock multiple billion-dollar markets? Larissa is the CEO of APEXzymes, a Brazilian biotech startup that produces cost-effective enzymes for sustainable industrial applications. During our conversation, Larissa shares her journey from chemical engineering to venture capital and entrepreneurship. Topics in this episode 0:00 …
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Ronin: How Axie Infinity Kickstarted the Blockchain Gaming Revolution - Jeff Zirlin
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54:34While DeFi’s ultimate goal is to provide an alternative for TradFi, blockchain gaming caters to retail masses, onboarding millions of users to crypto through incentives and fun gameplay. The greatest success story in Web3 gaming thus far has been, without a doubt, Axie Infinity. Apart from creating an engaged community whose early adopters also exp…
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272: From Selling Phones Out of a Van to Leading a 9-Figure Empire | Brett Beveridge of T-ROC
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1:13:10Brett Beveridge is the President of The Revenue Optimization Companies. Brett is an entrepreneurial, results-driven executive with over 20 years of experience and success in the wireless and technology industries. He has hands-on success in start-ups, profit turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and fundraising and is the driving force behind…
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Facebook's Rise, Careless Power, and the Future of AI 🤖
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29:43Source articles, 🤖 generated: Careless people (Book) & Zuck on Joe Rogan (Pod)
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The Age of the Dense network and Averaging ... 🤖
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19:20Source articles, 🤖 generated: Seeing Like A Network The age of average The New Control Society: The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?
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🤖: Hugging Face submission re: AI Action Plan
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15:36Highlight's discussion on Hugging Face submission re: AI Action Plan
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Episode 402: 5 Criticisms of Traditional Therapy
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19:11Is Traditional Therapy Failing Entrepreneurs? Therapy is an invaluable tool—but is it always the best fit for high performers, founders, and creatives? In this episode, Dr. Sherry Walling shares her honest critique of traditional psychotherapy, highlighting five key concerns: The Pathology Trap – Why therapy often focuses on diagnosing problems ins…
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The Business Case for Carbon Capture | A $200B Opportunity | Rethinking Industrial Supply Chains | Why You Need to Talk to Customers Early | Leveraging Non-Dilutive Capital with Alexander Ip, CEO @ CERT ...
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58:04Is it possible to transform carbon emissions into everyday products? Alex is the CEO of CERT Systems, a Canadian climatetech startup that converts CO2 emissions into high-value chemicals. In this episode, Alex shares his journey from the lab bench to raising non-dilutive capital. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:16 Founding CERT Systems 3:14 Why…
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Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko
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1:18:28Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despite its ups and downs that culminated at the bottom of the bear market after the FTX crash, it managed to not only survive, but build a vibrant community around crypto's (arguably) most prominent PMF (…
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Episode 401: Why Founders FAIL at Asking for Help (And How to Fix It)
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19:09Entrepreneurs thrive on independence, resilience, and figuring things out on their own. But when it comes to launching a book, a product, or a business—going solo can actually hold you back. Asking for help isn’t a weakness—it’s a growth strategy. In this episode, Dr. Sherry Walling breaks down why founders struggle to ask for help, how to do it ef…
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Raising Capital in a Controversial Industry | Psychedelics & Mental Health | Building Investor Relationships | Showing Traction Before Regulatory Approval | Imposter Syndrome in LATAM Startups with Victoria ...
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55:55There is a lot of stigma around psychedelics. Vicky is the CEO of EYWA, a biotech startup that produces molecules for mental health treatments. In this episode, we discussed the fundraising process for a startup working with psychedelics and the stigma surrounding the industry. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:07 Founding EYWA 3:53 Advice for St…
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Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin
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1:10:10Bitcoin’s security and reliability as a store of value are undeniable. However, its liquidity remained untapped for too long due to a lack of trustless bridges and native smart contract capabilities. As BTC is only native to Bitcoin’s L1, any attempt to include it in DeFi relies on the trust assumptions of third party custodians that wrap it. Build…
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Episode 400: 7 Factors That Shape How You Feel About Your Exit
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19:36You’ve built something incredible. But when it’s time to sell, are you unknowingly making your exit harder than it needs to be? Most founders focus on the financial side of an exit—negotiating terms, securing the best deal, maximizing their payout. But what about the psychological side? If you’re not prepared, selling your business can feel like lo…
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Disrupting Drug Discovery: Combining Quantum Electrochemistry and AI | Partnering with Oxford University | Why Second-Time Founders Have a Unique Edge | The Importance of Boldness and Patience with Diego ...
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59:23Investors don’t care how fancy your tech is. Diego is the CEO of Qnity, a pharmatech startup that uses quantum electrochemistry to develop devices for drug discovery and screening. In this episode, we discuss his lessons as a second-time founder and his insights on fundraising in the deeptech space. Topics in this episode 0:00 Intro 1:26 How Was Qn…
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