Best Mark Blumberg Podcasts (2025)

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight (“Judgement” by Mark Angly) 4:15

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled “Judgement” by Mark Angly. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight (“Hugging Like a girl” by Tin Can Audio) 4:33

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled “Hugging Like a girl” by Tin Can Audio (Amber Devereux, Ella Watts, Ross McFarlane). Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves…

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight ("Overload" by Laura Rojas Aponte, Joe Tisdall, and Vivian Schütz) 5:01

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Overload" by Laura Rojas Aponte, Joe Tisdall, and Vivian Schütz. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves…

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight ("Maybe This is the Day that My Life Changes" by Julie Censullo) 3:35

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Maybe This is the Day that My Life Changes" (Julie Censullo). Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves…

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight ("Close to the Wall" by Audrey Nelson & Phoebe Mulder) 4:38

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Close to the Wall" by Free Chickens (Audrey Nelson & Phoebe Mulder). Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves…

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight ("A Technicality" by Eric Yang, Charlie Gillette, Henry Butler) 4:44

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "A Technicality" by Eric Yang, Charlie Gillette, Henry Butler. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello and Juston Cummings Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily Reeves…

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Finalist Spotlight ("Breathing Space" by Scot Maupin) 4:46

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This podcast features one of our top ten entries for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Breathing Space" by Scot Maupin. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Third Place Winner 3:50

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This podcast features our Third Place Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "A Muchness of a Muchness” by Jacki Huntington Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Second Place Winner 4:53

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This podcast features our Second Place Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "BLÅHAJ v. HB77” and was created by Sarah Dalgleish and Nic Neves. Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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Summer 2025 Sonic Dash Grand Prize Winner 2:50

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This podcast features our Grand Prize Winner for the Summer 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Tea, Am I" and was created by Skadi's Symphony (Oliver Morris, Jude Hodgson Hann) Technical Director: Tom Fama Produced by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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E155: How 2016 US Election Inspired a Billion Dollar Startup | Abhishek Agrawal (CEO, Material Security) 1:31:44

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In 2016, Russian hackers broke into John Podesta’s Gmail during the US election. That single breach exposed how vulnerable email really is – and it directly inspired a billion-dollar cybersecurity startup. At the time, even the most powerful people in the world couldn’t fully secure their inboxes. Once hackers got access, there was nothing stopping…

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E154: Why India Is THE Leading Emerging Market for Public Investing | Kevin Carter (Founder & CIO, EMQQ Global) 1:15:20

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Kevin Carter is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ Global, a San Francisco based investment management and research firm focused on providing investors access to the fast growing Emerging and Frontier Markets technology sector. EMQQ Global invests in publicly traded internet and ecommerce companies operating in 50+ countries, including …

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E153: 7 Exits in 10 years – How To Win US Market | Arun Penmetsa (Partner, Storm Ventures) 1:06:58

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Arun Penmetsa is a Partner at Storm Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Enterprise software companies. He invests primarily in SaaS, Security, and Digital Health startups. Before joining Storm, Arun held product and engineering roles at Oracle and Google, where he built enterprise software solutions at scale.Arun is deeply pass…

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E152: Near Bankruptcy to $250M ARR | Rohan Nayak (CEO, Pocket FM) 1:14:31

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Rohan Nayak is the Co-founder & CEO of Pocket FM, a company redefining audio storytelling for the world. While we’ve recently been publishing video episodes, this one’s a throwback to pure audio. Rohan had to travel unexpectedly, but we didn’t want to miss the chance to capture his insights on building one of India's fastest-growing consumer tech c…

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E151: Leaving VC to Build an AI Startup | Brij Bhasin (Rebright VC / Snow Mountain AI) 1:16:45

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Brij Bhasin is a longtime investor turned founder and the co-founder & CEO of Snow Mountain AI, a company focused on automating business processes in finance, compliance, and legal through AI. Before founding Snow Mountain, Brij was a General Partner at Rebright Partners, and earlier helped launch GSF Accelerator, one of India’s first and largest s…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "You Can Breathe" (Anne Lanier and Dominic Rippel / Shelter Studio) 4:30

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing a piece by Anne Lanier and Dominic Rippel / Shelter Studio en…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "In Stitches" (Chloe Irving, Angelina Mazza, and Stuart Leach) 3:27

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing a piece by Chloe Irving, Angelina Mazza, and Stuart Leach ent…

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E150 - "Build Companies Not Products" | Pramod Gosavi (Blumberg Capital) 1:24:06

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Pramod is a Senior Principal at Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed and Series A rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv (Israel) and San Francisco. Before joining Blumberg Capital, Pramod was a Principal at 11.2 Capital, where he focused on investing in early-stage cybersecurity, data, dev-tools, and AI…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "Junior Resistance" (The Lokes) 4:01

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing a piece by Zak Rosen, Noa Rosen, Shira Heisler, and Ami Rosen…

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E149 - From Amazon Engineer to IPO: The HyreCar Story | Anshu Bansal 1:06:23

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Anshu Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Hyrecar, a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that allows anyone to rent their cars to Uber and Lyft drivers safely and reliably. In today’s episode, learn how a late-night Uber ride in 2014 sparked a groundbreaking business idea that would reshape the ride-sharing indust…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "Springs Airs" (Jacki Huntington and Victor Lopez) 4:02

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Jacki Hungtington and Victor Lopez piece, entitled "Springs A…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "You've Got to Bee Kidding Me!" (Laura Bachman and Shaan Merchant) 3:56

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Laura Bachman and Shaan Merchant's piece, entitled "You've go…

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Finale - Does Country Over Self exist? 54:39

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In this episode, Noah Feldman and Alexis Coe join Matt to discuss a wide range of Presidential anecdotes beyond the 12 Presidents covered in the series, wrap up learnings from Country Over Self, and attempt to answer the question of whether or not selflessness exists in American politics.To learn more about Country Over Self or to check out other e…

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E148 - The Ultimate Founder-Led-Marketing Playbook | Aquibur Rahman (CEO, Mailmodo) 1:11:29

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Aquibur Rahman is the Co-founder and CEO of Mailmodo, an interactive email marketing software that helps marketers create app-like experiences in email by adding forms, shopping cart, calendar, NPS and other widgets. It helps companies collect feedback from their users, book meetings with prospects, recover abandon carts, generate leads, all within…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "Your Call Is Very Important To Us" (By Son Hanson) 4:39

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Son Hanson's "Your Call Is Very Important To Us" Credits: Pro…

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Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight: "You've got to be kidding me!" (By M. Cristina Marras, Romeo M. Minutolo, and Gianfranco Bitti) 4:18

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing M. Cristina Marras, Romeo M. Minutolo, and Gianfranco Bitti's…

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E147 - Tips for B2B Enterprise Founders | Yousuf Khan (Ridge Ventures) 1:34:13

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Yousuf Khan is a Partner at Ridge Ventures, a seed and Series A stage venture fund investing in enterprise and B2B startups. With a deep understanding of startup growth and scaling challenges, Yousuf not only drives Ridge’s investment portfolio forward but also provides hands-on support to founders, offering guidance rooted in his extensive experie…

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Winter 2025 2nd & 3rd Place Winners 17:05

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This episode features our 2nd & 3rd place winners from our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash: 3rd Place: Jon Gregory - "(No) Lust For Life) 2nd Place : Maya Reter, Samuel Perlman, Joe Blanchard- "Do You Have a Moment" Be sure to check out our top Winner episode if you haven't yet! Credits: Produced and engineered by Christian Cuciniello and Buru Festival Dire…

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E146 - Inside a $1.1B Deep Tech, Cross-Border Fund 🚀 | Sriram Viswanathan (Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Capital) 1:21:06

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We had the privilege of hosting Sriram Viswanathan, Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital. Based in San Francisco, Celesta Capital is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm managing $1.1 billion in assets. The firm specializes in cross-border investments between India and the United States, with a focus on deep-tech. Since its inception …

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Winter 2025 Sonic Dash Grand Prize Winner 2:51

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This podcast features our Grand Prize Winner for the Winter 2025 Sonic Dash! The piece is titled "Scapegoat" and was created by Skadi's Symphony (Oliver Morris, Jude Hodgson Hann) Credits: Produced and engineered by Christian Cuciniello Festival Directors: Mark Blumberg, Cory Choy, Emily ReevesBy Silver Podcast Network

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George Washington's many courageous acts with Alexis Coe 46:03

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Originally recorded on 11-27-2024In this episode, Matt and Alexis talk about the 1st President, George Washington, the "foundingest father," who was incredibly conscious that everything he did would set precedent for the young country he founded. Washington had as much ego, as much to prove, and as much interest in power as the 44 men who have foll…

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E145 - Built & Sold 2 Companies & Now Manages $350M AUM Fintech Fund | Sheel Mohnot 1:02:07

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In this episode, we sit down with ⁠Sheel Mohnot⁠, co-founder of ⁠Better Tomorrow Ventures⁠ (BTV), a San Francisco-based $350M AUM fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in fintech companies globally, typically writing first checks ranging from $500K to $4M. BTV also runs The Mint Accelerator, a program providing mentorship, resources, and communi…

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Trailer: We're now on video! 2:04

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After 150 audio-only episodes on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, The Desi VC is finally stepping into the world of video! The first video episode drops on January 1st. Join host Akash Bhat every fortnight as he interviews: Top investors managing billion-dollar funds Serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits Operators who’ve built some of the mo…

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E144: Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl (Founder & Managing Partner, Eternal Capital) 58:46

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Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl is the Founder & Managing Partner at Eternal Capital, a 120-crore fund investing in transformative startups across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors in India. He is the former COO of BharatPe, and a leader with extensive experience in scaling businesses and driving operational excellence across Airtel, PayTM, and Forti…

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E143: Dhirendra Mahyavanshi (Co-founder & CEO, Turtlemint) 50:52

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Dhirendra Mahyavanshi is the Co-Founder of Turtlemint, an online insurance platform backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Peak XV, Jungle Ventures, GGV Capital, Blume Ventures among others. The company is on a mission to makes it easy to understand and buy insurance. Before founding this company he held leadership positions at Quikr and ICICI Lombard. …

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Abraham Lincoln and the balance of politics and sainthood, with Sean Wilentz 42:46

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Originally recorded on 10-24-24 In this episode, Matt and Sean talk about the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the most defining moments in American history. Although arguably not so much Country Over Self in the moment, the Emancipation Proclamation was difficult both politically and with the general popul…

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Summer 2024 Finalist Spotlight: "Anonymous" (By Graelyn Brashear) 4:58

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Summer 2024 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners in the main podcast. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Graelyn Brashear's piece, entitled "Anonymous". …

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E142: Archana Jahagirdar (Managing Partner, Rukam Capital) 54:24

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Archana Jahagirdar is the founder and managing partner of Rukam Capital, to find out. Set up in 2019, the Delhi-based venture capital firm invests in early-stage consumer products and services companies with significant growth potential. The VC has funded as many as 20+ startups, including noted brands such as Go DESi, Sleepy Owl Coffee, Burger Sin…

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George H.W. Bush's "famous last words" campaign promise, with Mark Updegrove 33:04

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Originally recorded on 10-24-24 In this episode, Matt and Mark talk about the 41st President, George H. W. Bush, and his campaign promise of "Read my lips, no new taxes" during the 1988 presidential campaign, and how that promise clashed with the realities of governing that led to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and a balanced budget.…

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Summer 2024 Finalist Spotlight: "Fish Story" (By Ting Su and Eddie Yukun Long) 4:51

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Summer 2024 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners in the main podcast. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Ting Su and Eddie Yukun Long's piece, entitled "…

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E141: Anshuman Singh (Co-Founder of Scaler) 55:46

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Anshuman Singh is the Co-founder of ⁠Scaler⁠, an edtech company designed to upskill college graduates and young software engineers in advanced computer science topics. The company has raised $55M from Lightrock, Peak XV Partners and Tiger Global Management, at a valuation of $700M. Before Scaler, Anshuman had co-founded InterviewBit, a platform aim…

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John Adams's rationale for virtue with Joseph Ellis 39:24

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Originally recorded on 10-2-2024 00:00 Introduction to Country Over Self 00:33 Meet Joseph Ellis: Historian of John Adams 02:36 John Adams: The Most Human of the Founding Fathers 04:15 Adams' Role in the American Revolution 05:58 John Adams' Presidency and Political Challenges 11:23 Adams' Peace Treaty with France 26:25 Adams' Correspondence with J…

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Summer 2024 Finalist Spotlight: "How to Put Yourself Out There" (By The Sonic Adventurers) 5:50

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Summer 2024 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners in the main podcast. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing The Sonic Adventurer's piece, entitled "How to P…

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Richard M. Nixon and the fallacy of Country Over Self with Rick Perlstein 31:17

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Originally recorded on 09-26-2024 In this episode, Matt and Rick talk about the 37th President, Richard Milhous Nixon as a case study of why there is no such thing as Country Over Self -- that successful politicians by definition fuse together their electoral success, their view of what's best for America, and therefore their actions while in offic…

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Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Nixon and Betty Ford making her private difficulties public with Richard Norton Smith 49:18

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Originally recorded on 09-27-2024 In this episode, Matt and Richard talk about the 38th President, Gerald R. Ford, and his pardon of his predecessor, Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace and under threat of impeachment for the Watergate scandal - a move that almost certainly led to Ford's defeat in the 1976 election against Jimmy Carter. Matt an…

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FDR's consequential presidency and Eleanor Roosevelt's intertwined career with HW Brands 53:00

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Originally recorded on 09-27-2024 In this episode, Matt and Bill talk about the 32nd President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt was in office longer than any other president and led the country through more turbulence, both home and abroad. And yet, what stands out is less Roosevelt's moral courage or altruism,…

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Grover Cleveland's superhuman moral courage with Troy Senik 46:33

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Recorded on 09-26-2024 In this episode, Matt and Troy talk about the 22nd and 24th President, Grover Cleveland, the only president to serve two non-sequential terms in history (up to this week's election of Donald Trump), and some of the interesting similarities to the party alignment circumstances to today's environment. Matt and Troy cover a numb…

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Summer 2024 Finalist Spotlight: "Extinct" (By Pippa Johnstone) 4:41

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Out of all the creators who participated in our Summer 2024 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners in the main podcast. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from the rest of our talented contestants. In this episode, we will be listening to and discussing Pippa Johnstone's piece, entitled "Extinct". Cre…

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Harry S. Truman and early recognition of Israel with Gary Ginsberg 38:15

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In this episode, Matt and Gary talk about the 33rd President, Harry S. Truman. An accidental - and somewhat unprepared President who succeeded Franklin Delano Roosevelt after only 73 days on the job as Vice President, Truman became a titan of foreign policy, leading the post-World War II international order. Truman was caught in a dilemma that pitt…

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E140: ⁠Sagar Kochhar⁠ (Co-founder & CEO, Eatsure, Rebel Foods) 58:19

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Sagar Kochhar is the Co-founder of Rebel Foods, and CEO of Eatsure. After completing his engineering degree from NIT Kurukshetra and an MBA from SCMHRD Pune, he began as a design engineer with Larsen & Toubro, then moved to Perfetti Van Melle and Vodafone in marketing roles. At Rebel Foods, he initially joined as Sr. VP of Operations, playing a cru…