Founders in Arms
By Immad Akhund and Rajat Suri
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In this weekly series, fellow startup founders Immad Akhund (Mercury) and Rajat Suri (Presto, Lima, and Lyft) explore current events in the world of tech, startup, and policy, offering insights from their distinguished careers and an array of expert guests.
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Founding Teams: What Works, What Doesn’t — with Andy Chen
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The Long Game: David Rusenko on Building Weebly, Surviving Acquisitions, and Investing in Climate
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Thumbtack’s Marco Zappacosta on AI, Trust, and the Future of Marketplaces
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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What AI Will Actually Do to the Economy with Noah Smith
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Building a Services Business in a Tech World with Honey Homes' Vishwas Prabhakara
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Instacart's Max Mullen on Building Instacart and the Future of AI: First Live Founders in Arms
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Inside the 2026 Tech Pullback: SaaS, AI, and Survival Strategies
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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How Matic Built an Intelligent Home Robot (While Others Failed) With Mehul Nariyawala
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Building a Global Payments Platform with Airwallex's Jack Zhang
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariepy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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AGI, Alignment, and the Future of AI Power With Emmett Shear
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Year AI Got Practical: 2025 Tech Trends with Immad and Raj
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Embrace the Suck: How Olo Survived 10 Years to Product-Market Fit With Noah Glass
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Web with Parag Agrawal
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Sphere's $21M Series A: Nicholas Rudder on Building Cross-Border Compliance
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Building a LinkedIn for Hourly Workers with Instawork's Sumir Meghani
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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David vs. Goliath in the Wearables Industry With Eric Migicovsky
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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From Venmo to Jelly: The Founder Who Changed How the World Pays (and Connects)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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The Founder’s Pulse: AI, Markets, and Lessons from the Front Lines
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Engineering vs Lawyerly Societies: The US-China Competition with Dan Wang
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Three Exits in 10 Years: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Iñaki Berenguer
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The AI Superconnector Transforming The Future Of Networking With Andrew D’Souza (Founder & CEO, Boardy)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Inside David Gu’s $38M Raise: The Pivot That Put Recall.ai on the Map
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Building and Selling in "Impossible" Markets with WePay's Bill Clerico
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Frugality, Grit, and Scale: Inside Joris Poort’s Founder Playbook
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Building in Defense Tech and Sovereign AI with Mattermost's Ian Tien
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Building Enterprise AI That Actually Works with Glean's Arvind Jain
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The Best Hack to Product Market Fit With Hiten Shah (Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, Nira, sold to Dropbox)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Anti-Social Media Strategy: Steve Huffman on Building Reddit Differently
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Building the Future We Actually Want with Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Can Copyright Survive the Machine Era? With Trip Adler (Co-Founder & CEO, Created by Humans)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Building Space's Future With Ryan Westerdahl (Turion Space)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Designing for Generosity: Adam Nash on Building Products with Heart
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How Washington Really Works: Innovation Policy with Alec Stapp
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Pre-Selling Your Way to Space with Topher Haddad (Albedo)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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David vs Goliath in the Wearables Industry with Eric Migicovsky (Core Devices, Pebble, Beeper)
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Startup to State: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad, Profitability, and His Time at DOGE
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Two Decades of Reddit: Steve Huffman on Building the Front Page of the Internet
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Building the Future of Public Safety Tech with Rahul Sidhu
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May 23, 2025 |
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From Software to Nuclear: Matt Loszak's Mission to Mass-Manufacture Clean Energy
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May 16, 2025 |
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Duolingo’s CTO on Building the World’s Most Addictive Learning App
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May 09, 2025 |
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Meta's Hardball Acquisitions, Apple's App Store Defeat, and Why Tariffs Will Trigger a Recession
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May 02, 2025 |
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From Rice Krispies to $36M Series B: Dan Hobbs on Building Safety AI, Enterprise Sales, and Leading Across Borders
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Building Meaningful Tech for the Next Generation With Jay Shah
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Trade Wars & Supply Chain Disruptions: Ryan Petersen on Navigating the 145% China Tariffs
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Building a Consumer Network First and Monetizing Later with ClassDojo's Sam Chaudhary
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Special Episode—Unpacking Mercury's $300M Series C with Guest Host, Hiten Shah
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Exploring Abundance From 10x Intelligence With Paul Buchheit
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Startup Wisdom That Goes Against The Grain With SafeGraph's Auren Hoffman
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Winning the Founder Mental Game with Pilot’s Waseem Daher
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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How AI and China Are Reshaping Biotech with Hannu Rajaniemi of Helix Nanotechnologies
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Raw Wisdom for Modern Founders With Serial Founder Hiten Shah
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Making Startups Financially Savvy With Recruiter.com’s Jesse Tinsley
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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DeepSeek and the Future of AI with Academia's Richard Price
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Building the Future of Computer Vision AI with OpenSpace's Jeevan Kalanithi
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’ and Startup Lessons
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Special New Year Episode & Building in Regulated Industries with Edward Woodford
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Building in Longevity, Biohacking and Space Exploration with Dilan Dane
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Creating Category-Defining Companies with John Bicket, Co-Founder of Samsara & Meraki
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Navigating M&A and Executive Security with Daniel Kivatinos, Founder of JustPaid and DrChrono
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Quiet Quitting, Government Regulation, and the Commercial Value of AI Today with Box CEO Aaron Levie
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Making Creative Deals with Large Enterprises with Clover Co-Founder Leonard Speiser
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Innovation, Y Combinator, and Tech Under Trump with Wayne Crosby
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Picking the Right Co-Founder and Crypto Regulation with Dave Balter
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Longevity and Biotech Fundraising with Celine Halioua
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Finding Product-Market Fit for Consumer Startups and Gaming with Roger Dickey
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Today’s FinTech Market and India’s Tech Takeover with Sheel Mohnot
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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High-Skilled Immigration and Higher Education with Martin Basiri
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Next Generation of Consumer Startups with Paul English
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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OpenAI’s New Model and Amazon’s In-Person Mandate
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Future of LLMs and Founder Narratives with Paul Buchheit
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Unlocking Founder Mode and VC Funding with Greg Isenberg
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Pavel Durov’s Arrest, Nvidia, and the Future of AI
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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What Should Tech Founders Do About Regulatory Capture?
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Evolution of the Film Industry with Writer and Producer Bill Guttentag
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Future of Politics and How Leaders are Chosen with Gautam Mukunda, Author of “Picking Presidents”
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Distinguishing AI Deepfakes From Reality with Ben Colman, Co-Founder and CEO of Reality Defender
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May 22, 2024 |
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Future of National Security and American Politics with Miles Taylor
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May 01, 2024 |
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How Viral Gene Therapy will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment with Nicole Paulk, Founder, Siren Biotech
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Future of Women’s Healthcare and Biowearables with Loewen Cavill, Co-Founder and CEO of Amira
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Future of In-Home Appliances and Power Offsets with Sam D’Amico, Founder and CEO of Impulse Labs
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Revolutionizing Computer Science Education with Austen Allred, Co-Founder and CEO of BloomTech
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Fixing San Francisco’s Broken Local Politics with GrowSF
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Future of Sustainable Fuels with Rob McGinnis, Founder and CEO of Prometheus
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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mRNA and the Future of Biotechnology with Hannu Rajaniemi, Founder and CEO of Helix Nanotechnologies
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Manufacturing in Low Earth Orbit with Delian Asparouhov, Co-Founder of Varda Space Industries
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The Emerging Field of Wildfire Technology with Maxwell Brodie, Co-Founder and CEO of Rain Industries
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The Future of Generative AI Video with Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and Co-Founder of Runway
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Future of Carbon Removal Technology with Peter Reinhardt, CEO and Co-Founder of Charm Industrial
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Psychedelics and therapy with Dr. Jeeshan Chowdhury, Founder / CEO of Journey Colab
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Inflation, China, immigration and rabbits with Macroeconomist Noah Smith
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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All things biotech with MIT Professor and Moderna co-founder Bob Langer
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Space and other tech to improve the human condition with George Whitesides, ex-CEO of Virgin Galactic
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Rapidly Changing Landscape in Media and Content with Chris Best, CEO of Substack
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Future of Nuclear Tech with Yasir Arafat
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May 18, 2023 |
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How AI will change creativity with Dave Rogenmoser, CEO of Jasper.AI
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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How AI will change programming with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit
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Mar 27, 2023 |