Warm Intro

What is the point of a business? Is it exclusively to make money? Or could there be more variables in this equation? Sana Javeri Kadri is on a mission.  She started a company at 22 to build an entirely new model for one of the oldest trades in the world. Her company, Diaspora Co is building a new Silk Route for spices. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about what someone’s pantry tells you a...

Harrison Cheney might be the best chef of his generation. His restaurant (Sons and Daughters) recently earned its second Michelin star and a green star, and Harrison himself won the Michelin Guide’s Young Chef of the Year award. He has worked in some of the world’s greatest kitchens, from Gastrologik to Quince. And he has done all of this in record time. Harrison is just 32. At 16, he sold his Xbo...

What should you work on as a young person? The smaller, achievable thing that builds your track record? Or the big bold thing that probably won't work? Saikat Chakrabarti is running to unseat Nancy Pelosi — the most powerful, feared, and respected democrat in the country. Saikat is less than half of Pelosi's age but he has big ideas and a track record to back them up. Before this, Saikat...

Hey! This is Chai.  I'm a founder in Silicon Valley and I've spent a third of my life running my company.  In all those years, I found that the only cure for the pain of building something big is talking to others who are doing the same thing. I've been lucky to have a lot of these conversations and I wanted to find a way to bring them to more builders.  That's how we came up w...