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Matt Lombardi is a Co-Founder of Beam ( https://beamtlc.com/ ). He's on a mission to reimagine health and wellness, is a former professional hockey player, entrepreneur, and avid CrossFitter. Kevin Moran is also a Co-Founder of Beam. He's on a mission to humanize CBD with education first. He's a former professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox organization, CrossFitter, Ironman, and...

Andrew Parker is the Co-Founder & CEO of Papa , a company that's raised $30M+ in venture capital from top investors to build and grow their family-on-demand platform. Andrew has spent his career focusing on healthcare technology and service. In late 2017, Andrew founded Papa, a company that offers "Family On-Demand!" by connecting older adults and families to college students for companionship...

Karl Alomar is a Managing Partner at M13 , a serial entrepreneur, and he's built and/or sold high growth businesses in various market segments. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London. He has a strong technology pedigree and over 20 years experience in executive management roles in institutionally fund...

Matthew Loper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wellth , a company that uses behavioral economics to drastically improve care plan adherence in patients with chronic conditions. This improvement to adherence allows risk-bearing providers to reduce readmissions, health insurers to reduce the total cost of care, and life insurers to confidently underwrite underserved customer populations like type 2 diab...

Ruben is the Co-Founder at Swoop , where he is responsible for operations, marketing, people & hiring, and fundraising efforts. Prior to joining Swoop, he spent four years working for Google and Facebook, helping scale new programs such as Workplace by Facebook globally and Google's Agency Landscape in Europe. Ruben was born in Germany, spending his childhood years there, prior to moving to th...

Taylor Nieman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Toucan , ( https://jointoucan.com/ ) the free Chrome extension that helps you learn a language without even trying. Previously, she worked on business development and strategic partnerships at Headspace, Science, and Fair. Toucan is a new, immersive way to learn while you go about your daily life. Learning a new language is challenging, fun, and rewardi...

Sean Matson is the Co-Founder & CEO of MATBOCK , a company that is run by retired Navy SEALS and whose staff are also former US Military Veterans. The company creates and develops products that fill a need in the real world, whether it's hunting, camping, hiking, going on adventures, for law enforcement or for soldiers while at war. They work closely with the US Military and have been contract...

Swupnil Sahai is the Co-Founder & CEO of SwingVision and previously worked on the autopilot team at Tesla. SwingVision is building A.I. for athletes. Their app provides real-time, on-device video analysis and coaching using proprietary A.I. on just a single smartphone. They were recently featured in the Apple 2020 Fall Keynote event and are backed by investors Andy Roddick, James Blake and Tec...

Tom is the CEO and Co-founder of GameSense Sports . For the past decade, Tom has been designing and building sports-related technologies. He helped build several sport technology companies serving as Director of Product Development for Cyton8 Sports and NeuroSport Performance. He was Director of Sports Science and Performance at Elite Sports Services as well. He has helped develop multiple devices...

Tara Viswanathan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rupa Healt h, a functional medicine platform streamlining the process of specialty labs for practitioners. Connect with Tara Viswanathan and Rupa Health Rupa Health LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Some of the Topics Covered by Tara Viswanathan in this Episode What Rupa Health is and how it started The initial iteration of Rupa Health How Tara ini...

Sam Caucci is the Founder & CEO of 1Huddle . He has a firm belief that everybody that works hard deserves access to a job that prepares them and skills them up for work. His product is helping companies across the globe to make training more fun, effective and accessible for their entire workforce. 1Huddle is a workforce training platform that's getting people ready to work using quick-burst g...

Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the Co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health , a career marketplace whose custom matching technology offers hospitals the fastest, most effective way to hire qualified permanent nursing staff. By 2024, the United States is poised to experience its biggest employment crisis to date, a shortage of one million nurses, putting patient care in jeopardy and hospitals at risk of signif...

Jack O'Holleran, Co-Founder and CEO of SKALE Labs , is a technology entrepreneur focused on blockchain and decentralized systems. SKALE is solving the blockchain scalability problem by facilitating processing between blockchains and decentralized applications, helping the ecosystem run hundreds of millions of smart contracts and transactions per second. Jack also maintains a strategic advisor role...

Brooke Harris is the Founder & CEO of Goodmylk Co . While living in L.A., the supposed "health food capital" of the U.S., Brooke's health deteriorated for a period of time. Brooke decided to turn to an alternative, plant-based diet as a form of healing medicine. But to her surprise, she found her effort to 'eat healthier' was actually making her sicker. Through research, Brooke found that many...

Jordi Hays is the Co-Founder & CEO of Likewise , the end-to-end platform to find and work with the world's best creatives. Connect with Jordi Hays Likewise LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Some of the Topics Covered by Jordi Hays in this Episode How Jordi decided to start Likewise and focus on the needs of eCommerce companies The pain point of accessing creative talent The initial version of Likewis...

Jyri Engeström is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Yes VC , an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. They invest in the pre-seed and seed stages of companies set in motion by social movements. In his previous role at True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, he invested in e.g. Iceye, building a constellation of radar satellites to track climate change. As an ange...

Matthew Stoudt is the CEO and Co-Founder of AppliedVR where he is pioneering virtual reality therapeutics (VRx), the next generation of digital therapeutics. Leveraging the unique therapeutic properties of VR, AppliedVR is on a mission to enable patients with chronic pain to improve their lives through safe, effective and self-administered VRx. AppliedVR is backed by leading institutions including...

Holger Seim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blinkist . Founded in 2012 by four friends, Blinkist now connects 15 million readers worldwide to the biggest ideas from bestselling nonfiction via 15-minute audio and text. About Our Partners This episode is brought to you by Hawke Media . Hawke Media is a full-service Outsourced CMO based in Santa Monica, CA, providing guidance, planning, and execution to...

Omar Zenhom is the co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja . Founded in 2014, over a million people have attended a webinar on WebinarNinja, and it has been named as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in 2018. Omar is also is the host of the iTunes Best of 2014 podcast, The $100 MBA Show . With over 130 million downloads and over 1,600 episodes, The $100 MBA Show is ranked as a top business podc...

Allison Ferenci is the co-founder and CEO of Camera IQ , the world's first augmented reality platform for camera marketing. Camera IQ unites the camera ecosystem to enable brands create and deliver captivating AR experiences at scale. Allison has been creating new realities since she started her dual MFA in Interior Design and Digital Interactive Art at Pratt Institute. Exploring the intersection...

Ryan Emmons is the co-founder and CEO of Waiakea , the first Hawaiian Volcanic Water of its kind. Waiakea's mission is to provide healthy, delicious, Hawaiian volcanic water to people throughout the world with as little impact as possible while contributing to and promoting conservation and access to clean water and education for people in need throughout the world. This is embodied by Waiākea's s...

Ronda Fraley is the founder of The Wine Party Co. , making it easy to drink great wine and learn about it. Wine shouldn't be overwhelming. That's why Ronda created a digital wine platform that offers wines that are highly-curated, experiences that are ready-to-host, wine classes, and an inclusive community so that you can experience wine with confidence and without judgement. The Wine Party Co. ca...

Shahira Marei is the Founder and CEO of The Dirty Cookie , which sells custom branded cookies in shot glass form that you can fill with any beverage you'd like. Their customizable cookie shots combine all of your favorite things about an after-school snack into a dish-free, premium dessert experience. Shahira is an Egyptian American who was raised in Orange County, California. She started her care...

Jesse Scheff is the Founder and CEO of Easyupp , an online platform that allows a salesperson to sell a car from any dealership. EasyUpp is dedicated to providing great dealers and salespeople a platform to help more customers. Built on relationships, Easyupp believes that the people are the purpose. If a salesperson has a customer that wants to buy from them, they should never be limited by inven...

Peter Davis is the founder and CEO of Ampjar , a karmic advertising community that helps small brands to acquire customers through a fast and simple exchange of shout outs. Prior to running Ampjar, Pete ran a social and digital media agency which worked with household name brands in 6 countries. Pete sold the business to Private Equity in 2017. Pete is based out of Melbourne Australia where he liv...