The Next Iteration Podcast

What does a 17th-century polymath have to say about ChatGPT? More than you'd expect. We're joined by Dr. Jeffrey McDonough — Harvard philosophy chair and one of the world's leading scholars on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the man who co-invented calculus, designed the binary system, and is considered to be the last great polymath. We tackle why there's something rather than nothing, Leibniz's claim...

Today's guest is Aman Khan, Head of Product at Arize AI Hear him on Lenny's Podcast: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/becoming-an-ai-pm-aman-khan https://arize.com/ Timestamps (1:50) - Is it Turtles (AI) all the way down? 🐢 (12:00) - What exactly is an AI PM? (16:20) - Aman’s career journey (24:30) - How job roles will change with AI (32:00) - Do we need mind gyms in the age of AI? 🏋🏽‍♀️ (44:0...

Find Sai here: https://www.saihuda.com/ Read his bestselling book: https://www.amazon.com/Next-Level-Cybersecurity-Detect-Signals/dp/1943386412 Timestamps: (5:00) - Actual advice to make you more secure (9:00) - The PR issue of Cybersecurity -> Risk and Compliance (20:00) - What does CyberCatch do? (24:00) - Russian CyberGangs, The Lazarus Group (31:00) - A tale as old as time: Agent on Agent Viol...

Go listen to Michael's album, Briefly Alive. here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6CNUPGwU0xVC3azQrMo80r?si=qjYP_UZjTOKOgtDEPU028A Nucleate Dojo: https://dojo.nucleate.xyz/ Michael on Twitter: https://x.com/michaeltrinh18?s=21 Timestamps: (3:39) – Genetic engineering as a film genre (5:59) – He Jiankui and gene editing (19:19) – Michael’s origin story (35:09) – The Canadian dream (42:39) – 2024 N...

Timestamps (8:45) - Being the black sheep and non-consensus opinions (15:30) - Immigrating to the US from Italy at 17 (20:45) - Is America still the land of opportunity, or should we all move to Europe? (28:30) - Thesis-driven investment and conviction areas (38:50) - Emotional Intelligence: the difference between a good and a great VC (43:45) - What do you do as a board member? (49:00) - How to g...

Timestamps (2:55) - What does War teach us about the human mind? (12:45) - The journey to chief surgeon (23:35) - DEI and DOGE (29:13) - Research and the Government budget cuts (37:56) - Going from Military to Industry (49:50) - PTSD in the Digital Warfare Era

Tune in to hear how psychedelics are being operationalized to treat depression and many other medical conditions Doug's had an amazing journey, through raising $4 billion of capital, being named Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, and becoming the CEO of https://cybin.com/ Timestamps: (6:40) - Food as Medicine (10:00) - Opportunity and exposure (16:00) - Connection as a superpower (28:00)...

Oh boy you guys are not ready Timestamps: (2:00) To Be or Not To Be a Crypto Bro? (8:40) Why are you interested in entrepreneurship? (20:10) Why Crypto? (29:00) Why does crypto mean the monetary system has to change? (40:00) A RENEWAL - Things Need to Change (48:00) The BITCOIN Act in Congress (55:00) Real world examples of Blockchain (1:09:00) Bitcoins energy consumption index (1:24:00) The State...

#88 - Science As Structured Play - Sebastian Cocioba Timestamps (8:30) - AI Tools for Researchers (22:00) - Science is Structured Play (31:00) - How to Grow Almost Anything
 (35:00) - Flowers for Everyone
 (41:00) - Designing Science Education
 (49:00) - Explore for the Sake of It
 (1:09:00) - Go for a Beer with Failure

| Links: 
 - asknature.org 
 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiancocioba/...

All about defense. This is arguably one of the most difficult and interesting conversations we've ever had on the podcast. Enjoy the listen :) Timestamps (2:10) - What are Segundo Bros?
 (5:30) - What can young people do in Defense? (11:44) - $1000 drones taking out 3 billion dollar ships (25:20) - Deterrence Theory and Francis Fukuyama (40:50) - The Valley of Death for Defense Startups (55:00) -...

Parth Sareen, Founder of LLM monitoring startup Extensible, talks Gen AI, building cool shit, and tech Twitter. Timestamps: 
 (2:00) - How will AI change UI? Will there even be UI? (9:25) - How did Waterloo shape you? (19:20) - Nature vs Nurture; building cool shit (31:40) - Founding Extensible (38:00) - Why Do an Accelerator? (47:30) - Why are Agents hard to Monitor? 
(1:00:20) - Human Interactio...

Back to our regularly scheduled programming with the Next Iteration Podcast! Having the privilege to talk cool ideas with amazing people has always been what we love the most about hosting a platform like this. 

 On today’s episode, we talk career pivots, AI, and the future of gaming with Jijnes! He led platforms and product at EA for years, and recently pivoted to biotech to work with TempusAI....

So, 2023 kinda kicked our ass 😅. And it's weird, usually as we approach the New Year you see a flood of "new year, new me" posts all over your feed — but it felt different this time with 2024. Did you guys feel that too? In place of the usual posts with all the fanfare and typical hype, there was a quiet determination instead. A lot of people I talked to felt this way — no words, let's just do th...

Wallace Torres, Co-founder and Head of Ops at WellTheory joins us on the pod today. WellTheory is a virtual care platform dedicated to fighting the autoimmune epidemic and empowering those with “invisible illnesses.” In this episode, we delve deep into the challenges faced by the countless millions who struggle with autoimmune diseases, often quietly and without proper recognition. We explore the...

Back with a Banger. Today's episode follows William's journey from doing Stanford ML Research to founding his startup Federato at age 22. Tune in to learn about how he thinks about building actually useful products with AI, and solving problems for real users. Timestamps: (6:00) - So many interesting problems work on, why AI and Data?
 (20:25) - Applying to Stanford for Grad School (26:00) - The F...

How can you become a strong and successful leader and inspire an innovative team across a rapidly growing company? As you know, we are on a never-ending mission to build the best iterations of ourselves, and we want to enable you to do the same. To gain the latest insights, we interviewed Gabriele Brambilla, CEO and Co-Founder of Alira Health. Join us as Gab shares his experiences of founding and...

Ray Christian's an expert in all things AI, product, and psychedelics. Today we hear his thoughts on the intersection between those spaces, tune in for a thought-provoking conversation that'll make you question your consciousness. DISCOUNT CODE: Ray also runs Psoiree, a community for people who want to connect about their psychedelic experiences! He was kind enough to give us a discount code for o...

Tune in for an intellectually rigorous conversation about investing, value, and the world's hardest problems. Timestamps: 2:30 - Would Nostradamus make a good VC? 6:00 - How’d you go from engineer to VC? 22:30 - What are the hardest problems we need to solve? 25:00 - How do you actually measure value and impact? 37:30 - The benefits of moving to Miami 50:00 - Innovating in legacy industries Leo's...

Today’s episode is on ketamine assisted therapy and psychedelics in general, featuring Dr. Mai Shimada, who has completed her MD from the University of Tokyo, an emergency residency in New York City, and her MBA from INSEAD.
 
Find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maishimada/
 and check out her startup Isha health at https://www.isha.health/ Timestamps 2:40 - Emerg Doctor -> Founder,...

We back with another banger. Listen to Lulu, Fuad's barber, spit some wisdom about life and becoming a fully fledged human being Timestamps: 3:30 - What actually goes down in the barbershop on the backend? 12:00 - How’d you get into skateboarding? 23:00 - What makes you valuable as a human being? 36:20 - What’s one thing about how you were raised that you’re doing differently with your kid? He als...

Today’s episode features Florcy, an NFT consultant and expert on all things Web3. Tune in to hear how she’s thinking through the bear market, and why Web3 is uniquely situated to solve so many of our systemic issues. Timestamps: 2:00 - Web1 vs Web2 vs Web3 13:15 - Is centralization such a bad thing? 22:30 - Why is Web3 part of the answer to dismantling systemic oppression? 29:00 - How are you thin...

Announcing our partnership with Zion Maynard's MedTalkcracy! We're super excited to have Zion aboard to spearhead all things MedTech withing the Next Iteration Platform. Enjoy the first episode of the new MedTalkcracy season, featuring Omar Khateeb, a MedTech sales expert. Check out the show at https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XrnY2ECVPzyWh0RIrJQtK?si=f8729a60924341ab

Timestamps: 3:00 - What is MedTalkcracy’s mission? 
10:00 - How has podcasting changed you? 14:00 - When “what if” becomes “what is”, where will you be? 34:00 - Connecting the dots 40:00 - Zion roasts Fuad’s workout routine If you want to learn more about Zion, connect with him on LI or check out MedTalkcracy! 

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zionmaynard/
 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6...

Boredom is one of those topics that you find people on both sides. But it's also a relatively recent invention - so how much of that is due to people being unable to really understand how to navigate boredom? In fact, what really is boredom then? Tune in to find out and check out some of the timestamps below! (1:20) – It’s ok, you don’t always have to be grinding (10:00) – The empirical case for b...

4:15 - What are your options? 7:10 - How Damien chose his Master's Program 19:35 - Your biggest regret from grad school 21:35 - Network? Nah, it’s a COMMUNITY 30:45 - Getting into a top MBA program