The Next Iteration Podcast

3:30 - Disdain for authority and research 9:20 - What is Arcadia Science? 20:30 - Open science vs open source software
39:00 - Model organisms and expanding our models 49:00 - What is the most important problem facing us in our time?

Timestamps 2:50 - Product Management vs Project Management 9:10 - What got you into the product space? 23:00 - Why Spotify is Tyler’s fav product
32:30 - Could a sociopath be a good PM? 42:20 - How do you find product market fit with a partner? Tyler's substack https://tylertalksproduct.substack.com/about

Essentialism can be argued as one of the atomic building blocks of a full life. It unlocks your potential by allowing you to focus on only the most important and high-impact things. Without it, you risk drowning yourself in distractions, fleeting projects, and ultimately burnout. So how do we get better at saying no to the right things? What role does passion play and is it at odds with exploratio...

Susa Summer Fellows Application: https://airtable.com/shr66JTPi2nEiJhI1 Timestamps: 1:30 - What Susa Ventures does 3:15 - Natalie’s Path to VC 18:30 - The Susa Summer Fellowship 26:00 - Lessons from working at startups 31:35 - Why selling dirt was the best job ever Natalie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliearora/

Our thoughts on the new lockdowns, and how patience truly is one of the best virtues. Timestamps 3:20 - Why it’s hard to be patient young 14:00 - How patience helps with building habits 23:00 - Choosing what to be impatient with 31:30 - Opening the door for serendipity

Happy Holidays, Iterators! Timestamps: 2:43 - Gratitude turns what we have into enough 4:50 - Fuad’s Big Boat Analogy (BBA) 11:40 - How do you show people you care about them? 24:00 - Dealing with family stress during the holidays 32:20 - We must be everything we’re capable of being - Abraham Maslow

Timestamps: 2:30 - How did you get into the mental health space? 11:15 - What’s the best way to support a friend going through it? 25:40 - Is our mental health as a society getting worse? 35:00 - What global learnings can we take to solve mental health issues here in North America? 47:30 - Feel the feels, don’t distract yourself https://www.aruniesaldhi.com/

Timestamps: 3:20 - What actually helps people change their behaviour? 14:20 - Hindsight bias and choosing your specialization as a doctor 25:00 - Pivoting out of medicine 38:00 - Alzheimers and diabetes 43:00 - The path of least resistance

Timestamps 2:20 - The role of humility in medicine 13:15 - Patient care as an artform 27:40 - Leadership in medicine and in life 37:20 - What’s blocking medicine from fully embracing tech? 43:55 - Halo Health and becoming an angel investor in healthcare

Timestamps: 2:45 - How geography affects the distribution of resources 14:30 - Is the current VC market sustainable? 18:55 - Why not all companies need VC 29:00 - How did sports eventually put you on the path to getting into VC? 40:44 - What frameworks have you built to manage risk, both in work and in life?

STRESS It's October, school and work are ramping up, and the days are getting shorter and colder. The perfect recipe for some stress. Today's episode is a 1-1 convo with Damien and I on stress -- acute vs chronic stress, the physiological nature of stress, and strategies we've used to cope with stress. Hope you all enjoy this little candid gem :)

Timestamps 1:30 - Prenoia, the opposite of paranoia, believing the universe is conspiring to help you 8:50 - How do you tune into your intuition? 17:50 - What number does your progress bar in life read right now? 31:20 - What has backpacking taught you about life? 45:00 - How to build a genuinely supportive community Espree's Links! Youtube - https://youtube.com/espree LinkedIn - https://www.linke...

Timestamps 2:20 - What’s your professional superpower? 9:00 - Government or private sector, where can you have more impact? 19:50 - How can we create an economic system that values more than just money? 34:00 - How did your values shape the path of Verto Health? 44:00 - Lighting round! Favorite failure, entrepreneurship, etc Check out Verto at https://verto.health/

Vision. That’s what every company starts with. You have an idea of what the future COULD look like, and you work to make that future a reality.

 That’s what Swish is doing with Trufan. Swish believes in a future where people can track their data, and take a cut of the profits that companies like Google and Facebook make off of their data. Today’s Next Iteration Podcast ep is a convo with Swish on...

Prashant is one of our brilliant friends who takes a Product-minded approach to everything he does. That means that whatever problems he faces, he tried to think about how he can solve that problem at scale. We had a ton of fun chatting with him from halfway across the world about how COVID has helped him grow dramatically by giving him time for experimentation, things he's learned from Western an...

Timestamps 3:45 - Introverts vs Extroverts When Making Friends 7:45 - Friendship, a 3 step process 19:30 - What makes a good friend? 29:30 - How do you keep friends while moving and progressing in life 40:00 - What Marcus Aurelius teaches us about friendship

Damien and Fuad sit down for a late-night (probably too late at night) 1:1 conversation about the role of work in our lives. It's been a while since we've done of these and you guys have been telling us about how much you've enjoyed them -- so we're back at it again after too long!

Timestamps 5:00 - What did being in academia teach you? 8:30 - How did you get rid of nerd #FOMO and focus on 1 thing? 14:00 - If you want to do good, can you still work in consulting or finance? 21:00 - Can you truly be ethical in a system that values profit above all else? 31:00 - Creating new metrics to drive ethical growth and improvement 36:00 - What Nazi Germany can teach us about unethical...

There's a new podcast on the block 👀 check out the first episode of the DubsCast, the newest member of the Next Iteration Family. Check out the show at https://anchor.fm/dubscastpod/episodes/AFC-Fan-Token-Release--Community-Owned-Sports-Teams-e153tdmF Reach out to Tristan at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanwedd/

Time stamps: 1:00 – becoming an entrepreneur by necessity 5:00 – shiny object syndrome, and Tuba’s shiniest object right now 15:51 – what Tuba learned about himself through founding Hack the City 30:30 – The Next36 and Techstars experience 38:30 – Nurturing your network and keeping your connections warm 42:45 – Crescendo’s origin story 53:15 – The most exciting trend coming out of Asia 1:13:15 – E...

Timestamps: 2:00 - Before we get started, let’s get some gratefulness in this 6:00 - Understanding how this is NOT natural 15:30 - Start with why to understand if you need to use social media less or more 20:00 - Willpower as a finite resource 26:12 - Political polarization and social media 35:45 - Building your brand and finding a community

Timestamps: 2:50 - Why does everyone call you “dad”? 6:20 - Tell us about your dad, aerospace engineer, and what lessons you learned from him. 17:35 - How never getting into military college set you up for success? 31:30 - How did you get a job at Tesla, and what kept you there year after year? 41:00 - Why his team reads every single one of 355,000 resumes 43:15 - Is an MBA worth it? 59:45 - How t...

Timestamps: 1:00 – Lessons from growing up with Sports 8:00 – Why you shouldn’t think in binary outcomes 10:20 – Founding Zipcall 20:00 - Studying Entrepreneurship vs Living it 22:00 – Managing Investor Interest 31:00 – How to get Acquired 36:00 – Crypto & Coinbase Ian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianramzy/

Timestamps 2:24 - What made you want to switch industries from banking? 6:58 - What is the SGAC and how did it empower you? 14:55 - What is the safe and sustainable development of space? 20:25 - Is the privatization of space good or bad? 26:20 - Who should govern a Martian colony? 35:00 - How can people get involved in the space industry? SGAC: https://spacegeneration.org/ Harriet's LinkedIn: http...

3:50 - Why did you go to Morehouse, a historically black college? 6:55 - How did you end up in marketing? 15:45 - What’s your favorite Disney movie? 17:12 - How has big tech affected the world of entertainment? 23:45 - Will multiple streaming services become the next cable subscription? 34:55 - What are your unique struggles as a black queer man in media? 44:15 - How does media play a role in enfo...