The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

Last week, SpaceX priced the largest IPO in stock market history — $135 per share, a $75 billion raise, a $1.75 trillion valuation, trading on Nasdaq as SPCX. Most coverage is a space story. This episode is a capital markets story. Keith Koo, Founder and Host of Silicon Valley Insider® and Vice President at U.S. Capital, an international investment bank, opens the prospectus the way a banker would...

What if death is optional? From the BOLD Awards in Barcelona, Keith Koo sits down with Jose Luis Cordeiro - MIT-trained engineer, student of Marvin Minsky, longtime collaborator of Ray Kurzweil, former Singularity University faculty, and author of "The Death of Death" (now in 15 languages) - for a deep dive on the science of cryonics, transhumanism, and the future of human longevity. Cordeiro call...

SILICON VALLEY INSIDER® WITH KEITH KOO "Claude Mythos: The AI Model Anthropic Refused to Release" Anthropic built their most powerful AI model yet. Then they refused to release it. What they found inside that model should concern every executive, investor, and technology leader who depends on software infrastructure to run their business. This is that story. Episode Summary In an industry defined...

Growth Playbook: Vision, Governance, and Investment Insights   In this New Year’s episode of Silicon Valley Insider®, host Keith Koo moves beyond predictions and focuses on preparation for 2026.   Rather than forecasting trends, Keith examines what actually drives sustainable growth: clear vision, execution discipline, governance readiness, and resilient infrastructure. Drawing from real-world exa...

Unlocking Gold from Abandoned Mines with Gold Vault Capital   In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews Bennett Yankowitz, the founder and CEO of Gold Vault Capital. They discuss Bennett's diverse background in law, finance, and entrepreneurship leading up to his latest venture of reclaiming gold from abandoned mines. The conversation delves into the unique model of Gold...

Host: Keith Koo, Host of Silicon Valley Insider | Managing Partner, Guardian Insight Group LLC Guests: Myra Durrani, Founder & CEO, MobileyMe Jon Ryan, CFO, MobileyMe Episode Overview: What happens when you lose access to your phone—mid-meeting, mid-flight, or mid-crisis? For most, it’s a moment of panic. For MobileyMe, it’s a solvable problem. In this episode, Keith Koo speaks with MobileyMe’...

Episode Title: Designing the Future: Strategic Surprise with Mickey McManus Episode Description: Join host Keith Koo in this episode of Silicon Valley Insider as he welcomes Mickey McManus, a renowned expert in design thinking. Mickey delves into the world of strategic surprise and synthetic biology, sharing his unique insights and experiences from his extensive career, including his work at BCG,...

Title: Rylti's Quest: Shining a Light on the Dark Data Within Your Company Guests: Peter Fiorillo, Co-Founder and CEO Lawrence Baisch, CTO In this week's episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo welcomes Peter Fiorillo, Co-Founder and CEO, and Lawrence Baisch, CTO of RYLTI (pronounced "Royalty"), a company at the forefront of dark data discovery in corporations. Join us as we delve into h...

During this installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo conducts an interview with Annika Monari, the CEO of Coral, an application created to transform the way vendors engage with customers in the B2B industry. Annika discusses her entrepreneurial drive, which originated from her background as a particle physicist at CERN, her successful launch of an ICO, and her subsequent shift towards util...

In this encore installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo hosts an interview with Chatri Sidyodtong, Founder and CEO of ONE Championship, a global media platform headquartered in Singapore and the star of “The Apprentice ONE Championship Edition.” As a 5-year old boy, Chatri’s mother told him “you will go help people” and that was something hard to fathom when he and his family were broke as...

On this installment of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo hosts an interview with Arthur Mrozowski, who serves as the Managing Partner of Silicon Hill Ventures LLC and as the CEO of Looptronic. Arthur's claim to fame on Silicon Valley Insider is that he taught Netflix how to create DVD copies. In addition to this notable achievement, Arthur boasts a rich history of innovation and investment in Sili...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews returning guest Sal Peer, CEO of Social Brim, a digital marketing agency and also the CEO of AI Exosphere, to discuss "Satellite Writer" their SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform that allows anyone to create professional quality content anywhere for virtually any use-case. This episode first aired before OpenAI's ChatGPT took t...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host  Keith Koo interviews Ben Wang, Chief Science Officer and John MacMahon, Chief Technology Officer who are the co-founders of health tech startup Cytokind. Listen as Ben and John share their story of how they discovered that light can be used to battle inflammation and other related conditions including multiple sclerosis, psoriasis COVID leading to a...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Ron DeKoven, Founder & CEO myLawyer & Justice NFT talks about his many decades in the legal profession from U.S. Corporate Attorney to English Barrister Ron took that experience and create the my Lawyer Network a Global network of attorneys. Ron's vision is to help attorneys and clients around the world to work more effectively and efficiently using techn...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Dave Liu, CEO of Liucrative Endeavors discusses his journey to the top of the corporate ladder and how he applied his learnings into his new book "The Way of the Wall Street Warrior" Conquer the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks, and Smartcuts. Dave shares insights into why he wrote the book and how he wanted to give his audience practical advice that can...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Joshua Lee, CEO of Ardius (a Gusto company) discusses how any company that has research and development expenses in technology, science or process can be eligible for significant R&D tax credits. Ardius has helped companies recover millions of dollars in tax credits from things like research and development that they’ve done in building their product and...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is world-renowned industrial designer Scott Henderson of Scott Henderson, Inc. Scott shares his story of how he developed his passion for design and how he gets his inspiration for his designs by being in a state of "flow".  Scott discuss what it means to be in a "flow" state and how that has lead to his designs being elegant yet simple...

Peter Drucker once said “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast” which means that no matter what you try, the culture of your organization will always determine the outcome of your future. On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Dr. Andrew Kim, author of the new book “Culture for the Left-Brained Leader: Strategy, Tactics and Implementation for Transformative Results" which de...

Want to meet a real “Wonder Woman”? On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is rock star and Grammy nominee Tina Guo. Tina has performed in over 30 Hollywood movies and composed, produced and performed on the Wonder Woman soundtrack. Tina is a virtuoso in classic and electric cello and is an innovator. During the show: Tina discusses her latest innovation “Robo-Guo” a...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s returning guest is Steve Cadigan, first Chief Human Resources Officer of LinkedIn who will discuss his new book “Workquake – the Case for a Human-Centric Future of Work”. In the aftermath of the pandemic there has been a shift in how employers and employees think about work. Steve discusses how the whole concept of work is changing and how cor...

On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Chatri Sityodtong founder, Chairman and CEO of One Championship, Asia’s largest global sports media company. Chatri will discuss his rags to riches story with his family losing everything during the Asian financial crisis to becoming the CEO of billion dollar Silicon Valley unicorn backed by Sequoia Capital & Temasek. Chatri will also dis...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guest is Preetham Vishwanatha, Founder and CEO of Kena.ai Preetham shares his early history learning violin at a young age as both an academic and religious experience. After a very successful career as a technology executive and innovator Preetham turned his focus towards his passions for technology and music leading to the start of K...

On this week’s Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is P.R. legend Bill Imada, founder, chairman and Chief Connectivity Officer of I.W. Group, a multicultural marketing agency based out of Los Angeles and that has served such brands as Coca-Cola, Lexus, General Motors and HBO. Hear Bill’s story about his humble beginnings which led to transforming into a P.R. giant. Bill also talks about how...

May is AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Heritage Month. In honor of AAPI, Keith is hosting a series highlighting leaders in the AAPI community.   On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith’s guest is Hang Black, author of “Embrace Your Edge: Pave Your Own Path as an Immigrant Woman in the Workplace” who discusses insights from her book and how she chose to self-publish in order...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider (#SVIN), Keith Koo’s guests is Danny He, CEO of Soapbox, Inc. a next generation fulfillment operations company that is laser focused on making order entry, management, fulfillment and shipping simple, fast and cost-effective. Find out how Soapbox as a B2C company has doubled its user base every month since launch. Also find out how Soapbox is transforming...