The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Chief Mentor of Next-Gen Leaders, Jason Ma. As the founder and CEO of ThreeEQ , and acclaimed author of “Young Leaders 3.0”, Jason is a globally recognized coach and mentor of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z clients, including C-suite executives and high-potential candidates in their careers and academic life. Since 2014, Jason h...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Guillermo Diaz, CEO of Kloudspot and former CIO of Cisco Systems, Inc. In the first part of the show, Keith and Guillermo reminisce about their time working closely together at Cisco Systems and the lessons the learned in leadership throughout their careers and how that has shaped the work they do to empower underserved commun...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s special guest is Miko Matsumura, General Partner of Gumi Ventures and founder of U.S. based virtual currency exchange Evercoin. Miko shares how his passion for open-source software began as a Java evangelist for SUN Microsystem and how that passion led to Miko to embrace the decentralized world of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosyst...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is 11-year-old inventor Carter Waugh, a 2018 innovation award winner who talks about how he started Flip Critts critts.com.  Carter shares his passion for outdoor adventuring and how he got his inspiration to start his shoe company because he was not satisfied with the current shoe design. He also goes into detail about his 3-year journe...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is 4-time unicorn angel investor Dan Scheinman. Dan ran corporate development for Cisco Systems before becoming a private investor using his own capital to fund unicorns such as Arista Networks, SentinelOne, CyCognito, and of course, Zoom. In the early part of the show, Dan and Keith reminisce about their Cisco days when Dan was general...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Douglas Horn, Chief Architect of Telos a decentralized blockchain network and founder of Goodblock a blockchain development company. Throughout the show Keith and Douglas explain how Telos is an example of a decentralized blockchain network which means that there is no single organization or person that “owns” the blockchain. This is...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s two guests are Ruben Merre, CEO of NGRAVE out of Belgium who discusses how to keep your cryptocurrencies secure and Mayor Lily Mei of Fremont, California who discusses the decision to re-open the Tesla factory. In the first part of the show, Keith and Ruben discuss how there is a resurgence of interest in people learning about cryptocurrency d...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is Jarred Winn, Senior Vice President of Charity at Binance, the world’s largest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange by volume. Jarred discusses his focus on creating strategies for partnerships and philanthropic campaigns using Binance’s charitable giving platform. At the beginning of the show, Keith and Jarred give a brief review of Bi...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo’s guest is serial entrepreneur Tony Lam. From Cisco to Shark Tank, Tony shares with his story from starting off as an I.T. Analyst at Cisco Systems, to his current project Omni Bev a premium ready-to-serve cold brew coffee. But to really get to know Tony, we must go back to his start at Cisco and how one of his companies made it on to Shark Tank...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special is Jeff Sweeney, CEO of US Capital Global a multibillion-dollar international investment bank headquartered in San Francisco. In the first segment, Jeff talks recalls how he got his start contemplating life by sailing in isolation in the South Pacific and how that experience relates to his most recent LinkedIn article “Pent-Up Ambition...

*At the time of recording this episode, the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (SBA-PPP) was just announced. Since the airing of this show, it was also announced that the $349 billion program has already reached its funding limit. There is a discussion that the U.S. Government will authorize additional funding, so we encourage you to listen to this show to understand how to...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Tim Campos, CEO of Woven and Former CIO of Facebook. In our first segment, Tim discusses with Keith on his career and how he became the CIO of KLA-Tencor to ultimately being the CIO of Facebook during the rapid growth phase of the company. It was during that time that Tim and the Facebook Information Technology (IT) team had t...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Eric Krawitt, SVP and Investment Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Keith and Eric discuss how COVID-19 is affecting the market inside and outside of Silicon Valley. Eric give his insights on the short-term and long-term implications to investors whether they are individuals or business owners. Eric gives practical information on...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Dr. Parimal Kopardekar, (PK) Director of the Nasa Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI). Keith discusses with PK his work at NASA. As the Director of NARI, PK is responsible for exploring new trends and needs related to aviation in the areas of autonomy, aeronautics manufacturing, and advanced air mobility. He also serves as N...

In this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Dr. John Mattison, MD, Former Assistant Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer, Emeritus of Kaiser Permanente.  Dr. Mattison is a world-renown keynote speaker, author, and faculty. He focuses on transforming care delivery with information technology, through a convergence of exponential technologies and data li...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Kristian Widjaja, CEO of Jonajo consulting and longtime Silicon Valley software engineering leader to discuss how to follow your dream. Kristian has worked at some of the leading technology companies such as Oracle, PayPal and was the head of engineering for Rocket Lawyer before following his passion to develop software for ot...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Silicon Valley native Aparna Dhinkaran, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Arizen AI, a company focused on bringing infrastructure tooling to Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Machine Learning (ML). Aparna discusses her rise in the tech world having graduated in EECS at UC Berkeley and then on to start her PhD program at...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's special guest is Dion Lim an Emmy award-winning news anchor at ABC7 | KGO TV in San Francisco / Silicon Valley who is the author of her new book "Make Your Moment : The Savvy Woman's Communication Playbook". Dion discusses with Keith her career journey from Massachusetts, Kansas City, Charlotte, Tampa Bay to the San Francisco Bay Area and how...

"Why Trust & Safety can be your Right to Win" - with the "cyber woman" Tiffany Xingyu Wang, Chief Strategy Officer at Spectrum Labs On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's returning guest is Tiffany Xingyu Wang, venture capitalist and the Chief Strategy Officer of Spectrum Labs ( www.getspectrum.io ). Spectrum Labs is an contextual AI company at the forefront of developing solution...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's special guest is Maya Bourdeau, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Attune, LLC. Maya and her partners at Attune are experts in "persuasion" marketing. Maya gives deep insight into the role persuasion plays in marketing products and services and gives great examples of some of the effective campaigns she and her team have worked on. Maya also...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's special guest is Jon Walton, Chief Information Officer of the County of San Mateo. Jon discusses his roots studying environmental science and how that led to a storied career in information technology right here in Silicon Valley. One of Jon's previous roles as being the CIO of San Francisco. Keith asks Jon what is top of mind for a CIO servi...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews four companies from the Ethereum Classic Labs Accelerator (ETC Labs). 1) Marco Montes - Saldo - an international remittance technology 2) Anandan Jayaraman - Pulse Agent - a B2B marketplace 3) OS City - a government technology company 4) W3 Engineers - Saiful Hoque - a company bringing connectivity to the unconnected in remote parts...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews returning guest Beena Ammanath, Founder & CEO of Humans for AI a non-profit (501c3) dedicated to increasing technology literacy and equipping today's workforce with relevant skills in advancing technology such as artificial intelligence. Beena is considered a thought leader in many areas of technology and was recently named "Woman of...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Silicon Valley stalwart Olga Mack, who is the CEO of Parley Pro a SaaS based legal technology company. Olga and Keith discuss her inspiring background of coming to the USA with her parents as an immigrant, attending UC Berkeley Law school and living the "American Dream". Olga goes into detail about her strategic career moves u...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Jennlyn Gleave, Producer and Host of the "Conversations with Jennylyn" cable TV show originating from Silicon Valley. Jennylyn talks to Keith about her fascinating story which began as an immigrant from Guyana to hosting and producing her own TV show. She also gives an inside look at how she landed an her interview with Apple Co-Found...