The Silicon Valley Podcast

114 Disrupting the Current Venture Capital Model with Kyle York Kyle York is co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE™ where he sets the vision and leads the vertically integrated strategic growth and investment firm helping reshape the way companies are built, scaled and monetized. Kyle works closely with entrepreneurs, operators and investors to help them realize their shared ambition to...

  Koki Uchiyama is Founder and CEO of Hottolink Inc. He founded hottolink in 2000 and lead it to first IPO among the social media analytics / listening players in the world. He and his team have been exploring the possibility of utilizing Social Big Data and AI especially to support Brands to create and conduct the marketing strategy driven by Data and Evidence for almost 20 years, so he is the pi...

Barry O’Reilly Barry O’Reilly is an entrepreneur, business advisor and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation.   Barry is the co-founder of Nobody Studios, a crowd-infused, high-velocity venture studio with the mission to create 100 compelling companies over the next 5 years.   Barry is author o...

  John McNulty On today’s show, we chat with John McNulty who has been a driving force in the technology industry for almost forty years. He has held leadership positions starting as General Manager at Intel in 1980 and including Senior VP & GM roles at two firms and President, CEO and Chairman of four other companies in the software, hardware, networking, and communications industries. Today, Mr....

Eric Espinosa Eric is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for helping CEOs and Small Business Owners succeed. If you're starting up a business - Venture Validator can help you find product/market fit so you don't waste thousands of dollars on and months of your time building the wrong solution. If you're a community organizer and would like me to speak at your conference, webinar, etc. - I have s...

Shownotes for Amy Siedman Noble Profit founder and BFLO creator is an early pioneer of interactive media, Amy created technology experiences for companies like PacBell, Lotus, Sun, ValueClick Media, Disney, MGM, Warner Brothers, Fox, and launched design firm Creative Entity. Earlier, Amy’s activism and passion for the environment expressed through award-winning photography, art, film, writing, mus...

Daniel Idzkowski CEO & Co-Founder of Sidepocket and Skunklock Sidepocket is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor bringing cutting-edge technology and quantitative strategies to the everyday retail investor. SKUNKLOCK is the first ever bicycle, motorcycle, scooter, and moped lock to "fight back" against thieves using chemicals.    On today Show we Talk about: How has Fintech changed over the last 5...

Shownotes for Ari Newman Co-Founder and Managing Director at Massive Capital Partners. Partner at The Fund Rockies (side hustle) 15 years on the operating side (2x founder). VC since 2012. Mentor/Advisor and Board Member. Previous Companies: Techstars (Partner on Venture Team - now over 500M in AUM) Filtrbox - Social Media Management - Techstars class #1, sold to Jive Software (Boulder, CO) Newman...

Jonathan Parkhurst As Safehavn's Founder & CEO, Jonathan is a leader and innovator in the recovery industry. Jonathan owned one of the largest continuums of care sober living companies in Northern California, Stepping Up. In 2015 Stepping up was acquired by Cornerstone Sober living. After being acquired, Jonathan started a consulting firm focused on organizations with a need to scale either top ta...

  Alisa was named the #1 Startup Coach in the world at the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Leading Coaches Awards in London. She was also named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus for Startups. Based in NYC, she coaches startup CEOs, co-founders, other startup executives and board members all over the world. She also coach senior and emerging leaders from Fortune 500 companies. Her clients include Venmo,...

Shownotes for Dylan Malot Most of what matters in leading a fulfilling life cannot be bought. Healthy bodies, minds and relationships are crucial to happiness, as well as the fruits of creative effort beyond the trappings of prosperity. While business stress is present at every level of wealth, confidence in our financial security allows us to focus on our pursuits, family and community to make th...

Axel Kloth   Axel is a physicist by training, and he is used to the need for large-scale compute. Axel, discovered over 30 years ago that scalability of processor performance was paramount for solving any computational problem. That necessitated a new paradigm in computer architecture. At Parimics, SSRLabs and Axiado he was able to show that new thinking was needed, and what novel practical soluti...

Shownotes for Lu Zhang Lu Zhang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, a renowned Silicon Valley based investor, a serial entrepreneur and a Stanford Engineering alumna. Fusion Fund is active in supporting early-stage entrepreneurs who are looking to build globally disruptive companies using innovative technologies to drive systemic change originating from the U.S market. For the past...

Sam is a CEO coach, interim CEO/CTO/CFO, a Silicon Valley advisor and the author of 21 Secrets of Successful Startups, a book about world-class execution for startups. As a serial entrepreneur, he has been CEO, CTO, or VP Engineering / TechOps for five companies, driving multiple acquisitions. As a hands-on “roll up the sleeves” startup advisor, Sam draws from his 30+ years of successes and failur...

Shawn Flynn spent 4 plus years living and conducting business in Beijing, China. While in China, he founded, grew, and profitably exited a successful education company. Shawn moved back to San Francisco to invest his experience, connections, and resources back into the world’s deepest and most vibrant technology ecosystem. Shawn works with institutions, governments, and various capital sources, to...

Steve Schneider joined ZAP as Chief Executive Officer and Director in 2002 helping raise nearly $1 billion and at the same time successfully listing ZAP on the NYSE. He is the founder of Voltage Vehicles the core of ZAP's business operations. Schneider’s education and early career in the automotive industry include positions with specialty and fuel-efficient automobiles offered by Honda, VW, Renau...

Avram Miller served as Vice President, Business Development for Intel Corporation for over a decade, where he was the driving force behind Intel’s successful initiative to establish residential broadband Internet access. In 1991, he co-founded Intel Capital, which became one of the top corporate venture capital groups in the world. When USA Today profiled Miller in March 1996, it referred to him a...

On July 26, 2018, Craig Allen began his tenure in Washington, DC as the president of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 200 American companies doing business with China. Prior to joining USCBC, Craig had a long, distinguished career in US public service.   Craig began his government career in 1985 at the Department of Commerce’s...

Liesel lives for helping people. She founded The Mentoring Club, Inc. to provide a mentoring community for aspiring as well as seasoned leaders in the workforce. By establishing a global platform, the Mentoring Club has the bold intent of changing the world, one leader at a time by providing a mentor for anyone who needs a mentor anywhere in the world. The community has over 150 mentors and mentee...

Steve Barnett Technical specialist (Ph. D.) with extensive sales and marketing experience in a broad array of optical sensor technologies. Experienced with applications in pharmaceutical/biotech, aerospace, homeland security, materials science, forensic science, polymer, and petrochemical industries. Managed global relationship with multinational corporation - formed sales and support structure fo...

Joe helps business owners make more money and have more time.  He has 3 decades of Accomplish-laden experience and has helped over 2000 companies worldwide to improve their lives and businesses. He has a B.S. in Engineering, M.B.A. in Marketing, Certified Business Coach, Certified Executive Coach, Best Selling Author, Speaker and NLP Practitioner  He sees abundance everywhere, comes from a place o...

Dr. Shiva Kintali is the Founder & CEO of EulerChain, True Dat Inc. Before starting True Dat Inc, he taught in the Computer Science department, Princeton University for four years. He is a frequent public speaker on AI, Blockchain, Cryptography and Game theory and their socio-economic and cultural impact. His (academic and industry, theoretical and practical) experience spans algorithm design, com...

Jeep Kline who it the first Thailand Venture Capitalist, her experiences include creating a startup, taking a leadership role in technology companies, and managing Big Data at The World Bank (and teaching at Hass school of business at Berkeley.  She enjoys applying strategies and analytics to solve difficult problems and create meaningful impacts.   On today Show we Talk about: If the US started t...

Show notes for Almaz In 2010, Almaz founded the African Diaspora Network (ADN) to inform and engage Africans in the diaspora and facilitate direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders to invest and improve the lives of everyone on the continent. Under her leadership and vision, ADN is now the home of The African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS), the Builders...

Chris is passionate about startups, sports, FinTech (specifically payments), and financial literacy. He believes that you can get anywhere you want in this world as long as you work your butt off and never stop learning. "Everything around you, that you call life, was made up by people that are no smarter than you. You can influence it, you can change it." - Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw...