Dorm Room Disruptors | Untold Creation Stories

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The untold stories of humble beginnings that became outlier results. We shine a light on the challenges, breakthroughs, and hustle that transformed a dream into something real. If you're inspired by ambition and innovation, this is for you. Hosted by Will Rush - Made with love at Jetson

08/21/2024

Kevin Jurovich

Kevin Jurovich stops by the DRD studio to tell his story: - Going from NFL player to the finance industry - Starting a company as a first-time founder - Discovering your super powers - His vision for the future of meetups and vibe discovery - Creating authentic content starts with altruism - Having patience for success and living in the moment - His advice to himself on day one

25 min
08/06/2024

Tom Allen (@chadgoesdeep)

Tom Allen aka @chadgoesdeep stops by the DRD studio to share his story: - His humble beginnings and overcoming self-doubt - The moment he found out he went viral for the first time - Getting invited to be on FOX news live in front of millions of viewers - Being a guest on The Ellen Show and Howard Stern - Coolest moment over the last 10 years - His advice to future creators

21 min
07/26/2024

Cracking the Y-Combinator Code with KaterAi | Robin Seitz

Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Our special guest for today’s episode is, Robin Seitz. Robin is the co-founder and CTO of Kater AI. Before starting the company, Robin worked at companies such as Microsoft, Abbott and Paragon as a Software Engineer. He has 8+ years of experience working in different software engineering roles and big data. He is now building KaterAI with the help of his co-founder. With KaterAI say bye to messaging the data team and waiting 4 days for an answer, Kater can get answers in 30 seconds. Kater makes it possible for executives to understand why business outcomes occur, and even alert them before the outcomes happen again.

40 min
07/23/2024

Revolutionizing Factory Management with Dime in YC | Akash Kumar

Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Our special guest for today’s episode is, Akash Kumar Akash is the co-founder at Dime. Before Dime, Akash was a product software engineer at Snapchat for over 3 years, working on its AI Platform. He is now building Dime with the help of his co-founder Ashish. Dime helps manufacturers manage their factories. The manufacturers use Dime to generate production plans and track their progress

38 min
07/20/2024

Breaking into Y Combinator with a Local Business Lead Platform OpenMart Ai | Kathryn Wu

Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Our special guest for today’s episode is, Kathryn Wu. Kathryn graduated from UC Berkeley in Computer science and started her career as a Product Engineer at Pinterest before leaping into to startups. She is one of the co-founders of Openmart. A platform that helps startups who sell to local businesses discover leads easily based on their specific needs. And her startup is backed by Y-Combinator receiving a half a million dollar investment. Kathryn thank you so much for hopping on today, we are super excited to have a chat and learn more about your journey.

38 min
06/21/2024

Getting into Y-Combinator with an AI business (OmniAi) | Tyler Maran

Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Our special guest for today’s episode is, Tyler Maran. Tyler is the co-founder and CEO of OmniAI. Before starting the company, he played a pivotal role in developing AI and ML applications within the healthcare and mental health domains. He is now building OmniAI with the help of his co-founder Anna. OmniAI focuses on a huge problem that companies face, organizing mass amount of data to help with business decisions and ultimately its success.

43 min
06/20/2024

Inside Y Combinator : Innovating Healthcare with AI and Brainwaves Piramidal | Kris Pahuja

Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Our special guest for today’s episode is, Kris Pahuja. Kris is the co-founder and all things product and business @piramidal. Before Piramidal, Kris was a product lead at google & spotify for ai and healthcare. co-founded gyftgo and scaled to $1m annual recurring revennue, providing high-quality logistics solutions to eCommerce businesses. and at google, owned chrome os monetization from $0 to $300m arr. He is now building Piramidal with the help of his co-founder. Piramidal is a groundbreaking brain foundation model trained on brainwave data, much like language models are trained on text. This model can understand and detect various brain activities, aiding in the diagnosis of neurological conditions, drug discovery, and real-time brain health monitoring. So a smart tool that reads brainwaves to help doctors quickly find and understand brain problems.

41 min
06/06/2024

Getting into Y-Combinator with a Food Delivery Startup BiteSight | Lucious McDaniel

Welcome to Season 2 of the Dorm Room Disruptors Podcast. In this season we want to dial in one topic that often draws lots of curiosity… Y Combinator. Y Combinator is a startup bootcamp, that runs multiple times a year and is highly exclusive. AirBNB, Reddit, and DoorDash are all alumni from the program. This episode is sponsored by Jetson, the #1 entrepreneurship app. If you are thinking of starting a business try out Jetson Pro here. Lucious is the co-founder and Chief Eating Officer at BiteSight. Before starting his company, Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC company at 19 years old. Lucious also built a treasury management company focused on nonprofits and was an analyst at General Atlantic covering restaurant tech. He is now building Bitesight with the help of his co-founder. BiteSight is a video-based food delivery app that learns what you like and shows you exactly what you are craving. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash. Since launching the beta in February, BiteSight has onboarded 274 restaurants in SF, and users are growing more than 50% each week, all organically. Chapter 1: Pivoting from QR Code Menus to Food Delivery Chapter 2: Getting Accepted into Y Combinator with a New Idea Chapter 3: Launching Bitesight and Onboarding Restaurants Chapter 4: Growing the Business and Competing with Uber Eats Chapter 5: Expanding to New York and Focusing on Recommendations

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The untold stories of humble beginnings that became outlier results. We shine a light on the challenges, breakthroughs, and hustle that transformed a dream into something real. If you're inspired by ambition and innovation, this is for you. Hosted by Will Rush - Made with love at Jetson

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