Next Unicorn: The Next Great Tech Startups & Founders Sasha Earnheart-Gold
-
- Technology
-
Searching for the next great tech startups, we interview startup founders, venture capital investors, growth hackers, product specialists, technologists, legal experts, and others. Website: https://www.nextunicornpodcast.com/
-
The Future of Battery Technology | Nick Kateris, Stanford University | E6
Nick Kateris is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, where his research is focused on new battery technology, and computer modeling to help develop new types of battery technology, as well as on detonation engines. (Recently, along with colleagues from Stanford and Dartmouth, Nick developed a new type of lithium-sulfur battery that performs much better than any lithium-sulfur batteries developed previously.) In this episode we talk about the future of new battery technology innov...
-
Are Startup Accelerators Worth It For Founders? | Collin Wallace, Lobby Capital | E5
Collin Wallace is the Former Head of Techstars Silicon Valley (one of the top startup accelerators), co-teaches the Startup Garage accelerator class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), and is a partner at Lobby Capital (formerly August Capital), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Previously, as a repeat founder, he also was a participant in Techstars and Y Combinator (YC is, of course, also a top startup accelerator). One of the startups that he founded (FanGo) was acquired...
-
How Did Famous Successful Startups Get Their First 1,000 Customers? | Ali Abouelatta, First 1000 | E4
Ali Abouelatta is the author of the First 1000 newsletter on Substack (with over 85,000 subscribers at the time of publishing this episode), which is about just that! It also contains all kinds of tips, tricks, and hacks relating to getting your first 1,000 customers and beyond, including: pricing, product design, product management, growth hacks, startup stories, and much more. By day he is a product manager at the popular language learning app Duolingo, and by night he is the author of the ...
-
Can This AI Startup Cure Cancer? | Damir Vrabac, Valar Labs | E3
Damir Vrabac is the Co-Founder & COO of Valar Labs, an AI startup that analyzes cancer tissue samples and predicts which type of cancer treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc.) would be most successful for each individual cancer patient. Until now, this has been a very difficult thing for oncologists to predict. This incredible application of AI has the potential to have a life-saving impact on the lives of so many people. The Valar Labs founding team is out of Stanford. Their s...
-
How a Top Seed-Stage Venture Capital Firm Picks Startups | Leeor Mushin, Floodgate Fund | E2
Leeor Mushin is a Principal at Floodgate, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Floodgate has been an early investor in such iconic companies as Lyft, Twitter, Okta, Twitch, Task Rabbit, and many others. Leeor attended the University of Texas at Austin, and more recently graduated with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (the GSB). He previously worked in the energy sector, and also co-founded a digital marketing company. While at Stanford, he co-founded the ...
-
Can This Clean Hydrogen Startup Disrupt the Energy Industry? | Caleb Boyd, Molten Industries | E1
Caleb Boyd is the Co-Founder & CEO of Molten Industries. Molten is commercializing breakthrough technology to produce the lowest-cost, cleanest hydrogen to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors such as steel, fertilizer, fuels, and plastics. He attended UC Berkeley for his bachelor’s, and then graduated from Stanford with a PhD in materials science and engineering. After graduating, he moved to Germany and become a venture capitalist in Munich, working with UVC partners, an early-stage dee...
Customer Reviews
The next great tech, startups and founders
This was very informative. Sacha asked very pertinent questions and knows how to interview people very well.
Great podcast
Timely and thoughtful podcast, great content
Great content and timely topics/conversations
Guests, topics, questions, and general content is very well curated.
Interesting deep dives while also featuring relevant/personal background and context.