Macro Micro Michael Marco & Startups at the Edge (M4Edge)
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsConversations with startup CEOs with technology that can change how the economy functions.Hosted by Marco Annunziata and Michael Leifman
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Part 2 of Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems
January 19, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBThis is part 2 of our great discussion with Mallory Dwinal Palisch. If you've not yet listened to part 1, please do so before listening to this second half. In this part of the conversation about Reach University and Craft Education System we discuss student-centered technologies, professional capital, labor mobility of teachers, remote learning, teacher credentialing, data aggregation, teachers unions, teacher wages, and more. AND Mallory shows off her econ skills, talking about monopsoni...
Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems (part 1)
January 03, 2023 21:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBThere is arguably nothing more important to our future economy than the quality of our education system, and there is nothing more important to that than the quality and availability of teachers. But as anyone who's followed the news in the last couple of years knows, we are currently facing something of a crisis in the availability of qualified teachers. Here are some stats to put that crisis into perspective. According to EdWeek, there are over 3.1 million full-time equivalent teachers in...
Can AI make the mortgage market easier for lenders and borrowers? Matt Sanchez of Cognitive Scale explains how..
December 08, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBWith interest rates rising and the economy slowing, the world of credit is getting a lot harder for both lenders and borrowers — and that’s especially painful in the mortgage market, given how high house prices are. Matt Sanchez, Founder and CTO of CognitiveScale thinks that Artificial Intelligence can help: it can help loan officers identify potential borrowers ahead of time, and it can help borrowers get access to the right mortgage offers. Can it also help make the lending process more ...
Renewable Heat as one solution to Europe's Energy Crisis: KraftBlock's Martin Schichtel
October 28, 2022 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.34 MBDeveloping Clean Energy Solutions With KraftBlock’s Martin Schichtel Across the world, a huge amount of energy is wasted in the form of heat. In industries like glass and steel, manufacturing processes require extremely high temperatures, and those processes generate a lot of wasted heat. That heat is usually blown directly into the atmosphere. But what if there was a way to capture, store, and reuse that heat, effectively transforming it into a climate-neutral energy source? That’s exact...
We're baaaack
October 18, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.54 MBMiss us? M4Edge is coming back soon, with a new format. Stay tuned! Stay curious!
Bonus: The Future According to M4Edge Guests
December 08, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBIn the 3+ years that M4Edge has been around, we've aired over 50 episodes and, as listeners know, we usually ask our guests to give us their view of the future 20 years hence. Sometimes the answers are somewhat expected, sometimes they're a little humorous, and sometimes they're deeply thought provoking. As a holiday present, this episode offers a compilation of some of our favorites. We won't go so far as to say that this is a "best of" set, since we left out some great ones. But we've reac...
Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks on his driven journey and our driverless future
November 11, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is the final M4Edge episode of 2021 an we are finishing this year with a bang, Our guest is Alex Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Embark Trucks; he is a Forbes 30 under 30, and more importantly, at the tender age of 26 he has just brought Embark public through a SPAC deal valuing the company at over 5 billion dollars. Embark is right up the M4Edge alley, where we look at technologies that change the way the economy works: Embark develops software for self-driving trucks. Alex Rodrigues ha...
Dror Tamir of Hargol FoodTech explains why eating grasshoppers is better for you, better for the planet, and how he gets you to get by the "yuck" factor.
September 24, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBAfter a long absence, we’ve returned with a very fun episode and right in line with the M4Edge theme. The startup we focus on today is really micro, in the weeds, you might say, with some very macro aims, and it’s about as edgy as can be. You probably know that we’ve done several episodes on ESG or impact investing, and we’ve also done quite a few food-tech and ag-tech episodes. This episode is part of that series, but with some cool twists .We interview Dror Tamir, the CEO of Hargol Food T...
Michael Sachse of Dandelion Energy on Decarbonizing your Home with Geothermal
May 20, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBIt’s not often that a small startup has ties to Google and Bill Gates. Our guest today, Michael Sachse, the CEO of Dandelion Energy inhabits that rarefied atmosphere. Dandelion Energy was originally part of Google X, Alphabet’s so-called moonshot factory. And very recently, Dandelion received substantial series B funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which is the VC arm of a Bill Gates – led organization whose mission is to help get the world to net zero carbon emissions. So what’s so...
Nathaniel Jackson of TrueAlgae explains how he can help your strawberries taste better, last longer, while improving farmers profits and reducing GHG
March 25, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBWe seem drawn to Agtech and impact investing. And good-tasting fruit. We kicked off our 2021 season with a discussion on impact investing or socially responsible investing, including with a startup (EcoRobotix) that produces solar-power farming equipment for AI-based precision application of herbicide. We've done a few episodes in the Agtech space, including with a startup (Strella Biotech) that uses sensors to determine optimal fruit ripening in storage, reduce food waste and make our avoc...
Doing good and doing well: Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship & ESG, cohosted by Georgetown's Beeck Center
January 19, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBWe kick off this season with a deeper look at the meaning of our phrase “changing how the economy functions,” specifically examining what you may have heard of as “social entrepreneurship,” which is the idea that entrepreneurial ventures should measure themselves not just by revenue but also by metrics that capture their broader impact on the social and natural environment. Impact investing takes many forms. It can be venture firms seeking out so called “double bottom line“ or even “triple ...
Climate-Tech is really hard! And other lessons from Ricky Buch of Loctricity (Ricky's Startup Reality)
December 18, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 30.9 MBWe are joined again by our friend and former colleague Ricky Buch. We’ve had Ricky on the show several times as small segments we called Ricky’s Reports from the Edge or sometimes full episodes we called Ricky’s Startup Reality. Ricky started a clean tech company - now the term of art is climate tech – called Loctricity. It was a great idea started by a smart guy with skills, knowledge, industry connections, in the right place and in the right time. But Loctricity is now on pause, and in thi...
Guy Levy-Yurista of Sisense on being a CSO and what strategy means at startups. Strategy Miniseries Part 3
November 05, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBIn this episode, the third in our series on startup strategy, Marco and I interview Guy Levy-Yurista , the chief strategy officer of Sisense. Sisense is an unusual business analytics or business intelligence (BI) startup, and Guy is an unusual, well, guy. Before becoming a CSO, Guy’s career included being a CTO, VP of Product, a PhD in physics, a sommelier, and more. So he brings a wealth of expertise and perspective to his job and to this conversation. We talk about what strategy means and ...
Ron Carucci of Navalent on how Corporate Culture, Leadership and Cognitive Biases Affect Strategy. Strategy Miniseries Part 2
October 05, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBOur miniseries on startups strategy continues today with Ron Carucci. Ron is a renowned strategy consultant with three decades of experience in large and small companies, and currently he is the owner and managing partner of his own strategy consulting outfit, Navalent. Ron is also a Harvard Business Review contributor, and a TED speaker. Through the lens of his extensive experience, Ron shares his views on the different strategic challenges that companies face, starting from some very basi...
Elma Beganovich of Amra and Elma on How Startups Identify and Reach Target Customers. Strategy Miniseries Part 1
September 01, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBToday we kick off a new, special miniseries on strategy. We’ll unpack the different aspects of business strategy that a startup needs to develop, discuss how strategy evolves through time as a start-up goes to market and starts to grow, and talk about how strategy for a startup differs from strategy for a large corporation. We wanted to go well beyond our own strategy experience and expertise, and bring you a wide range of different viewpoints and fields of expertise. So we have assembled a...
Construction Decarbonization Techs #2. Sandeep Ahuja of Cove Tool on How to Choose Lower Carbon in ALL elements of Construction
August 11, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBOur guest today is Sandeep Ahuja, co-founder and CEO of Cove Tool. Sandeep has been named to the Forbes’ prestigious “Thirty Under Thirty” list; the recognition has given her a great boost in exposure and credibility, but it can prove to be a mixed blessing in the construction industry, as you will hear. Sandeep founded Cove Tool to help fight climate change, and here are the two numbers she wants you to focus on: worldwide, buildings account for about 40% of energy consumption and carbon em...
Construction Decarbonization Techs #1. Apoorv Sinha of Carbon Upcycling Technologies discusses storing carbon in commercial products
July 24, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBM4Edge is about startups with technologies that can change how the economy functions. There’s very little that is as central to a functioning economy as energy, and that’s one reason why climate change is such a deep societal problem. There are also very few industries that are as important to a growing economy as the construction industry. And so today’s episode is one of a two-part miniseries on technologies that are aimed at the greening of the construction industry. Interestingly, both o...
The Future of ... So Much, You Decide, with Jay Rogers and Vikrant Aggarwal of Local Motors
June 25, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBOur episode today is about the future of ____. We left that last part blank because you can decide for yourself. We interview Jay Rogers and Vikrant Aggarwal who are, respectively, the CEO co-founder and president of Local Motors. I could tell you that Local Motors is an automotive manufacturing company, but that would be criminally uninformative. Local Motors makes vehicles that are unusual, and makes them in an unusual way. Their marquis product, Olli, is a fully autonomous, electric vehic...
Untangling Uncertainty Around Coronavirus and the Economy
May 22, 2020 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBToday's bonus episode is about the multiple layers of uncertainty we are all facing right now. More specifically, the episode is meant to give you some insight into how M4 Strategy Garage can help your business untangle those uncertainties as you try to navigate the murky waters ahead. We have categorized the covid recovery uncertainty into five elements, and within each element have identified several variables we believe are important to monitor, in order to understand how the economy will...
Using Big Data in Real-Time to fight pandemics, navigate traffic, analyze banking and more, with Paul Appleby of Kinetica
May 11, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBOn today's episode we speak with Paul Appleby, the CEO of Kinetica. Paul has held leadership roles in some very prominent tech companies, including SAP, SalesForce and C3, and he's now at the helm a big data startup, so he’s definitely been at the center of our changing economy, and has a lot to reflect upon. We recorded our interview with Paul in early March of 2020 and we’ve delayed the release a bit because we wanted to give room for some of our M4 Corona Combatants mini-episodes to get...
M4 Corona Combatants #3: 3DHubs and Sorcero use their platforms in the fight
April 21, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.35 MBThis episode is number 3 in our Corona Combatants series. In this series we’re trying to amplify the efforts of our guests and their companies who are using the tools at their disposal to help fight the sprawling battle against Corona. If you’ve not heard the other episodes in this series, please check them out – they include distance learning resources from Legends of Learning, accelerated lending and distance lending from Boss insights, and a Maker based effort to produced PPE by CU Denver...
Robots in the Supermakets During a Pandemic, and After, with Brad Bogolea of Simbe Robotics
April 13, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBAs the coronavirus forced governments to shut down large parts of the economy, ordering workers to stay home, one of our first questions was: where are the robots when you need them? So we invited Brad Bogolea to come on M4Edge. Brad is the co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics and they produce…well…robots. Their most well-known robot is named Tally, and has already been widely deployed across major retail chains, especially grocery stores. Tally goes up and down the aisles and uses image r...
Making lending faster, cheaper and better, with Keren Moynihan of Boss Insights
March 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBOur guest today is Keren Moynihan, founder and CEO of Boss Insights. Our conversation with Keren is especially timely, as we recorded this podcast on Monday, March 16th, 2020. Just the day before, Sunday March 15th , the US Federal Reserve held an emergency meeting and announced a set of monetary policy measures to support the economy during the #coronavirus crisis. The measures are strongly focused on the need to keep lending flowing to both businesses and individuals, to help them through ...
M4 Corona Combatants #2: InWorks at University of Colorado and Make4Covid. Makers coordinating against Covid
March 25, 2020 03:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBThis is a very special edition of the M4Edge podcast, and a part of our Corona Combatants series: we speak with a team of people who are striving to leverage 3D printing resources to quickly supply hospitals and care centers with some of the equipment they need to handle the covid-19 emergency. Our guests are all affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver, and the Anschutz Medical Center through a novel project called Inworks, which as one of our guests says, is like a maker space o...
M4 Corona Combatants #1: Our guests' companies efforts to help out.
March 23, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 4.53 MBM4Edge is about startups with technology that can change how the economy functions, and nothing has quite as potentially dramatic an effect on the economy as a Pandemic plus a possible recession. But some of our guests’ companies can help. In times like these, it’s very easy to despair, but it’s important to find as many ways as we can to find reasons to be hopeful, and more importantly, to create reasons for hope. We realized recently that some of our guests – these awesome entrepreneurs ...
M4 Corona Combatants #1: Our guests' companies' efforts to help out.
March 23, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 4.53 MBM4Edge is about startups with technology that can change how the economy functions, and nothing has quite as potentially dramatic an effect on the economy as a Pandemic plus a possible recession. But some of our guests’ companies can help. In times like these, it’s very easy to despair, but it’s important to find as many ways as we can to find reasons to be hopeful, and more importantly, to create reasons for hope. We realized recently that some of our guests – these awesome entrepreneurs ...
Food Waste and The Secret Lives of Fruits, with Katherine Sizov of Strella Biotech
March 20, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBOur guest today is Katherine Sizov, Founder of Strella Biotechnology. This is our third Ag-tech show in our young 2nd season. We opened with Allison Kopf of Artemis, and this episode follow Hunter McDaniel of UbiQD. There will be more; it's one of our themes this season, and is increasingly important in the age of Corona-driven changes and challenges to our economy and supply chains. The first thing you should know is that Katherine is fresh out of college, and she founded Strella Biotechno...
Hunter McDaniel of UbiQD on engineering the tiniest particles to have an enormous impact on lighting, agriculture, solar power and more
February 27, 2020 05:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBToday's guest is Hunter McDaniel of the company UbiQD. As in ubiquitous, but the "QD" stands for quantum dots. Today's episode is one of those wide ranging talks that has become a hallmark of some of our best M4Edge discussions. We cover not just what a quantum dot is and what UbiQD does, but the Department of Energy's National Laboratory system and the importance of basic science in the innovation process. We talk about solar power generation from your tinted windows, and we even talk about...
Sam Kimzey of Chaac Technologies looks to the skies for the solution to twin problems
February 04, 2020 17:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBOur guest today is Sam Kimzey, co-founder of Chaac Technologies. That’s a pretty unusual name for a tech company – Sam will explain where the name comes from and why it is so relevant to Chaac’s mission. Chaac’s technologies has developed an innovative solution to address simultaneously two of the biggest sustainability challenges the world faces today: access to clean water and access to clean energy. In places like the US and Europe we tend to take access to water for granted, but it is...
Allison Kopf, Artemis and the Future of Agriculture
January 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBWe decided to kick off the new year, the new decade and our new season with the basics: food. Our guest Allison Kopf, founder of Artemis, set out to tackle a fundamental challenge -how to make sure the world can feed its rapidly growing population in a sustainable way. But Artemis approaches this grand problem in a very nuts-and-bolts way, namely by digitizing the agriculture supply chain so as to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce costs. Moreover, Artemis’ software enables traceability acr...
Year End Bonus #3! Randy Altschuler of Xometry checks in after a year.
December 25, 2019 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBWe’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want to keep the pulse of the market and see how much progress our guests are making. It’s been a year since we first interviewed these companies, and each has had a banner year. In this episode, we catc...
Year End Bonus #1! Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics checks in after a year.
December 25, 2019 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBWe’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want to keep the pulse of the market and see how much progress our guests are making. It’s been a year since we first interviewed these companies, and each has had a banner year. In this update episode w...
Year End Bonus #2! Dipanwita Das of Sorcero checks in after a year.
December 25, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWe’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want to keep the pulse of the market and see how much progress our guests are making. It’s been a year since we first interviewed these companies, and each has had a banner year. In this episode, we catc...
The RAPID Economy. Our new theory for how technology will shape the economy.
December 17, 2019 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MBIt's been a bit over a year since we launched M4Edge, and we've had the opportunity to speak with many startup CEOs and CTOs and VCs. We've also had the opportunity to reflect on what we've learned, and we've come up with a theory for how technology is changing and shaping the economy. We are calling the new economy the RAPID economy. R is for Remote A for Automation P is for Productivity and Pervasive I is for Individualized and Individuated, but may also stand for Inequality D is for Digi...
Ricky's Startup Reality. Ricky Inks a deal!
December 09, 2019 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.63 MBWe're trying to make the "Ricky's Startup Reality" segments into micro-episodes. That was difficult for us - especially Michael, who had many questions he forced himself to not ask. This is a small episode with big news for Ricky! And, since this is so short, you have plenty of time to write us a review on Apple Podcasts... If you've not listened to previous episodes of Ricky's Startup Reality, or Ricky's Reports from the Edge, as it was called until recently, you may need to go back and l...
Andy Maggio of D6VR explains that virtual reality is getting real. Only one mention of Ready Player One....
November 27, 2019 05:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBOur guest on today’s show is Andy Maggio of D6VR. That’s VR as in virtual reality. The D6 stands for 6 dimensions, and Andy will explain what that means. We’ve all heard the term virtual reality for years, but usually in science fiction, or more recently for serious gamers who want immersive experiences. But VR is maturing and is now being used for serious commercial purposes too. D6VR’s product is actually intended for data analysis, a far cry from the world flying or dinosaur fighting or r...
Anson Kung of A&K Robotics chats about robots, AI, goats and soccer.
November 07, 2019 23:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBOur guest today is Anson Kung, former CTO and co-founder of A&K Robotics. (See below for "late breaking news" on Anson's role at A&K.) Today’s episode has our most thoughtful discussion so far of the impact that the robot revolution is likely to have on our lives. Anson is a first class roboticist, and has a deep insight in how quickly robots are improving, and which tasks they will likely take over in the near future. Michael, as you know by now, has a very pessimistic perspective—he is a...
Anson Kung of A&K Robotics chats about robots, AI, goats and soccer.
November 07, 2019 23:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBOur guest today is Anson Kung, former CTO and co-founder of A&K Robotics. (See below for "late breaking news" on Anson's role at A&K.) Today’s episode has our most thoughtful discussion so far of the impact that the robot revolution is likely to have on our lives. Anson is a first class roboticist, and has a deep insight in how quickly robots are improving, and which tasks they will likely take over in the near future. Michael, as you know by now, has a very pessimistic perspective—he is a...
Ricky's Startup Reality. Is this a turning point for Ricky's business?
October 27, 2019 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBRicky's Reports from the Edge has a new name: the running series featuring Ricky Buch and his nascent startup Loctricity is now Ricky's Startup Reality. This episode is a great one for a name change, because the news Ricky shares may also prove to be a watershed for his business. Some unusual macro conditions may provide just the right opportunity for Ricky to go from idea to launch customer.
AI in the workplace: efficiency versus privacy, with David Yang of YVA
October 17, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBOur guest is David Yang and he is the founder of a company called YVA, which is the subject of today’s show, but he’s no novice in startup world. David has founded TWELVE companies, starting in 4th grade, and including ABBYY which you may not have heard of but is actually pretty huge; it has offices in 11 countries and more than thousands of enterprise customers in 200 countries , so you can be sure that David thinks YVA has some serious potential. The World Economic Forum named him as one o...
A 2 Billion person market: electricity access with Bill Lenihan of Zola Electric, live at the World Bank
September 30, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBThe World Bank was gracious enough to host us for our 2nd live audience show. Along with the World Bank Global lead for Energy Access, Dana Rysankova, and Jon Exel, the Global Lead for Mini-grids, we interviewed Bill Lenihan, the CEO of Zola Electric. We discuss the challenge of electrification: close to 900 million people still have no access to electricity at all, and over 2 billion don't have reliable power. Bill explains how Zola has brought power to 1 million people (and counting) in 5...
Ricky's Reports - old frustrations and new idea explorations. DREC, not dreck.
September 23, 2019 04:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBToday’s episode is a return to Ricky's Reports from the Edge, where we check back in with Ricky Buch and his startup Loctricity. Ricky shares some of the frustrations of just trying to get meetings when you’re pitching an idea, and also shares with us some of the latest evolution in his thinking for what Loctricity’s value proposition is. Please share the show with friends on social media, and please rate us on iTunes!
Mobility Miniseries part4: Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility Ventures, rounds out our miniseries
September 12, 2019 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBWe cap our mobility mini-series from a different perspective: that of Mike Granoff, Managing Partner of Maniv Mobility, a venture capital firm that specializes in...mobility and the future of transportation. As an investor, Mike has to look at the entire mobility landscape, and his success and reputation are not... 'riding' on a single solution. We kick off the podcast with our trademark "why on earth are you doing this?", and the answer will surprise you. It will also explain why Mike take...
Mobility Miniseries part3: Sampo Hietanen of MaaS Global, makers of the Whim App, on Dreaming Big about the Future of Mobility
August 22, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBOur guest today is Sampo Hietanen, the CEO of a Finnish company called MAAS Global. MaaS stands for Mobility as a Service, and they are the makers of Whim, an app-based platform for MaaS. Whim provides a single way to access all forms of mobility - everything from cars to trains, scooters, bikes and buses, through a subscription. Sampo's influence extends way beyond Finland, in fact he is widely viewed as the ideological father of mobility as a service. As you’ll see from the conversation, ...
Ricky's Reports - electricity, almonds, and a not-for-profit complement or complicating factor for Loctricity
August 08, 2019 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBRicky Buch is back from Ghana and Ricky's Report is back for another M4Edge episode. We discuss the viability of minigrids as a solution to energy poverty, Ricky introduces an idea to help minigrids scale, and Marco complains about ordering water with his cheeseburger.
Mobility Miniseries part 2: Shai Suzan of WayCare, and how to optimize traffic flow using LOTS of data
July 25, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBWith today’s episode we continue our exploration of the Future of Mobility: how technology is starting to impact—hopefully for the better-- the way we move around our cities and beyond. Today we talk to Shai Suzan, Cofounder and CIO of WayCare Technologies. When we think of mobility, we think first and foremost about speed and safety. We want to get from point A to point B quickly, without getting stuck in interminable traffic jams; and we want to get there safely. Waycare Tech uses Art...
Mobility Miniseries part 1: Israel Duanis of Fleetonomy
July 04, 2019 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBWith today’s episode, we kick off a miniseries on “mobility.” In today’s tech parlance and in city planning parlance, mobility includes a bunch of different issues, but they have one thing in common: they shape the quality of our everyday lives. How we get to work, to school or to our friends’ house can make the difference between a pleasant daily city experience and a barely tolerable one. And one way or another, it’s going to change because of technology. So the “Mobility” umbrella covers...
Gamification for Better Learning with Sandy Roskes of Legends of Learning
June 14, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBDid you know that using video games as a teaching aid improves students’ engagement, helps them learn faster, boosts their test performance and stimulates their critical thinking? These are just some of the results of a study carried out by Vanderbilt University in partnership with Legends of Learning. In this episode, Legends of Learning Co-founder Sandy Roskes explains why games can be a powerful learning tool in a school environment. Legends of Learning has developed a marketplace for le...
Gamification for Workforce Training with Jessica Trybus of Simcoach Games
May 25, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBGrowing up, Jessica Trybus, Founder and Chief Games Officer of Simcoach Games knew she was going to be a CEO. But she also wanted to be an actress, so she studied acting, majored in theatre and went into the film industry. Then she moved to Silicon Valley, and then back to Pennsylvania, to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. With this kind of background, she was bound to come up with something unusual and out of the box. Doing a Master’s in Entertainment Technology at CMU, Jessica re...
Revolution, Live. Anna Mason and David Hall of Revolution's Rise of the Rest fund - from American University
May 08, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 35.7 MBAnd now, for something completely different… Our show today was recorded live at American University, with Professor Jeff Sosland and the students in his International Business—Global Entrepreneurship class. And our guests today come from another side of the tech world: the Venture Capital on which entrepreneurs rely to turn their ideas into a successful business. We talk to Anna Mason and David Hall, partners at Revolution Ventures’ Rise of the Rest Fund. We talk about strategy, and what ...