PoppingTheBubbl
87 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSandra Ponce de Leon, a tech founder and investor, interviews guests from the world of technology, including founders, developer, architects, and investors about what they see in the ever-changing landscape.
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ZZ Top vs David Bowie – La Futura vs Heroes AlbumFight
January 17, 2019 23:54 - 51 minutes - 35.8 MBZZ Top vs David Bowie – La Futura vs Heroes - It's crunchy, blues thin string playing Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top taking on David Bowie and Brian Eno's experimental music. La Futura locks up with Heroes. Will Bowie's, a music industry darling, brilliance and risks, knock the life out of ZZ Top? Or will the relentless jab of simple chords and gravely voice authenticity be too much for the art school rockers? Today's judges are Dan White, Tony James, and Dr. Tim Furnish. Artwork and Ring announ...
Crypto is a Family Affair at Blockchain on the Beach and Krypto4Kids
January 17, 2019 00:46 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBAt inaugural event of Blockchain on the Beach, we speak with Anu Bhardwaj, Founder of Qrypto Queens and Women Investing in Women Digital. The event showcased world-class programming around the state of the blockchain, as well as highlighted kids in a big way with the Krypto 4 Kids programming aimed at empowering children's unheralded ability to drive the global digital economy. Similar Episodes Jamie Finn, Securitize Jeremy Gardner, Ausim Ventures Miko Matsumura
Hitting a Home Run as a Woman in Sports and Gaming
January 10, 2019 19:52 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBOn this episode of Popping the Bubbl, we dove into the world of video gaming with the incredible Seanna Cavanagh, Product Marketing Manager for Video Games with Major League Baseball. Seana is a rare breed as a woman in the world of gaming, tech and sports, being that all of those sectors are so male dominated. As a child Seana loved sports and gaming and was interested in pursuing a career in entertainment. She got her start interning for Interscope Records and eventually landed at 7th Em...
Krystal Lauk - Humanizing Tech Through Illustration
December 17, 2018 21:24 - 30 minutes - 17.9 MBSurviving as an artist in SF today is no small feat. Flourishing as an artist and getting quality work that is globally recognized yet another impressive accomplishment. Krystal Lauk has managed to do both, as an illustrator that helps tech companies tell their stories through the power of illustration. As the founder of her own SF based boutique agency Krystal Lauk Studios she specializes in tech-orientated illustration and visual design, and has worked with a multitude of tech companies ...
Innovating on Asset Securitization with Jamie Finn
December 06, 2018 20:46 - 20 minutes - 17.6 MBJamie Finn Co-founder and President of Securitize joined us at the recent Start Engine Summit in LA to share his thoughts on digital securities and the mission of Securitize. Jamie has an impressive record of managing and spotting innovative trends in tech. Prior to founding Securitize, he ran innovation and data for numerous large global Telco’s and led the acquisition of several companies for Sequoia Israel. His track record led him to work with a global advertising mobile network. The n...
Ori Brafman Starfish and the Spider
December 01, 2018 00:14 - 35 minutes - 27.1 MBWe recently had the opportunity to speak with Ori Brafman author of The Starfish and the Spider and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s business school. The book has been a big influence on the new wave of blockchain businesses inspired by the unique differentiators a decentralized organizational structure can offer. The name of the Starfish Mission, where we recorded our conversation is even inspired by his book, which is a collaborative workspace for SF based companies in the blockchain space. Wh...
Jeremy Streich - Search for Sound with Podsource
November 20, 2018 18:17 - 36 minutes - 22.9 MBOn the latest episode of Popping the Bubbl, we had Jeremy Streich, the founder of Podsource on and got all meta talking about podcasting, while on a podcast. Apparently, we also have a fan in Jeremy, who is building out the world’s first search engine for audio, starting with podcasts. Jeremy’s founding story is quite interesting. Fresh out of college, he knew that he wanted to take the entrepreneurial route and start his own company, but had only inklings of an idea when he took a trip o...
Open Source Money Maximalist Miko Matsumura
November 08, 2018 22:50 - 31 minutes - 18.5 MBMiko Matsumura - Pete and I had a fascinating conversation with crypto pioneer, founder of EverCoin Exchange and General Partner of Gumi Cryptos, Miko Matsumura with whom we met up at Start Engine Summit. Since our first time visiting Start Engine Summit event last year, the blockchain market has changed significantly fromfast-movingg ICOs bringing in millions for yet to be built technology platforms to one that is now adhering to a more regulatory value set in the form of STOs (Securi...
Anu Bhardwaj is Changing the Game for Female Funding
November 01, 2018 22:40 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MBAnu Bhardwaj is a serial entrepreneur, blockchain influencer, speaker, and founder of various organizations including Women Investing Women Digital, and Qrypto Queens. We were excited to meet up with Anu while at the amazing StartEngine Summit in Santa Monica, which is a favorite blockchain gathering of ours. She joined us to talk about her passion for blockchain technology and how she came to focus on empowering women to start investing in cryptocurrency. Anu’s ingenuity and determination...
Jeremy Gardner - Disentrepreneur
October 26, 2018 20:55 - 48 minutes - 40.3 MBJeremy Gardener is a serial entrepreneur and investor who work and invests primarily in the blockchain cryptocurrency space. Always outside of the box in college, Jeremy created his own major with designs on becoming a political operative. The best-laid plans however rarely survive first contact. Gardner had his moment when the Mt. Gox story broke after he'd started an organization called the Blockchain Education Network. The network was ready when college students flooded into the marketp...
Ali Ayyash - Lumeos
September 28, 2018 15:59 - 31 minutes - 27.4 MBDuring our recent visit to Starfish Mission, we spoke to some of the most impressive and innovative blockchain startups coming to market today. One of those was Lumeos.IO whose founder and CEO Ali Ayash gave us the scoop on how the company plans to use its blockchain technology to allow individuals to protect and monetize their own data and earn Lumeos tokens in the process. This conversation was another enlightening view into the future and infinite possibilities blockchain technology of...
Matt Quinn and Jon Connors
September 20, 2018 23:08 - 46 minutes - 36.2 MBWe spent some quality time recently at Starfish Mission, and got to speak to co-founder Matt Quinn and core team member Jon Connors about their work. Starfish originally opened as a coworking space to serve the blockchain community, but it has quickly evolved into an innovation hub for blockchain projects of all kinds. This was one of the more colorful conversations we’ve had with the juxtaposition of Jon Connors, a proud and self-proclaimed Anarchist (he even has a tattoo!) with the more ...
Paul Hainsworth - Open Garden
September 14, 2018 14:19 - 47 minutes - 29.5 MBPaul Hainsworth, CEO of Open Garden joined us on this episode of Popping the Bubbl to talk about his vision to completely change the game in communications by disrupting traditional mobile networks and introduce a new way to connect to the internet using blockchain technology. Paul’s story is quite fascinating. He worked in the mobile communications world for approximately fifteen years where he honed his product management skills at different traditional mobile operators such as Black...
David Sneider and Chelsea Rustrum
September 08, 2018 00:21 - 43 minutes - 38 MBAnyone who has been following this podcast knows that Pete and I are fascinated by all things Blockchain, so it was a wonderful treat to chat with Chelsea Rustrum, Founder of Blockchain for Good and Blox 7 and David Sneider, CEO of Deconet on this very topic. Together, they are moving the needle when it comes to evangelizing blockchain technology and paving the way for a more sovereign entrepreneurial system. We know Chelsea from her work and advocacy with Blockchain for Good, where sh...
John Singleton - Watchful IO
August 31, 2018 16:14 - 35 minutes - 27 MBPete and I spent a day at The Vault SF interviewing some of the most promising up and coming startups of Silicon Valley. John Singleton, COO and cofounder of Watchful.io is a charismatic guy that comes across as fearless and fun. He has the entrepreneurial spirit through and through and shared his non linear path from studying biotech at the University of Texas, to founding a Fin-tech startup to moving to India and suffering the blows of startup failure.
Maria Carolina Fujihara
August 23, 2018 22:57 - 35 minutes - 20.3 MBIf there is one word to describe Maria it would be courageous. After losing her job in Brazil, Maria on a whim decided to move to California to pursue new challenges and start fresh. Yet, as soon as she landed in California she met with tremendous adversity and almost became homeless. Life took a turn for the better when she got accepted into Singularity University exactly a year ago to participate in the Global Solutions program with a focus on climate change. She credits her approval to...
Brian Solis - Like a Virgin
August 10, 2018 16:20 - 30 minutes - 25.2 MBBrian Solis - The incredibly prolific, talented and sought after futurist and author Brian Solis joined us for a surprising and thought provoking conversation. Brian is a three time author and speaks around the world on topics such as digital transformation, the future of work, and innovation. Innovation and disruption isn’t only true for companies, as individuals we also have to constantly reinvent ourselves, like Madonna… and like Madonna, Brian is entering a new phase, his Like a Virgin...
Kris Duggan - Silicon Entrepreneur
August 03, 2018 22:14 - 25 minutes - 14.6 MBWe sat down for a fun chat with Kris Duggan who is founder the Badgeville, BetterWorks and an investor in many companies. After going through several fund raising rounds and exits with his previous startups and raising almost $100 million in capital from top tier venture firms, Kris has recently embarked on a new journey… to help other founders by sharing his lessons learned and helping to guide new founders in the right direction
Stevon Cook - Mission Bit
July 27, 2018 15:34 - 40 minutes - 30.2 MBStevon grew up in a rough neighborhood of San Francisco. Kids in his neighborhood dreamed of becoming famous, looking up to sports players and seeing stardom as their only legitimate career option. The other option for making quick money...selling drugs and stealing cars. Given, this, it’s no surprise that most of the kids from Stevon’s neighborhood ended up becoming pimps, drug dealers, and prostitutes. Except that's not what Stevon did...
Fernando Figueiredo
July 20, 2018 18:56 - 34 minutes - 29.3 MBFernando Figueiredo, Founder and CEO of Oaktech and member of The Vault, SF who left Brazil to study marketing in America and unexpectedly became an entrepreneur. Fernando’s story is a unique one. Fernando left his native country Brazil in 1996 and came to the US to study marketing. As an international student, he struggled trying to find work and had to settle for a job at the campus’ bookstore. It was around this time that Amazon was just starting to get traction...
Reversing Climate Change with Nori
July 10, 2018 23:30 - 36 minutes - 22.6 MBWe spoke with Paul Gambill, CEO, and Co-founder of Nori, who with his team is taking on the mission of reversing climate change by creating a marketplace for carbon removal from the atmosphere. When Paul realized that the small business he was working on wasn’t going anywhere, he decided to do something bigger and more important for humanity. He was inspired by Simon Sinek’s TED talk, The Power of Why and he wanted his next venture to be centered around his own Why. Paul had found his "Why...
Marina Bay - Be Fast TV
July 05, 2018 18:22 - 29 minutes - 18.1 MBMarina Bay, from BeFastTV’s helps founders tell their stories in a simple and easy to digest manner and efficiently reach their target audiences. While still residing in Hong Kong, she noticed that startups received little to no media attention, so she founded BeFastTV as video channel dedicated to promoting startups. She describes BeFastTV as the MTV channel for startups. BeFastTV is an integrated content creation and production company with offices based in Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Greg Gillman - Science Blockchain
June 28, 2018 19:28 - 22 minutes - 13.2 MBGreg’s entrepreneurial journey began fairly early, when as a second year law student, he started and sold a company which lifted him out of some financial troubles. This success led him to continue on this path, making a small profit with each business he started and sold. All was going well until the company he was building after law school collapsed. His fall back luckily, was to start practicing corporate law for technology and entertainment companies specializing in intellectual property...
Yumi Alyssa Kimura - Lead for Career
June 22, 2018 18:59 - 34 minutes - 26.6 MBPete and I had the pleasure of chatting with Yumi Alyssa Kimora on our podcast recently. Yumi shared her incredible story, including the the many trials and tribulations she endured as a ambitious young female in the male-dominated corporate world of Japan and her inspiring journey into entrepreneurship in America.
Ben Metcalfe - Ridge Ventures
June 14, 2018 20:54 - 44 minutes - 27.3 MBWe had the great pleasure of having Ben Metcalfe on our podcast who in addition to having a very debonair accent, has am amazing story related to his journey into the world of Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship. Ben’s journey to becoming a VC, he's now a partner at Ridge Ventures. Ben started in the early days of the internet in his native England where he worked as software engineer and product manager for the B.B.C news website. When the company decided to move employees from London...
Peter Pakalski - Hyper Peronal AI
June 08, 2018 04:53 - 27 minutes - 16.1 MBPeter Pakalski's entrepreneurial drive started during his college years, where he and his brother started a paddle-board company selling and renting boards in Wisconsin and California. While in college he participated in an accelerator program where he learned how to build a company from the ground up and applied that learning to start a supplement company and gain more experience in online marketing. He also connected with some angel investors and founded a venture capital group. Pretty im...
Kevin Smith - The Vault
June 01, 2018 19:42 - 43 minutes - 35.6 MBKevin Smith describes The Vault as an experiment founded with an original idea to create a better place for startups to grow and accelerate. The space itself is beautifully designed with a sophisticated retro speakeasy feel. You walk downstairs into The Vault and are surrounded by exposed brick and beams in a building that itself goes back before the big SF earthquake of 1906. Now in its 4th year of operation, The Vault has grown into a full stack innovation ecosystem with hundreds of events...
Joe Luttwak - Lingrove
May 15, 2018 18:25 - 33 minutes - 21.1 MBLingrove makes wood without trees and that’s a very good thing because 87% of trees are gone forever due to our insatiable appetite for wood and making things like furniture, boats and houses out of old growth wood which is one of the strongest natural materials in market today. Due to that, the black market for illegally poached wood is around $50 million dollars and deforestation is one of the biggest contributors (20%) to CO2 emissions contributing to climate change. Lingrove wants to ch...
Amber Case - Cyborg Anthropologist
May 11, 2018 00:42 - 55 minutes - 33.4 MBCyborg Anthropology - Amber Case is no ordinary tech nerd, she is an accomplished MIT researcher, founder, speaker and cyborg anthropologist. She joined us on this episode of Popping the Bubbl to talk about her trajectory and how she came to focus on the intersection of humans and technology through her extensive cross disciplinary approach.
Ben Bartlett and Jeremy Gardner - Smart Path
May 02, 2018 18:44 - 47 minutes - 29 MBAs crypto changes how we define and use money...everything that has value is being re-examined. Berkeley's Ben Bartlett suggests that electrons have value...and talks about his 3-part smart path. We're also fortunate to be joined by Jeremy Gardner who's leading the way in the crypto space. Get ready Sandra and Pete are going to make you think and imagine where we'll be in the near future.
Arvind Gupta - IndieBio
April 26, 2018 20:24 - 24 minutes - 15.7 MBAs everyone who follows this show knows, Pete and Sandra are HUGE fans of IndieBio and the incredible companies that are part of their cohorts, companies that are changing the world as we know it for the better. In this episode we get to sit down with Arvind Gupta, founder of IndieBio to learn more about his own founding story and what led him to create a new type of accelerator that has flipped the model for conventional funding, entrepreneurship and development of bio tech innovation.
Nishit Pancholi and Felix Pustilnikof - Jointtech Labs
April 20, 2018 17:22 - 33 minutes - 20.2 MBStem cell therapy has the power to change lives, and in recent years we’ve heard a lot about its miraculous potential, but unfortunately today it is not a therapy that is accessible to anyone beyond the famous sports stars or the ultra wealthy. That’s because the therapy is not yet approved for use in the United States. Enter the Mini-Stem created by JointechLabs, which essentially is a lab in your hands, it is a small handheld device that can process fat tissue and deliver back one’s own s...
John Butler - QuantumCyte
April 10, 2018 17:27 - 41 minutes - 26.8 MBWe sat down with John Butler, CEO of Quantumcyte who has a long history in the biotech world of Silicon Valley, specifically building tools and technology that can answer and solve complex problems effectively. Before founding Quantumcyte, John held a variety of roles in biotech companies ranging from: Applera research institute Pacific Biosciences Applied Biosystems to being the Director of Process Development at Stanford University School of Medicine. His co-founder Dr. Bidhan Chaudhuri...
Matias Viel - Bee Flow
April 04, 2018 16:37 - 32 minutes - 21.9 MBWe all know bees are vital to our survival. Matias Viel CEO of Bee Flow is on the job. He's bridging the gap between the smartest minds working to study bees and the farmers who are desperate for improved healthy, production and intelligence from bees. Seems like a beautiful place to focus one's work. Bee Flow is an IndieBio cohort company from the SOSV based accelerator. They are just the latest in batch of companies we are highlighting in the weeks leading up to IndieBio's Spring demo d...
Micha Benoliel - Genius
March 29, 2018 15:50 - 50 minutes - 31.9 MBMicha Benonial is a serial entrepreneur with a dream to connect the planet in the aim of making knowledge accessible to all humanity. He joins us in this week’s episode of Popping the Bubbl to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how connecting humans to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, has always been at the center of what does. #Podcast #BUBBL
Nathan Hirsch - FreeeUp
March 20, 2018 14:33 - 35 minutes - 25.9 MBPete recently had the chance to catch up with Nathan Hirsch, CEO of FreeeUp, a business marketplace for freelance service providers that has managed to realize a pretty amazing trajectory in a short period of time. How does FreeeUp differ from other marketplaces that exist? FreeeUp focuses on the top 1% of freelancers, those with years of experience, a strong command of the English language and with strong communication practices. These differentiators are ascertained through an extens...
Ming Zhao - Proven
March 15, 2018 00:57 - 29 minutes - 18.3 MBIn our latest episode of Popping the Bubbl, we sat down with Ming Zhao of Proven Beauty to discuss her personalized skin care line. Proven Beauty is building the Beauty Genome Project using AI and machine learning to comb through millions of product reviews that have been published by consumers on beauty products and their effectiveness. Using AI, Ming and her team are optimizing the existing data that has been published as well as analyzing product ingredients to develop advanced skin ...
Emiliano De Laurentiis
March 07, 2018 21:14 - 43 minutes - 42.1 MBEmiliano De Laurantiis, Founder and CEO of Knowledge Avatars joined us in this episode of Popping the Bubbl to share his vision for a new type of learning, one that is personalized to the individual, adaptive, scalable through AI and infinitely more effective because the student becomes an active participant in his or her learning process. #Podcast #BUBBL #AILearning
Prellis BioLogics
January 17, 2018 16:55 - 43 minutes - 33 MBLike something in a movie, Melanie Matheu peered into a microscope and saw the future. A time when lasers print organs. This week Sandra and I feature Prellis Biologics. Our guests are a powerhouse duo, Co-Founders CEO Melanie Matheu, Ph.D. and Noelle Mullin, Ph.D., CSO. Prellis Biologics is another company from the IndieBio accelerator which is tied to SOSV’s efforts to invest in biotech. By their own estimate, transplantable kidneys (or whichever organ they produce first—for this art...
Finless Foods
January 11, 2018 23:03 - 58 minutes - 49.2 MBToday on Popping the Bubbl, Sandra and I feature Mike Seldon of Finless Foods. Mike and his co-founder Brian Wyrwas have a dream that I think we can all get behind. The business they are building allows them to make fish protein in a warehouse creating “Clean Fish.” Fish without contaminates, meat that looks, smells, tastes, and feels the same as the finest pieces of fish available in stores, markets and restaurants. Fish and other meat-based proteins are going to be created in warehouses;...
Lou Kerner Flossing BitCoin
January 05, 2018 09:16 - 29 minutes - 21.6 MBOn this episode of Popping the Bubbl, Sandra and I host Lou Kerner. Lou a Co-founder at Crypto Oracle. Sandra and I have been examining how innovations like crypto, blockchain and “the Tangle”… …are disrupting the world. Crypto is changing finance, contracts, funding, data…basically, every industry, service and even possessions are being impacted. We invited Lou because he’s a recognized leader in the world of crypto-currency. Heck, he’s been called by the Wall Street Journal, Wall Stree...
Richard Titus Wealth of the Cryptosphere
December 21, 2017 04:48 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBSerial entrepreneur Richard Titus is our guest on this episode of Popping the Bubbl. His vision on the market is proven through his multiple success starting companies, FRSA establishes bona fides that are unique in the Silicon Valley. Pete and Sandra braved the Parrots of Telegraph Hill to sit and chat with Richard. In a conversation that reached as far back as Adam Smith and Gen WT Sherman's time as a banker, the secrets of crypto currency began to reveal themselves. #podcast #podca...
Pandia Health - Sophia Yen
December 12, 2017 22:38 - 29 minutes - 22.9 MBPandia Health is a company that, "dissolves healthcare barriers as fast as your bandwidth." By removing traditional (read outdated) means of prescribing and delivering birth control to women. Dr. Sophia Yen, her partners Norma Waxman and Justin Diedrich provide the medical backbone for a company that's changing how we access medical care and maintenance. In this episode, Pete A Turner and Sandra Ponce De Leon chat with Sophia and Pop the Bubbl surrounding contraceptives in the moder...
Kenyatta Leal - Popping The Last Mile
November 30, 2017 22:47 - 41 minutes - 29 MBKenyatta Leal was sentenced to life in prison. With no expectation of getting out, he graduated from college, focused his life on being who he wanted to be, and started freeing himself. Now he works at RocketSpace.com He's a paid speaker and he sits on the Board of Directors at The Last Mile. Technology continues to change lives, even ones that seemed lost. #podcast #TLM #BubblUP
Beena Ammanath: AI for the Greater Good
November 20, 2017 16:13 - 28 minutes - 17.1 MBThe incredibly inspirational Beena Ammanath, Founder and CEO of Humans for AI joined us in the latest episode of Popping the Bubbl. Beena is an accomplished computer scientist and double patent holder that has been focused on data throughout her professional tech journey, leading to a variety of F100 executive positions managing data, developing business intelligence and leading into big data, AI and looking at data in different ways to drive positive business outcomes. Beena is now focuse...
Vanessa Camones, CEO of AnyContext Dishes on Silicon Valley
November 02, 2017 22:11 - 50 minutes - 37.3 MBVanessa Camones joined us for a 2nd time to talk about the state of the internet, online advertising and more. Vanessa is the CEO of AnyContext a boutique digital marketing agency that helps clients with their strategic marketing, content and social needs. Vanessa’s been around the tech block and she joined us this episode to wax poetic about some of the most fascinating events of the year, deliver her predictions for the future and generally rant about the state of technology and our Sili...
Martha Hernandez - MadeBOS
October 05, 2017 17:37 - 49 minutes - 38.7 MBMartha Hernandez is a powerhouse Latina in tech. She is the force behind madeBOS, which is a platform that helps low wage workers break the cycle of poverty by helping them take control of their careers. Today, Martha is applying that same spirit to supporting people in achieving their dreams. Having worked her way up the corporate ranks from a career in retail that led to sales and eventually recruiting, she realized that if she hadn't had a manager that recognized her natural talents wit...
1 Year of Popping the Bubbl
October 04, 2017 22:38 - 5 minutes - 4.12 MBIt's been just over a year for Sandra and Pete. The two of them take a moment to celebrate what the show has meant to them...and look forward to the future. #podcast #anniversary #podcastfriday
Disrupting Conflict and Learining, Bill Mankins
September 27, 2017 21:36 - 44 minutes - 33.6 MBSeasoned warrior/philosopher/entrepreneur William Mankins is starting a new university. Bill vision was born on the side of a mountain. As he worked in support of military units, he recognized his unique skill set was impossible to replicate while working on the ground in zones of conflict. The only way to increase the number of people who could navigate social and cultural pathways, was to pull away from STEM based learning and start developing educated warriors that saw the world in sys...
BioAesthetics Finding Solutions for Breast Cancer Survivors
September 21, 2017 16:41 - 29 minutes - 21.1 MBNick Pashos and William Heim operate bio-tech form Bio-Aesthetics. Their mission is to improve breast reconstruction for cancer survivors by providing replacement nipples from donors. Currently breast reconstruction focuses on options that are less responsive and pleasing. By using donated nipples, the survivor is able to recover more completely, with greater confidence in their appearance and with a nipple that is fully functional--and genetically their own. #podcast #bubbl #nipplerepla...