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Future Cities with Kent Kresa, former Chairman of GM, Caltech, Northrop Grumman

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - October 04, 2018 09:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
My guest today is Kent Kresa, who has had an extraordinary career in advanced technology fields. Kent has been the Chairman of General Motors, the chairman of Caltech's board of directors, the chairman and chief executive of Northrop Grumman (the global aerospace and defense technology company),...

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Ali Ayyash - Lumeos

PoppingTheBubbl - September 28, 2018 15:59 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
During 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 individu...

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Space Exploration with the Everyday Astronaut, Tim Dodd

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - September 26, 2018 09:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
My guest today is Tim Dodd, better known as the Everyday Astronaut. Tim has become a prominent educator on space exploration through his various media platforms and live presentations – he's amassed a sizable audience eager to learn more about Space X, NASA and the growing field. We're in there ...

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Matt Quinn and Jon Connors

PoppingTheBubbl - September 20, 2018 23:08 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We 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 blockchai...

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Augmenting Reality with Preston McCauley and Nancy Coblenz - September 20, 2018 01:02 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this first episode, Preston and Nancy discuss the intent of the podcast, how the medium of AR & VR has been evolving, how can businesses focus on practical thinking when looking at augmented and virtual reality We also chat briefly about the history of medium changes, how business can think...

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Technology Influencer Austin Evans on Future Tech & Media Changes

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - September 17, 2018 18:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
My guest today is Austin Evans. With well over 3 million subscribers, Austin produces and hosts one of the top technology channels on YouTube. He reviews the leading edge of consumer products, often with early access to releases from the most influential manufactures.   We explore how media ...

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Paul Hainsworth - Open Garden

PoppingTheBubbl - September 14, 2018 14:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Paul 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...

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David Sneider and Chelsea Rustrum

PoppingTheBubbl - September 08, 2018 00:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Anyone 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...

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John Singleton - Watchful IO

PoppingTheBubbl - August 31, 2018 16:14 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Pete 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 h...

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Maria Carolina Fujihara

PoppingTheBubbl - August 23, 2018 22:57 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
If 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 to...

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Google AI and Machine Learning with Dr. Karina Montilla Edmonds

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - August 23, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we take a look at Google's work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. My guest is Dr. Karina Montilla Edmonds. Karina works at Google Cloud AI & Machine Learning as the bridge between the Google Cloud AI team and leading university research labs in artificial Intelligence. Pri...

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Technology = Nature with Futurist Gray Scott

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - August 14, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
This week we explore a broad range of high-concept futurist frameworks and future technologies.   My guest is Gray Scott, a visionary futurist and creator of both the Serious Wonder digital magazine and the Futuristic Now video series. Gray takes fragments of modern life and extrapolates a w...

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Brian Solis - Like a Virgin

PoppingTheBubbl - August 10, 2018 16:20 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Brian 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. ...

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Kris Duggan - Silicon Entrepreneur

PoppingTheBubbl - August 03, 2018 22:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We 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...

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Stevon Cook - Mission Bit

PoppingTheBubbl - July 27, 2018 15:34 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Stevon 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 su...

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Fernando Figueiredo

PoppingTheBubbl - July 20, 2018 18:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Fernando 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 intern...

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Reversing Climate Change with Nori

PoppingTheBubbl - July 10, 2018 23:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We 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...

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Marina Bay - Be Fast TV

PoppingTheBubbl - July 05, 2018 18:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Marina 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...

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Greg Gillman - Science Blockchain

PoppingTheBubbl - June 28, 2018 19:28 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Greg’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 unt...

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Yumi Alyssa Kimura - Lead for Career

PoppingTheBubbl - June 22, 2018 18:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Pete 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 entrepre...

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Mental Health & Wellbeing Transformative Technologies with Nichol Bradford

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - June 19, 2018 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Mental health and wellness are not areas you typically think of along with cutting edge exponential technology. However, that is about to change.   My guest today is Nichol Bradford. Nichol is building the future of human possibility by facilitating bold new technologies for mental health an...

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Ben Metcalfe - Ridge Ventures

PoppingTheBubbl - June 14, 2018 20:54 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
We 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 sta...

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Peter Pakalski - Hyper Peronal AI

PoppingTheBubbl - June 08, 2018 04:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Peter 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 gr...

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Kevin Smith - The Vault

PoppingTheBubbl - June 01, 2018 19:42 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Kevin 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 ...

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John Underkoffler: Sci-Fi Interface Design in the Real World

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - May 16, 2018 09:17 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
My guest today is John Underkoffler. As an early member of the MIT Media Lab, John was approached by Steven Spielberg and legendary world-builder Alex McDowell to help design the interface of the future for the film Minority Report.   The system John and the team designed became legendary fo...

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Joe Luttwak - Lingrove

PoppingTheBubbl - May 15, 2018 18:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Lingrove 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, th...

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Amber Case - Cyborg Anthropologist

PoppingTheBubbl - May 11, 2018 00:42 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Cyborg 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 th...

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Ben Bartlett and Jeremy Gardner - Smart Path

PoppingTheBubbl - May 02, 2018 18:44 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
As 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. Ge...

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Arvind Gupta - IndieBio

PoppingTheBubbl - April 26, 2018 20:24 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
As 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 ...

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UBI: Universal Basic Income? Build the Floor Founder Larry Cohen

MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability - April 25, 2018 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 128 ratings
Today we look at Universal Basic Income, or UBI. With increasingly advanced artificial intelligence and robotics, we face the threat of job loss on an unprecedented scale — by many estimates well into double digits and some forecasting a majority of the workforce will at some point not be needed...