Berkeley Innovation Podcast

Episode #15

In this Foundercast episode a group of Berkeley students interviews Anna Lee, technical co-founder of Lioness. Her startup is a women-led sexual health startup. They are building the world's first and only smart vibrators that improve understanding of sexual pleasure and body through biofeedback data. 

Intro Music: https://www.bensound.com

Episode #14

This episode features Michael Seibel from Y-Combinator (YC) sharing about Product Market Fit when he was on campus for the "Decode Silicon Valley Startup Success" DeCal class offered by the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley.

Episode #13

In this "Tech Uncovered" episode, take a journey with a group of current Berkeley students as they explore how they should be thinking about launching a startup based on their class project. They chat with a fellow student startup founder, a venture capitalist, and a congressional aid about their AI facial recognition project. 

Episode #12

Global Perspectives episode featuring a group of current BerkeleyGlobal entrepreneurship students chatting with Berkeley alumnae Rachel Williams. She is the head of Head of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Talent Acquisition at X The Moonshot Factory at Google Alphabet. 

Rachel shares with the group of students her unique perspective about inclusion, culture, and leadership... she even has some fun digging into real world situations so you hear how leaders on the front line of today’s firms think.

02:41 - Background

04:05 - About X

07:10 - On Diversity

08:25 - On Inclusion

10:20 - Employees being authentic selves

12:01 - Humility

12:58 - Hiring process

16:39 - Leading your first team

19:45 - Tricky situations

33:36 - Fast & Curious

37:40 - Character

40:51 - Academic background in hiring

42:49 - On culture

48:30 - In time of crisis - People first

50:49 - Who creates culture

53:57 - Culture insights

56:20 - Final thoughts and advice

Episode #10

Foundercast episode featuring Ofek Arush and George Passantino, cofounders of Quokka Brew. Hear how George and Ofek launched their startup, from coming up with the idea, naming, to launching the business. 

00:19 - Introduction

01:45 - Childhood friends

02:15 - Their first business

02:43 - Entrepreneurial spirit

03:38 - The muffin men

06:07 - Berkeley

07:20 - How Quokka Brew was born

08:38 - Ready to drinks

11:44 - Research

14:11 - The breakthrough

18:34 - The Quokka name

21:17 - Traction

23:50 - Team of ambassadors 

27:37 - Where to get Quokka Brew

32:45 - Fun

Episode #8

Foundercast Episode featuring Expensify Founder & CEO David Barrett. During his talk on campus at the Newton Lecture Series, Barrett shares his core philosophy of identifying the biggest problem you can, then go to work immediately to solve it. Take a listen!

00:56 - Introduction

03:56 - All the experts are wrong

05:47 - Don't trust me. Don't trust the VCs

06:39 - The CEOs are going to lie to you

07:56 - Everyone's going to fight for you

09:10 - Have you tried to change the world?

12:37 - Good ideas have to sound bad

16:02 - Traveling the world with a knapsack

19:50 - How Expensify started

23:57 - Q&A

Episode #7

This Newton Series Classic Episode features Marissa Mayer talking on campus when she was still VP of Search Products and User Experience at Google. She shares her journey to Google and some of the exciting things she was working on at the time. Mayer would go on to become CEO of Yahoo.