By UC Berkeley SCET
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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.
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.
The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.