"Imagine having to, every time you want to service your car, take a hacksaw to the body panels, make a hole, and then have to patch it up. That's what you're doing with home construction today. And so what we've done is we've made it so that you can actually unclip our ceiling and wall panels, access everything, and then just put them back up."

In this conversation, we talk with Alexis Rivas the CEO of Cover where they're building ultra-high quality homes using algorithms and production lines to get us to a future where homes are beautiful, abundant, well-built, and improve the environment.

We talk with Alexis about literally building the future of homes, their Tesla-esque go-to-market strategy, and how our relationships with the home may evolve.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Cover

Links

• Cover

• Alexis Rivas

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"So the question was, could we create a community and a venture capital fund that would inspire people to stick to these really important. But tough technologies, right. Ones that could stand the test of time, but take capital and know how and deep knowledge in order to be able to actualize."

In this conversation, we talk with Katie Rae the CEO and Managing Partner of The Engine which is a venture fund in partnership with MIT that's building an ecosystem to support the development of tough tech companies.

We talk with Katie about building a tough tech ecosystem, science vs. engineering risk, and whether or not Katie agrees that we're in a period of stagnation.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing The Engine

Links

• The Engine
• Katie Rae — Engine Ventures

• Katie Rae

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"The limits of your imagination today define the limits of, of space tomorrow"

In this conversation, we talk with Felix Ejeckam, the CEO of Akash Systems which is developing and supplying the next generation of extreme bandwidth, hyper-efficient communications gear for space satellites to accelerate the world towards universal and low-cost access to the internet.

We talk with Felix about the revolutionary GaN-on-Diamond technology they’ve invented, what’s happening in the space space, and what it might look like to bring low-cost, high bandwidth internet to all.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Akash Systems

Links

• Akash Systems

• Felix Ejeckam

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"We believe that every student should have a school and an education that's really designed for you, your learning style, your pace, your interests, and ultimately your goals and aspirations."

In this conversation, we talk with Indra Sofian, the co-founder of Sora Schools which is an online, project-based high school where students explore their interests and future careers.

We talk with Indra about the sham of standardized testing, the importance of project-based learning, and how we've opened Pandora's Box in education.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Sora Schools

Links

• Sora Schools

• Indra Sofian

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"We sort of forgot that this isn't how things used to be, because in no one's collective memory is a time when education was relatively affordable."

In this conversation, we talk with Wes Wagner, the co-founder of Align where they make it extremely easy for anyone to set up an outcomes-based payment agreement with their students, customers, or clients.

We talk with Wes about the history of higher education, incentives, unbundling, and the role that outcomes-based payment agreements will have on making quality education accessible and affordable for all.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Align

Links

• Wes Wagner — founder interview

• Wes Wagner
• Align

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In this conversation, we talk with Josh Clemente, the co-founder of Levels Health where they help you track your blood glucose in real time, so you can maximize your diet and exercise.

We talk with Josh about the importance of metabolic health, the smart health stack, and the implications of living in a world where we have 24/7 realtime monitoring of all of our essential biometric data.

Resources

• Everything you may want to know about Energy Balance
• The other leaders in the smart health stack ecosystem: Oura, Whoop, Eight Sleep.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Levels

Links

• Levels
• Oura
• WHOOP
• Eight Sleep

• Energy Balance

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"What used to be called outsourcing has become normalized and standardized as remote teams"

In this conversation, we talk with Alex Bouaziz, the founder of Deel which is a startup that streamlines compliance, onboarding, and payroll for remote teams.

We talk with Alex about the future of work, what people get wrong about remote work & the independent contractor model, and how offloading the work of dealing with laws in every country is going to accelerate us to a future where talent, wealth, and access are available to all.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Deel

Links

• Deel

• Alex Bouaziz
• Deel

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"The future looks like a world in which everyone has free and open access to their money, to a financial system that functions in their favor."

In this conversation, we talk with Jill Carlson, the founder of the Open Money Initiative which is a non-profit that researches how people use money in closed economies and collapsing monetary systems.

We talk with Jill about what's actually going on the ground in Venezuela, hyperinflation, Bitcoin, financial security as a basic human right, and much more!

Mentioned in this conversation

• Read more about the Crisis in Venezuela
• Open Money Initiative Announcement

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing the Open Money Initiative

Links

• Open Money Initiative
• Jill Carlson
• Announcing the Open Money Initiative (2019)
• Human Rights Foundation

• Jill Carlson
• Crisis in Venezuela

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"It's really just about a platform or service that allows restaurants to continue doing what they do best. Right. Which is design great food and prepare great food while taking some of the complexity of the technology out and setting up the integration with couriers, delivery drivers, or these delivery apps, in really seamless way."

In this conversation, we talk with Ken Chong, the founder of Virtual Kitchen Company which empowers restaurants, chefs, and food entrepreneurs to take advantage of the delivery boom without enduring the challenges of building out additional locations themselves.

We talk with Ken about the food delivery economy, food entrepreneurship, and the role delivery will play in building the future of both food and restaurants!

Mentioned in this conversation

• Read the A16Z Investment Thesis

Go build!

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Virtual Kitchen Company

Links

• Why a16z invested in Virtual Kitchen Co (2019)

• localfoodhall.com

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"Forcing people to provide this hugely expensive good that they then have to give away for free has been a mistake and it's resulted in a lot less flexibility for businesses. It's resulted in more expensive housing. It's resulted in cities that are flooded with cars and with buses that are stuck in public transit. And I think we're just getting to the point where we're starting to see the light. And we're starting to realize that perhaps the future could look a little different."

In this conversation, we talk with Evan Goldin, the founder of Parkade which builds parking software that helps businesses, cities, and individuals better utilize the overabundance of parking spaces around them.

We talk with Evan about the havoc that free parking has wrecked on our cities, the impact of COVID on our city streets, and the role that parking innovation will play in building the future of cities.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and introducing Parkade

Links

• Parkade
• Evan Goldin and the Parkade team

• Evan Goldin

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