Today we are joined by the one and only Courtney Reum. After helping take Under Armour and VitaminWater public 15+ years ago while working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he and his brother Carter founded their first business, the popular spirits brand VEEV, which grew from zero to one of the best-selling independent liquor brands in the US. After the sale of VEEV in 2016, they founded the early-stage consumer tech investment firm M13 ($900M+ assets under management).

M13 has invested in 130+ companies, including Bird, Daily Harvest, Matterport, Ring, Thrive Market, Tonal, and more. The VC is also known for its high-profile investors, such as Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, and Arianna Huffington.

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Let’s talk about entrepreneurship. Over the last few decades, it has gone from being looked at as “taboo” to being idolized. And since the creation of the internet and social media, it looks like everyone is becoming one. We are sitting down on our couch, consuming the stories of people successfully building their companies and thinking, “Oh, I could have done that!” With there being over 582 million entrepreneurs in the world, the competition is next level. That begs the question…how do you do it? And what if you can’t raise any VC money for my business idea? Can you still have a business?

The answer is yes, and today as a guest, Mike Salguero will share his story of building a $600 Million business from no venture funding. And he will share why, after his last company has not taken a dollar from VC, and maybe why you shouldn’t either.

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Wes Kao is the Co-Founder of Maven, the platform for cohort-based courses. Prior to Maven, Wes helped other companies like Morning Brew build their own cohort-based courses, and she founded altMBA. Today she joins us to discuss the future of online education and how Maven plays a role. Wes attended UC Berkeley and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc. as a leading voice on online education and innovation.

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Maryanna Saenko is an early-stage venture capitalist and co-founder of Future Ventures. She started her career as a research engineer at Cabot Corporation and later moved on to venture capital working at firms such as DFJ and Khosla Ventures. Maryanna invests in frontier technologies that make the world a better place, including nuclear fusion, sustainable agricultural and land management, bee immunology, and women’s reproductive longevity.

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Indus Khaitan is the CEO of Quolum. He has over two decades of experience in the technology industry and has previously held leadership positions at companies such as Oracle and McAfee.

Indus grew up in a mining town where 2-3 homicides daily were a norm and eventually escaped the Indian Coal Mafia that plagued his life and left for America. He made the most out of this move and became a founder, a father, and a pilot. He now aims to help others make the same growth in their business and life.

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Noam Bardin is the former CEO of Waze. During his time as the CEO of Waze, he launched Waze Ads, drove Monthly Active Users up from 2,000 to 140 million, built up the Waze Global community, and much more. Now he is the CEO of Post which aims to develop a platform where publishers can generate revenue from micropayments where users pay as little as five cents to read individual articles. This would enable users to read the articles of their liking without having to pay subscriptions to each publishing company. The platform also combines a social component enabling anyone to create, share, and engage with the posts.

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Oscar Muñoz, the former CEO of United Airlines, joins to discuss his career from growing up in Mexico to becoming the first Hispanic CEO of a major airline. Prior to United, Oscar held several leadership positions at PepsiCo, CocaCola, AT&T, and CSX.

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Rita McGrath is a Strategy Professor at Columbia Business School and the author of the best-selling book, "Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen." She attended Barnard in the late 70s and received her Ph.D. from Wharton. After that, Professor McGrath was involved in the public sector working for NYC engaged in digital transformation. In addition to her work as a professor, Professor McGrath also speaks, consults, and provides executive education for organizations all around the world. 

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Matt MacInnis began his career at Apple, spending seven years in the education and business development sector. After his time at Apple, he embarked on a new mission to build his own company, Inkling, a digital publishing platform for educational materials that raised over $102 million in funding and partnered with leading textbook publishers.

Now Matt is the Chief Operating Officer at Rippling, an all-in-one HR and IT platform that eliminates a lot of the administrative burden required to run a company. He joined when there were just 70 employees, and today they are ranked as one of LinkedIn’s top startups with over 1800 employees and valued at $11.25 Billion.

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I just finished an interview with ChatGPT-4, the latest AI sensation that's been making waves in the tech world. This interview is unlike anything you've ever seen before.

A primary concern among educators is the potential for students to exploit the advanced software to expedite their homework assignments, bypassing the learning process. I aimed to delve deeper into this issue and explore the implications and even how AI can drive AI might have on our education system.

If you found this interview fascinating, share it with a friend, I greatly appreciate the support. :)

Synthesia AI was used to voice ChatGPT's text answers.

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Twitter of Guest (ChatGPT): @OpenAI