Today Shamus Madan sits down with Brett Martin, the President and Co-Founder of Kumospace. Kumospace is a platform that offers virtual offices and events where remote and hybrid teams collaborate and connect. Brett is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Charge Ventures, a pre-seed-focused venture fund based in Brooklyn, NY. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching data analytics and technology strategy.

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Today Shamus Madan sits down with Glenn Hubbard, a Professor and former Dean of Columbia Business School. Dean Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information, and incentive problems in corporate finance and financial markets and institutions. He has written over 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics, and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a corporate director consultant on taxation and corporate finance), in government (as a former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and the OECD Economic Policy Committee, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard). He is co-chair of the Committee on Capital Markets and Regulation and past chair of the Economic Club of New York and the Study Group on Corporate Boards

On today's show, Dean Hubbard will be breaking down today's current economic landscape and digging deeper into his recent book on how countries can take advantage of bridges to solve economic issues.

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Today, we have a very special guest Lee Jacobs the Founder and General Partner of Long Journey VC. Lee has been an investor for over a decade, investing in notable companies in the world like Loom, Wonderschool, and Pipefy, along with Cyan Banister and the team with experience in investing in SpaceX, Uber, Thumbtack, Notion, Affirm, and many more.

On the show, we will discuss how he worked to help get Venmo funded off the campus of UPenn, where he studied sociology, his journey into venture investing in the first Angel List syndicate with Naval, and little-known areas the firm is taking a look at what may be the next big thing.

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Today Shamus Madan sits down with Yoav Vilner. Yoav is the Co-Founder and CEO of Walnut, a no-code platform that allows sales teams to instantly create individually tailored and interactive product demos that improve sales experiences and conversions. Walnut recently raised $35M in series B financing, bringing their total money raised in their first 1.5 years to $56M.

The company is already working with over 100 SaaS clients, including Adobe, Dell, and Medallia, to improve sales experiences for their prospects. Walnut has also been recognized as one of the Top 50 startups to work for, Product Hunt's top product, one of Europe's hottest SaaS startups, and the Best startup out of NYC.

Yoav is considered one of the leading marketers in the world. He was named the Forbes Marketer to Watch in 2017 and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, and the United Nations.

He also published the wildly popular Medium post, Godlike CMO.

Check Out Walnut Here: https://www.walnut.io/

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Today Shamus Madan sits down with Ben Samaroo, the Co-Founder & CEO of WonderFi (a publicly listed DeFi exchange based in Canada) and backed by Kevin O'Leary. Ben Samaroo joins the podcast to discuss how the company is working to create and democratize digital assets compliantly for the consumer. On today's show, we cover:

And more...

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Disclaimer: The podcast is not financial or investment advice. The podcast is also not a research report or a recommendation to buy or sell any securities. The podcast is for informational purposes only.

Shamus Madan sits down with Aarthi Ramamurthy who is formerly a Product Manager at Microsoft, Netflix, the Co-Founder of multiple startups including True&Co, Lumoid (a try before you buy service for consumer electronics), the former Director of Product for Facebook, and more recently the Co-Host of the Good Time Show hosting guests like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andressen, The Chainsmokers, and many more.

Learn how Aarthi has built up a network from ground 0 with the Good Time Show.

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Mercedes Bent is an investor and operator who lives and breathes startups. Currently, Mercedes serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, however, Prior to Lightspeed, she was an early employee / General Manager at General Assembly (sold for $412mm 2018). In a short period of time Mercedes ultimately grew her division from $0 to $30mm+ in 2 years. Then, in 2016 she was named a 40 Under 40 for Tech Diversity in Silicon Valley.

Mercedes is an investor in Forage, Stori, Flink, Outschool, Hawku, Fan Controlled Sports, Flockjay, Honeylove, House of LRC, and more. In addition, she co-leads Lightspeed's LATAM region and Scout Fund (angel fund). https://lsvp.com/about-us/mercedes-bent

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So today, Vitaliy Katsenelson sits down with Shamus Madan. Vitaliy immigrated to the United States with his family in 1991. After joining Denver-based value investment firm IMA in 1997, he became Chief Investment Officer in 2007, and CEO in 2012. Vitaliy has written two books on investing and is an award-winning writer. Known for his uncommon common sense, Forbes Magazine called him “The New Benjamin Graham.”

He’s written for publications including Financial Times, Barron’s, Institutional Investor and Foreign Policy. His articles are also published on his website, ContrarianEdge, and in audio format on his Intellectual Investor Podcast.

Now before we begin the podcast is not a recommendation to buy or sell any stocks holdings or securities, it is not a research report, and it meant for informational purposes only.

Touraj is currently the President & COO of Serve Robotics, shaping the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery. Serve designs, develops, and operates zero-emission robots that serve people in public spaces, starting with food delivery.

Prior to Serve Robotics, Touraj founded Jaxtr; a startup founded back in 2005 which brought free calling and texting over the internet to mobile phones. And after a few years, it was doing quite well with over 10 million registered users and successfully raised over $20 million from top silicon valley firms. But then the 2008-2009 recession hit, and in a very short period, Jaxtr went from a valuation of tens of millions to receiving an acquisition offer for under 1 million.

So today, Touraj Parang joins the show to discuss his newly released book Exit Path - How to Win The Startup End Game, published by McGraw-Hill, and how to exit as a startup successfully.

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Bill George is a Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of: Emerging Leader Edition of True North, Discover Your True North and The Discover Your True North Fieldbook, Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your True North, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, and True North Groups.

He was chair and CEO of Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company. Under his leadership, Medtronic’s market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35 percent a year. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, was CEO from 1991 to 2001, and was chair of the board from 1996 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he was an executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense.

He has served as a director of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, the Mayo Clinic, and World Economic Forum USA. He received the 2014 Bower Award for Business Leadership and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has been named one of the Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years by PBS, Executive of the Year by the Academy of Management, and Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Pre-Order Here: https://www.billgeorge.org/book/true-north-emerging-leader-edition

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