Crashing Up

Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) sits down with Rob Karp, the founder and CEO of MilesAhead, a luxury hospitality company. A recent graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration (‘19), he was named one of Travel + Leisure’s International Rising Stars in 2017 and was one of Virtuoso’s Rising Star candidates for 2019. In a short amount of time he’s made a name for himself as a go-to figure in the travel industry and has grown MilesAhead into a multimillion-dollar company.

They discuss the ups and downs of navigating a business through a pandemic, the future of business travel, and why now is actually the best time to own a travel rewards card. 

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) is joined by the founding team of OthersideAI, Matt Shumer, Jason Kuperberg and Miles Feldstein. OthersideAI is a company using high-level artificial intelligence (GPT-3) to help you spend less time on your inbox and more time on the things that matter. In just over three months they’ve garnered over a million views of their demos, generated a waitlist with over 8,000 people, been featured in press such as the New York Times, Fortune, and Wired, and have raised $1.5m from a slew of top VCs and angels. 

They discuss the future of GPT-3 powered communication tools, navigating a startup through hypergrowth, and learnings from first- time fundraising.

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) brings on Brandon Zhang (@brandonthezhang), who built a large internet following sharing his wisdom on mental models and productivity. When he’s not working towards his degree at Columbia University, he’s working with Jack Butcher to help expand the Visualize Value brand and hosts The Student Mindset Podcast where he interviews amazing guests like Anthony Pompliano, James Clear, and many more. 

They discuss the secrets of successful online communities, permission-less apprenticeships and the true definition of mindful productivity. 

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) is joined by Alex Wieckowski, better known as Alex and Books (@AlexandBooks_). For the last three and a half years, Alex has been sharing reading tips on the internet and inspiring people to pick up more books. He has over 70,000 followers across his social media platforms and also hosts The Reader's Journey podcast where he interviews amazing authors such as Morgan Housel, James Altucher, and many more. They discuss strategies to actually retain what you read, building an online audience around your passion, and Alex's learnings from interviewing best-selling authors and experts. 

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) sits down with Sam Harris (@samjamharris*), the founder of Syncify, a social podcasting app based out of the UK that enables users to listen to their favorite podcasts and audiobooks with their friends. Sam also hosts of the Growth Mindset Podcast, where he interviews incredible individuals all over the globe, sharing their insights and lessons on how their mindset has helped them live fulfilling lives.

They discuss the future of social audio, applying and going through Techstars, cultural differences in entrepreneurial mindset between the US and UK and more. 

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy)* is joined by Gaby Goldberg (@Gaby_Golberg)an Investing Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners. She was previously an Investment Associate at Chapter One, a venture fund investing in early-stage tech companies. She’s also an incredible writer whose essays on curation and exclusivity have been shared countless times across the internet. The most impressive part? She does all this while still being a student at Stanford University. 

They discuss the future of consumer technology, investing in companies with cult-like audiences, and the importance of gender diversity in the tech industry. 

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Randy Ginsburg (@GinsburgRandy) is joined by Mat Sherman (@Mat_Sherman)*, the founder of FWD Thinking City (now Growthmeter). He’s also the host of Forward Thinking Founders podcast, where he’s interviewed hundreds of founders of pre-seed and seed stage companies from all over the world. They discuss the future of building venture backed startups using no code apps such as Webflow, Adalo, Typeform, and Zapier, along with the lessons Mat has learned from interviewing over 500 founders. 

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