ExecuTalks

Melinda Lee began her professional life as an attorney out of college, but transitioned into the media business.  She admits that she’s always had a passion for pop culture and being in the media business in some form, but didn’t think it was possible because she didn’t' see many people that looked like her in media.  Also, her parents’ journey of immigrating to the U.S. from Taiwan and the pressure of being a "doctor or lawyer" influenced her heavily to pursue a career in law.  If you have immigrant parents or know someone who does, you know what the pressure of not wanting to let them down feels like.  She then realized she could practice law in the media space.  This is what eventually led her to be in the media business.

Today, Melinda is the President of StageTEN's Media Network, a technology-driven platform that is changing the future of how content is monetized.  Instead of monetizing through 30-second advertising, content creators can now livestream and easily offer actual products and IP through their livestreams.

Our guest today is Matias Muchnick, co-founder & CEO of NotCo – A Chile-based AI-driven food technology company that is redefining food.  They’ve raised over $110 million dollars, including a big investment from Jeff Bezos!  So, you’ll want to be sure to stick around until the end to hear all about what how NotCo is using AI to make vegan meat, milk, cheese and other products that are vegan but look, smell, taste, and feel like they are not vegan. 

Matias first realized that he wanted to pursue entrepreneurship in the consumer foods space after being in investment banking during the early stages of his career.  He went on to create an app called chooz that was meant to reward healthy living behavior, which ended up failing.   Almost two years later, he moved on and decided to start Eggless, this was Chile’s first food company to develop and launch healthy plant-based foods in traditionally animal based categories.  That experience led him to travel to the United States to learn more about data science around food, and he would eventually start NotCo, which is a Food-Tech company based in Chile that leverages artificial intelligence to quickly and accurately develop plant-based foods that appeal to the mass market.

Today's guest is Spencer Rascoff. If you're reading this you probably know who Spencer is, but in case you don't, he most known for co-founding Zillow Group and was the CEO for a long time before stepping down in 2019 to focus on his new ventures dot.LA and Pacaso. In his first startup experience, Spencer co-founded an online travel company called Hotwire which later sold to Expedia in 2003. After working at Expedia for some time he felt the need for a change and started Zillow with other ex-Expedia employees. He is the co-author of "Zillow Talk: Rewriting the rules of real estate" and the host of two podcasts "Office Hours" and "Dad I have a question." In this conversation we take you through Spencer's entire career journey including the highs and lows, and learning lessons along the way.

Today’s guest is the famous Dave Asprey: As seen on Bloomberg, The New York Times, Business Insider, Fast Company, CNN, Men’s Health, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Forbes and many more!

He sold the first product EVER over the internet, was a top 100 influencer in cloud computing for 20-years, and is the father of what is called, biohacking.  You’ll want to be sure to stick around until the end to hear what Dave’s secret to success was at such a young age was. 

Throughout most of Dave’s early life, he was poor and that was a driving factor for his motivation to make money when he was really young.  He went to school for computer science, and worked in cloud-computing for 20-years before discovering his true passion.  Helping people hack their biology to tap into the unlimited potential of being human.  

Today, he runs multiple businesses, but he is most focused on Bulletproof, the hundred-million-dollar venture-backed company that was started as a blog in 2011, and now reaches tens of millions of consumers with unique food products, award-winning podcasts, and best-selling books.

Joel is the Former CEO of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, one of the largest public entertainment companies in the world, Former CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment, one of the largest private entertainment companies in the world, the Former CEO of Saab Automobile, 

AND most importantly, the Author of one of the best books I have ever read called “Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders”, endorsed by Bill Haslam, Governor of Tenessee, Dan Cathy, President of Chick-fil-A, and congressman John Campbell.

If you'd like to get Joel's book, please visit his website at www.joelmanby.com