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Microplastics are everywhere: In our water, cleaning supplies, and in so many of our everyday household essentials. This week’s guest, Sarah Paiji Yoo, started Blueland to help us cut out microplastics and reduce the amount of single-use plastics we use, once and for all. Blueland creates eco-friendly and plastic free cleaning supplies. This week, Dom is joined by Tim De Chant to talk with Sarah about all the challenges of developing sustainable and safe cleaning supplies from formulation to creating a retail strategy and the role of corporate advocacy in driving environmental change.
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It’s not every week that Becca and Dom get to talk to a founder who has been building companies for the past 22 years. This week on Found, we’re joined by Eric Ly, co-founder of LinkedIn and the current co-founder and CEO of KarmaCheck startup that is making the background check process quicker and more transparent. Ly discusses his vision for streamlining background checks, the challenges of building multiple companies, and how his entrepreneurial mindset has evolved since the early days of the internet. You’ll learn about the future of online trust and the potential impact of blockchain technology on identity verification.
00:00 - Introduction and Two Truths and a Lie
02:00 - Introducing Karma Check: Background Checks Reimagined
05:00 - The Evolution of Background Checks
08:00 - Automating and Streamlining the Process
12:00 - Demand for Faster Background Checks in the Job Market
15:00 - Eric Ly's Entrepreneurial Journey
18:00 - The Changing Landscape of Venture Capital
21:00 - Leadership Evolution and Building Company Culture
23:00 - Entrepreneurial Mishaps and Lessons Learned
27:00 - Growing Up in Silicon Valley 29:00 - Navigating Market Cycles and Hype
31:00 - Future Possibilities: Blockchain and Digital Identity
33:00 - Conclusion and Wrap-up
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In this episode of Found, Becca and Dom sit down with Gavin Uberti, co-founder and CEO of Etched, an AI chip startup focusing on developing specialized chips. Gavin shares the bold bet his startup is making on transformer models for AI chips, aiming to take on industry giant Nvidia. They discuss how Etched is developing specialized chips that they claim will be an order of magnitude faster than competitors, and Uberti shares his insights on the future of AI hardware as models continue to rapidly scale up in size and capability.
[00:00] Introduction to Etched and AI chips
[03:46] The bet on transformer models
[05:08] Competition with Nvidia
07:45] Environmental impact of chip manufacturing
[10:13] Etched's chip development progress
[12:35] Customer demand and strategic investors
[14:06] Fundraising journey
[15:23] Dropping out of Harvard
[21:25] Building the company and hiring
[24:01] Leadership philosophy
[31:05] Future outlook for Etched and AI
[32:31] Wrap-up and reveal of the "two truths and a lie"
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HR software is big, big business. And no one understands that better than this week’s guest, Parker Conrad the CEO and co-founder of Rippling, a global HR company that offers global payroll, onboarding, time tracking, benefits management and more. In this episode he talks about what goes into building a leading HR tech company—from what it’s like building out features companies love, to dealing with fierce competition in this ever growing landscape. Conrad also gets into the power imbalance that can arise between VCs and founders and the drama at his previous company that inspired him to build Rippling.
(0:00) Introduction
(2:48) Parker’s previous startups
(6:09) Leaving Zenefits and starting Rippling
(9:08) Horizontal integration in HR software
(11:57) AI skepticism for software
(20:58) Managing the competition
(26:34) Growth marketing strategy
(29:36) What a founder should focus on
(35:02) VC-founder power imbalance
(40:23) Host discussion
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Enterprise AI is booming so it’s no wonder that, as companies figure out how to implement it, the industry of AI infrastructure is emerging. This week Becca and Dom talk to Nick Frosst from Cohere, the AI company building natural language models for enterprise customers. They discuss why Frosst thinks the AI boom isn’t built on a bubble, whether or not AI companies are building toward a “digital god”, and how AI regulation could be a good thing.
(0:00) Introduction
(6:15) Enterprise applications for AI language models
(12:12) Building multilingual models
(14:58) Fundraising and the AI bubble
(19:46) AI and sustainability
(25:14) Building the Cohere team
(29:44) Host discussion
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There is a whole marketplace for used tech, it isn’t just a good deal for the customer, but it also helps curb waste that can lead to soil contamination, non-pot able water, and dangerous living conditions. On this week’s episode of Found, we’re talking to Thibaud Hug de Larauze from BackMarket, a global marketplace for refurbished devices.
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Despite the fact that water covers 71% of the Earth, there is still so much we don’t know about the ocean floor and today’s founder is looking to change that. Joe Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO of Terradepth, the company that is working towards increasing ocean knowledge through autonomous, high resolution, scalable data collection in the deep ocean. On this week’s episode of Found, Becca is joined by guest co-host, Tim De Chant to discuss why mapping geological features at the bottom of the ocean isn’t just something worth doing for curiosity’s sake, it’s important to a variety of players from companies looking to install offshore wind farms to the Navy. They also get into who is buying this kind of data, how Wolfel’s experience as a Navy Seal prepared him for entrepreneurship, and the trend of deeptech founders needing to find revenue streams early on as they’re developing their technology.
(0:00) Introduction
(2:07) Robotics role in mapping the ocean
(8:49) Scaling maritime data collection
(15:47) Fundraising challenges for hardware companies
(21:57) Transitioning from Navy to entrepreneurship
(24:13) Data-driven decision making
(29:43) Finding the right customer base
(35:14) Host discussion
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The higher education system isn’t working. Students pay way too much, professors don’t get paid enough, and many community college students that aspire to go on to get a Bachelor's degree aren't able to. But one startup thinks they have the solution. Today Becca is talking with Tade Oyerinde, the CEO and founder of Campus, a fully accredited online community college. They discuss how Tade found a school that was willing to come on board and align with his mission, the challenges of getting investors on board, and what he thinks it will take to make the higher education system more equitable.
(0:00) Introduction
(2:15) The current issues facing community colleges
(8:28) Serving both Students and professors with Campus
(11:17) Developing the curriculum
(16:06) Finding VC partners
(19:09) Why Tade is drawn to High Education
(24:48) What inspired Tade
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What is the right way to regulate AI? There appears to be as many different answers to that as there are regulators. In this week's episode of Found, we're bringing you a live interview from TechCrunch's recent Strictly VC event. Becca Szkutak talked with Helen Toner, the director of strategy and foundational research grants from the Center of Security and Emerging Technology and a former board member of OpenAI. Although she's not a founder herself, this conversation centers around topics crucial to every founder building today as AI continues to impact nearly every industry.
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Today on Found, we’re talking to David Rogier, the CEO and founder of Masterclass, a streaming platform where you can learn from the world’s experts on a variety of topics, from baking to screen writing to developing empathy. Before David launched MasterClass, he worked as a VC. Through his connections there received a $500,000 seed round before he even had an idea for a company. That was nearly a decade ago, and today Dom, Becca and David talk about how he’s built the company since.
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