FOUNDATIONS

FOUNDATIONS

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FOUNDATIONS episodes

  • ZChat: Lessons I’ve Learned from 50+ Interviews

    In this episode I reviewed Jess Li's article + my key lessons from interviewing top innovators. 


    Jess Li Article: https://jessli.medium.com/what-i-learned-from-interviewing-230-people-7bbf7be81f4c

    Personal Website - http://zaynpatel.com/

    Monthly Newsletter - http://zayn.substack.com/

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaynpatel/

    17 min
  • Season 2 Kickoff

    In this episode I teased at future guests, what I learned from my time away from the microphone, and a recap of season 1.


    Personal Website - http://zaynpatel.com/

    Monthly Newsletter - http://zayn.substack.com/

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaynpatel/

    5 min
  • CEO of Kadama - Amin Shaykho on Building a Sustainable Company + Developing Life Frameworks That Stick

    The edtech industry continues to emerge and with the rise in demand the mobile app and software industry symmetrically rose as well. Today, I had the opportunity to interview Amin Shaykho, the CEO of Kadama, and we talked about the rise of Kadama from a high school and university project to being a Top 10 Education App on the App Store. Kadama currently has over 200K downloads and 1.3 M followers on TikTok and Instagram.

    The app allows  you to find a tutor you trust. Anywhere. Anytime. Amin and his team are making tutoring and educational support accessible to everyone.

    In this episode we jammed out about the future of Kadama, how to find the balance between work and fun, and the recipe to building a sustainable life.

    Before we get into the episode, would love for you to check out my personal newsletter at zayn.substack.com. It’s filled with my growth-in-public journey and has new insights on the projects I’m pursuing.

    Kadama App -> https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kadama/id1350994411

    Kadama Website -> https://www.kadama.com/

    Personal Twitter -> https://twitter.com/thezaynpatel

    Personal Newsletter -> zayn.substack.com

    1 hr 5 min
  • ZChat w/Lohit Potnuru, Timothy Simmons, and Lauren Pryor
    Companies like Loon, Mineral, Project Foghorn, and Waymo all have one thing in common. They started out as moonshot companies, companies that weren't satisfied with the status quo + wanted to alter the way we view current problems.Moonshots are long-term companies, they are optimizing for 10x change over a decade of time. Moonshots take ambitions people with an innovative, unconventional mindset and most important it takes people with a desire to build.Today, I'm super fortunate to play host to 3 incredible individuals. Lohit Potnuru, Timothy Simmons, and Lauren Pryor.We are all innovators at The Knowledge Society + have been working through solving several problems across the world. Last month we had the opportunity to work on a project for the United Nations + right now we are tackling big problems in the world b creating a moonshot company!We talked about different strategies that go into creating a moonshot, the mental model of an employee at google x, and conducted a roundtable discussion on google x companies. We each chose 1 company, explained the project, the problem + how the company is trying to solve it!
    Episode 43 is value-packed!
    LinkedIn Profiles: 
    Lohit - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lohit-potnuru-b777531a2/
    Timothy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-simmons-iii/
    Lauren - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-pryor-138274201/
    Zayn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaynpatel/
    53 min

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This podcast will focus on my past experiences, opportunities, and success and how you guys can reciprocate them to better your lives!