Today’s guest is Ullas Naik, Founder and General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. His notable investments include; Addepar, DoorDash, Rappi, and FLYR, for example. 

Ullas has been an investor for over 23 years with 400 companies worth of investment experience. He has steadily weathered the ups and downs of markets, and more importantly, been a steady, guiding hand to portfolio founders.  

Beyond just professional titles, Ullas is an authentic, humble, dedicated human being. He migrated from India (Mumbai) to the US with limited capital, networks, and western knowledge. Through the merit of his efforts, he achieved great personal and professional success. 

In this podcast, we cover many aspects of Ullas personal and professional journey:

• The core traits and values he sees in successful founders and emerging fund managers for that matter. 
• Migrating to a foreign country and securing his first job on Wall Street with limited english and experience. 
• Helping founders during economically challenging situations.
• Managing investor relationships. 
• Mentoring and succession planning.

We believe his story and takeaways are inspirational— enjoy! 

Today’s guest is Adam Jackson, a serial founder and currently the Founder & CEO at BrainTrust. Braintrust is the first user-controlled talent network that connects organizations with highly skilled tech talent. 

Throughout his career as a founder, Adam has started and grown multiple marketplace businesses (Cambrian Asset Management, Doctor On Demand, and DriverSide) in different categories. 

Today, Adam and the Braintrust team are leveraging blockchain to cultivate a better incentives-aligned marketplace for skilled tech talent to thrive, and for large organizations to source the specialized talent they need. 

In this podcast, you will enjoy hearing and learning from an entrepreneur who has honed a very special ability— connecting with people and creating a trusted environment for them to transact! 

Today’s guest is Robert Fenton, Founder and CEO of Qualio. Qualio provides the tech-driven quality operating system for modern life sciences companies— no small undertaking! 

Robert grew up in Cork, Ireland, graduated as a pharmacist, then moved to the US to accelerate the growth of his enterprise SaaS business. He is a founder who is naturally gritty, performance oriented (quality), but more importantly, focuses on developing people and culture. 

Having worked first-hand with him and his leadership team, we can testify to the strong talent chemistry that has already been built amongst Qualio team members. Even before the recent mass pandemic, Qualio had been operating as a fully remote, distributed team across the USA, UK, and Europe.  

In this interview, Robert shares his journey as an immigrant founder and some of his stories just simply couldn’t have been scripted better!

We’ll let him do the talking— enjoy! :)