This week on Investigating Pathways,  I’m joined by Chrys Bader. Chrys is a 5x founder, starting off in Web Development, then launching a few incredibly popular social apps including Fliggo, Treehouse which was acquired by Google, the Secret and most recently, Ikaria. In today's episode, we talk about how Chrys built some of the most successful social media apps to date.   

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Ruben Harris, the founder of the popular career reskilling platform, Career Karma. Career Karma is an online platform that helps folks looking to find job training programs. Ruben is also the host of the Breaking into Startups podcast. In today's episode, we talk about Ruben's time breaking into tech, how he built Career Karma, and how tech can be expanded to be accessible to minorities.    

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Anuj Srivastava. Anuj is the founder of the popular interior designing platform, Livspace. Livspace is a cloud based platform that integrates consumers, designers and vendors to deliver re-designed spaces. In today's episode, we talk about Anuj's journey as a founder, his experiences on building a startup in growing markets in Asia, and the difference in building a startup in America vs Asia.    

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Kulveer Taggar. Kulveer is a 3 time founder, having founded companies including Boso.com, Auctomatic and most recently, Zeus Living, which is a corporate property manager supported by tech. In today's episode, we talk about Kulveer's journey as a founder, his experiences on building a startup through the pandemic, and the importanc eof setting long term goals.    

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Brett Kopf. Brett is a 2 time founder, having founded Remind, the biggest messaging platform that is targeted towards connecting teachers, parents and students, with over 30 million users. Most recently, Brett has founded Omella, the easiest and most effective way to receive payments. Today, we talked through Brett’s journey building a massive edtech network and how he is applying those lessons to his second company.   

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Arjun Lall. Arjun is a 4x founder, having founded companies including Fantasy Congress, Jam Legend, which was acquired by Zynga, Renzu, which was acquired by SurveyMonkey and most recently, Rocket and Hireflow, a recruiting agency powered by machine learning. Today, we talked through Arjun’s journey as a founder straight out of college and the key experiences he’s learned from over the years.   

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Zach Latta. Zach is the founder and CEO of Hack Club, a global network of high school hackers, coders and builders. On today’s episode, we talk through Zach’s journey, starting from dropping out of high school and working at the once popular company Yo and then finally, building a like minded community of high school hackers.  

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This week on Investigating Pathways, I’m joined by Danielle Strachman. Danielle has previously founded a charter school and was the driving force behind building the Thiel Fellowship. Most recently, Danielle is working with young founders who work outside tracked institutions by investing in early stage startups at the 1517 Fund, where she is a Founder and General Partner. Today, we talked about Danielle’s journey as a founder and how she built the Thiel Fellowship from the ground up as well as how students can work outside of the education bubble.    

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On today’s episode, I’m joined by Eric Bahn, previously the founder of Beat the GMAT, the most widely used test prep network across the US. Eric is now a Co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund. Today, we talk through Eric’s journey as a founder and VC, problems with toxic VC culture at the moment, how the pandemic has affected the way people are making money and what advice Eric has for teenagers and folks just starting on their entrepreneurial journey.   

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On today’s episode, I’m joined by Jason Fried, the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, which is one of the most widely used task optimization tools in the world. In addition, Jason is the co-founder of Ruby on Rails. He has also written several books, including REWORK. On today's episode, Jason and I talk about his journey through building Basecamp as well as Basecamp's new email service, HEY!

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