In this episode of Lucid, Sid talks to Sai Krishna VK the founder of  Scapic - an AR/VR no code tool about his journey into the field of  entrepreneurship and how he fell in love with building things.   

The topics range from building deep tech products, building high trust  teams, future of Metaverse and much more!

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Lew talks to Ajay Jayaram, Former World No. 13, Winner of the Dutch Open, Korean Open, Vietnam Open and many more international badminton tournaments about his journey and relationships in and out of the sport, battling injuries and a flawed sporting system, and about what lies ahead in the future as an MBA graduate!

In this episode, Sid talks to Keval Kakka an Indian mountaineer who is  the first indian to climb Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse in 6 days.  He is  an engineering dropout who has devoted years to climb various high  altitude peaks in India and around.   Here, we cover his journey into mountaineering. His experiences of  climbing dangerous treks and how he prepared to climb the mountains and  his future vision.   Follow Lucid on other platforms :

In this episode, Sid talks to Tanveer Ahmed, CTO of Digantara. Digantara is the world's first space based active orbital surveillance platform. In simple terms, they are building a space map that organizations like ISRO, NASA can use to select routes that have minimum probability of collisions with objects in Space.

Digantara is one of the two private organizations in India to receive a permit to launch payloads into space. They recently launched their first payload on June 30th. 

In this episode, we cover Tanveer's journey of starting the company , convincing the world about their credibility of building the technology, funding, company culture and much more. 

Read more about Digantara - 

https://www.digantara.co.in/

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-space-startup-team-digantara-modi-mann-ki-baat-7996954/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bengaluru-digantara-hyderabad-startup-dhruva-become-first-to-get-in-space-authorisation/articleshow/92460375.cms

https://yourstory.com/2021/12/tech50-digantara-spacetech-startup-/amp

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In the first episode of the Minicast series, Sid talks to Adithya Thonse  who invests consistently into various assets about the Stock Markets  and the reason behind the downfall.  The conversation covers the downfall in markets, company layoffs and the  potential of a recession. Do check it out!  

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/startup-layoffs-cross-10000-mark-as-companies-restructure-attempt-to-reduce-cash-burn-amid-funding-winter-8711621.html

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/finance-ministry-sees-low-risk-of-stagflation-for-economy-despite-price-surge-global-crisis-8709701.html 

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In this episode, Sid hosts Jennie Graham who is a MBA student at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Jennie has years of experience in supporting underrepresented founder and is focused on building a career around impact investing.

In this conversation they talk about,

- Jennie's experiences in supporting founders from Myanmar, Afghanistan and the Middle East

- Duke MBA experience

- Networking and how Jennie approaches it

- Everything about Venture Capital

- How to get into Venture Capital

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennie-graham/

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In the second episode of the minicast series of episodes, Lew talks to Arjun Gargeyas, a policy research analyst at The Takshashila Institution who works on analysing semiconductor policy. The quick discussion goes from Lew's interaction with the Hon'ble Union Minister for IT Mr. Ashwini Vaishnav about semiconductors in India to Arjun's evaluation of the said policies. Enjoy!

Links to the articles mentioned in the podcast:  

https://www.firstpost.com/business/why-chinas-post-pandemic-semiconductor-rise-is-essential-to-watch-out-for-10868181.html  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G9sDdQrLNSwRYJ9jZuDG71veofk-gLVM/view?usp=sharing

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Post Production : Nithya Shree

Lew and Sid talk about Sid's recent trek adventure in this episode. They  cover the whole trip along with what Sid did before and after the trek.  Follow Lucid on other platforms :

Lucid talk to Abhinav (@abnux) - a product designer and founder of 10kdesigners - about product design, its importance in today's world, the new age teaching method that is Cohort Based Courses (CBCs), and investing in web3 technologies. 

Producer and Audio Engineer: Raajas Ravikumar (https://www.instagram.com/raajassajaar/)

Lew and Sid enter the rabbit hole of Artificial General Intelligence,  their fascination in the topic and what they think the future holds.  They dig deep into the humanitarian layers of OpenAI's GPT3 and DALLE2  in this episode to understand a future to come.

Relevant links discussed in the podcast :

https://econforeverybody.com/2022/04/18/supply-and-demand-complements-and-substitutes-and-dalle-e-2/

https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1516205625662836739

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1G5b_2PYj0

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/default-chat  https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdqnHXCFXnL/

Producer and Audio Engineer: Raajas Ravikumar (https://www.instagram.com/raajassajaar/)

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