Numbers and Narrative

Mike Baird -- Founder and CEO of Avizia

Summary: Mike Baird and his company Avizia are at the forefront of telemedicine and in a period of hyper-growth. Avizia's timing is tremendous and their goals are noble: to reduce costs associated with getting to a doctor and to provide patients with more immediate care. 

Nik Hawks -- PaleoTreats

Summary: Joe talks to Nik Hawks, all around renaissance man and co-founder of PaleoTreats snack bars.

Owen Murphy -- 5th Grade sports metric creator

Summary: In this special 4th of July episode, Joe does a brief interview with Owen Murphy, an 11 year old Bronx native who invented his own metric to measure NFL quarterback performance for a class project. Joe also shouts out N&N guest Jesse Andrews' fantastic new movie Me and Early and The Dying Girl. Go out and see it!

Steven Ujifusa -- Naval Historian

Summary: Joe Flood discusses Steven's book, "A Man and his Ship," which was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten non fiction books of 2012 and received accolades from BookList, Publishers Weekly (starred review), The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Kristi Riordan -- COO of The Flatiron School

Summary: Kristi Riordan and Flatiron School aim to align education with reality by providing an intense 12-week program for people to learn to code. Flatiron School is at the forefront of the changing nature of how people are taught and what they learn. 

Dan Rosenheck - Professional Services Correspondent at The Economist

Summary: Sports and Data editor at the Economist Dan Rosenheck joins Joe to talk NBA Finals, quantifying Lebron James, and the story Joe wrote for Dan on NBA home court advantage, questionable trends, and the perils of frequentism.

Donna Khalife -- CEO and Co-Founder of Surprise Ride

Summary: Donna Khalife, daughter of an artist and former banker, started a company with her sister Rosy, to foster creativity in kids. Many children, adults and the sharks from Shark Tank love their monthly subscription box of fun activities. 

Erica Berger-- Founder of Mileage Media and new media platform, Catchpool

Summary:  Erica Berger, writer, reporter and founder of social media curation tool Catchpool talks about her path to the startup world. Special Catchpool membership offer for our listeners: http://www.catchpool.com/numbersandnarrative.

Will Ackerly -- Founder and CTO of Virtru

Summary:  Will Ackerly, former NSA security architect, founded a company to bring privacy to how people communicate digitally, starting with email.

Frida Polli -- CEO and co-founder of Pymetrics

Summary: Frida Polli, a PhD in neuroscience, created a company - Pymetrics - that she calls 'Myers-Briggs for the 21st century'