Pensive

Camilo Buscaron is a rising champion in the world of robotics. He has won many awards for his work, and is currently based in San Jose, CA where he is inventing the future robot that won’t disappoint society. In this episode, we talk about his robotic journey and the benefits and challenges that a world filled with robots will bring.

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Max Brody is a multi-disciplinary designer & developer. He designs things (from websites, logos, apps, to interfaces), and programs full-scale web and mobile applications for individuals and businesses. He believes that software is art, and that art should be perfect. He likes to say that art is perfect only if it is guided by a singular vision from start to finish. He loves translating that passion into clean, modern, simple and timeless designs. Max is also the founder and CEO of Cent, a platform and system where anyone could fairly make money by creating any piece of original content. The mission is two-fold: To give creators a seamless source of income from creating awesome work and To in(cent)ivize those who don’t think of themselves as creators to give creating a try.

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Louis Mikal is a scientist entrepreneur and traveler. Louis co-founded Serendipia Nest coliving/ coworking house for solutionners in San Francisco. He is very interested in decreasing the boundaries between individuals and sharing ideas freely. Having studied biochemistry and then transitioned into technology management Louis has a broad overview of how synthetic systems correlate to the natural ones. Louis is very interested in the way biological patterns of the most primitive organisms are reflected in everyday life.

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Featured in Forbes, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine and more, Justin Lafazan is an acclaimed entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author and consultant. The Founder of Next Gen Summit and best-selling author of What Wakes You Up?, he’s on a mission to inspire the world’s young people to design the lives they want to live, through entrepreneurship.

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Frederick Meyer is a lifelong practitioner of Shambhala Buddhism. He is co-founder of Medivate, a web app to help users maintain a regular meditation practice, and works as a web developer.

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Jean-Loick Michaux (called JLo by friends) has been looking for his life purpose by experiencing, traveling, learning, trying new things and not being afraid to fail. After a successful marketing agency and trading company in 2012, he realized that it wasn’t going to make him happy even though interesting financially. After volunteering in Capetown in 2010, he knew he always wanted to make an impact and took the opportunity of being “lost’ to listen to his parents advice and go back to study. His Master’s in social entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley was the genesis and epiphany of the life he is building now working on Simba Education and the new philosophy, Serendipia. Listen to episode here.

Gustavo is the Chief Iguana Hunter and Problem Solver at Young Entrepreneurs for Puerto Rico: A non-profit dedicated to connecting the worlds brightest minds with the island's local talent. Currently he and his team are expanding to Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic to build a more interconnected LatinAmerica for our era's millennial generation. Listen to episode here.

Cathryn is CEO and co-founder of MarketX, a secondary marketplace for pre-IPO investments. Previously, Cathryn worked at Deutsche Bank, Rothschild in London, and JP Morgan in Hong Kong, where she contributed to dozens of IPOs and private placements including Alibaba and Xiaomi. Prior to the Twitter and Alibaba IPOs, she witnessed first-hand the pent up demand for pre-IPO shares which led her to found MarketX. She also worked at EverString, an ad-tech startup backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia, bringing predictive analytics to sales & marketing at Fortune500 enterprises. In college, she co-founded MoneyThink LA, a White House-recognized, 501(c)3 non-profit that provides financial education to urban high school students. Cathryn graduated from UCLA and the London School of Economics. Episode to link here.

Emerson was an American essayist and poet who led the 19th century transcendentalist movement. In this adapted essay called "Self-Reliance", he champions self-reliance and individualism as a virtue, and contrasts it with other concepts such as dependence or conformity. He emphasizes to follow your own voice. Because the original can be difficult to read, I have created an adapted version that is hopefully easier to access.

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Since he quit his investment banking job, Brian Smith has built and sold a multimillion dollar portfolio of businesses. He has built, bought, and sold businesses in the retail, service, and commercial real estate sectors. Now Brian coaches and studies entrepreneurs, helping them to make transformations at both the personal and organizational levels. Brian’s clients include founders and executives at all levels: from seed-round to post-exit.

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