We spoke with Paul Gambill, CEO, and Co-founder of Nori, who with his team is taking on the mission of reversing climate change by creating a marketplace for carbon removal from the atmosphere.

Marina Bay, from BeFastTV’s helps founders tell their stories in a simple and easy to digest manner and efficiently reach their target audiences. While still residing in Hong Kong, she noticed that startups received little to no media attention, so she founded BeFastTV as video channel dedicated to promoting startups. She describes BeFastTV as the MTV channel for startups. BeFastTV is an integrated content creation and production company with offices based in Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Greg’s entrepreneurial journey began fairly early, when as a second year law student, he started and sold a company which lifted him out of some financial troubles. This success led him to continue on this path, making a small profit with each business he started and sold. All was going well until the company he was building after law school collapsed. His fall back luckily, was to start practicing corporate law for technology and entertainment companies specializing in intellectual property.

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Pete and I had the pleasure of chatting with Yumi Alyssa Kimora on our podcast recently. Yumi shared her incredible story, including the the many trials and tribulations she endured as a ambitious young female in the male-dominated corporate world of Japan and her inspiring journey into entrepreneurship in America.

We had Ben Metcalfe on our podcast who in addition to having a very debonair accent, has am amazing story related to his journey into the world of the Silicon Valley.

Ben’s journey to becoming a VC, he's now a partner at Ridge Ventures. Ben started in his native England working as a software engineer for the BBC news website. The company decided to move employees from London to Manchester, and Ben's appeal to move to SF didn't get approved, he decided to take a risk and head to SF on his own.

Peter Pakalski's entrepreneurial drive started during his college years, where he and his brother started a paddle-board company selling and renting boards in Wisconsin and California. While in college he participated in an accelerator program where he learned how to build a company from the ground up and applied that learning to start a supplement company and gain more experience in online marketing. He also connected with some angel investors and founded a venture capital group. Pretty impressive!

Kevin Smith describes The Vault as an experiment founded with an original idea to create a better place for startups to grow and accelerate. The focus is on helping startups accelerate their growth by creating an intentional space that creates opportunities for collaboration as well as hosting a robust platform of events, workshops, boot camps, founder happy hours, and invite only events for investors.

Lingrove makes wood without trees and that’s a very good thing because 87% of trees are gone forever due to our insatiable appetite for wood and making things like furniture, boats and houses out of old growth wood which is one of the strongest natural materials in market today. Due to that, the black market for illegally poached wood is around $50 million dollars. Lingrove wants to change that by making a composite material that acts and looks like wood, only better.

Cyborg Anthropology - Amber Case is no ordinary tech nerd, she is an accomplished MIT researcher, founder, speaker and cyborg anthropologist. She joined us on this episode of Popping the Bubbl to talk about her trajectory and how she came to focus on the intersection of humans and technology through her extensive cross disciplinary approach.

As crypto changes how we define and use money...everything that has value is being re-examined. Berkeley's Ben Bartlett suggests that electrons have value...and talks about his 3-part smart path. 

We're also fortunate to be joined by Jeremy Gardner who's leading the way in the crypto space. Get ready Sandra and Pete are going to make you think and imagine where we'll be in the near future.