Rajit's Show

Dival and I discuss what it will take to invent the future, the promise of hardtech startups, and the need for tech optimism.

Dival Banerjee is the founder of Vuecason, a startup developing a way to 3D print metal like plastic. He attended the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in computer engineering and participated in their Hyperloop team. He is also a member of the infamous genzmafia.

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NASJAQ and I talk about creating for yourself, building something no one else can, and how the internet enables him to create leverage.

NASJAQ has more than 800K Tiktok followers at the time of this writing. He posts videos about deeptech companies and projects and reinvests the money he earns into moonshot companies.

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Praneet Kedari and I discuss why we want to work at startups, understanding what gets you in flow, and designing your life around what you care about.

Praneet is a second-year CS major at Georgia Tech. He is the Director of Startup Exchange, a student entrepreneur community at Georgia Tech.

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Jerry Feng and I talk about why we dislike the term "content creator," the emerging ecosystem powering the passion economy, and the remote work revolution.

Jerry Feng a University of Southern California alumnus and an OnDeck Writer fellow. Right now, he is the Head of Marketing at Tonebase. He writes a wonderful newsletter on Substack and rumor has it that he's building a music edtech startup.

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Kiran Cherukuri and I discuss the creator economy, what a creator truly is, and the emerging ecosystem to support them.

Kiran is a Masters Student at the University of Pennsylvania studying artificial intelligence and machine learning. Before he returned to school, he was a Product Engineer at Tilda, focusing on automating medical research.

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Alex Masmej and I discuss the future of social media, how power is escaping from financial, media, and technological institutions, and how we can leverage the blockchain to create communities from the bottom-up.

Alex Masmej raised $20K when he tokenized himself, letting people invest in his future earnings and granting them control over his life. Alex is the founder of Showtime, a social platform for digital items backed by cryptocurrency.

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Andrew Roberts and I discuss identifying how you can use your unique gifts to push the world forward, how difficult it is to find good career advice, and following non-traditional paths.

Andrew Roberts was the first employee and is a Software Engineer at Culdesac, a post-car real estate development startup. He is also a recipient of the Flinn Scholarship, which is how he met Culdesac's CEO, Ryan Johnson.

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Nikolas Huebecker and I discuss how we can warp our realities by living intentionally, how genzmafia got started, and how he hacked high school.

Nikolas is the founder at REDACTED. In high school he was a Program Manager at CodeDay, a worldwide app-making event. He also interned at Shrug Capital, where he shaped Gen Z products.

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Daniel Vassallo and I discuss how to structure your life around what you care about, getting comfortable with uncertainty, and what it means to spend time well.

Daniel Vassallo left his $500K per year job at Amazon to work for himself. He's "quarter-time" at Gumroad, where he sold Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience and The Good Parts of AWS. Right now, he's building Userbase, a way for developers to add user authentication to static sites.

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Jasman Singh and I discuss the stigma around gap years, how to understand what you truly want, and how to take control of your education.

Jasman is a Public Policy and International Affairs major at Princeton University who's on a gap year. Right now, he's a product intern at Nabis and an investment partner at the Dorm Room Fund.

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