In the latest episode of Smart People Should Build Things: The Venture for America Podcast, Jeremy interviews Katia Beauchamp, co-founder & CEO of Birchbox and pioneer in the subscription box service industry. Download this week's episode to hear about Birchbox's scrappy cold emails to beauty CEOs and their rapid growth, spurring copycats and competitors all over the globe.

This week Jeremy sits down with Jon Stein, Founder & CEO of Betterment, an automated investing service that helps clients better manage and grow their wealth through smarter technology for a fraction of the cost of traditional financial services. Download this week's episode to hear Jon's journey as a Columbia Business School grad passionate about using technology to better align customers with their financial institutions and why the New York Times named Betterment one of the next "startup unicorns".

In this week's mouth watering episode, Jeremy chats with Kristen Tomlan, Founder & CEO of DŌ, Cookie Dough Confections, a young startup that uses the highest quality ingredients and zero preservatives to make individual batches of ready-to-eat cookie dough perfection. Download the interview to hear why cookie dough is "the new cupcake"!

In this episode, Jeremy interviews Nick Taranto, Co-founder of Plated.com, a service that delivers a weekly box of fresh and seasonal ingredients, pre-portioned for the recipes you choose, so you can create great food with less effort. Nick shares his journey from the Marine Corps to Wall Street to budding entrepreneur trying to accomplish what he calls BHAG, "big hairy audacious goals".

This week Jeremy sits down with Laura Mather, Founder & CEO of Unitive, a company that is working to eliminate unconscious biases from hiring decisions. As a former employee at the NSA and Director of Trust and Safety at eBay, Laura shares her fascinating insights on cyber security and lessons she learned while starting her own cyber security company, Silver Tail.

In the most recent episode of the Venture for America podcast, Jeremy chats with Charlie Bonello and Matt Harrigan, high school buddies and co-founders of Grand Central Tech, a unique New York City based accelerator that provides free office space, support and resources without taking ANY equity.

This week, Jeremy interviews Eric Cantor: serial entrepreneur, current VP of Product Development at Neighborhood Trust, and VFA Board Member from the very beginning. Eric talks about his vast range of experience, from building two internet infrastructure companies, establishing Africa's first mobile application laboratory in Uganda, teaching a course on technology solutions for international development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and more.

In this week's episode, Jeremy sits own with serial entrepreneur David Kidder, the co-founder of Nex-X, Renaissance Integrated Solutions, Clickable, Bionic, and more. David talks about his experience making a career out of building things, what he learned writing The Startup Playbook, in which he interviews some of the most successful entrepreneurs working today, and what it took to learn how to work for himself.

In this episode, Jeremy chats with Jess Brondo Davidoff, Founder & CEO of Admitted.ly, a company that gamifies the college admission process for high school students to help match them with colleges and universities. Jess shares what it was like to walk away from a very successful business that she founded to follow her passion and gives advice from her experience participating in 2 accelerators.

This week Jeremy sits down with Gary Chou, Founder of Orbital, a company that helps people develop side projects and 'a space to do awesome stuff'. A long time Venture for America supporter and incredibly interesting individual, Gary shares his storied history as a film producer, General Manager at Union Square Ventures and much more.