Startup Mindsets

Startup Mindsets

By Dan GonzalesBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Startup Mindsets episodes

  • Starting a Quant Fund in a Dorm: Michael Mills Founder of Infinitary Fund
    Today's guest, Mike Mills, is on pursuit of a bold idea and has combined his passion for mathematics/economics to create Infinitary Fund.
    Mike talks about winning limited partners over, leveraging technology to select investments, thoughts on the US economy, and being an entrepreneur.
    About Infinitary Fund:
    Infinitary Fund is a limited partnership based in New York that provides investment advice in the form of a pooled-investment vehicle designed for long-term investors.
    The Infinitary Fund was created using an algorithm developed by Nicolas B. Spoors. We recognized the value of data, the significance of analyzing it properly, and the benefits of a stable investment strategy. Combining these three elements we have been able to perform competitively while staying true to our core belief: prioritize research.
    📣 Connect with Mike on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmills-infinitaryfund
    Contact Infinitary Fund: https://www.infinitaryfund.com/contact-1
    50 min
  • Rewriting Your Script with Mindfulness: Cari Jacobs Crovetto
    We're excited to share this conversation with Cari Jacobs Crovetto, an executive coach and advisor specializing in leadership development who has coached leaders from LinkedIn, Coinbase, and Twitch. In addition, she is an active coach at Stanford GSB and regularly publishes in Forbes, as a Forbes Council Member.
    ⭐️ How to change your perception about your life, story, and what identity you give yourself
    ⭐️ Deciding to quit her job, sell her Santa Monica condo, and journey to India
    ⭐️ Going on a silent retreat
    About Cari:
    Cari rose up through the ranks of the ad agency world in the 90s working on brands like Levi’s, Intuit, P&G, Lexus, General Mills, Honda, Coca Cola and more. I was a marketing leader in the entertainment industry with NBC, CBS and FoxSports and spent three years building a customer experience-led Marketing Practice for Slalom Consulting in San Francisco, servicing clients like Gap, Athleta, Sephora, Salesforce and Atlassian.
    But she's most known for her work building five Bay Area startups in executive marketing roles, including two solar companies one of which was Sunrun, now the largest consumer solar company on wall street; one retail women’s fashion brand, ModCloth, which sold to Walmart; a fintech company called Unison that is changing how we buy and own homes; and a software platform called Torch for coaching and mentoring that seeks to create more conscious leaders.
    Reach Cari 👇
    https://www.carijacobs.com
    1 hr 9 min
  • Raising a 150M Series B with Dan Wang VP of Finance at Iterative Health

    Dan Wang joins Startup Mindsets to discuss his role as VP of Finance/Operations at Iterative Health

    • How Iterative Health uses computer vision and AI to enable doctors to make more informed decision for patients
    • The advantages an MBA can provide in a career
    • Joining an early stage startup with a ton of uncertainty
    • Working in a startup vs huge corporation
    • Raising a series B over 100M and applying that capital to grow the business
    • What are startup proof points?
      • 59 min
    • AI in Recruiting with Rolescale CEO Mehdi Taifi

      In this episode of "Startup Mindsets" we dive headfirst into the fascinating notion of how AI is set to change recruiting and hiring with Mehdi Taifi, CEO and founder of Rolescale. We also talk working on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and quitting a career with a safety net to pursue entrepreneurship.


      About Mehdi:

      Mehdi is the Founder and CEO of RoleScale, a SaaS company specializing in AI based solutions in the recruiting tech space. Mehdi is an experienced founder with over 18 years of Wall Street and Silicon Valley experience combined. He was one of the early joiners at Robinhood where he built and scaled operations for their brokerage division. Mehdi also worked on Wall Street for some of the top investment banks including Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank.


      Giving candidates a fairer chance at landing a job.

      Conversation Time Stamps:

      (5:00) What Rolescale does/inspiration for starting

      (12:00) Being data driven, efficient, and automated to save recruiters time/energy (23:00) Moving from wall street to silicon valley (28:00) Carving out a niche in the recruiting industry (31:00) Helping grow a startup to unicorn status (34:00) Making the decision to leave Robinhood and do a startup full time (40:00) discipline, keep motivating yourself

      (42:00) Working with the founders of Robinhood. The value of a humanities/nontechnical degree(45:30) Getting a job in tech is tough (49:00) Miami Tech/startup scene (55:00) Writing and publishing a novel on magical realism (58:00) Is getting a degree in the humanities worth it? (60:00) the value of philosophy, today. (62:00) How art and philosophy ties into a business by taking a logical approach (64:00) Leading a company despite the emotional toll (66:00) understanding team member's motivations and pulse check on how the team is feeling.


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      1 hr 14 min
    • Solo Pod with Dan Gonzales (Entrepreneurship)

      Dan gives his thoughts on life as an entrepreneur, being his own boss, running a company, surviving, and getting the podcast to 107 guests.

      If you haven't already, follow us on the platform you're listening to and on instagram and linkedin. We'd love to have you along our journey to becoming a premier podcast on entrepreneurship.

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      19 min
    • AI for Legal with Beagle AI CEO: Sergey Demyanov
      Ai is the trending topic for 2023 and it's no question that it has the potential to change a ton of traditional workflows.
      About the Guest
      Sergey Demyanov is a serial entrepreneur from Russia with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Melbourne. He founded Teleport which Snap acquired and from there worked as a machine learning manager for four years prior to working on his current venture, Beagle.
      About Beagle: Beagle is the first human-level-intelligence e–discovery assistant. Beagle’s AI helps you accurately find and analyze documents that best match your needs. And the more you use Beagle, the smarter it gets.
      Explore Key Features
      Discover How Our Product Enhances Your Experience
      $2/Gb/month hosting price
      No license fees
      10x fast, detailed and verifiable automated document review for 20%–50% of human review cost
      Sign up for Beagle here: https://discoverbeagle.com
      Connect with Sergey on Linkedin:
      Make sure you follow and subscribe to be notified of new episodes and help yourself to our other 100+ podcasts with hungry for success entrepreneurs.
      Let us know who you are, where you are on your startup mindset journey, all feedback and responses are heard.
      57 min
    • Philosophy in Business - Shaun Gold (Part 2)

      This is part 2 of my conversation with Shaun Gold. In this part, Shaun talks about how philosophy influenced his multi dimensional career.

      We also talk going on Jeopardy and his experience being on the game show.
      Key Points

      • You are the opportunity, it doesn't matter how long it takes, how much it costs, you need the ability to go after that goal.
      • Nothing is easy, things get easier as you get stronger.
      • Philosophy opens up your mind to the resilience that people with harder lives and how it is applicable to daily life.
        • Links
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        Keep up with Shaun Gold on Instagram and Linkedin.


        27 min
      • Who is Shaun Gold for 1,000? (Part 1)

        We meet interesting entrepreneurs through this podcast and I'd like to introduce you to Shaun Gold, a self described polymath. Shaun's been involved with the bustling nightlife industry as a promoter in Miami, published 4 books, worked in the venture capital industry for Open VC, competed on Jeopardy on ABC, worked as a screenwriter


        Throughout the conversation, you'll hear Shaun cite philosophers in response to open ended questions regarding entrepreneurship and his life decisions.

        Valuable Life Lessons:

        • You have to be able to think and plunge and reflect
        • Be reliable, dependable, and able to deliver lessons from being a promoter in Miami.
        • Too much reflection and no action so you have to combine being able to reflect
        • Bang the wall everyday, the mountain will not be climbed for you.
        • "It's not you who's eating the idea, it's the idea that's eating you.


          • From my count, we recalled Plato, Tolstoy, Gerta, Aristotle


          Ways to get in touch and work with Shaun:

          Linkedin

          Newsletter: Youtopian Journey


          Purchase one of his books:

          Promoter Mind, Hustler Heart: https://www.amazon.com/Promoter-Mind-Hustler-Heart

          Better Be U: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Be-Entrepreneur-Powerful-Lessons-


          Read stuff from OpenVC: https://openvc.app/blog/paris

          40 min
        • #102 Learn New Languages with Hallo AI CEO Joon Beh
          Joon Beh founder/CEO of Hallo AI joins the podcast to tell us how 40,000+ people are learning a new language through Hallo Ai's app. Joon explores Hallo AI's uniqueness, where he emphasizes its focus on spoken fluency. The platform's innovative approach positions it ahead of competitors.
          Joon Beh's advice resonates as he reflects on entrepreneurship's highs and lows. His impactful presence inspires confidence in Hallo AI's potential to transform language learning worldwide.
          Throughout our conversation with Joon, we discuss:
          How AI is built into their core product.
          Hallo provides the opportunity to speak with an interface in dialogue.
          Having the idea for Hallo on a roadtrip to LA and talking about creating Hallo with his siblings.
          Persevering as a founder who was having visa issues but earned a green card to follow an entrepreneurial dream in the USA.
          (17:30) The exciting life of an entrepreneur who wears many different hats
          Creating a startup as a nontechnical founder and interviewing 1000 cofounding engineers
          Key Talking Points
          Joon's background and passion for languages
          Genesis of Hallo AI
          Unique features of Hallo AI
          The role of AI technology, including ChatGPT and other APIs, in developing Hallo AI
          The unique experiences and roles that come with running a startup compared to established companies
          Comparing traditional methods with innovative technology solutions like Hallo AI
          How language learning can change lives and open up new opportunities
          Joon shares insights on user acquiring 40k users and building a business
          Learning from challenges and pivots
          Show Links
          Download Hallo on the Apple or Google Play Store and start practicing and speaking a new language today!
          Follow Hallo on Instagram/TikTok.
          Connect with Joon on Linkedin.
          Make sure you follow us on Social and join our newsletter to receive powerful self development insights.
          56 min
        • When Does Your Startup Need a Lawyer? Steven Weigler CEO of EmergeCounsel

          We've all heard the Theranos story of how Elizabeth Holmes lied to investors about groundbreaking technology and the lawsuit that followed. Or maybe you watch Silicon Valley and have seen how Hooli filed suit against Pied Piper for creating the software while at Hooli.


          Legal work is important to startups especially when looking to create a patent or protect the company from breaking the law.

          Key Talking Points

          • How to protect and build value in a brand.
          • How can I protect my brand from infringement? (a.k.a. Knocked Off)
          • Why business sellers should be cautious when international buyers come calling. They could be trying to get your intellectual property, which is very common, and caution will protect you from such buyers.


            • Steven Weigler is the Founder and Managing Partner of EmergeCounsel, whose mission is to provide a worldwide clientele legal counsel on the protection of intellectual property and business assets at a lower price point than large legal firms.


            Steve's received many awards, including being named a Super Lawyer for three consecutive years (2021-2023).



            Time Stamps for your convenience

            22:00 The lack of structure in entrepreneurship

            25:00 The unpredictability of startup life as an entrepreneur

            29:00 Comparing and contrasting being an employee to entrepreneur

            42:00 Working in a city good for your soul

            48:00 Just incredible sound bites on running a business


            Learn more about EmergeCounsel at https://emergecounsel.com

            56 min

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          Welcome to Startup Mindsets! Dan Gonzales is your host! Each week, we'll dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why entrepreneurship is important in today's world. Subscribe & discover your Startup Mindset today!