In this episode, Arun and I went sans guest to dive into the recent market decline, impact on the Tech market, layoffs, and a special look-back at our previous episodes of the season.

In our 28th publication of the Techonomics podcast, Arun and I had the pleasure of speaking with Lindsay Gordon, the founder of A Life of Options and a career coach for analytically minded people. She also happens to be a newly minted author with her book, Right for YOU. Lindsay's specialty in coaching and tips/tricks in the episode are a perfect fit for Techonomics listeners – the analytically minded.

You won't want to miss it – and if you have follow up questions for Lindsay, reach out at [email protected].

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Andrew Yates from Promoted.ai joins us for our 27th episode to discuss ad tech, his thoughts on SaaS value creation, and how he and the team at Promoted.ai are optimizing marketplaces. Promoted.ai helps companies like Hipcamp use their own data to provide the most relevant content using ad-like ranking and scoring. We also had a great time going over Andrew's history in ad tech, his experience building and optimizing ad systems, and his philosophy in building Promoted -- everything is an ad.

If you'd like to read the transcript, you can check out Promoted's Medium post.

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In this episode, Nate Pierotti from New Stack Ventures joined Arun and I to discuss New Stack's approach to Venture Capital, investing in a time without tech exuberance, and what it's like to be a founder turned VC. This episode gets to the heart of Techonomics – a conversation at the intersection of tech and the economy.

Mike Wagner, the CEO of Edge Case Research, joined Arun and I in our 25th episode of Techonomics to discuss the different levels of self-driving, insurance, the liability shift as we move towards autonomous vehicles, and the processes self-driving car companies like Waymo, Cruise, and Aurora can use to make them safe.

In our 24th episode, Arun and I sat down with Chirru Gopal, Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Mitra Chem, a startup that's accelerating lab-to-market timeline for battery materials. Chirru is a good friend and an expert in the field of material science, engineering, and batteries – something we don't cover in any previous episode.

During the show Chirru gives us a crash course in batteries while bringing us through what makes up a battery, what makes a battery powerful and performant, and the unique approach that Mitra Chem is taking to shorten the lab-to-production time by more than 90%.

You also won't want to miss Chirru dive into why innovation in certain parts of the battery is important, how the industry is progressing towards cheaper materials for batteries of the same performance, and how trade-offs are made when manufacturing batteries for different purposes.

Ever wonder how your electric vehicle battery actually works? Tune in to find out!

In our 23rd episode, Arun and I sat down with Jake Panikulam, the CEO of Main Street Autonomy – a company that creates localization, mapping, and calibration software for robotics companies.

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This week we have the pleasure of talking with Michelle Parsons, the Chief Product Officer of Hinge – the dating app designed to be deleted.

In this episode, we talk about dating in the COVID era, how Hinge's product thinking helps their users get quality dates, and how the thread of community has been shaping software products throughout the tech industry.

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For our second episode of season two, Nitya Sharma joined us to talk Payments, India, and Online Khata -- introducing us to Simpl. Simpl is a company reimagining the credit card from the ground up and empowering online retailers to build trusted relationships with their best customers.

See more at https://getsimpl.com and https://www.techonomics.news

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For our first episode of season two, Tyler Odean (or Knifefight as his internet pseudonym goes) joined us to talk Bitcoin, NFTs, and what makes good money.

Tyler is the creator and author of the crypto newsletter Something Interesting at https://www.somethinginteresting.news which features easy-to-understand commentary on current happenings and the fundamentals in the crypto market. As the tagline goes: “Everything about Crypto explained, simply.” We highly recommend giving it a read and subscribing.

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