The Next Iteration Podcast

Prashant is one of our brilliant friends who takes a Product-minded approach to everything he does. That means that whatever problems he faces, he tried to think about how he can solve that problem at scale.

We had a ton of fun chatting with him from halfway across the world about how COVID has helped him grow dramatically by giving him time for experimentation, things he's learned from Western and Indian culture, writing, podcasting and so much more!

Check out some of the timestamps below and let us know your thoughts!

Prashant's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/

Billion Moonshots: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/billion-moonshots/id1525084475

Prashant's Newsletter: https://prashantbagga.com/

3:00 – Experimenting during COVID

14:48 – What the West can learn from the East and what the East can learn from the West

25:50 – Leapfrogging in the Indian market

36:00 – How has writing changed your view of the world

42:26 – Tips for new writers

Timestamps

3:45 - Introverts vs Extroverts When Making Friends

7:45 - Friendship, a 3 step process

19:30 - What makes a good friend?

29:30 - How do you keep friends while moving and progressing in life

40:00 - What Marcus Aurelius teaches us about friendship

Damien and Fuad sit down for a late-night (probably too late at night) 1:1 conversation about the role of work in our lives. It's been a while since we've done of these and you guys have been telling us about how much you've enjoyed them -- so we're back at it again after too long!

Timestamps

5:00 - What did being in academia teach you?

8:30 - How did you get rid of nerd #FOMO and focus on 1 thing?

14:00 - If you want to do good, can you still work in consulting or finance?

21:00 - Can you truly be ethical in a system that values profit above all else?

31:00 - Creating new metrics to drive ethical growth and improvement

36:00 - What Nazi Germany can teach us about unethical AI

43:30 - The story of Parity, an algorithmic audit company

53:00 - Haters as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) 🤪

Reach out to Rumman: http://www.rummanchowdhury.com/

There's a new podcast on the block 👀 check out the first episode of the DubsCast, the newest member of the Next Iteration Family.

Check out the show at

https://anchor.fm/dubscastpod/episodes/AFC-Fan-Token-Release--Community-Owned-Sports-Teams-e153tdmF

Reach out to Tristan at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanwedd/

Time stamps:

1:00 – becoming an entrepreneur by necessity

5:00 – shiny object syndrome, and Tuba’s shiniest object right now

15:51 – what Tuba learned about himself through founding Hack the City

30:30 – The Next36 and Techstars experience

38:30 – Nurturing your network and keeping your connections warm

42:45 – Crescendo’s origin story

53:15 – The most exciting trend coming out of Asia

1:13:15 – Emerging markets: who’s the biggest dark horse, and who will see the most growth

Tuba's LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tubadsouza/

Tuba's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tubadsouza

Timestamps:

2:00 - Before we get started, let’s get some gratefulness in this

6:00 - Understanding how this is NOT natural

15:30 - Start with why to understand if you need to use social media less or more

20:00 - Willpower as a finite resource

26:12 - Political polarization and social media

35:45 - Building your brand and finding a community

Timestamps:

2:50 - Why does everyone call you “dad”?

6:20 - Tell us about your dad, aerospace engineer, and what lessons you learned from him.

17:35 - How never getting into military college set you up for success?

31:30 - How did you get a job at Tesla, and what kept you there year after year?

41:00 - Why his team reads every single one of 355,000 resumes

43:15 - Is an MBA worth it?

59:45 - How to find a good mentor

Mitchell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-kos-c-mgr-cm-c-i-m-eit-sfc-04104181/

Timestamps:

1:00 – Lessons from growing up with Sports

8:00 – Why you shouldn’t think in binary outcomes

10:20 – Founding Zipcall

20:00 - Studying Entrepreneurship vs Living it

22:00 – Managing Investor Interest

31:00 – How to get Acquired

36:00 – Crypto & Coinbase

Ian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianramzy/

Timestamps

2:24 - What made you want to switch industries from banking?

6:58 - What is the SGAC and how did it empower you?

14:55 - What is the safe and sustainable development of space?

20:25 - Is the privatization of space good or bad?

26:20 - Who should govern a Martian colony?

35:00 - How can people get involved in the space industry?

SGAC: https://spacegeneration.org/

Harriet's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-brettle-59a25852/