Trust the Process @ MIT

We sit down with the co-founders of Nurtur — Kristen Ellefson and Bindu Chanagala. We discuss their experience at the Trust Center’s Delta V accelerator, which is open to any start up with at least one MIT affiliated cofounder.

Nurtur is a digital health platform aiming to predict and address postpartum depression with large language models and machine learning.

Ryan Lee is best known as the man who’s company produced the Baby Shark song (and thousands of other K-Pop influenced children’s songs.) This company, Pink Fong, now brings in over $100 million in revenue per year.

Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of our very own Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship, a book Mr. Lee read when he was in the midst of launching his own start up.

They first met in 2015 at a bootcamp workshop run by Bill, which focused on the major topics covered in Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Ryan credits that workshop for helping him understand how to navigate bringing his company’s work to overseas markets.

In this episode, they catch up and discuss a disciplined approach to starting a business.

This episode features Trust Center Entrepreneur in Residence George Whitfield, Trust Center Undergraduate Advisory Board member Eileen Zhang, and Trust the Process host Chris Burns.

The conversation runs from Eileen’s childhood experiences in her parents’ Chinese restaurant in New Jersey, to battling imposter syndrome, to the entrepreneurship opportunities for MIT undergrads.

A conversation between Trust Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ben Soltoff and four students from Houston who are participants in our new TEX-E Program.

TEX-E stands for Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy. It’s a first-of-a-kind collaboration between Greentown Labs, MIT’s Martin Trust Center, and four Texas universities: Texas A&M, UT-Austin, University of Houston, and Rice University.

The objective is to create a powerful, student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Houston, focused on energy innovation and implementing lessons learned from building a successful ecosystem in Boston. This effort will aim to train and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs to lead the energy transition and to share in the massive economic opportunity it entails, while also addressing the existential threat of climate change.

In this episode, we feature an interview with Christine Hsieh, an MIT PhD alum who was the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Day2Day, a health tech start up.

Hsieh is now an entrepreneur in residence at the Trust Center.

Conducting the interview is Paul Cheek, the executive director of the Trust Center.

They talk about transparent leadership, the dynamics of the entrepreneurial journey, and resources available at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Hsieh also talks about her early-career research into music and mental health.

START MIT alum Mar Velasco sits down with Trust Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Susan Neal to discuss her time in the StartMIT program, and her experiences at the Trust Center.

Velasco is an MBA Candidate at the Sloan School, and a former investment relations manager at the Bimbo Bakery, the largest bakery in Mexico. She tells us about her entry into the business world, her admiration for her mother, and the MIT resources she's used in her entrepreneurship journey.

In this episode, we feature an interview with Jesus Lares, an alumni of the Trust Center's delta v and MIT Fuse programs. Lares is a recent MIT undergrad who passed on a job at Google to found Eraverse, a company designing custom locations in the metaverse where far-flung participants can collaborate on projects.

He says he never imagined he would work in the entrepreneurship space when he entered MIT as an aerospace engineering major. But, his intensive engagement with the Trust Center's delta v and Fuse programs helped him decide to pursue building a company full-time after graduating.

Conducting the interview is Paul Cheek, the executive director of the Trust Center and one of Lares's advisors during undergrad.

Welcome to the promo episode for "Trust the Process," the first podcast from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

This show brings you right into the conference rooms of MIT's center for entrepreneurship. You'll hear experts on business growth talk about time management, leadership, team building, and more.

Our first episodes will be released November 1.