Jimmy Nguyen catches up with his long-time friend and favorite every beauty pageant title holder - Brook Mahealani Lee, Miss Universe 1997 (and originally Miss USA 1997) from Hawaii.  It can surprise many people that beauty queens - such as an intelligent powerhouse like Brook - have such deep insights on how to WIN in life and career. 

Brook is the first (and still only) native Hawaiian to win the title of Miss Universe - becoming a role model for Asian Pacific Islanders all over the world.  She is also a renowned icon for her refreshing, humorous, intelligent and insightful answers at the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants - which still are Internet viral sensations to this day.

In this comprehensive interview, Brook shares her journey to ultimate pageant WINs after many years of losses; life back in her native Hawaiian islands ; being authentically who you are; the challenges of aging once you are known in the beauty industry; and WIN lessons for her children and everyone. 

Jimmy Nguyen talks with Daniel Doll-Steinberg, about the vast impact of "frontier technologies" such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, "transhuman" tech, and "always-on" high speed communications. 

A long-time leader in digital innovation, Daniel is co-author of the book Unsupervised:  Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies - selected by Bloomberg as one of the Best Books of 2023.  He is also co-founder of EdenBase, an innovation venture fund for emerging tech based in the United Kingdom.

In this deep conversation, Daniel talks about his life journey and a three-decade career in digital transformation - derivatives trading in the 1990s; digital rights management tech that transformed the games and software industry; entry into blockchain by co-founding the Atari token project; and expert advisory work for UK and European Commission government agencies.

Most poignantly, Daniel shares his thoughts on the "inevitable" coming of frontier technologies, their impact on the future of work, and the better world which his EdenBase venture fund seeks to advance .... so that all can WIN.

Jimmy Nguyen talks with Scott Stornetta - one of the fathers of the early blockchain, along with his long time partner Stuart Haber. Scott is a physicist, scientific researcher, investor, teacher and thinker of technology’s use for humanity.

Among many other roles, he is a Partner and Chief Scientist at Yugen Partners, a blockchain focused venture investment firm. Scott invests in early stage technology companies, sit on various boards, mentors beginning entrepreneurs, and lectures on computer science, including its social and economic implications.

In this comprehensive interview, we learn about Scott's life, creating early blockchain, ensuring integrity of digital data, real identity in a world of AI, and making the world better with long-lasting WINs.

Kass & Mike Lazerow are a wife and husband team - serial entrepreneurs, investors and advisors. They are best known as the cofounders of Golf.com (sold to Time Warner in 2006) and Buddy Media. Buddy Media would become the world’s leading social media marketing platform and sold in 2012 to Salesforce.com for $745 million.

Since selling Buddy Media, the Lazerows have focused on providing capital and advice to the world’s most innovative founders. Through their firms Velvet Sea Ventures and Lazerow Enterprises, Kass & Mike have supported close to 100 early-stage startup founders.

The Lazerows have written a book to be published in late 2024 – "Shoveling $h!t: A Love Story. The Messy Path to Entrepreneurial Success."

In this comprehensive interview, Jimmy Nguyen talks to Kass & Mike about their personal & entrepreneurial love story; and they provide lessons to help entrepreneurs and all professionals learn how to navigate messy paths to achieve WINs.

For more on the Lazerows and to pre-order their book, visit: KassandMike.com

In this premiere episode, Jimmy Nguyen talks with George Gilder - one of the leading economic & technology thinkers of the past 40 years, called a “technology prophet.” George discusses his life journey, economics, microchips, blockchain, A.I., graphene - and how his thoughts could live forever. 

George is the author of over 20 books - including The Scandal of Money and Life After Google and his 1981 renowned book, Wealth and Poverty, which advanced a case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the Ronald Reagan presidential administration in the U.S.  More recently, George has published Gaming AI: Why AI Can't Think but Can Transform Jobs (2020) and Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money (2023).