Yash & Company Podcast

Marcus Stroud was raised in the small town of Prosper, Texas, and accepted an offer to play football at Princeton University. He received his A.B. in Religion, writing his thesis on a historical analysis of American religious and cultural trends in the 20th and 21st Century. After Princeton, Marcus cut his teeth on Wall Street, where he was a fixed income analyst at the largest and leading fixed income electronic trading platform company for institutional investors and dealers. Marcus left Wall Street to join Vida Capital in Austin, Texas, a multi-billion-dollar alternative asset manager. After Vida, Marcus was recruited to lead the Clubhouse Investment Club, a conglomerate of celebrity investors looking to co-invest with top-tier VCs. Marcus sourced deals, conducted due diligence, circulated investment opportunities, and raised funds for individual deals. At TXV, Marcus will focus on fundraising and deal sourcing, with a particular focus on consumer deals.

Anand Ravipati is a native of Huntsville, Alabama. He studied biotechnology at Penn State before pursing his medical degree at Ross University. After medical school, Anand has served as an advisor to many start ups while also being a venture capitalist investor. He currently serves as a product manager at Radical Motion, a start up focused on detecting and reconstructing 3D human motion from 2D content. In his free time, Anand helps organize the annual gala for the Tusk Foundation, is an avid tennis player, and tries his best to become a true seeker. 

“Do not wait for the right time or moment. Just get started at whatever you really want to do. Thats what I’d tell myself in high school.” - Frederick Daso 

Frederick Daso has obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of the 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Frederick has completed five internships at The Boeing Company as a structural analyst, working on the 737, 777, 787, Commercial Crew Transport System, Space Launch System, and Xtra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle across the company’s major business units including Boeing Commercial Airlines, Boeing Defense, Space and Security, and Boeing Research & Technology. Frederick is also an Under 30 Contributor to Forbes.com and a 2016 and 2018 LinkedIn Top Voice with over 355,000 followers, where he writes about startups founded by college students and recent college graduates, ranging from biotechnology to artificial intelligence.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickdaso/#39c7908854b3

Colin is Chief Medical Officer of Reata Pharmaceuticals (a public biotech company: RETA). At Reata, he leads product development and strategy, clinical trial design and analysis, and medical affairs. He joined Reata in 2003 as one of its first few employees. Colin received a B.S. in chemistry with specialization in biochemistry and a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia. He received an M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. 

“There are a lot of amazing people in this world but there are some who like change and some who don’t.” - Shaily Baranwal, CEO and Founder of Elevate K-12

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Shaily Baranwal is the Founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing edtech companies Elevate K-12. The company brings live streaming instruction to schools and is working to change how K-12 classrooms work. Her mission behind Elevate K-12 was to bring the best quality teaching to all classrooms and create work opportunities for women. She was also the founder of a chain of pre-schools and restaurants in India. An entrepreneur by heart, she is a Production Engineer, with a teaching degree in Early Childhood Education and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. If you do not see her working on building Elevate K-12, you can see her deeply immersed in a book or scuba diving somewhere. 

Zach Harting is a professional swimmer for the US national team. He began swimming when he was 7 years old and has won numerous state championships at Bob Jones High School before swimming at the University of Louisville. There, he served as a Captain for the 2018-2019 season and was an NCAA All-American. Zach graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the university and is currently working on his Masters in Engineering Management. After qualifying for the US’s national swim team in 2017 and competition in numerous races, Zach qualified in the 200m butterfly for the 2019 World Championships in South Korea, where he finished 6th in the world. 

Kobby, Grant, and Yash talk through the tricks, tips, and experiences they've picked up as they traveled internationally for less than $30 a day. 

“I would tell people, I’m the least connected guy on Wall Street. That was my catch phrase” - Aaron Fletcher, PhD

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Aaron Fletcher founded and serves as President of Bios Research, a financial services firm that provides public equity research in the healthcare space tailored to institutional firms and large family offices. Bios Research provides fundamental healthcare industry research focused in the biotech and med-tech sub-sectors and through this research, Dr. Fletcher has a strong understanding of commercial viability in the marketplace. Dr. Fletcher holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Colorado State University and currently serves as a visiting professor at Dallas Baptist University where he assists in teaching Biochemistry, Bioethics, and Cell Biology. Dr. Fletcher has worked as an independent consultant for the biotech/healthcare equity industry for over 10 years.

Grant Hensel is the founder of Nonprofit Megaphone, a company helping 180+ nonprofits manage the $10,000/month Google Ad Grant to reach their target audiences online. He is also the founder of the RoundUp App, which allows thousands of individuals to donate the change from their everyday purchases to a nonprofit they care about. Grant graduated from Wheaton College where in senior year, along with his now wife, wrote to every Fortune 500 CEO and has received feedback by nearly a 3rd of them. He published his results in the book What the Fortune 500 Read.