Listen in as Tonio and Adam discuss a common misconception about the age of founders.


EP 29 [Bonus] Tonio DeSorrento - Founder & CEO of Vemo

Episode 30 features Kedar Reddy, Co-founder and CEO of Playloops. Playloops is a gif maker with a goal of creating gifs that are more inclusive in their representation. Listen in as Kedar shares how he built his team, the lessons his learned along his journey, and what’s next for Playloops.

Playloops


EP 30 Kedar Reddy, Co-Founder and CEO of PlayLoops, discusses his experience building a gif making platform  with a focus on activism.

From building a vocational school in India that serves 10,000 students a year to running an MVP of her app DaVinci Club AR with 12,000 students in US Arjita, co-founder of equally, is hell bent on making education more accessible and effective. 

The entrepreneurial runs in Arjita's family. Inspired by here mother and encouraged from a young age to be courageous Arjita continues to push the envelope on creating more accessible education for the masses. 

She built and ran a vocational school in India teaching educated Indians how to speak english so they could take their work overseas. After building a school that taught 10,000 students a year Arjita decided 10,000 students/year was not big enough. She set out for San Francisco with the focus of building software that could scale well beyond the confines of four walls. 

In this episode Arjita shares how she started Equally, her experience with X Prize, and how saying yes has opened door after door for her. You'll hear from Arjita as she is wrapping up her 3rd accelerator in 2018, this one in Finland, as she prepares to return to the US and put all that she has bene learning to good use.

Links:

Arjita Instagram
Arjita Twitter

Equally Website
DaVinci Club AR Download


EP 31 Arjita Sethi, Co-Founder of Equally, talks all things education and creating more accessible learning opportunities through AR for the bottom billion.

In a follow up to her full episode, Arjita Sethi, dives deeper into her work with DaVinci Club AR, how emerging technologies are leap frogging legacy technologies in developing countries, and more.

Links:

Arjita Instagram
Arjita Twitter

Equally Website
DaVinci Club AR Download


EP 31 [Bonus] Arjita Sethi, Co-Founder of Equally, talks emerging technologies, top countries for Ed Tech, and DaVinci Club AR

Episode 32 features Lindsey Caplan, a talent development professional, focused on understanding what brings people together in gatherings. A bit about Lindsey:

Lindsey Caplan has been gathering people for over 15 years - first to entertain, as a comedy writer in Hollywood on shows such as “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, and “Malcolm in the Middle”, then to educate for companies like DreamWorks Animation and McKinsey, and now to transform as an organizational psychologist as the Head of Talent Development for successful Silicon Valley companies like Zendesk and currently, Credit Karma. She earned a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor's Degree in Film and Creative Writing for the Media from Northwestern University. She believes work can be a place where you become your best self. Please don’t dissuade her.

In this episode Lindsey shares what she's learning as she writes a book on gatherings. As she puts it: "context is king". We often find ourselves in meetings or groups with very little understanding of why we're there. By adding a layer of intentionality and focusing on the context Lindsey believes the value and impact of gatherings dramatically increases.

Listen to this episode to pick up tactics Lindsey has been experimenting with and implementing in her own work and learn from her anecdotes as a talent development practitioner, what she's learned from conversations in a pub in Ireland, to her summer long sabbatical in NYC where she gave her book her undivided attention.

To learn more from Lindsey and follow along check out her website and twitter:

https://lindseycaplan.com/

https://twitter.com/lindsey_caplan


EP 32 Lindsey Caplan The importance of intentionality in our Gatherings and why context is king

In this bonus episode Lindsey and Adam dig deeper into the elements of gathering. They discuss the distinctions between content, connection, and context in gatherings. &nbsp;




EP 32 [Bonus] Lindsey Caplan and the distinctions between content, connection, and context in gatherings

In this episode Brett Podolsky, the co-founder of The Farmer's Dog,  shares his experience of how caring for his sick dog, Jada, evolved into a business that has now raised $49+ million in venture funding. That's over simplified but you're starting to get the idea. 

Brett share's how he went form being a comedian, to recipe testing healthy meals for his dog, and onto  co-founding a high growth e-commerce business. All while focusing on the importance of building a strong team and following the work that energizes you. 

To really dig into Brett's story listen in for the lessons he's learned a long the way.


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