Chief Financial Officer of VC Darling Karbon Chief Financial Officer of Rescale Chief Financial Officer of RoundGlass Chief Financial Officer of Skytap Chief Financial Officer of 3Tier Frank Colich's LinkedIn profile reads better than most executives in history. If you look at how consistent he is in obtaining literally the top financial roles, you'll see he really knows how to be successful in the startup world and "Frankly-Lee" the business world in general. There's a lot to be learned from our father of 2 young men and again, CFO of 5 amazing business success. Salience Digital's Founder Brandon Na hosts today's podcast.

James Brady, Head of Engineering at Ought.org and one of the impressive signatories on the open letter to "pause Giant AI Experiments" (in addition to: Elon Musk and some other notable minds and leaders in society including: Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Andrew Yang, Forward Party, Co-Chair, Presidential Candidate 2020, NYT Bestselling Author, Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director at Mila, Turing Prize winner and professor at University of Montreal Stuart Russell, Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and co-author of the standard textbook “Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach" Bart Selman, Cornell, Professor of Computer Science, past president of AAAI and 27559 other well known souls) helps us understand the many implications of AI, society and very importantly for us, Education. We spend more than the average time with James exploring his life as a son of teachers (who I truly admire), a Cambridge University grad and one of the earliest Y Combinator alumni. His thoughts are ones that I want to come back and listen to over and over again. I feel like the didactic impact from just this conversation is worth at least 3 or 8 listens to this one interview. I highly recommend contrasting it with Lex Fridman's interview of Sam Altman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw) or even Guy Raz's interview with him (https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/hibt-lab-openai-sam-altman/id1150510297?i=1000580232536) or even Reid Hoffman's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIpx3KscY). I think Tim Ferris also did one with him at one point, but I can't find it to share. Please feel free to add it to the comments or anywhere you can. James is a fascinating perspective and this interview, I believe is possibly worth listening just as much as the 3 former ones -- just saying.

Denzel Washington might be the glamorous version of how a debate coach could be, but Chris Medina (current coach of the famous program in the movie) is the modern day Melvin B. Tolson & has helped the "debate program [win] more than 50 national championships, even though the 1,300-student college competes against much larger institutions. Medina’s students are shaped more by adversity than privilege, but debate has boosted their self-confidence and self-perceptions, igniting new ambitions and intellectual passions."  

Hyperboles are dangerous, but after listening to this interview with the CEO/Founder of Lately.ai, I think you'll be calling this conversation one of the most memorable in podcast history.  We were sincerely graced by a founder who's had an incredibly rich life already before starting Lately.ai and it will explain why she becomes next Sara Blakely v 2.0.   

Ta Corrales, an incredible Latino startup founder elucidates to us the Costa Rican perspective to Education.  Through her amazing mother's "startup" spirit in building a school through her current startup https://www.smithassembly.com, we get to learn so many amazing thoughts from this wonderful startup co-founder (re: education).  If you're curious about how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad and Chief Product Officer thinks about how to spread product goodness, you'll want to take a listen!  

Former Founder/CEO of Bizable Aaron Bird sells to Marketo and shortly thereafter sells to Adobe for $4.75 billion.  Today, Aaron is running the startup studio Pienza. You should check it out! Adobe on Thursday announced that it's acquiring Marketo, a company that sells marketing software, from Vista Equity Partners for $4.75 billion. Sep 20, 2018

Coming up very soon are: Aaron Bird, Ta Corrales, Heza Mulinzi & Chris Medina Stay Tuned!!!

The beauty of "EduK8" is that we give you perspectives from people who disrupt and win at life.  While we respect our "educators," we believe there is a need to examine the education system from people who've navigated through what might be broken and figured a way to leverage what is available.  Minnie Ingersoll, not only graduated from two of the top educational institutions, but she also was one of the first 500 of possibly the most ubiquitous online organization in the world: Google.  She's also served as a Commissioner for  the City and County of San Francisco, helped lead Code for America as their COO, started and led a successful startup in the automotive industry and now invests and guides some of the future disrupters like wish, pluto tv & Data Science via TenOneTen Ventures.  

Starting off the New Year, we share some more amazing tips on how to get through any difficulty you might be experiencing.  From an amazing & optimistic CTO to a humane & incredibly intelligent Venture Capitalist to a impressive & wise writer, you get very relatable advice on what to do when you might think the cards are against you.    The following amazing voices share their best advice when it comes to dealing with the tough times.   Angela Ma (the impressive & wise writer) - for more with Angela, listen to her interview here: https://apple.co/3r0Cjt3 Claudius Mbemba (the amazing & optimistic CTO) - for more w/ Claudius, listen to his episode here: http://apple.co/35eKQiP Minnie Ingersoll (the humane & incredibly intelligent Venture Capitalist) - for the full interview, tune back in the week of the 11th of Jan, 2021!

Coming up on EduK8 are some of the more exciting folks in VC, startups and we everything in between. We have Minnie Ingersoll, Ta Corrales and Aaron Bird who will share with you how they’ve been “winning at life.”