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On today's episode, we had a conversation with Luca Zambello, the co-founder and CEO of Jurny. Jurny is revolutionizing the hospitality industry with AI and automation, allowing property owners such as Airbnb and hotel owners to spend less time managing their properties and guests while giving guests access to AI that can automatically solve most of their concerns. As we discuss, there is so much potential for innovation in hospitality. Join us as we explore just how much unimagined impact AI will have across all industries.
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This week, we're sharing a conversation with Arkady Kulik, founder and general partner of rpv global, a venture fund that invests in early stage deep tech companies. Kulik's story is an impressive tapestry of ambition and hard work. Before rpv, Arkady had been a serial entrepreneur since his teenage years. After successfully building multiple companies, he spent time restructuring businesses and eventually becoming a C-suite executive. All of this culminated in his eventual immigration to the U.S., where he started rpv. In this episode, Arkady shares wisdom from each stage of his diverse career and presents his insightful perspective on the deep tech sector, a rapidly growing field that will reshape our world through its innovations.
P.S. Here's Arkady's meme. Enjoy :)
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This week, we're sharing a conversation we had with James Sharp, co-founder and CEO of Umi. Umi is a company that teaches language through immersive multimedia content such as movies and TV shows. In this episode, James shares his insights on how we learn languages and beyond, including modern techniques such as spaced repetition and learning through context. We dive deep on how language learning, and all learning in general, will evolve with the increasing focus on artificial intelligence.
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This week, we had a discussion with James Stallworth, co-founder and CEO of Brownstone. Brownstone is making housing affordable with its pods, a new form of housing on par with the single-family home, hotels, Airbnbs, and more. Each pod, which can house a single occupant, is available to tenants through a monthly rent. Now, the company is making pods available for direct purchase by businesses like homeless shelters. In this episode, James shares his insights on the causes of housing shortage and the future of the housing market, including the end of the single-family home as the typical homebuyer's dream.
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In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Mark Stephenson of USC's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. Originally recorded October 2021, this episode explores the practical challenges this young rocket scientist and his team face when building and successfully launching their own rocket ships into space. Join us as we learn about Mark's unique background and indulge in an insightful conversation about the future of space.
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In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Amir Mansouri, CEO and co-founder of SprintRay. SprintRay is disrupting the dental industry through the creation of a digital dental workflow. It wasnât long ago when Amir met his co-founders at USC, when he was completing his doctorate in manufacturing engineering. The three were passionate in innovating in the realm of 3D printing and Amirâs time spent researching in the 3D printing industry brought them to the success of SprintRayâs first dental 3D printer known as Moonray. Today, Sprintray is expanding to a team of 200+ and many more products, selling thousands of 3D printers and changing the world of dentistry. In this episode, we explore Amirâs treacherous journey to innovation as well as his thoughts on what it means to be an innovator.
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This SpotClub Live we featured Tyler Menezes. Tyler is currently the Executive Director at CodeDay, a non-profit that is helping students find their place in technology. Tyler has recently received a notable mention on Forbes 30 under 30 as executive director of CodeDay. His programming journey began when he discovered a book on programming. He was interested not in programming, but in the idea of building something cool. He went on to drop out of college to found a startup and go through startup accelerator Y Combinator, before becoming Executive Director at CodeDay. Since then, he has helped many students discover a passion in tech. We discussed a hypothetical new education system, the importance of diversity in tech, and more.
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This SpotClub Live we featured Akash Chauhan, a three-time Elon Musk employee, a passionate builder, and a driven engineer. At a young age, Akash was tinkering with everything and anything he could get his hands on. That turned into a career as a mechanical engineer at The Boring Company, a manufacturing engineer at Redwood Materials, a starship launch intern at SpaceX, and a new programs engineer at Tesla, all before the age of 21. Akash is driven by the opportunity to build and technologies that change this world, demonstrating the true spirit of innovation. We discussed Akash's experiences with these companies, a future world where robots and humankind coexist, and more.
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This SpotClub Live we featured Marian Thomas Semerdjian, an expert in adtech, marketing, data analysis, and sales/lead production. Through working at New Line Cinema, Yahoo, Buzzfeed, and Zynga, Marian has learned all about data, including the good and the bad. We discussed the impacts of data today, including how it may have even had an effect on the recent war in the region between Armenia and Azerbaijan known as Artsakh.
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Brian Femminella founded SoundMind after witnessing friends in the military and other communities experience trauma, anxiety, and mental illnesses. SoundMind is an audio therapy application that utilizes psychologically proven soothing sounds, and a machine learning algorithm, to help calm and soothe individuals with these struggles. Brian is also serving in the military and pursuing a degree in cybersecurity at the University of Southern California. He previously worked at the United Nations and US House of Representatives. In this episode, we discuss Brian's journey, mental health and its intersection with software, therapy, and the future of SoundMind.
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Taron Lizagub is the founder of Knoxlabs, a virtual reality marketspace. In this SpotClub Live, we experienced what it was like to record and attend a meeting in VR using his virtual office app NokNok. Taron shares his belief that the future of virtual reality is in mixed and augmented reality, describes a vision in which humans can communicate and interact with the world with mere thoughts, and more.
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Stedman Cleveland, an ex Product Manager at Mopro, Playboy Enterprises, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and FreshRealm is creating a new sustainable model for the repurposing and reusing of clothing items via his company, Aura. The waste in the fashion industry is huge and e-commerce is only perpetuating this tremendous problem. Aura rethinks the online approach to clothing by creating a more sustainable model, placing a product's story at the center of attention rather than the brand.
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As the capabilities of software advance, the methods to learn languages have changed and will change. Some game changers have already been created, for example Duolingo, which recently had its IPO. Ara Ghougassian, co-founder of Fluent, discusses how Fluent seeks to change how people think of language learning by integrating it in their daily activities: learning while listening to an audiobook, surfing the web, watching a Netflix show, or listening to a curated Spotify playlist. Fluent will be the most focused language learning company in this vertical problem space, opting to concentrate on the language learning industry over expanding into multiple EdTech challenges.
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Caitlyn Lubas, an ex-Instagram employee and NYU graduate, left her Silicon Valley job to pursue her life as a digital nomad and travel startup founder. Caitlyn has a passion to empower anyone to travel to new places and experience these areas authentically. Above all, she believes âyou are where you go,â which led her to write her book with the same name, You Are Where You Go, publishing it with the hope of inspiring individuals to expand their mindset beyond the city or country they are from. Learn more about her at the following resources.
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Justin and Esteban are the founders of Project Unicorn. On a personal level they value sincerity, handwork, and are pushing to build the next unicorn. Project Unicorn is on a mission to create an exclusive social platform for ambitious startup founders and only the best investors. This will help create a value-adding application that ensures the highest quality in its users, providing a platform that will connect people who would have otherwise never met. If you are an investor or a startup entrepreneur interested in beta testing Project Unicorn, follow the resources below.
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Founder Reid Moncada discusses how Fitted Laundry is creating a laundry service business through a scalable Uber style model, utilizing existing laundromats and contracted employees. However, this business will not only be a full laundry service, but it will also digitize your closet in the process through data tagging software driven by an AI enabled camera at Fitted Laundry's partnered laundromats. Reid is on the journey to reimagine the space of fashion, laundry, and accessible data on clothing all through leveraging his laundry network. This journey will be a long one, listen to the podcast to fully understand how Reid is innovating the world.
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This week on the program, a conversation with SeedScout founder Mat Sherman. Mat started his journey as a YouTuber, quickly pivoting to a startup founder at PubLoft, and is now working on a vision to reimagine the modern day pre-seed and seed investing industry. SeedScout is a platform that will connect the best investors with the most ambitious founders without ever leveraging its community to become an institutional investor within themselves. Mat is on a true journey to innovate!
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This episode is the introduction to SpotClub. Founded by Aren Melkonian and Ethan Keshishian, SpotClub is a podcast for innovative minds focused around researchers, startup founders, crazy thinkers, and ambitious people.
