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Today we explore the exciting world of 3D printing, an industry which has ebbed and flowed through the years. While some believe 3D printing will become a critical component of future manufacturing at scale, others think it is nothing more than a gimmick for niche applications or prototyping. We explore the merits of both arguments in a classic red team blue team, examining the past, present and future of this interesting piece of tech.

Our guest today is Sho Dewan, CEO and Co-Founder of Workhap (www.workhap.com). Workhap is a leading talent development firm offering career coaching and corporate leadership training services. Prior to founding Workhap, Sho was the Head of Talent Development at Lalamove, an Asia-based tech-enabled courier service, after spending several years in strategy and recruitment consulting.We talk about the founding of Workhap and its impressive growth through various marketing channels, notably TikTok. Our conversation also spans notable recruiting trends in corporate hiring today, and stories of impressive client wins that Sho and his team were able to accomplish. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Sho Dewan.

Every day, billions of emails are sent around the world. The number of emails sent and received is seemingly increasing over time, and the sheer volume of emails in your inbox can be overwhelming. It's so bad, we've reached the point where declaring 'inbox bankruptcy' and deleting unread emails is a familiar decision for many. Now, you might be able to do something about it. On this episode of the show we're taking a look at Gated Email, an inbox management solution that presents unknown senders with a "challenge email" and prompts the sender to make a donation to a charity of your choice to reach your inbox.We're incredibly excited about this fresh, innovative take on email and are looking forward to seeing where Gated Email goes!

Today we spotlight a fast-growing startup called Polywork, most intuitively characterized as a unique blend between LinkedIn and Twitter. Jessiah and I are extremely excited about this company.Our professional stories are currently told in one of three ways: (1) the resume, which is static, unintuitive, and largely unverifiable, (2) LinkedIn, which lacks important context and specific detail of projects and accomplishments, and (3) the personal website, which is unstandardized and poses frictions in accessibility.Polywork is a professional social network designed to reflect and celebrate the multifaceted nature of what we do as people. For the vast majority of us, a job title or college diploma is just a fraction of who we are, but are the only key pieces of information captured in a resume or LinkedIn profile. Professional and personal “highlights” are the building blocks of Polywork, where users can classify their highlights under specific categories (such as “investing” or “built something new”) and tag collaborators so everyone can be recognized for their achievements.It is truly a fresh take on the professional social network, a space where LinkedIn may have had too long of a stranglehold on. Feel free to check Polywork out, create an account, and let us know what you think!

Our guest today is Patrick Curtis, CEO and Co-Founder of WallStreetOasis. WallStreetOasis the world's largest online community focused on careers in finance, with over 850,000 members and over 20 million visits every year. Prior to founding WallStreetOasis, Pat spent several years in the finance industry, with experiences in investment banking and private equity, before attaining his MBA at the Wharton School of Business in Entrepreneurial Management.Our conversation spans the founding of WallStreetOasis, touching upon the challenges of building communities from scratch and the incredible competitive edge of having highly engaged users. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Pat Curtis.

It's no question the cost of college has ballooned over the past 50 years. In 1980, you could have worked 25 hours a week to put yourself through college on a minimum wage. Today that would be physically impossible.Today we examine the value propositions of a four-year college degree and talk about the changing dynamics between universities, hiring managers, and tech-enabled disruptors looking to take hiring market share. We look at college and ask, is there a better way?Companies mentioned in this episode:upGradLambda SchoolFlatiron SchoolFullstack Academy

Coordinating schedules is one of the great challenges of distributed work and modern social lives alike. In this episode, we discuss the friction inherent to asking people to meet, some of the solutions to coordinating calendars, and how passing the “initiation burden” to technology can help us all get more out of the time we have.Andy Raskin's article: https://medium.com/words-escape-us/the-politics-of-calendar-bots-aa4ecb00b6bc 

This is episode four, and the final episode, of a multi-part series on the Future of Mobility. Today, we invite Rob Lindsay onto the show, an expert and thought leader in the next-generation aviation space.Rob is a seasoned investor and thought leader in the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) space. At Uber Elevate he launched Uber Copter, Uber's first multimodal product and instantiation of UAM. Rob's experience includes investing roles at Levitate Capital and SeedInvest, as well as having served as CFO of Blade Air Mobility, which recently announced its public listing on the NASDAQ as the first publicly traded UAM company.Our conversation spans a comprehensive primer on eVTOL and explores the present and future of vertical takeoff and landing technologies. 

This is episode three of a multi-part series on the Future of Mobility. Today, we're focusing on self-driving cars. We examine the benefits autonomous vehicles bring, namely lowered transportation costs, safety, connectivity, expanded commuter radius and interior space, while also looking at some potential drawbacks like security risks and AI morality.There's no doubt widely-adopted self-driving will fundamentally change our perception of vehicle ownership, infrastructure, and short to medium-haul travel. But the key obstacle to adoption is trust, which maybe a lesson from history could help us put that into perspective.

This is episode two of a multi-part series on the Future of Mobility. Today, we're focusing on the simplicity of the EV powertrain.EVs and ICE vehicles, while almost identical first glance, are actually completely different under the hood. For one, EVs have nothing under the hood! With a significantly smaller drive unit, simpler transmission, and a gas tank replaced by a battery plate on the bottom of the car, the EV releases a lot more space to the passenger and opens up a new world of vehicle design.

This is the first episode of a multi-part series on the Future of Mobility. Today, we're talking about the past, present and future of electric vehicles, or EVs.While we have come to know EVs as a modern technology brought forward by the mighty Tesla, they actually have had a long, colorful history impeded ultimately by the limits of one technology: the battery. With new, modern battery technology and EVs achieving a second renaissance, it may help to look back in time when picturing a fully electric world.

Today we're talking about the business of gifts, beginning with a classic Red Team Blue Team about the Ember Mug. We talk about the economics of gifts and specific characteristics that make certain consumer products great gifts

In this episode, we're talking about the past, present, and future of commercial aviation. We explore the rise of supersonic jets, how they make the world a smaller place, and how the business of supersonic air travel might look in the near future.

While movie theaters around the world continue to deal with extreme adversity in the face of social distancing, streaming activity has reached an all-time high. It begs the question: how will movie theaters survive?In this episode, we pit movie theaters against streaming services in classic “red team vs. blue team” fashion to explore how each model stands the test of time.

As much of the world suddenly shifted from daily in-person office interactions to work-from-home, we ask - what if we never go back to the office?