Into the Adultverse

Timestamps (8:45) - Being the black sheep and non-consensus opinions (15:30) - Immigrating to the US from Italy at 17 (20:45) - Is America still the land of opportunity, or should we all move to Europe? (28:30) - Thesis-driven investment and conviction areas (38:50) - Emotional Intelligence: the difference between a good and a great VC (43:45) - What do you do as a board member? (49:00) - How to get more women into VC

Timestamps (2:55) - What does War teach us about the human mind? (12:45) - The journey to chief surgeon (23:35) - DEI and DOGE (29:13) - Research and the Government budget cuts (37:56) - Going from Military to Industry (49:50) - PTSD in the Digital Warfare Era

Tune in to hear how psychedelics are being operationalized to treat depression and many other medical conditions Doug's had an amazing journey, through raising $4 billion of capital, being named Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, and becoming the CEO of https://cybin.com/ Timestamps: (6:40) - Food as Medicine (10:00) - Opportunity and exposure (16:00) - Connection as a superpower (28:00) - Earning the ability to choose (36:01) - Molecular changes to Shrooms (46:20) - Ancient knowledge (51:00) - Regulatory considerations
 (58:00) - BUY CYBIN STOCK $$$

Oh boy you guys are not ready Timestamps: (2:00) To Be or Not To Be a Crypto Bro? (8:40) Why are you interested in entrepreneurship? (20:10) Why Crypto? (29:00) Why does crypto mean the monetary system has to change? (40:00) A RENEWAL - Things Need to Change (48:00) The BITCOIN Act in Congress (55:00) Real world examples of Blockchain (1:09:00) Bitcoins energy consumption index (1:24:00) The State of Canada

#88 - Science As Structured Play - Sebastian Cocioba Timestamps (8:30) - AI Tools for Researchers (22:00) - Science is Structured Play (31:00) - How to Grow Almost Anything
 (35:00) - Flowers for Everyone
 (41:00) - Designing Science Education
 (49:00) - Explore for the Sake of It
 (1:09:00) - Go for a Beer with Failure

| Links: 
 - asknature.org 
 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiancocioba/ 
 - https://x.com/atinygreencell

All about defense. This is arguably one of the most difficult and interesting conversations we've ever had on the podcast. Enjoy the listen :) Timestamps (2:10) - What are Segundo Bros?
 (5:30) - What can young people do in Defense? (11:44) - $1000 drones taking out 3 billion dollar ships (25:20) - Deterrence Theory and Francis Fukuyama (40:50) - The Valley of Death for Defense Startups (55:00) - The Trickle Down Effect of Defense Tech

Parth Sareen, Founder of LLM monitoring startup Extensible, talks Gen AI, building cool shit, and tech Twitter. Timestamps: 
 (2:00) - How will AI change UI? Will there even be UI? (9:25) - How did Waterloo shape you? (19:20) - Nature vs Nurture; building cool shit (31:40) - Founding Extensible (38:00) - Why Do an Accelerator? (47:30) - Why are Agents hard to Monitor? 
(1:00:20) - Human Interaction in an Agentic Future

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming with the Next Iteration Podcast! Having the privilege to talk cool ideas with amazing people has always been what we love the most about hosting a platform like this. 

 On today's episode, we talk career pivots, AI, and the future of gaming with Jijnes! He led platforms and product at EA for years, and recently pivoted to biotech to work with TempusAI. If you know us, we're massive FIFA fans, and it was so fun getting to hear some behind-the-scenes insights on one of my favorite products of all time. Timestamps: (3:30) - Are video games a net positive to society? (18:45) - Why does every FIFA game feel the same? (27:00) - The AI “winter break” hypothesis (32:00) - When do know you should go on a sabbatical? (41:00) - How to pivot industries - gaming to biotech #podcast #gaming #fifa #tech #ai

So, 2023 kinda kicked our ass

Wallace Torres, Co-founder and Head of Ops at WellTheory joins us on the pod today. WellTheory is a virtual care platform dedicated to fighting the autoimmune epidemic and empowering those with “invisible illnesses.” In this episode, we delve deep into the challenges faced by the countless millions who struggle with autoimmune diseases, often quietly and without proper recognition. We explore the gaps in traditional healthcare, the need for a root-cause approach, and the power of personalized, evidence-based care. Join us as we uncover the unique initiatives that WellTheory is taking to fill these gaps, including expert-led holistic health programs, personalized coaching, and a supportive community that provides validation and support. We discuss the importance of inclusivity in healthcare, the role of community support in the healing journey, and the impact of invisible illnesses on mental health and overall quality of life. Follow Wallace on: Twitter - @bywallacetorres LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/wallacetorres WellTheory: https://www.welltheory.com/ (3:26) - WellTheory's origin story (7:14) - How to support your loved ones through their autoimmune condition (12:14) - Fundraising to serve an invisible population (19:34) - Perceptions around holistic care interventions (23:49) - Meeting you where you're at in your health journey (26:19) - Building a community for autoimmune patients (31:34) - Tailoring care to your needs (35:19) - Measuring impact and success (39:24) - The long-term vision (45:01) - Stand-out patient stories (47:44) - Wallace's favourite kid (50:19) - Advice for those struggling to reach out for help

Back with a Banger. Today's episode follows William's journey from doing Stanford ML Research to founding his startup Federato at age 22. Tune in to learn about how he thinks about building actually useful products with AI, and solving problems for real users. Timestamps: (6:00) - So many interesting problems work on, why AI and Data?
 (20:25) - Applying to Stanford for Grad School (26:00) - The Federato Origin Story (34:50) - Businesses Don't Have Problems; People Do (43:00) - Helping Kids Learn Math Through ML (58:00) - Reinforcement Learning and the Youtube Algo https://federato.ai/

How can you become a strong and successful leader and inspire an innovative team across a rapidly growing company? As you know, we are on a never-ending mission to build the best iterations of ourselves, and we want to enable you to do the same. To gain the latest insights, we interviewed Gabriele Brambilla, CEO and Co-Founder of Alira Health. Join us as Gab shares his experiences of founding and developing Alira Health into a global leader in healthcare, and how his entrepreneurial spirit and team-building abilities were inspired by insights from sports and music. Discover strategies to becoming an effective CEO, how to successfully build your management skills to scale across a large enterprise, and identify and unlock the talent in your team to achieve their best. Timestamps: On some podcast players you should be able to click on the timestamp to jump to that time. (2:00) - How being in a position of power tests your character (8:30) - Becoming an effective CEO (13:00) - To KPI or not to KPI (16:00) - Employee to CEO (20:00) - Learning how to be a CEO through sports (29:00) - Identifying and unlocking talent (43:00) - If Alira were to fail, why? (47:15) - Pronoia (49:45) - Partnering with patients

Ray Christian's an expert in all things AI, product, and psychedelics. Today we hear his thoughts on the intersection between those spaces, tune in for a thought-provoking conversation that'll make you question your consciousness. DISCOUNT CODE: Ray also runs Psoiree, a community for people who want to connect about their psychedelic experiences! He was kind enough to give us a discount code for our listeners, use NEXT75 for 75% off a membership! https://www.psoiree.com/ Ray's LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raychristian1/ Timestamps: 
4:20 - Rewind a bit; what was your path to success? 
15:15 - Reintegrating after a psychedelic experience 30:21 - What if we administered shrooms to an AGI? 40:00 - What is consciousness even? 49:00 - Common Sense vs Emotion

Tune in for an intellectually rigorous conversation about investing, value, and the world's hardest problems. Timestamps: 2:30 - Would Nostradamus make a good VC? 6:00 - How'd you go from engineer to VC? 22:30 - What are the hardest problems we need to solve? 25:00 - How do you actually measure value and impact? 37:30 - The benefits of moving to Miami 50:00 - Innovating in legacy industries Leo's favorite Tweet: https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1188979329935409152 Follow Leo and check out Susa Ventures https://twitter.com/lpolovets https://susaventures.com/

Today's episode is on ketamine assisted therapy and psychedelics in general, featuring Dr. Mai Shimada, who has completed her MD from the University of Tokyo, an emergency residency in New York City, and her MBA from INSEAD.
 
Find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maishimada/
 and check out her startup Isha health at https://www.isha.health/ Timestamps 2:40 - Emerg Doctor -> Founder, how did you do it? 12:30 - Did you hesitate to prescribe Ketamine as a psychedlic? 16:45 - When is the right time to consider Ketamine? 24:40 - How is this discussion different in East Asia? 37:30 - Balancing moving fast vs regulations at a healthcare startup 49:30 - FDA regulations and beyond

We back with another banger. Listen to Lulu, Fuad's barber, spit some wisdom about life and becoming a fully fledged human being Timestamps: 3:30 - What actually goes down in the barbershop on the backend? 12:00 - How'd you get into skateboarding? 23:00 - What makes you valuable as a human being? 36:20 - What's one thing about how you were raised that you're doing differently with your kid? He also has his own podcast called the Podcapsule, check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5WY3yV5vtxN6CJI9AJOCGz?si=028dd40ed51c4295

Today's episode features Florcy, an NFT consultant and expert on all things Web3. Tune in to hear how she's thinking through the bear market, and why Web3 is uniquely situated to solve so many of our systemic issues. Timestamps: 2:00 - Web1 vs Web2 vs Web3 13:15 - Is centralization such a bad thing? 22:30 - Why is Web3 part of the answer to dismantling systemic oppression? 29:00 - How are you thinking through the bear market? 39:10 - Why did you get your MBA? Reach out to her on LinkedIn here! https://www.linkedin.com/in/florcymorisset/
And stay tuned for her upcoming book on NFTs and Web3

Announcing our partnership with Zion Maynard's MedTalkcracy! We're super excited to have Zion aboard to spearhead all things MedTech withing the Next Iteration Platform. Enjoy the first episode of the new MedTalkcracy season, featuring Omar Khateeb, a MedTech sales expert. Check out the show at https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XrnY2ECVPzyWh0RIrJQtK?si=f8729a60924341ab

Timestamps: 3:00 - What is MedTalkcracy's mission? 
10:00 - How has podcasting changed you? 14:00 - When “what if” becomes “what is”, where will you be? 34:00 - Connecting the dots 40:00 - Zion roasts Fuad's workout routine If you want to learn more about Zion, connect with him on LI or check out MedTalkcracy! 

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zionmaynard/
 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rK24XigHgaDcyoADsJTuJ

Boredom is one of those topics that you find people on both sides. But it's also a relatively recent invention - so how much of that is due to people being unable to really understand how to navigate boredom? In fact, what really is boredom then? Tune in to find out and check out some of the timestamps below! (1:20) – It's ok, you don't always have to be grinding (10:00) – The empirical case for boredom (13:00) – r/Showerthoughts (18:00) – Boredom and mental health (22:00) – Detachment (26:00) – Darwinism vs boredom (29:00) – Nuance between boredom, innovation, and WALL-E (34:00) – Long form content (41:00) – The Value of Art

4:15 - What are your options? 7:10 - How Damien chose his Master's Program 19:35 - Your biggest regret from grad school 21:35 - Network? Nah, it's a COMMUNITY 30:45 - Getting into a top MBA program

3:30 - Disdain for authority and research 9:20 - What is Arcadia Science? 20:30 - Open science vs open source software
39:00 - Model organisms and expanding our models 49:00 - What is the most important problem facing us in our time?

Timestamps 2:50 - Product Management vs Project Management 9:10 - What got you into the product space? 23:00 - Why Spotify is Tyler's fav product
32:30 - Could a sociopath be a good PM? 42:20 - How do you find product market fit with a partner? Tyler's substack https://tylertalksproduct.substack.com/about

Essentialism can be argued as one of the atomic building blocks of a full life. It unlocks your potential by allowing you to focus on only the most important and high-impact things. Without it, you risk drowning yourself in distractions, fleeting projects, and ultimately burnout. So how do we get better at saying no to the right things? What role does passion play and is it at odds with exploration? How the heck does the meaning of life tie into all of this? Tap in to find out :)

Susa Summer Fellows Application: https://airtable.com/shr66JTPi2nEiJhI1 Timestamps: 1:30 - What Susa Ventures does 3:15 - Natalie's Path to VC 18:30 - The Susa Summer Fellowship 26:00 - Lessons from working at startups 31:35 - Why selling dirt was the best job ever Natalie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliearora/

Our thoughts on the new lockdowns, and how patience truly is one of the best virtues. Timestamps 3:20 - Why it's hard to be patient young 14:00 - How patience helps with building habits 23:00 - Choosing what to be impatient with 31:30 - Opening the door for serendipity

Happy Holidays, Iterators! Timestamps: 2:43 - Gratitude turns what we have into enough 4:50 - Fuad's Big Boat Analogy (BBA) 11:40 - How do you show people you care about them? 24:00 - Dealing with family stress during the holidays 32:20 - We must be everything we're capable of being - Abraham Maslow

Timestamps: 2:30 - How did you get into the mental health space? 11:15 - What's the best way to support a friend going through it? 25:40 - Is our mental health as a society getting worse? 35:00 - What global learnings can we take to solve mental health issues here in North America? 47:30 - Feel the feels, don't distract yourself aruniesaldhi.com

Timestamps: 3:20 - What actually helps people change their behaviour? 14:20 - Hindsight bias and choosing your specialization as a doctor 25:00 - Pivoting out of medicine 38:00 - Alzheimers and diabetes 43:00 - The path of least resistance

Timestamps 2:20 - The role of humility in medicine 13:15 - Patient care as an artform 27:40 - Leadership in medicine and in life 37:20 - What's blocking medicine from fully embracing tech? 43:55 - Halo Health and becoming an angel investor in healthcare

Timestamps: 2:45 - How geography affects the distribution of resources 14:30 - Is the current VC market sustainable? 18:55 - Why not all companies need VC 29:00 - How did sports eventually put you on the path to getting into VC? 40:44 - What frameworks have you built to manage risk, both in work and in life?

STRESS It's October, school and work are ramping up, and the days are getting shorter and colder. The perfect recipe for some stress. Today's episode is a 1-1 convo with Damien and I on stress -- acute vs chronic stress, the physiological nature of stress, and strategies we've used to cope with stress. Hope you all enjoy this little candid gem :)

Timestamps 1:30 - Prenoia, the opposite of paranoia, believing the universe is conspiring to help you 8:50 - How do you tune into your intuition? 17:50 - What number does your progress bar in life read right now? 31:20 - What has backpacking taught you about life? 45:00 - How to build a genuinely supportive community Espree's Links! Youtube - https://youtube.com/espree LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/espree/ WeAreLATech - https://wearelatech.com/

Timestamps 2:20 - What's your professional superpower? 9:00 - Government or private sector, where can you have more impact? 19:50 - How can we create an economic system that values more than just money? 34:00 - How did your values shape the path of Verto Health? 44:00 - Lighting round! Favorite failure, entrepreneurship, etc Check out Verto at https://verto.health/

Vision. That's what every company starts with. You have an idea of what the future COULD look like, and you work to make that future a reality.

 That's what Swish is doing with Trufan. Swish believes in a future where people can track their data, and take a cut of the profits that companies like Google and Facebook make off of their data. Today's Next Iteration Podcast ep is a convo with Swish on building startups, the future of data sovereignty, and the glorification of entrepreneurship. Tune in for some laughs and some great insights from LinkedIn's Very Own. 

 Timestamps 1:00 - Building Trufan, a new way to think of data and users 9:00 - What it's like to hire as a young CEO? 12:00 - The glorification of entrepreneurship 22:30 - What would you do with a blank check for Trufan? 27:50 - How'd you get the name Swish? 30:30 - What have you done that your parents love bragging about? 32:05 - What have you learned about investing and VC from being on both sides? 40:10 - How do you hone your curiosity? Learn more about the vision here: https://www.joinsurf.com/ Reach out to Swish here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swishgoswami/

Prashant is one of our brilliant friends who takes a Product-minded approach to everything he does. That means that whatever problems he faces, he tried to think about how he can solve that problem at scale. We had a ton of fun chatting with him from halfway across the world about how COVID has helped him grow dramatically by giving him time for experimentation, things he's learned from Western and Indian culture, writing, podcasting and so much more! Check out some of the timestamps below and let us know your thoughts! Prashant's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Billion Moonshots: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/billion-moonshots/id1525084475 Prashant's Newsletter: https://prashantbagga.com/ 3:00 – Experimenting during COVID 14:48 – What the West can learn from the East and what the East can learn from the West 25:50 – Leapfrogging in the Indian market 36:00 – How has writing changed your view of the world 42:26 – Tips for new writers

Timestamps 3:45 - Introverts vs Extroverts When Making Friends 7:45 - Friendship, a 3 step process 19:30 - What makes a good friend? 29:30 - How do you keep friends while moving and progressing in life 40:00 - What Marcus Aurelius teaches us about friendship

Damien and Fuad sit down for a late-night (probably too late at night) 1:1 conversation about the role of work in our lives. It's been a while since we've done of these and you guys have been telling us about how much you've enjoyed them -- so we're back at it again after too long!

Timestamps 5:00 - What did being in academia teach you? 8:30 - How did you get rid of nerd #FOMO and focus on 1 thing? 14:00 - If you want to do good, can you still work in consulting or finance? 21:00 - Can you truly be ethical in a system that values profit above all else? 31:00 - Creating new metrics to drive ethical growth and improvement 36:00 - What Nazi Germany can teach us about unethical AI 43:30 - The story of Parity, an algorithmic audit company 53:00 - Haters as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

There's a new podcast on the block

Time stamps: 1:00 – becoming an entrepreneur by necessity 5:00 – shiny object syndrome, and Tuba's shiniest object right now 15:51 – what Tuba learned about himself through founding Hack the City 30:30 – The Next36 and Techstars experience 38:30 – Nurturing your network and keeping your connections warm 42:45 – Crescendo's origin story 53:15 – The most exciting trend coming out of Asia 1:13:15 – Emerging markets: who's the biggest dark horse, and who will see the most growth Tuba's LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tubadsouza/ Tuba's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tubadsouza

Timestamps: 2:00 - Before we get started, let's get some gratefulness in this 6:00 - Understanding how this is NOT natural 15:30 - Start with why to understand if you need to use social media less or more 20:00 - Willpower as a finite resource 26:12 - Political polarization and social media 35:45 - Building your brand and finding a community

Timestamps: 2:50 - Why does everyone call you “dad”? 6:20 - Tell us about your dad, aerospace engineer, and what lessons you learned from him. 17:35 - How never getting into military college set you up for success? 31:30 - How did you get a job at Tesla, and what kept you there year after year? 41:00 - Why his team reads every single one of 355,000 resumes 43:15 - Is an MBA worth it? 59:45 - How to find a good mentor Mitchell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-kos-c-mgr-cm-c-i-m-eit-sfc-04104181/

Timestamps: 1:00 – Lessons from growing up with Sports 8:00 – Why you shouldn't think in binary outcomes 10:20 – Founding Zipcall 20:00 - Studying Entrepreneurship vs Living it 22:00 – Managing Investor Interest 31:00 – How to get Acquired 36:00 – Crypto & Coinbase Ian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianramzy/

Timestamps 2:24 - What made you want to switch industries from banking? 6:58 - What is the SGAC and how did it empower you? 14:55 - What is the safe and sustainable development of space? 20:25 - Is the privatization of space good or bad? 26:20 - Who should govern a Martian colony? 35:00 - How can people get involved in the space industry? SGAC: https://spacegeneration.org/ Harriet's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-brettle-59a25852/

3:50 - Why did you go to Morehouse, a historically black college? 6:55 - How did you end up in marketing? 15:45 - What's your favorite Disney movie? 17:12 - How has big tech affected the world of entertainment? 23:45 - Will multiple streaming services become the next cable subscription? 34:55 - What are your unique struggles as a black queer man in media? 44:15 - How does media play a role in enforcing racial bias?

Timestamps: 4:25 - What underpins your success at such a young age? 12:30 - Stanford's climate research program 16:40 - Fast Fashion 21:35 - How TKS changed her life 39:11 - Publishing your first book 50:45 - The importance of failure

Continuing the conversation surrounding education and its constant evolution -- we have Dr. Keshavjee, director of the Master of Health Informatics program at the University of Toronto. We believe that these conversations are extremely valuable to have, in order to understand how the individuals leading our education system today envision the future. How do they plan to grow and suit the ever-changing needs of students, what do legacy institutions need to do to stand the test of time, are universities forever? Also if you're considering pursuing Health Informatics this is the conversation for you! We had a ton of fun recording this conversation and we chatted about a bunch of different things, check out the timestamps below :) TIMESTAMPS 1:00 – our education system, the good the bad and the ugly 8:27 – how to encourage diversity of thought 11:39 – maximizing student's strengths 15:44 – importance of learning to colour outside of the lines 21:16 – to get an MBA, or not to get an MBA..? 27:00 – knowledge translation in healthcare 35:00 – what has made karim successful 44:15 – rapid fire questions: work-life balance, mentorship, etc

Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Ishwar Puri, distinguished academic and educator. We dig into his insights surrounding his vision for McMaster Engineering keeping pace with education's evolution, distinguishing yourself along the way to becoming a great leader, and what some of those late-night thoughts look like for someone who has accomplished so much. This was a pleasure to record and we covered a ton of ground! Check out some of the timestamps below :) 6:19 - Building Great Teams 15:55 - Distinguishing Yourself within Academia 22:30 - The Importance of Finding Good Mentors 30:30 - What Keeps You Up at Night 36:30 - What Goals Do You Have for Mac Eng? 46:00 - Decentralized Education

So, to get a job as a PM, you have to already be a PM? 

Doesn’t that mean no one can ever become a PM unless they’re already one first? How do you solve that circular problem? 

Helen and Sefunmi already have, over at CoLab. 

Today’s episode of the Next Iteration Podcast features their story of starting a platform that allows people from non-traditional backgrounds to gain real-world experience in tech, ultimately allowing them to become Designers, PMs, and Developers. This conversation was such a joy to record, Helen and Sefunmi brought so much energy to the convo, and it’s filled with not just wisdom, but laughs. Timestamps 4:15 - How did you find the world of product? 11:30 - How did you choose each other as co-founders? 16:30 - What is one product you’d want to work on 22:30 - Filling the gap between aspiring PMs, and real PMs 31:20 - Success stories from CoLab 41:15 - Increasing representation in tech Join Colab at joincolab.io 
#youbelongintech #representation #product #studentsoflinkedin #podcast

Excited to announce the newest addition to the Next Iteration Podcast team, Hesham Nammari! Hesham is our new Head of Growth at the podcast, and we're very excited to be working with him. He's got an interesting story of going viral on LinkedIn off a memepost, so hopefully he can bring that same energy to the podcast team