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On this episode of the SCR Podcast we are hosting Jeroen Tas who has a rermarkable career both as an entrepreneur scaling his company to $1+ billion in revenues, which got acquired by HP and being a senior executive as the former Chief Innovation Officer of Royal Philips. Together with Jeroen we are starting the epsiode with discussing the critical skill of identifying windows of opportunities as an entrepreneur. Jeroen also shares his opinion on why he believes  that early stage startups should be careful when choosing "random" revenue rather than focusing on developing a robust and visionary product.  

On this episode of the SCR Podcast we are hosting Alex Louisy who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upflow (YCW20).  Together with Alex we start-off by discussing all things that a second-time founder does different. Alex is sharing his experience of starting a company in France, getting into YC and pivoting the business by tackling the US market. Beyond that we also touch upon Stripe's concept of macro optimism/micro pessimism and exchange on the factual meaning of VC-Founder partnerships. 

On this epsiode we are honored to host Phil Libin who is a serial entrepreneur. Among the companies he co-founded are Evernote, All Turtles and mmhmm. He is an expert in building great products with hundreds of millions of users. Together we are getting Phil's opinion on building winning products that solve real problems and what it means to being a great product person. Phil also shares his opinion on why being opinionated in the early stages of building a product is far more important than talking to customers.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly episode. 

On this epsiode we are hosting Matt Brown who is a Partner at the early stage VC firm Matrix, based in San-Francisco and Boston.  Matt previously founded Bonsai and Work4 and led merchant product at Afterpay.  Together we are diving into the art of balancing early stage product building and the ever increasing importance of distribution and challenges around platform dependencies. We are also covering a new defining category of SaaS products, which Matt labels as VERPs: Vertical ERPS.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly epsiode! 

On this epsiode we are hosting the Lucy Jung who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Charco Neurotech, a company that developed a non-invasive wearable device for Parkinson's disease.  Together with Lucy we dive into the ins-and-outs of product design and development for hardware and medical products. Lucy gives an insight into her fundraising experiences and what it means to develop a global distribution system as a start-up. 

For the first epsiode of the year we are starting with a little 2022 reflection on the podcast and the take aways for the upcoming year of hosting the show.  The SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast is going to be a place where some of the worlds most incredible founders and operators will share their learnings and experiences from building tech companies.  We are starting-off the year strong with upcoming conversations, hosting Phil Libin (Co-Founder of Evernote) and Jeffrey Kaditz (Co-Founder of Affirm) 

Dr. BJ Fogg is a behavior scientist and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he founded the Behavior Design Lab.  BJ is an expert on behavior change for health habits and author of the book "Tiny Habits", which is a New York Times Bestseller.  Among many of the interesting topics in this episode we are diving into the details of changing behavior towards improving human health and discuss the challenges of the healthtech start-up ecosystem targeting behavior change as a feature.  We are also touching BJ's new area of interest, which is tackling the science behind bad habits and approaches of tackling them. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Florian Brand who is CEO and Co-Founder at ATAI Life Sciences.  The company is aiming to develop differentiated treatments for patients suffering from mental health orders. Having collected over $500m in capital with noteable backing from investors such as Cathie Wood at ARK Invest, ATAI is at the forefront when it comes to the psychedelics market.  Together with Florian we are covering the early founding of the company and dive deep into the company's funding model for compound development as well as the role of digital therapeutics in ATAI's treatment strategy. 

On this epsiode we are hosting Tero-Pekka Alastalo. Tero and his team founded BluePrint Genetics a Stanford University spin off that has been focusing on developing innovative technologies for rare disease genetic diagnostics. The company was acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2020.  Together we are talking about the early stages of building Blueprint Genetics and the aspects of expanding companies in the US market.  We also cover venture opportunities for heart health and talk about CardioSignal, which is developing a disruptive mobile application-based technology to improve the detection of heart disease.  

On this episode we are hosting Jason Moore who is the CEO of Spren a company focused on providing insights into human biology through its digital biomarker platform.  Jason and his team have been operating a profitable business for years before deciding to take a turn and take on venture capital to execute on a bigger vision. The company now provides biometric data through its SDK to other players in the health and wellness space.  We are talking about their bootstrapping journey and the different product development stages before they took on external funding as well as the product roadmap for the company in the overall digital health vertical.   

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Corbin Petro who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health.  The company has raised $82m to date and is building a hybrid care model for mental health and substance use disorder. Together with Corbin we tackled the founding story behind the company and the learnings she took from her past experience in healthcare.  Among many exciting topics we cover the go-to-market strategy of Eleanor and dive deeper into the reasons of why it is challenging to get a healthcare venture right. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Matteo Franceschetti the CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep. The team at Eight Sleep managed to raise about $160m from leading funds such as Khosla Ventures, SoftBank or General Catalyst but also Angels such as Kevin Hart.  Eight Sleep is transforming the sleeping experience with their products by capturing incredible data on a person's health and providing the right sleeping temperature through their hydro-powered cooling technology.  Together with Matteo we are talking about his entrepreneurial journey and the journey of building Eight Sleep. We touch upon the challenges of building hardware products as well as some fundraising stories. 

On this epsiode we are chatting with Andrew Herr who took his expertise from optimizing Nacy SEALs and pro-sports teams to build a scalable product through his venture Fount.  Together with Andrew we are talking about the founding story of Fount and talk about the product they are building with his team and how they strive to build digital product experiences.  We also dive into the data set they are building up taking a deep dive into the different health variables they are tracking and the reasoning behind the types of biomarkers and the frequency they collect. 

Together with Mette Dhyrberg Co-Founder & CEO of health tech company Mymee. The company has developed a digital approach to managing autoimmune diseases, which combines a mobile app, data analytics and certified health coaches to identify triggers for disease symptoms. We are diving into the approach Mette has taken together with her Co-Founder in building within the health space.   

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting the CEO & Co-Founder of Nightingale Health, the Finnish company behind the ground-breaking blood testing technology.  Together with Teemu we are tackling the founding story of the company and what it means to move from being a biotech company to a digital health company. We also dive deeper into the reasoning behind different market entry strategies and why Nightingale went public in Finnland.   

Stefan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flowbio, a start-up focused on building the first real sweat sensor.  Together we are diving into Stefan's founder story and the vision for Flowbio and how they plan to position themselves within the wearable market.  Stefan is giving us an insight into the early days of forming the company and how his Co-Founder and CTO tackled the hardware challenge for developing a proper sweat sensor.

Joseph is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard University. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine one of the most relevant academic journals for publications at the intersection of innovation and digital health. Beyond that Joseph has been working and adivsing different healthtech ventures over the past years.   Together with Joseph we dove into the status-quo for the most relevant digital health applications and discussed opportunities and challenges. 

Excited to host Rachel Soper Sanders who is teh Co-Founder and CEO of Rootine a health and wellness company focused on optimizing cellular nutrition through better data science and personalized health solutions to help people perform at their best everyday. Rachel started Rootine shortly after finishing her MBA at Harvard and meeting her Co-Founder.  Together we are covering different topics around building ventures for personalized health and the opportunities and benefits related to optimizing a persons nutrient levels. 

For this episode on the SCR Podcast we hosted David Mehlman founder of Ommyx.  Together with his team they are working on decoding personal health data across different tracking devices to determine what works best on an individual level.  David gives us an insight on his perspective for the connected health segment and the opportunities and challenges he sees. We are talking about different approaches and the go-to-market strategies for personalized health ventures.  Due to the recent turn in sentiment within the VC and start-up world we also touched upon the status-quo of the market and what it means for start-ups raising capital. 

Phil Southerland is the CEO and Co-Founder of Supersapiens. In 2019, Supersapiens approached Abbott about bringing their technology to the athletic community, and a partnership was soon  established. In September 2020, Abbott announced that its Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor had achieved a CE Mark. It is the first  CGM approved for non-diabetic use in the world. By combining Abbott's proven track record in glucose sensing technology along with  Supersapiens' app and personalized analytics, athletes are able to better understand the correlation between their glucose levels and their athletic performance.

On this episode we are talking with Gil Blinder about his journey from leaving MIT to building towards human longevity. Gil is the Founder of InsiderTracker a web-based personalized nutrition and exercise product. The vision behind the company is to build a truly scientific product, every recommendation is based on publicly available research publications and clinical trials results. Tune in for a deep dive as we cover multiple interesting topics around building ventures for personalized health. 

On this episode we are hosting Ari Tulla who is a serial entrepreneur in the digital health space.  Together we are talking about his start-up journey that took him from Finland to the Bay Area and the story behind his first venture BetterDoctor. We are taking a look at the field of nutrion and supplements and why personalization is unlocking the key component of better human health. 

On this episode we are talking with Quin Sandler about wearables for biomechanichs and the health opportunities for analyzing human movement data.  Quin has an amazing founder story with his company Plantiga, which he started together with his dad. Together we are diving deeper into the approach his team is taking towards scaling towards mass market. We talk about what it means to work with professional athletes in the NBA or NFL and the outlook for wearable companies. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Joshua Bonhotal who went from working in ProSports to being part of the world-class founding behind Future, the company providing one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.  Together with Josh we are diving into his incredible journey of starting out his career with the Chicago Bulls and moving on to building out the Sports Performance program at Purdue Univerrsity. We are nerding out on what it means to push constantly for high performance and how to optimize and structure around it.  We also are diving deep into the early days of building Future and what it meant for Josh to move give up his dream of becoming the GM of a major sports brand over an e-mail to join building a start-up that went on to raise over $100 Million. 

On this episode we are talking with the incredible founder of Esper Bionics.  Esper is is targeting the $10trnl market for future electronic implants by starting of by challenging the protsthetics industry. The company is introducing one of the lightest prosthetic hands in the market, which is supported by the Esper platform for device control and body data collection.  Dima and the majory of the team at Esper are from Ukraine and have had remarkable luck in being able to relocate the majority of their staff before the start of the war in Ukraine where R&D had been operating. Esper is headquartered in New York and has already got some serious attention as one of their product demo videos hit 15 million views on youtube alone.         

This episode is a special one for the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as it represents the high quality of guests we have managed to get onto the show for the past two and a half years.  We have been fortunate enough to host world class scientists, investors, managers and entrepreneurs from across the globe.  Hosting the founder of a global brand such as Reebok and being able to getting insight into his thinking and learning from his journey is a privilege we are not taking for granted and are humbled by.  Subscribe for a weekly episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast.     

On this episode we are hosting Roy Cohen who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Behavidence.  Roy and his team are building up a mental health diagnostics platform and recently raised $4.3m.  Together with Roy we are talking about his journey from marketing to Neuroscience and the story behind Behavidence as the team has been working for an entire year without a salary and has been founded completely remotely during the pandemic.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly episode on entrepreneurship, digital health and tech investments featuring world class founders, investors and scientists. 

Florian Hübner is the Co-Founder of Uberall, a platform supporting local customer experience. Together with his long-time friend and co-founder they have been building the company from 0 to over 400 people globally since 2012.    (00:00) - From starting a PhD to Entrepreneurship  (08:39) - The early days of building Uberall (15:12) - Realizing success of your start-up  (20:10) - How to keep up a high level of intensity for a decade (30:11) - The future of local businesses   (34:23) - Metaverse vs. Physical world (42:29) - Curiosity: Open-source software for coffee maschines and pizza dough chemistry  (50:08) - The case for IPOs (55:10) - Sleep and high performance 

On this episode we are talking with Marco Altini who is an expert in the topic heart rate variability, founder of HRV4Training and an advisor at Oura.  Marco has a PhD in Data Science and has been building up his company for the past decade, which is a science-based mobile platform that provides Heart Rate Variability (HRV) based insights to help you quantify stress, better balance training and lifestyle, and improve performance. Together with Marco we dive into the opportunities and challenges of health data and wearables and share our thoughts on the current developments. Marco is working with professional athletes and sports clubs globally and gives us an inside into the scientific work behind improving athletic capabilities. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with the CEO and Co-Founder of Ikona Health. The team at Ikona has built a platform that supports kidney patients on their care journey. Together with Tim we are diving into the journey of building the company as Ikona has been bootstrapped and finding their niche for a couple of years. We are also diving into the different aspects that make up kidney care within the US healthcare system and the technological transformation waiting ahead for all aspects of the care journey. 

The oura ring is a wearable device created by a group of finnish entrepreneurs. It is one of the most incredible wearable devices developed up until this day and has more than one million users world wide. Leading CEOs, athletes, founders or biohackers are using the oura ring to track sleep and recovery. It is widely considered to be the best sleep tracker available. On this episode we are talking with Petteri Lahtela who is one of the Co-Founders and the founding CEO of Oura Health, the company behind the Oura ring. Petteri acted as the CEO until mid-2018 and as Chief Innovation Officer and President until mid-2020 when he departed the company together with his co-founder colleagues. Petteri talks us through the early years of founding Oura, when the small team from Finnland went early on into the US market. He tells us some interesting stories like  how famous tech CEOs send him private messages to invest into Oura or how Oura got free marketing impressions worth millions by Prince Harry wearing the Oura Ring.  Petteri is a genuine person who cares a lot about building meaningful things. I was deeply impressed by our conversation.     

Julian is an amazing young entrepreneur out of the Netherlands who invented a sleep robot to help his mother with her insomnia, eventually turning it into a leading start-up within the sleep tech space.  Together with Julian we talk about the science of sleep and the global scale of sleep problems as well as the building of his company somnox and the way they collect different types of data to analyze sleep and behavior.  This episode is a special one as we had to reschedule last minute because Julian was invited for a lunch with the king of the Netherlands. 

Sophie is the CEO and Founder of Qunomedical. On this episode Sophie shares her story from being trained as a doctor in Austria to joining McKinsey and later a Digital Health start-up in New York.  We dive deep into the business model of Qunomedical and the underlying problems of healthcare systems. Sophie is an incredible woman who balances the life of a founder and mother.     

Ignas Survila is a Lithuanian entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Tyler Health.  Tyler uses a Continuous Glucose Monitor to provide biometric data on how your body reacts to different foods and activities. (00:00) - Ignas talking about his first venture in Switzerland  (21:53) - The case for continuous glucose monitoring (46:55) - Scaling wearables into society  (57:00) - Tyler Health's user and market focus (01:12:10) - Hardware Innovation is hard (01:20:18) - Lithuania and Eastern Europe Start-Up Ecosystems 

Robin is the co-founder and Managing Director of delphai, a software company that has developed an AI-based B2B search engine. In addition, Dr. Tech is a member of the economic advisory board of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and senior researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT, with a focus on complex systems and financial models. Together with Robin we talked about his path towards becoming a founder as well as the fundamentals behind the B2B SaaS product he and his team are building. We also slightly covered the opportunities for building features for corporate social responsibility data.   

Allon Bloch is a serial entrepreneur. Joining the early founding team of WIX as Co-CEO back in 2008 he went on to co-founding Vroom (IPOed in 2020) and KHealth his latest venture, the latter  having raised over $200 million to date.  Allon is a great guy who has lots of experience to share from building incredible businesses.  Our conversation mostly evolved around the complexity of medicine and what it means to build an intelligence layer on top of it, which at times went pretty philosophical. Medicine is fascinating, incredibly complex and we barely scratched the surface yet. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are launching our new format "InsideSCR". For this format Jonathan and Rajarshi (Raj) Chakraborty are sitting down bi-weekly to discuss:  - News, trends and topics they care about in business, tech and beyond. - Unlocking great ideas, stories, facts and data basically providing you with great research at your fingertips. EPISODE OUTLINE: (00:00) - 2021 Review  (22:28) - Plans and Upcoming Guests for SPEED CHANGE REPEAT  (55:08) - EU VC Landscape  (1:15:22) - Eastern Europe Start-Ups 

Marlon is an incredible individual with an amazing story from being a founder to running a €125 million venture capital fund and building up a foundation focused on wildlife preservation in Africa.  Together with Marlon we are talking about his story on getting into venture capital as well as diving into the insights behind the Elevat3 fund as they keep themselves mostly under the radar.  We also touch upon start-up trends and Marlon's recent investment interests such as alternative proteins or construction tech. Further Marlon also gave us a deep dive into the AMES Foundation, a community of makers, creatives, entrepreneurs, founders, investors and CEOs united by one goal, to stop the extinction of Africa's wildlife.     

Marek Sacha describes himself as a geek, however his track record in building ventures underlines the great entrepreneur he is. S tarting his first business in high school and studying mathematics and AI set him up to build businesses in different industries, which have been incredible successes such as Rohlik Group and Cera Care.  Together with Marek we touch on different topics taking advantage of his great expertise from building and scaling ventures in the e-commerce, digital health and industrial space. Building highly scalable ventures is hard thats why we were happy to have Marek on the show to share his experiences and create an amazing deep dive. 

Eugene has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry taking on different shoes by both driving digital health in pharma, consulting and being an entrepreneur. Among the many things he has been involved in, he used to be the global head of Bayer's digital health partnership and investment arm G4A.  Being a US citizen he had the opportunity to live in multiple countries, which allowed him to see similarities and differences in the developments of the digital health space from a geographical point of view. Nowadays together with his wife he is building up a digital health coaching start-up, which we dove deeper into breaking down the space of telehealth and health coaching.     

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast we dove deep into the massive industry of semiconductors. Andreas Schumacher ist the executive vice president responsible for strategy and the M&A activities at Infineon Technologies, which is one of the top ten companies globally for semiconductors. We unfold the scale at which the industry impacts the global economy and its implications for the future.  Together with Andreas we tackled the industry talking about its set-up, challenges and market players. Andreas gives us an insight into his perspective on approaching start-up collaborations as well as industry trends and much more.  Tune in an subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast for weekly deep dives with some of the brightest minds on nerdy topics around tech, innovation and entrepreneurship!

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to host Mike Granoff who has been involved at the intersection of technology and transportation since the early 2000s. In 2015 Mike started the venture capital firm Maniv Mobility out of Tel Aviv with the mission to back founders who are changing the way people and goods move. Since then Mike and his team have invested into over thirty companies spanning five continents.  Together with Mike we dove right into all the hot topics around the different sub-verticals of mobility. We cover infrastructure, circular economy for EVs and urban mobility solutions and planning.  We really enjoyed having Mike on the show and got the best out of his experience and perspectie on the massive mobility transformation.   Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly episode! 

Ernesto is an amazing serial entrepreneur we had the chance to host on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast. Ernesto started his first venture disrupting the music industry when he was 27 in the dotcom era and went on to found multiple ventures through out the years. Two of his ventures were acquired by Snapchat and Twitter.  It was an honor to have him on the show as his experience in being a founder and working with countless founding teams is incredible. Together with his co-founder Ernesto established The Craftory a USD 400 million investment firm focused on challenger CPG brands.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast for a weekly episode with the worlds best in business & tech! 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Beena Ammanath who has an impressive track record working in Tech within the Bay Area, non-traditionally for some of the biggest corproates in this world. Before joining Deloitte's AI institute she oversaw Data Science and Innovation at companies such as Bank of America, GE and HP. Beyond that she is the founder of the NGO "Humans for AI", which aims to increase the number of women and under-represented minorities in AI with education programs, community and partnership. Subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly episode with the world's leaders in the business of tech! 

On this episode we had the pleasure to speak with Jeanne Shen, assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University. Jeanne started to engage in doing AI research within pathology after being introduced to Andrew Ng. Her initial motivation to start with AI as she claims, was getting more efficiency out of her work within pathology.  Together with Jeanne we are diving deeper into the wider spectrum of pathology and GI research and the massive potential for applying AI. Jeanne also shares her perspective on the Bio startup landscape and the exciting things she has been observing and what founding teams need to take into account when tackling massive challenges.    Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly episode with the world's leading minds in entrepreneurship, tech and innovation. 

Yet another amazing founder story on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as we host Naftali Harris.  Naftali was the first Data Scientist brought in by Max Levchin at Affirm and has some amazing stories to tell. Together with one of his colleagues at Affirm he went on to start SentiLink with the goal to stop synthetic fraud.    Tune in as we talk with Naftali about his experiences and incredible story from working in data science to becoming a founder! 

Today we are talking with Daniel Grubbs who is the managing director of the Pepsi Group's Venture Fund.  We are covering the investment areas of the fund and major trends within the nutrition and health space such as cube based food for pure nutrition focused intake. Daniel is sharing his opinion on the shifts within food & beverages as we tackle D2C and the long term opportunities for influencer brands.  Lastly we touch upon the changing work flows when it comes to investing into startups in times of Covid-19. Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for a weekly new episode with world class entrepreneurs, CXOs and academics! 

In this episode of the SCR Podcast we are talking with serial entrepreneur and robotics expert Paolo Pirjanian. Paolo has had an incredible journey throughout his career starting at NASA after obtaining a PhD in Robotics in Denmark and going on to work on a startup, which eventually got acquired by iRobot and led him to become CTO at iRobot before starting Embodied.  Together with Paolo we dive deep into his personal journey and his experience building robotics start ups as well as the opportunities within robotics. We are talking about the story behind Embodied and the amazing technology platform it is building towards improving care and wellness and enhancing daily lives through socially and emotionally intelligent companions.  Subscribe and tune in for a weekly episode featuring global leaders on tech, entrepreneurship and innovation!  

After our summer break we are starting with a super interesting guest who is the Co-Founder and Global Head of the the BIOME, which is the innovation lab of biotech and Pharma giant Novartis.  Jacob LaPorte started his career with a PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University working on the optimization of drug discovery. In this episode we are talking about Jacob's journey and the story behind Novartis approach on building and pushing innovation capabilities. We cover the challenges of accelerating digital within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the strategy of scaling the impact of an innovation lab globally. Beyond that we also cover interesting start-ups and the approach the BIOME is taking towards creating collaboration initiative quickly and efficient.  Subscribe and tune in for a weekly episode featuring global leaders on tech, entrepreneurship and innovation! 

We recorded this episode a while ago together with Daniele and talked with him about his journey in leading the digital transformation at the Swedish multinational with close to a 100.000 employees and an annual turnover of around 45 billion Euro. The Volvo Group is a massive manufacturing company with products, which bear massive opportunities for the application of digital technologies. Together with Daniele we talked about the digital strategy of the company and the most important projects. We touch on interesting use cases and the different opportunities and challenges when it comes to transforming such a massive enterprise at an industrial scale.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for weekly episodes with global leaders in business and tech! 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Jeff Kaditz who is a serial entrepreneur and currently is building his latest start-up Q Bio.  Jeff is a super motivational guy who is taking us along his entrepreneurial journey. On this episode we are talking about his early days after grad school and are getting philosophical about what it means to be an entrepreneur besides the glorification in todays world.  Together with Jeff we are diving into the early days of founding Affirm and talk about how he met Max Levchin (Paypal Co-Founder) and Nathan Gettings (Palantir Co-Founder). We are also talking about the Biotech industry and in specific the story and idea behind his latest company Q Bio.  Tune in and subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast for episodes with the worlds leading individuals in tech and business.