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If you’re competing with T.A. McCann in the startup world, know that he’s raced around the world in boats, in horrible conditions, and has probably surrounded himself with people who, like him, will not complain because they enjoy the grind — after they’ve been strategic and have… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.7: T.A. McCann, serial entrepreneur, ex-pro sailor, on healthcare tech and grinding it out appeared first on @techvitamin.

This episode is mostly about driven professionals doing great work in difficult places for people who really need help. Fundamentally that’s what Lauren Woodman and her NetHope team do. It’s not about speech recognition, AI (yet), or your wifi fridge telling you that your avocado ice… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.6: Lauren Woodman, CEO of NetHope appeared first on @techvitamin.

Sure Dave Cotter’s engaging and funny. But you figure out pretty quickly that in Reply Yes he’s juggling something complex, really ambitious, and that he has a deep pool of that essential founder’s gift: faith. It’s not denial, just bedrock confidence. No babe in the… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.5: Dave Cotter, CEO of Reply Yes appeared first on @techvitamin.

If one heard that someone had spent 27 years at Microsoft and then left to spend time investing in startups, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was really a form of retirement, and an opportunity to dabble.  But Soma Somasegar (@SSomasegar) — whose last position… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.4: Soma Somasegar, Venture Partner appeared first on @techvitamin.

As they say, hardware is hard. Matt Revis — a veteran of the speech recognition wars at Nuance, and now VP of Product Management at social robotics startup Jibo — is not someone to shy away from a tough challenge. Getting various software keyboards and versions of… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.3: Matt Revis, VP Product, Jibo appeared first on @techvitamin.

Much has changed about Venture Capital in the last few decades, and Greg Gottesman has witnessed it up close and personal as a founder of Madrona Venture Group, then of Madrona Labs, and now of Pioneer Square Labs (PSL). And while he’s still involved at… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.2: Greg Gottesman, Pioneer Square Labs appeared first on @techvitamin.

Steve Murch is a smart, humble and motivated guy who’s had an incredible run in tech. Back in 1991 — after he’d done all the school (Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and HBS) — he was part of the initial Access team at Microsoft, launched their first online multiplayer… Read more The post @techvitamin 2.1: Steve Murch, Founder/CEO of BigOven appeared first on @techvitamin.

When Shree and I first met Jamie Siminoff, he was the Founding CEO of a cool little company called Simulscribe, which turned voicemail audio into text. He was a tough competitor with a great sense of humor, and had enough perspective to know that startups are hard,… Read more The post @techvitamin 1.8: James Siminoff, CEO/Founder of Ring.com appeared first on @techvitamin.

Are our Tesla’s going to band together in the Costco lot and attack us? Find out. In this episode Ed Lazowska (@lazowska), the eminent and long-time member of UW’s Computer Science faculty joins Facebook’s Michael Cohen and I to discuss everything from big data, deep learning… Read more The post @techvitamin 1.7: Ed Lazowska, Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science appeared first on @techvitamin.

Is your UberX car going to smell like the last Chicken Tikka delivery it just made for UberEats? Do I now have to tip? That was a key part of the magic. Uber is doing awesome things all over the world, and tech hub Seattle… Read more The post @techvitamin 1.6: Brooke Steger, GM of Uber appeared first on @techvitamin.