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Darin Buxbaum, MBA, is the co-founder and CEO of Wider Circle, a technology-enabled health services company that empowers members of the same community to live happier, healthier lives. He shares the outcomes of Wider Circle's peer support groups and provides insights for aging individuals and their families. About Darin Darin Buxbaum's extensive healthcare experience includes proven success both as an entrepreneur and as a leader in the enterprise space.  He's co-founded digital health, insurance tech, healthcare services and medical device companies and led large initiatives at a Fortune 500 company.  Currently, he's the co-founder and CEO of Wider Circle, a technology-enabled health services company. Previously he was co-founder and VP of Product at Oration, an insurance tech company enabling self insured employers and their employees to dramatically reduce their prescription drug spend.  In the medtech space, he founded HourGlass Technologies, a healthcare technology start-up, and served as president and CEO for five-plus years. There, he drove the development of new medical-device technology from concept to clinical trial, earning recognition as a top 40 Innovators Under 40 in the medtech industry from Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. Darin's enterprise experience includes leading the largest digital health initiative at Medtronic where he was awarded the Star of Excellence, the company's highest honor. Darin graduated Summa Cum Laude from Duke University and earned an MBA from Stanford University, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar.  Darin remains active with Stanford as a contributor and mentor to the BioDesign course and textbook. Key Takeaways Personal connections are key to health and happiness. An African proverb says: if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Wider Circle's peer support groups for vulnerable populations are subsidized by health plans and physician networks because the individuals who would benefit most from neighborhood-based health initiatives are often the least able to afford them. The outcomes from Wider Circle's peer support groups include reducing loneliness by over 65% against the match control population and increasing the number of healthy days by 43%. Health plans see a cost reduction of $100 per month and reduced hospitalizations by 15%.

Today's guest is Hanson Li, Founder and Managing Partner of Salt Partners. Salt Partners is a restaurant industry focused investment and operating company. Since 2014, Salt has been involved with of 8 significant restaurant companies—including 4 restaurants with Michelin stars. Salt Partners has also invested in 15+ technology and branded companies in the food and beverage industry. Prior to Salt, Hanson spent 10 years as Managing Director at The Hina Group, a China focused private equity firm and investment bank.  Born in Hong Kong, Hanson grew up in Asia and Rochester NY. He graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business as both a Siebel Scholar (awarded to top 5 graduates) and an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also holds a BA and MA from Stanford. Finally, Hanson currently sits on the board of Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Center for Asian America Media, and the advisory board of OpenTable. In this episode Hanson and Chandler talk about a wide range of topics, including:  Advice for applicants who grew up outside of the United States, Suggestions for those interested in the fields of PE and investment banking, Advice for entrepreneurs hoping to start their own enterprises, and Suggestions for anyone interested in “non-traditional” MBA careers (generally) or those with a passion for the food and beverage world (specifically),  Hanson also offers suggestions that will benefit any MBA, including: The best decision he made in business school,  The one thing he wishes he'd done differently while in business school, and  Important lessons he's learned from failure.

Nick Stone is a Lead Director and Board Member for Wilderness. Known for its once-in-a-lifetime safari experiences, Wilderness was founded in Botswana in 1983 with the goal of introducing visitors to the country's natural beauty while protecting the environment and providing local jobs. Today, the company has more than six million acres of land under its stewardship and provides an economic support system for the communities where it operates, creating durable, well-paying jobs for roughly 2,600 people from more than 20 different ethnic groups and supporting local farming and infrastructure. Nick is also a board member of LedderTech and Kelvin Inc. For his day job, Nick is a Partner at FS Investors, a private investment entity with long-term capital. Nick graduated cum laude from Harvard and was an Arjay Miller Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  In this episode, we discuss: ●      How combining tourism with conservation is changing the economic model for protecting nature ●      How expansive wilderness can be a catalyst for deepening interpersonal connection ●      The outsized influence of company culture in setting the trajectory of a business Key Takeaways: ●      There's an elusive quality to the energy a place holds. Anyone who's attempted to capture a sunset in a photograph understands how it pales in comparison to the real thing. It's a mere two-dimensional representation of an experience that's inherently three-dimensional and engages all five senses. Nick mentioned the difficulty of articulating the essence of a journey with Wilderness, and I can't help but think there's a similar challenge at play here. How do you convey the profound experience of venturing into the unspoiled wilderness, where the world still echoes with the rhythms of millennia, when our daily lives have drifted so far from that primal connection? It's akin to stepping back in time, immersing oneself in a natural equilibrium unlike anything we're accustomed to today. ●      Exposure to different cultures is a transformative journey of self-discovery. As we engage with diverse customs, beliefs, and perspectives, we gain valuable insights into the human experience, fostering a deeper awareness of our own values and biases. Through these experiences, we become not only more culturally sensitive but also more compassionate and empathetic individuals, contributing to a more harmonious and interconnected world. ●       The tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals, acting in their self-interest, deplete shared resources. It's a collective action problem that often arises with public goods - like open wilderness - where individuals have an incentive to exploit the resource to their own advantage. We see this with deforestation across nations, overfishing the oceans, and the shrinking African wilderness. The business model Wilderness has created develops a more attractive alternative to the tragedy of the commons by using the natural resources of the African wilderness to educate on the importance of conservation, to earn funds necessary to support the conservation of the land, and to increase economic opportunity for local communities through well-paying jobs. Where else can we change the economic model away from the tragedy of the commons—which in the short term profits a few—to a model that values community building, increased access and education, and protecting resources for generations to come? References: ●      Wilderness website ●      UNESCO page about Okavango Delta ●      Children in the Wilderness ●      Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan ●      The Rise Fund Connect & Share: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading them! If this episode resonated with you, I ask you to send it to a friend. Help bring even more visibility to these leaders that are using business as a force for good! Subscribe to the Purpose and Profit newsletter to make sure you don't miss future episodes.  This podcast is for you, the listener. I'd love to hear what resonated with you, or if you have a suggestion on who would be a great guest for this show. Please send me a note at info@KathyVarol.com.

Valerie Shen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners, where she oversees all operational aspects of the firm and fund including fundraising /LP relations, recruiting / HR, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, and marketing. Prior to business school, Valerie was an analyst at Kleiner Perkins' $1B Green Growth Fund, where she helped the team found G2. Before that she was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she worked across four continents, primarily on energy projects.  She has also held positions at the U.S. Senate, X (Google's “moonshot factory”), Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Capital, and The Wilderness Society. Valerie holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Environmental Science & Public Policy and Earth & Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. She holds an M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, where she was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning ⁠⁠PR agency VSC⁠⁠ has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like ⁠⁠Ample⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Actual⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Sesame Solar⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Synop⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vibrant Planet⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Zume⁠⁠ among many others.

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Josh Yang. Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Glyphic Biotechnologies, a biotechnology startup commercializing a next-generation protein sequencing platform. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, San Diego, which he attended fully-funded on the Jacobs School Scholarship. He double majored in Bioengineering: Biotechnology B.S. and General Biology B.S where he was a Barry Goldwater Scholar and the Valedictorian in the Department of Bioengineering. Subsequently, he completed a Master of Translational Medicine degree through the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Bioengineering, from where he spun-out his first startup, Nephrosant. Nephrosant has raised over $22M in funding to commercialize a low-cost, non-invasive diagnostic assay for kidney injury. He took a leave of absence from a fully-funded MD-PhD MSTP at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering to pursue biotech entrepreneurship. He subsequently graduated with an MBA and Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar (Valedictorian), a Siebel Scholar, and an Arjay Miller Scholar. His first-author, peer-reviewed publications have been published in top-tier journals such as Nature Reviews Genetics and Science Translational Medicine. For his work, I have been awarded over $4M in government and private industry grants as a PI or Co-PI. He is also an inventor on 7 issued/filed patents and author on 19 peer-reviewed journal articles. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare list in 2021.

Fundamental and Quantitative Research Strategies for Investing with Ryan MyersOne of the benefits to investing is the range of research driven approaches that investors can employ towards making their investment decisions. After careful study and practice, investors often choose between or may even blend fundamental and quantitative strategies. Both fundamental and quantitative strategies incorporate a substantial use and analysis financial data, but fundamental approaches delve much further into the qualitative aspects of the company, including management quality, competitive positioning, capital allocation decisions and often an estimation of a firm's intrinsic value. Conversely, quantitative strategies remain considerably more numbers driven regarding both investment selection and portfolio management. While some observers may believe quantitative investing overlooks important qualitative elements, proponents of the quantitative discipline can point to a dispassionate investment process that removes emotion and the pitfalls of human persuasion. In reality, both approaches work, and astute investors often incorporate elements from both fundamental and quantitative strategies into their approach.Ryan Myers, a Portfolio Manager at Causeway Capital Management, joins us to talk more about these strategies for investing in global small-cap equities. Mr. Myers is a quantitative portfolio manager at Causeway. He joined the firm in June 2013 and has been a portfolio manager since January 2021. His responsibilities include alpha research, stock selection, and portfolio construction. Mr. Myers earned a BA, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Myers currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Yosemite Conservancy, an organization dedicated to supporting projects and programs that preserve Yosemite National Park and enrich the visitor experience. What You Will Learn:●        [00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest, Ryan Myers●        [02:45] Ryan's role at Causeway Capital Management ●        [03:23] His backstory and what led him to the investing career path●        [05:44] Ryan's views on the current international small-cap equities●        [11:31] How the rising interest rates in the US are affecting the international markets●        [17:07] Macro and micro factors Ryan and his company pay attention to before investing●        [23:52] Number of stocks in the stock universe●        [27:18] Factors Ryan uses to weigh on the international stocks to invest●        [32:40] Number of stocks in the Causeway Capital Management portfolio●        [35:30] How the quantitative team sorts the stock companies selected for investment●        [41:59] The meaning and causes of rebalancing portfolio in investments●        [44:30] Why quantitative investing needs to be evolutionary●        [47:15] The use of machine learning and AI to influence portfolio decisions●        [52:25] Ryan's competitive advantage to the quantitative approach to small caps●        [59:24] What keeps Ryan awake in this investment strategy●        [01:01:12] Call to action and ending the showWebsite: https://www.causewaycap.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/The information presented in this podcast or available on the website is not intended as and shall not be construed as financial advice. This podcast is produced for entertainment value. Investing is inherently risky. And I encourage you to seek financial advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.

Steven Aldrich '91, a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with a wealth of experience in growing successful companies, joined Catalyze during a visit to UNC–Chapel Hill this spring. Steven shares with scholar co-hosts Elias Guedira '26 and Stella Smolowitz '26 about his experiences starting GoDaddy's California offices and taking the company public as chief product officer; selling an online insurance marketplace he co-founded to Intuit; and his current role as chair of the Oakland Roots Sports Club, a community-focused pro soccer team in Oakland, California. The alumnus also serves on the Boards of Blucora, Xero, and Ruby Receptionists.Steven earned a bachelor's in physics from Carolina, and an MBA from Stanford as an Arjay Miller Scholar. As a Morehead-Cain Scholar, the alumnus was co-captain of the fencing team. Music creditsThe intro music is by Scott Hallyburton '22, guitarist of the band South of the Soul. How to listenOn your mobile device, you can listen and subscribe to Catalyze on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For any other podcast app, you can find the show using our RSS feed.The Catalyze podcast is a series by the Morehead-Cain Foundation, home of the first merit scholarship program in the United States and located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The show is directed and produced by Sarah O'Carroll, Content Manager for Morehead-Cain. You can let us know what you thought of the episode by finding us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram at @moreheadcain or you can email us at communications@moreheadcain.org.

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: https://JeffreyPfeffer.com/ SHOW NOTES: Valerie Shen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners, overseeing all operational aspects of the firm, which has almost one billion dollars under management. Valerie exemplifies many of the principles within the book 7 Rules of Power and speaks with us about how she began (yes, began) her career as a Chief Operating Officer for a venture capital firm. In this episode: Valerie's background before attending business school Her pivotal internship How she landed her job as a Chief Operating Officer Why she accepted the position How she met her mentor by sending a cold email The importance of choosing a focus within the company's roles The importance of differentiating yourself What a COO does in a venture fund The rules of power used to get such a high-level role so early in her career Taking a position that matches your natural skillsets and what you enjoy Crafting a job that plays to your abilities How she got her job as COO at G2 Venture Partners A provocative take on her experience of being an Asian woman in tech The danger in highlighting differences The issue of cognitive load Advice on having the willingness and ability to self-promote   GUEST BIO w/ social links: Valerie Shen is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at G2 Venture Partners. She oversees all operational aspects of the firm and fund, including fundraising / LP relations, recruiting / HR, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, and marketing. Prior to business school, Valerie was an analyst at Kleiner Perkins' $1B Green Growth Fund, where she helped the team found G2. Before that, Valerie was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she worked across four continents, primarily on energy projects. She has also held positions at the U.S. Senate, X (Google's “moonshot factory”), Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Capital, and The Wilderness Society. Valerie holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Environmental Science & Public Policy and Earth & Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. She holds an M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, where she was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar.   Website: https://www.g2vp.com/valerie-shen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-shen/ Produced by The www.MunnAvenuePress.com

What can you do before starting business school to set yourself up for a valuable MBA experience? [Show summary] Bob Manfreda discusses his experience in the Stanford GSB program and shares wisdom from his co-authored blog, MBA Coffee Chats, and book, Coffee Chats: Thoughtful advice on how to get the most out of your MBA. How coffee chats can help you clarify your career goals, prioritize activities and more [Show notes] Welcome to the 437th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for tuning in. Before I introduce our guest, I have a question for you: are you ready to apply to your dream MBA programs? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's MBA Admissions Quiz can give you a quick reality check. Just go to accepted.com/mba-quiz, complete the quiz and you'll not only get an assessment but tips on how to improve your qualifications. Plus it's all free! I'd like to welcome to Admission Straight Talk Bob Manfreda, Stanford MBA and co-author of Coffee Chats: Thoughtful advice on how to get the most out of your MBA. Bob earned his Bachelor's in Applied Physics and Chinese at Notre Dame, worked at Deloitte as a consultant, earned his MBA at Stanford as an Arjay Miller Scholar and is now a manager at Deloitte. He is also the Chief Booth Officer for PhotoFox Photo Booth.  My first burning question is, do you like coffee? [1:53] I do. I made myself an iced coffee for the occasion. You were at Deloitte before you went to Stanford GSB and you're now again at Deloitte. Did you intend to return to Deloitte after your MBA as you've done? [2:04] “Intend” might be too strong of a word. I knew it was a strong option, and it was one that I was excited to have. I was sponsored to go to school. I cared to come back, but I also wanted to explore some other careers just because I'd been at Deloitte for four years already. And there was a lot out there. I think I had a little bit of a wanderlust career-wise. So I did some poking around in venture capital, in mid-stage startup and then entrepreneurialism which was a list of three things that I came up with that I thought would allow me to maybe be financially equivalent but still explore something new. I started working my way through that list. For whatever reason, I never really got a lot of momentum on starting my own thing. I realized after a couple of coffee chats actually that venture capital probably wouldn't be something for me. And I interned at a mid-stage, tech startup and had a great time, but it didn't really work out for my career perspective. There wasn't necessarily a path there. When I got to my second year, Deloitte made the official offer to return, and it felt like the best thing at the time for me. Has it worked out for you? [3:20] It has. Deloitte is a good company. They've got great benefits. I'm currently actually on paternity leave. We had our first son, Jackson, who is six months old. My wife works for a company called Snowflake, and they updated their policy to six months so she had a bunch of time off. Anyways, long story short, now I get months 6-10 off with Jackson which I'm really excited about. Going back to consulting, for me, I think there was the professional benefit of getting to manage people soon and to continue developing some of the core skills. But I think there was also the personal element of it that I knew I'd have that benefit available to me of good paternity leave, and I'd be able to go to where I want to in the country so it was more than just a professional decision. Let's turn to your Stanford experience. What did you enjoy most while you were a student at Stanford GSB? [4:19] I think it was the freedom to choose every single day. As I went into school and reflected on life growing up through school, the goal was always me getting better and pursuing an interest. That's the mandate of educational institutions. When I went to the professional world, that was certainly a goal,

Prior to Asia Partners, Mr. Nash was the Group President of Sea, Greater Southeast Asia’s leading internet company with a ~50Bn market cap, from 2014 to 2018. Mr. Nash led Sea’s landmark initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SE), which raised approximately $1 billion of primary capital and which was the largest ever U.S. IPO of a company from Southeast Asia. Mr. Nash joined Sea after more than a decade with General Atlantic (GA), most recently as the co-founder and head of GA’s Southeast Asia business. Three of Mr. Nash’s successful investments while with General Atlantic are now multi-billion dollar NYSE publicly traded companies. Prior to GA, Mr. Nash was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. Mr. Nash was a member of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group from 2017-2018, is a member of the global Kauffman Society for leadership in venture capital, is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and is a board member of Endeavor Indonesia. He received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2007, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Chemistry and Physics, magna cum laude, in 2000. Shownotes at https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/nick-nash-1

There is a new intersection forming in the technology stack that is reshaping the future of the productivity and collaboration landscape.  Productivity applications are colliding with collaboration applications in what is being deemed deep collaboration - a new frontier of collaboration innovation that is bringing people closer to their teams, teams closer to other teams, and companies closer to their ecosystem (customers, partners, suppliers). In a recent VentureBeat article, Jake Saper, General Partner at Emergence Capital, speaks to a future where deep collaboration becomes central to the workplace.  In this episode, hear Jake define deep collaboration and explain why it is the next logical progression for the tech stack.  About Jake SaperJake still can’t believe he gets to do this for a living. Raised in Austin by parents who were serial co-founders, he got bit by the startup bug early. He thinks of serving entrepreneurs as his highest calling. His first venture focused on selling rocks door to door from his Radio Flyer wagon. Not one to shy away from a tough market, he moved on (20 years later) to help launch and grow a startup developing large solar power plants in India, Africa, and the Middle East. He’s developed a deep well of entrepreneurial empathy from being told no (and occasionally yes!) from investors and bureaucrats across the globe.Jake’s first job for which someone paid him was in management consulting, where he honed his deep, nerdy love of frameworks. He’s brought that passion for entrepreneurship and strategic thinking to venture. He got his start in venture at Kleiner Perkins, after which he joined Emergence, where he became a Kauffman Fellow.He’s passionate about using machine learning to help people do their jobs better and co-developed the firm’s Coaching Networks thesis. He serves on the boards of Textio, Guru, Ironclad, DroneDeploy, Vymo, Maze, and Assembled.Jake earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale and his MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Jake also earned an MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford. Jake is a singer and very mediocre guitar player, constantly in search of people to jam with.Jake’s wife Dannie Herzberg is the best go-to-market leader (and person) he knows. Jake’s north star is to help build enduring, values-driven companies that he and Dannie would be proud for their daughter Sadie to work at some day.

In this episode, Hall welcomes Bob Morse, Founding Managing Partner at Strattam Capital. Strattam Capital invests in founder-led independent B2B software and technology companies outside of Silicon Valley. They believe in aligning with founders and CEOs before signing, via their 5-Point Plan process to allow execution with purpose, excitement, and efficiency. Headquartered in Austin, TX, with roots in Silicon Valley, they connect companies with the people, process, and scale needed to reach their potential. Bob founded Strattam Capital in 2013 along with Adrian Polak. Previously, Bob was a Partner at Oak Hill Capital Partners, where he led the Technology Vertical and was a member of the Investment Committee. From 1995 to 1999, he worked at GCC Investments, a growth private equity firm based in Boston. Before GCC, he worked at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. He has served on numerous private and public boards over time and is currently a director of Acendre, Contegix, Rock Solid Technologies, SSB Data, and Trax Group. His former directorships include Doxim, Intermedia, MHC Software, Telecity Group, and ViaWest. Bob is also a member of the Advisory Board of the HMTF Center for Private Equity at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Board Member at Austin PBS, producer of Austin City Limits. Bob attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S.E., and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he earned his M.B.A. and was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Bob discusses with Hall how he sees the industry evolving and some of the challenges companies face. He speaks about the investment thesis of the company and advises both entrepreneurs and investors. You can visit Strattam Capital at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .   Bob can be contacted via email at .  

Jessie Teitz Becker, the SVP Marketing at Impossible Foods, brings her impressive marketing knowledge and expertise in forming long term recurring revenue relationships to Subscription Stories. She joins Robbie to discuss how Impossible is applying principles learned at subscription companies like Netflix, YouTube and Optimizely, best practices in introducing & building habits with a new product category, and why they launched an “every day” product at special occasion restaurant Momofuku. Highlights from this episode: 2:17 - The birth of Impossible Foods 4:24 - How Impossible earned its credibility through the famous restaurant empire, Momofuku 6:21 - Why the product, and not the marketing, is the key to creating repeating consumer habits 9:25 - How to build customer loyalty through an “easy out” 12:00 – Impossible Foods’ key to restaurant success: ensuring every employee gets a taste of their meat 15:33 - The milestones and metrics Impossible looks for 18:38 - How COVID rocked the food industry - and what Impossible did to battle it 21:03 - Why Impossible Foods made the jump to direct-to-consumer shipping 23:50 - What Impossible Foods learned from launching their own ecommerce direct to consumer 26:36- The magic of free shipping 29:10 - The ideal Impossible customer 32:45 – Impossible Foods’ loyalty program Taste Place, and how Impossible is building their Forever Transaction 39:26 - Robbie’s Speed Round Jessie's Bio: Jessie Teitz Becker is a marketing executive based in Silicon Valley. She is currently the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Impossible Foods where she leads the B2B and B2C marketing, insights, and brand marketing teams. Jessie began her career at Netflix in 2000 as one of the first people hired in the marketing department, and eventually rose to interim Chief Marketing officer. She then joined Optimizely, a B2B software company, as Chief Marketing Officer and later served as the Director of Marketing at Google and YouTube. Jessie holds a Bachelor’s in History from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor’s in Economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from Stanford University, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Links: Jessie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiebecker/ Impossible Foods: https://buy.impossiblefoods.com/ Podcast Website: https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/podcast Robbie’s Book THE FOREVER TRANSACTION: https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/the-forever-transaction/

Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Fred Swaniker, the founder of African Leadership Group to explore questions about education entrepreneur, the building and running of Africa Leadership University, and the key ingredient of a successful global education company. Fred is deeply passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. In line with this, he has co-founded three organizations that aim to catalyze a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Network, and African Leadership University. Collectively, these institutions aim to groom 3 million leaders for Africa over a 50-year period. A passionate entrepreneur, Fred also served as Founder and CEO of Terra Education, a global education company that today provides leadership training to about 4,000 people annually at 46 sites in 20 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Swaniker has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was listed by Forbes Magazine among the top ten young ‘power men’ in Africa. Fred has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar, a distinction awarded to the top 10% of each graduating class. He holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Mathematical Statistics from Macalester College (magna cum laude). He was born in Ghana but has lived and worked in about 10 different African countries.

Will AI save us or destroy us?  AI expert and CEO of Intellimize joins us on the If You Market podcast to discuss practical use of AI in B2B marketing, but of course there's some terminator talk as well.  Guy Yalif has been putting AI into the hands of marketers for the past several years as Co-founder and CEO of Intellimize. Prior to Intellimize, he held a number of senior marketing positions at major media and technology companies, including Vice President of Global Marketing at BrightRoll and Head of Global Product and Vertical Marketing at Twitter, as well as leadership roles at Yahoo, Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group, and Tradeweave. Guy graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and was an Arjay Miller Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Dr. Arnold discuss: The business case for adopting data-driven methodologies and materials informatics within materials and chemicals organizations Suggestions for kicking off digital initiatives within materials and chemicals organizations Cynthia’s wide-ranging career in the materials industry, and her perspective on the impact that data-driven R&D can have on the pace of innovation within an organization The similarities between Six Sigma and materials informatics adoption and implementation How materials informatics and a data strategy can help facilitate knowledge transfer within an organization   “Start with where you have problems and opportunities, and ask what data can support delivery on these solutions and these opportunities.”  – Dr. Cynthia Arnold   Dr. Cynthia Arnold spent an over 30 year career in materials industries, leading technology development and innovation and marketing partnerships for diverse applications including medical, automotive, aerospace, electronics, building and construction and printing.  She most recently served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Valspar Corporation and as the Senior Vice President of Global Technology for Sherwin Williams, where she was responsible for a world-wide team of 1100 staff developing paints, coatings and associated technologies and services.  Prior to Valspar, Cynthia was the Chief Technology Officer at Sun Chemical, a leading producer of inks and pigments. Prior to that, she held technical leadership positions at Eastman Chemical and General Electric.   She served as a Sloan Executive Science & Engineering Fellow in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy for several years, focused on industry-government technology alliances.  She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science; a Board member of the Minnesota Zoo; and serves in advisory and consulting roles for a number of materials companies, including Carbon, Cabot, Citrine Informatics, and Milliken.   Dr. Bryce Meredig, is the host of DataLab: The Materials Informatics Podcast, and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics. Dr. Meredig researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Dr. Bryce Meredig: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io

Summary: Mayor Bill Peduto provides an overview of the history of Pittsburgh’s connection to advanced analytics and technology, and talks about why Pittsburgh has become a hub for artificial intelligence innovation. In this episode, Bryce and Mayor Peduto discuss: Pittsburgh’s transformation into a city at the forefront of AI, robotics, technology, and green energy How AI and big data have played a role in transforming Pittsburgh into a smart city How Mayor Peduto got involved with public service and Pittsburgh politics The role of education and training in encouraging Pittsburgh’s industrial and economic innovation The P4 framework - people, planet, place and performance - and its role in the changing landscape of Pittsburgh’s economy How the Mayor and the City of Pittsburgh use data to drive policy Pittsburgh’s approach to attracting and retaining a talented workforce “The transformation from a steel city to a modern manufacturing and technology hub happened over decades starting with the first robotics program at Carnegie Mellon in the 1970’s.” Mayor William Peduto was elected to the office of Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh in the General Election on November 5, 2013, and took office as Pittsburgh’s 60th Mayor in January of 2014. Prior to taking office, he worked for 19 years on Pittsburgh City Council - seven years as a staffer then twelve years as a Member of Council. Since taking office, Mayor Peduto has lead a collaborative effort to make Pittsburgh a leading 21st Century city. The Peduto administration has partnered with the White House on numerous initiatives, resulting in direct access to federal support related to affordable housing, education, economic development, energy efficiency, immigration, manufacturing, community policing, workforce development, technology and transportation. In 2015 Mayor Peduto signed a unique agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to make the city a world leader in district energy production and Pittsburgh joined the UN's Compact of Mayors, a global coalition of climate leaders committed to local action and global impact. Dr. Bryce Meredig, is the host of DataLab: The Materials Informatics Podcast, and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics. Dr. Meredig researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io

Summary: In this episode, Joerg Hellwig, Chief Digital Officer of LANXESS AG, provides an Industry perspective on how the acceleration of new product development plays a crucial role in a company’s success, and how data is a critical enabler of this acceleration.   In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Joerg Hellwig discuss: Joerg’s career path and the responsibilities of his current role as a chief digital officer. How “digital transformation” has impacted the materials industry, and how to better integrate technology tools into R&D and manufacturing industries. Which human factors play a role in technology integration in the materials and chemicals industries, and how to change mindsets across an organization in a data-driven approach. How algorithms and machines can free up scientists to spend their time doing creative, critical work within an organization. The critical role that data-driven materials and chemical industries can play in creating a more sustainable world.   “I’m very excited about using data-driven methods to embed recyclability and sustainability into the DNA of materials. We want to use AI to produce products which are both needed by the market and our customers, and fully recyclable.”   “Right now, how fast we can develop new products is unpredictable...we do 50, 100, 150 trials...This is painful, time consuming, and unpredictable...By incorporating data-driven methods, we define a different way of doing things that can change this unpredictability and allow us to gain speed.”   Joerg Hellwig began his career as a commercial trainee at Bayer AG. After spending several years in the US, he returned to LANXESS in Germany to restructure and sell its Synthetic Fibers business. Following an assignment at Reliance Industries in India, he came back as Managing Director of the Pigment business unit at LANXESS. Since 2017 Joerg has led the company’s Digital Transformation Initiative as Chief Digital Officer. The process focus areas include the digitization of production, the introduction of new tools and systems throughout the value chain, promoting the value of data as an institutional asset for the entire company, and the use of advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence to increase the speed of development. Joerg also leads the “New Work” cultural transformation program to support the skill and talent necessary for the transition to a digital organization. As a champion of new technologies at the company, Joerg is also responsible for exploring new business models. As such, he founded the start-up software company CheMondis and served as Managing Director and Supervisory Board member. CheMondis, now independent, has quickly become the leading online marketplace for the chemicals industry. Dr. Bryce Meredig, is the host of DataLab: The Materials Informatics Podcast, and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics. Dr. Meredig researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io

Summary:  This episode focuses on Prof. Kristin Persson’s work directing the Materials Project, where she had her group have built an open-source materials informatics platform that reaches over 75,000 users worldwide.   In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Prof. Persson discuss: The founding of the Materials Project and how it has grown into a widely used global open-source platform Recruiting and supporting a multidisciplinary group that touches materials science, chemistry, high-performance computing, and scalable web development The motivation for making all Materials Project data, applications, and algorithms open-source Success stories from the scientific community’s use of the Materials Project How researchers can best integrate computational methods with machine learning, lab-based synthesis and characterization, and commercial R&D   “We’re building a community. In the end, the goal [of Materials Project] is to make our data and algorithms available to the public so we can accelerate materials design and accelerate solutions to some of our societal problems in renewable energy.” - Dr. Kristin Persson   Prof. Kristin Persson is the Director of the Materials Project, a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC-Berkeley. Known as a pioneer of materials genomics, Kristin co-founded the Materials Project in 2011 with Gerbrand Ceder at MIT. The Materials Project is now a multi-institution, multi-national effort to compute the properties of all known materials and to provide the data, analysis algorithms, and computational materials applications free of charge to the scientific community. The Materials Project aims to accelerate innovation in materials research, and has led to the discovery of new battery materials, transparent conducting oxides, and thermoelectric materials. Prof. Persson is the recipient of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Early Career Award for Women in Science, the 2013 LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the TMS 2017 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award. She was also a 2018 Kavli Fellow. Dr. Bryce Meredig, is the host of DataLab: The Materials Informatics Podcast, and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics.  Dr. Meredig researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io

Summary:  This episode focuses on Dr. Murray-Rust’s work in advocacy, community building, and software development to create a more open scientific community in chemistry and materials.   In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Prof. Murray-Rust discuss: How Peter’s research background in crystallography inspired him to lead the development of tools and communities around open science and open data Lessons the materials and chemistry communities can learn from bioscience to create a more open community in scientific publishing The impact that open data and open research can have on accelerated industrial materials development The role of public funding and policymaking on encouraging a more open scientific community The importance of machine-readable data and semantic databases in the physical sciences Dr. Murray-Rust’s non-profit Content Mine, which seeks to unlock scientific data through advocacy, community, and software development   “The multiplying factor of the Human Genome Project was over 100x. For every $1 million invested, it led to over $100 million of value created downstream...There’s no doubt that funding these sorts of things leads to a huge amount of realizable public good.” – Dr. Peter Murray-Rust   Dr. Peter Murray-Rust is the Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus of Churchill College, where he brings together tools from computer science to chemistry, biosciences and earth sciences, integrating humans and machines in managing information.   Peter has held multiple faculty positions throughout his career, first as a lecturer at the University of Sterling, and later as Professor or Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. He also led molecular graphics, computational chemistry, and protein structure determination efforts at the Glaxo Group Research.   In addition to his industrial and academic work in chemistry and molecular informatics, Peter is well-known for his support and work on open access and open data. He led the development of the Chemical Markup Language, co-authored the Panton Principles for Open Scientific data, and co-founded the Blue Obelisk community to promote open data and develop open source cheminformatics tools. In 2014, Dr. Murray-Rust was granted a Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship in support of his work leading the non-profit ContentMine, where he and his team develops tools to mine literature to make scientific data open and accessible. Connect with Prof. Murray Rusk: LinkedIn Faculty Website   Dr. Bryce Meredig, is the host of DataLab: The Materials Informatics Podcast, and Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics.  Dr. Meredig researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io

Summary:  This episode highlights opportunities, challenges, and solutions around building a successful cross-functional, data-driven Research and Development team.   In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Prof. Mauro discuss: Prof.Mauro’s early interest in computer programming, and how that shaped his career Challenges and opportunities for applying data-driven modeling techniques, like machine learning, to materials development Keys to a successful cross-functional materials research and development team The importance of a data-driven culture and strategy for commercial success How to bridge skill gaps within materials science through education, curriculum development, and collaborative research   “A company that has a data-driven culture is going to be much more effective at developing better products, faster, and at a lower cost. [This culture] will be essential for their long-term survival.” – Prof. John Mauro   After earning his PhD in glass science from Alfred University, Prof. John Mauro joined Corning Incorporated, where he eventually became the senior research manager of the Glass Research Department. He is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products.Dr. Mauro joined the faculty at Pennsylvania State University in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, and the topology of disordered networks.  He is the inventor of new models for supercooled liquid and glass viscosity, glass structure and topology, relaxation behavior, and thermal and mechanical properties. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has given more than 200 presentations at international conferences and seminars. In addition, he is editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.   Connect with Prof. John Mauro: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mauro-b6285b58/ Faculty Website: https://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/john-mauro   Dr. Bryce Meredig, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics, researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io   Please send comments, questions, and topics for upcoming episodes to podcast@datalabmi.com.

In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Prof. Buriak discuss: Prof. Buriak’s perspective on Open Data and its impact on scientific publishing. The influence of machine learning and AI on professional societies. The Buriak Group’s recent research applying ML and informatics to photovoltaic materials research. How Prof. Buriak utilizes Twitter and social media to grow her professional network and learn about new breakthroughs in the scientific community. How Prof. Buriak became actively involved in the scientific publishing realm.   "A journal is more than simply publishing scientific results, we also are the basis of community." — Prof. Jillian Buriak   Dr. Jillian Buriak. is a professor and the Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta, where she has researched and co-authored over 100 papers on surface chemistry, nanoscience, synthetic materials, and inorganic nanomaterials.   In addition to her work as a professor, Prof. Buriak has been an editor for Science Magazine and ACS Nano and is currently the editor-in-chief of ACS Chemistry of Materials. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom.   Connect with Dr. Jillian Buriak: Twitter: @JBuriak Website: Buriak Research Group   Dr. Bryce Meredig, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics, researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io   Please send comments, questions, and topics for upcoming episodes to podcast@datalabmi.com.

This episode explores the definition of materials informatics.   In this episode, Dr. Bryce Meredig and Dr. Wolverton discuss: The evolution of Dr. Wolverton’s research and his group’s’ focus on computational materials modeling and machine learning. The challenges and opportunities for computational methods and informatics to accelerate new materials discovery. The different methods and tools the Wolverton Group develops to assist in materials research and development. Applications of machine learning to materials research. The prospects of machine learning and data-driven methods to explain new physics and chemistry.   "I think of Materials Informatics as the application of data-driven tools to solve problems in materials science and engineering. The advent of the field and why we can define it now is because of data." — Dr. Christopher Wolverton   About Dr. Christopher Wolverton: Dr.Christopher Wolverton is the Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Before joining the faculty, he worked at the Research and Innovation Center at Ford Motor Company, where he was group leader for the Hydrogen Storage and Nanoscale Modeling Group. He received his BS in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral work at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research interests include computational studies of a variety of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly materials via first-principles atomistic calculations, high-throughput and machine learning tools to accelerate materials discovery, and “multiscale” methodologies for linking atomistic and microstructural scales. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.   Connect with Dr. Christopher Wolverton: Profile: Chris Wolverton LinkedIn: Chris Wolverton   About Dr. Bryce Meredig: Bryce Meredig is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics. His research interest is the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying ML to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Bryce Meredig: Twitter: @brycemeredig Website: Citrine.io   Please send comments, questions, and topics for upcoming episodes to podcast@datalabmi.com.

This episode focuses on the importance of materials data to the materials informatics process, as well an update on the Materials Genome Initiative.   In this episode, Dr. Meredig and Dr. Warren discuss: How a shared improv background has surprisingly made a positive impact on their scientific careers and technical communication skills. The history of the Materials Genome Initiative, its role in the materials innovation ecosystem, and its future outlook. Successful models of collaboration between policymakers, national labs, academic research groups, and for-profit companies driving innovation in materials research and development. The role the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plays as a convener and community builder in the field of data-driven materials science. The importance of high-quality curated data in a materials R&D ecosystem.   “What people really want to see is the advantage of having a data management plan, and that’s where we’re seeing a change. Now, all you have to do is open a journal to see a lot of high-quality articles on data-driven methods and machine learning for materials discovery, and that’s an easier case to make to the community.” - Dr. Jim Warren   About Dr. Jim Warren: Dr. Jim A. Warren is the Technical Program Director for Materials Genomics in the Material Measurement Laboratory of NIST, where he has been a scientist since 1992. He came to NIST after receiving his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the UC Santa Barbara and his BA (also in Physics) from Dartmouth College. In 1995, Jim co-founded the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science. Dr. Warren is currently focused on the Materials Genome Initiative, a multi-agency initiative designed to create a new era of policy, resources, and infrastructure that supports U.S. institutions in the effort to discover, design, develop, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost.   Connect with Dr. Warren : Website: NIST.gov/people/James-Warren & mgi.gov & mgi.nist.govLinkedIn: James Warren About Dr. Bryce Meredig: Dr. Bryce Meredig, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics, researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in materials science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning (ML) to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Dr. Meredig: Twitter: @brycemeredigWebsite: Citrine.io Please send comments, questions, and topics for upcoming episodes to podcast@datalabmi.com.

In this podcast, Dr. Bryce Meredig, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics, introduces our audience to materials informatics. Materials informatics is the use of computational and data-driven methods to inform materials design, research, and development. This podcast will feature interviews with leaders in government, industry, and academia who are at the cutting edge of the materials informatics revolution. Dr. Meredig and guests will discuss the most important issues scientists may face as they use materials data to accelerate materials and chemicals development, such as materials data infrastructure and the kind of team necessary for MI success.    About Dr. Bryce Meredig: Dr. Bryce Meredig, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Citrine Informatics, researches the application of machine learning to materials science. He earned his PhD in Materials Science from Northwestern University, where he focused on materials informatics, and his BAS and MBA at Stanford University, where he is also on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some of the earliest on applying machine learning to materials development. He was an Arjay Miller Scholar and Terman Fellow at Stanford, and a Presidential Fellow and NDSEG Fellow at Northwestern.   Connect with Dr. Bryce Meredig: Twitter: @brycemeredigWebsite: Citrine.io Please send comments, questions, and topics for upcoming episodes to podcast@datalabmi.com.

Chris is the CEO of Collective Medical Technologies, a Salt Lake City-based health technology company which helps providers and payers to take better care of their patients and members using real-time risk identification, stakeholder notifications, and collaborative care planning tools. CMT is obsessively focused on eliminating avoidable patient risk by designing simple yet highly-effective technology-driven clinical solutions. Chris was previously a vice president at Bain Capital and an associate consultant with Bain & Company. He holds a B.A. with honors in Economics and English from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, from which he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He lives with his wife and children in Salt Lake City where, together, they enjoy all things outdoors, family, and friends. Twitter: @CollectiveMed, @1klomp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cklomp, https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective-medical-technologies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collectivemedicaltechWebsite: www.collectivemedicaltech.com 00:00 Reducing Wasteful Spend in Healthcare. 02:35 Emergency Medical Spend is as a percentage of total Healthcare cost in the U.S. is only between 2-4%. 03:30 How ED spending is low-hanging fruit. 04:30 What Collective Medical Technologies is. 05:00 Impacting what happens in the Emergency Department vs. Using real-time data to identify the patient in the ED for better care. 06:15 How Malintent and Mis-intent create opportunities in the Emergency Department. 08:00 Getting patients to exactly the right Care Setting in the moment. 12:45 What happens when a patient enters the ED. 15:45 Meeting the Patient's needs while authenticating the Patient's visit. 17:15 “It's about the information you don't know.” 17:30 Information Asymmetries. 20:00 What someone needs to know about Managing Data to Identify Risks. 21:50 Creating timely, Meaningful Conversations. 22:15 Real-time Data. 23:00 Thinking about Risk and Imminent Readmission. 23:45 In-the-moment Risk Analytics. 25:00 Collaboration in a Care Plan to reduce Wasteful Spend. 26:00 The Right Data, Risk Analytics, Communication, and Community-Wide Collaboration. 28:20 How Social Determinants affect Wasteful Spend in the ED. 30:10 You can find out more information at www.collectivemedicaltech.com.

Tony Xu founded Door Dash as a local delivery service for Stanford students and participated in the Y Combinator incubator with his co founders while polishing the business model. Prior to co-founding Door Dash, tony worked in product at Square, led special projects for the CEO and CFO at eBay, and began his career at McKinsey and Company. He holds a B.S. with High Honors in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.