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This week, we revisit our interview with Nick Damiano. Nick is a serial entrepreneur focused on solving unmet needs to improve patient care. He is currently CEO & Founder of Andromeda Surgical, which is developing autonomous robots for safer, better, more efficient surgery. Before that, he was CEO & Co-Founder of Zenflow, where he co-invented a novel implant for BPH (enlarged prostate) and led the product from inception through multiple clinical trials to commercial readiness, raising over $60M in funding. He was also CTO & co-founder at Nurep, later re-branded as Avail MedSystems. He was the key architect of the company's remote surgical support product for operating rooms that is now used in hundreds of medical facilities. Nick earned his M.S. and B.S. with Distinction in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and was an Innovation Fellow at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He was the first medtech founder to be funded by Y Combinator twice and actively advises startups through StartX, UCSF Rosenman Institute, and Nucleate Bio. He also dabbles on the investor side as a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.

Join us on Monday, November 20 @ 6pm EST for an informative conversation with Josh D. Grossman as he shares his research on discrimination in college student admissions. Josh is a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Social Science at Stanford University's Department of Management Science & Engineering. Broadly, his research applies tools from data science to issues in public policy and he is particularly interested in understanding how racial disparate impact manifests itself in judicial decisions and college admissions. He recently interned as a data scientist at Recidiviz, a non-profit that builds technology to reduce incarceration. Previously, he worked as a data scientist at the Stanford Computational Policy Lab and IXL Learning, a K–12 education technology company. He completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard University, majoring in Neurobiology and minoring in Statistics. His work is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).

Samir Chowdhury is a junior at Stanford University studying Management Science & Engineering. In 2020, he founded the Youth Climate Action Team, a global 501c4 climate justice advocacy nonprofit that focuses on community organizing and the power of young people. He initially dedicated himself to climate policy, but soon realized that this didn't align with his personality and working style, which is how he found his way to energy and investment. More recently, he's completed various energy investment internships and is now starting a fund at Stanford. Samir emphasizes the importance of utilizing your strengths and values to dictate your path, and also encourages students to not be afraid to pivot. He finishes the episode by telling us how students can make a climate impact through energy and the best ways to get involved.   Keynotes: - Making a climate impact through energy - Following your strengths and values - Getting involved in the sustainable and transition investing spaces   And follow us on: Newsletter: https://www.energy-terminal.com/newsletter-signup  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/energy-terminal  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/energyterminal/ 

This week we interview Nick Damian. Nick is a serial entrepreneur focused on solving unmet needs to improve patient care. He is currently CEO & Founder of Andromeda Surgical, which is developing autonomous robots for safer, better, more efficient surgery. Before that, he was CEO & Co-Founder of Zenflow, where he co-invented a novel implant for BPH (enlarged prostate) and led the product from inception through multiple clinical trials to commercial readiness, raising over $60M in funding. He was also CTO & co-founder at Nurep, later re-branded as Avail MedSystems. He was the key architect of the company's remote surgical support product for operating rooms that is now used in hundreds of medical facilities. Nick earned his M.S. and B.S. with Distinction in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and was an Innovation Fellow at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He was the first medtech founder to be funded by Y Combinator twice and actively advises startups through StartX, UCSF Rosenman Institute, and Nucleate Bio. He also dabbles on the investor side as a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.

Timestamps(01:40) Julia shared the differences growing up in New York and moving to San Francisco.(03:05) Julia discussed her overall undergraduate experience at Stanford — getting dual degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering_._(05:40) Julia went over her time as an Investment Banker at Qatalyst Partners — notably working on Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.(09:11) Julia talked about her career transition to venture capital — working as an associate investor at New Enterprise Associates.(10:46) Julia emphasized the importance of getting up-to-speed and forming an investment thesis as a new investor.(15:05) Julia discussed her Series A investment in Metabase, an open-source business intelligence software project.(18:36) Julia unpacked her investment(s) in Sentry, an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real-time to catch bugs early.(20:14) Julia explained her investment in the Series B round for Anyscale, an end-to-end computing platform that makes building and managing a scaled application across clouds as easy as developing an app on a single computer.(23:03) Julia contextualized her investments in the seed round for Datafold, a data observability platform that equips analytics engineers with the tools to address data quality issues.(24:24) Julia shared typical hiring and go-to-market decisions that companies need to make (depending upon their growth stages and product strategies).(27:05) Julia mentioned her Metabase application to help investors pick winning open-source startups.(29:05) Julia rationalized her switch to becoming a product manager at dbt Labs.(30:34) Julia peeked into the roadmap of dbt Cloud, a hosted service that helps data analysts and engineers productionize dbt deployments.(33:34) Julia went over an under-invested area and the role of interoperability within the broader data tooling ecosystem.(37:56) Julia reflected on the difference between being a venture investor and a product manager.(41:05) Closing segment.Julia's Contact InfoLinkedInTwitterdbt's ResourcesSlack CommunityCoalesce 2021 Replaysdbt LearnGitHubEvents and MeetupsMentioned ContentPeopleTristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs)Ali Ghodsi (Co-Creator of Apache Spark, Co-Founder and CEO of Databricks)Dan Levine (General Partner at Accel Partners)Book“Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon” (by Bill Carr and Colin Bryar)NotesMy conversation with Julia was recorded back in May 2021. Since the podcast was recorded, a lot has happened at dbt Labs! I'd recommend:Reading Julia's recent blog posts on adopting CI/CD and introducing Environment Variables in dbt Cloud.Watching the talk replays from Coalesce, dbt's 2nd annual analytics engineering conferenceListening to Season 1 of the Analytics Engineering Podcast, where Julia co-hosts with Tristan Handy to go deep into the hopes, dreams, motivations, and failures of leading data and analytics practitioners.About the showDatacast features long-form, in-depth conversations with practitioners and researchers in the data community to walk through their professional journeys and unpack the lessons learned along the way. I invite guests coming from a wide range of career paths — from scientists and analysts to founders and investors — to analyze the case for using data in the real world and extract their mental models (“the WHY and the HOW”) behind their pursuits. Hopefully, these conversations can serve as valuable tools for early-stage data professionals as they navigate their own careers in the exciting data universe.Datacast is produced and edited by James Le. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing khanhle.1013@gmail.com.Subscribe by searching for Datacast wherever you get podcasts or click one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsIf you're new, see the podcast homepage for the most recent episodes to listen to, or browse the full guest list.

Stephanie Lampkin is the founder and CEO of Blendoor, an AI and people analytics platform that helps companies hire and retain a diverse workforce by mitigating unconscious bias and leveraging big data and analytics to drive more meritocratic decision-making. Candidates are sourced from hundreds of strategic partners & universities and presented to recruiters without name, photo or dates. Then, Blendoor integrates with a company’s HR systems to track candidates based on demographics to identify where & how bias happens; this transparency drives accountability within orgs, teams, and even individual hiring managers. In addition to measuring bias, Blendoor provides metrics that demonstrate the ROI of diversity & inclusion initiatives. With data & AI, they aim to move the discussion from social good to business intelligent. Stephanie has had a 15 year career in the tech industry founding two startups and working in technical roles at Lockheed, Microsoft, and TripAdvisor. She holds a BS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from MIT. Connect with Stephanie Lampkin Blendoor YouTube Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn slampkin@blendoor.com Some of the Topics Covered by Stephanie Lampkin in this Episode How Stephanie taught herself coding at age 13 What Blendoor is and what led Stephanie to found it Stephanie's original vision for Blendoor and how it has pivoted and evolved into what it is today How Stephanie created the idea at a hackathon How Stephanie approaches customer acquisition The early fundraising process for Blendoor and what she learned from it The importance of relationship building Product development as an AI SaaS B2B company How Stephanie has defined her ideal customers and approached sales Stephanie's move to Silicon Valley Leveraging press and PR for sales Building out the team for Blendoor How Blendoor sources diverse talent How Stephanie approaches partnerships for Blendoor Identifying and onboarding clients that are ready to work with Blendoor The importance of DE&I and getting companies to prioritize it The challenge of fundraising as a black woman The business model for Blendoor The big vision for Blendoor Stephanie's advice for entrepreneurs How Stephanie recharges away from work Stephanie's book recommendations Stephanie's entrepreneurial experience founding Hoowenware prior to Blendoor Deciding to get an MBA How to get involved with Blendoor Links from the Episode Black Data Processing Associates Hackathon Blendoor on Fast Company Blendoor on Forbes Tech Inclusion Conference Blendoor's BlendScore tool National Black MBA Association Society of Women Engineers Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper Celebration National Society of Black Engineers Mellody Hobson on Corporate Diversity #131: Olivia Owens, Creator and General Manager of IFundWomen of Color and Head of Partnerships at IFundWomen, a Platform for Female Entrepreneurs to Raise Capital Through Crowdfunding IFundWomen of Color Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Caste by Isabel Wilkerson #143: Lillian Rafson, Founder and CEO of Pack Up + Go, a Travel Agency with Surprise Destinations, on Bootstrapping the Business, Planning 10,000+ Trips, and Running a Travel Company During the COVID Crisis #121: Samantha Patil, Founder and CEO of Well Traveled, a Members Only Review Platform for Millennial Travelers

Sweden's Child of Light (0:36)Guest: Christopher Oscarson, Professor of Scandinavian History and Swedish Literature at Brigham Young UniversityDecember 13th is Saint Lucia Day which is especially big in Sweden. And it's a little ironic because this song about Saint Lucia and the saint herself both come from warm, sunny Sicily. Now, it's biggest devotees are in the dark, cold north. How did that happen? (Originally aired 12/13/18).  Don't Get Suckered By Bogus Reviews When Shopping Online (10:11)Guest: Tommy Noonan, Founder of ReviewMetaIn the rush to get last-minute gifts on Amazon, it's easy to get duped by a fake or poor-quality product. By the time it arrives, it'll be too late to find a replacement before Christmas. So maybe you just stick to products with loads of five-star reviews? Well watch out for that. Lots of them are bogus and some sellers actually pay people to write good reviews. (Originally aired 11/11/19).  The Value & Price of our Attention (27:36)Guest: Nick Seaver, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts UniversityWe'll be spending time with friends and family over the next few weeks. And we bet you'll notice occasionally how often everyone is on their phones. We check them something like 100 times a day on average –even when we don't really need or want to be on them. It's frustrating, but phone and app makers have specifically designed their products to compel us to check as often as possible. The more time we spend on them, the more money they make. So why, then, are these same companies now offering features to help us limit the amount of time we while away on our phones? (Originally aired 9/19/19).  Have a Merry Spooky Christmas (51:08)Guest: Leslee Thorne-Murphy, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, English Department, BYUDoes Andy Williams really sing “There'll be scary ghost stories” in one of our most beloved Christmas songs?  Yep!  But those spooky tales have no place next to jolly Santa and the babe in the manger, do they? Well, not in America and not today. But ghosts were very much part of the holiday once upon a time in Victorian England. So, when Charles Dickens had ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, he didn't invent the idea out of thin air, so to speak. He was giving families across Britain just what they wanted –a good spine tingle. (Originally aired 12/20/18).  How to Be More Lucky (1:03:52)Guest: Tina Seelig, Professor of Practice in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), Author of “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”When Tina Seelig's son turned 20, she published a book for him. “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20” became a bestseller. Getting the book published was a stroke of luck. But not the kind of “lightning strike” luck you might be thinking. Seelig used the strategies she teaches her entrepreneurship students at Stanford to increase her chances of lucking into a publisher who would make her a best-selling author. Ten years later, she's got an updated version of “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20.” It's a “crash course on making your place in the world,” and whether you're worried about your kid who's off to college, or feeling stuck in a holiday rut yourself, Seelig's ideas might help. (Originally aired 7/18/19). 

Nick is the CEO and co-founder of eero. Prior to eero, Nick worked at McKinsey & Company and then Menlo Ventures, where he sourced investments in startups such as Betterment, Periscope, and Ansible and worked with portfolio companies like Uber, Dropcam, and Roku. Frustrated by the WiFi solutions on the market and unable to find a better solution, he set out to build eero with his co-founders Amos Schallich and Nate Hardison. Nick is originally from Chicago, graduated from Stanford with a BS in Management Science & Engineering, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.

Today's Flash Back Friday takes us to Episode 67 from July 2012. Join Jason Hartman for an insightful conversation on creativity with author and Executive Director for Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Tina Seelig. Tina points out that many people incorrectly believe they lack creativity and that it cannot be learned. She views this as a huge problem in that it is a matter of attitude. “If you think about it, every single sentence that you utter is a creative act,” Tina explained. “From the moment you're born, you're creating your life.” Creativity is not exclusive to artists or musicians. Problem-solving at all levels requires creativity, whether it's fixing a meal or designing machinery or coming up with an efficient technique. It is incredibly important to every aspect of life. Tina gives examples of how to encourage and expand creativity, as well as examples of how it is often stifled. Some of the tools for bringing out creativity are reframing, connecting and combining ideas, and challenging assumptions. Tina explains our “innovation engine,” a tool we all possess. There are three things people need to possess as an individual and three things that are critical in the outside world. As an individual, we need basic knowledge, imagination and motivation. We are affected by our environment by resources, habitat and culture. Dr. Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on technology-based firms. STVP provides students from all majors with the entrepreneurial skills needed to use innovations to solve major world problems. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the department of Management Science and Engineering, and within the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Dr. Seelig is also the Director of the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), which is dedicated infusing entrepreneurship and innovation skills into undergraduate engineering in the United States. Funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by STVP, the Epicenter is an education, research and outreach hub for the creation and sharing of entrepreneurship and innovation resources among U.S. engineering schools. Dr. Seelig has also written 16 popular science books and educational games. Her books include The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of twelve games called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest books, published by HarperCollins are What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World (2009), and inGenius: Unleashing Creative Potential, which will be released in April 2012. She has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford and is the Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University School of Engineering. Seelig also teaches a course in the Department of Management Science & Engineering on Creativity and Innovation. In 2009, Seelig was awarded the highly prestigious Gordon Prize for her innovative work in technology, engineering, and education.

Retired serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, creator of the “Lean LaunchPad” methodology for startups, discusses Silicon Valley’s roots as the epicenter of electronic warfare in the mid-20th century and how the region’s innovation ecosystem formed. An adjunct professor in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering, Blank also walks through the lean-startup movement and how its principles are now helping the U.S. government innovate faster in the areas of basic science, health, national defense and international diplomacy.

Stephanie Lampkin is the founder and CEO of Blendoor - a mobile job matching app that facilitates diversity recruiting in tech companies by circumventing unconscious bias. Despite very humble beginnings, Stephanie first learned to code at 14 through BDPA, by 15 she was a full stack web developer and by 16 a network admin. Fast forward 17 years, Stephanie has worked in tech for companies like Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte and TripAdvisor, but is now focused full time on changing how people, organizations and companies connect in a way that fosters diversity. Stephanie graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering and MIT Sloan with a MBA.