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Hello my beautiful Woman Inc. listeners! How are we doing? I am so beyond excited that I finally was able to announce our Inc. Magazine partnership with you guys. It has been in the works for a while now and I truly can't think of a better company to partner with to continue to expanding Woman Inc. and making this the most powerful network of women that exists. I will share way more about this partnership and how it came about in my solo episode that is coming up very soon. It's a really good story. Ok, let's jump in to this amazing conversation. My guest this week is Evelyn Rusli , Co-Founder and President of Yumi, the leading childhood nutrition company focused on intelligently designed, science-backed meals, snacks and vitamins for every stage of development. To ensure peak nutrition and flavor in every bite, Yumi employs a team of experts that includes nutritionists, pediatricians, metabolic health experts and James Beard Award-winning chefs. With over 100 organic ingredients across its menu, Yumi's extensive line-up includes blends, finger foods, snacks and a Multivitamin (that they they have coined, Biteamin™), delivered right to your doorstep. All Yumi products are organic, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and kosher, and the brand is certified by the Clean Label Project. They are beloved by families all over the country and celebrity parents including Mindy Kaling, Jenna Dewan, Shay Mitchell, Molly Sims, Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Emma Roberts, and many more. Evelyn has spent more than a decade as a journalist, previously on staff at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times covering startups and innovation. She was also formerly an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Social Capital Partnership, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm. Evelyn graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English. I absolutely loved this chat and hearing about Evelyn's journey into entrepreneurship. Make sure to follow their journey on Instagram @yumi. Now, let's get over to my conversation with Evelyn.
Receba os novos episódios no seu e-mail: http://goo.gl/HbHUl2 O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#042) Um bate-papo com Marco Fisbhen, co-fundador e CEO do Descomplica, startup de educação que auxilia estudantes a complementarem a preparação para as provas do ENEM e Vestibulares. O site oferece mais de 3000 aulas pré-gravadas, aulas ao vivo, monitoria, correção de redações, questionários com gabarito em tempo real e um fórum de perguntas e respostas com mais de duas mil questões respondidas para alunos em fase pré-vestibular. O Descomplica está no ar desde março de 2011 e recebeu investimentos de fundos como o Valar Ventures (de Peter Thiel), 500 Startups, Valor Capital Group, EL Area e Social+Capital Partnership. Marco estudou Engenharia de Produção na UFRJ e possui 15 anos de experiência como professor de Física, vídeo marketing e uso de tecnologia em educação. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da FIAP e foi gravado no auditório do Campus Aclimação (São Paulo/SP). Para saber mais: Descomplica: http://www.descomplica.com.br Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv iTunes (Video): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m... iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...
Receba os novos episódios no seu e-mail: http://goo.gl/HbHUl2 O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#042) Um bate-papo com Marco Fisbhen, co-fundador e CEO do Descomplica, startup de educação que auxilia estudantes a complementarem a preparação para as provas do ENEM e Vestibulares. O site oferece mais de 3000 aulas pré-gravadas, aulas ao vivo, monitoria, correção de redações, questionários com gabarito em tempo real e um fórum de perguntas e respostas com mais de duas mil questões respondidas para alunos em fase pré-vestibular. O Descomplica está no ar desde março de 2011 e recebeu investimentos de fundos como o Valar Ventures (de Peter Thiel), 500 Startups, Valor Capital Group, EL Area e Social+Capital Partnership. Marco estudou Engenharia de Produção na UFRJ e possui 15 anos de experiência como professor de Física, vídeo marketing e uso de tecnologia em educação. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da FIAP e foi gravado no auditório do Campus Aclimação (São Paulo/SP). Para saber mais: Descomplica: http://www.descomplica.com.br Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv iTunes (Video): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m... iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...
Receba os novos episódios no seu e-mail: http://goo.gl/HbHUl2 O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#042) Um bate-papo com Marco Fisbhen, co-fundador e CEO do Descomplica, startup de educação que auxilia estudantes a complementarem a preparação para as provas do ENEM e Vestibulares. O site oferece mais de 3000 aulas pré-gravadas, aulas ao vivo, monitoria, correção de redações, questionários com gabarito em tempo real e um fórum de perguntas e respostas com mais de duas mil questões respondidas para alunos em fase pré-vestibular. O Descomplica está no ar desde março de 2011 e recebeu investimentos de fundos como o Valar Ventures (de Peter Thiel), 500 Startups, Valor Capital Group, EL Area e Social+Capital Partnership. Marco estudou Engenharia de Produção na UFRJ e possui 15 anos de experiência como professor de Física, vídeo marketing e uso de tecnologia em educação. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da FIAP e foi gravado no auditório do Campus Aclimação (São Paulo/SP). Para saber mais: Descomplica: http://www.descomplica.com.br Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv iTunes (Video): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m... iTunes (Audio): https://itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/m...
SurveyMonkey, which helps businesses gather feedback through its survey platform, has submitted paperwork to the SEC for its upcoming NASDAQ public offering. The company plans to raise $100 million in the IPO, per the filing, though that's likely a placeholder amount. The company, which will list under the symbol SVMK, has yet to price its shares. Most recently, SurveyMonkey brought in $250 million from Tiger Global, ICONIQ Capital and Social+Capital Partnership.
Gagan Biyani, the CEO and co-founder of Sprig, whose mission it is to make eating well simple. Open your phone when you're hungry, tap a button and get a healthy meal delivered in 15 minutes. Sprig has raised $57M from Greylock Partners and Social Capital Partnership and is available in San Francisco, Chicago and Palo Alto. Prior to founding Sprig, he was a Growth Advisor for Lyft where he led supply and demand acquisition for their launch in Los Angeles. Gagan previously was co-founder and President of the education marketplace, Udemy, which has raised $113M and has over 7 million students worldwide. __ Gagan is interviewed by Greylock Partner, Simon Rothman. Simon invests in entrepreneurs building consumer networks and platforms, and he leads Greylock’s $100 million commitment to marketplace investments. His area of focus includes network effects businesses and transaction-based startups with a specialty around marketplaces. He has served as an advisor to many marketplaces and networks including Lyft, Tango, Taskrabbit, Poshmark, and others. Simon also leads Greylock’s $100 million commitment to marketplace investments.
As the Founder and Managing Partner of Social+Capital Partnership, Chamath Palihapitiya is the "it" man of socially responsible investing. Hear his take on what needs to change in healthcare and how his investment thesis focuses on companies that are drastically doing just that. Moderated by Jessica Lessin, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Information.
Gagan Biyani is CEO and co-founder of Sprig, whose mission it is to make eating well simple. Open your phone when you're hungry, tap a button and get a healthy meal delivered in 15 minutes. Sprig has raised $57M from Greylock Partners and Social Capital Partnership and is available in San Francisco, Chicago and Palo Alto. Prior to founding Sprig, he was a Growth Advisor for Lyft where he led supply and demand acquisition for their launch in Los Angeles. Gagan previously was co-founder and President of the education marketplace, Udemy, which has raised $113M and has over 7 million students worldwide. Gagan will be interviewed by Greylock Partner, Simon Rothman. Simon invests in entrepreneurs building consumer networks and platforms, and he leads Greylock’s $100 million commitment to marketplace investments. His area of focus includes network effects businesses and transaction-based startups with a specialty around marketplaces.
Hey There and welcome to Monday's episode of the startup grind podcast. This week we have a truly awesome interview with one of Silicon Valley’s biggest personalities. Chamath Palihapitiya. Chamath is the founder and managing partner of the Social Capital Partnership, a venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, CA that incubates and invests in breakthrough companies in Healthcare, Education, Fincancial services, mobile, and enterprise software. Preceding his focus as an investor, Chamath was the longest tenured member of Facebooks senior executive team and helped drive its ascension to one of the most important companies in the world. Chamath is also an owner and director of the NBA’s golden state warriors. Chamath was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in canada, and graduated with a degreee in electrical engineering from the university of waterloo. In this very honest and insightful interview chamath speaks with startup grind’s founder derek andersen in Palo Alto about his early life, time at Facebook, encounters with Steve jobs, and what he feels the valley should really be working on. Lets listen in.
Mamoon Hamid of The Social+Capital Partnership joins Nick to cover SaaS Startup Investing. We will address questions including: In your words, can you describe what a SaaS startup is and the key elements that define a SaaS company? Can you give an example of what is and what is not... To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.
Better provides free tools and premium access to a team of real Personal Health Assistants so you can spend more time improving your health, not managing the logistics. Backed by the Mayo Clinic and the Social+Capital Partnership, their team has founded and grown some of the biggest healthcare and consumer internet companies in the world. They would like to offer The Doctor Weighs In and Health Tech Hatch community a free month of Premium membership to Better. Your Better Premium membership includes: -Your own Personal Health Assistant who can navigate health insurance and billing, find new providers and schedule appointments, and coordinate follow-up care -24/7 access to Mayo Clinic nurses -Tailored health information and other tools in the app Claim your free membership. "Geoffrey spent more than twelve years disrupting the telemedicine market with Health Hero Network. During his tenure at Health Hero, Geoffrey served multiple roles, including COO and CTO. As CTO, Geoffrey designed and implemented award winning hardware and software products, including Business Week's 2000 Product of The Year. During his time as COO, he guided the company through the “bubble” bursting in Silicon Valley, and built the organization into the largest telehealth vendor in the world with cornerstone customers such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and McKesson. After selling Health Hero Network to Robert Bosch, Geoffrey now serves as advisor to Rock Health and dozens of other Health Technology Startups."
On the Wednesday, May 21st 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is technology entrepreneur Geoff Clapp, Co-founder @BetterPHA, company details here. A summary of Better is sourced from their website below: 'A shared vision of extending world-class medical knowledge to everyone, wherever they may be, is what brought Mayo Clinic and Better together. It is our hope that Better will give people the means to worry less when it comes to health care and instead focus on being well. Better is backed by the Mayo Clinic and the Social+Capital Partnership. Our team has founded some of the biggest health care and consumer internet companies in the world.' Geoff is no stranger digital health innovation. Join us as we get Geoff's take in the status of the market, and what he and his colleagues are up to at Better.
O Man in the Arena é um videocast sobre empreendedorismo e cultura digital apresentado por Leo Kuba, Miguel Cavalcanti e In Hsieh. Neste episódio (#042): Um bate-papo com Marco Fisbhen, co-fundador e CEO do Descomplica, startup de educação que auxilia estudantes a complementarem a preparação para as provas do ENEM e Vestibulares. O site oferece mais de 3000 aulas pré-gravadas, aulas ao vivo, monitoria, correção de redações, questionários com gabarito em tempo real e um fórum de perguntas e respostas com mais de duas mil questões respondidas para alunos em fase pré-vestibular. O Descomplica está no ar desde março de 2011 e recebeu investimentos de fundos como o Valar Ventures (de Peter Thiel), 500 Startups, Valor Capital Group, EL Area e Social+Capital Partnership. Marco estudou Engenharia de Produção na UFRJ e possui 15 anos de experiência como professor de Física, vídeo marketing e uso de tecnologia em educação. O Man in the Arena tem apoio da FIAP e foi gravado no auditório do Campus Aclimação (São Paulo/SP). Para saber mais: - Descomplica: http://www.descomplica.com.br Acompanhe e participe nos canais do Man in the Arena: - YouTube: http://youtube.com/maninthearenatv - Facebook: http://facebook.com/maninthearenatv