Oct 8, 2019
Leah La Salla is the Technical Founder & CEO of Astral AR,
which builds drones that stop bullets.
In the interview, Leah talks about growing up in Illinois, her
dad's influence on her as an engineer and his Hell's Angels
affiliation, why she pivoted to drones that stop bullets, and much
more.
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May 21, 2019
Mike Maples, Jr. is a founding partner at Floodgate, a venture
capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in tech
companies. A few of Mike and Floodgate's notable investments
include being the first investor in Twitter, as well as early
investors in Lyft, Digg, Taskrabbit, and Twitch, just to name a
few.
In...
Mar 5, 2019
Matt Loper is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wellth, which uses
behavioral economics to drastically improve care plan adherence in
patients with chronic conditions. Said more simply, Wellth has a
mobile app that helps people to remember to take their medicine.
And they have a very high success rate at doing so.
In the...
Dec 2, 2018
Ashlee Ammons, who is the co-founder of Mixtroz, along with her mother Kerry Schrader, who is also a co-founder of the company, each became one of 40 black female founders ever to raise $1M or more in investor capital. According to Forbes, less than 6% of venture capital goes to women founders.
And if you haven't...
Oct 3, 2018
David Mendlewicz is a serial entrepreneur who is the
co-founder and CEO of Butterfly, which uses chat bots to offer
real-time leadership training to managers based on their team's
feedback.
In the interview, we discuss a lot of things including how
David had a challenging time with the school system early
on, but how...