Himanshu Verma, VP of Engineering and Country Leader at Eventbrite - the world’s largest and most trusted events marketplace. At Eventbrite, Himanshu oversee’s the development team that builds cutting edge cloud, mobile and marketplace technology. Himanshu’s career spans more than two decades of engineering and product development leadership at some of India's and the world's largest and best known tech companies, including Oracle, Yahoo!, Flipkart, and most recently, Amazon. In this episode I c...
Sep 02, 2024•41 min
Dorothy Chang is an early stage tech investor for Next Wave NYC and Co-Founder of Lynx Collective, a community to bring together tech founders in NYC. Previously, Dorothy served as the President of Kode with Klossy, where she led the organization's mission to create learning experiences to help young women pursue their passions in technology. Dorothy has 20+ year career working in technology in the NYC area, including leading marketing and communications at leading tech companies such as web3 pl...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr
Jason Fan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dealwise, a platform that helps founders of SAAS startups get acquired through its innovative marketplace. Dealwise came out of stealth mode in 2023 and gives founders access to vetted buyers and provides them with flexible liquidity options while buyers get access to proprietary deal flow. Prior to starting Dealwise, Jason developed and co-founded LLM devtool Psychic during his time at YCombinator. Jason also spent over five years as a Product Manager at v...
May 15, 2024•54 min
Jae Lee is the Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs, a video understanding platform that uses AI to help developers and companies search and understand videos quickly. Using its state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for videos that can accurately and instantly search exact moments within petabytes of video archives, generate coherent text summaries of videos, perform prompt-based video generation, and many more. Jae and his co-founders started the company in 2021 and has secured funding from pr...
Feb 28, 2024•45 min
Vivian Sun is the Head of Automated Driving at Amazon and an accomplished autonomous vehicle and AI expert. Vivian previously served as the Chief Commercial Officers at Waabi and the VP of Business Development at TuSimple, two leaders in autonomous trucking. In this episode, Vivian shares more about the current state of the AV industry, the potential of generative AI, and how her upbringing shaped her career path. Chapters: (00:01) Autonomous Vehicles (14:08) Hardware and Software Integration in...
Dec 19, 2023•49 min
Albert Tai is the Founder and CEO of Hypercare, a VC-backed healthcare technology company that helps connect the right healthcare providers at the righttime to improve patient outcomes in hospitals and community settings. Albert started Hypercare in 2016 when he realized how challenging it was to communicate efficiently in the healthcare space. He hasn’t looked back since then and Hypercare has launched in over 100 organizations across North America from large hospital systems to small community...
Dec 04, 2023•47 min
Francois (Frankie) Le Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Staging Labs, a startup that secures crypto and NFT assets by intercepting dangerous transactions in real-time. Frankie previously built and launched startup incubator Entrepreneur First in Canada and served as GM in both its Toronto and Singapore location where he helped build 50+ venture-backed startups valued at over $400M. Frankie started his career in product management at software companies LightSpeed and Holmusk, and is an angel in...
Nov 03, 2023•57 min
Jaclyn Ling is the Co-Founder of Hatchways, a Y-Combinator-backed startup that is modernizing the technical interview process for start-ups and developers looking for their next great job. Prior to starting Hatchways, Jaclyn was the co-founder of a fashion bot company Blynk which was acquired by Kik Interactive in 2016. Jaclyn grew up in Vancouver, Canada, studied finance at McGill University, and had her first taste of success as a YouTube fashion influencer that had thousands of followers. In ...
Oct 03, 2023•42 min
Ivan Zhang is the co-founder and CTO of Cohere, a leading GenAI startup that provides natural language processing models to help developers and companies build new products and unlock business value with language AI. Cohere’s models power interactive chat features, generate text for product descriptions, blog posts, and articles, and capture the meaning of text for search, content moderation, and intent recognition. Cohere recently closed a $270M series C round and is valued at over $2B. Prior t...
Jul 21, 2023•57 min
Thomas Park is a leader in global venture capital and is a Partner at the BDC Deep Tech Fund and the Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective. Tom has been at the BDC since 2017 and currently leads a $200M venture capital fund that invests in Canadian startups developing cutting edge technology including quantum computers. Previously, Tom served 5 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and McKinsey & Co., where he had the opportunity to oversee numerous special projects acr...
Jul 06, 2023•51 min
Shruthi Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Vendia, a multi-cloud, distributed data platform. Previously, Shruthi launched Amazon’s managed blockchain business and led business development for various AWS’ services. Shruthi also held a variety of leadership roles in Corporate Development at Bank of America, AT&T, DirectTV and start-up, Feedzai. Shruthi began her career at McKinsey and holds an MBA and Computer Science Degree. In this episode, you will learn about: How Shruthi...
Jan 30, 2023•56 min
Linda Ho is the Chief People Officer at Seismic, an AI-powered sales enablement platform that improves team productivity, collaboration and knowledge sharing. As the Chief People Officer, Linda leads the company’s initiatives around culture, org development, talent acquisition, total rewards and internal communications. Prior to joining Seismic, Linda spent 14 years in various HR leadership roles at Autodesk Inc, most recently as a Vice President, and focused on creating a diverse, equitable, an...
Dec 07, 2022•49 min
Dr. Bodi Zhang is Chief Strategy Officer at Thorne HealthTech (Nasdaq: THRN), a leading healthcare company that utilizes innovative testing and data to deliver personalized solutions for consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Previously, Bodi served as the Chief Science Officer for Onegevity Health, and was a leader at global healthcare consultancy Deallus Group. As a scientist, Bodi’s research focused on autoimmune diseases and published top-tier research publications. Dr. Zhang hol...
Nov 11, 2022•50 min
Eden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden also founded and scaled SunSaluter, a global non-profit that has deployed an open-source solar panel tracker design in 19 countries, impacting 17,000+ people. Eden was part of the inaugural cohort of the prestigious Thi...
Oct 31, 2022•53 min
Percy Hung is the co-founder and CEO of Choco Up, one of the largest revenue-based financing and growth platforms in Asia that provides funding to fast growing start-ups. Choco Up utilizes data analytics and third party integrations to automate funding decisions and provides companies with growth capital in as little as 48 hours. Prior to starting Choco Up, Percy founded two other ventures and also held various engineering and venture capital roles in the APAC region. Percy was born in Hong Kong...
Sep 12, 2022•57 min
Amelia Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb, a private social app for families. Honeycomb offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories in a private and secure way. Prior to starting Honeycomb, Amelia was previously a product leader at Udacity and Optimizely. Amelia obtained her MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and studied physics during undergrad at Harvard. In this episode, you’ll learn about: How Amelia made the decision to leap into the start-...
Feb 07, 2022•52 min
Judy Lai-Norling is the COO at Carbon Mapper - an organization developing a new way to locate, quantify and track carbon emissions from air and space. Prior to joining Carbon Mapper, Judy spent 14 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab in both business and engineering roles. Judy holds Master’s Degrees in Math and Economics from the University of Texas and University of Wisconsin respectively. In this episode: You will learn more about Judy’s early childhood migrating from Taiwan to the US and how h...
Jan 09, 2022•45 min
Vivian Shen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning - an education platform that helps connect kids to expert mentors to help empower them and learn topics like Coding, Storytelling, and Investing. Prior to starting Juni Learning, Vivian had a variety of experience including being a software engineer at Google, consultant at McKinsey & Company, and product leader at a start-up called Operator. Vivian has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Fortune. Vivian e...
Dec 10, 2021•48 min
Rob Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining, a company focused on sustainable Bitcoin mining. Rob has deep experience in the cryptocurrency space including previously being the CFO at Riot Blockchain where he helped turn around the company during the midst of the last Bitcoin bear market. Prior to working in crypto, Rob had a successful career in capital markets where he led equity research focused on the precious metals and mining industry. Rob obtained both his MBA and underg...
Nov 03, 2021•46 min
Dr. Raj Das Gupta is the COO at Electrovaya, a publicly traded (TSX:EFL) (OTCQB:EFLVF) company that designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium-ion batteries. Raj has been with Electrovaya for over 10 years and has been involved with every aspect of the business from cell manufacturing, engineering activities and business development. Raj is currently responsible for Electrovaya’s overall Technology and Business Development functions. Raj attended Imperial College in London, Massachus...
Oct 18, 2021•46 min
Faisal Abid is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations, a direct-to-consumer service that helps families plan affordable and high-quality cremation services. Faisal is also currently a Google Developer Expert, CTO at Bitstrapped.com and Instructor at Brainstation. Prior to founding Eirene Cremations, Faisal was the CTO at Zoom.ai where he led engineering including overseeing its machine learning infrastructure. Faisal has also held sen...
Aug 20, 2021•47 min
Lakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng are the Co-Founders of Moselle, a tech platform that helps small-medium businesses to create stable, sustainable, and scalable supply chains. Lakhveer and Traci launched Moselle just a couple months before the pandemic hit in 2020 and quickly adapted to help SMBs adapt to the surge in e-commerce. In this episode, you will learn more about: How being raised by immigrant parents shaped their world view and life decisions How Lakhveer and Traci met and decided to...
Jul 19, 2021•42 min
Lynne Takagaki is the Co-Founder of Welcome Aboard, a start-up that finds the perfect fit between job seekers and companies with strongly aligned missions and cultures. In addition to leading Welcome Aboard with her two co-founders, Lynne is also a business development leader at AnyRoad, an enterprise relationship management platform. She also spent time as a Sales Manager at PepsiCo and a Sales Lead at ContractRoom. In this episode, you will learn about: How Lynne decided to start Welcome Aboar...
Jun 09, 2021•25 min
Danni Pi is the COO at Rowan, a venture-backed health and wellness company re-imagining ear piercing. Prior to joining Rowan, Danni led operations at Uber where she helped grow ridership and reliability of the ride-sharing service in New York and also helped launched UberEATS in several cities. Danni starter her career as a consultant at Oliver Wyman and obtained her MBA from the Harvard Business School and undergraduate degree in economics from Columbia University. In this episode you will lear...
May 26, 2021•42 min
Kane Ma is the Co-founder and CTO, at Kamo Digital Solutions a full-service digital agency for start-ups. Prior to founding his company, Kane played junior varsity basketball at the storied University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which was also former home to NBA legends Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and many others. After playing professional basketball in Asia for two years, Kane started Kamo Digital Solutions with his friend and former teammate Kanayo Obi-Rapu. Kane received Bachelor's in ...
May 10, 2021•38 min
In light of the recent rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes we dedicated this podcast to learning more about the importance of mental health within the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. I was delighted to spend time on the podcast with Marcia Liu, Ph.D. who is a Licensed Counseling Psychologist. Dr. Liu currently runs a private psychotherapy practice and leads a mental health program at Hunter College - the AANAPISI Project (HCAP) - specifically focused on Asian Americans and Pacific I...
Mar 23, 2021•44 min
Jeanne Lam is the Chief Business Officer at Wattpad, a global app and entertainment company that is used by 90 million people around the world and recently acquired by South Korean Internet giant Naver for $600M. Jeanne has over 15 years of experience in tech with a focus on high-growth consumer startups. Prior to Wattpad, Jeanne led growth and user acquisition at Shapeways, the world’s largest 3D printing service. She has also worked in ad tech at Yahoo!, led marketing at mobile payments compan...
Feb 08, 2021•35 min
Andrew Chang is the COO of Paxos, a fintech company that builds infrastructure on blockchain to facilitate the movement between physical and digital assets such as cryptocurrency. Before joining Paxos, Andrew had an array of experience including working in business development at Google, serving as COO of video technology company ConditionOne, and starting his career at Morgan Stanley. Andrew earned his MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business where he was President of ...
Jan 22, 2021•57 min
Raphael Chow is the CEO and Co-Founder at Wevat , a platform that helps travelers get tax refunds on purchases made in the UK. To date, Wevat has helped travellers from 88 countries get tax refunds on purchases amounting to more than £16 million. In this episode, you will learn about how Raphael’s upbringing in Asia and Canada shaped his worldview, how he made the transition from studying biochemistry at Oxford to working as a consultant, and the lessons he has learned from building a start-up o...
Dec 31, 2020•52 min
Dr. Paul Bhatti is CEO and Founder at Sowingo - a cloud-based eCommerce and inventory management solution for dentists. Founded in 2012, Sowingo's mission is to transform healthcare by offering dental and medical professionals with tools to more efficiently run their practices and improve patient outcomes. The company helps save dentists time and money through their robust marketplace that carries over 50,000 products from the best suppliers in the industry. In addition to running Sowingo, Dr. B...
Dec 28, 2020•43 min
