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Oct 17, 2022•4 min
Going Deep with Aaron Watson
The Going Deep with Aaron Watson podcast is a forum for having meaningful, deep conversations about the passions, fears and problems of people from all walks of life. Guests talk about entrepreneurship, sports, finance, comedy and lifestyle design.
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549 Math Master to EdTech Entrepreneur Po Shen-Loh (Expii)
Po-Shen Loh is the Founder and CEO of Expii, a free personalized learning website with thousands of math and science lessons. Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has also pioneered a scalable way to learn challenging math live online and a new way to control ...
Oct 10, 2022•31 min
548 The Mad Scientist’s Plan to Change Healthcare w/ Andrew Herr (Fount)
Andrew Herr is the founder and CEO of Fount, a health and performance advising platform trusted by the world’s top performers. He started Fount to make cutting edge performance insights more widely available and change the quality of health outcomes for all. Fount is backed by Founders Fund, Elysian Park, and Allen & Co to apply, and scale, their expertise from optimizing the minds and bodies of US Military, professional sports teams, and leading business executives. Andrew is a graduate of ...
Oct 03, 2022•41 min
547 Cute Robotic Companions with Jacob Hanchar (Digital Dream Labs)
Jacob Hanchar is the CEO of Digital Dream Labs. He is a neuroscientist by training who loves entrepreneurship,video games, and learning. Jacob started out as an angel investor for Digital Dream Labs,an ed-tech company founded in 2012. They are the makers of AI robotic companions such as Cozmo, Vector, Puzzlets, InfiniDrive, and Butter Robot. They lead the field of assistive technology that improves the lives of all ages and backgrounds. In this episode, Aaron and Jacob talk about selling robots ...
Sep 26, 2022•43 min
546 Cyber Security for the Department of Defense w/ David Brumley (ForAllSecure)
David Brumley is the founder and CEO of ForAllSecure, a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, that has raised over $36 million. The company provides cutting edge cybersecurity solutions to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, including the Department of Defense. Straight out of college, David Brumley worked in IT at Stanford University fixing and securing issues with the university’s open network. His challenges motivated him to pursue towards a decade-long research quest to ...
Sep 19, 2022•38 min
545 Let’s Fix Healthcare w/ JT Garwood (bttn)
JT Garwood is the CEO and cofounder of bttn – a healthcare product distribution platform. Bttn has modernized the healthcare distribution system, to provide doctors easy, reliable access to high-quality, brand-name medical supplies. JT has scaled the company quickly due to their ability to save medical offices lots of money. In this episode, Aaron and JT talk about how bttn raised $20million from Tiger Global, their edge as a distributor, and the benefits of hiring his dad to be his company’s CO...
Sep 12, 2022•37 min
544 How to Grow an ETF Business w/ Wesley Gray
Wesley Gray is the founder and CEO of Alpha Architect, an investment platform for building custom, low-fee ETFs. Wes is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Economics at The Wharton School, served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, has an MBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago. His interest in bridging the research gap between academia and industry led him to found Alpha Architect, an asset management firm dedicated to empowering investors through education. In this episode,...
Sep 05, 2022•44 min
543 Startup Demo Day Revolution w/ Ali Moiz
Ali Moiz previously founded and sold Streamlabs and Peanut Labs, for a combined enterprise value over $180 million. Currently, Ali is the founder, CEO, and meme Dealer at Stonks, which aims to help founders save time in fundraising so they can focus on the business. Stonks is a platform for virtual Startup Demo Days. It has quickly become popular in helping startups find their angel investors with the help of event organizer. Join Aaron and Ali on this episode as they discuss how he got it up an...
Aug 29, 2022•44 min
542 Pivoting from Bankruptcy to Financial Freedom w/ Jim Shorkey
Jim Shorkey built his family’s auto business into more than 9 dealerships, over 800 employees and 15,000 new & used car sales per year. This podcast explores how he did it. In 1996 Jim Shorkey Jr.’s father died and left him the Jim Shorkey Auto dealership. With his experience as a sales manager, Jim Shorkey was arrogantly sure he was going to be successful in growing his business. Instead, he brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. Jim had to grow his skillset and discipline quickly to save t...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 20 min
541 3 Generations of Family Business w/ Scott Heeter
Scott Heeter is the CEO of Heeter, a third-generation commercial print firm that has been running for 75 years. Heeter is one of the largest commercial marketing firms in the country, with over 140 full-time employees in Pittsburgh and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Duke Print and Graphics, in Cleveland. Heeter has evolved from the commercial print company that it was to a more customized provider that include mailing fulfillment, digital marketing and other innovative services. In this episode, A...
Aug 15, 2022•40 min
540 Making Mental Wellness Remotely Available with Sara Makin
Sara Makin has built Makin Wellness into one of Pennsylvania's top online therapy platforms in just five years. She started Makin Wellness in 2017 on a mission to help millions of people heal and become happy again by providing excellent mental health care. Today, Makin Wellness has over 50 employees and a goal of becoming a national provider of a results-based, individualized approach to online mental health care. Sara entered Psychology Grad School with a clear vision of having a multi-state M...
Aug 08, 2022•38 min
539 Sponsorship Sales and the Creator Economy w/ Justin Moore
Justin Moore is a Sponsorship Coach & Founder of CreatorWizard, a training program that teaches creators how to find & negotiate brand deals. With his wife April, Justin has been a full-time creator for nearly a decade and has been running an influencer marketing agency for over 5 years. Justin and April started creating content back in the days before brands reached out to collaborate with influencers. They started with a cooking channel and a family vlog channel and did daily videos fo...
Aug 01, 2022•45 min
538 Exoskeleton Expert on the Future of Robotics (Josh Caputo, HumoTech)
Josh Caputo founded HumoTech in 2015 as a spin-off from his CMU research robotics department. His passion is focused on developing and commercializing cutting-edge robotics technology that addresses current societal needs like prostheses and exoskeletons. Josh and his team have built a platform to enable the world’s top researchers to more rapidly iterate on their products and designs. This will eventually allow robotics to assist people in achieving higher levels of mobility and a greater quali...
Jul 25, 2022•49 min
537 Ice Cream Empire Secrets w/ Chad Townsend (Millie’s Ice Cream)
After years as a chef in the fast-paced world of fine dining, Chad Townsend decided it was time for a change. He purchased an expensive Swiss-made food processor that would finely puree frozen foods such as ice cream or sorbet. His wife, Lauren, allowed him to make this purchase under one condition: he had to have it paid off by the end of the summer. What started as a fun summer hustle turned into a 10,000 sq. ft. Ice Cream Manufacturing and Franchising business. Growing his homemade Ice cream ...
Jul 18, 2022•46 min
536 Precision Medicine Startups w/ Dr. D Lansing Taylor
Dr. D. Lansing Taylor is the Director at the University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute and an expert on Computational Biology. He has translated that expertise into more than 29 patents and multiple successful startups His companies include Biological Detection Systems (now owned by GE Life Sciences), Cellomics (acquired by ThermoFisher), and Cellumen (now part of Cyprotex). Dr. Taylor’s current companies are Spintellx and BioSystics. Spintellx focuses on computational pathology, using m...
Jul 11, 2022•42 min
535 Breaking into the RV Business w/ Brett Randall (Aliner)
Brett Randall is the President and CEO of Aliner, a manufacturer of folding campers and travel trailers. After selling a family business, Brett was brought in to consult on turning around the 30+ year old RV company. Eventually, his experience in manufacturing optimization, market channel development, and growth led to him being recruited to run the company. A few years ago he bought out a majority of the shareholders and is building Aliner into a larger part of the growing RV market. In this ep...
Jul 04, 2022•39 min
534 Tech Optimism w/ Aarthi Ramamurthy
Aarthi Ramamurthy has had a long and successful career in technology. She has lead product teams at Microsoft, Facebook, and Netflix. Aarthi has also built two startups, including Lumoid which went through YC Combinator. In the midst of the pandemic, Aarthi started a show w/ her husband Sriram on the social audio app, Clubhouse. On the show, they’ve interviewed some of the biggest names in business and popular culture including Elon Musk, Calvin Harris, and Mark Zuckerberg. In this episode, Aart...
Jun 27, 2022•43 min
533 Inflation, Oil, and the Great Rotation w/ Tony Greer
Tony Greer, editor of the Morning Navigator, filters a chaotic global landscape through 30 years of macro trading experience and his own analysis to provide regular insight and risk/reward for each trading day. Tony Greer’s Challenge; Explore the difference in the fundamentals of oil and tech. Connect with Tony Greer Twitter Website
Jun 20, 2022•58 min
532 Building Morning Brew’s Newsletter Tech for All w/ Tyler Denk (Beehiiv)
Tyler Denk is the cofounder and CEO of Beehiiv, a newsletter platform company that recently raised $2.6 million. Tyler was the 2nd employee at Morning Brew, where he worked on engineering, product, and growth. He was responsible for building the renowned referral program and bespoke tech ecosystem that facilitated the company to scale to a successful $75m exit in 2020. Now, he and his team are working to develop all the same capabilities and features for anyone to use on the Beehiiv platform. In...
Jun 13, 2022•44 min
531 Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, author, and speaker who makes bold and startlingly accurate projections on the basis of geography, demography, and global politics. He has authored 5 books about geopolitics; A Crucible of Nations, The Accidental Superpower, The Absent Superpower, Disunited Nations, and his latest, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization. Peter takes a somber, yet realistic, view of what the short to medium term future holds for co...
Jun 06, 2022•47 min
530 Shark Tank & Men’s Cosmetics w/ Jon Shanahan (Stryx)
Jon Shanahan is the cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer for Stryx, a cosmetics and skincare company focused on serving men. Jon has helped the company earn over 120 million organic views on TikTok, scale to millions in revenue, and launch in major retailers including Target, Nordstrom, and CVS. Prior to founding the company, Jon built a brand and YouTube channel called The Kavalier focused on men’s fashion where he reviews menswear and helps his viewers look great. In this episode, Jon and Aar...
May 30, 2022•43 min
529 How to Write Great YouTube Titles w/ Creator Hooks’ Jake Thomas
Jake Thomas is an expert at writing YouTube video titles. He has parlayed his experience writing more than 4,000 titles into his company, Creator Hooks. Prior to founding Creator Hooks, Jake helped build a channel from 70 to 200k subscribers After leaving to start his firm, he landed clients that include Hubspot cofounder Dharmesh Shah's personal channel and The Infographics Show. In this episode, Jake and Aaron discuss his framework for writing a title, how to create more curiosity, and the pow...
May 23, 2022•44 min
528 Adam Haritan on Trees & Finding Purpose (part 2)
Listen to Adam Haritan, founder of Learn your Land, discuss getting lost in a bog and hearing your calling.
May 16, 2022•41 min
528 Understand Trees, Understand Everything w/ Adam Haritan
Adam Haritan is the founder of Learn Your Land, as well as a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager. He is launching a new course, Trees in All Seasons . He learned the value of wild food foraging while studying nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh, where he discovered just how beneficial wild foods could be in optimizing human health. Wild plants, on average, are more nutritious than their cultivated counterparts (i.e. wild blueberries vs. domesticated blueberries, wild lettuce vs. ...
May 16, 2022•35 min
527 Wealth Advising & Goal Setting w/ Matt Blocki
Matt Blocki is the founder and CEO of Equilibrium Wealth Advisors. Matt is also a co-founder of Wealth Advisor Training, which was founded in 2022 to help provide resources to the top wealth advisors around the country. Wealth Advisor Training gives advisors a comprehensive education platform to give better proactive advice and develop systems to scale their business. Matt regularly speaks in the financial planning industry, including to top firms Thrivent and Mass Mutual. In this interview, Mat...
May 09, 2022•45 min
526 Nuclear Energy w/ Mark Nelson
Mark Nelson is the managing director of the Radiant Energy Fund, which advises governments, nonprofits, and industry about nuclear energy. Mark works tirelessly to prevent early closures of nuclear plants around the world a nd has attended the UN climate conference in Glasgow as a delegate from the American Nuclear Society. His efforts span the globe, working to save nuclear plants from Germany to California. Mark holds an MPhil in Nuclear Engineering from Cambridge University and degrees in Mec...
May 02, 2022•49 min
525 Naval Ravikant’s Wisdom w/ Eric Jorgenson
Eric Jorgenson is the author of the Almanac of Naval Ravikant, a GP in the seed investment-focused Rolling Fun, and the creator of the course Building a Mountain of Levers . Eric also has a podcast called Jorgenson’s Soundbox and was part of the founding team of Zaarly, proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform. Eric has condensed the wisdom of Naval, a prolific entrepreneur and investor, into a concise and poignant book. That book has opened doors for him and represents a clever...
Apr 25, 2022•48 min
524 Human-First Artificial Intelligence w/ Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen is the CEO and cofounder of Aitomatic, where he aims to redefine how companies approach AI in the context of life-critical, industrial applications. As a multiple-time tech founder, Christopher has played key roles across a wide range of technology startups. He has also operated in large corporations where he has built the first flash memory transistors at Intel and spearheaded the development of Google Apps as its first Engineering Director. Today, he’s become an outspoken pr...
Apr 17, 2022•35 min
523 Simplicity Takes Courage w/ Brandon Grbach (Steel City)
Brandon Grbach is the CEO and cofounder of Steel City. Steel City is a family-owned boutique offering Pittsburgh-inspired, vintage tees, sweatshirts & accessories. Grbach started designing t-shirts for his friend’s skate shop, but when the shop shut down, he continued on his own. Now, he and his wife own a thriving business with over 20 employees, a distinct brand, and a habit of growing ~50% every year. In this interview, Brandon and Aaron discuss how he has learned to drive towards simplic...
Apr 11, 2022•37 min
522 Bootstrapped Startups w/ Rob Walling
Rob Walling is an investor, writer, podcaster, and serial entrepreneur. His last startup, Drip, was an email marketing software company that was bought by Leadpages for millions in 2016. He also has been helping bootstrapped startup founders since 2005 and now runs the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, TinySeed. Rob also hosts the podcast “Startups for the Rest of Us”, which has over 10 million downloads Rob and Aaron discuss how to level up in entrepreneurship, the personal grow...
Apr 04, 2022•41 min
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