Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Zhenghua Yang – Founder of Serenity Forge Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Games Can you imagine suddenly getting sick and being told you will probably die within hours? You survive and stay in a hospital as every experimental method is thrown at your body to save your life for an illness not identified. You slowly recuperate, continue working at the Federal Reserve and go to college simultaneously. You have lunch with then Chairman of t...
Aug 16, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Shawn Xu – Senior Associate of Floodgate Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Venture Capital Shawn Xu is an MBA from UPenn and is an early stage investor at Floodgate. Previously, he was the managing partner of the Dorm Room Fund that was famously focused on student-run startups. Shawn made more than 20 pre-seed investments. Before venture capital, Shawn managed the famous Square payment device and their expansion into Europe. It is now a p...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Ravi Kurani – Founder of Sutro Forbes List: USA Year: 2017 Category: Energy His father immigrated from India to US and was a chemist who when he couldn’t find a job in his field, he ended up working at a pool company. His father started at the bottom and through perseverance became a very successful entrepreneur. Ravi, working for his father’s pool company, came up with the idea for Sutro. He invented a robot that tests pool and hot tub water...
Aug 03, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Daniel Almeida – Neuroscientist at McGill University Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Science Daniel Almeida is a neuroscientist based at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He uses post-mortem human brain samples, coupled with psychological autopsies to understand the molecular impacts of severe childhood abuse on the brains of depressed individuals who died by suicide. So, before you glimpse over his bio and think this podcast isn’t...
Jul 26, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Samir Goel & Wemimo Abbey - Co-CEO’s of Esusu Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Social Entrepreneurship I had the privilege of interviewing the two founders of Esusu, a company that helps individuals save money and build credit scores by working with landlords and linking rental payment data to credit unions. Our conversation includes: How Wemimo and Samir met at the Clinton Global Initiative conference Sharing the joy of making the F...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is David Sudolsky – Founder of Boldr Impact Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Social Enterprise I was deeply inspired by my in-depth conversation with David Sudolsky, the founder of Boldr Impact. David took a six-week trip in the Philippines in 2013 and it led him to a six-year quest to make the outsourcing industry less exploitative. It was through the loss of his best friend and mentor that inspired David to be committed to his company, co...
Jul 12, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Beto Altamirano – CEO of Irys Forbes List: USA Year: 2018 Category: Social Entrepreneurs His life is influenced by being raised in two cultures and his father being deported to Mexico. That life changing event got Beto interested in political science, graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and even working with the U.S. Senator John Kerry. Through government work experience Beto saw the need for creating a technology platform that ...
Jul 04, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Anna Lee – CEO of Lioness Forbes List: USA Year: 2020 Category: Consumer Technology Anna Lee, is a technical co-founder of Lioness, the women-led sexual wellness startup that built the world's first, and only, vibrator that tracks your orgasm so you can learn how to make them better and better. It uses precision sensors and an app to track your orgasm and see what factors make your orgasm better or worse; stress, alcohol, sleep, partners and ...
Jun 28, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Michal Hidas – CEO of Hidas Fashion -- Forbes List: Israel -- Year: 2018 -- Category: Culture - Fashion Michal Hidas is an exceptionally creative and forward-thinking global fashion designer from Israel. Her brand, HIDAS, is unique not only for its look, but how the collection aims to shine a light on complex and difficult global issues. Michal made her professional breakthrough in partnership with a Palestinian architect from Gaza. She used ...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Pascal Christiaens - Founder of Volunteer World -- Forbes List: Europe -- Year: 2018 -- Category: Social Entrepreneurship Pascal is a first-generation college graduate, social entrepreneur and start-up strategist with significant experience from both sides of the Atlantic. He was named as an emerging European leader by President Barack Obama, His company, Volunteer World, actively supports 1,600 projects in more than 82 countries across the g...
Jun 14, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Mladen Jovanovic – CEO of BindiMaps -- Forbes List: Asia -- Year: 2020 -- Category: Social Entrepreneurship After winning the Startup World Cup in 2017, my guest, Mladen Jovanovic, met his professor Dr. Wright, and together they founded BindiMaps. BindiMaps is an indoor navigation tool for people who are blind or visually-impaired. His professor, Dr. Wright, conceptualized the idea after being diagnosed with a rare eye disorder where she was ...
Jun 07, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Alyona Tkachenko – Founder & CEO of Nommi -- Forbes List: Asia -- Year: 2019 -- Category: Consumer Technology Alyona Tkachenko is the founder and CEO of a hardware-as-a-service startup, Nommi, that focuses on providing a global secure infrastructure for remote workers, a mobile WiFi hotspot that runs on eSIM that works at home or remotely. Nommi is one of the most successfully crowdsourced projects in Kazakhstan, raising $142,000 from it’...
May 29, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Today’s guest on the “Phil with Forbes 30” podcast is Cliff Weitzman – Founder of Speechify -- Forbes List: USA -- Year: 2017 -- Category: Education My guest, Cliff Weitzman, is the founder of the Speechify App, Text-to-Speech software. It’s the 10th highest grossing productivity app on Apple's App Store and the 3rd ranked app in Apple's Newspapers category. It’s used to read more than a billion words every month. At 22 he was one of the youngest people named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He is a ...
May 25, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to the Phil with Forbes 30 Podcast, hosted by Phil Michaels, Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur and Performance Coach! Every year, Forbes names the top 30 young Entrepreneurs, Leaders, and Stars in the world, and each week Phil gets one of them to share their story, to help you level up in your life and business! From sports superstars like Lebron James, to celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Cardi B, to entrepreneurs with companies like Door Dash, Instagram and YouTube, you’re sure to learn ...
May 18, 2020•1 min
