Garnet and Mark are back with Bruno Aguiar, VP Commercial Management & Analytics at ESL/Turtle Entertainment, to explore more about betting and e-sports, the background of ESL, the key innovations of ESL, and how brands are seeing the value of esports. Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast …
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E-Sports
We have Bruno Aguiar, VP Commercial Management & Analytics at ESL/Turtle Entertainment. Of course, ESL is the trailblazing e-sports brand. We were thrilled Bruno agreed to sit down with us. To kick off the first of three episodes, we heard about Bruno's background and learned about the …
Workforce Development, Economic Development, and the Future
We're back with our final session chatting with Larry Frank, president of LA trade-tech college. This time, we discuss the connection between workforce development and economic development, the kinds of training partnerships that LATTC has forged, and a look at the future. Subscribe to us on your …
Training Students for the Workforce
We're back with part two of our chat with Larry Frank, president of LA Trade-Tech College. In this episode, we discuss the similarity in nomenclature between LATTC and incubators and accelerators in the early stage venture world. Larry also shares what it means to train students for the workforce, …
Innovation in Education
We are honored to kickoff three episodes with a very special guest--Larry Frank, president of Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, part of the largest community college district in the country. Larry notes that LATTC, with innovative pathways and programs, is at the center of lifting students into …
More on Innovations in Elder Tech
Kai Stinchcombe is back with us to delve more into elder tech. We hear about the True Link business model, how True Link also helps people with disabilities, the size of the market, and lots more. …
Elder Tech and More, Part 1
Kai Stinchcombe, founder and CEO of True Link Financial, joins us to discuss elder tech, blockchain and surviving in Silicon Valley. He came to our attention because of the focus of True Link--mainly helping older adults remain independent while protecting them from scams, then people with special …
Rebel Innovation
We're talking with Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She has been honored as one of the world’s top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets and Quants. And she has a new book out called Rebel Talent—Why It Pays to Break the Rules at …
Innovation at Ultimate Guitar
How do you create, bootstrap, innovate and keep going at a startup based in Kaliningrad, Russia? We were curious, so we talked with Daniel Ray, director of the innovation labs at Ultimate Guitar and MuseScore. Daniel has a fascinating background in music that led him from playing bassoon and contra …
The Politics of Opportunity Zones
Back with Lane Jost of PwC’s national Responsible Business Leadership team. Garnet and Mark probe more about the investment possibilities in opportunity zones, and the political, social and economic effects. Plus, we confuse litigation and legislation, which might have been subconscious. …
Beyond the Redline: Opportunity Zones Up Close
We're focused again on Opportunity Zones--this time with Lane Jost. Lane is an expert in both corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability, having held leadership roles over the last 10 years in the consulting, financial services and food service sectors. He currently serves as part …
Opportunity Zones, Part 2
This week, Garnet and I continue our chat with Peter Stuart of Outlier Capital about Opportunity Zones -- we learn the three most important things to know about them, how Peter is capitalizing on them at Outlier Capital, some common mistakes, and we get a broader understanding of opportunity zones …
Opportunity Zones, Part 1
Opportunity Zones were legislated into existence in 2017 as part of the tax overhaul. The intention is to revitalize economically distressed parts of the country with private investments. We were really interested in learning more, so we called on Peter Stuart …
InnoNation – Houston
We have a short but sweet episode of #theipod this week as a way to introduce you to a new feature we’ll have occasionally: We call it InnoNation. It’ll be brief profiles of the innovation and entrepreneurship environment in cities and regions. Today, we start with Houston--introduced to us by last …
Facial Recognition
Facial recognition is taking the world by storm. So we found the most innovative mind in the business--Panos Moutafis, who founded Zenus Biometrics in Houston--to tell us what he and his company have been up to. Zenus has a unique technology, which Panos describes in our chat, focused on facial …
Opportunity Zones and E-Sports (Don’t Worry, It All Makes Sense)
Garnet and Mark chat about two things that have been on their minds: opportunity zones and e-sports. …
AnytownUSA and the Future
We're back with Geralyn Breig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geralynbreig/), founder of AnytownUSA (https://anytownusa.com). In the first part, we talked about Geralyn’s back ground and career. In this episode, we get into her new venture—something Garnet knows well, and then we take a peek at the …
A Made-In-America Success Story
In this episode, the first of two parts, we interview Geralyn Breig, founder and CEO of AnytownUSA.com, which launched in June 2018. Geralyn has a storied career. She was President of Clarks, Americas from 2014 to 2016. Geralyn's career in consumer products spans 35 years in executive, marketing and …