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What Happens to the Homeless When World Leaders Arrive- #195: Javi | Coalition on Homelessness
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01/18/24 • 49 min
APEC’s influence on homelessness can most notably be seen from the increased sweeps the police are doing within the APEC zones. People are losing their valuables and have to be on the move. Javi works for the Coalition on Homelessness, which connects unhoused people with resources for permanent living solutions. As we go through alleyways that are usually heavily populated, we’ll discuss the city’s response to homelessness in relation to APEC and compare it to the resources the community actually needs.
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The Injection that Extends Life - #199: Dr. Dan | Minicircle
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02/15/24 • 45 min
Dr. Dan’s office is a hub of innovation that is redefining healing. He employs an array of tools that help in navigating the realms of consciousness and longevity. Through it all, he advocates for a balanced approach to health, emphasizing the integration of technology with human biology for a future where lifespan extends far beyond conventional limits. Let’s explore the types of therapies Dr. Dan offers and dive into his personal embrace of Minicircle’s follistatin gene therapy.
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#70: Jacob Peters - LEGO Empires, Fake ID Rings, Tulum Mansions, and Discovering Community
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05/13/21 • 58 min
Today, we’ll sit down and hear from Jacob Peters, co-founder of Launch House and Commsor, two community-led and data-driven startups. As a frequently uprooted army brat, Jacob prioritized fitting in with his peers. So, he dumbed himself down and hid his genuine interests, including math and LEGOs. He led a double life playing the part of a “cool kid” at school while secretly running a LEGO empire with the help of his family.
After suffering a traumatic brain injury, Jacob finally dropped the facade and followed his authentic passions. Jacob immersed himself in the world of data science and started creating internal incubators at JP Morgan. In his role, he used the networking skills he’d developed as a LEGO mogul and the emotional intelligence he’d gained as an undercover nerd to build an authentic data science community. This authentic community served as rocket fuel for Jacob’s entrepreneurial endeavors and would ultimately lead to his startup today: Launch House.
Relevant Links
Community Club
Commsor
Commsor Twitter
https://twitter.com/commsor?lang=en
Launch House article on TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/15/founders-hacker-hype-homes-remote-work/
Launch House Twitter
https://twitter.com/launch_house?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Brain Injury Association of America
Brainline
https://www.brainline.org/people-brain-injury/community-support
LEGO’s Adult Fandom
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lego-60-anniversary-afol-community-adult-lego-fans
LEGO – Turning Your Customers into Your Community
https://hbr.org/2020/01/turn-your-customers-into-your-community
LEGO and Community Building
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/what-lego-taught-me-about-community-building
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The Serendipity of Creativity: How Luciano Mazza Designed Microsoft Founder Paul Allen's Architectural Legacy
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05/21/20 • 33 min
Today on the show we talk to Luciano Mazza, an international architect, and designer of H club in LA. The H.Club started as the brainchild of Paul Allen, global philanthropist and co-founder of a little company called Microsoft, and musician Dave Stewart. But Luciano, who’s been an architectural entrepreneur for the past couple decades, brought that idea to reality. Luciano currently is director of Hospitality Architecture at HKS Inc. in London, and his experience designing hotels and luxury resorts includes projects from the Four Seasons to Shangri-La. Luciano describes architecture as the balance between elegance and efficacy. But for Luciano, it’s those intimate, personal aspects of architecture that are most important. Luciano thinks deeply about the people he wants to serve, and the buildings he designs aim to guide emotional reflexes using space. Empathy is paramount to understand the emotional reflexes of various cultures, and in pursuit of this multi-cultural empathy, he’s worked everywhere from Los Angeles to London. Luciano has had an extensive career, and he’s indebted to the myriad of cities that helped to cultivate his creativity and empathy, but probably most impactful was the city where it all started. One of the most beautiful and storied cities in the world: the vibrant city of Mantua, Italy.
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#1 GradStreet: Tim Connors
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03/02/19 • 21 min
Starting a business in college is all about hustle. There is so much opportunity in the collegiate community, once you identify a market, form an idea, and work tirelessly on that idea; you can achieve anything. Tim Connors, founder of Gradstreet saw an opportunity with the graduation market and seized it. He talks about how he transitioned from just being a student to being a student entrepreneur, how the business has changed his identity, and his plans for the future. Finding Founders is hosted, produced, edited, and mixed by Samuel Donner --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support
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A Year of Blindness, 30,000 Ghanaian bikes, & Makers in 170 Countries- #175: Sumit Ajwani | Makers
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09/07/23 • 75 min
Laser eye surgery, a seemingly inconsequential, almost routine surgery, that in an instant turned into a nightmare. Sumit Ajwani, who had built a career creating films as head of production for a global ad agency in Canada, discovered he could no longer see. He was a wunderkind. His career was moving fast. He had just been appointed head of the ad agency at 23 years old. But this wouldn’t be the end of his story. Sumit would ultimately create a producer-led collaborative network called ‘Makers’ that would get involved with projects from giving bikes to kids in Ghana, building a Lego City inside a children’s hospital, and working with Habitat for Humanity. To date ‘Makers’ has 11,000 producers around the world in 173 countries. But the building of this collaborative future between creatives started actually before Sumit was born. It started with his father mailing a ring across an ocean over 40 years ago...
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09/07/20 • 3 min
How can you build stronger teams using identification?
This is the Founder Wisdom. Where we’ll answer that question by distilling advice from our founders and the books they recommend. Then we’ll show you how we are applying that knowledge ourselves!
I asked Masterclass founder David Rogier what book I should read if I’m trying to manage people more effectively. He recommended “The Man Who Lied to His Laptop by Clifford Nas
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#30 Redesigning Rock Bottom - The Futur: Chris Do (Part 1)
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07/09/20 • 23 min
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The Secrets of TikTok (Virtual Summit) - ft. Heartbeat, Movers+Shakers, Popl, & Captaindare
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06/25/20 • 116 min
So this episode is different from what we usually put out. It’s a live virtual summit on the Secrets of TikTok. It won’t have voiceover, music, or sound effects like our other episodes... but it should be pretty informative. Also if you are new here, I’d recommend listening to our recent episodes on Mac Davis and Immortality... some crazy stories in there!
Anyway, we spent a few months prepping for this event and we gathered together a highly qualified group panelists to speak to our audience. The event was a hit! We had almost 500 people RSVP and almost 300 people attend. I’ve been getting email after email and message after message asking if I’d post the full audio... so here it is.
But before we get into it, let me break down our panelists.
Here are the time codes and summaries for each panelist’s sections.
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We’re starting with Nick and Jason who founded Popl. They launched their business with TikTok and gained over 1.5M+ followers in two months and grew their monthly revenue from 0 to over 60k!
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Then we’ll move to Brian Freeman. Brian is the CEO & Founder of Heartbeat, the #1 TikTok Influencer Marketplace. He’s also a contributing writer at Forbes, Inc., MarketWatch, Entrepreneur, and numerous others.
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Next we’ll talk to Marcel Salapa. Marcel is TikTok Lead at Movers+Shakers, a TikTok creative agency responsible for the #1 TikTok campaign in the world. With this campaign, they generated over 5 billion views and 3 million user generated videos.
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Our final panelist is Dare. Dare (a.k.a Captaindare) is a versatile TikTok creator whose ingenious comedy skits skyrocketed him to success with over 800,000 followers and over 20 million likes. He recently had the honor of presenting the first ever Black History Summit for TikTok.
Without further ado, here is the summit, and we’ll hear from Nick and Jason of Popl first.
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Slow Fashion and Radically Inclusive Clothing : Founder Wisdom #073 - Hanna Baror-Padilla
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02/08/22 • 22 min
How do you create radically inclusive clothing, while still maintaining a profitable business? What does it take to build a company off a kickstarter campaign? In today’s Founder Wisdom we speak with Hanna Baror-Padilla, founder and owner of the inclusive and diverse clothing brand Sotela. From her childhood years working in her dad’s clothing store to successfully launching several of her own inclusive clothing collections, Hanna guides us through her journey and the lessons she’s learned along the way.
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How many episodes does Finding Founders have?
Finding Founders currently has 328 episodes available.
What topics does Finding Founders cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Finding Founders?
The episode title 'Bullying in Africa, The Nobel Peace Prize, & Turning down $400k: Founder Wisdom #060 - Christina Catalano' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Finding Founders?
The average episode length on Finding Founders is 40 minutes.
How often are episodes of Finding Founders released?
Episodes of Finding Founders are typically released every 6 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of Finding Founders?
The first episode of Finding Founders was released on Mar 2, 2019.
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