MIT Catalysts is a podcast series by the MIT Club of Northern California. Host Julia Yoo interviews MIT alumni, faculty and affiliates who are movers and shakers in the Bay Area.
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Climate Conversations was a weekly climate change podcast from two MIT alumni and MIT Open Learning, as a part of their ClimateX project. ClimateX was an online platform that facilitated climate change learning, connection, and action. You can also find us on iTunes at http://bit.ly/ClimateConversations
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This podcast is for all C-Level executives, leaders and business owners, who want to start their AI journey and basically do not know where to start. Goldblum Consulting, your outsourced director AI, will help you from the start, with interesting guests, articles on our medium channel (bittermann.medium.com) or you can find us every Tuesday on our AI Luncheon on zoom where we discuss with MIT alumni newest trends of AI. Just contact linkedin.com/in/bittermann to get a seat at our virtual lun ...
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Trust the Process is an interview show featuring the top entrepreneurial minds at MIT. Produced by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, it features interviews with alumni, current students, friends of the program, and affiliates.
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The WARP Show (Weekly Awesome Robotics Podcast) is a podcast all about the history of FIRST and everything related. The WARP Show is made by RAMP (Robots and More Productions), a community-led organization related to robotics and FIRST, run by a dedicated team of students, alumni, volunteers, and mentors.
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Landlords need tenants, refugees need housing - Rehome CEO Joe Landis and CTO Zach Moring
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Rehome CEO Joe Landis and CTO Zach Moring join Trust the Process to discuss their start-up: Rehome. The pair participated in last year’s Delta V accelerator program, and they are still going strong one year later. Check out there own podcast here: http://shows.acast.com/the-rehome-podcastBy MIT's Trust Center
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MIT Start Ups have raised $1 billion following these frameworks - Paul Cheek & Bill Aulet
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Trust Center executive director Paul Cheek and managing director Bill Aulet discuss the robust frameworks laid out in their new books, Start Up Tactics and Disciplined Entrepreneurship (expanded edition), which have become essential reading for entrepreneurs aiming to navigate the complex startup ecosystem. These frameworks are not just theoretical…
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Transforming Business with No-Code AI Models - Delta V alums Stack AI
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We sit down with Stack.Ai, a company that previously went through our Delta V Accelerator program. Stack.AI helps enterprise clients create custom AI models without prior AI experience. As they explain it, Stack Ai allows those closest to business pain points, solve problems with low code AI models. Stack is also the platform currently used by the …
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Groundbreaking AI models for entrepreneurs - Doug Williams and Amu Killada
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Today’s episode features Doug Williams and Amu Killada Doug and Amu are the minds behind a groundbreaking AI-powered system that allows teams to test their ideas against the Trust lCenter’s entrepreneurial frameworks. This project has taken the principles of Disciplined Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Tactics to a whole new level. Leveraging tech des…
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Communication is the vehicle to connection - EIRs Jenny Larios Berlin and Macauley Kenney
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Macauley Kenney is an Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab. Macauley is an executive leader at SurgiBox, a medical device venture creating novel surgical technologies. At SurgiBox, she oversaw the launch of the first ultraportable operating room, taking the product through the design for manufacturing process and into…
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“The AI for entrepreneurship guy” - Wharton’s Ethan Mollick with Bill Aulet
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Check out Ethan’s video on leveraging AI for writing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbRURgCVsgYBy MIT's Trust Center
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Devon Sherman Daley (EIR, formerly MassChallenge) - Archeology, entrepreneurship, and twinning
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Today’s episode features Devon Sherman Daley, an entrepreneur in residence here at the Trust Center. Daley was formerly a Senior Managing Director at the Mass Challenge Accelerator’s FinTech Program. She loves white boarding, her twin sister, and helping students who are brand new to the entrepreneurship world.…
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One team’s delta V accelerator experience - Nurtur co-founders Ellefson and Chanagala
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We sit down with the co-founders of Nurtur — Kristen Ellefson and Bindu Chanagala. We discuss their experience at the Trust Center’s Delta V accelerator, which is open to any start up with at least one MIT affiliated cofounder. Nurtur is a digital health platform aiming to predict and address postpartum depression with large language models and mac…
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Ryan Lee & Bill Aulet in conversation - “Baby Shark is a Disciplined Entrepreneur”
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Ryan Lee is best known as the man who’s company produced the Baby Shark song (and thousands of other K-Pop influenced children’s songs.) This company, Pink Fong, now brings in over $100 million in revenue per year. Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of our very own Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the author of Disciplined Entrepre…
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Entrepreneurship amplifiers - Eileen Zhang & George Whitfield
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This episode features Trust Center Entrepreneur in Residence George Whitfield, Trust Center Undergraduate Advisory Board member Eileen Zhang, and Trust the Process host Chris Burns. The conversation runs from Eileen’s childhood experiences in her parents’ Chinese restaurant in New Jersey, to battling imposter syndrome, to the entrepreneurship oppor…
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Houston, we have a new climate collaboration - TEX-E Fellows & Ben Soltoff
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A conversation between Trust Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ben Soltoff and four students from Houston who are participants in our new TEX-E Program. TEX-E stands for Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy. It’s a first-of-a-kind collaboration between Greentown Labs, MIT’s Martin Trust Center, and four Texas universities: Texas A&M, UT-Austin…
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Transparent leadership in a start up - Christine Hsieh
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In this episode, we feature an interview with Christine Hsieh, an MIT PhD alum who was the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Day2Day, a health tech start up. Hsieh is now an entrepreneur in residence at the Trust Center. Conducting the interview is Paul Cheek, the executive director of the Trust Center. They talk about transparent leadership…
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"MIT Fuse changed my life" - Jesus Lares, founder of Eraverse
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In this episode, we feature an interview with Jesus Lares, an alumni of the Trust Center's delta v and MIT Fuse programs. Lares is a recent MIT undergrad who passed on a job at Google to found Eraverse, a company designing custom locations in the metaverse where far-flung participants can collaborate on projects. He says he never imagined he would …
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StartMIT alum Mar Velasco on her Trust Center experience
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START MIT alum Mar Velasco sits down with Trust Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Susan Neal to discuss her time in the StartMIT program, and her experiences at the Trust Center. Velasco is an MBA Candidate at the Sloan School, and a former investment relations manager at the Bimbo Bakery, the largest bakery in Mexico. She tells us about her entry i…
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Welcome to the promo episode for "Trust the Process," the first podcast from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. This show brings you right into the conference rooms of MIT's center for entrepreneurship. You'll hear experts on business growth talk about time management, leadership, team building, and more. Our first episodes will be r…
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In our special Christmas episode, Ansgar Bittermann, CEO of Goldblum Consulting, is talking to Brother Ken Tsay from the Local Church in Berlin. Ken is originally from Taiwan and after a few years in Switzerland calls Berlin now his home. Artificial intelligence is developing in a rapid speed and AI applications become more and more human-like in t…
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Process Mining - the hipster child of the process industry - with Roland Woldt & J-M Erlendson
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Today we talk with Roland Woldt, Washington DC, and J-M Erlendson, Toronto. Both are working at Software AG as Business Process and Transformation Architect and are also running their own website (and podcast) whatsyourbaseline.com, where they demystify and explain enterprise architechture. Our topic today is process mining. As Roland puts it: like…
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How do data projects differ from IT projects - a theoretical approach with Anna Melbinger
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Today we are talking to Dr. Anna Melbinger, theoretical physicist and managing consultant at Xenium in Munich. She had been conducting research in Munich, Paris and San Diego and is now supporting and accompanying both IT and Data projects for several years. Anna will try to paint a vivid picture for the listener on how IT and data projects differ …
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Data Mining in the highly regulated Pharma industry
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Our guest speaker is David Meinka, CEO of Ayna Analytics . David has studied pharmacology, speaks four languages (German, English, Portuguese and Spanisch) and for over five years has been writing on his PhD thesis at the university of Greifswald while working in the field of pharma and specialty pharma.This February he became founder and CEO of Ay…
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Big Data Analysis Innovations: 10x higher throughput, 100x lower latency - with Zaid Al-Ars
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Riding the Data Wave - The amount of data is exploding and thus only those who manage high throughput and low latency will be able to stay successful in business. In this podcast Ansgar, Satya and Isao will talk with Zaid Al-Ars, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. He is one of the founders of Teratide (teratide.io), a technology…
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Scalable Artificial Intelligence - with Mark Kerzner, Official Member of Forbes Technology Council and CEO of SCAIA
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Today we have the chance to talk to Mark Kerzner, Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council and CEO of SCAIA from Houston Texas. SCAIA stands for Scalable Artificial Intelligence and at SCAIA they are building AI-based products and are applying them to document processing, such as eDiscovery for lawyers. We will dive with Mark into the possi…
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What is unique about AI consultancy to small and medium companies?
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The vast majority of companies in a country are small and medium size companies. The EU defines SMEs as companies with up to 250 employees and 50 millions annual revenue. According to the European Union 99% of the companies in the EU are SMEs. It is one thing, if VW or Google try to use AI, but what about SMEs? SMEs have barely research money or mo…
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Marketing AI - Why aren't you getting more from it? - With Nicole Weidner
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In our newest podcast recording, Nicole Weidner, Associate Partner at Xenium is going to give an impulse talk about the topic "Why arent't you getting more from your Marketing AI?" Nicole has been a managing consultant at Xenium for over 10 years and since January 2021 she is an Associate Partner at Xenium. She has a deep knowledge in project manag…
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Digital Transformation 2000 - 2021 - A retrospective
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We want to start the new panel discussion cycle with an open panel to give our experts more room and space to exchange their ideas and experience on the last 20 years of digital transformation. What phases did our experts encounter over the past 20 years. Which were the trigger points, the drivers, the pace makers. Which phases went successful, whe…
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How to hire the correct person - Science hacks with Dipl. Psych Ansgar Bittermann, CEO Goldblum
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Employees are the backbone of each successful company. But the common hiring process produces 85% disengaged and wrongly hired employees. This results in a high quitting and firing rate or low performances and frustration in the job (for both employer and employee).Thus the common hiring process is flawed. If you think about it: The whole hiring pr…
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Doubling Sales Conversations with the help of AI
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In our next AI Luncheon and Podcast episode, we are going to talk to Darek Kociecki. Darek has an MBA from the Kozminski University and a Master from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He has been working in Business Development for over 10 years and is now Chief Growth Officer at Neoteric. Neoteric itself is developing AI solutions for their glob…
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Interpretable AI - With Isao Kobayashi, CEO enFaith, Japan
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Our topic today is INTERPRETABLE AI and its correlation with Accurate AI. We will learn about Data Driven Architecture, the three algorithms for business analytics (Descriptive algorithms, predictive algorithms and prescriptive algorithms) and Isao will also talk about the new MIT Sloan course "Business Analytics". In the end he will talk about how…
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Social Robots: Opportunities and Challenges with Auxane Boch (IEAI)
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Auxane Boch is associate researcher at the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) at the TU Munich. She describes herself as a cyber psychologist and explores the opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations of social robots. The IEAI writes in their April Brief: "Robotics technologies are now increasingly used in a multitud…
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How to patent artificial intelligence? - With Thomas L. Lederer, European Patent and Trademark Attorney
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Have you ever wondered, if AI solutions can be patented? Do you have an AI solution and look for legal protection? Did you know that you actually cannot patent algorithms, but need to construct methods around to make it patentable. And did you know that AI diagnostics applications are exempt from patenting? All these questions will be discussed in …
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What is natural language processing (NLP) - With Prof. Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is one of the hot topics in artificial intelligence. Spam filtering, language identification, sentiment analysis, generating new article headlines, speech recognition or machine translation are all part of NLP.Prof. Valia Kordoni from Humboldt University in Berlin, who also spent 12 years at the German Institute fo…
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Industrial AI - With Dr. Johannis Nehrkorn, AI Architect at Siemens Digital Industries
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Today Dr. Johannis Nehrkorn, AI Architect at Siemens Digital Industries, gives us an introduction into the world of Industrial AI. He will show us real life AI examples and tell us about the challenges an industrial company like Siemens faces when deploying AI projects in dynamic environments and into mission-critical components.…
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What is (Artificial) Intelligence? - Dipl. Psych. Ansgar Bittermann
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Today we are discussing the term artificial intelligence? What is intelligence? What has a brain area called Broca Area to do with intelligence research? Come with us on a journey through hundred years of intelligence research. We will discuss old and new theories and will end up with a good understanding of the term intelligence and thus artificia…
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How to start your first AI project? - With Ansgar Bittermann, CEO Goldblum Consulting
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You read all about AI and are convinced that AI is the future. You feel pressured to finally make the "first step", but what first project should you choose? How should you start? What are common mistakes you should circumvent? Our global AI experts Ghenva Adra, Ansgar Bittermann (Host), Isao Kabaya, Satya Dharmapuram, Dr. Johannes Nehrkorn und Mar…
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Dynamic AI56 - automating business communication with AI
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Today we hear about Dynamic AI56. This company offers a true AI solution, based on genetic coding, to automate business communication - in all relevant customer-facing areas like customer care, sales and finance. They are in business for three years now in the US, India and the DACH region. With their solution they could win customers like Volkswag…
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Today Sadya Dharmapuram, Enterprise Architect at the Canadian company Spinmaster, which is making the toys for Batman and Superman, is talking about developments in Enterprise Architecture. As traditional IT centric EA practices fail to meet the demand, the scope of EA needs to change from a pure technological to a more business architectural appro…
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Digital Transformation in Saudi Arabia - With SUMEERA IQBAL, Head of Research of Maxwell Stamp
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In this episode SUMEERA IQBAL, Head of Research of Maxwell Stamp in Saudia Arabia, tells us how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become Digital Champion within a few years.By Ansgar Bittermann, Sumeera Iqbal, Isao Kabaya, Dr. Johannes Nehrkorn, Satya Dharmapuramshi, Markus Patas, Ihab Tabbara
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Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
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In our first episode, Ansgar Bittermann , CEO of AI Consultancy Company Goldblum Consulting, Berlin, discusses with Sumeera Iqbal , Head of Research, Maxwell Stamp, Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, Isao Kabayashi, CEO of ENFACE, Japanese Consulting Company and Satya Dharmapuram, Enterprise Architect of Spinmaster, Canada, the necessity and use of Data Sci…
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Terrorist attacks. A catastrophic hurricane. Profound market uncertainty. During her decades-long career in the hospitality industry, MIT Sloan alum Stephanie Sonnabend has seen it all — and everything in between. The former CEO and president of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation and co-founder and chair of 5050 Women on Boards, Sonnabend joi…
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Host Julia Yoo checks in with Dr. Sudeb Dalai, an infectious disease physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. We first had Dr. Dalai on our show last May. In this episode, Dr. Dalai updates us on his thoughts about herd immunity, debunks some common vaccine misinformation, and tells us why he’s optimistic about our post-pandemic future. Music: Da…
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We're kicking off season two of MIT Catalysts with a double feature! Host Julia Yoo chats with siblings Amrita Saigal, founder and CEO of Kudos, and Arun Saigal, cofounder and CEO of Thunkable. Tune in to hear how each Saigal turned MIT projects into startups, the pandemic-induced changes that are here to stay, and adapting — both personally and pr…
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While we're planning season 2, we wanted to check in on the special Frontlines series we did in Season 1. In this bonus episode, host Julia Yoo speaks with Dr. Sun Yoo about her experience on the healthcare frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.By MIT Club of Northern California
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Host Julia Yoo chats with venture capitalists Mohanjit Jolly (Partner, Iron Pillar) and Mark Gorenberg (Founder and Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners). Tune in to hear Jolly and Gorenberg’s insider advice for founders, observations of common pitfalls facing startups and what each says is their investing “secret sauce.”…
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Host Julia Yoo chats with ThirdLove co-founder and co-CEO Heidi Zak. Tune in to hear Zak's thoughts on what it’s like to build a business and product for women, and the challenges—and opportunities—to be found in running a global, direct-to-consumer online company during a global pandemic.By MIT Club of Northern California
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In the third of a special series about MIT community members on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, host Julia Yoo chats with Dr. Sudeb Dalai about how his interdisciplinary training uniquely prepared him for the pandemic on multiple fronts, how his day job is affecting his personal life and the changes he’s looking forward to seeing as we al…
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Steven Hao, Annick Aubin-Pouliot and Mark DuLong
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In the second of a special series about MIT community members on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, we compiled three interviews that host Julia Yoo recently did with cardiologist Steven Hao, otolaryngologist Annick Aubin-Pouliot and plastic surgeon Mark DuLong. Although each is involved in a different aspect of the pandemic, certain similar…
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In the the first of a special series about MIT community members on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, host Julia Yoo sits down with Dr. Freddy Nguyen, a postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and a resident physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. Nguyen talks about the MIT COVID19 Challenge and being on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York.…
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Host Julia Yoo sits down with R. Erich Caulfield, the 125th president of the MIT Alumni Association, and founder and president of The Caulfield Consulting Group. Tune in to hear Caulfield’s journey from engineering to advocacy and public service, making the most of his time as a student and alumnus of MIT and entrepreneurship.…
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Host Julia Yoo chats with UnifyID founder John Whaley, previously at Moka5. Tune in to hear Whaley’s take on going from academia to entrepreneurship, founding a second company, and tips and tricks on choosing a co-founderBy MIT Club of Northern California
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Host Julia Yoo chats with Zetta Ventures Managing Director Jocelyn Goldfein, previously at VMware and Facebook. Tune in to hear about Goldfein’s own experiences as an entrepreneur, her take on challenges in AI innovation and the must-have soft skills that successful entrepreneurship requires.By MIT Club of Northern California
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Host Julia Yoo chats with Coda co-founder Shishir Mehrotra, previously of Centrata, Microsoft, and Google. Tune in to hear Mehrotra's advice on how he approaches building teams, getting investor funding, and balancing perseverance with practicality. Theme music Title: Daydream Bliss Artist: SYBSBy MIT Club of Northern California
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