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Are robots taking our jobs? What does ChatGPT mean for education? How can we protect privacy on social media? In this weekly podcast, we chat to experts from across the world about what technology means for society, and what we can do about it. Send us a question or thoughts here! https://www.speakpipe.com/In_Our_Tech_Society Image adapted from ThisisEngineering via Pexel
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Now I Know podcast is all about explaining how world around us works. From technology, to economics, to geography, to travel and more, every episode will leave you with a little better understanding of our world. New episodes go out every Sunday. If you’re enjoying Now I Know podcast, please consider subscribing!
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Welcome to Ignite, the podcast where we delve into the innovations and ideas that are transforming our world. Hosted by Brian Bell of Team Ignite Ventures, this platform offers a front-row seat to candid conversations with trailblazing founders, visionary investors, and thought leaders who are shaping the future. Our episodes explore the mechanics of Startups and Venture Capital, the promise of technology, and the societal implications that often go unnoticed but are imperative for responsib ...
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Tech, Innovation & Society - The Creative Process: Technology, AI, Software, Future, Economy, Science, Engineering & Robotics Interviews

Technology, AI, Software, Future, Economy, Science, Engineering & Robotics Interviews - Creative Process Original Series

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Rethinking tomorrow. We focus on technology, innovation, society, AI, science, engineering, the economy & issues facing people & the planet. Leading thinkers, organizations & environmentalists discuss technology, creativity & pathways for a more sustainable future. Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & ...
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Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EAR ...
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JULIE ANDREWS (Oscar, Tony & Pulitzer Prize-winning Actress & Singer · The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) Andrews shares her experience working on Mary Poppins, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets about the character. She reminisces about her collaboration with Walt Disney and Tony Walton. ETGAR KERET (Cannes Film Festival Award-winning Director & A…
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In this episode of Ignite Podcast, Brian Bell sits down with Carl Peterson, the founder and CEO of Thunder Compute, a YC-backed startup focused on revolutionizing GPU utilization for AI workloads. Carl shares the origins of Thunder Compute, which stemmed from his experience at Georgia Tech, where researchers struggled to access GPUs efficiently. Fr…
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“What I have done in my career is just try to assess who we are, what we are, why we are here, and how come we, as animals, are able to walk around and wear pants and dresses and talk on the internet, while the other animals are not. It's been my obsession since I was young. I think if I hadn't become a novelist, I might have been happy to be a nat…
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“What I have done in my career is just try to assess who we are, what we are, why we are here, and how come we, as animals, are able to walk around and wear pants and dresses and talk on the internet, while the other animals are not. It's been my obsession since I was young. I think if I hadn't become a novelist, I might have been happy to be a nat…
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Why are we filled with so many contradictions? How does writing help us make sense of the absurdity and chaos of the world? T.C. Boyle is a novelist and short story writer based out of Santa Barbara, California. He has published 19 novels, such as The Road to Wellville and more than 150 short stories for publications like The New Yorker, as well as…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell welcomes Philip Trammell, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, to discuss the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on economic growth, labor markets, and income distribution. Trammell shares his journey into AI economics, which was initially sparked by an int…
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In this episode of Ignite Podcast, Brian Bell sits down with Prachie Banthia, founder and CEO of Lightscreen AI, a YC-backed startup revolutionizing technical hiring. Prachie shares her journey from leading product teams at Google, GoPuff, and Assembly AI to launching Lightscreen AI. She discusses how her early entrepreneurial instincts, combined w…
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“You have all the different languages interplaying with each other. Little scraps of Irish languages and idioms have stories that have been told, but how Ireland actually comes about as an idea, as to where the Irish come from. A lot of these kinds of debates are just placed, you know, in day-to-day conversation, and then they trail off. People sta…
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Patrick Healy’s novel Beyond the Pale explores memory, time, childhood, and how language shapes our world. Set in rural Ireland, starting in the 1950s, the book follows a young boy’s early memories through a series of expressionistic soundscapes. The expression from which the book takes its name has come to mean beyond what is considered acceptable…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell sits down with Adrien Gautier, General Partner at Bridgespan VC and Managing Partner at Serra Partners. Adrien shares his unique journey from Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied finance and began his career in banking, to moving to New York during the 2008 financial crisis and pivoting into t…
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“The fact that technologies are being used and combined to capture our attention is concerning. This is currently being done with no limitations and no regulations. That's the main problem. Attention is a very private resource. No one should be allowed to extract it from us by exploiting what we know about the human mind and how it functions, inclu…
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AI competes for our attention because our attention has been commodified. As our entire lives revolve more and more around the attention economy, what can we do to restore our autonomy, reclaim our privacy, and reconnect with the real world. Computer scientist Fabien Gandon and research engineer Franck Michel are experts in AI, the Web, and knowled…
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“The fact that technologies are being used and combined to capture our attention is concerning. This is currently being done with no limitations and no regulations. That's the main problem. Attention is a very private resource. No one should be allowed to extract it from us by exploiting what we know about the human mind and how it functions, inclu…
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AI competes for our attention because our attention has been commodified. As our entire lives revolve more and more around the attention economy, what can we do to restore our autonomy, reclaim our privacy, and reconnect with the real world. Computer scientist Fabien Gandon and research engineer Franck Michel are experts in AI, the Web, and knowled…
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In this episode of the Ignite podcast, Brian Bell sits down with Frank Mastronuzzi, CFO and founder of Punch Financial, to discuss financial strategies for high-growth startups. Frank shares his journey from traditional finance roles at Deloitte and Motorola to working with tech startups like Match.com, and ultimately founding Punch Financial to ad…
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“In reality, we're all complex people with feelings and our own sets of baggage. I do think we are very good at self-sabotage, all of us. It's a very easy road to go down. It's safe because it's comfortable, and we know it. When you can find the ways you self-sabotage and try to stop that, it will hopefully lead to a happier life and things that ar…
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 ​What is love? How do the relationships we have early in our lives affect us for years to come? How can we break free from cycles of damage to form relationships of mutual understanding, respect, and love? Sophie Brooks is a London-born, Brooklyn-based writer and director. Her sophomore feature Oh, Hi! premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.…
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“There used to be a time when leading men were okay with falling down as a character. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones is a prime example of that. Even going back to the fifties, they understood that failure and falling down, but getting back up, is an endearing quality. It's a universal human quality. We have gotten to a point in the last 10 or 15 y…
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How can we improve the way we train and recruit police officers? Can TV dramas serve as positive models for policing and help foster community? Alexi Hawley is the creator of ABC’s The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion, and Netflix's The Recruit, an espionage drama starring Noah Centineo that, in season two, explores the legal defense tactic 'graymai…
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“The position of the United States in the world, economically and politically, is the weakest it has been in my lifetime. I was born in the middle of the 20th century, so I have watched the rise of the American empire and the success of American capitalism in the second half of the 20th century. However, over the last 20 years, I have watched that …
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In this episode of the Ignite podcast, host Brian Bell interviews Matt Curtolo, an experienced LP, allocator, and private markets expert with over 20 years in the industry. Matt shares his journey, from starting his career at Hamilton Lane in 2004 to his work with MetLife and later transitioning to a fintech startup, Allocate. He discusses how his …
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When capitalism stops serving the needs of the people, what can we do to create a fairer more equitable society? What can we learn from China's success and economic growth? Are we witnessing the decline of the American Empire and what comes next? Richard D. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Ec…
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“The position of the United States in the world, economically and politically, is the weakest it has been in my lifetime. I was born in the middle of the 20th century, so I have watched the rise of the American empire and the success of American capitalism in the second half of the 20th century. However, over the last 20 years, I have watched that …
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When capitalism stops serving the needs of the people, what can we do to create a fairer more equitable society? What can we learn from China's success and economic growth? Are we witnessing the decline of the American Empire and what comes next? Richard D. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Ec…
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How do our personal lives influence the art we make? JIM SHEPARD (Author of The Book of Aron, Project X & The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby) explores historical human dilemmas, the emotional imagination and literature's role in extending empathetic understanding. He discusses the importance of self-education and curiosity. LAU…
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The recent Ignite podcast episode featured Sarah Anderson, founding partner of Vault Fund, who shared insights on redefining venture capital through investment in global company creation firms and venture studios. With over 15 years of experience in VC, investment banking, and fund management, Sarah detailed her transition from traditional finance …
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Evan Huck, the CEO and co-founder of User Evidence, joined the Ignite podcast to share his entrepreneurial journey and insights into building scalable sales strategies and evidence-based marketing. Evan's path began after graduating from Stanford, shifting from a traditional finance trajectory to startups. His early experiences in sales, particular…
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“My mandate focuses on the protection of those trying to protect the planet. Protection of defenders is my main topic. When I'm speaking to states or companies, it's always related to cases of defenders facing threats, attacks, or penalization by companies or governments, like the recent case of Paul Watson (founder of Sea Shepherd) in Denmark… Whe…
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“My mandate focuses on the protection of those trying to protect the planet. Protection of defenders is my main topic. When I'm speaking to states or companies, it's always related to cases of defenders facing threats, attacks, or penalization by companies or governments, like the recent case of Paul Watson (founder of Sea Shepherd) in Denmark… Whe…
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Who Defends the Defenders? In many countries, the state response to peaceful environmental protest is increasingly to repress rather than to enable and protect those who wish to speak up for the environment. Michel Forst is a prominent human rights advocate and the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention. He pre…
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Eric Sippel, a seasoned investor from the Sippel Family Office, joined us on the Ignite podcast to discuss his unique approach to venture capital and family office management. Eric's career spans 38 years across hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital, with a sharp focus on emerging managers and niche markets. He shared his preference for …
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Brian Bell hosts Ian Sosso, the award-winning founder and managing partner of Monte Carlo Capital. Ian shares his journey from Monaco to becoming a leader in venture capital, starting with a successful career in investment banking at institutions like JP Morgan and UBS. After years in public markets, Ian trans…
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“I think AI is sort of inevitable in some ways. It is not very intelligent right now; it is probably closer to artificial stupidity, but it's a question of time before it becomes smarter and smarter. We need to tackle the right to use question and the value question now as it is developing. It can amplify both the positive possibilities as well as …
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“Climate change is here. It's already causing devastation to the most vulnerable populations. We are living with an extractive mindset, where we are extracting one way out of the life system of the Earth. We need to change from that extractive mindset to a regenerative mindset. And we need to change from the North Star of economic growth to a visio…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell welcomes Gururaj Pandurangi, a seasoned entrepreneur and expert in cloud security and SaaS innovation, to share his journey and insights. With over 20 years of experience spanning Microsoft, Oracle, and his own successful startups, Gururaj has a unique perspective on building and scaling techno…
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Less than two weeks into the new year and the world’s wealthiest 1% have already used their fair share of the global carbon budget allocated for 2025. 2024 was hottest year on record. How can we change our extractive mindset to a regenerative mindset? How can we evolve our systems from economic growth to a vision of regenerative living and eco-civi…
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“This book has a lot of the wisdom of things that feminists and queers have learned in the community about sexuality, but the book is really for anybody who is political, even those just starting out and beginning to realize that there is something wrong with the systems they live under. I want to be in movements. Our movements are made of relation…
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Why is it that we find the courage to boldly confront mainstream societal norms and structures, yet are so often unable to treat romantic partners with care and generosity? Why do we lose our principles when we become insecure, disappointed, or jealous? Why do we act our worst in sexual and romantic relationships? And why do we prioritize romantic …
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“I think the show conveys to the women watching that their lives matter. They don't have to be some gorgeous aspirational person, although Sloane absolutely fits that mold. But for others living in the Midwest, struggling and feeling unseen, hopefully, the mirrors of Lina and Maggie will help them not feel so alone and remind them that their storie…
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What is love? How do the narratives we internalize shape our understanding of relationships, intimacy, and family? Laura Eason is an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, and playwright. Currently, she is the executive producer and showrunner of the Starz drama series Three Women. Based on a book by Lisa Taddeo, the series stars Shailene Woodley, …
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell speaks with Terry Purcell, Co-Chief Investment Officer at Longwell Family Office, about his decades-long career in alternative investments. Terry shares insights into his journey from the Payne Weber rotational program to co-managing a hedge fund at Mitchell Hutchins, eventually focusing on alt…
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How do the arts help us find purpose and meaning? What role do stories play in helping us preserve memories, connect us to each other, and answer life’s big questions? MAX RICHTER (Award-winning Composer & Pianist) reflects on the importance of creativity and how art offers windows into other people’s experiences, fostering connection. ETGAR KERET …
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What can we learn from whales, the ways they communicate, and how their life cycle affects whole ecosystems, absorbing carbon and helping cool the planet? How have we contributed to the ecological degradation of the environment? How does language influence perception and our relationship to the more than human world? NAN HAUSER (Whale Researcher; P…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell interviews Chris Schelling, Managing Director of Private Investments at Caprock, to explore his vast experience in alternative investments. With over two decades in the industry and expertise in behavioral finance, Chris delves into the intersection of psychology, statistics, and market behavio…
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How can we be more engaged global citizens? How do we fight for truth and protect democracy in a post-truth world? What influence do billionaires have on politics, journalism, and the technology that shapes our lives? Lee McIntyre (Philosopher · Author of On Disinformation: How To Fight For Truth and Protect Democracy) examines democracy and how co…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Brian Bell hosts Matt Wilson, founder and managing director of Allied Venture Partners. Matt’s entrepreneurial journey began at age 11 with a snow-shoveling business and has evolved into establishing one of Canada’s largest angel investor networks. He shares pivotal lessons from his career, including his corpo…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell speaks with Darren Cooke, Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer at UC Berkeley, about his multifaceted journey and his contributions to life sciences entrepreneurship. Darren shares how his career evolved from mechanical engineering research to patent law and eventually to fosteri…
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In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, Brian Bell interviews Samir Sen, the CEO of Flair Labs, a company revolutionizing real estate operations through AI. Samir shares Flair Labs' journey from its inception in Y Combinator, where the team initially focused on call center analytics, to its pivot into real estate-specific AI solutions. Recognizing t…
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How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth and cultivate our intuitive intelligence?  What lessons can we learn from non-human animals about living in greater harmony with nature? COLIN STEEN (CEO, Legacy Agripartners) on how growing up on a Saskatchewan farm shaped his sense of responsibility and success. JILL HEINERTH (cave diver, writer…
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What influence do billionaires have on politics, journalism, and the technology that shapes our lives? What drives people to seek absolute power, and how can we hold them accountable? Darryl  Cunningham is a cartoonist and author of Science Tales, Psychiatric Tales, The Age of Selfishness, and Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful. Cunni…
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