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“I used to be the largest dairy consumer on the planet. I used to eat so much dairy and meat. The more that I looked into the dairy industry, the more that I saw that it was the singular, most inhumane industry on the planet, that we've all been lied to, including myself, for years. I always believed that the picture on the milk carton, the cow standing next to her calf in the green field with the red barn in the back was true. It’s certainly the complete opposite.” – Richard (Kudo) Couto Richard (Kudo) Couto is the founder of Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), an organization solely dedicated to investigating extreme animal cruelty cases. ARM has led high-risk undercover operations that have resulted in the shutdown of illegal slaughterhouses, animal fighting rings, and horse meat trafficking networks. Recently, they released a damning investigation into two industrial dairy farms outside of Phoenix, Arizona supplying milk to Coca-Cola’s Fairlife brand. What they uncovered was systemic animal abuse, environmental violations, and a devastating betrayal of consumer trust. While Fairlife markets its products as being sourced "humanely," ARM’s footage tells a very different story—one of suffering, abuse, and corporate complicity. Despite the evidence, this story has been largely ignored by mainstream media—likely due to Coca-Cola’s massive influence and advertising dollars.…
Extreme Uncertainty
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A tartalmat a Mike Leffer and Mike Ravenscroft, Mike Leffer, and Mike Ravenscroft biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Mike Leffer and Mike Ravenscroft, Mike Leffer, and Mike Ravenscroft vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
Extreme Uncertainty is a podcast about entrepreneurship. We interview founders from emerging tech ecosystems about what it's really like to launch a company. Founders share their lessons learned, their big wins, their crushing defeats, and the everyday struggles of running a startup.
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25 epizódok
Mind megjelölése nem lejátszottként
Manage series 3258532
A tartalmat a Mike Leffer and Mike Ravenscroft, Mike Leffer, and Mike Ravenscroft biztosítja. Az összes podcast-tartalmat, beleértve az epizódokat, grafikákat és podcast-leírásokat, közvetlenül a Mike Leffer and Mike Ravenscroft, Mike Leffer, and Mike Ravenscroft vagy a podcast platform partnere tölti fel és biztosítja. Ha úgy gondolja, hogy valaki az Ön engedélye nélkül használja fel a szerzői joggal védett művét, kövesse az itt leírt folyamatot https://hu.player.fm/legal.
Extreme Uncertainty is a podcast about entrepreneurship. We interview founders from emerging tech ecosystems about what it's really like to launch a company. Founders share their lessons learned, their big wins, their crushing defeats, and the everyday struggles of running a startup.
…
continue reading
25 epizódok
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×What do you know about face masks? Chances are, you know a lot. We all do. What most of us don’t know is face masks present a real problem for medical professionals trying to communicate with people, particularly those who are deaf or hard of hearing. When Aaron Hsu and his cofounders launched ClearMask in 2017, it was the result of cofounder Allysa Dittmar’s experiences dealing with this issue firsthand. But what started as a part-time passion project in 2017 turned into something very different in 2020—a year when the world had a very real, very immediate need for masks. Aaron shares his journey over the last four years and how ClearMask went from filling dozens of orders each month to supplying hundreds of thousands of transparent face masks to hospitals and organizations all around the world. Aaron talks about the hurdles his team faced in launching a medical device company, the importance of preparing for success, how to deal with "champagne problems," and shares his advice for founders who suddenly find themselves with more business than they can handle. We hope you enjoy this conversation with an inspiring founder. And we humbly dedicate this episode to all of our listeners who are on the front lines of the Covid crisis. We salute you and offer our sincere gratitude for all your dedication and sacrifice.…
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1 Crossover Extremaganza - Mike & Mike on the Secure Ventures Podcast 1:00:05
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And now, for something completely different. This week, Mike and Mike join Kyle McNulty on the Security Ventures Podcast. The Mikes had a wide-ranging conversation with Kyle about the challenges of raising capital as a cyber startup, how cyber venture fundraising differs from other verticals at the angel and seed stage, and what entrepreneurs should think about when they're prepping for a capital raise, and what can make a pitch really fly--or flop. We hope you enjoy the conversation, and check out the Secure Ventures podcast wherever you get your podcasts.…
What do you know about your employer-provided benefits? Chances are, not much. That's because benefits packages are complex and making an informed decision is challenging for employees. It's also a problem for insurance companies trying to underwrite policies, as well as employers seeking to give their employees the best option for themselves and their families. Akash Magoon is CTO and Co-Founder of Nayya, a platform providing personalized benefits education that's transforming the employee benefits industry. Akash shares his journey from (temporary) college dropout to CTO of a rapidly scaling technology startup. Akash grew up interested in healthcare and thought he'd become a doctor. But coming from a family of business owners, he also had an entrepreneurial streak. He dove into computer science at the University of Maryland and dropped out to found LIS Labs, a medical software startup. After exiting the company, doing a stint at AWS, and returning to finish his degree, Akash spent some time building software for insurance companies. It was then that he and his co-founder recognized the scope of the problems with employee benefits facing the industry, and they decided to do something about it. Akash gives his insights on what it takes to build a tech company, the challenges a CTO faces in trying to build scalable products, and his tips for those looking to get into the world of entrepreneurship. You can check out everything they're building at nayya.com.…
What do you know about pivoting a tech company in the midst of a global pandemic? Unfortunately, if you're an entrepreneur, you know a whole lot about this very thing. For Alex Bisignano and his team at Phosphorous, 2020 started off strong. They had a growing business delivering next-generation sequencing (NGS) genetics testing products. And then Covid happened. After watching his run rate drop to near zero in the space of a few weeks, Alex, his team, and his investors worked together to engineer a company-wide pivot. Leveraging their collective expertise in testing, Phosphorous released a critical new product to market: at-home Covid tests. Phosphorous' saliva-based Covid tests are now available to individuals and organizations, and the company went from near failure to closing out 2020 with surging revenue and a critical new business line that's helping individuals and organizations fight the Covid pandemic. Alex talks to the Mikes about the challenges the company faced this year, as well as his own personal pivot from financial services to medical technology startups. He shares his advice for entrepreneurs looking to get into the medtech space, his thoughts on what it takes to turn a tanker ship, and he tells us where the future of genetics testing is heading. You can check out what they're building at Phosphorous.com.…
What do you know about Data Care? Our guest on the podcast today is Cyndi Gula, Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures and former VP of Operations and Co-Founder of Tenable Security. She’s also at the vanguard of a movement to change cybersecurity—everything from how we think about who “belongs” in the industry to the name itself. Cyndi started her career as a ceramics engineer before jumping with into a life of entrepreneurship. Since launching and exiting Network Security Wizards, Cyndi helped launch Tenable and scaled operations from 5 to over 500 employees. Cyndi tells us about her entrepreneurial journey and the challenges she faced scaling up a successful cybersecurity company. She gives her advice for those “silentpreneurs” who work behind the scenes, what it's like to go from founding companies to investing in founders, and her take on what needs to change to make cybersecurity a more inclusive environment for women and people of color. You can check out everything Cyndi and her Co-Founder for Life are building at the Gula Tech foundation at gula.tech , where you can also check out their brand new podcast, Gula Cyber Fiction, where she and Ron interview people from within and outside the cybersecurity industry—or should we say, the Data Care Industry.…
What do you know about what keeps a Chief Information Security Officer up at night? Yanek Korff spent his career in cybersecurity as an engineer and business leader helping enterprises manage cybersecurity threats. It wasn't until he left FireEye and was considering his next move (in between playing a lot of XBox) that he and a former colleague were inspired to launch a company to help CISOs manage their cybersecurity operations. The inspiration? A tweet. (Seriously.) Yanek shares his journey and the challenges of going from an engineer to a business leader to a cybersecurity co-founder and the lessons he learned along the way. He talks about the headaches facing CISOs, where the managed security services market is going, and his advice for founders. You can check out everything Yanek and his team are building at Expel.io and you can follow them @Expel_io.…
What do you know about cryptography? For decades, researchers and data scientists in the federal government and commercial enterprises have invested millions to crack the code on homomorphic encryption—that is, how to keep data secure while it's in use. Our guest on the podcast today spent the first part of her career at the National Security Agency as one of those scientists, and she's the one who cracked the code. In 2016, Dr. Ellison Anne Williams left the NSA to found Enveil, the first commercial company to provide security for data in use. Also known as the “Holy Grail” of cryptography, Enveil's homomorphic encryption platform is a technical breakthrough and represents a fundamental leap forward from traditional privacy and security technologies. Though Ellison Anne spent her early career "collecting degrees" in math and machine learning before joining the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and eventually the NSA, she recounts how for much of her time in government she felt like a fish on a bicycle--an entrepreneur working in a massive government bureaucracy. Ellison Anne recounts her entrepreneurial beginnings running a cake business in high school, and talks about a career in government that was undergirded by a desire to work on entrepreneurial endeavors. Since founding Enveil, Ellison Anne discovered that what she learned about working the gears in a government bureaucracy helped her prepare for navigating enterprise sales cycles. She shares her advice for founders and gives us a look at what the market for privacy and data security will look like in 5-10 years time. You can check out their groundbreaking work at enveil.com and you can follow them @enveil_inc.…
What do you know about launching, scaling, and exiting a cybersecurity startup? Our guest today needs no introduction. Ron Gula is the Former CEO and Co-Founder of Tenable, a global cybersecurity company headquartered in Columbia, MD. Ron and his wife Cyndi launched Tenable in 2002 and saw it through to a successful IPO in 2018. Over that time, Ron and Cyndi emerged as leading voices in cybersecurity through their work as investors, though-leaders, and philanthropists. In addition, Ron and Cyndi have invested in dozens of cybersecurity startups, many of which have scaled and come to define the startup ecosystem in the Mid-Atlantic. Ron talks about starting out in the Air force and his journey from serving his country in cyber defense for the NSA to launching an industry-leading cybersecurity company. We discuss his post-IPO move into angel and venture investing with his wife and co-founder for life Cyndi, and he shares his advice for founders looking to launch and scale a new venture. You can check out Ron and Cyndi's new adventures in tech at Gula.tech, and you can find Ron on LinkedIn.…
What do you know about data discovery? Organizations large and small struggle to manage and make use of their data. Whereas most organizations understand their structured data assets, unstructured data poses a security risk for those companies that don't manage and secure it. It's also a potential treasure trove of insights that most companies aren't equipped to tap into. ActiveNav helps organizations discover and manage their unstructured data to make use of their data assets and minimize risk of breach and ensure proper data governance. CEO and Founder Peter Baumann launched ActiveNav in 2008 just as the issue of data in the wild started to come into the conversation, and over the last ten years he and his team have scaled the company into a key player in the data discovery market. But Peter's entrepreneurial journey didn't start with data analytics. We talk with Peter about his entrepreneurial origins making and selling wine to pay his way through college, the challenges of building and scaling a data company, moving a company's operations overseas, and his take on how entrepreneurs can overcome the "maturity bias" as a technology firm raising venture capital.…
What do you know about launching a non-profit technology venture? Our guest on the podcast today is Samier Mansur, CEO and Founder of No Limit Generation, a Washington DC based non-profit that equips refugee aid-workers with trauma informed mental health and wellness tools developed by world renowned experts. While working to support on the ground relief efforts during the Rohingya refugee crisis, Samier realized that traditional aid workers were not equipped to address the mental health needs of children in crisis zones. Having previously co-founded the successful public safety technology company LifeSafe, Samier realized this might be a problem that technology could help solve. On the podcast, Samier shares his journey from international relations major to tech founder to the world of non-profits. He gives his advice for founders looking to launch a mission-driven enterprise, how to cope with the challenges of being an entrepreneur, and how we can use technology and entrepreneurship to build a better world. You can check out all the work Samier and his team are doing at nolimitgen.org and follow them @nolimitgen.…
What do you know about device fingerprinting? When Chandler Givens and his co-founder launched TrackOff, the market for protecting privacy on the internet was taking off in a big way. As Chandler learned quickly, there's nothing like learning to surf in rough seas. Chandler talks about TrackOff's humble beginnings and subsequent growth, their punk-rock marketing tactics that garnered national media coverage, and their eventual acquisition by global cybersecurity firm Avast. He shares the challenges of scaling a startup and offers his advice to founders who are going through the grind and asking themselves, "When is the right time to exit?" Since the acquisition of TrackOff, Chandler has taken over as Director of Product Management for Consumer Privacy at Avast, and he talks about how integrating his company's product and team into the company has helped them continue to work toward identity protection at scale.…
What do you know about aquaculture? Or machine vision? How about drug design? Custom materials? It's a lot of ground to cover. Thankfully, our guest on the podcast this week is the perfect trail guide. Ken Malone is the Co-Founder of Early Charm Ventures, a Baltimore-based venture studio that turns science into business. Ken spent most of his career as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, identifying promising technologies at the university research stage and accelerating them into the market. After over a decade in the private sector and academia, Ken and his wife decided there was an opportunity in Baltimore to take early stage innovations and turn them into profitable businesses. In a world where venture capital and market-making have an outsize role in technology startups, Early Charm takes a different approach: taking good ideas and building a sustainable businesses around them. Ken shares his stories of coming up in the corporate world, how his interest in working with smart people on groundbreaking research led to founding a venture studio, and his advice for founders. You can learn more about the new ventures they're building at EarlyCharm.com. And, in the words of Ken Malone: Embrace the certainty.…
What do you know about third party vendor risk assessment? Our guest on the pod today is Ishan Girdhar, CEO and Founder of Privva. Privva is an Arlington-based provider of third-party risk assessment tools for enterprises. Ishan shares his story of jumping into the world of entrepreneurship after pitching the idea for Privva in meetings with C-Suite executives and realizing he could sell the solution with just a pitch deck. From identifying the opportunity to actually launching the business, Ishan talks about the challenges they faced hiring top talent, the allure of sales efforts that end up being whale chases, and what he'd do differently if he could start over (note to founders everywhere: invest in marketing early.) You can check out everything Ishan and his team are building at Privva.com and follow them on Twitter @PrivvaInc.…
What do you know about managing school district budgets? This week, the Mikes speak with Jess Gartner, CEO and Founder of Allovue. Allovue is a Baltimore-based Ed-Fintech company that helps school districts allocate resources and manage their budgets to ensure equitable access to education resources for all students. Jess started her career as a teacher in Baltimore City Schools. In that time, she came to experience the harsh realities facing schools and students--everything from a profound lack of resources to an unequal distribution of opportunities. Jess decided to leave teaching and build a solution that could start to help school districts solve some of the challenges managing their finances to serve their students more effectively. We talk to Jess about how she found her footing as a first-time CEO and how the skills she built in the classroom translated into her role as a founder and a corporate leader. We also talk about the challenges facing women in tech and in particular female CEOs trying to raise capital. Jess gives her advice to founders and reminds us that it's up to all of us in the tech community to work to help level the playing field for entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds.…
What do you know about communicating with an incarcerated loved one? For millions of Americans, this problem is all too familiar. And it’s a problem our guest on the podcast today experienced firsthand. Marcus Bullock is the CEO and Founder of Flikshop, a company that helps people communicate and maintain connections with their incarcerated friends and family members. Marcus shares his personal journey from being incarcerated at the age of 15 to founding a company that has grown to serve people at over 2500 prisons nationwide. He offers his advice to founders on everything from building a network to raising capital to executing on your vision. It's the kind of story you don't often hear in the world of tech, and one we hope you enjoy. FlikShop has been featured in the Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, NPR, and dozens of other national media outlets. Marcus has given TED Talks, he was selected as one of The Roots’ 2019 100 Most Influential African Americans in the US, he is a member of the Justice Policy Institute’s Board of Directors, Advisory Board Member of Princeton University’s Prison Teaching Initiative, and is an Advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. You can check out the important work Marcus and his team are doing at Flikshop.com and you can follow them on Twitter and on Instagram @flikshop.…
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