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Ep. 87: Exhibiting Diverse Talent with Reetu Gupta

Ep. 87: Exhibiting Diverse Talent with Reetu Gupta

This week we are thrilled to feature Reetu Gupta on our podcast.

Reetu Gupta is the CEO and the Co-founder of Cirkled In, an award-winning, 21st-century recruitment platform for Kindergarten – College students to exhibit themselves in the best possible way and increase their success rate for all their applications – from college to jobs, internships, and scholarships. Before Cirkled In, Reetu spent 20 years in corporate America, from startups to Fortune 50 companies. Reetu earned her MBA (Valedictorian) in Technology Management from Foster School of Business at UW and MS and BS from NIT, India.

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about Exhibiting Diverse Talent.

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Ep. 86: Exponential Learning with Tevah El Emmet

Ep. 86: Exponential Learning with Tevah El Emmet

This week we are thrilled to feature Tevah El Emmet “The Idea Man” on our podcast.

Tevah El Emmet is the Founder and CEO of Nspired Media, a platform that supports companies to optimize their social impact then uses that to market their business and increase profits. He also sits on the global advertising team at Facebook where he has been recognized by company VPs for being a founding team member of Facebook Elevate, Facebook’s global company program to train millions of black and Latinx-owned small businesses in marketing. Tevah has also advised US Congress on using economic policy to reverse the negative effects of inequalities faced by minority-owned businesses. He’s also spoken at Pixar, Stanford, Facebook, Yelp, and the Federal Reserve.

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about education and exponential learning.

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Ep. 85: Building the Underlying Foundation with Anant Bhardwaj

Ep. 85: Building the Underlying Foundation with Anant Bhardwaj

This week we are thrilled to feature Anant Bhardwaj on our podcast.

Anant Bhardwaj is the Founder and CEO of Instabase, the horizontal application platform that employs deep learning to solve unstructured data problems. It has reimagined how businesses build, run and share software applications, changing how they operate. Under Anant’s leadership, Instabase raised $130 million in funding and reached unicorn status just four years after launching in 2015.

While working on his Ph.D. at MIT, Anant realized businesses needed one horizontal platform where enterprise applications could be easily created and used. To solve this, he built a platform, now Instabase, that enterprises such as Standard Chartered began to test building applications on. Today, Bhardwaj’s Instabase is a trusted platform used by top financial and insurance companies, including customers like NatWest, Standard Chartered, and Gusto to automate complex business processes from processing the largest volume of paycheck protection loans in the country to automating the entire insurance claims process.

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about building the underlying foundation.

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Ep. 84: Balancing Technology and Humanity with Archer Chiang

Ep. 84: Balancing Technology and Humanity with Archer Chiang

This week we are thrilled to feature Archer Chiang on our podcast.

Archer Chiang is the Founder and CEO of Giftpack. He is an entrepreneur, a product designer, and a software engineer. He has also been a serial entrepreneur with four companies across the globe (US, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea) since he was 19. A drop-out from Stanford University (Computer Science Master), graduated from Academy of Art University (New Media MFA), and National Sun Yet-sen University (Computer Science BA) in Taiwan. In the past five years, he has fixated on the digitalization of the gifting economy to change and impact the way people do gifting.

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about balancing technology and humanity.

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Ep. 83: Prioritizing Kindness with Evie Smith Hatmaker

Ep. 83: Prioritizing Kindness with Evie Smith Hatmaker

This week we are thrilled to feature Evie Smith Hatmaker on our podcast.

Evie Smith Hatmaker is the Founder and CEO of Rebellious PR. After almost 10 years working with startups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley, she started Rebellious PR in 2016 to pursue her vision of elevating PR industry standards through better work, better agency culture, and a focus on cultural competency. She has repeatedly infiltrated the cultural zeitgeist with her forward-thinking clients whether fighting sex tech censorship, uplifting and amplifying underrepresented founders and companies, or landing media opportunities in nearly every major media outlet. In 5 years, she has built and scaled Rebellious from independent practice to a million-dollar agency. 

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about prioritizing kindness.

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Ep. 82: Leverage to Create Impressions with Jeff Hu

Ep. 82: Leverage to Create Impressions with Jeff Hu

This week we are thrilled to feature Jeff Hu on our podcast.

Jeff Hu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Turing Chain, the platform helping schools issue e-certificates on the blockchain, creating a paperless and reliable reality. He was also the first invited scholar at Berkeley Blockchain X-Lab, and global fellow at Clinton Foundation. He previously worked as Head of Blockchain in a New York media company and NLP consultant at J.P. Morgan. Jeff Hu has published three blockchain papers in ACM, IEEE, and international journal CPE and was awarded the Best Paper in CryBlock’18, Germany. In addition, he was the winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 HK, the South Korea FinTech UpTown Competition 2018, ETNet E-commerce Competition 2019 HK, and 20+ international awards.

Tune into this week’s episode to learn more about taking the first step.

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