27 | Ilya Zaritskiy built a PE firm from credit cards
Ilya Zaritskiy arrived in Los Angeles as a refugee from Ukraine. He was a child, in middle school, perhaps. There were tanks on the streets in LA – th...
Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla
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Life of the Mind with Akshay Birla is for the intellectually curious who are looking beyond their own professional field to engage with and learn from others who are thinking deeply, reflecting sincerely, and engaging deliberately. Guests span careers in the military, public service, business, finance, academia, and politics.
25 | Rohit Chopra and the history of Indian media
Rohit Chopra is the co-host of the podcast India Explained and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University. We talk about journalism in India and it...
24 | Jim Tanner
Jim Tanner founded Just Good Advice with the goal of providing sound financial advice to ordinary people. In the story that takes him to Just Good Adv...
23 | Adam Greenberg on the Peace Corps, Zambia, and Living
Adam Greenberg shares his journey to become a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia via AmeriCorps and other random travel. For someone so young, he’s certa...
22 | Jon Peeples on Psychiatry, Public Health, and Writing
Dr Jon Peeples takes us behind the scenes into the world of psychiatry for a fascinating conversation around mental health, being a smarter consumer o...
21 | Brian Hart Explains Homelessness in America
Brian Hart is the co-founder of Lighthouse DC, a non-profit that helps people transitioning from homelessness in turning empty spaces into homes that ...
Episode 20 | Tova Levin on Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Tova Levin has worked closely with two of the most prominent economists of our generation – Steven Levitt and John List – serving as Levitt’s Chief of...
Episode 19 | Katy Dickinson on Technology, Mentoring, and Religion
Katy Dickinson has been around the tech-block. Hired by Eric Schmidt at Sun Microsystems, she literally wrote the book on the software development lif...
Episode 18 | Phill Keene on Building Sales Teams
Phill Keene builds insides-sales organizations for companies that are selling to other companies (“B2B”). We jam about what it takes to build a succes...
Episode 17 | Avi Patchava on India’s Future with Artificial Intelligence
I stumbled upon Avi Patchava because of his recent post, “The 5 unexpected reasons why Indians make it as CEOs of global companies,” and I was surpris...