SpotClub: Bringing Innovators Together
SpotClub brings innovative minds to light through its inclusive podcast. Whether you are a published teenager in Mexico, a researcher in Antarctica, a startup founder in Los Angeles, or the CEO of a public company, SpotClub does not discriminate against any background. The only requirement is pure innovation.
Episodes
18 episodes
AI will upend much more than we can imagine, with Luca Zambello
On today's episode, we had a conversation with Luca Zambello, the co-founder and CEO of Jurny. Jurny is revolutionizing the hospitality industry with AI and automation, allowing property owners such as Airbnb and...
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Episode 18
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52:33
Fusion, photonics, and neuroscience—facing the frontiers with Arkady Kulik
This week, we're sharing a conversation with Arkady Kulik, founder and general partner of rpv global, a venture fund that invests in early stage deep tech companies. Kulik's story is an impressive tapestry of ambition and hard work. Before rpv,...
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Episode 17
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49:02
Language learning and AI—The future of learning with James Sharp
This week, we're sharing a conversation we had with James Sharp, co-founder and CEO of Umi. Umi is a company that teaches language through immersive multimedia content such as movies and TV shows. In this episod...
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Episode 16
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57:06
The end of the single-family home's reign
This week, we had a discussion with James Stallworth, co-founder and CEO of Brownstone. Brownstone is making housing affordable with its pods, a new form of housing on par with the single-family home, hote...
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Episode 15
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57:05
Mark Stephenson—The student shooting rockets into space 🚀
In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Mark Stephenson of USC's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. Originally recorded October 2021, this episode explores the practical challenges this young rocket scientist and his team face when building ...
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Episode 14
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56:23
How 3D printing is disrupting the dental world
In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Amir Mansouri, CEO and co-founder of SprintRay. SprintRay is disrupting the dental industry through the creation of a digital dental workflow. It wasn’t long ago when Amir met his co-founders at U...
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Episode 13
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44:02
Tyler Menezes—Teaching Over 50,000 Students To Program
This SpotClub Live we featured Tyler Menezes. Tyler is currently the Executive Director at CodeDay, a non-profit that is helping students find their place in technology. Tyler has recently received a notable mention on
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Episode 12
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56:53
Akash Chauhan—The youngest three-time Elon Musk employee (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company)
This SpotClub Live we featured Akash Chauhan, a three-time Elon Musk employee, a passionate builder, and a driven engineer. At a young age, Akash was tinkering with everything and anything he could get his hands on. That turned into a career as...
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Episode 11
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1:01:28
How Facebook was Complicit in War
This SpotClub Live we featured Marian Thomas Semerdjian, an expert in adtech, marketing, data analysis, and sales/lead production. Through working at New Line Cinema, Yahoo, Buzzfeed, and Zynga, Marian has learned all about data, including the ...
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Episode 10
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1:02:48
Public Service: From the Military to the Boardroom
Brian Femminella founded SoundMind after witnessing friends in the military and other communities experience trauma, anxiety, and mental illnesses. SoundMind is an audio therapy application that utilizes psychologically proven soothing sounds, ...
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Episode 9
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43:21
Exploring the limits of reality while in virtual reality
Taron Lizagub is the founder of Knoxlabs, a virtual reality marketspace. In this SpotClub Live, we experienced what it was like to record and attend a meeting in VR using his virtual office app NokNok. Taron shares his belief that the future of...
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Episode 8
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44:33
The Story of Clothing—Bringing Your Clothes To Life
Stedman Cleveland, an ex Product Manager at Mopro, Playboy Enterprises, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and FreshRealm is creating a new sustainable model for the repurposing and reusing of clothing items via his company, Aura. The waste in the fash...
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Episode 7
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38:01
Ara Ghougassian on the future of language, culture, and how we fundamentally interact with the world
As the capabilities of software advance, the methods to learn languages have changed and will change. Some game changers have already been created, for example Duolingo, which recently had its IPO. Ara Ghougassian, co-founder of Fluent, discuss...
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Episode 6
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26:03
Author, Founder, and World Traveler — Meet Caitlyn Lubas, who started a company, wrote a book, and travelled the world, all before the age of 23.
Caitlyn Lubas, an ex-Instagram employee and NYU graduate, left her Silicon Valley job to pursue her life as a digital nomad and travel startup founder. Caitlyn has a passion to empower anyone to travel to new places and experience these areas a...
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Episode 4
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48:55
Taking Out LinkedIn — Justin Jia and Esteban Alvarado, Founders of Project Unicorn
Justin and Esteban are the founders of Project Unicorn. On a personal level they value sincerity, handwork, and are pushing to build the next unicorn. Project Unicorn is on a mission to create an exclusive social platform for ambitious startup ...
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Episode 3
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49:28
The Uber of Laundry, How One StartUp is Going to Change the Way You Do Laundry and Use Your Closet?
Founder Reid Moncada discusses how Fitted Laundry is creating a laundry service business through a scalable Uber style model, utilizing existing laundromats and contracted employees. However, this business will not only be a full laundry servic...
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Episode 3
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46:04
How the VC World Will Tumble Down — Founder Mat Sherman is Going to Put Venture Capitals on the Sidelines Through SeedScout.
This week on the program, a conversation with SeedScout founder Mat Sherman. Mat started his journey as a YouTuber, quickly pivoting to a startup founder at PubLoft, and is now working on a vision to reimagine the modern day pre-seed and seed i...
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Episode 2
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