Dival and I discuss what it will take to invent the future, the promise of hardtech startups, and the need for tech optimism.Dival Banerjee is the founder of Vuecason, a startup developing a way to 3D print metal like plastic. He attended the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in computer engineering and participated in their Hyperloop team. He is also a member of the infamous genzmafia.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

NASJAQ and I talk about creating for yourself, building something no one else can, and how the internet enables him to create leverage.NASJAQ has more than 800K Tiktok followers at the time of this writing. He posts videos about deeptech companies and projects and reinvests the money he earns into moonshot companies.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Praneet Kedari and I discuss why we want to work at startups, understanding what gets you in flow, and designing your life around what you care about.Praneet is a second-year CS major at Georgia Tech. He is the Director of Startup Exchange, a student entrepreneur community at Georgia Tech.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Jerry Feng and I talk about why we dislike the term "content creator," the emerging ecosystem powering the passion economy, and the remote work revolution.Jerry Feng a University of Southern California alumnus and an OnDeck Writer fellow. Right now, he is the Head of Marketing at Tonebase. He writes a wonderful newsletter on Substack and rumor has it that he's building a music edtech startup.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Kiran Cherukuri and I discuss the creator economy, what a creator truly is, and the emerging ecosystem to support them.Kiran is a Masters Student at the University of Pennsylvania studying artificial intelligence and machine learning. Before he returned to school, he was a Product Engineer at Tilda, focusing on automating medical research.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Alex Masmej and I discuss the future of social media, how power is escaping from financial, media, and technological institutions, and how we can leverage the blockchain to create communities from the bottom-up.Alex Masmej raised $20K when he tokenized himself, letting people invest in his future earnings and granting them control over his life. Alex is the founder of Showtime, a social platform for digital items backed by cryptocurrency.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Andrew Roberts and I discuss identifying how you can use your unique gifts to push the world forward, how difficult it is to find good career advice, and following non-traditional paths.Andrew Roberts was the first employee and is a Software Engineer at Culdesac, a post-car real estate development startup. He is also a recipient of the Flinn Scholarship, which is how he met Culdesac's CEO, Ryan Johnson.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Nikolas Huebecker and I discuss how we can warp our realities by living intentionally, how genzmafia got started, and how he hacked high school.Nikolas is the founder at REDACTED. In high school he was a Program Manager at CodeDay, a worldwide app-making event. He also interned at Shrug Capital, where he shaped Gen Z products.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Daniel Vassallo and I discuss how to structure your life around what you care about, getting comfortable with uncertainty, and what it means to spend time well.Daniel Vassallo left his $500K per year job at Amazon to work for himself. He's "quarter-time" at Gumroad, where he sold Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience and The Good Parts of AWS. Right now, he's building Userbase, a way for developers to add user authentication to static sites.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Jasman Singh and I discuss the stigma around gap years, how to understand what you truly want, and how to take control of your education.Jasman is a Public Policy and International Affairs major at Princeton University who's on a gap year. Right now, he's a product intern at Nabis and an investment partner at the Dorm Room Fund.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Leo and I discuss how power is moving from institutions to individuals, how we can bring about that change on the internet, and understanding the role of technology in our lives.Leo is a self-described Polymath Timelord Economist. He is the creator of DeFiNet, a social media platform that pays you to use it.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Garrett and I discuss what it means to become a developer, what it's like working at a startup versus a big company, and how we can use technology to take control of our lives.Garrett is a lead software engineer at Kernel, a company that creates interfaces to understand brain data. Before he worked at a photo-sharing startup called Aircam, whose CEO was his former manager at Apple.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Rahul and I discuss how exciting it is to be alive at this time, understanding what you want your impact to be, and how to create your own luck.Rahul Rana is a sophomore at Rutgers Business school. He is the author of Making Moonshots, a deep dive into mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. Rahul is also an associate intern at Lux Capital, where he offers insights on deeptech investing. Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Anush Mittal and I discuss what it's like to be a student founder, the importance of a community of builders, and bringing equity to student venture capital.Anush is the founder of Memois, a platform for making and browsing memes. He's currently working on Circle, artificial intelligence shapes that people can talk to.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Mike Baxter and I discuss freedom-first entrepreneurship, leveraging the internet to escape academia, and what it's like to work in a high-growth VC-backed business.Mike Baxter is the author of “The Strategy Manual: A step-by-step guide to the transformational change of anything." He is also the director of Goal Atlas, a consultancy group helping organizations transform faster and more effectively.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Mubashar Iqbal and I discuss how to use projects as forcing functions for learning to code, how to design your work around your life instead of the other way around, and the joy of creation.Mubashar (or Mubs) is a prolific maker. He created a website to monitor how many people voted, share podcast cover art, and to identify the occupations that are most at-risk from Covid-19. He documents his process at One Hour Sass. Currently, he is building Founderpath, a vehicle for Sass businesses to get access to capital.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Courtland Allen and I discuss the what it means to optimize your life for freedom, how the internet is enabling people to design their lifestyles around what they care about, and the value of forcing functions.Courtland is a MIT graduate, Y Combinator alum, full-stack web developer, and professional designer. He is the founder of Indie Hackers, an online community of people seeking financial and creative freedom.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Wade and I discuss how it feels to go viral, online communities, and how Gen Z can bring opportunity to underserved areas.Wade is a second-year CS and Finance major at Indiana University. He is the creator of CovIntern, a remote internship aggregator that was featured in Morning Brew, Marketwatch, Boston.com, and many others. He is also the founder of UndercoverVC, a VC scout network bringing equity to venture capital.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Sudarshan Sridharan and I discuss breaking into tech, how to build and scale a team, and the future of media and technology.Sudarshan is the founder of FION, a wildfire prevention startup. He is also the creator of the beloved genzmafia, an online community of builders.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts

Samay and I discuss the power of creation, the importance of learning in public, and the value of becoming an iterator. Samay is a second-year CS major at the University of Michigan. He is the founder of Enlight, a community of people learning to code through projects, and a venture partner at Contrary Capital.Listen on Apple | Spotify | Google | Overcast | PocketCasts