Forward Thinking Founders (Mat Sherman)

 Marin Smiljanic is the founder of Omnisearch. They make it seamless for users to search through all data regardless of file type: audio and video, documents, presentations, images, you name it!

Sherif is the founder of Reshift Security. Reshift makes shifting security left seamless with security bug detection and remediation at compile time.

Michaela Brezinova & Adithya Sireesh are the cofounders of Knovo. They are building an online community platform for anyone to create and share learning paths for others to get guidance on where to begin looking and how to approach learning various topics.

Listen To This Episode if

• You are a lifelong learner
• You like curating content
• You want to hear the big vision for Knovo

About this episode: Alex is the co-founder of MarkUp. MarkUp allows you to turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback and collaboration. Streamline your feedback with a quicker, easier, and clearer process.

Listen to this episode if you are:
-Looking for feedback on your product
- Curious to learn about Intrapreneurship
- Want to know ho Alex knows what to work on every day
-  Curious how to stay focused when there are 100 different paths you could go down as a CEO
- Curious about how Alex thinks about fundraising.
- And tons more!

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Nick Vantzos is the founder of LeagueDay. LeagueDay is bringing the audio experience to gaming to a new level with a live Esports radio with content gamers need and want.

Swarup Nanda & Preeti Chib are the cofounders of Pencil. Pencil is the perfect platform to read, write and get your story discovered by the power of community

Preeti Suri is the founder of AdventureTripr. Explore and book extraordinary experiences with local guides directly.

Devika Thapar is the cofounder of Wilbe. Wilbe is the home for entrepreneurial scientists. Wilbe educates, supports and invests in scientists solving the realest problems at scale: climate, health and security.

In this episode, we're talking to Austin Petersmith, founder of Capiche. In this episode, we talk about:

• What is Capiche?
• How does a user interact with Capiche?
• Is getting pricing transparency the main goal with Capiche?
• Where did this idea come from?
• What's the big vision for Capiche?
• What would happen if prices for software companies were compared like Amazon compares prices?
• What tech trends interest you right now?
• What have you learned over your career so far?
• Any advice for first-time founders?
• How can our community help you?

Join the Forward Thinking Founders community via our email list here. If you are enjoying the podcast, please help support it by buying me a coffee. It helps the show run and keeps me focused on finding and interviewing great guests.

In this episode, you get to overhear a real founder-investor conversation. Mariam El Sheikha and Adin Roemer, cofounders of NeXST Rehab, are talking to Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund for the first time, trying to get a 2nd meeting from her. None of this is staged, so I hope you learn a lot from this episode. This episode is perfect for:

Founders wanting to understand what actually happens in an investor conversation.
Founders wanting to know what types of questions an investor might ask in a first meeting
How a preseed investor thinks about first meetings

Hope you enjoy this edition of Partner Mondays on Forward Thinking Founders.

Donald Hawkins is the founder of Tenth. Tenth is building a digital bank designed to ERASE the wealth gap for Black Americans through legit financial education.

Thanks to OmniPanel for sponsoring this episode of Forward Thinking Founders!
OmniPanel is an analytics platform that surfaces key user insights from your customer support tickets so you can identify when, where, and how user friction impacts your retention and profitability. Try OmniPanel for yourself here. 

Martin Sosic is the cofounder of Wasp. Wasp is a simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code.

Zécca Lehn a GP at Responsibly Ventures. Their mission is to back remarkable teams focused on Venture Scale Positive Impacts.

Benjamin is the founder and CEO of Wand. Wand connects vetted, background checked cleaning professionals to consumers through their secure, end-to-end platform

Graham Atlee is the founder of Triton. The Triton AR Headset is a 3D printed headset that uses off the shelf hardware to deliver immersive augmented reality.

Marko Hozjan is the cofounder of Taia. With Taia, self-translate your documents up to 3x faster or simply outsource them to their highly skilled team of professional translators.

Armando is the Cofounder and CEO of Breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs allow for the quick creation and iteration of lead scoring by you. Identify, deliver and close on the best leads… No SDR Army required.

Conor Gleeson is on the founding team of Sacra. Sacra gets you the data and research you need to be a better private markets investor.

This is a new segment of the show called Sunday Roundup. Every Sunday, we will publish an episode with different cohosts where Mat and whoever is joining him that day discuss current happenings in tech and startups. This is meant to be a more casual segment, as opposed to The founder interviews (FI's). Today's guest is Adam Mcbride, an expert on Costa Rica and Twitter friend of Mat.

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Sunday roundups are a paid part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and business content. You will get a sample of today's Sunday Roundup, but if you want the whole episode, plus every segment on the network, like Partner Mondays, Early Bets, and others, then become a paid subscriber today. By the way, if you want to be featured as a guest on the Sunday Roundup, you can come on! Subscribe, then email me and we can make it happen.

This is a segment of Partner Mondays, where I talk to venture capitalists about what it's like on the other side of the table. Today, we're talking to Leo Polovets, a GP at Susa Ventures

Oscar Pedroso is the co-founder of Thimble. Thimble teaches kids STEM skills through weekly 1-hr classes taught by tech professionals. Kits are shipped every 3 months.

About this episode:
Mishka is the founder of thiscodeWorks. thiscodeWorks is the Pinterest of code snippets.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
-  Code snippets
- International startup scene
- Pioneer and YC's signal
- Mercenaries and missionaries
- Credentials of the 21st century
- And tons more!

Cool Product to check out:
Are you playing Pioneer yet? It's a remote accelerator started by former YC partner, Daniel Gross. Join here. 

 Muath Juady & Kinana Joudeh are the cofounders of DyNotify. DyNotify allows you to track & receive alerts on price changes & availability for any product or service.

About this episode: Alexander Shevchenko is the founder of Safewatch. For only $5/month per camera you can set up alerts for any kind of object, and get 14 days of footage backup.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Want to know what SafeWatch is
• Are curious to hear this unique approach to home security
• Want to know how Alexander got into this type of business.
• Are a homeowner
• Are interested in security companies
• Want to hear the big vision for Safewatch

More Info:
Want to come on the podcast? Follow me and hit me up on Twitter, I'd love to learn about what you're working on.

About this episode: Derek Chiang is the Cofounder of  Zelos. Zelos enables you to collect points by finishing in-game missions and trade them for new games or in-game currency.

Listen to this episode if you:

•  Are interesting in gaming or esports
• Want to know the future of social networks
• Are curious why Derek started this
• Want to know how Zelos works
• Are wondering what future trends  Derek is betting on for this to be a big company
• Want to hear the big vision for Zelos!

More Info:
Want to come on the podcast? Follow me and hit me up on Twitter, I'd love to learn about what you're working on.

About this episode: Matt is the founder of Visos. Visos is building the first VR headset designer for healthcare.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are interesting in the state of VR
• Want to know what future VR headsets will look like
• Wonder what big players will enter the VR market and if Facebook can fend them off
• Are curious on Matt's thoughts on consumer VR
• Want to know how he feels about AR vs. VR.
• Want to hear the big vision for Visos

More Info:
Want to come on the podcast? Follow me and hit me up on Twitter, I'd love to learn about what you're working on.

Amelia Lin is the founder of Saga. Saga is building a new kind of social app that helps families save life stories of loved ones in their voice—it's like getting a podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories.

Thanks to Edition for sponsoring this episode of Forward Thinking Founders!
Running a community takes a ton of different tools, which all use different systems and cost different amounts. Edition is the #1 product for startups to use to run their community, with one simple tool. Simply put, Edition is the ultimate community platform. Try it for 30% off here.

Martin Lien is the cofounder of Respond Flow. Respond Flow enables you to automatically send mass personalized text messages to grow your business and connect with your loyal customers.

Thanks to Edition for sponsoring this episode of Forward Thinking Founders!
Running a community takes a ton of different tools, which all use different systems and cost different amounts. Edition is the #1 product for startups to use to run their community, with one simple tool. Simply put, Edition is the ultimate community platform. Try it for 30% off here.

Andrew Hutton is the founder of Day One. Day One provides you with the connections, education, support, and confidence to supercharge your path forward as an entrepreneur.

Jake Gafner is the founder of Wayward. Track and Share your Adventures. Wayward is part of Lost Travel, a company that organizes one-of-a-kind events and builds software to help people share their adventures.

Alejandro Leon is the cofounder of Spline. Spline enables you to create 3D web experiences without coding. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results. 

About this episode: Galen Wolfe-Pauly is the cofounder of Urbit .Urbit is a clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are curious about what Urbit is
• Want to know why Galen wanted to start working on Urbit
• Are curious who Urbit is built for
• Want to know how Galen knows what to work on every day
• Want to hear the big vision for Urbit

This episode is on the Forward Thinking Media network
Founder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!

About this episode: Turner Bohlen is the cofounder of Beagle Learning. Beagle measures the quality of ideas teams choose to focus on and automatically maps thinking to allow for iteration on past work.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Have a lot of different tasks you could work on
• Want ta more systematized way to decided what to work on 
• Are curious about how he decided to work on Beagle
• Are curious to know what Turner spends his time on
• Want to hear the big vision for Beagle learning

Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!
Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!

More Info:
Founder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!

Yevgen Kotukh & Daniil Tretiakov are the cofounders of UnlinkVR. UnlinkVR enables Wireless data transmission solution for VR sets based on laser radiation.

Mark Otero is the founder of Azra Games. Azra Games is recapturing the childhood thrill of storytelling with your entire toy box for modern AAA gaming. We are dedicated to one genre, role-playing games, and led by veteran designer Mark Otero (Zero-to-one director of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, EA’s most successful mobile game of all time, with $1.5B lifetime revenue). 

Moe Salih is the cofounder of Hypercharts. Hypercharts is building clear and simple fundamental financials and business metrics of public companies.

Madison Savilow is the founder of Oco. Oco provides low-carbon material solutions to consumer product brands and helps them take steps towards reaching their ambitious, world-saving climate goals.

Ryan Horrigan is a founder of Artie. With Artie, discover games from your favorite celebrities, athletes, music artists, and influencers. 

Anu is the cofounder of Ananya Health. Ananya Health makes affordable, appropriate technologies to address the biggest issues in global public health.

Tyler Beaty is the cofounder of Sero. Sero is building connected devices to treat the millions of people suffering from PTSD.

In this conversation, Mat Sherman interviews Danny, the founder and CEO of Nav Robotics, about the innovative solutions his company is developing in the realm of autonomous transportation. They discuss the challenges and opportunities in creating self-driving e-bikes and golf carts, the vision for urban mobility, and the implications of moving operations to Arizona. Danny shares insights into the technology behind autonomous vehicles, the importance of compute power, and the future of learning in the tech space. In this conversation, Danny discusses the development of autonomous golf carts and the future of self-driving technology. He shares insights on the challenges of creating a viable product, the importance of safety and reliability, and the strategies for entering the market. The discussion also touches on the implications of autonomous vehicles on insurance and driving regulations, as well as the user experience in booking rides. Danny emphasizes the need for a regulatory-first approach and the potential for innovation in transportation.

Diego Rojas is the cofounder of Finantier. Finantier allows startups to build the next big thing leveraging their Open Finance Infrastructure across Southeast Asia

Stedman Cleveland is the founder of Aura. Aura is shaping a safe and sustainable future with a more humanized shopping experience.

About this episode: Chris is the creator of  Jetboost. Jetboost enables real-time search, dynamic filtering, and more for Webflow — without writing code

Listen to this episode if you are:
- A fan of no code
- A power user of Webflow
- Looking for more advanced workflows for your Webflow stack
- Wondering about Chris's take on makers raising capital vs. bootstrapping
- Want to know why Chris picked on this idea to work on
- Curious about the big vision for Jetboost
- And tons more!

Extra Info
Want to come on the podcast? Follow me and hit me up on Twitter, I'd love to learn about what you're working on.

Cory Cooper is the founder of Town. With Town experience the convenience of shopping locally and contribute to your community. 

Matt Mireles is the founder of Oasis. Oasis allows you to videochat through an avatar that looks totally real. Be your alter ego or your ideal self.

About this episode: Jean-Luc Martineau & Ashley Belleau-Dame are the cofounders of Bagsort. Bagsort allows you to drop off your bags and belongings in certified shops & hotel for just $5.95/day/item.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are curious about how Bagsort works 
• Want to know how they get shops to sign up with Bagsort
• Want to know how they got the idea for this company?
• Are curious about how they are adapting for COVID-19?
• Want to hear the big vision for Bagsort

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Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link. 

Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.

Naseer Sathyala & Mathew Samuel are the cofounder of SundayGrids. Instead of panels on your roof, you can own portions of it that are hosted elsewhere.

Listen to this podcast if 

• You are interested in innovative solar companies
• Are curious to hear about the origin story for Sunday Grids
• You want to know their big vision for solar

About this episode:  Nicholas and Christopher are the founders of WithClutch. WithClutch helps you refinance your car, allowing you to get cash or lower your payments today! Check out their loan refinance calculator.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are intersted in learning more about the refinancing business
• Want to know why refinancing homes is more common than refinancing your automobile
• Want to know how they landed on the idea of With Clutch
• Are curious how the process of refinancing a car is so simple
• Want to hear the big vision for With Clutch!

Introducing our June sponsor: Turing!
Turing helps you find a remote development team in a fraction of the time it would take if you did it yourself. Having just raised a seed round from the likes of Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and many prolific angels, Turing is aiming to help the world build engineering teams as strong as Facebook's or Google's, from anywhere in the world. If you want to try it out for 2 weeks, risk-free, then check out their website here. Thanks to Turing for being a sponsor of the show!
More Info on Forward Thinking Media
Founder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!

About this episode:
Landon is the cofounder of Wren. Live carbon neutral with Wren. Offset your carbon footprint through a monthly subscription.

Listen to this episode if:
- You are interested in saving the environment from climate change
- Want to know how he came up the idea
- Are curious how they can offset their carbon footprint
- How do you spread the word about Wren?
- Are wondering about the science of climate change
- Want to hear the vision for Wren
- And tons more!

Welcome to Early Bets: This is a segment on the show called "Early Bets". I find young ambitious people who haven't found their startup yet, but might be starting a company soon. If you are an investor or journalist, these are the episodes to watch to meet young founders to support before they are on the radar.

About Alexis: Alexis is a venture partner at Contrary Capital.

Jürgen Pretsch is the founder cofounder of Relocate. Relocate is the first independent marketplace for global migration. Navigate the complex web of immigration with a north star and compass.

Thanks to Recruit.so for sponsoring this podcast. If you're having a hard time hiring developers, you need to check out Recruit.so.

In this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, we have Dominique Soucy,  founder of PürInstinct. PürInstinct is a sport that mixes basketball, rugby, football, soccer without contact for a super-fast game. The episode was taped live on FTFM in Forward Thinking City Studios.

It was great talking with Jijo Sunny,  Founder of Buy Me A Coffee, as we talk about the creator economy.  His platform helps creators get paid for their work. Check out my own Buy Me A Coffee page here. 

In this episode, we dive into:

• What is Buy Me A Coffee?
• What did you feel the need to build Buy Me A Coffee?
• Can you break down different features on your platform?
• Is a "coffee" a unit in the website? if so, what does a "coffee" equal?
• What are some of your favorite examples of creator pages?
• Does Buy Me a Coffee replace the sponsorship model? 
• Why is everyone thinking about creators now? What happened?
• What do you think of the no-code movement?
• What tips do you have for a new creator who joins Buy Me A Coffee?
• How do rewards work on Buy Me A Coffee? 
• What's the big vision for Buy Me A Coffee?
• How do you think about picking a winning market?

Hope you enjoyed today's pod! See you tomorrow.

If you are enjoying the podcast, please help support it by buying me a coffee. It helps the show run and keeps me focused on finding and interviewing great guests.

Liz is the cofounder and CEO of Soona. Soona provides pro photo and video shoots in 3 easy steps for Ecommerce brands.

Sun Sachs is the founder of Rewire Fitness. Rewire is a mental fitness platform that helps athletes reach their full potential and avoid burnout by providing tools that improve mindset, readiness and resilience

About this episode:  Alyssa Atkins is the founder of Lilia. Lilia is everything you need to make an informed decision about freezing your eggs.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Have considered freezing your eggs but weren't sure how to navigate 
• Want to know the origin story behind Lilia 
• Are curious why Alyssa decided to go with an education-first approach 
• Want to know how she says productive and why she loves naps
• Want to hear the big vision for Lilia!

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Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.

Paul Gross is the cofounder of Remora. Their device captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and greenhouses, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments.

About this episode: Meha is the founder and CEO of Silk + Sonder. They make planning, reflecting, and achieving easy and fun by bringing a new pen to paper experience every month.

Listen to this episode if you are:

• What is journaling?
• How do you convince people who don't value the idea of journaling
• Where did you get the inspiration from for journal from?
• Interested in how they raised money as a journaling platform
• Wondering what gap she saw in the market 
• How to raise a seed round
• How does she connect journal users and her online community
• Interested in the big vision for Silk + Sonder
• And tons more!

More Info:
Want to come on the podcast? Follow me and hit me up on Twitter, I'd love to learn about what you're working on.

Michel Bock is the creator behind Selfdriving.fyi. Selfdriving.fyi is the most comprehensive database of companies working on autonomous vehicles and related technologies.

Listen to this podcast if

• You like self-driving cars or want to learn more about them
• You want to work in the self-driving car industry
• You want to know why Michael is so interested in self driving cars

Thank you Jobsurv for sponsoring this episode of Forward Thinking Founders!
Companies want to keep their employees happy, fulfilled, and growing professionally. Jobsurv helps founders and CEOs get a better read on their team culture, and helps grow strong and mission-driven organizations.  Startups and companies of all sizes, check out Jobsurv here to use for your team.

If you're a job seeker, take Jobsurv's self-assessment to help you understand what type of startup culture you fit into. Take the free assessment right here.

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Valentin is the cofounder of Monthly. Monthly allows anyone to learn anything in a month. Take immersive, month-long classes with the world’s best instructors and master a craft in 30 days.

Listen to this episode if you:
- Are into #EdTech
- Like learning new things
- Have once been users of EdX or Udemy
- Want to know what the learning experience is like inside of Monthly
- Want to hear about how Monthly thinks about distribution
- Are interested in how they think about courses to add in
- Want to hear the vision for Monthly

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If you're liking the content on FTF, I would highly encourage you to become an angel investor for $10/mo. Angel investors get:

• Access to all premium content
• Can join our Facebook group and submit questions for each guest
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• Get access to the recordings days (and sometimes weeks) before the public does
• And more stuff I haven't thought ofIf this interests you at all,

If this interests you at all, you can learn more here. I hope to have your support :)

Jesse Meek is the founder of CodeLingo. Codelingo is helping teams share links for them to write better code, faster, together.

In this episode, Mat Sherman sits down with Edward Lando, one of the most prolific angel investors in the world, to explore the intricacies of early-stage investing. Edward shares his journey into angel investing, detailing his philosophy of prioritizing quality over quantity and the critical role relationships play in successful investments. From understanding valuations and navigating early-stage deals to constructing a portfolio that balances risk and reward, Edward provides invaluable insights for both founders and investors. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or an aspiring investor, this episode is packed with practical advice and strategies to help you thrive in the fast-paced world of startups.

Find Edward on LinkedIn or Twitter and learn more about Pareto Holdings here.

Cristina Vanko is the founder of Arrow. Arrow is a swipeless, audio dating experience that feels personal. See someone you like? Shoot your shot with a voice note. 

In this conversation, Mat Sherman interviews Simp4Satoshi of Truffle. Topics covered include:

• Discussion of Truffle, a device for local inference tied to humanoid robotics and personal intelligence.
• Insights from a unique upbringing in the Middle East and its impact on a technology journey.
• Future of AI agents surpassing human economies and using cryptocurrency primarily.
• Criticism of Sam Altman and OpenAI, calling him the “Antichrist” of Silicon Valley.
• Critique of Y Combinator and the tech industry’s meritocracy, highlighting self-dealing.
• Emphasis on the need for a catalyst to disrupt the current landscape and foster true innovation.

About this episode: Vita Benes is the founder of Deprocrastination. Deprocrastination helps you learn 30+ simple techniques to stop procrastinating and go to bed happy.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Procrastinate a lot 
• What to learn more about the sources of procrastination 
• Want to know how Vita is structuring the business to combat procrastination 
• Are curious to know what Vita spends his time on
• Want to hear the big vision for Deprocrastination 

More Info:
Founder interviews(FIs) are a part of Forward Thinking Media, a media brand for early-stage startup and subcreator content. If you want to be able to listen to this episode live on Zoom + ask questions for future guests on the record, then become a paid subscriber today. As a paid subscriber of Forward Thinking Media, you also get access to all of our paywalled newsletter content, a private RSS feed, and our provide community. Have questions? DM me on Twitter and let's talk!

Mat Sherman is the founder of Seedscout. Seedscout is a professional network anyone can get paid to scout talent, founders, and customers.

 Rae Lambert is the cofounder of River. River makes it easy to orchestrate fan-hosted meetups at scale with host vetting, community admin management, and fan-generated content.

This is the Sunday Roundup! TSR is where chat with 1-4 other people in tech about what's going on in the world. The format is very casual. Today's roundup is co-hosted by Jad Esber!

Khalief Brown is the co-founder of Renno. With Renno, transform your kitchen or bathroom in as little as 2 weeks and manage the entire process online - from design to financing, to execution.

About this episode: Matt is the cofounder of OthersideAI. OthersideAI is building communications tools that work like magic, starting with email.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are curious to understand all the hype around GPT-3
• Want to know how they are improving on the email experience 
• Are curious to understand how OpenAI plays a roll in all of this 
• Want to know Matt's background in technology 
• Want to hear the big vision for the OthersideAI

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Starting a startup with cofounders in a remote world is hard...
This episode is sponsored by Sidekick. When you're starting a startup, being in the same room sometimes feels like magic. Sidekick is a hardware device that connects remote teams with an always-on video call. This allows founding teams and fast teams to act as if they were in the same room, even if they are on different continents. Save $5/mo off per device by purchasing your Sidekick from this link.
Find the Forward Thinking Newsletter here. Find me on Twitter here.

Edvarts Gaigals is the cofounder of Roibox. Their data-driven marketing tool will beat your Google Ads results in 30 days.

James & Amber are investors at Bloomberg Beta. Find their bios below.

James Cham is a Partner at Bloomberg Beta, a firm focused on investing in the future of work. James invests in companies working on applying machine intelligence to businesses and society. He’s currently invested in companies like Orbital Insight (satellite imaging), Primer (analyst tools), Domino Data Labs (AI model management), and AppZen (expense management). James speaks and writes on the implications of AI for companies, including a landscape of machine intelligence companies (https://t.co/jnBX6Wdr5R). In the past, he's been involved in investments with companies like LifeLock, LinkedIn, Twilio, DropCam (now Nest), and Skybox Imaging. James was previously an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and Trinity Venture Partners, a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and a software developer. He has an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an undergraduate in computer science at Harvard College. He currently resides in Palo Alto with his family and children.

Amber Yang is an investor at Bloomberg Beta, where she invests in companies at the pre-seed and seed stages working on machine intelligence, robotics, data infrastructure, and developer tools. In the past, she founded Seer Tracking, a startup working on creating a sustainable space environment by predicting satellite collisions with space debris, which led her to be named Forbes 30 Under 30. She did her master’s and undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford University and spent a quarter abroad studying philosophy at Oxford University. While she was in college, she was an investment partner at Dorm Room Fund and a fellow at 8VC. She is based in San Francisco and writes about tech and philosophy on Twitter and Substack.

Dami Odufuwa & Odun Eweniyi are the cofounders of Backdrop. Backdrop helps you discover the perfect backdrops for your pictures.

Nitesh Mistry & Nigel Metcalf are cofounders of Secur3D. Secur3D everages AI to make accurate moderation decisions, fast.

Sheldon and Amir are the cofounders of The Players Company (TCP). TPC acts as the intermediary between athletes and service providers adding a layer of guided protection and curation to ensure their needs are met

Dryden is the founder of Bluebook Cities. They are building a new kind of city to give more people the opportunity to realize their potential.

Brian Douglas is the founder of Open Sauced. Open Sauced is building a platform to help engineers to expand their resume through open source contributions.

Lazar Stojkovic is the cofounder of Devshopper. Skip the expensive middlemen and discuss your project with some of the world's top service provider firms directly.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are in a need to hire developers
• You want to hear about how he got the origin for this story
• Want to hear the big vision for Devshopper

Thanks to Primeflow for sponsoring this episode of FTF!
It’s time to focus on your biggest advantage - your relationships. Partner up with your network and drive business. Their software takes care of everything else. With Primeflow, you can source partners, manage your leads, and collect your fees, all within one easy software product. Check it out here.

About this episode: Thariq is the co-founder and CEO of Multiverse. Multiverse is an online video game platform making it as easy as possible to make, play, stream, and share tabletop role-playing games, with a creator-focused marketplace.

Listen to this episode if you are:

• Wonder what Multiverse is
• Want to hear the backstory of how he got the idea for this company
• Have kids that play Roblox or Mincraft
• A gamer
• Interested learning more about gaming
• Curious to know how Multiverse fits into  Esports 
• Want to know the big vision for Multiverse
• And tons more!

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Jason Patel is the founder of Transizion. Transizion provides college counseling, done better.

Zach Hudson is the cofounder of Deft. Deft is building a better e-commerce search. Type like you speak and search by image (or both) across all product sites.

Bash Jones is the cofounder of Homeplan. Homeplan enables you to put your home on autopilot with a personal home manager - from bill pay to maintenance, their assistants manage your entire home, from a-z.

About this episode:
Farhan is the CEO of Grafiti. Grafiti enables you to search, discover & share charts from top publishers.

Listen to this episode if you want to know:
- How he got the idea for Graftii
- How we thinks about journalism and how its changing 
- How to know how much to listen to users. 
- How they raised their seed round
- Why they didn't raise $$$ from SF investors 
- Wants to hear what the vision for Grafiti is

Christian Besenbruch is the founder of Deep Render. By developing the next generation of compression technology using AI, we’re here to completely rethink, reshape and revolutionize what’s possible.

About this episode: Tom Uebel is the co-founder and CEO of Command E. The faster way to navigate your workspace. An easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are into efficiency while working at your computer 
• Like keyboard commands
• Want to hear how Tom decided to start Command E
• Are curious about how Tom and his teams knows what to ship next.
• Want to hear the big vision for Command E

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Davey Morse  is the founder of Plexus. Plexus is the first online space where we’ve seen people share, not just finished thoughts, but unresolved thinking. No followers, no likes, no broadcasting, and no public profiles; just the feeling that is in your body or on your mind, a space to express it, and technology that pulls, to you, the people who get it.

Chris Kolb is the founder of HUM. HUM is people a more people-centric rideshare platform. Their drivers get to keep 100% of their fares, and their passengers will never have to experience surge pricing.

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Andriy is the cofounder of Plai. Plai helps teams of all sizes manage their OKRs
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
-  Being a good manager 
- Learning OKRs
- Knowing when its too early to implement OKRs
- Freemium models 
- The future of Plai
- And tons more!

In this episode, I interview Pramod Kollamparambil & Evan Einhorn, founders of Loanscape. Loanscape is the modern way to onboard, renew and monitor third party originators. I hope you enjoy this interview!

About this episode: Oona is the cofounder of Lance.  Lance is your freelancing sidekick. Your finances, legal, and taxes done all in one place, so you can do you.

Listen to this episode if you:

• Are a freelancer and want to learn about accounting and legal
• Want to learn more about the challenges of being a freelancer
• Want to learn how freelancers can push through Covid-19
• Want to hear about mistakes freelancers make most often
• Want to hear about the origin story behind Lance
• Are curious about hear about the big vision for Lance 

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Ablorde Ashigbi is the founder of 4Degrees. The 4Degrees CRM identifies the right connections to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships, and activate your network when you need it.

In this episode with Mark Thomas, CEO of Zensports, we talk about:

• What is Zensports?
• How do people bet on sports today?
• How could I use Zensports to bet with someone else?
• How do you use cryptocurrency within Zensports?
• Why did you decide to use cryptocurrency vs. the US Dollar?
• Is your currency a utility that can be used outside of just speculation?
• How do you plan to get your token to reach critical mass?
• Were you an early adopter to cryptocurrency?
• What do you spend time thinking about when you're not working on Zensports?
• If humans could live to 150, what would you do with your extra time?
• How have you liked the LAUNCH Accelerator?

Find Mark on Twitter here. Thanks for tuning into #55!

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 Seb Poole is the cofounder of Frankie Health. Frankie is a B2B mental health platform that delivers personalised mental healthcare to modern teams.

About this episode: Jeanna is the co-founder and CEO of Layla Wellness. The LaylaTechnology device is an intravaginal ring fertility monitor that predicts the entire fertile window and ovulation.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in:
- Fertility
- Starting a Hardware startup
- Getting tens of thousands of dollars through grants
- When to hire a CEO (if ever)
- The knowledge gap between SF investors and founders not in SF
- How to be resourceful
- And tons more!
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GrowthMeter is software that allows startups to update their progress every week. Investors can search through progress updates and pick out the needles in the haystack. Check it out here.

Danielle Eisenberg and Noy Leyb are the cofounders of Bachplace. The BachPlace Platform is dedicated to creating unforgettable and customized experiences for the bride-to-be and her squad.

In this episode with Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, we dive into:

• What is Holloway?
• How does the publishing process go from ideation to publication to promotion?
• Will you allow others to write book on Holloway?
• What is it like to read a book on Holloway?
• What do you think about the advertising model, and why didn't you go with it for Holloway?
• Are you building for the Passion Economy? 
• Who is your ideal author on Holloway?
• How have you worked on your public speaking in the past? How so?
• What's the biggest vision you can think of for Holloway?
• What is your favorite book(s)?
• What tips do you have for aspiring founders?

Find Andy on Twitter here.

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Matt Caplan is the cofounder of Biscuits n Groovy. They partner with artists to debut exclusive music and album art to their most devoted fans.

Yaseer is the founder of Axiom. With Axiom, use browser automation without all the coding experience to automate your repetitive tasks. 

Adam Berke is the cofounder of WorkPatterns. WorkPatterns is a reimagined people management system, helping modern managers and their teams stay connected and operate more effectively in the present reality of workplaces.