SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast

Andreas Schumacher - Semiconductors Run The World | Technology & Geopolitics | Opportunities in Quantum

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast we dove deep into the massive industry of semiconductors. Andreas Schumacher ist the executive vice president responsible for strategy and the M&A activities at Infineon Technologies, which is one of the top ten companies globally for semiconductors. We unfold the scale at which the industry impacts the global economy and its implications for the future. 

Together with Andreas we tackled the industry talking about its set-up, challenges and market players. Andreas gives us an insight into his perspective on approaching start-up collaborations as well as industry trends and much more. 

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Mike Granoff - Founder & Managing Partner at Maniv Mobility

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to host Mike Granoff who has been involved at the intersection of technology and transportation since the early 2000s. In 2015 Mike started the venture capital firm Maniv Mobility out of Tel Aviv with the mission to back founders who are changing the way people and goods move. Since then Mike and his team have invested into over thirty companies spanning five continents. 

Together with Mike we dove right into all the hot topics around the different sub-verticals of mobility. We cover infrastructure, circular economy for EVs and urban mobility solutions and planning. 

We really enjoyed having Mike on the show and got the best out of his experience and perspectie on the massive mobility transformation.  

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Ernesto Schmitt - Running a $400 Million Investment Firm | CPG Challenger Brands | Serial Entrepreneurship

Ernesto is an amazing serial entrepreneur we had the chance to host on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast. Ernesto started his first venture disrupting the music industry when he was 27 in the dotcom era and went on to found multiple ventures through out the years. Two of his ventures were acquired by Snapchat and Twitter. 

It was an honor to have him on the show as his experience in being a founder and working with countless founding teams is incredible. Together with his co-founder Ernesto established The Craftory a USD 400 million investment firm focused on challenger CPG brands. 

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Beena Ammanath - Corporate AI Competences | AI & Ethics | Deloitte’s AI Institute

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Beena Ammanath who has an impressive track record working in Tech within the Bay Area, non-traditionally for some of the biggest corproates in this world. Before joining Deloitte's AI institute she oversaw Data Science and Innovation at companies such as Bank of America, GE and HP.

Beyond that she is the founder of the NGO "Humans for AI", which aims to increase the number of women and under-represented minorities in AI with education programs, community and partnership.

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Jeanne Shen - AI Reseach in Pathology at Stanford University

On this episode we had the pleasure to speak with Jeanne Shen, assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University. Jeanne started to engage in doing AI research within pathology after being introduced to Andrew Ng. Her initial motivation to start with AI as she claims, was getting more efficiency out of her work within pathology. 

Together with Jeanne we are diving deeper into the wider spectrum of pathology and GI research and the massive potential for applying AI.

Jeanne also shares her perspective on the Bio startup landscape and the exciting things she has been observing and what founding teams need to take into account when tackling massive challenges. 

 

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Naftali Harris - Getting Hired by Max Levchin | Synthetic Fraud | Great Co-Founders

Yet another amazing founder story on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as we host Naftali Harris. 

Naftali was the first Data Scientist brought in by Max Levchin at Affirm and has some amazing stories to tell. Together with one of his colleagues at Affirm he went on to start SentiLink with the goal to stop synthetic fraud. 

 

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Daniel Grubbs - Pepsi’s Venture Fund | D2C Brand Building | Food Start-Ups

Today we are talking with Daniel Grubbs who is the managing director of the Pepsi Group's Venture Fund. 

We are covering the investment areas of the fund and major trends within the nutrition and health space such as cube based food for pure nutrition focused intake. Daniel is sharing his opinion on the shifts within food & beverages as we tackle D2C and the long term opportunities for influencer brands. 

Lastly we touch upon the changing work flows when it comes to investing into startups in times of Covid-19.

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Paolo Pirjanian - Working at NASA | Robotics | Emotional Intelligent Companions

In this episode of the SCR Podcast we are talking with serial entrepreneur and robotics expert Paolo Pirjanian.

Paolo has had an incredible journey throughout his career starting at NASA after obtaining a PhD in Robotics in Denmark and going on to work on a startup, which eventually got acquired by iRobot and led him to become CTO at iRobot before starting Embodied. 

Together with Paolo we dive deep into his personal journey and his experience building robotics start ups as well as the opportunities within robotics. We are talking about the story behind Embodied and the amazing technology platform it is building towards improving care and wellness and enhancing daily lives through socially and emotionally intelligent companions. 

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Jacob LaPorte - Novartis and Start-Ups | Scaling Innovation in Corporations

After our summer break we are starting with a super interesting guest who is the Co-Founder and Global Head of the the BIOME, which is the innovation lab of biotech and Pharma giant Novartis. 

Jacob LaPorte started his career with a PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University working on the optimization of drug discovery.

In this episode we are talking about Jacob's journey and the story behind Novartis approach on building and pushing innovation capabilities. We cover the challenges of accelerating digital within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the strategy of scaling the impact of an innovation lab globally. Beyond that we also cover interesting start-ups and the approach the BIOME is taking towards creating collaboration initiative quickly and efficient. 

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Daniele Capasso - VP Digital Transformation at Volvo Group

We recorded this episode a while ago together with Daniele and talked with him about his journey in leading the digital transformation at the Swedish multinational with close to a 100.000 employees and an annual turnover of around 45 billion Euro.

The Volvo Group is a massive manufacturing company with products, which bear massive opportunities for the application of digital technologies. Together with Daniele we talked about the digital strategy of the company and the most important projects. We touch on interesting use cases and the different opportunities and challenges when it comes to transforming such a massive enterprise at an industrial scale. 

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