Scott Kitun is joined by a rotating cast of tech and internet celebrities to break down the latest in startups and venture capital.
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From Mechanical Engineering to Studio Head: Jeff Annison's Legion M Story
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In this episode of the Technori podcast, host Scott Kitun interviews Jeff Annison, the co-founder and president of Legion M. They discuss Annison's journey from mechanical engineering to entrepreneurship, highlighting his experiences in various startups, including a streaming mobile television venture and a music-related startup. Annison shares ins…
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Taylor Lorenz on Being Extremely Online in an Internet World
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Scott Kitun sits down with acclaimed journalist and author Taylor Lorenz to set the record straight regarding internet history, the premise of her book, "Extremely Online," (available now). She discusses the evolving landscape of the tech world, the importance of strong social safety nets, the impact of AI on content creation, and Lorenz's thoughts…
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The Crowdfunding Revolution: A Conversation with StartEngine's Howard Marks
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Scott Kitun talks to StartEngine co-founder Howard Marks. The conversation starts with Kitun's curiosity about Marks' early involvement in crowdfunding, despite having been an entrepreneur (founder of Activision) for a long time. Marks recounts his journey from investing in entrepreneurs in Los Angeles to eventually building StartEngine. He reflect…
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Alts, investing and the promise of fine art with Masterworks CEO Scott Lynn
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Scott Lynn, founder and CEO of Masterworks, joins Scott Kitun on the show. As a long time art collector and enthusiast, Lynn saw a massive space in the market for fine art - which includes many pieces that are valued in the millions of dollars - to be invested in fractionally but art lovers and investors worldwide. In this episode, Scott Lynn share…
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Bored Elon Musk on Elon, startups, crypto and pseudonym life
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Bored Elon Musk, a pseudonymous influencer, joins Scott Kitun on the pod. Bored has built his following over most of the past decade on Twitter. What started out as a joke account gradually - alongside the growing notoriety of Elon Musk - into an influencer account with over a million followers. Bored shares how he built his following and monetized…
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Harper Reed on making tech more accessible
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Harper Reed, founder and CEO of Galactic, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Reed, the former Head of Commerce at Braintree and President Obama's CTO during his re-election campaign, is a longtime tech entrepreneur (and Technori supporter) working to make technology work better for everyone. Like many founders experienced early on in the pandemic, Re…
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Getting more out of your education minus the debt sentence
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Milan Kordestani, founder and CEO of Audo, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Audo is a career building platform that combines e-learning and job opportunities that fit the skills you learn. Scott and Milan dig into the changes coming to education, the value of college and avoiding debt. They also touch on just how gamification could and should play …
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Changing the culture around investing with StartupStarter co-founder Lorel Scott
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Lorel Scott, co-founder and COO of StartupStarter, joins the show with Scott Kitun. StartupStarter is launching the first ever in-person Equity Crowdfunding Week (ECW), a showcase and awards show for equity crowdfunding startups and investors to come together for a 3 day celebration of a growing crowdfunding community. Lorel shares how he and his c…
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Backstage Capital GPs on the present/future of VC and new partnership with KingsCrowd
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Brittany Davis and Christie Pitts, general partners at Backstage Capital, join the show with Scott Kitun. Brittany and Christie talk about the present day investing landscape and why the future of VC will trend towards inclusiveness (or lose). The group shares their thoughts and experiences with the top VC firms, why so many are resistant to change…
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Creating futuristic vehicle concepts with VonMercier
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Mike Mercier, founder and CEO of VonMercier, joins the show with Scott Kitun. They talk about how changing what we can do with vehicles, starting with the idea of VonMercier's electric hovercraft Arosa. Mike dives into his 10-year founding journey with late nights and weekends dedicated to coming up with the concept, finding the right materials and…
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Showplace is your one-stop shop for outfitting short-term rentals
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Justin Miller, founder and CEO of Showplace, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Showplace aims to be a one-stop shop for people looking to rent out their properties with the supplies, design, furnishings and everything else you need to set up a short-term rental. Justin shares the company's hefty aim to be the modern infrastructure for short-term ren…
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Improving shift work everywhere with Deputy CEO Ashik Ahmed
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Ashik Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Deputy, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Deputy is a company focused around simplifying work life for the shift worker. As an employee management platform, Deputy specializes in timesheets, scheduling, tasks and workplace communication. Ashik shares the founding story starting with his own childhood growing up aro…
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S.I. Container Builds: Building ADUs with affordability and conservation in mind
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Rory Rubin, co-founder and CEO of S.I. Container Builds, joins Scott Kitun on the show. S.I. Container Builds offer customizable ADUs (accessory dwelling units) using shipping containers that are affordable, simple and environmentally conscious. Rory shares with Scott the origin story for starting S.I. Container Builds. According to Rory, there are…
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Providing next-gen online safety through your router with Gryphon CEO John Wu
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John Wu, CEO of Gryphon, joins the pod with Scott Kitun. Gryphon is a wireless router built around online safety, privacy and protecting the central point of your digital life at home. John first starting thinking about the idea for the router after watching his young daughter access the internet and come across NSFW (or children) content. Scott an…
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Digital estate plans and catching up with Trust & Will CEO Cody Barbo
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Cody Barbo, founder and CEO of Trust & Will, comes back on the show with Scott Kitun. Cody catches up with Scott after three years of growing the Trust & Will business from a seed round CF raise on Republic to a $15 million Series B and recent venture round led by UBS. They talk about the journey Trust & Will has been on, how Cody first got the ide…
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Ivee: Improving the car passenger experience
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Alex Giannikoulis, founder of Ivee, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Ivee is a "mobility as a service (MaaS)" platform that adds a suite of apps and experiences that elevate your time as a passenger in commute. The Ivee dashboard connects your phone to a 10" tablet in the backseat to access services like Netflix, Spotify, Calm as well as physical e…
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Bringing back at-home care with Tomorrow Health
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Vijay Kedar, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health, joins Scott Kitun on the show. Tomorrow Health is a health tech company that aims to restore at-home care as the primary & preferred destination for patients of all ages. Vijay dives into how Tomorrow Health streamlines healthcare processes and at-home service to enable patients to go home and spe…
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Addition Wealth CEO Ana Mahony creating tangible financial wellness
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Ana Mahony, founder and CEO of Addition Wealth, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Addition Wealth is a fintech platform that offers a suite of tools, resources and financial advisors to help employees make better financial decisions. Ana shares how she decided to jump into entrepreneurship after struggling to help her mom figure out her finances and…
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Navigating the early fundraising stages with Foundersuite CEO Nathan Beckord
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Nathan Beckord, founder and CEO of Foundersuite, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Foundersuite offers a suite of software tools, templates and education to help founders and CEOs execute more efficiently. Nathan comes back on the pod to talk about the Foundersuite journey, lessons he's learned from working with thousands of founders and learning st…
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Building affordable tiny homes with Boxabl founder Galiano Tiramani
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Galiano Tiramani, CEO and founder of Boxabl, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Boxabl makes ADUs (accessory dwelling units) that can ship anywhere as a giant box that unfolds onto your plot of land. Galiano dives into his entrepreneurial journey with startups in the trendy spaces such as Bitcoin and cannabis, as well as his years long pursuit of get…
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Hadley Harris and the new era of VC
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Hadley Harris, cofounder of Eniac Ventures, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Hadley humors Scott on one of his favorite topics - dealing with venture capitalists. Scott and Hadley dig into the rise of VC competition and why VCs can't afford to be as dismissive or authoritative in the new environment with a growing list of funding options for founde…
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Invisible College: The making of a Web3 academy
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Nick deWilde, co-founder of Invisible College, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Nick comes on to talk about the colorful but often opaque world of Web3. Everyone seems to be talking about it but what is Web3 and how do you become a participant? These are just some of questions Nick set out to answer when he created Invisible College, an education p…
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Behind Genius with Paige Finn Doherty
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Paige Finn Doherty joins the show with Scott Kitun. Paige is a founding partner of Behind Genius Ventures and author of a children's book - for adults! - about investing called Seed to Harvest. Paige talks about her journey into venture and her realization that you don't need to come from generational wealth to invest as her founding thesis. Scott …
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Going BigTime with CEO Brian Saunders
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Brian Saunders, founder and CEO of BigTime Software, joins the show with Scott Kitun. BigTime provides turnkey billing software solutions for professional service firms and consulting services that makes it easy to capture billable hours, allocate and manage project resources and consolidate key metrics. Earlier this year, BigTime took a $100 milli…
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Meet Pincho: The Athleisure of Restaurants
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Otto Othman, founder and CEO of Pincho, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Pincho is a street-food inspired burger and kebab shop based in Miami, Florida. Otto, a former UX designer, talks about the origin story of how he and his cousin originally came up with a plan to sell his mom's pincho kebab recipe by opening up Pincho (formerly called Pincho F…
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