Rob Carpenter was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska - and no... he can't see Russia from his back steps. He has been a long term space ship nerd, and confesses that one of the reason he got into entrepreneurship is because he wants to eventually secure a ticket to space. Currently, he lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with his young family, and really e ... Show More
Apr 30
S12 Bonus: Aron D’Souza, Objection AI
Aron D'Souza is originally from Australia, the son of a Chinese mother and an Indian-Portuguese father. He is a graduate of Oxford, and got his PhD from the University of Melbourne. A lawyer by training, he has built 12 companies and has had 5 exits - working with folks like Pete ... Show More
20m 20s
Apr 28
S12 E16: Nikunj Bajaj, True Foundry
Nikunj Bajaj was born in India, and completed his undergraduate studies there. The intrigue of Silcon Valley in 2013 brought him to the Bay Area, where he got his masters degree from Berkeley. His studies and his time after school supremely informed what he is building now, at hi ... Show More
32m 36s
Apr 23
S12 Bonus: Tyler Hochman, FORE Enterprise
Tyler Hochman got started early in the world of entrepreneurship. In Middle School, he got into Gemology, fascinated by the formation of gems, becoming a young GIA certifier. This taught him to get out of his comfort zone, from which he started his first business as a junior at S ... Show More
20m 31s
Apr 2025
How a New Solo Lawyer Built a Thriving Practice in Just 3 Months | First Flight #3
Starting a law firm straight out of school? Meet Philip Mauriello, an attorney who wasted no time launching his solo practice just three months after passing the bar. In this episode, host Adriana Linares revisits her conversation with Philip, who shares the smart, scrappy strate ... Show More
43m 21s
Jan 2025
Voices Carry: How SoundHound's Keyvan Mohajer Built Billion$ In A Stanford Dorm Room
Immigrating to Canada as a teenager, Keyvan didn’t speak fluent English but strove to finish at the top of his class in high school. Fast forward to college, Keyvan had already started three different companies, but he was still determined to become a great tech founder.
Live f ... Show More
16m 53s
Jun 2024
VREP #425 | A Ground Up Story of Real Estate Development with Sunny Dhillon
Someone said, "if opportunity doesn't knock, build a door" and this sums up the story of Sunny Dhillon. From getting his real estate license in the early 2000s, to becoming a deal finder, and to eventually developing himself, Sunny saw the writing on the wall for our city and ... Show More
55m 8s
Sep 2025
Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round; also, Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots
As speed becomes the defining currency in an AI-driven software world, Blacksmith has raised another round led by Google Ventures — just four months after its initial seed round — to accelerate how code gets shipped. Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent ... Show More
9m 16s
Oct 2025
The World Reacts to Sora 2, Slop vs. Farming Debate | Reece Chowdhry, Jim Gao, Fan-Yun Sun, Carl Pei, Shehzan Maredia, Victor Riparbelli, William Fedus, Jayanth Madheswaran
(05:21) - Slop vs. Farm Debate (11:40) - Ben Thompson's Sora 2 Analysis (35:37) - The Timeline Reacts to Sora 2 (01:34:31) - The Stablecoin Duopoly is Ending (01:42:14) - Reece Chowdhry, Founding Partner of Concept Ventures, recently announced the launch of their latest $88 milli ... Show More
3h 17m
<p>🚀 The <a href="https://futureofspace.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>FUTURE of SPACE</strong></a> (FoS) video podcast, hosted by <a href="https://futureofspace.io/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Daniel Fox</a>, is a candid and informal co ... Show More
