Interlune is emerging from stealth, closing an $18 million seed funding round, led by Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian’s firm 776. Founded by two former Blue Origin executives, the startup aims to harvest natural resources from space and sell to commercial and government customers. CEO Rob Meyerson joins Morgan Brennan to lay out the company’s strategy and bui ... Show More
Oct 2
Maxar Splits In Two, Rebrands as Vantor and Lanteris 10/2/25
Maxar splits into two companies: Vantor and Lanteris. Both will remain Advent portfolio companies. Morgan sits down with Vantor CEO Dan Smoot to discuss the company’s rebrand, growth in key software revenue metrics and and how AI-powered satellite data is reshaping defense, navig ... Show More
17m 33s
Nov 2021
“Investors look for traction and Founder’s pedigree.” Ramy Adeeb shares his journey from computer science to building his own venture capital firm, 1984 Ventures
As fellow Egyptians and graduates of Harvard College in the 90s, Hashem and Ramy Adeeb initially shared a similar path that led them from Cairo to Cambridge, Massachusetts. We caught up with Ramy this week via Zoom in Silicon Valley to follow his journey from young computer progr ... Show More
43m 39s
Jul 2023
Morgan DeBaun: Blavity CEO and Founder
There’s no question that Morgan DeBaun is an absolute force in the business world. Frustrated by the lack of media geared toward Black millennials, DeBaun, who was just 24 years old at the time, left her job at Intuit and set out to build a media company where she would be part o ... Show More
55m 4s
Nov 2021
How VCs Raise Money w/ Lo Toney
Lo is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which is an institutional investment firm he incubated and spun out from GV (Google Ventures).On this episode, Lo talks with AfroTech's Will Lucas about how VCs raise capital, the myth of Silicon Valley, and how legislation ke ... Show More
31m 56s
Jul 2022
Alex Hormozi on Mastering Sales, Making Your First Million & Overcoming Mediocrity EP 1296
Alex Hormozi is a first generation Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. In 2013, he started his first brick & mortar business, successfully scaling his business to six locations in three years. From there, he spent two years turning 32+ brick & mortar busi ... Show More
1h 9m
Jun 2022
Alex Hormozi On Becoming A Millionaire, Quieting Your Ego & Forgetting About Legacy EP 1278
Alex Hormozi is a first generation Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. In 2013, he started his first brick & mortar business, successfully scaling his business to six locations in three years. From there, he spent two years turning 32+ brick & mortar busi ... Show More
1h 8m