Best AscendED Consulting Podcasts (2025)

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Should Startups Bet on Microsoft Fabric? - Fabric Data Days Edition 40:02

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Thanks a lot for listening ❤️ Links 🔗: FabCon Atlanta: https://fabriccon.com/ FabCon Barcelona: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-microsoft-fabric-community-conference/ Fabric Data Days: https://aka.ms/fabricdatadays Fabric February: https://www.fabricfebruary.com/ Sam's blog: https://debruyn.dev/ (00:00) - Introduction to the Podcast and G…

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HR Strategies That Actually Work with Gen Z. A Conversation with Jack Foust 24:01

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Struggling to recruit, manage, or retain Gen Z? You're not alone, and you're not imagining the shift. In this episode of The Ascended Workplace, Rebecca Burtram sits down with HR leader Jack Foust to break down what’s REALLY happening with Gen Z talent and what the most effective HR leaders are doing to adapt. Drawing from years of recruiting, onbo…

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Universities, Consultancies, and Chatbots: Where AI Is Forcing the Next Trade-offs 1:03:47

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Thanks for checking in! ❤️ (00:07) - Intro & weekend catch-up (02:22) - Deloitte breaks silence on N.L. healthcare report (08:50) - PwC says clients are asking for AI Discount? (13:37) - How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies (17:44) - ChatGPT ads are on the way, but iPhone users can avoid them (24:30) - Australia’s under-16s…

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Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Antigravity: Agents Ascend as Europe Rewrites the Rules 1:06:22

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(01:29) - Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO (05:45) - WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (11:31) - Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google (26:31) - New EU Chat Control Proposal Moves Forward – Privacy Experts See a Dangerous Backdoor (32:09) - Europe is scaling back its landmark…

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Restorative Justice to Conflict in the Workplace: What Gen Z Learned from RJ... and What They Didn't 20:49

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In this episode, Rebecca turns the mic toward Adam for a candid conversation rooted in his years as a Restorative Justice (RJ) coach in K–12 schools. What began as a well-intentioned approach to repairing harm and strengthening community eventually drifted into something different: a system where accountability blurred, consequences disappeared, an…

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GPT-5.1 Drops, Netflix Sets Boundaries, and an AI Song Hits No. 1 1:16:42

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(00:43) - An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All (07:51) - Using Generative AI in Content Production (13:37) - LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! (21:30) - GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT (28:42) - GitHub - toon-format/toon: Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, …

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Physical AI Arrives; Python Gets Lazy Imports; International Criminal Court Backs Open Source 1:11:47

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Hi everyone, welcome to the Monkey Patching Podcast, where we go bananas about all things lazy imports, physical AI, and more! Interested to follow? Subscribe where ever you get your podcast and check out our newsletter at newsletter.monkeypatching.io. (00:35) - Continuity camera on Chrome flakiness (01:56) - XPENG Shares Achievements in Physical A…

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OpenAI Goes For-Profit, AOL Gets Bought, AI Marketing (Slop?), and Job Shocks 1:01:59

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(01:50) - Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli (09:18) - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (17:47) - Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints for ChatGPT maker (25:56) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B (36:40) - Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Trac…

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AI Browser Wars, TPU Megadeals & Agents Unleashed 1:17:27

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(01:59) - dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI (10:35) - Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (10:40) - Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features (21:47) - Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot (32:34) - Living dangerously with Claude (51:09) - Agent2Agent (A2A) Protoc…

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AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians 47:57

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(00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are (29:58) - Introducing Claude Ha…

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Tiny Brains, Big Gains: No-GIL Python, $300k OSS, and Europe’s Chip Power Play 1:04:54

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(00:57) - Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks (09:15) - Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code (18:21) - How I made $300K from an open-source side project (dual licensing) (26:10) - Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia (31:50) - simonw/claude-skills (36:59) - LSEG and Microsoft transform ac…

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The Generations At Work: Are We Really That Different? 18:23

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Every generation thinks the next one “just doesn’t get it.” But what if generational conflict at work isn’t really about age it’s actually about context? In this episode of The AscendED Workplace, we break down what’s actually new about Gen Z in the workplace and what’s just history repeating itself. From differing views on work ethic to communicat…

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Ship Real AI Agents Now: AgentKit + ElevenLabs, Deloitte’s GPT Faceplant, and the 17× Dot-Com Bubble Claim 54:57

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Thanks for listening to the MonkeyPatching Podcast! Today we discuss: (00:40) - Agent Workflows | ElevenLabs Documentation (06:12) - Introducing AgentKit | OpenAI (Oct 06 2025) (13:26) - Pay yourself first | HEY World (Oct 04 2025) (22:47) - Tiny lab-grown brains could help build the next generation of computers | TechSpot (Oct 06 2025) (26:25) - D…

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Sora 2, Claude 4.5, and the $100M Bet 58:17

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Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/28/report-fivetran-talks-dbt-labs-multibillion-dollar-big-data-merger/ Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades https://www.theverge.com/news/787046/apples-veritas-siri-ai-chatbot OpenAI takes …

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DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic 53:31

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Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — …

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AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables 1:12:38

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Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium…

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China’s Practical AI, AI Crawler Clicks, AI Music & Jobs Impact 59:15

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Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/ China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44 Bear is now source-available — https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/ A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffi…

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AI Bubble Fears, AWS CEO Slams Layoffs, DeepSeek V3.1 & Google’s 33x Efficiency Jump 57:16

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Thanks for listening! ❤️ Chapters (01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (14:22) - DeepSeek-V3.1 Release (18:55) - Build vs Buy in the Age of AI (27:02) - Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one y…

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GitHub CEO Exits, Claude 1M Tokens, Gemma 3 & GPT-5 Tweaks 55:28

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Thanks again for listening! Follow us on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Discussed news articles GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation — The Verge (Aug 11, 2025) Thomas Dohmke steps down; GitHub leadership folds more tightly into Microsoft’s CoreAI org. https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-t…

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High Expectations + High Support = High Performance 18:05

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Are your Gen Z employees underperforming, disengaged, or resistant to feedback? You do not need to lower the standard. You need to raise the support. In this episode of The AscendED Workplace, Adam and Rebecca reveal a truth that many leaders miss. Gen Z is not lazy, entitled, or soft. They are capable of high performance when given the right struc…

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How to Build a Culture of Accountability That Actually Works 17:10

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Are you constantly putting out fires on your team? Deadlines are missed, people are disengaged, and ownership is unclear. The problem is not laziness. It is lack of clarity In this video, Rebecca and Adam from AscendED Consulting walk you through a four-step accountability system built for CEOs, executives, and leadership teams who need to align cu…

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AI News Weekly 🚀 Copilot Edge, Open-Source Model Wars, Tencent 3D, & Trump-China Regulation Clash 28:41

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Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning it’s propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, “We’re in a god damn bubble,” prompting…

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No Deadlines, No Drive: How Schools' Deadline Practices Created a Generation Lacking Initiative 33:25

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Hosted by Rebecca Burtram & Adam Howard | AscendED Consulting What if the biggest barrier to Gen Z’s performance isn’t motivation but the absence of deadlines in their education? In this episode, we unpack how schools’ shift to “no deadlines, no zeroes” created a generation that struggles with urgency, ownership, and time management. Now, those sam…

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OpenAI IMO Gold, AWS S3 Vectors, MCP Server Exposés, Sovereign Clouds & the Capex Surge 1:14:41

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Thanks for listening—subscribe and leave a review! Announcing molab (marimo) Marimo debuts molab, a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from the browser. https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molab OpenAI LLM Claims IMO Gold Researcher Alexander Wei says an experimental OpenAI model solved 5 of …

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Agents, Paywalls, and Browser Battles: The Race to Control AI's Digital Highway 1:00:51

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Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe! MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. “MCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,” promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone. https:…

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The Psychological Benefits of Consistent Accountability in the Workplace 13:10

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Hosted by Rebecca Burtram & Adam Howard | AscendED Consulting What if accountability isn’t just about performance but also about mental health, motivation, and retention? In this episode, we break down the science-backed benefits of consistent accountability systems and explain why today’s teams, especially Gen Z, don’t just need feedback and goals…

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$10 M AI Consulting, 4,500-Token-Per-Second Code Edits, and the Rise of Terminal Agents 1:01:50

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Thanks for listening! Subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generate…

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From the Classroom to Boardroom: How School Policies Harmed Gen Z in the Workplace 19:26

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Hosted by Rebecca Burtram & Adam Howard | AscendED Consulting Gen Z is here, and leaders across industries are struggling to manage them. Low initiative. High turnover. Fragile under feedback. Sound familiar? In this episode, two former educators-turned-workplace consultants pull back the curtain on the real reason Gen Z is struggling at work: a sc…

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Context Hacking, Open-Source Hype & Synthetic Bands 54:09

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Thanks for listening, leave a review! ❤️ The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025) Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-stri…

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Tiny Teams, Loud Unlocks, and Rogue AI 50:17

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Thanks for listening! Make sure to leave a review ❤️ Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell …

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AI Agents, Brain Fog & Caveman Coding 1:03:13

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Welcome to The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech — where we keep it real, techy, and far from buzzword bingo. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, or visit us at monkeypatching.io 🧠 Episode Topics & Links Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task New arXi…

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Apple ‘Illusion of Thinking’ Debate, DuckLake Lakehouse & Magistral AI 1:08:52

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Welcome to Episode 2! We'd love to hear your feedback ❤️ DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025) DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a regular SQL database so open-format data lakes can gain true transactional speed and simplicity. “DuckLake re-imagines what a ‘Lakehouse’ format should …

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Our First Episode! 20:01

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Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show – nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from…

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Connecting patients to healthcare: A conversation with Halodoc’s Jonathan Sudharta 26:30

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Jonathan Sudharta, the co-founder and CEO of Indonesian telemedicine company, Halodoc, is making healthcare more accessible in the world’s fourth-largest country. When Jonathan started his career as a pharmaceutical sales rep, he spent a lot of time in waiting rooms, watching patients wait—often for hours—just to see a doctor. He recognized an oppo…

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Defying the odds to find fintech app success: A conversation with Nays’ Ceyda Yalçın 22:48

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The leader behind one of Turkey’s top banking apps shares how an initiative from the country’s largest bank disrupted a crowded fintech market. With over 600 fintech competitors, İşbank’s Nays app carved its own path by delivering a gamified user experience that attracted 1 million users in its pilot and 3 million in just 12 months. Ceyda Yalçın, l…

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Harnessing AI to revolutionize healthcare: A conversation with Huma’s Dan Vahdat 19:32

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Dan Vahdat, the founder and CEO of Huma, is on a mission to change how the healthcare industry approaches research, treatment, and care. Growing up in a family of doctors, Dan saw how 24/7 treatment of patients often deteriorates as soon as they leave the hospital – which is typically when complications occur. To fix this, he started Huma in 2011, …

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Targeting an untapped fintech market worth trillions: A conversation with Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta 22:31

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The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultra-wealthy to successful professionals. As the eight cofounders of Singapore-based Arta Finance got to know one other during their years together at Google, they recognized a massive market gap for investment services aimed people like the…

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Now is the time to create new corporate ventures: A conversation with McKinsey’s Paul Jenkins 21:10

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The global coleader of Leap by McKinsey discusses the firm’s latest global survey, which finds that business leaders and investors are bullish on building new businesses. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, businesses are increasingly enthusiastic about creating new ventures, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey on new-business building. …

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Disrupting a mature industry with a digital solution: A conversation with Mlion’s Eric Leong 29:29

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The CEO of a leading Southeast Asian steel distributor explains why he decided to launch a venture designed to reuse steel, reduce carbon emissions, and disrupt his core business. If the many infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia have a common denominator, it’s steel. And in just 12 years, Singapore-based Mlion has become the region’s large…

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Mitigating climate change with venture capital: A conversation with Wavemaker Impact’s Steve Melhuish 20:20

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The founding partner of a Southeast Asian VC fund explains his company’s global ambitions to create economic opportunity, promote sustainability, and reduce carbon emissions. Human activity began altering the climate in the mid-19th century, when the industrial revolution began unleashing unprecedented amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. But an …

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Uncovering untreated heart disease with AI and big data: A conversation with egnite’s Joel Portice and Edwards Lifesciences’ Don Bobo 33:23

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Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in every developed country, but only one in ten US patients with severe heart ailments received treatment in 2022. Egnite, a healthcare start-up, has ambitious plans to dramatically improve treatment of heart disease by harnessing the power of AI and big data to identify patients who fell through…

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A circle of sustainability: A conversation with circulee’s Thomas Gros 23:16

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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Thomas Gros, CEO and cofounder of circulee, a Berlin-based distributor of pre-owned digital hardware. The German start-up provides smaller businesses with a green and cost-effective alternative to new IT devices, offering them professionally tested and warrantied hardware previously lease…

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Tokenizing nontraditional assets: A conversation with Ascend Bit’s Brian Clark 30:52

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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Brian Clark, chief product officer of Ascend Bit, a Bangkok start-up recently spun off from the Ascend Group, itself a part of Thailand’s C.P. Group. Ascend Bit’s mandate is to leverage blockchain solutions on behalf of the group, focusing on applications for businesses and tokenization f…

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Disrupting Thailand’s B2B food marketplace: A conversation with Makro PRO’s Tirayu Songvetkasem 24:17

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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Tirayu Songvetkasem, also known as Mac. He is the head of Maknet and chief digital officer of Siam Makro, the Thai branch of a multinational serving the hotel, restaurant, café and catering sector (HoReCa). Makro recently leveraged the mothership's market experience and network of partner…

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Democratizing alternative asset investing: A conversation with ADDX’s Oi-Yee Choo 44:05

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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Oi-Yee Choo, CEO of ADDX, a full-service capital markets platform based in Singapore. The fintech start-up uses blockchain and smart contract technology to provide access to a range of securities previously unavailable to mass affluent investors. And in less than three years, ADDX’s innov…

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Putting the patient first: A conversation with Roche’s Moritz Hartmann 21:50

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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Moritz Hartmann, global head of Roche Information Solutions for Roche Diagnostics, one of the Swiss multinational’s two divisions. Adapting to constant technological change and disrupting via science has fueled the 125-year-old company’s longevity, which now uses digital tools and data sc…

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Satisfying the toughest customers first: A conversation with Next Gen Foods’ Andre Menezes 33:28

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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 33:25) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Andre Menezes, cofounder and CEO of Next Gen Foods, a Singapore-based, food tech start-up. Its first product, TiNDLE, a plant-based chicken, is already making waves with chefs and diners in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam…

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Tackling the retirement adequacy problem: A conversation with Endowus’s Samuel Rhee 38:43

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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 38:39) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Samuel Rhee, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and cofounder of Endowus, a Singapore-based financial technology company that transformed the city-state’s cumbersome social security investment process into a fully digital ex…

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You Are The Expert in Your Life | James Miller 30:55

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James Miller is a licensed psychotherapist and the host and executive producer of the nationally broadcast and syndicated LIFEOLOGY® Radio. James has been a practicing clinician in the mental health field for over 25 years. James is also a classically trained pianist and composer who uses physiological and neurology techniques to enhance the listen…

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Growing meat instead of raising animals for food: A conversation with Eat Just’s Josh Tetrick 35:58

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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 35:57) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Josh Tetrick, CEO and cofounder of Eat Just, a California-based company that makes eggs from plants and produces meat from animal cells. The company was founded in 2011, and has sold the equivalent of more than 200 million eg…