Ep163: Edison Tse | Stanford Professor, Entrepreneurship Strategy

Ilana Golan is a well-known growth strategist in Silicon Valley helping individuals & businesses grow. Selected top 40 women to watch in 2016, Business Insider Silicon Valley Women of influence in 2017, and CEO World Award 2020. Entrepreneur turned tech investor, Forbes Contributor & Public Speaker. Ilana is the inventor of CareerLeap, the program, and network that has been transforming countless careers and lives. She is also Board Director and General Partner at Homrun, a network-based venture, accelerating the growth of Israeli companies in North America.

3 Jan 202119min

As a creative technology pioneer (18 patents, several publications) and an entrepreneur, Ramesh launched & exited four start-ups: three were acquired, the latest one gives a "play" button for enterprise data. He created the market categories of “cloud management platforms”, “conversational analytics” and now looking to grow “click-less intelligence”. His focus has always been to develop market-leading innovations and breakthroughs, to make a case for them, organize and lead inspired teams, and preempt competition to conquer markets.

3 Jan 202118min

Stephen is the CTO of PubNub and invests in AI and API companies. PubNub provides a real-time communication infrastructure for telemedicine apps, online learning, on-demand delivery, shared Peloton exercise experiences, and more. They built a replicated Multi POP Realtime Data Stream Network written in C for reliability and speed. Combining artificial intelligence and petabytes of data marks an advantage over AI companies with less data.

3 Jan 202120min

Amy Wyron Robinson is COO of Nemodata, where she is on a mission to help fleets prevent breakdowns before they happen. She has spent the last 10+ years launching, scaling, and learning from new mobility ventures including @Waze (Acq. by GOOGL), @Moovit (Acq. by INTEL), and most recently @Gett, where she was Global VP of B2B ($100M+ ARR). Previously at Gett, she led Gett Delivery, a "startup with a startup", through hyper-growth from 0-$10M ARR and to profitability in <2 years.  Originally from Washington, DC, Amy lived in North Carolina and La Paz, Bolivia, before moving to Israel. She now lives in the Jaffa flea market with her husband and 1-year-old daughter.

3 Jan 202120min

Yoav is the Co-founder and CEO of Walnut, a promising startup in the sales space backed by leading SF investors. Previously he was a founding member of an anti-bullying startup, and was the CEO of Israel's first startup marketing company. Yoav was named "Tech Marketer to Watch" by Forbes in 2017, and has been mentoring startups in accelerators by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and the United Nations.

3 Jan 202121min

Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit, and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches, and messages. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive to results. Through her guidance clients have raised over half a billion dollars. To learn more, visit DonnaGriffit.com

3 Jan 202121min

Mine is a personal data assistant, enabling digital users to discover and manage their personal data online. Gal Ringel is an accomplished leader with a rare fusion of technology (cybersecurity, six years in the 8200 Elite Intelligence Corps, Captain rank), Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital experience (4.5 years, 20+ investments with Nielsen and Verizon Ventures), strategic thinking, and unique business skills. Ringel was chosen to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017.

3 Jan 202124min

A childhood dominated by dinner table conversations around ion-channels, power-microscopy, nuclear war and ecosystems-collapse left its marks. Instead of becoming a rockstar, which had been the original plan, Thomas became an entrepreneur driven by applying the power of science and technology towards making the planet a good place. This led to a series of for-profit and non-profit organisations, initiatives and projects towards that objective which can be explored on his website https://thomas.cr

3 Jan 202122min