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Heresy Accountabilibuddies PodcastEP 35 - Con Survival Guide The guys lament GW's Q1 2023 Heresy strategy, and give some tips and tricks for con attendees. https://linktr.ee/phyrix Music Credit: Techincolor by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio2023-03-141h 26
TechInColorEp. 18: Jenna Golden on Leading Political Sales at Twitter in the 2016 ElectionOn this episode of TechInColor, we spoke with Jenna Golden, former Head of Political Sales at Twitter and founder of social media consulting firm Golden Strategies. After discovering an initial interest in politics through Model Congress in high school, Jenna decided to pursue politics in college / post-grad. Opting not to work on Capitol Hill, she combined her love of politics with media and technology through advertising for political publications like the National Journal, and later, spearheading Twitter’s political advertising team from 2012 to 2017, including the 2016 presidential election. Since November 2019, Twitter no longer allows political advertising.
Jenna dives in...2022-03-2034 min
TechInColorEp. 17: Amy Yin on The Future of Work, Career Pivots, and Building Diverse CommunityOn this episode of TechInColor, we welcomed Amy Yin, Founder and CEO of OfficeTogether, the company Amy started over the pandemic to help companies transition to hybrid, remote-first work offices. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Amy recounts her journey to becoming an entrepreneur – from switching career paths in college, taking a gap year in Paris to serve as the only engineer at a growing startup, and working as a software engineer and engineering manager for 10 years at Coinbase, Hired, and Facebook. As the founder of Harvard’s Women in Computer Science Organization, Amy describes her passion for building diverse comm...2021-08-1630 min
TechInColorEp. 16: Anvisha Pai on What Prepared Her to be a Founder & Hiring a Diverse TeamThis episode of TechInColor features Anvisha Pai– cofounder and CTO of Dover, an ML platform that helps companies scale and optimize recruiting. Dover has raised a $20 million Series A led by Tiger Global and invested in by Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures and Y Combinator. Tune in to hear Anvisha share her journey from navigating moving to MIT from Mumbai, India where she grew up, all the way to successfully founding multiple companies. She also emphasizes the importance of not expecting to know everything on day 1 – along the way, she learned from likeminded peers and early stage startups where she work...2021-08-0129 min
TechInColorEp. 15: Jade Huang on Growing a Data-Driven Fashion CompanyIn this episode, we welcomed Jade Huang, founder and CEO of StyleSage, an AI data analytics company that helps fashion brands like Lululemon and Under Armour make data-driven decisions. Jade discusses challenges she overcame as a first-time founder and shares her insights into how the fashion industry will evolve. Born and raised in Taiwan and Minnesota, Jade studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design before dropping out. Determined to make it in New York, Jade found her way into web design, software development, and product management. After attending business school and learning about how the iconic fashion brand...2021-06-1430 min
TechInColorEp. 14: Genevieve Bellaire on Creating the "Single Sign-on for Adulthood"This episode we spoke with Genevieve Ryan Bellaire, founder and CEO at Realworld, the “Single Sign-on for Adulthood”. She discusses the process of creating a platform, marketplace, and community to simplify adulthood, and how her winding background in international relations at Princeton, law school and business school at Georgetown, and strategy at Goldman Sachs prepared her perfectly to found this company. The oldest sibling of 3, Genevieve thinks of the Realworld as an older sibling you can go to for help in actionable decisions when navigating adulthood - be it student loans, apartment hunting, or credit cards, among other topics. She...2021-05-3136 min
TechInColorEp. 13: Sanchali Pal on Building a Climate-Tech StartupIn this episode, we welcomed Sanchali Pal. Born and raised in Boston and India, Sanchali is founder and CEO of Joro – a platform for collective climate action that is backed by Sequoia and has been profiled in Fast Company, TechCrunch, and more. Joro is a mobile app that assigns a carbon score to users’ credit card purchases, and then helps them develop a climate action plan to reduce their carbon footprint that may include changing habits, buying offsets, or learning more about the climate crisis. Sanchali first became interested in sustainability in undergrad, when she was a sustainability manager for...2021-05-1727 min
TechInColorEp. 12: Ari Melenciano on Building Afrotectopia and Re-Imagining Art x TechnologyIn this episode, we welcomed Ari Melenciano. Ari is founder of Afrotectopia - a social institution building at the nexus of new media art, design, and technology through a Black and Afrocentric lens. She is also a Creative Technologist at Google’s Creative Lab. Born and raised in Maryland, Ari had always been fascinated by the intersection of art and technology. After experiencing a lack of diversity and community within the field, and decided to create Afrotectopia to build a space that consciously examined race and technology while celebrating Black voices in technology. Ari dives into what goes into de...2021-05-0329 min
TechInColorEp. 11: Neha Singh on Building the Future of E-Commerce in VRIn this episode, we welcomed Neha Singh, CEO and Founder of Obsess, an experiential e-commerce platform enabling retailers to create immersive, 3D, 360-degree virtual stores. Obsess’s technology has been used by brands including Ralph Lauren, Dior, and Tommy Hilfiger. Neha became fascinated by the fashion industry and e-commerce as a former Tech Lead at Google, VP of Product and Engineering at a luxury e-commerce startup, and Head of Product at Vogue. After trying on a VR headset, she realized that AR/VR transformed the boring experience of online shopping into an immersive, exciting experience benefiting customers and designers al...2021-04-1234 min
TechInColorEp. 10: Soraya Darabi on What It Takes to Raise a Fund & Counseling Startups as a Past FounderThis episode, we had the honor of welcoming Soraya Darabi, founder and General Partner at TMV, an early-stage venture firm investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. She shares her wisdom on taking the leap to found her own companies, and needing to ask hard questions to determine when it’s time to move on to new opportunities – like understanding whether you’re a generalist who thrives in early stage companies, or a specialist who prefers to dive deep into a particular problem space. She shares how she drew on experience as a founder to raise a VC fund, and ho...2021-03-2136 min
Campus 10178Gender, race, and the German tech divideDr. Nakeema Stefflbauer (nakeema@post.harvard.edu) is the founder of FrauenLoop, a nonprofit organization that selects and trains motivated women-identified persons for professional jobs in emerging tech. She’s also the founder of Tech In Color, a network of tech leaders in Europe focused on expanding visibility and opportunities for senior tech professionals from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Dr. Stefflbauer holds MA and PhD degrees in Modern Middle East History from Harvard University and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. In episode #10 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, Dr. Stefflbauer spea...2021-03-0237 min
TechInColorEp. 9: Madison Maxey on E-Textiles & The Future of Wearable TechnologyIn this episode, we welcomed Madison Maxey, CEO and Founder of LOOMIA. LOOMIA is a B2B technology company serving Fortune 500 brands that designs and manufactures electronic textiles, which are fabrics that incorporate electronics and circuitry. After dropping out of Parsons School of Design, Maddy became the first fashion designer to win a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, and discovered her passion for e-textiles. Since then, she has developed prototypes and workshops for companies like North Face, Google, and Adidas, and even created an LED Matrix dress in partnership with Google and luxury fashion designer Zac Posen that was shown at New...2021-03-0135 min
TechInColorEp. 8: Sarah LaFleur on Building a BrandIn this episode, we talk to Sarah LaFleur about her career path from Bain to nonprofits, to a short stint in private equity, to founding M.M. LaFleur, a brand for luxury women’s working clothes. She shares her biggest career challenges and how she overcame them– in fundraising, growing the company, building the team, and the effects of macro current events. LaFleur also discusses her philosophy for leaving jobs that don’t foster personal growth, what culture fit really means, and the impact of her multinational upbringing across Tokyo, Taiwan, and D.C. She highlights the significance of diversi...2021-02-1527 min
TechInColorEp. 7: Anne Solmssen on Iterating A Product & Serving as CTO of a Growing StartupOn this episode, we welcomed Anne Solmssen, CTO at Ethena – a startup that provides personalized, digestible harassment prevention training for modern teams. Ethena’s platform is deployed at notable companies including Netflix, Figma, and Zendesk, and uses humor and a micro-learning approach to make compliance training feel engaging and relevant. A New York City native, Anne first became interested in computer science after her high school teacher, Mr. Campbell, encouraged her to take his course after seeing no freshman girls enrolled in computer science. Now as CTO of Ethena, Anne leads the technical team and product development process. Anne disc...2021-01-3127 min
TechInColorEp. 6: Aagya Mathur and Manan Mehta on Choosing the Right Problem to Solve, How to Start A Fund, and their Investor-Founder PartnershipOn this episode of TechInColor, we interviewed Aagya Mathur, CEO and co-founder of Aavia, a hormone health brand, and Manan Mehta, a founding partner at Unshackled Ventures, an early stage VC fund for immigrant-founded startups, including Aavia. Aagya discusses the importance of developing strong founder-problem fit, switching from studying neuroscience as a pre-med in college to business, and how overcoming cultural stigmas around discussing feminine health empowered her to pursue her business even more deeply.
Manan shares his journey of attempting to start a company with an immigrant co-founder and how the barriers to being sponsored for...2021-01-1842 min
TechInColorEp. 5: Alexandra Zatarain on Finding Cofounders, First Jobs, and Building a BrandIn this episode, we welcomed Alexandra Zatarain, Co-Founder and VP of Brand and Marketing at Eight Sleep -- a sleep fitness company that develops advanced smart mattresses to help people sleep better. Sleep is an often overlooked aspect of health, and Eight Sleep aims to transform our perceptions of it the way companies like Fitbit have transformed fitness. Born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico, Alex immigrated to New York City after college, and took the leap to co-found Eight Sleep after realizing technology’s potential to improve health by improving our sleep. Alex discusses the importance of finding the ri...2021-01-0236 min
TechInColorEp. 4: Ablorde Ashigbi on Building a StartupOn this episode, we welcomed Ablorde Ashigbi, founder and CEO of 4Degrees, a platform that aims to equalize opportunity by using technology to improve relationship management. Ablorde is passionate about economic development, a former college athlete, and got the idea for 4Degrees while working in venture capital, after starting his career in consulting at Bain and Company. We discuss Ablorde’s path from entering college as a prospective lawyer to founding a tech startup, his regret-minimization framework for taking risks, one of his favorite quotes (“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift”), and how Ablord...2020-12-2131 min
TechInColorEp. 3: Sarah Kunst on Breaking Into VCOn this episode, we welcomed Sarah Kunst, founder and managing director of Cleo Capital. After starting her career in advertising and startups, Sarah founded a fitness-tech company and later her own fund, for which she raised the second-largest first-time fund by a Black woman VC, ever. We discuss Sarah’s experience with fundraising and overcoming biases, her framework for prioritizing personal passion over checking boxes, how growing up in Michigan affected her investment philosophy, and her advice for breaking into venture capital. Listen in to Sarah’s unique perspective on building lasting professional relationships, balancing financial security and taking risk...2020-12-0730 min
TechInColorEp. 2: Amy Sun on Finding Courage to Forge Your Own PathOn this episode of TechInColor, we welcome Amy Sun, startup founder and former Partner at Sequoia Capital. A native Bostonian, avid painter, and economics major in college, Amy was an early employee at Uber and the first woman on Sequoia’s growth team. Amy reflects on her unique path from starting out in growth marketing and moving into product management, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We discuss her choice to pursue a career in tech versus finance, her investing philosophy, and Asian-American identity. Hear Amy’s stories of being in college when the first iPhone came out, founding a company duri...2020-11-2429 min
TechInColorEp. 1: Ime Archibong on Finding Your North StarOn this episode of TechInColor, we welcome Ime Archibong, Head of New Product Experimentation at Facebook. The son of Nigerian immigrants, Ime discusses his unique journey from being interested in technology to leading a portfolio of diverse entrepreneurial teams focused on rapid product experimentation. Previously, Ime was Vice President of Facebook’s Platform Partnerships team, which managed Facebook’s relationships with companies like Spotify and Netflix. Hear Ime’s firsthand account about the tradeoffs of working at big companies vs. startups, the importance of role models and mentors, the advice he would have given his younger self, and how he dis...2020-11-0835 min
TechInColorEp. 0: Who We AreWelcome to TechInColor, a podcast spotlighting the journeys and experiences of diverse leaders in tech and business. Brought to you by the Harvard Computer Society -- check us out at techincolor.xyz!2020-06-3002 min
Trial By Error Variety ShowNew DialogueWe interview Ela Kitapci of the L.A. based "Whimsical" Pop band, New Dialogue. J ust weeks before the lockdown of 2020, New Dialogue, alongside Run River north completed a round of touring that introduced us here at TBE to the bands live energy and kept us waiting for what's to come! We talk a little about the future of New Dialogue as well as the status at that time, some self betterment choices, and listen to music from the "Teach Me How To Feel" EP. It's quite a pleasant conversation, we do hope you enjoy it as much as...2020-06-041h 00
Saturday Night Freak ShowSuspiria (1977)This week, Colin unleashes the candy-colored horrors of Dario Argento's classic Suspiria (1977), in which a new student (Jessica Harper) at a ballet school in the Black Forest of Germany discovers that it's actually cover for a coven of witches. Join us as we revel in Techincolor delights of supernatural bloodletting on this Italian Horror episode of the Saturday Night Freak Show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2014-02-151h 55