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Robbie Page is a Managing Partner of Ad Valorum, Chief Marketing Officer of Tenzo Tea, and plays Professional Beach Volleyball on the AVP. City where you’re from: Rochester, NY Hobbies: Reading, Volleyball, Guitar, Adventuring and Exploring Nature Favorite quote: “Vision is the source of leadership, the expansive dream state where everything begins and all is
Background Thanks Clarissa for letting us have the pleasure of interviewing you today! Tell me a little about yourself and your upbringing. I’m from Mustang, Oklahoma – a small town in central Oklahoma. I’m nineteen years old, twenty in May! I started in ROTC at the beginning of Winter Quarter of 2016, a few weeks
Rahul Kanojia is an IT engineer from Mumbai University. He is also an Entrepreneur, Educationist, Speaker, Freelance programmer and a Web developer. Lastly, he is the Youth General Secretary at International Humans Right Council (Mumbai area). In this interview he shares a bit more into Diplomas, a project with which he plans to completely change
Cherie Aimée is a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and Near-Death Survivor. She was dead for 90-minutes and now represents the future of medical science and technology. She is a Brand Ambassador for various companies and organizations and contributing writer for the fast-growing media outlet, Influencive. Cherie is Advisor to entrepreneurs and CEO/Founders of small
Hey Alejandra, very glad to have you here. Why don’t give us a quick intro about yourself? I’m 20 years old and from Sacramento,CA. I started playing competitive softball when I was 10 years old (for the California Breeze). Prior to that I played baseball from 4-10 years old and competitive baseball while I played
Abtin Masseratagah was one of the original influencers and creators that learned to leverage social media to control what everyone is viewing, with campaigns as large as 25MM impressions per day. City where you’re from: Born and raised in Toronto, Canada Hobbies: Weight lifting, Film, Hamburger Enthusiast Favorite quote: “Loyalty is a two-way street. If
Alice is a young entrepreneur who dares to dream far. She graduated as the Valedictorian from the University of Toronto and now works in audit at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Outside of her full-time job, Alice is active in the modelling, dance, and music industry. Beauty and brains – she is the reigning Miss Toronto 2017 and a
Hey Sohaib, very nice having you here. What experiences growing up shaped you into the entrepreneur that you are today? The truth is, I never aspired to be an entrepreneur. My dad is a physician, and I wanted to be one too. I still do want to engage with medicine in some way in the
Nikhil Malankar is a 23 year old Indian Entrepreneur who started his journey from GameEon, an Indian game development company. He took an exit from his role as the CEO of GameEon and currently he is running Tell Me Nothing, an entertainment website and is working on his next games under Next Move Digital LLP.
Ariel Leonardo Gutierrez is the founder of Ariel Designs, which focuses on transportation design and 3D CAD modeling. He is currently studying at University of Florida to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Through the Miami Dade College (MDC) Honors program, he obtained an Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. At MDC, he served as
Josh Gelinas is the CEO and Cofounder of Vestivise, a new FinTech startup aimed at helping people understand their investments regardless of their financial knowledge. Hey Josh, love what you’re doing in the financial space. For those not familiar with your startup, tell us what Vestivise is all about! Vestivise is the answer to a
I first learned about Partha Unnava when I saw him on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and his story really struck me, so I decided to interview him for Future Sharks. City where you’re from: Atlanta, GA Hobbies: Hip-hop, basketball Favorite quote: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” I
Shikhar is a Satirist, Science Communicator, Sci-tech Blogger, Sonneteer, Rationalist, and Futurist. Having so many projects going on at the same time, Shikhar Srivastava is hard to keep track of. In this interview, we talked about the importance of reading and where to find skilled people to get your projects done. Where are you from? I am
Jason Wong was a Tumblr influencer with over a million followers who decided to turn his digital influence into cash. Learn more about him during this engaging and super insightful interview. One liners City where you’re from: Born in Hong Kong, currently residing in Irvine, California Hobbies: Spa, trying new restaurants, traveling Favorite quote: “You miss
Photo credit: Derek Heisler Cam Adair is the founder of Game Quitters – the world’s largest support community for video game addiction, serving 20,000 members/month in 77 countries. A motivational speaker, he travels the globe sharing his message on how we can harness the adversity we face as fuel for growth, connection, and purpose. Dedicated to
When I first met Austin Vaday a few years ago, it instantly struck me how passionate and dedicated to his projects he was. Austin studies Computer Science at UCLA and is currently building Aquaint, a social network that lets you seamlessly find other people’s social media profiles in one place, by making one profile with
Steve O’Dell is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Tenzo Tea and Managing Partner of Ad Valorum. He has been a good friend of mine ever since we crossed paths at UCLA during our undergraduate studies. In this interview, Steve shares a bit about his story with his matcha company and also provides a great angle
Manu Goswami is a 19 year old sophomore studying at the University of Toronto. He is an award winning serial tech entrepreneur and innovator, UN Youth Ambassador, early stage tech investor, LinkedIn campus editor, social media personality and TEDx speaker. Swish, as they know him, is one of the world’s youngest venture capitalist as a
Photo credit: Ryan Ng, IG: @dinoooo.r Hey Koven, great having you here today. Can you give us a short intro about you? My name is Koven Wei and I am 18 years old. I recently graduated early from high school in order to pursue my ventures and I am currently running my own clothing brand and
Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to. He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using Online social networking to build an offline relationship and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy. It is because of Jeremy’s
Tell us about your upbringing, what got you into music? Growing up just outside of Calgary I was active in music from a young age. Starting in piano when I was 6, quickly I progressed to violin, and then guitar. As I was actually home-schooled for my elementary years, music was an extremely large part
Samuel F. Poirier is a young entrepreneur that was named a Thiel Fellow. Samuel founded his first company at the age of 14, importing minerals to Montreal. Later, at age 18, he went and created the first debit card for Bitcoin. He also created an analytics platform for VR companies called Retinad to see how users were
Richard Lorenzen is a one of the top millennial entrepreneurs and investors in America. He’s the founder and CEO of Fifth Avenue Brands, a public relations firm in New York City. He was ranked by both Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 50 most inspiring entrepreneurs. Richard is also the author of
Uhmm where do I begin… Put simply, Josh Steimle is a straight BAUS. As a writer, speaker and businessman, Josh is a relentless entrepreneur that has written over 200 articles for Time, Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur, among others. He is also the author of of Chief Marketing Officers at Work, which contains interviews and insights from
Andy Hine is the founder of MedalDisplays.co.uk and MedalDisplays.com.au. In this interview, he goes over what made him ditch his jobs and finally start his entrepreneurial journey. Most of the time, we won’t find out what we truly like until we try many things. Let’s hear it from Andy to see what he went through
Sam Sawchuk is the co-founder of Sandwich for a Story, an initiative which focuses on using Virtual Reality as a tool to help immerse people coping with homelessness in job interview settings. Sam is also a TEDx speaker, startup advisor and contributor to major publications including the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Influencive, HustleTime and Startups.co.
Mahbod Moghadam: Founder of Rap Genius and Everipedia Thanks for being here Maboo, give the readers a 2-sentence pitch about yourself. Yo yoooo! I am an Iranian dude who is really into crowd-knowledge! I started Genius.com, which tells you the meaning of lyrics, and now I’ve started Everipedia, which tells you the meaning of EVERYTHING!
Sameer Jafri is one of my good friends at UCLA. We met freshman year and connected because of our mutual interest in entrepreneurship. In 2014, Sameer started Twazer, an online marketplace for college students to buy and sell their items through a clean mobile interface. He has been hustling for quite a while and recently
I started these interview series to get a chance to interview people that I respect, look up to and want to learn from. Over the next few months, I plan to interview friends, colleagues and industry leaders alike to pick their brain and draw from their experiences. Today, I wanted to interview Dave Liebowitz, the executive editor
Steve O’Dell is an entrepreneur you need to keep an eye on. Having started multiple companies and having many more on the way, this guy doesn’t seem to stop. I worked with him on a few projects and witnessed the enthusiasm and perseverance that makes Steve a very interesting person. Today, I wanted to interview
Harry’s, a subscription-based model for grooming products went viral with a very clever campaign. Here’s how they did it. Specifically this post will explain how they gathered nearly 100,000 email addresses in one week (!). This post includes all the email templates, open-source code, and insider tricks that you can use to replicate their success. It’s similar
Vlad Tenev, co-founder of commission-free stock trading app, Robinhood, spoke this morning at the UCLA Founder School. The Forbes 30 under 30 and UCLA Math PhD dropout talked about the experiences that led him to cofound Robinhood, the trend that he sees in consumer products, and his personal portfolio of stock picks. Tenev started the
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