Angel Invest Boston Joe Selvaggi, Entrepreneur and Podcaster - "HubWonk"
Aug 5, 2020
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Joe Selvaggi, entrepreneur and podcaster straddles the worlds of business and policy in his podcast HubWonk, one of two podcasts from Boston’s Pioneer Institute. Joe and I talked about compelling interviews of founders and how they relate to the work of the free-market think tank. Fun & Instructive.
Highlights include:
- Sal Daher’s Introduction of Joseph Selvaggi
- The Pioneer Institute and Entrepreneurship
- Joe Selvaggi’s Business – Plaster Fun Time
- “It could be easier. Our tax regime, our regulation regime." Everything has an effect on your clients, your business, your employees. You kind of become an honorary policy wonk…”
- “My ingenuity, my hard work, makes you richer.”
- COVID-19 Highlights the Bounty Brought to Us by Free Markets that We Take for Granted – The Fish Counter at Whole Foods
- Buoy Health – HubWonk Podcast
- Buoy Health’s AI Interviews Patients and Advises Them on What Type of Care to Seek & Where
- Joe Selvaggi Addresses Issues Such Education and Transportation that Are Crucial to Entrepreneurs
- “I just think that the retirement homes have to do a whole lot better about protecting the elderly from transmission of diseases.”
- Gauss Medical – Machine Vison in the Operating Room
- Joe Selvaggi Talks about His Interview with the Founder of Telehealth Firm Amwell
- Joe Selvaggi’s Entrepreneurial Journey
- “What I love about HubWonk and really the podcast medium is, you get to eavesdrop on a conversation with people who are really making hard decisions…”
- Example of Podcast Candor: Russ Wilcox – Frank Conversation about All His Mistakes as a Founder
- “To the superficiality of Twitter? Oh, no doubt. Marshall McLuhan said “the medium is the message.””