The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with special guest Brittany Bir, Chief Operating Officer of 42 Silicon Valley and how they are disrupting engineering education by providing FREE tuition. Brittany shares her own story of moving from the US to Paris as a foreign student and attending 42, an engineering school started by French billionaire, telecom magnate, and philanthropist Xaiver Niel and how she came back to the USA to become the COO and head of 42 Silicon Valley the second official school of 42 and the only one located in North America. Brittany and Keith discuss the 42 program as well as the admissions process and what the life of a student of 42 is like. Listen to the show to find out how you can be considered a student at 42. Brittany and Keith also discuss at length their collaboration together on the 2018 Call For Code with the primary hosts/sponsors: 42, City of Fremont, Silicon Valley, Tulip Industries and IBM a global initiative and competition to solve for natural disasters and disaster relifed. This event will be held on Saturday August 25th, 2018 at 42's school and is free to the public. This will be the only Call for Code event in North America. Sign up here for more details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/call-for-code-hackathon-silicon-valley-tickets-49010749471?aff=ebdssbdestsearch First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo gives a recap of his recent speaking engagement on Cyber Risk and Blockchain at the Upward Hartford Connecticut Cyber Security Startup Roadshow. Keith's guests included: 1) Mike Hermus, CEO of Revoluton Four consulting group and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security 2) Prithu Prakash, Vice President of Redline Communictions, Advisor to Center for Innovation and Commercialization & Executive at General Dynamics 3) Inon Elroy, Israel Economic Minister to the East Coast of the United States 4) Aviv Grafi, CEO of Votiro 5) Matan Or-El, CEO Of Panorays First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Babble Labs co-founders Chris Rowen, CEO and Samer Hijazi, CTO discuss how to eliminate unwanted noice in any audio using Babble Labs Clear Cloud product. Chris and Samer discuss the journey from companies such as Ten Silica to Cadence Design to finding a value seam in improving audio quality leading to the creation of Babble Labs! Also, listen during the show for a demonstration of their product. Anyone can try the technology for free at https://babblelabs.com/ First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo sits down with Payson Johnston Co-Founder and CEO and returning guest Clay DeDeaux Senior Director of Account Services of Crowdz.io a blockchain based company that is disuprting tradiional Trade Finance and Supply Chain finance using blockchain technologies and how for their use case blockchain is definitely ready for "prime time". For the first time, The comparison of Crowdz to the Silk Road is how there is currently a "One Belt" initiative from China re-creating the Silk Road from ancient times. Crowdz is creating a Silk Road for eCommerce by helping business (small, medium or large) connect to financing cross-border. Crowdz has built a platform that makes Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance and Factoring (buying and selling of invoices and receivables) much more efficient benefitting all parties to a supply chain (vendors and customers). Crowdz.io had an earlier show when they discussed how to reduce EDI and ACH payments by up to 75-85%. Here is the link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-4-13-18-podcast First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Keith has returning guest Jedidiah Yueh, Founder and Chairman of Silicon Valley Data Management company Delphix. Jed is well known in Silcon Valley for starting software companies with billions of USD in revenue including Avamar (a company acquired by EMC in the mid 2000s) and now as the author of best-selling book on innoviation "Disrupt or Die - What the World needs to Learn from the Silicon Valley to Survive" Keith and Jed discussed Jed's concept of "Thin Tech" and how it relates to the challenge large companies have with "Turning the Titanic" (i.e. why is it so hard to innovate in large organizations). Jed gives very practical advice for companies to be able to innovate. Jed states: "There's a powerful paradox at work in the world today. It's getting easier every year to invent a product that can disrupt a longstanding industry, a phenomenon I call "thin tech." And yet, legacy enterprises are finding it harder than ever to innovate. Stop chasing shiny tech objects (e.g. blockchain, AI, etc.) and find your "what"--the product that will help you take control of the future of your industry." On an earlier episode of SVIN "Disrupt or Die" https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/svi-3-16-18-podcast-disrupt-or-die-with-jedidiah-y Jed discussed how many of the followed innovation books and models don't always work or yield the expected results. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo sits down with Swati Chaturvedi who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Propel(x) an angel investment platform and community that is "Democratizing Angel Investing" by bringing startups, investors and subject matter experts together to make breakthrough investments. in Deep Technology. Swati explains: "Propel(x) is an online angel investing platform focused on the niche of “deep technology” startups – that is, startups that are founded on a true technological innovation or scientific discovery. One of the key challenges for deep technology companies— which can be found in a diverse range of fields including computer science; energy and clean tech; telecom; life sciences; and, materials —is that they’re complex enough that you have to put in some effort to understand them properly. So there is a diligence aspect that’s required which we’re also providing on our platform." Listen to how Swati and her co-founder Lisheng Wang got their start with the MIT Alumni Angel Investment group and how they found a need to provide an investment platform for "Deep Technology" and the challenges that very bright people (academics, scientists and engineers) have when trying to explain their ideas and products to lay people. That's where the due diligence using industry experts comes in. Swati and Keith also explain how Propel(x) has unique benefits and how they have made angel investing accessible to investors of all sizes making Propel(x) a great platform to fundraise. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor

Keith Koo interviews Chester Santos, International Man of Memory, who shares his journey from software engineer to memory skills trainer. They discuss memory as it relates to humans and technology, and the importance of developing good memory skills in business. Chester performs memory exercises on air and emphasizes the importance of remembering names in building better business relationships. They also touch on the challenges of distinguishing between digital and real personalities and the potential of blockchain technologies.

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund. Jonathan shares his story of how growing up in a missionary family in Honduras eventually led to him becoming a nurse and then founding Hackers and Founders which then led to becoming a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist running a portfolio valued at $600 million USD. Jonathan personalizes his desires to "tokenize" the Venture Capital model using blockchain technologies in order to bring Silicon Valley Capital to the unreached in emerging countries. Jonathan discusses expansion plans into China, Dubai, Latin America and Africa First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh

Listen to Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and special guests Sanjeev Ukhalkar CEO and CEM Yildirim COO, of Food / Restaurant innovation startup Bigzpoon as they pursue a "Greener Planet, One Meal At a Time!" with a unique approach to the ever growing problem of food waste. BigZpoon is dedicated to reducing restuarant food waste and helping the environment by creating a new, profitable channel for restaurants to sell their surplus food through win-win-win situations for restaurants, consumers and Planet Earth. BigZpoon platform enables restaurants to instantly connect with value seeking consumers. This results in increased revenue for restaurants and affordable, delicious food for customers. Bigzpoon's scalable, cloud based, location-aware mobile application platform and powerful analytics enable restaurants to publish real time offers to a very targeted set of consumers and enables consumers to order food from any device. Listen Friday 1-2pm on Silicon Valley Insider 1220AM KDOW San Francisco / Silicon Valley Download the podcast at 2pm For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh

In this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and co-founder of the Tulip Emerging Technologies conference tulipconf.com descibes the dramatic events leading up to the EOS Mainnet launch. EOS as a fully decentralized blockchain that has a consittution, goverance system and arbitration built into the blockchain required a majority vote of block producers (akin to a board of directors but not exactly). How the conference became a focal point for the worlds leading block producers to vote on approving the launch (after a week of "no-votes"). Also, Keith was able to interview on location at the Tulip Conference with Aussie Patricia Parkison, founder of Blockchain Babes and finished the show with futurist and author Jim Harris of "Blindsided". Patricia shares her own blockchain journey leading up to the formation of blockchain babes which is dedicated to empowering women to learn more about the technology. Jim and Keith speak on future advancements of technology and reminiscing how former technology titans often get disrupted by not adapting to technology shifts like blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Listen Friday 1-2pm on Silicon Valley Insider 1220AM KDOW San Francisco / Silicon Valley Download the podcast at 2pm For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh