The VentureFuel Visionaries
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Visionaries are defined as having extraordinary foresight and imagination. Those who can see what isn't there. They can imagine the unimaginable and they have the grit to make it happen. Business Visionaries are the change-agents embracing new opportunities to drive outsized results. From the C-Suite to the up-and-coming disruptors, they are blazing new paths, discovering inventive solutions and powering the future. Join us each week as we speak with these Visionaries: the entrepreneurs, investors and corporate leaders driving transformative change across business and society.
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Jul 7, 2020 • 24min
Government Innovation - U.S. Census Bureau Sr. Advisor Mara Abrams
Learn how Mara Abrams is creating and deploying open innovation strategies (prize competitions and accelerators) to solve the key challenges of increasing participation in the 2020 Census and showing the critical importance of Census and other federal data. Mara is a Senior Advisor for the Open Innovation Program at the U.S. Census Bureau and Co-Founder and Director of the Census Open Innovation Labs.
Jul 1, 2020 • 20min
Cloned Voice - Resemble Co-Founder Saqib Muhammad
Custom computer-generated voice for business. Resemble Co-Founder Saqib Muhammad discusses his solution for creating and updating audio content outside the studio, enabling creators to be more dynamic and flexible in this growing age of voice assistants and audio-driven media.
Jun 30, 2020 • 16min
Making Ideas Real - Microsoft Garage Director Mike Pell
Embrace curiosity and overcome risk with Mike Pell, a one-man creative agency for designing, coding and shipping breakthrough software. Mike leads Design for The Microsoft Garage, the company’s worldwide program for experimental projects and curiosity-fueled explorations. He is the co-inventor of Adobe Acrobat, has been awarded several U.S. patents for work at Microsoft and designed and developed MenuFonts (for the original Macintosh in 1984).
Jun 26, 2020 • 26min
Virtual Studios - Live CGI Founders Amanda and Marc Rowley
A broadcast-quality studio created remotely in a matter of days, capable of streaming live content across TV, mobile, AR, VR with almost zero latency. The future of content, education, podcasting and professionalizing your business content.
Jun 23, 2020 • 23min
Lifting a Fortune 50 Company – Comcast NBCUniversal VP of Startup Engagement Danielle Cohn
Generating wins for your core business through multi-touchpoint startup engagement with 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Danielle Cohn, VP of Startup Engagement and Head of LIFT Labs for Comcast NBCUniversal. Uncover challenges worth solving and enable your business to adapt to an uncertain future.
Jun 19, 2020 • 23min
Virtual Socialization - Run the World Co-Founder Xiaoyin Qu and Andreessen Horowitz Partner Li Jin
On this special LIVE recording we talk about virtual events with a16z and Run The World, a virtual event platform focused on enabling meaningful social connection. They just raised $11M and have been described as a hybrid of Zoom video, Eventbrite ticketing, Twitch interactivity, and LinkedIn networking.
Jun 16, 2020 • 28min
DTC and Finding the Misfits - The Clorox Company VP/GM Jackson Jeyanayagam
Can large companies and traditional industries go Direct-to-Consumers (DTC)? Learn from the best as 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Jackson Jeyanayagam, VP/GM of DTC at The Clorox Company, shares his recipe for innovating within large companies. He describes how he created a playbook for how to modernize brands and to scale them across traditional organizations.
Jun 11, 2020 • 18min
Zero Waste Sustainable Future - Package Free Shop Founder Lauren Singer
As a leader in the zero-waste revolution, Package Free founder, Lauren Singer, shares her commitment to reducing trash and making the sustainable lifestyle accessible and affordable for every consumer.
Jun 9, 2020 • 30min
Sonic Branding to Priceless Experiences - Mastercard CMO Raja Rajamannar
"Advertising is dead," so says 2020 VentureFuel Visionary Raja Rajamannar, the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President of Healthcare Business for Mastercard. He shares why the greatest advancements in his 35-year career are from collaborations with startups and how you can build an innovation culture.
May 29, 2020 • 18min
User Generated Image Library - Unsplash Co-Founder Mikael Cho
With billions of views and millions of image downloads a month, Unsplash has become a force in the creative ecosystem. Co-Founder Mikael Cho discusses the value to image producers, users and brands, and how they can authentically embed themselves into Unsplash's community.
