This week, we spoke with our advisor and the inspiration behind the name of the podcast, Dr. Po Chi Wu (POE CHEE WOO). This was a challenging conversation.

Dr. Po Chi pushed us to consider what it really means to belong to a Tribe, from the perspective of someone who, for a long time, never felt that sense of belonging, that sense of place one feels in the safety and comfort of peers. We also dove deep into the lonely, Tribe-less experience of being a founder, how companies need to create a sense of Tribe for their employees to thrive, and the role truth plays in Tribe formation.

Dr. Po Chi is an Advisor at SkyDeck, the incubator/accelerator program at UC Berkeley and advises several startups around the world.

He has several decades of experience as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and in Greater China, and currently teaches entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor in Hong Kong and Berkeley. He is also a co-founder and senior partner at Futurelab Consulting, which focuses on new technologies at the intersection of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.