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Joe Sweeny, a Workweek friend

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Space Perspective just raised $40M to build the Disney World of space. To do it they’re using Space Balloons.NASA has been toying with space balloons since the 1970s but you may remember them from Red Bull’s halo jump — a skydive from the edge
When was the last time you enjoyed your Gmail inbox? Shortwave is picking up where Gmail dropped the ball and redesigning your inbox. Find out how.Joe gets straight into conversation with Andrew about why email should be as much fun as WhatsAp
When your crop’s ready for harvesting, you need workers ready to go. But getting reliable, legal workers is tough and that’s where SESO is stepping up.Joe and SESO CEO Michael get into the multi-billion dollar problem facing the agricultural i
Phil Libin has founded a few companies — Evernote the early mobile app giant, All Turtles a product design firm, and now Mmhmm, the culmination of a decade long mission to kill Powerpoint.We dive into how Phil names companies, what he learned
When you can tell Andrew Chen from A16z how to solve the cold start problem, you know you’re on to a good thing. Meet Swaypay, the company with all the answers.And those answers come from Kaeya Majmundar, Founder and CEO, with a $4.2 million S
“If you’re not paying, you’re the product”. Josh McManus is shaking financial wellness up with a membership platform helping customers gain financial freedom.The problem with most financial institutions is they just want to sell you things. Fr
When Everett Cook saw a gap in the market, he didn’t just fill it, he set the bar for the entire industry and took his VC backed company to a new level.In this fly through, Joe gets into it with Everett, talking about why digital financial ser
Delphia is using your data to beat the stock market. Today, the stock market is about having an information edge. Hedge funds use satellite imagery of Walmart parking lots and AI that crawls Twitter to bet on a company's returns. Delphia has it
Supply chains are broken. Poor communication among suppliers has the potential to affect all our lives from car safety to well stocked grocery stores. Vendia is building solutions.Tim Wagner and Shruthi Rao, Co-Founders, are, at heart, builder
Ben Lamm is on a de-extinction mission and it’s no coincidence his company is backed by one of the original creators of the Jurassic Park franchise. As a serial tech entrepreneur, Ben Lamm knew his next startup was always going to have a big i
Pipedream is a delivery startup, but they’re not using bike messengers or Uber drivers, they’re using robots that will deliver you a burrito in minutes via pipes underground.Pipedream is GoPuff crossed with Elon Musk’s boring company. It’s buil
Meet the founder building a fintech business to upgrade government.Propel is building the banking app for the 42M Americans on food stamps. The US government deploys $70 billion a year into food stamps and it doesn’t have a website where users
How do you bring in the next generation of crypto users? You create your own currency.Most fintech companies are skimming from customers when it comes to saving and investing but the Eco platform is different. By making spending, saving and in
Meet the startup backed by the GitHub CEO and investment team. Graphite is growing like crazy. Taking inspiration from Discord and Twitter, this is a company offering a code review tool for engineers. Operating as an open source CLI and dashbo
Meet the company on a mission to make teamwork the best part of work. Backed by a $14M Series A, Switchboard is one to watch.Tapping into the remote working space, Switchboard brings all the right people and tools together on the cloud to make
Templates! Great trading strategies can get lost in a sea of spreadsheets and complicated code. Composer makes it easy for traders, with a building block system that can be endlessly customized.Even the most experienced retail investors can ge
Kicking off Season 2 is an extraordinary guest, building way more than just a business in New York City. Mike Fraietta is creating community, art, and co-working space in this fascinating DAO.Web3 has a new home, a heart in SoHo where the Empi
Fredrik Haga couldn’t have started a crypto startup in a tougher environment, now Dune has a billion dollar valuation. Three years ago Fredrik and co-founder Mats Olsen were getting used to hearing ‘no’. Rejected by 100s of investors, they dec
From a cycling chef to CEO of a fleet of EVs, meet the founder changing the face of NYC transport.When you plan on competing with the likes of Uber, you’d better bring your A-game. Revel is that extraordinary company, with a fleet of 100% elec
Ag Tech! You may have seen crop spraying in movies done by biplanes or Vietnam veteran pilots. That is still how the market works today. Which is why our guest today is building a new kind of ag tech company based on crop spring drones. We div
“A new kind of farm for a new kind of world” - that’s the promise of Plenty, and the world’s first, high capacity, indoor vertical farm.When growing crops is a battle for so many communities around the world, Plenty is on a mission to bring he
Rob Meyerson was recruited by Jeff Bezos to run Blue Origin in 2003. He built the New Shepard, the rocket that took Jeff and three civilians to space last summer, and today he's a VC investing in space startups.On this bonus episode, Joe talks
“A new kind of farm for a new kind of world” - that’s the promise of Plenty, and the world’s first, high capacity, indoor vertical farm.When growing crops is a battle for so many communities around the world, Plenty is on a mission to bring he
Gamer owned universe! When players take ownership of their assets, innovation follows. Meet Faraway, home to 2 million players and counting.Web 2 games studios are fine but gaming is changing. Take GTA, for example. Who knew it would end up ge
Zoom! Grain is building a way to record, search, and edit your Zoom meetings. But what started as a transcription service and a video editor has evolved into a new kind of database - a searchable record of all the conversations that happen ins
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