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Jeremy sends off the podcast after its final episode. You can follow Jeremy @JeremyShinewald and keep up with Venture For America at http://ventureforamerica.org
Since we last talked with Nadia, Dia&Co has quadrupled in size, raised $25 million, and moved into a new massive warehouse! Dia&Co is as dedicated as ever to connecting with an underserved market and challenging fashion designers to create for
Adam Grossman started a business right out of his Stern MBA, with no intention to work for anyone from the start. After several iterations of his business he created B6A, a platform that analyzes the value of ads bringing advertisers new insigh
Kate Ryder grew up surrounded by entrepreneurs - her father and grandparents on both sides of the family started their own businesses and set the stage for Kate's future career. When she graduated from college, Kate dreamed of becoming a writer
Greg Behrman kicked off his career with a stint at Goldman Sachs before penning the book, The Invisible People, about the global AIDS pandemic. His early success as an author led him to an opportunity to work at the State Department with Genera
When Dan Bloom found himself on the wait list for the fellowship in VFA's early days, he set his calendar to remind him to email the COO every week to express his passion for the program. Dan's persistence paid off when he was invited to join t
You might recognize Megan from the interview she did last year about her startup studio, Human Ventures. The very model Megan created for the studio worked for her own idea and today she is working with Sam Gimbel on Clark, an AI assistant for
A few months ago we heard from Charlie Kroll about his career and his new venture. This week he joins us again with his co-founder, Sallie Krawcheck, to talk about Ellevest, a company that is redefining investing for women. When Sallie first co
Andrew Lowenthal began his career in government with the New York Department of Education, where he learned the vital importance of teaching young people about morality and ethics as early in their education as possible. His passion for social
Toby graduated from Georgetown University with plans to work in government and, one day, become Secretary of State. After a change of heart, and as a very audacious 22 year old, Toby landed himself an internship at Gilt by knocking on doors and
Nancy Lublin feels very strongly about law school - "it's where ideas go to die". Yet NYU Law School is exactly where she came up with the idea for Dress for Success, now a global nonprofit that promotes the economic independence of women by pr
This week we are thankful for all of the badass women out there changing the world through entrepreneurship. We're bringing back this interview with the Agrawal sisters who have worked together on a number of interesting businesses including: W
Dane Atkinson is a serial entrepreneur with lots of great stories to share. We're bringing his interview back this week as part of our "Best of" tag. Dane was the COO of a company at the age of 18, owned a bar in Williamsburg for 3 years, and w
We're bringing back and oldie, but a goodie! Listen to our interview with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe and current CEO of Glamsquad, an on-demand, app-based beauty provider delivering professional and affordable hair, make
Ben Uyeda has always been a builder. From building swords out of car suspension leaf springs as a child to starting an architecture firm directly out of college, his passion for design has been motivated by necessity and accessibility. Ben’s fi
In this episode Jeremy Shinewald, along with guest host Miles Lasater, interviews Dan Porter - former teacher and CEO of Teach for America, serial entrepreneur, and current Board Member of Venture for America. Dan may be most well known for ser
Olga Vidisheva was born in Kyrgyzstan and moved to the US to attend Wellesly College. Her story is the quintessential 'American Dream'. Olga learned english while working in a Japanese retaurant (of all places!) and put herself through college
Martin Keen comes from a long line of craftsman. Martin's father was known to build furniture and both his father and grandfather made shoes. It is no surprise that Martin followed in their footsteps. After going to industrial design school and
This week Jeremy sits down with Jon Stein, Founder & CEO of Betterment, an automated investing service that helps clients better manage and grow their wealth through smarter technology for a fraction of the cost of traditional financial service
Ellen is a remarkable young woman who spotted a problem in her home country, Malawi; women have fewer opportunities for education which limits their employment opportunities and keeps them homebound for most of their adult lives. Inspired by on
This week we are re-airing one of our first few episodes with 2012 Fellow, Brian Rudolph. Brian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Banza, a chickpea pasta company aiming to do for pasta what Chobani did for greek yogurt. Brian is also one of the feat
Christine Hunsicker began her career as at a financial reporting company where, on his second day, she convinced the CFO to take an inexperienced college graduate onto his time. She gained tremendous experience helping the company through 7 res
As roommates Yale Business School Ben Young and Frederick Kukelhaus were commiserating over the horrible experience of buying furniture. They discovered that they were both ammature furniture makers and decided to try their hand at making it in
Hailing from Denmark, Henrik started his career in media as a radio producer for BBC before moving on to MTV. He was the first person to come up with the idea of inserting user generated content in between music videos (for anyone who remembers
After graduating from Columbia University in 2009, Jared joined Tumblr during a major growth phase for the company. While at Tumblr he entered a hackathon attempting to solve a group texting problem which resulted in GroupMe, a free group messa
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