Episodes

Friday Jan 06, 2023
#241 - Private vs Public REIT Investing with Armada ETF’s CEO Phil Bak
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
January 6, 2023 - On today’s show we welcome special guest Phil Bak, CEO of Armada ETF
Advisors. Phil has been innovating in the ETF industry for over 15 years. He has previously served as Founder/CEO of Exponential ETFs, an ETF issuer and sub-advisor acquired by Tidal ETF Services in 2020. Phil has also served as Chief Investment Officer at Signal Advisors, a venture-backed startup in Detroit and Managing Director at the New York Stock Exchange. On the show, Phil discusses:
- Characteristics of ETFs that make them a great tool for investors
- Some major innovations in ETFs over the past 15 years
- The bull case for residential real estate
- What is happening in the private REIT space
- The major risk investors face in private REITs
- And more

Monday Nov 28, 2022
#240: Reimagining Earth Through Investing with TPB’s CEO David Friedberg
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest, David Friedberg, Founder and CEO of The Production Board. Dave is an entrepreneur, business leader and investor who founded The Climate Corporation, which was sold to Monsanto for $1.1 billion. He now leads The Production Board, a holding company of businesses established to solve the most fundamental problems.
On the show, Dave discusses:
- His early experiences in investment banking, Google, and what it was like working with Larry Page
- The founding, growth and sale of his first venture, the Climate Corporation
- High potential investment themes that he is focused on
- Insight into one of his latest deals: Lavoro, Brazil’s largest agricultural inputs retailer
- And more

Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
On today’s podcast we welcome special guest, Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus. Intuitive Machines is a diversified space exploration, infrastructure, and services company.
On the show, Steve discusses:
-Some of his main learning experiences at NASA and what inspired him to leave to launch a startup
-The current state of the space race
-The potential for long-term lunar infrastructure and commerce
-What he thinks is in store for space exploration over the next 50 years
-And more

Monday Nov 07, 2022
#238: The Entrepreneurial Journey with AvePoint CEO TJ Jiang
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
On today’s podcast we welcome special guest, AvePoint CEO TJ Jiang. AvePoint is the largest data management solutions provider for the Microsoft cloud.
On the show, TJ discusses:
- His journey from new immigrant, to Wall Street, to successful entrepreneur taking his company public
- How he made it through the adversity when founding the company
- Lessons learned from taking his company public
- His thoughts on the current recessionary economic environment
- And more

Monday Oct 24, 2022
#236: Venture Capital Investing with Social Leverage Founder Howard Lindzon
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest, Social Leverage Founder Howard Lindzon. Social Leverage is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage and seed-stage investments in the Software, Consumer, and Fintech industries.
On the show, Howard discusses:
- How he initially got into investing and what is appealing about early-stage investing
- Key lessons learned from his hits and misses within startups, angel investing and venture capital
- What he thinks is in store for NFTs, crypto and web3 in the future
- His thoughts on the current market environment
- And more

Monday Oct 17, 2022
#235: Venture Debt Financing with Trinity Capital President Kyle Brown
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest, Trinity Capital President Kyle Brown. Trinity Capital is a provider of venture debt financing, a smart financing option for high-growth venture capital-backed startups.
On the show, Kyle discusses:
-A primer on business development companies
-The basics of venture loans and equipment leases
-How venture debt fits into an investment portfolio
-And more

Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
#234: Lithium-ion Battery Technology with Dragonfly Energy CEO Denis Phares
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
On today’s show, we welcome special guest Dragonfly Energy CEO Denis Phares. Dragonfly Energy is a leader in energy storage and producer of deep cycle lithium-ion storage batteries.
On the show, Denis discusses:
Advantages of lithium-ion products over lead-acid batteries
The outlook for lithium carbonate prices
Key aspects of the business that investors should consider
His favourite productivity hack
And more

Monday Oct 03, 2022
#233: Algorithmic Investing with Delphia’s Andrew Peek
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest, Delphia's Andrew Peek. Delphia runs an algorithmic investing strategy powered by machine learning.
On the show, Andrew discusses:
-Predicting fundamental data using AI to drive investment alpha
-Which fundamentals their algorithm trades on
-How humans can incorporate machine learning into their investment process
-What he finds most compelling about capital markets
-And more

Monday Sep 19, 2022
#231: Enterprise Software with Near CEO Anil Mathews
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest Near CEO Anil Mathews. Near is a global SaaS leader in privacy-led data intelligence on people, places and products.
On the show, Anil discusses:
Whether entrepreneurs are born or made
Characteristics that make enterprise software attractive for entrepreneurs
Near’s datasets and why they’re useful
The #1 most important attribute for an entrepreneur to have
And more

Monday Sep 12, 2022
#230: Molecular Farming with Moolec Science CEO Gastón Paladini
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
On today’s show we welcome special guest, Moolec Science founder and CEO Gastón Paladini. Moolec is a science-based food ingredient company that is going public through a merger with SPAC LightJump Acquisition.
On the show, Gastón discusses:
What is molecular farming and how did it originate
How they produce meat molecules with plants
Why meat alternatives are necessary
His biggest challenge as an entrepreneur
And more