We found 6 episodes of Looking Beyond With Michael Sikand with the tag “entrepreneur”.
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#23 Ed Bolian, Founder of VinWiki
June 29th, 2020 | 16 mins 27 secs
business, car, disruption, drakogte, drakomotors, ed bolian, electric, electric vehicle, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, ev, lamborghini, startup, startups, supercar, technology, vinwiki
In Episode 23, listeners hear from Ed Bolian, Founder and CEO of VINwiki Inc., former Cannonball Run record holder, and ex-Sales Director of Lamborghini Atlanta. He discusses why he started an exotic rental car company in college, how his VINwiki youtube channel went viral overnight, and his advice to young people who aspire to be shrewd negotiators.
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#17 Eunice Cofie-Obeng, CEO of Nuekie
June 11th, 2020 | 13 mins 41 secs
beauty, blm, business, cosmetics, diversity, entrepreneur, innovation
In Episode 17, listeners hear from Eunice Cofie-Obeng, CEO and Chief Chemist of Nuekie, a DTC beauty company with skincare products designed for dark skin tones. She discusses why she launched her game-changing beauty brand, the strengths of the DTC business model, and how she believes empowering entrepreneurs of color can change the world.
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#15 Rob Chesnut, Former Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb
June 8th, 2020 | 14 mins 27 secs
airbnb, business, change, disruption, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, fake i.d.s, future, government, law firm, laws, lawyer, policy, technology
In Episode 15, hear from Rob Chesnut, Advisor and former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, about his company’s 500k donation to Black Lives Matter + NAACP, the importance of companies aligning with social missions, and his advice to students about how to affect change in the new war on racism and inequality.
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#8 Shadi Mere Founder of Bedestrian
May 22nd, 2020 | 13 mins 30 secs
autonomous, biotech, business, disruption, electric vehicle, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, hopsitals, medicaltech, nurses, robots, startups, technology
Will hospitals soon be run by robots? In Episode 8, listeners hear from Shadi Mere, Founder & CEO of Bedestrian, a startup building robots for hospitals to improve efficiencies in patient care.
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#5 G. Craig Vachon, Founder of Chowdahead Growth Fund
May 15th, 2020 | 12 mins 13 secs
business, disruption, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, investing, money, novel, startups, technology, thriller, vc, venturecapital
In today's episode, Michael Sikand talks business with G. Craig Vachon, Founder at Chowdahead Growth Fund and Author of Best-Selling Spy Thriller “The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley”. We discuss Vachon’s hilarious take on Silicon Valley culture, the five core areas he uses to evaluate startup ideas, and his famous Ted Talk that pissed off Google.
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#2 Shiv Sikand, Founder of Drako Motors
May 6th, 2020 | 15 mins 36 secs
business, car, disruption, drakogte, drakomotors, electric, electric vehicle, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, ev, startup, startups, supercar, technology
On today's episode Michael Sikand talks shop with Shiv Sikand, co-founder of Drako Motors, to discuss why he launched a supercar startup, the ludicrous specs of the 2020 Drako GTE, and the importance of electric cars in society. Before building an electric supercar, Shiv co-founded IC Manage, an enterprise software company that works with the largest technology companies in the world. He has a B.S. in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester in England.