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    <title>Looking Beyond With Michael Sikand  - Episodes Tagged with “Thriller”</title>
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    <description>Looking Beyond With Michael Sikand is a time capsule for Michael's early years of building his brand, Our Future, through a series of high-energy interviews he conducted with business executives and startup founders as a 20-year-old University of Michigan student. Michael ended up pivoting to becoming a short video content creator and built Our Future into a media company he sold to Morning Brew at age 22. In 2022, Michael was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in media. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>Looking Beyond With Michael Sikand features the host's early years of building his brand, Our Future, through a series of high-energy interviews he conducted with business executives and startup founders as a 20-year-old college student. Michael ended up pivoting to becoming a short video content creator and sold his company at age 22 to Morning Brew.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>Looking Beyond With Michael Sikand is a time capsule for Michael's early years of building his brand, Our Future, through a series of high-energy interviews he conducted with business executives and startup founders as a 20-year-old University of Michigan student. Michael ended up pivoting to becoming a short video content creator and built Our Future into a media company he sold to Morning Brew at age 22. In 2022, Michael was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in media. 
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  <title>#5 G. Craig Vachon, Founder of Chowdahead Growth Fund </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle> 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. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>International Espionage. Data Privacy. How about Venture Capital during COVID-19? In today's episode, Michael Sikand talks business with G. Craig Vachon, Founder at Chowdahead Growth Fund, Head of U.S. Operations at NextStage, 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. Vachon lives in Santa Cruz, CA with his wife and two big dogs.  
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