POD OF JAKE

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#7 - BRADLEY TUSK Sep 11, 2020

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Bradleyis the Founder and CEO of Tusk Ventures, the first venture capital fund dedicated to working with and investing in startups in regulated industries. His fund has now worked with and invested in dozens of startups including FanDuel, Lemonade, Eaze, Ripple, and Bird. Bradley previously served as Uber’s first political advisor, Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign manager in New York City, and Senator Chuck Schumer’s communications director. Through Tusk Philanthropies, he is leading the effort to bring mobile voting to the United States. Bradley hosts a podcast called Firewall and wrote a book called The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics.

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#6 - JOSH CLEMENTE Sep 03, 2020

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Josh is a mechanical engineer, CrossFit-L2 trainer, and Founder of Levels, the first metabolic fitness company. Levels tracks users’ blood glucose in real time so they can maximize their diet and exercise. Prior to Levels, Josh worked for several years at SpaceX. During his time there, he led a team to develop life support systems that sustained astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on their May 2020 trip to the International Space Station.

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#5 - MATTEO FRANCESCHETTI Aug 28, 2020

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Matteo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the sleep fitness company some are calling “the Tesla of sleep”. Eight Sleep is reinventing the way we sleep through innovations such as temperature control and soundless wake up technology. The company is collecting unprecedented amounts of sleep data to further inform future innovations such as an autopilot mode which will make autonomous adjustments to optimize one's sleep through the night. Eight Sleep has raised $70M from investors including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and YC.

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#4 - VITALIK BUTERIN Aug 20, 2020

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Vitalik is the inventor and co-founder of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin. Before inventing Ethereum, he was the co-founder and lead writer of Bitcoin Magazine. In 2017, Bloomberg named Vitalik one of the 50 most influential individuals in the world. He is 26 years old.

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#3 - RYAN DELK Aug 18, 2020

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Ryan co-founded Primer with a simple goal “to free the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and think for themselves –– starting with homeschoolers”. The company’s investors include Keith Rabois, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Cyan Bannister, Erik Torenberg, Scott Belsky, Fred Ehrsam, Harry Stebbings, David Perell, and more.

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#2 - TROY OSINOFF Aug 13, 2020

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Troy is a Co-Founder at JUICE, the former Head of Acquisition at Buzzfeed, an author, investor, and self-described DTC + Marketing Nerd. He started his first business in elementary school, invested in Bitcoin at $30 and Tesla at $60, and counts clients including Product Hunt, Levels, and Kenneth Cole.

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#1 - AUBREY DE GREY Jul 24, 2020

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Aubrey is the Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of the SENS Research Foundation and author of the book Ending Aging. He is working on undoing the damage of aging in order to help humans live much longer and healthier lives than most have ever imagined could be possible.

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