Sloanies Talking with Sloanies

About Sloanies Talking with Sloanies

Sloanies Talking with Sloanies is a conversational podcast with alumni and faculty about the MIT Sloan experience and how it influences what they're doing today. Over the course of this podcast, you will hear from guests who are making a difference in their community, including our own very important one here at MIT Sloan. Sloanies Talking with Sloanies is hosted by Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, and produced by the Office of External Relations at MIT Sloan School of Management. For more information or to submit an idea for an interview subject, please email sloanalumni@mit.edu with your request.

Publisher

MIT Sloan Alumni

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2019

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Christina Qi, SB ’13: All the Books in One Language—On Harmonizing the World’s Market Data

   Christina Qi, SB ’13, is the co-founder and CEO of Databento and the first undergraduate Sloanie to appear on this podcast. Her path runs from day-trading out of a Harvard dorm room, where her HFT firm Domeyard peaked at 25,000 trades a day, to founding Databento and nearly losing it: a bridge round raised with almost negative runway, investors who signed financing docs and never wired, and finally a $97M Series B that made it all look inevitable. The heart of the conversation is what Databen...

2. 

   20 May 2026

   Michael Autery, SFMBA ’26: Betting on Himself—How a Navy Engineer Built a Robot to Save Lives at Sea

   Michael Autery, SFMBA ’26, a United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer with fifteen years of active service, joined host Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, on Sloanies Talking with Sloanies to discuss his journey from active duty to entrepreneurship. Coming from a working-class background and skeptical of the business world, Autery enrolled in the MIT Sloan Fellows program not knowing what came next, but determined to find work that gave him the same sense of purpose he had found in the Nav...

3. 

   14 Apr 2026

   Adela Jamal, SFMBA ’22, and Sebastian Barriga, SFMBA ’22: Building milemark, Applied AI, and the Power of Global Perspectives

   In this episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies, host Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, speaks with Adela Jamal, SFMBA ’22, and Sebastian Barriga, SFMBA ’22, co-founders of MileMark Capital, about their journey from diverse global careers to launching an applied AI-focused venture fund. They reflect on how their time at MIT Sloan—particularly during the transitional post-pandemic period—brought them together through shared values, complementary backgrounds, and a mutual commitment to meaningfu...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

2,123,654

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

57

Social presence

94

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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