SpotClub brings innovative minds to light through its inclusive podcast. Whether you are a published teenager in Mexico, a researcher in Antarctica, a startup founder in Los Angeles, or the CEO of a public company, SpotClub does not discriminate against any background. The only requirement is pure innovation.
Eric Zhu — The 13-year-old three-time CEO and TEDx speaker.
Eric Zhu is passionate about the opportunity to build. At 13 years old this Carmel, Indiana local has been part of the educational technology industry both as a marketing specialist and CEO. He has leveraged the internet as a tool to empower him at a young age working with talented young founders across the globe. Eric is now working on his next stealth startup with hopes it will take off. Check out more about Eric at the below sources. LinkedIn Twitter
21 Aug 2023
AI will upend much more than we can imagine, with Luca Zambello
On today's episode, we had a conversation with Luca Zambello, the co-founder and CEO of Jurny. Jurny is revolutionizing the hospitality industry with AI and automation, allowing property owners such as Airbnb and hotel owners to spend less time managing their properties and guests while giving guests access to AI that can automatically solve most of their concerns. As we discuss, there is so much potential for innovation in hospitality. Join us as we explore just how much unimagined impact AI...
26 Jun 2023
Fusion, photonics, and neuroscience—facing the frontiers with Arkady Kulik
This week, we're sharing a conversation with Arkady Kulik, founder and general partner of rpv global, a venture fund that invests in early stage deep tech companies. Kulik's story is an impressive tapestry of ambition and hard work. Before rpv, Arkady had been a serial entrepreneur since his teenage years. After successfully building multiple companies, he spent time restructuring businesses and eventually becoming a C-suite executive. All of this culminated in his eventual immigration to the...
5 Jun 2023
Language learning and AI—The future of learning with James Sharp
This week, we're sharing a conversation we had with James Sharp, co-founder and CEO of Umi. Umi is a company that teaches language through immersive multimedia content such as movies and TV shows. In this episode, James shares his insights on how we learn languages and beyond, including modern techniques such as spaced repetition and learning through context. We dive deep on how language learning, and all learning in general, will evolve with the increasing focus on artificial intelligence. ...
26 Dec 2022
The end of the single-family home's reign
This week, we had a discussion with James Stallworth, co-founder and CEO of Brownstone. Brownstone is making housing affordable with its pods, a new form of housing on par with the single-family home, hotels, Airbnbs, and more. Each pod, which can house a single occupant, is available to tenants through a monthly rent. Now, the company is making pods available for direct purchase by businesses like homeless shelters. In this episode, James shares his insights on the causes of housing shortage...
19 Dec 2022
Mark Stephenson—The student shooting rockets into space 🚀
In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Mark Stephenson of USC's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. Originally recorded October 2021, this episode explores the practical challenges this young rocket scientist and his team face when building and successfully launching their own rocket ships into space. Join us as we learn about Mark's unique background and indulge in an insightful conversation about the future of space.
11 Oct 2021
How 3D printing is disrupting the dental world
In this SpotClub Live, we had a discussion with Amir Mansouri, CEO and co-founder of SprintRay. SprintRay is disrupting the dental industry through the creation of a digital dental workflow. It wasn’t long ago when Amir met his co-founders at USC, when he was completing his doctorate in manufacturing engineering. The three were passionate in innovating in the realm of 3D printing and Amir’s time spent researching in the 3D printing industry brought them to the success of SprintRay’s first den...
20 Sept 2021
Tyler Menezes—Teaching Over 50,000 Students To Program
This SpotClub Live we featured Tyler Menezes. Tyler is currently the Executive Director at CodeDay, a non-profit that is helping students find their place in technology. Tyler has recently received a notable mention on Forbes 30 under 30 as executive director of CodeDay. His programming journey began when he discovered a book on programming. He was interested not in programming, but in the idea of building something cool. He went on to drop out of college to found a startup and go throu...
This SpotClub Live we featured Akash Chauhan, a three-time Elon Musk employee, a passionate builder, and a driven engineer. At a young age, Akash was tinkering with everything and anything he could get his hands on. That turned into a career as a mechanical engineer at The Boring Company, a manufacturing engineer at Redwood Materials, a starship launch intern at SpaceX, and a new programs engineer at Tesla, all before the age of 21. Akash is driven by the opportunity to build and technologies...
6 Sept 2021
How Facebook was Complicit in War
This SpotClub Live we featured Marian Thomas Semerdjian, an expert in adtech, marketing, data analysis, and sales/lead production. Through working at New Line Cinema, Yahoo, Buzzfeed, and Zynga, Marian has learned all about data, including the good and the bad. We discussed the impacts of data today, including how it may have even had an effect on the recent war in the region between Armenia and Azerbaijan known as Artsakh. Instagram LinkedIn
30 Aug 2021
Public Service: From the Military to the Boardroom
Brian Femminella founded SoundMind after witnessing friends in the military and other communities experience trauma, anxiety, and mental illnesses. SoundMind is an audio therapy application that utilizes psychologically proven soothing sounds, and a machine learning algorithm, to help calm and soothe individuals with these struggles. Brian is also serving in the military and pursuing a degree in cybersecurity at the University of Southern California. He previously worked at the United Nations...
23 Aug 2021
Exploring the limits of reality while in virtual reality
Taron Lizagub is the founder of Knoxlabs, a virtual reality marketspace. In this SpotClub Live, we experienced what it was like to record and attend a meeting in VR using his virtual office app NokNok. Taron shares his belief that the future of virtual reality is in mixed and augmented reality, describes a vision in which humans can communicate and interact with the world with mere thoughts, and more.
16 Aug 2021
The Story of Clothing—Bringing Your Clothes To Life
Stedman Cleveland, an ex Product Manager at Mopro, Playboy Enterprises, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and FreshRealm is creating a new sustainable model for the repurposing and reusing of clothing items via his company, Aura. The waste in the fashion industry is huge and e-commerce is only perpetuating this tremendous problem. Aura rethinks the online approach to clothing by creating a more sustainable model, placing a product's story at the center of attention rather than the brand.
9 Aug 2021
Ara Ghougassian on the future of language, culture, and how we fundamentally interact with the world
As the capabilities of software advance, the methods to learn languages have changed and will change. Some game changers have already been created, for example Duolingo, which recently had its IPO. Ara Ghougassian, co-founder of Fluent, discusses how Fluent seeks to change how people think of language learning by integrating it in their daily activities: learning while listening to an audiobook, surfing the web, watching a Netflix show, or listening to a curated Spotify playlist. Fluent...
26 Jul 2021
Author, Founder, and World Traveler — Meet Caitlyn Lubas, who started a company, wrote a book, and travelled the world, all before the age of 23.
Caitlyn Lubas, an ex-Instagram employee and NYU graduate, left her Silicon Valley job to pursue her life as a digital nomad and travel startup founder. Caitlyn has a passion to empower anyone to travel to new places and experience these areas authentically. Above all, she believes “you are where you go,” which led her to write her book with the same name, You Are Where You Go, publishing it with the hope of inspiring individuals to expand their mindset beyond the city or country they are from...
19 Jul 2021
Taking Out LinkedIn — Justin Jia and Esteban Alvarado, Founders of Project Unicorn
Justin and Esteban are the founders of Project Unicorn. On a personal level they value sincerity, handwork, and are pushing to build the next unicorn. Project Unicorn is on a mission to create an exclusive social platform for ambitious startup founders and only the best investors. This will help create a value-adding application that ensures the highest quality in its users, providing a platform that will connect people who would have otherwise never met. If you are an investor or a sta...
12 Jul 2021
The Uber of Laundry, How One StartUp is Going to Change the Way You Do Laundry and Use Your Closet?
Founder Reid Moncada discusses how Fitted Laundry is creating a laundry service business through a scalable Uber style model, utilizing existing laundromats and contracted employees. However, this business will not only be a full laundry service, but it will also digitize your closet in the process through data tagging software driven by an AI enabled camera at Fitted Laundry's partnered laundromats. Reid is on the journey to reimagine the space of fashion, laundry, and accessible data on clo...
1 Jul 2021
How the VC World Will Tumble Down — Founder Mat Sherman is Going to Put Venture Capitals on the Sidelines Through SeedScout.
This week on the program, a conversation with SeedScout founder Mat Sherman. Mat started his journey as a YouTuber, quickly pivoting to a startup founder at PubLoft, and is now working on a vision to reimagine the modern day pre-seed and seed investing industry. SeedScout is a platform that will connect the best investors with the most ambitious founders without ever leveraging its community to become an institutional investor within themselves. Mat is on a true journey to innovate!
30 Jun 2021
Introduction
This episode is the introduction to SpotClub. Founded by Aren Melkonian and Ethan Keshishian, SpotClub is a podcast for innovative minds focused around researchers, startup founders, crazy thinkers, and ambitious people.
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