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5:01 Hustle
by Vivek Pandit
It’s the 501 Hustle, the only podcast that brings you in-depth interviews with GenZ’ers who work or study till 5p…but at 5:01, they are hustling. We interview mission-driven Gen Z hustlers who are designing groundbreaking solutions, forging new paths, and redefining our future. Tune in to these inspiring young adults, and join in their initiatives and be a part of the GenZ transformation!
Episodes
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Station Mountain Bike Park: Rhett Jones
Meet Rhett, the founder of Station Mountain Bike Park, a mountain biking park being built in Marble Falls, Texas. Rhett, at 18 years old, has raised $350K+, manages 30+ employees, and is constructing a world-class mountain bike park with 20 trails and 100+ jumps. Join them on opening weekend on...
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Project Insulin: Eric Moyal
Meet Eric, the founder of Project Insulin (PI), a non-profit pharmaceutical company creating affordable insulin. Eric is an adept fundraiser, having raised over $2M in Giving Tuesday Campaigns. He is determined to create the generic version of Insulin that would reduce the cost from $300 per…
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Artisaga: Nidhi Mantri
Meet Nidhi, the founder of Artisaga, a B2B platform enabling businesses globally to source ethically made Handicrafts & Handlooms from Artisans across India. Artisaga has worked with 600+ artisans in India to sell their products all over the globe, while ensuring the integrity and authenticity of...
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Who is Gen Z from a Gen X'er POV: Heidi Fung
Meet Heidi, a Gen X founder of Arise Daily, a marketplace for fast growing companies to contract top executives for short projects. Heidi discusses the observations and lessons learned from working closely with Gen Z and her involvement with Founders Cafe. She assesses how Gen Z prioritizes…
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Chai Capital: Kriti Sehgal
Meet Kriti, co-founder of Chai Capital, a venture capital fund focused on highlighting, celebrating, and funding the next generation of South Asian founders, builders, and creators. Chai Capital's goal is to invest in a thousand South Asian founders over the next 20 years, with at least half…
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Covalent: Abhishek Bhargava
Meet Abhishek, co-founder of Covalent, a platform that drives engagement and growth for communities, events, and cohort-based courses through member matching & introductions. Covalent makes curated matches between members based on relevance (background, industry, topics of interest, etc.) and...
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Founders Cafe: Maddie Wang
Meet Maddie, founder and CEO of Founders Cafe, an intimate, vetted, founder community, where some of the best founders help each other build. Maddie dropped out of Stanford, navigated the business world as a gay solo founder, and mastered the art of building engaged communities. She began her...
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Republic & Z List: Zehra Naqvi
Meet Zehra, a prominent Gen Z'er in the Venture Capital space. Zehra has met hundreds of Gen Z founders and has hosted several founder events throughout the country. Working on the investment team at Republic, Zehra has committed herself to democratizing access to information for underrepresented...
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Flahmingo: Taran Kainth
Meet Taran, co-founder and CEO of Flahmingo, an investing platform that allows individuals to buy fractional shares, or slices, into 2000+ companies. Flahmingo's mission is to create literacy through accessible, free educational content and provide Canadians with a platform to make better,...
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POSH: Avante Price & Eli Taylor-Lemire
Meet Avante and Eli, co-founders of POSH, a futuristic ticketing platform built around an arsenal of powerful event marketing tools. Since launching in October 2020, Avante and Eli have raised $1M+ and done $500K+ in revenue. They have been featured in Forbes, are well-known all around NY, and…
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YouTuber & Creable: Daniel Koss
Meet Daniel, the Founder and CEO of Creable, the digital workspace for creators and managers. Before founding Creable, Daniel was a highly successful YouTuber with 400K+ subscribers, and released two creator products that earned him 7 digit revenues. Daniel has managed over 100 Creators, and...
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Corecircle: Nastassia Ponomarenko
Meet Nastassia, a college dropout and the 21 year old founder of Corecircle, a free social fitness app where people can create and find workouts, document progress and build friendships centered around fitness. She is also the founder of Nasty Fit, a 7 figure fitness apparel brand she started at…
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STG Visions: Agustin O'Connell
Meet Auggie, founder of STG Visions, the 1st universally accessible and applicable athlete management system, all through computer vision. By assessing movement metrics like speeds, accelerations, etc., STG Visions allows coaches to optimize their decisions regarding sports performance, sports...
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Politician: Evan Bonsall
Meet Evan, a Harvard grad and former Marquette City Commissioner. In November 2019, Evan knocked on over 10K doors while campaigning, and was elected the youngest-ever Marquette City Commissioner two weeks after his twenty-third birthday, earning the support of 68% of the voters in the city-wide...
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Code Your Chances: Gabrielle Roberts & Dominique Roberts
Meet Gabrielle & Dominique, co-founders of Code Your Chances, a nonprofit that introduces young girls to the creative uses of computer science and how they can apply their unique creativity to tech. Their mission is to inspire a new generation of diverse leaders in computer science and to address...
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Electric Potential: Anoushka Gupta
Meet Anoushka, the Director of Content at Electric Potential, Gen Z's digital community and information hub for creating social change. Electric Potential's mission is to catalyze Gen Z to become agents of social change — in form of advocacy leaders, policymakers, and policy funders. If you are...
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Open Classroom Experience: Lena Xiang
Meet Lena, the founder of Open Classroom Experience, a virtual global innovations program, where GenZ leaders co-create with world class social entrepreneurs and learn from top industry leaders. Open Classroom Experience is a 10-week virtual global innovation program AND continuous community that...
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Seven: Colleen O'Malley
Meet Colleen, a graduate of UPenn, and founder of Seven. Seven is an event coordinating and party planning platform that alleviates the stresses of hosting, and helps party goers grow their social graphs. After realizing the hassles of ticketing, distributing invites, communicating between host…
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GenZ Designs: Andrew Roth
Meet Andrew, founder of GenZ Designs, a research and innovation consultancy helping brands tap into the frequency of culture. By engaging with thousands of Gen Z'ers, creating industry reports, and formulating a GenZ score tracking a brand's cultural relevance, GenZ Designs helps brands unlock…
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Think and Speak Academy: Przemysław Stolarski
Meet Przemysław, a highly accomplished debater, and founder of Think and Speak Academy. Think and Speak Academy provides world-class online debate coaching breaking down the barrier of geography, cost, and access. The Academy believes that every person can skyrocket their talent and potential…
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Fleur: Reilly Clark
Meet Reilly, an art history Stanford grad and co-founder of Fleur, a startup working to make art accessible for everyone. Reilly and the Fleur team want art to be more inclusive and discoverable, so they use curation algorithms and AI to match individuals with the right artists. You can connect...
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Project ANT: Areeb Mianoor
Meet Areeb, a graduate from the University of Toronto and founder of Project ANT. Areeb and the Project ANT team are building an equitable and inclusive future of work where anyone can build new skills and start earning and working towards their dream career/job from anywhere across the globe....
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Utopia Labs: Kaito Cunningham & Alexander Wu
Meet Kaito and Alex, co-founders of Utopia Labs, the modern system for managing contributor payments, expenses, and more for your DAO. Since founding their company about three months ago, they have raised $1.5M and are one of the hottest startups to come out of On Deck Catalyst. Tune in to this...
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Leda Health: Madison Campbell
Meet Madison, a trailblazer, sexual assault advocate, and founder of Leda Health. Madison has become a well-seasoned entrepreneur and just made the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, and has dedicated her life to promoting the autonomy and self-actualization of sexual assault survivors through Leda Health…
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Anja: Kathryn Cross
Meet Kathryn, the founder and CEO of Anja, a healthcare startup helping parents freeze their umbilical cords for its stem cells. Kathryn was inspired by her late mixed-race brother with cerebral palsy, Andrew (hence, the name, Anja), who could not find an umbilical cord blood match when it was…
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GenZScouts: Jonathan Chang
Meet Jonathan, a venture associate at GSV, and the founder of GenZScouts, a venture capital fellowship program for students interested in venture capital from non-target universities. Jonathan was most recently named the Top 29 GenZ VCs to watch out for by Business Insider. He also runs a Tik Tok...
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EMTomorrow: Nina & Ceylan
Meet Nina & Ceylan, seniors at Georgetown University and co-founders of EMTomorrow. EMTomorrow is making the emergency medical service field accessible for low-income young adults in Washington, DC by providing a free, National Registry EMT-B training course. For underserved communities, the...
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PACare: Regina & Akash
Meet Regina, a recent grad from Mercer University and COO of PACare, and Akash, a student at Harvard and CTO of PACare. PACare is creating a digital health experience to bring patients closer to doctors. By helping clients with peri-operative tasks through the use of reminders, educational…
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FullCircle: Ananya Jain
Meet Jain, a materials engineer at Georgia Tech, TEDx speaker, and founder of FullCircle. Jain and her team created Full Circle with the mission to tackle mental health concerns, stigma and lack of resources amongst students. Jain has been awarded by the Swiss Government, the President of India,...
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Omena: Francesca
Meet Francesca, rising senior at Brown, and founder of Omena, a non-profit organization committed to increasing emotional abuse awareness in Madagascar’s educational system by providing tools for students to combat and stand up to abuse. Omena currently has over a hundred volunteers scattered...
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Mandla: Boluwaji & Wenitte
Meet BJ & Wenitte, co-founders of Mandla, innovative, black owned e-learning language app created for those who seek to strengthen their unbreakable connection with their African roots. Mandla strives to preserve and promote African cultures through language, empowering our community of thinkers,...
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Pareto: Phoebe Yao
Meet Phoebe, a Chinese-American immigrant, Stanford dropout, 2020 Thiel Fellow, and founder of Pareto. Pareto is building the human API for business operations with a women-led and operated task force that combines human quality assurance with machine automation, enabling seamless SMB business...
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Simply Neuroscience: Chinmayi Balusu
Meet Chinmayi, an undergrad at Columbia and founder of Simply Neuroscience. Simply Neuroscience is an international, student-led organization that focuses on neuroscience and psychology education, outreach, and awareness. Initially started as a personal blog, Simply Neuroscience - over the past…
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Pointz: Maggie Bachenberg & Trisha Ballakur
Meet Maggie & Trisha, rising seniors at Brown, and co-founders of Pointz. Pointz is a mobile mapping app that acts like a safety focused "Waze," designed for bike and scooter riders. Maggie & Trisha have completed Brown's B-Lab, were featured in Bloomberg radio, and named a top 10 startup to…
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Fulphil: Tiffany Yau
Meet Tiffany, a dedicated social entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Fulphil, a social venture that teaches marginalized youth social entrepreneurship to solve the real-world problems of their local communities. As recognized in Forbes and her TED talk, Fulphil as inspired ~ 3,000 youths to…
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ResusciTech: Abbie Kohler
Meet Abbie, co-founder and CEO of ResusciTech, a startup that is commercializing a smart-phone based CPR training app with the mission of giving people the power to save someone’s life, enabling them to take action in emergency situations with training and real time feedback. ResusciTech has...
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Honey House: Anita Todorovic
Meet Anita, graduate from Carthage College and founder of the Honey House, a local Chicago honey store that sells honey, organic tea, canned goods, and more. Her property has ten beehives, hundreds of thousands of bees, and she takes the honey straight from the hive to her jars in her store.…
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IncluDesign: Diana Perkins
Meet Diana, co-founder and CEO of IncluDesign, a design firm creating adaptive products that empower individuals with disabilities. IncluDesign is releasing their first product, the LapSnap, after reaching their $10K Kickstarter goal in one week! The founders of IncluDesign began by participating...
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Debate Spaces: Tessa Holtzman & Sagie Tvizer
Meet Tessa and Sagie, Executive Director and Program Director of Debate Spaces, an education non-profit that uses debate to foster civic engagement and connect middle school students from around the world. Currently run by Harvard graduate students and a team of pro-debaters, Debate Spaces…
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Pawsible: Vanessa Barker
Meet Vanessa, co-founder and CEO of Pawsible, a young non profit providing financial and community support to volunteers raising future assistance dogs. Pawsible operates financial support programs such as Rasier Relief, Puppy Starter Kits, and Raiser Sponsorships to help offset the intense and...
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Intern From Home: Chuck Isgar & Megan Kasselberg
Meet Chuck and Megan, co-founders of Intern From Home, a digital platform that helps students find and apply to internships. They have been featured in Forbes, NYT, The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, Business Insider, and more! Listen to Chuck and Megan break down how they became a…
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Intimately: Emma Butler
Meet Emma, recent graduate of Brown University and the founder & CEO of Intimately, a startup that is igniting an inclusive revolution by selling functional and fashionable lingerie for women with disabilities. Emma has been featured in Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entrepreneur, The Boston…
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MediCircle: Jack Shaeffer
Meet Jack, a student at Brown University and life-long entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of MediCircle, a startup that repurposes leftover cancer prescriptions to create equitable cancer care by leveraging financial waste in the healthcare system to address disparities. Recently, after twelve...
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Farmlink Project: Jordan Hartzell
Meet Jordan, a student at Brown University currently on a gap year. She serves as the Project Manager of Farmlink’s Product Team. The Farmlink Project connects farmers to food banks, delivering millions of pounds of farm fresh produce that would otherwise be wasted to feed families in need. The...
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Intus Care: Robbie Felton & Evan Jackson
Meet Robbie and Evan, CEO and COO of Intus Care, a health analytics platform synthesizing clinical, financial, and operational data to help long-term care facilities make data-driven management decisions for their elderly patients. Intus Care launched in 2020, and is in partnership with seven...
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CandiVote: Arvind Sridhar & Shivesh Mehrotra
Meet Arvind & Shivesh, rising sophomores at Brown and Yale. Together they co-founded CandiVote, a comprehensive engagement platform for local politics that is modernizing current voting and campaign information systems for the next generation of voters. Listen to Arvind & Shivesh share the…
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Digital Philly: Justin Russell
Meet Justin, a recent college graduate from St. Joseph's and the founder of his 501 Hustle, Digital Philly, a marketing agency that helps grow businesses by leveraging SEO. Listen to Justin's story of how he believed he wasn't a good employee, and failed to start a business multiple times. But…
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NBA Content Creator & Run IO: Destin George Bell
Meet George, a college graduate and Venture For America fellow, who lost all his money, got rejected from over 100 jobs, and packed his bags and headed to Austin. Learning from his mom's hustling attitude and coveting the Mamba Mentality, George never let adversity slow him down and is now an EA...
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Student Musicians: Gus Benson & Jack Riley
Meet Gus & Jack, two Brown University students and incredible musicians. Together, they have collaborated on several tracks, released a single, Write My Ticket (available on all platforms!), and play in two bands on campus: Falling Walrus and The Clementines. Listen to their 501 Hustle - learning...
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Project Matriarchs: Pilar McDonald & Lola McAllister
Meet Pilar & Lola, two university students at Brown and Stanford. They came together and founded Project Matriarchs, an organization working to provide meaningful virtual childcare support to working mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As stated on their website: "The way we look at it, the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
It’s the 501 Hustle, the only podcast that brings you in-depth interviews with GenZ’ers who work or study till 5p…but at 5:01, they are hustling. We interview mission-driven Gen Z hustlers who are designing groundbreaking solutions, forging new paths, and redefining our future. Tune in to these inspiring young adults, and join in their initiatives and be a part of the GenZ transformation!
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