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Inventing The Future
by Julian Alvarez
We tell the stories of the visionary tech entrepreneurs that are solving the world's biggest problems. The potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt industries and solve massive problems has never been greater. The decreased cost and increased power of technology has democratized our ability to solve large-scale problems. Today, a single individual or team, driven by a purpose, can transform our world. Join Julian, the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow, as he interviews those that are inventing our future.The best way to predict the future is to invent it. So, how will you invent the future?
Episodes
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Julian Alvarez on Inventing The Future of Learning with AI at Wisdolia
The human brain is one of the most complex objects in the known universe. But it didn't come with an instruction manual. And in school, we were told what to learn but no one ever taught us how to learn effectively. By combining today's unprecedented AI capabilities with the latest research in the...
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Getting Your First 1,000 Users + 10x Growth Strategies For Startups | #34 w/ Claudio Fuentes
You've build something incredible but now you have to figure out how the hell you're going to find the first people that are going to use your product. So, how do you get your first 10, 100, and 1,000 users? And how do you bring in a consistent stream of users so that you can constantly get...
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Lessons Learned From Shutting Down My Startup | #33 w/ Claudio Fuentes
Shutting down your company is perhaps one of the most difficult experiences that almost every founder has to go through at least once. You usually only hear success stories of startups raising millions of dollars and getting millions of users but that is far from the common reality. More than 90%...
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AI Will Take All Of Our Jobs & Potentially Pose An Existential Crisis on Humanity | #32 w/ Claudio Fuentes
We live in a world where the only constant is change. And the rate of change itself is accelerating. Things are moving really fast in this increasingly exponential world. With the exponential boom in AI, machines are becoming faster and more intelligent than ever. These advances in AI will bring…
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#31: Farza Majeed on Building the Hogwarts for Builders and Dreamers & Raising $10M — The Buildspace Story
We all start off with these wild dreams as kids — dreams of who we want to become, what we want to create, and what we want to achieve….. and some of us keep having those dreams. But for most of us, something happens and we end up not taking the path of fulfilling our dreams. Something gets in…
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#30: Michael Jelly On the Meaning of Life and Creating a Data Utopia With Magicflow
What if we created a world where we use our own data to augment our thinking, extend our memory, to automate our chores, and to track and improve important things in our lives? This is the vision of what a utopian future of responsible data usage looks like from the perspective of Michael Jelly,...
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#29: Scaling Mentorship to Help Others Find Their Paths, & Designing a Life You Love w/ Alex Schachne, Founder & CEO of Paths
“If you design your life to where you love it, you never need to escape it” — This is the core life philosophy of Alex Schachne, today’s guest. Alex is a former college basketball players and a 2nd time founder. But Alex didn’t always have a clear idea of what path he wanted to take in his life.…
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#28: Competing against AWS & Google in Text-to-Speech & Raising $300K w/ Eric Jung, Founder & CEO at Unreal Speech
“I’m more worried about other startups than AWS or Google” — Eric Jung After testing over 12 ideas and founding 3 companies, Eric Jung is currently focused on building Unreal Speech, a Text-to-Speech software service that he claims is better and 8x cheaper than AWS. The text-to speech uses an…
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#27: From 12 Failed Ideas & $0.50 in the Bank to Raising $3.2M w/ Arnav Bathla, Founder & CEO at Coinbooks
What would you do if you dropped out of college, pursued 12 different ideas but none of them worked, and only had $0.50 cents in your bank account at one point? Would you give up or persevere? Today’s guest, Arnav Bathla, decided to keep charging forward because he believes he was born to be an...
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#26: The Mindflow Journey: Becoming 1% Better Every Day w/ David Glass
After a 7 month hiatus, the ITF podcast is back!! 🚀 In this special comeback episode, Julian interviews his co-founder at Mindflow, David Glass. Julian and David quit their jobs (Meta & Cisco respectively) in April (4 months ago) to take the full plunge into the entrepreneurial journey and so…
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#25: Thriving In The New World of Work w/ Kian Gohar, an Innovation Expert and the Founder & CEO of Geolab
The pandemic completely shifted the nature of how we work. The abrupt changes brought by the pandemic either destroyed companies or forced them to radically adapt. In this episode, Julian speaks with Kian Gohar about the leadership principles, culture changes, and new rules of work that are...
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#24: ITF One Year Anniversary: Personal & Vulnerable Stories w/ Julian Alvarez
In this special episode, we celebrate ITF’s one-year birthday, which happens to be Julian’s birthday as well! To celebrate, Julian gets personal, vulnerable, and deep. We usually interview next-level entrepreneurs on this podcast but with this episode, you’ll get the opportunity to know Julian...
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#23: Raising $19 Million in Funding After 5 Pivots For His AI Startup w/ Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies AI
How can you capture the knowledge buried inside conversations and convert them into actions? After graduating early from UPenn in 2015, Krish Ramineni dove headfirst into Microsoft as a Product Manager. Krish enjoyed his job and he was learning a lot but he realized that he was making incremental...
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#22.2: WTF is an NFT? Masterclass On Everything You Need To Know About NFTs w/ Julian Alvarez | Part 2
This was a monumental year for NFTs. The most expensive NFT was sold for $69.3 million. The market cap (total money in NFTs) of NFTs went from $17 million in January to $3.25 billion in August (19,000% increase in 8 months). The trading volume went from $4.75 million to $6.5 billion in the last...
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#22.1: WTF is an NFT? Masterclass On Everything You Need To Know About NFTs w/ Julian Alvarez | Pt 1
This was a monumental year for NFTs. The most expensive NFT was sold for $69.3 million. The market cap (total money in NFTs) of NFTs went from $17 million in January to $3.25 billion in August (19,000% increase in 8 months). The trading volume went from $4.75 million to $6.5 billion in the last...
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#21: Building Exponential Organizations & Transforming Broken Systems w/ Salim Ismail, Chairman at OpenExO, Founding Executive Director at Singularity University, Author, & Serial Entrepreneur
The companies that end up going bankrupt do so because they fail to disrupt themselves. In other words, they generate such an insane amount of revenue that they develop a corporate immune system that will attack any idea that poses a threat to the company's core business. It was during his time…
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#20: Creating The Future of Food & Strategic Platform Building w/ Henrik Kristensen, Founder and CEO of Blendhub
Due to the countless barriers to innovation, many people never choose to innovate or bring their ideas to life. And the grand majority of those who do try to innovate end up failing. How do you lower the cost of innovation and maximize the probability of success? Henrik Stamm Kristensen is a…
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#19: Everything You Need To Know About CRYPTO, & How To Invest w/ Matthew and Micah, Co-Founders of Mage
Cryptocurrency is the fastest growing technology in history. Its current growth rate is 113% annually and it's the first asset to have gone up 2 million percent since its inception. It's accelerating twice as fast as the Internet did during the dot-com boom. Visualize this: 140M crypto users…
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#18: What is Your Relationship to Money? Lessons From Burnout as a Financial Trader & 10 Years of Traveling w/ Mar Michelle Häusler, Founder of Give & Take Lab
Most people simply view money as a means of satisfying their material desires. For Mar, having power over one's finances tasted like freedom. She believed it would make her happy, but it didn't. Now what? At 21, Mar became a financial trader in a Wolf of Wall Street-esque environment in London....
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#17: Making the World Smaller Through Supersonic Planes w/ Norris Tie, Co-Founder and CEO of Exosonic, Inc.
Since childhood, Norris was passionate about making the world feel smaller through faster transportation. After studying aerospace engineering at UCLA, he worked in the aerospace industry as a propulsion engineer for three years on vehicles that break the sound barrier. At Stanford's Graduate...
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#16: Pioneering a Fungi-based Meat Alternative to Sustainably Feed The Global Population w/ Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co
By 2050, our globe will face the colossal challenge of accommodating 10 billion people. The million-dollar question is: how are we going to feed them? And how are we going to do it in a sustainable manner without killing the planet and without harming the animals that we share this planet with?...
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#15: Is Immortality Possible and Ethical? Spearheading the Transhumanist Movement w/ Zoltan Istvan, 2016 US Presidential Candidate and Owner of ZI Ventures
If you could live forever, would you? Combining the forces of science and technology, a leader for the movement towards immortality has emerged. Zoltan was reporting frontline for National Geographic in war zones, even enduring a near-death experience with a landmine in Vietnam. This enlightened...
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#14: From Self-Taught Programmer at 13 to Solving Massive Problems w/ Exponential Technologies at 18 w/ Alishba Imran, Co-founder of Voltx & Developer at Hanson Robotics
At 13, she taught herself programming. And ever since the robotics club in middle school captured her interest, her vigor for driving pivotal change and solving hard technical problems, has been unstoppable. By 15, her technological bandwidth expanded to machine learning and blockchain. From...
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#13: The Journey to Silicon Valley, Lessons From 6 Months of Inventing The Future, Startup Challenges, & Ayahuasca Reflection w/ Your Host, Julian Alvarez
Sit back for an overdue reflection on Julian’s recent transition from college to Silicon Valley, where he recently moved to start his career at Facebook as a Software Engineer. Julian graduated from college in December 2020 and took 7 months off before he started working at Facebook. During this…
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#12: Empowering Meaningful Human Connection Using VR Experiences w/ Caitlin Krause, Founder of MindWise, Stanford Professor, & Author
Machines can replicate processes, but they can’t detect quality. Human beings are the mindful drivers that define meaning, and that is what sets us apart. Caitlin is an explorer in the worlds of technology, innovation, and well being. She is an author of two books named Designing Wonder and…
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#11: If Not Me, Then Who? Bringing Sustainable & Accessible Electric Flying Vehicles To Canada w/ JR Hammond, CEO & Founder of Canadian Air Mobility
If not me, then who? At an Uber Elevate Summit in 2018, JR realized that no one was taking initiative to bring flying cars to Canada. In a room filled with aviation experts, JR felt an overwhelming amount of imposter syndrome. Why would a 27 year old with almost no experience in aviation think he...
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#10: Solving Burnout & Stress Through Accessible Coaching Offered as a Corporate Benefit w/ Lucy Born, Founder & CEO of Inward and Organizational Psychologist
Most employees don’t value themselves enough to put in the work they need to achieve their goals. In fact, 80% of employees experience work-related stress and anxiety and depression costs companies over $1T globally every year. But what if you could solve these problems by going to the gym for…
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#9: Creating a Smart Home That Runs Itself w/ Francois Gouelo, the 23 Year Old CEO and Co-Founder of Enso Connect
When his Professor presented a $10,000 dollar award for the best entrepreneurial robotic solution, Francois was all ears. Inspired by a frustrating Airbnb experience where the key for the home was frozen under the mat, the host was unresponsive, and he was fined five thousand dollars for leaving…
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#8: Transforming Real Estate Ownership and Offering a Better Alternative to Airbnb w/ Tanvir Aman, Founder and CEO of Dunyha
A few months after he joined a startup out of college, the dotcom bubble burst in April of 2000. Thereafter, Tanvir set aside his stockbroker dreams to found two companies as his entrepreneurial career took flight. In a world of uncertainty, Tanvir thrived as an entrepreneur. Tanvir Aman is a...
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#7: Breaking Guinness World Records and Quitting His Job To Transform Travel w/ Jay Olenicz, CEO & Co-founder at Staze
At 18, Jay Olenicz decided to break a world record. Four years later, Jay and his brother embarked on the 48-day journey across the Atlantic that would earn them three Guinness World Records. After several near-death experiences and countless hours of reflection, Jay conducted a reassessment of…
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#6: From College Dropout to CEO of 31 Person Company at 23 w/ Swish Goswami, Founder & CEO of Trufan
Swish Goswami is a 23-year-old Canadian Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Investor. He is the CEO and Founder of Trufan, a social intelligence platform that empowers brands and Influencers to make smarter marketing decisions through the power of data. Trufan has made two acquisitions, raised over $4.1...
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#5: Solving the Housing Crisis With Daniel Dubois, the President & Co-Founder of Key
“Ideas typically come from taking two seemingly unrelated objects and bringing them together to create something magical.” - Daniel Dubois Daniel Dubois is the Co-Founder and President of Key, a serial entrepreneur, and an adventure seeker overflowing with nuggets of wisdom. He’s a Vancouver…
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#4: Improving Lives In Healthcare, Servant Leadership, and Scaling His Company To Over A Thousand People Ft. Axiom CEO & Owner Chance Becnel
Get up, show up, and lift up. Chance Becnel is the 8-year CEO and Owner of Axiom Healthcare Services, a company that is revolutionizing senior care. They employ over a thousand people and gross $50-60 million annually. By exuding servant leadership, Axiom has thrived since 2008 on a vision of...
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#3: The Entrepreneurial Mindset: 3 Invaluable Mindsets That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
In this solo episode, Julian explains why your mindset is the most valuable tool that you have as an entrepreneur and why It is one of the greatest determinants of your success in both your professional and personal life. Why is your mindset the greatest determinant of your success? We all want…
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#2: Helping Billions of Low Skilled Workers Ft. Vize Co-Founders Bryce Watson and Julian Alvarez - Social Entrepreneurship, Leading Without Authority, and Overcoming a Lack of Results
In this special episode, Bryce Watson joins Julian Alvarez, your host, to talk about their entrepreneurial journey and their startup Vize (short for Incentivizing Good). Vize's mission is to help billions of low skilled workers find a job that they love and empower them with the skills they need…
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#1: Lift Off! Inventing The Future Intro
Welcome to this introduction episode for the Inventing The Future podcast! Never in history has the potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt industries and solve problems on a massive scale been greater. The decreased cost and increased power of technology has democratized our ability to solve...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We tell the stories of the visionary tech entrepreneurs that are solving the world's biggest problems. The potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt industries and solve massive problems has never been greater. The decreased cost and increased power of technology has democratized our ability to solve large-scale problems. Today, a single individual or team, driven by a purpose, can transform our world. Join Julian, the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow, as he interviews those that are inventing our future.The best way to predict the future is to invent it. So, how will you invent the future?
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