Episodes
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Part 2 of Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems
This is part 2 of our great discussion with Mallory Dwinal Palisch. If you've not yet listened to part 1, please do so before listening to this second half. In this part of the conversation about Reach University and Craft Education System we discuss student-centered technologies, professional...
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Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems (part 1)
There is arguably nothing more important to our future economy than the quality of our education system, and there is nothing more important to that than the quality and availability of teachers. But as anyone who's followed the news in the last couple of years knows, we are currently facing...
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Can AI make the mortgage market easier for lenders and borrowers? Matt Sanchez of Cognitive Scale explains how..
With interest rates rising and the economy slowing, the world of credit is getting a lot harder for both lenders and borrowers — and that’s especially painful in the mortgage market, given how high house prices are. Matt Sanchez, Founder and CTO of CognitiveScale thinks that Artificial…
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Renewable Heat as one solution to Europe's Energy Crisis: KraftBlock's Martin Schichtel
Developing Clean Energy Solutions With KraftBlock’s Martin Schichtel Across the world, a huge amount of energy is wasted in the form of heat. In industries like glass and steel, manufacturing processes require extremely high temperatures, and those processes generate a lot of wasted heat. That…
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Miss us? M4Edge is coming back soon, with a new format. Stay tuned! Stay curious!
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Bonus: The Future According to M4Edge Guests
In the 3+ years that M4Edge has been around, we've aired over 50 episodes and, as listeners know, we usually ask our guests to give us their view of the future 20 years hence. Sometimes the answers are somewhat expected, sometimes they're a little humorous, and sometimes they're deeply thought...
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Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks on his driven journey and our driverless future
This is the final M4Edge episode of 2021 an we are finishing this year with a bang, Our guest is Alex Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Embark Trucks; he is a Forbes 30 under 30, and more importantly, at the tender age of 26 he has just brought Embark public through a SPAC deal valuing the company at...
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Dror Tamir of Hargol FoodTech explains why eating grasshoppers is better for you, better for the planet, and how he gets you to get by the "yuck" factor.
After a long absence, we’ve returned with a very fun episode and right in line with the M4Edge theme. The startup we focus on today is really micro, in the weeds, you might say, with some very macro aims, and it’s about as edgy as can be. You probably know that we’ve done several episodes on ESG…
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Michael Sachse of Dandelion Energy on Decarbonizing your Home with Geothermal
It’s not often that a small startup has ties to Google and Bill Gates. Our guest today, Michael Sachse, the CEO of Dandelion Energy inhabits that rarefied atmosphere. Dandelion Energy was originally part of Google X, Alphabet’s so-called moonshot factory. And very recently, Dandelion received...
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Nathaniel Jackson of TrueAlgae explains how he can help your strawberries taste better, last longer, while improving farmers profits and reducing GHG
We seem drawn to Agtech and impact investing. And good-tasting fruit. We kicked off our 2021 season with a discussion on impact investing or socially responsible investing, including with a startup (EcoRobotix) that produces solar-power farming equipment for AI-based precision application of...
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Doing good and doing well: Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship & ESG, cohosted by Georgetown's Beeck Center
We kick off this season with a deeper look at the meaning of our phrase “changing how the economy functions,” specifically examining what you may have heard of as “social entrepreneurship,” which is the idea that entrepreneurial ventures should measure themselves not just by revenue but also by...
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Climate-Tech is really hard! And other lessons from Ricky Buch of Loctricity (Ricky's Startup Reality)
We are joined again by our friend and former colleague Ricky Buch. We’ve had Ricky on the show several times as small segments we called Ricky’s Reports from the Edge or sometimes full episodes we called Ricky’s Startup Reality. Ricky started a clean tech company - now the term of art is climate...
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Guy Levy-Yurista of Sisense on being a CSO and what strategy means at startups. Strategy Miniseries Part 3
In this episode, the third in our series on startup strategy, Marco and I interview Guy Levy-Yurista , the chief strategy officer of Sisense. Sisense is an unusual business analytics or business intelligence (BI) startup, and Guy is an unusual, well, guy. Before becoming a CSO, Guy’s career...
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Ron Carucci of Navalent on how Corporate Culture, Leadership and Cognitive Biases Affect Strategy. Strategy Miniseries Part 2
Our miniseries on startups strategy continues today with Ron Carucci. Ron is a renowned strategy consultant with three decades of experience in large and small companies, and currently he is the owner and managing partner of his own strategy consulting outfit, Navalent. Ron is also a Harvard...
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Elma Beganovich of Amra and Elma on How Startups Identify and Reach Target Customers. Strategy Miniseries Part 1
Today we kick off a new, special miniseries on strategy. We’ll unpack the different aspects of business strategy that a startup needs to develop, discuss how strategy evolves through time as a start-up goes to market and starts to grow, and talk about how strategy for a startup differs from...
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Construction Decarbonization Techs #2. Sandeep Ahuja of Cove Tool on How to Choose Lower Carbon in ALL elements of Construction
Our guest today is Sandeep Ahuja, co-founder and CEO of Cove Tool. Sandeep has been named to the Forbes’ prestigious “Thirty Under Thirty” list; the recognition has given her a great boost in exposure and credibility, but it can prove to be a mixed blessing in the construction industry, as you…
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Construction Decarbonization Techs #1. Apoorv Sinha of Carbon Upcycling Technologies discusses storing carbon in commercial products
M4Edge is about startups with technologies that can change how the economy functions. There’s very little that is as central to a functioning economy as energy, and that’s one reason why climate change is such a deep societal problem. There are also very few industries that are as important to a...
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The Future of ... So Much, You Decide, with Jay Rogers and Vikrant Aggarwal of Local Motors
Our episode today is about the future of ____. We left that last part blank because you can decide for yourself. We interview Jay Rogers and Vikrant Aggarwal who are, respectively, the CEO co-founder and president of Local Motors. I could tell you that Local Motors is an automotive manufacturing...
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Untangling Uncertainty Around Coronavirus and the Economy
Today's bonus episode is about the multiple layers of uncertainty we are all facing right now. More specifically, the episode is meant to give you some insight into how M4 Strategy Garage can help your business untangle those uncertainties as you try to navigate the murky waters ahead. We have...
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Using Big Data in Real-Time to fight pandemics, navigate traffic, analyze banking and more, with Paul Appleby of Kinetica
On today's episode we speak with Paul Appleby, the CEO of Kinetica. Paul has held leadership roles in some very prominent tech companies, including SAP, SalesForce and C3, and he's now at the helm a big data startup, so he’s definitely been at the center of our changing economy, and has a lot to...
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M4 Corona Combatants #3: 3DHubs and Sorcero use their platforms in the fight
This episode is number 3 in our Corona Combatants series. In this series we’re trying to amplify the efforts of our guests and their companies who are using the tools at their disposal to help fight the sprawling battle against Corona. If you’ve not heard the other episodes in this series, please...
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Robots in the Supermakets During a Pandemic, and After, with Brad Bogolea of Simbe Robotics
As the coronavirus forced governments to shut down large parts of the economy, ordering workers to stay home, one of our first questions was: where are the robots when you need them? So we invited Brad Bogolea to come on M4Edge. Brad is the co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics and they...
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Making lending faster, cheaper and better, with Keren Moynihan of Boss Insights
Our guest today is Keren Moynihan, founder and CEO of Boss Insights. Our conversation with Keren is especially timely, as we recorded this podcast on Monday, March 16th, 2020. Just the day before, Sunday March 15th , the US Federal Reserve held an emergency meeting and announced a set of monetary...
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M4 Corona Combatants #2: InWorks at University of Colorado and Make4Covid. Makers coordinating against Covid
This is a very special edition of the M4Edge podcast, and a part of our Corona Combatants series: we speak with a team of people who are striving to leverage 3D printing resources to quickly supply hospitals and care centers with some of the equipment they need to handle the covid-19 emergency.…
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M4 Corona Combatants #1: Our guests' companies' efforts to help out.
M4Edge is about startups with technology that can change how the economy functions, and nothing has quite as potentially dramatic an effect on the economy as a Pandemic plus a possible recession. But some of our guests’ companies can help. In times like these, it’s very easy to despair, but it’s...
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Food Waste and The Secret Lives of Fruits, with Katherine Sizov of Strella Biotech
Our guest today is Katherine Sizov, Founder of Strella Biotechnology. This is our third Ag-tech show in our young 2nd season. We opened with Allison Kopf of Artemis, and this episode follow Hunter McDaniel of UbiQD. There will be more; it's one of our themes this season, and is increasingly...
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Hunter McDaniel of UbiQD on engineering the tiniest particles to have an enormous impact on lighting, agriculture, solar power and more
Today's guest is Hunter McDaniel of the company UbiQD. As in ubiquitous, but the "QD" stands for quantum dots. Today's episode is one of those wide ranging talks that has become a hallmark of some of our best M4Edge discussions. We cover not just what a quantum dot is and what UbiQD does, but the...
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Sam Kimzey of Chaac Technologies looks to the skies for the solution to twin problems
Our guest today is Sam Kimzey, co-founder of Chaac Technologies. That’s a pretty unusual name for a tech company – Sam will explain where the name comes from and why it is so relevant to Chaac’s mission. Chaac’s technologies has developed an innovative solution to address simultaneously two of…
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Allison Kopf, Artemis and the Future of Agriculture
We decided to kick off the new year, the new decade and our new season with the basics: food. Our guest Allison Kopf, founder of Artemis, set out to tackle a fundamental challenge -how to make sure the world can feed its rapidly growing population in a sustainable way. But Artemis approaches this...
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Year End Bonus #3! Randy Altschuler of Xometry checks in after a year.
We’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want…
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Year End Bonus #2! Dipanwita Das of Sorcero checks in after a year.
We’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want…
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Year End Bonus #1! Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics checks in after a year.
We’re closing out our first season with three bonus episodes. In each of these bonus episodes, we check-in with our first three guests on the show, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics, Dipanwita Das of Sorcero and Randy Altschuler of Xometry. Innovation is moving faster than ever, so we want…
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The RAPID Economy. Our new theory for how technology will shape the economy.
It's been a bit over a year since we launched M4Edge, and we've had the opportunity to speak with many startup CEOs and CTOs and VCs. We've also had the opportunity to reflect on what we've learned, and we've come up with a theory for how technology is changing and shaping the economy. We are...
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Ricky's Startup Reality. Ricky Inks a deal!
We're trying to make the "Ricky's Startup Reality" segments into micro-episodes. That was difficult for us - especially Michael, who had many questions he forced himself to not ask. This is a small episode with big news for Ricky! And, since this is so short, you have plenty of time to write us a...
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Andy Maggio of D6VR explains that virtual reality is getting real. Only one mention of Ready Player One....
Our guest on today’s show is Andy Maggio of D6VR. That’s VR as in virtual reality. The D6 stands for 6 dimensions, and Andy will explain what that means. We’ve all heard the term virtual reality for years, but usually in science fiction, or more recently for serious gamers who want immersive...
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Anson Kung of A&K Robotics chats about robots, AI, goats and soccer.
Our guest today is Anson Kung, former CTO and co-founder of A&K Robotics. (See below for "late breaking news" on Anson's role at A&K.) Today’s episode has our most thoughtful discussion so far of the impact that the robot revolution is likely to have on our lives. Anson is a first class…
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Ricky's Startup Reality. Is this a turning point for Ricky's business?
Ricky's Reports from the Edge has a new name: the running series featuring Ricky Buch and his nascent startup Loctricity is now Ricky's Startup Reality. This episode is a great one for a name change, because the news Ricky shares may also prove to be a watershed for his business. Some unusual…
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AI in the workplace: efficiency versus privacy, with David Yang of YVA
Our guest is David Yang and he is the founder of a company called YVA, which is the subject of today’s show, but he’s no novice in startup world. David has founded TWELVE companies, starting in 4th grade, and including ABBYY which you may not have heard of but is actually pretty huge; it has...
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A 2 Billion person market: electricity access with Bill Lenihan of Zola Electric, live at the World Bank
The World Bank was gracious enough to host us for our 2nd live audience show. Along with the World Bank Global lead for Energy Access, Dana Rysankova, and Jon Exel, the Global Lead for Mini-grids, we interviewed Bill Lenihan, the CEO of Zola Electric. We discuss the challenge of electrification:...
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Ricky's Reports - old frustrations and new idea explorations. DREC, not dreck.
Today’s episode is a return to Ricky's Reports from the Edge, where we check back in with Ricky Buch and his startup Loctricity. Ricky shares some of the frustrations of just trying to get meetings when you’re pitching an idea, and also shares with us some of the latest evolution in his thinking...
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Mobility Miniseries part4: Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility Ventures, rounds out our miniseries
We cap our mobility mini-series from a different perspective: that of Mike Granoff, Managing Partner of Maniv Mobility, a venture capital firm that specializes in...mobility and the future of transportation. As an investor, Mike has to look at the entire mobility landscape, and his success and...
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Mobility Miniseries part3: Sampo Hietanen of MaaS Global, makers of the Whim App, on Dreaming Big about the Future of Mobility
Our guest today is Sampo Hietanen, the CEO of a Finnish company called MAAS Global. MaaS stands for Mobility as a Service, and they are the makers of Whim, an app-based platform for MaaS. Whim provides a single way to access all forms of mobility - everything from cars to trains, scooters, bikes...
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Ricky's Reports - electricity, almonds, and a not-for-profit complement or complicating factor for Loctricity
Ricky Buch is back from Ghana and Ricky's Report is back for another M4Edge episode. We discuss the viability of minigrids as a solution to energy poverty, Ricky introduces an idea to help minigrids scale, and Marco complains about ordering water with his cheeseburger.
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Mobility Miniseries part 2: Shai Suzan of WayCare, and how to optimize traffic flow using LOTS of data
With today’s episode we continue our exploration of the Future of Mobility: how technology is starting to impact—hopefully for the better-- the way we move around our cities and beyond. Today we talk to Shai Suzan, Cofounder and CIO of WayCare Technologies. When we think of mobility, we think…
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Mobility Miniseries part 1: Israel Duanis of Fleetonomy
With today’s episode, we kick off a miniseries on “mobility.” In today’s tech parlance and in city planning parlance, mobility includes a bunch of different issues, but they have one thing in common: they shape the quality of our everyday lives. How we get to work, to school or to our friends’...
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Gamification for Better Learning with Sandy Roskes of Legends of Learning
Did you know that using video games as a teaching aid improves students’ engagement, helps them learn faster, boosts their test performance and stimulates their critical thinking? These are just some of the results of a study carried out by Vanderbilt University in partnership with Legends of...
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Gamification for Workforce Training with Jessica Trybus of Simcoach Games
Growing up, Jessica Trybus, Founder and Chief Games Officer of Simcoach Games knew she was going to be a CEO. But she also wanted to be an actress, so she studied acting, majored in theatre and went into the film industry. Then she moved to Silicon Valley, and then back to Pennsylvania, to…
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Revolution, Live. Anna Mason and David Hall of Revolution's Rise of the Rest fund - from American University
And now, for something completely different… Our show today was recorded live at American University, with Professor Jeff Sosland and the students in his International Business—Global Entrepreneurship class. And our guests today come from another side of the tech world: the Venture Capital on…
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The Shape of Things to Come with Ben Redwood of 3DHubs (part2)
Our show today is part 2 of our interview with Ben Redwood of 3DHubs. Ben is bookend-ing our miniseries on Additive Manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D Printing. In part 1 of our interview with Ben, we spent most of our time discussing many of the different additive manufacturing techniques…
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Scaling 3D Printing and Making Manufacturing Fun Again, with Blake Teipel of Essentium
Where else will you find a podcast on 3D printing that references cassette tapes and cowboy hats??? In this new episode of our 3D Printing series, we talk with Blake Teipel, CEO and cofounder of Essentium. Blake is perhaps the best person to explain how the success of 3D printing relies on the...
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