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One the Come Up
by dannyijdo
One The Come Up is a weekly podcast where I (a high school student) interview founders, builders, and Wall Street denizens. The name of the podcast comes from the term on the come up, which means (according to Urban Dictionary): [something] on the vurge [sic] of blowin' up or makin' some serious noise. Of course, this podcast is located around the corner from all seminal happenstance. For my listeners who take their lexicon from Webster's, this podcast is chic, urbane, and eclectic. The unifying thread? (this podcast does not consider itself a series of odds and ends): all my guests are at the start of their careers--their especially auspicious careers. And it's from this latter fact, that on takes the extra e, simultaneously commanding itself at the front of the cardinal numbers and becoming a homophone for won. Ibidem, One the Come Up. No professional recording equipmen
Episodes
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Alexandra Cavoulacos -- COO of Backerkit, co-founder of The Muse
For today's episode, I was joined by Alexandra Cavoulacos. A Paris native, Cavoulacos crossed the Atlantic to study at Yale, where she initially pursued molecular, cellular, and developmental biology before switching to political science. She worked at McKinsey for three years before leaving to...
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Thor Retzlaff -- Wasted*
Today I was joined by Thor Retlzaff, co-founder of Wasted*, a urine-mining company that turns pee into fertilizer via infrastructure (such as porta potties). Retlaff's career began at Lewis and Clark College, where he majored in anthropology and sociology. Inspiration would come to Retralaff and...
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Tessa Zimmerman -- Upstream Education
Tessa Zimmerman was the inaugural graduate of the Watson Institute's partnership with Lynn University, where she earned a first-of-its-kind bachelor's degree in Social Entrepreneurship. Inspired by her own experience of struggling with anxiety in the classroom and the lack of mental health...
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Sandra Takei -- AI & Education Specialist @ Stanford
Today I was joined by Sandra Takei. Takei's career began at UC Berkeley where she majored in Biology, thinking about becoming a nurse. After realizing she was more interested in creating change at the macro level, Takei transitioned to studying pedagogy. The first guest on the podcast to study at...
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Christian Brown
Today I was joined by Christian Brown, co-founder and CMO of Glewee. If Brown wasn’t a founder, I’d venture to say he’d be an oracle. Here’s my evidence: it’s the first day of freshman year for Brown at Danvers High and in Advertising 101 he predicted the growth of micro-influencers in the coming...
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Geri Kirilova from Laconia
Geri Kirilova is a partner at Laconia Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies transforming established industries. In this conversation, Kirilova reflects on her path from NYU Stern to helping build Laconia, why she chose an unconventional career over a more...
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Mitchell Hora -- Founder and CEO of Continuumn Ag.
Today I was joined by Mitchell Hora, Founder and CEO of Continuum Ag, a company that uses soil-health data and its TopSoil platform to help farmers improve their soil and profitability. Hora’s career began at Iowa State (also included in this discussion, a list of all the reasons why Iowa State…
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Hamza Qadoumi -- Founder and CEO of Ecobloom
The first Swede on the podcast, Hamza Qadoumi is a co-founder of Ecobloom, a Stockholm-based AgTech company that specializes in crop-monitoring technology. Qadoumi’s career began at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where he obtained his degree in mechanical engineering. Further, as just the...
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Davina Durgana -- One the Come Up Podcast
An interesting episode on modern slavery.
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Mattan Griffel -- One the Come Up Podcast -- Assistant Professor Columbia Business School
Griffel’s career began at NYU, where he double majored in philosophy and finance (the first guest to study either major and to attend NYU). Beginning his career in 2010 as Head of Marketing at appssavvy, he led company-wide marketing initiatives before founding The Front Labs in 2011, a...
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David Marella -- One the Come Up
Today I was excited to be joined by David Marella, Senior M&A Associate at BakerHostetler. Always one for superlatives, I would like to recognize Marella as the first Ocean County native on the podcast. Something of a hometown hero, Marella began his education at Toms River East High School. As…
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Andrew Watson from Igloo Media -- One the Come Up Podcast
Today I was excited to be joined by Andrew Watson, co-founder of Igloo Media. Professional-athelete-turned-serial-entrepreneur, Watson’s career began on the junior tennis circuit, where he competed internationally and nationally (in the UK). His efforts earned him a scholarship to the University…
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Tristan Pollock Gener8tor
Tristan Pollock is the Managing Director of the Electrify Nevada Accelerator at gener8tor, a national accelerator program backing early-stage energy, battery, critical minerals, and AI infrastructure companies in Nevada. He's also Founding Partner of Cool Climate Collective and co-founded two...
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Megha Parekh, Executive Vice-President and CLO of the Jacksonville Jaguars
Life after One-L: This is the unofficial (and unaffiliated) podcast auditory extension of your favorite legal-drama series, Suits. Joining me today is Megha Parekh, Chief Legal Officer of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The first NJ native on the podcast, this Manalapan(ian?) started her career at...
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Calvin Bohn from Thrive. Former co-founder of Smalls!
For this episode of One the Come Up, I was joined by Calvin Bohn, former co-founder of Smalls and Head of Partner Success at Thrive. Starting his career at Yale, Bohn was a reporter and broadcaster for the Bulldogs while pursuing his degree in humanities. Unsure of what to do after college…
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Tom Coburn, the CEO of Waking Up
Joining me for today’s podcast is Tom Coburn, the CEO of Waking Up. Coburn’s career began at Boston College far from entrepreneurship. Originally pursuing a pre-med path, Coburn was even accepted to Tufts Med school while in his sophomore year and started a double major in Theology, before a...
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Michael Carter from UStrive — One The Come Up
If you’re like me and navigating the college application process, you may have heard of today’s company, UStrive, but you also may not of heard of its founder and today’s guest, Michael Carter. In the event the latter fact is true, you’re in the right place. Carter’s career began as a freshman at...
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Angel Low from Malaysia, The Hive
The podcast is back! and joining me for the first conversation in almost two months is Angel Low, Venture Capitalist and Operator @ The Hive. Low's career began at Beijing University where she obtained her degree in economics. After graduating, she landed her first job in the ultra competitive...
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James Ellsmoor discusses Island Innovation
A little bit late in the makings, this is an episode from the archives! I don't know how this conversation slipped between the cracks. Originally recorded in March of 2025, this was the 23rd podcast. Enjoy!
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Alexei Mlodinow discusses entrepreneurship and medicine
Today I was joined by Dr. Alexei Mlodinow, founding CEO of Surgical Innovations Associates (SIA), a med tech company spun out of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management in 2016, and acquired by Integra LifeSciences in 2022. Alexei’s career began at UC Santa…
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Amy Zitelman from SoomFoods
For this episode, I was joined by Amy Zitelman, the CEO and Co-founder of Soom Foods, a Tahini brand. Completing their first sale in 2013, Zitelman and her two sisters founded Soom to capitalize on tahini’s relative obscurity in the American market. While tahini is a primary ingredient in...
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Rachel Mercer from JPMorganChase
Joining me on today’s episode is Rachel Mercer, MD of Design and Customer Experience at JPMorganChase. Mercer started her career at Northeastern University, where she obtained her Bachelor’s in Design and Interactive media. A unique part of Northeastern University is the co-op program which…
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Matthew Rooda from SwinTech!
For one of the most fun conversations I’ve had on the podcast so far, today I was joined by Matthew Rooda, the CEO and Founder of SwineTech. Rooda’s career began at Hawkeye Community College, a time in which he worked on a pork worked on a pig farm caring for sows and delivering piglets - perfect...
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Nathanael Ren - Former Co-Founder of Buoy Health; Trading Pals
Today I was joined by Nathanael Ren, former co-founder of Buoy Health (2014-2022). Ren’s career began at Harvard, where his first assignment was an unlikely destination for an 18 year fresh out of high school: go undercover to an iPhone factory in China. Returning to the States, he completed his...
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Blue Latitudes
I was honored to be joined by Emily Hazelwood and Amber Sparks, the co-founders of Blue Latitudes, a certified women-owned marine environmental consulting firm. Before starting Blue Latitudes in 2015, Hazelwood and Sparks started their careers on opposite sides of the country. Hazelwood’s career...
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Hristo Tenchev - XS Software and Software University
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Hristo Tenchev. Tenchev, for my international listeners, is the CEO and founder of the company that probably makes your favorite video game - XS Software. Tenchev began his career when he was 18, creating a web-based video game that quickly went viral in...
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Matthew Simmonds - Speakset, The Meaning of Work, and ENTOCYCLE
I’m starting to lose count of the episodes, so I’ll ditch the tradition of saying it’s such and such number of episodes, and instead I’ll resort to saying it’s n and n+1 episodes. But then I’ll exhaust n and lose track of counting again, so I think I’ll just stop counting altogether ;) I was...
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Teasha Feldman-Fitzthum from Commonwealth Fusion Systems
I was honored to be joined by Teasha Feldman-Fitzhum. Feldman-Fitzthum’s career began at MIT as a physics major. Originally intending to pursue graduate school, she pivoted to entrepreneurship after enrolling in MIT’s 13.366 entrepreneurship class, where she and her cofounder successfully…
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Kostapanos Miliaresis discusses volunteering
Kostapanos Miliaresis and I covered a lot of ground, so I suppose I’ll go in chronological order. Miliaresis' journey began in the Boy Scouts, where he first discovered a passion for volunteering. The idea of volunteering continued with him to Athens University of Economics and Business, where he...
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Anton Toll Hakånson from DayCape
It was my fortune to be joined by Anton Toll Håkanson, the CEO and founder of DayCape. Toll Håkanson’s career began somewhere far away from entrepreneurship or user experience: scuba diving. After being a scuba diving instructor for a year, he decided to head off to Hyper Island, where he got his...
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Ferdinand Grapperhaus from Nextsense
The first Dutchman on the Podcast!, Ferdinand Grapperhaus is the CEO of Nextsense, a company aimed at decarbonizing real estate. Grapperhaus’ career began at Delft University of Technology, where, when pursuing his MSc, he made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: a substance to be used in windows to...
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Matthew Rastovac from Salesforce and Respell
I was fortunate to share the time with Mr Matthew Rastovac. The former CEO of Respell (now acquired by Salesforce), his career began at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Here, Mr Rastovac was co-president of Founders, the university’s entrepreneurship club, where he doubled the group’s...
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Milagros Barsallo from the City of Denver
I was honored to be joined by Ms. Milagros Barsallo, who currently serves as the Outreach Director for the Denver Mayor’s Office. Her career began at Cornell University, where she studied Government and International Relations. After college, her first role was as a bilingual third and fourth…
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Peter Hazlehurst from Synctera
I was fortunate to be joined by Mr Peter Hazlehurst. The CEO and founder of Synctera, a platform that provides the technology infrastructure, compliance tools, and banking partner connections to enable FinTech companies and other businesses to build and launch financial products like bank…
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Commu! Karolina Kauhanen
I had the fortune of speaking with Mrs Karoliina Kauhanen – twice. Unfortunately (or, maybe, fortunately) the first go around had issues with the recording (and prompted new measures on my part), so I had the pleasure of a second interview. Mrs Kauhanen joined me all the way from Finland, where…
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Aza Steel from CoDream and GoGuardian
The Podcast is back!! After a little hiatus (Thank you AP Exams ;), I was excited to debut the podcast again with Mr Steel! Starting his career at UCLA, where he majored in Sociology, Mr Steel started his first company (GoGuardian) in a different direction. After his friend’s backpack was stolen...
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Youssef El Kaddioui from Scalelist
Joining me all the way from Hong Kong, as my first guest from Asia Forbes, I was excited to have Mr Youssef El Kaddioui as my guest. The CEO and Founder of Scalelab, a venture-building studio and lead generation agency based out of Hong Kong, Mr Youssef began his career at Rouen Business School....
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Ernest Owens From Ernest Media Empire
I was honored to have Mr Ernest Owens as my guest. What’s to say about him – what’s not to say about him? – where to even start – where will it end? – fortunately the story’s been given to me, for I’m no writer, myself. A Renaissance Man is the only character in my story, but I have quite the…
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Iva Tsolova from JAMBA
For episode number 20 – wow! That’s a lot of episodes – I was honored to have Ms. Tsolova as my guest – the CEO and Founder of JAMBA, a company that provides educational and employment opportunities for those with disabilities in Austria, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Starting in high school where she...
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Stephanie Michelsen from Jellatech
I was joined by Ms Stephanie Michelsen – the CEO and Founder of Jellatech, a biotechnology company based out of Raleigh, North Carolina that seeks to create highly valuable proteins in a scalable, efficient, and sustainable way. Her career began in Denmark, where she attended the University of...
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Amaury Hayat from Ecole des Ponts
For the 18th – or maybe 17th, it’s starting to get hard to count – episode, I was fortunate to have Professor Amaury Hayat as my guest. A researcher in mathematics at Ecole de Pont, I’m sure he could help me keep track of my episode numbers – that, and a little bit more. His academic career began...
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Choë Downes from WeSHFT
I was excited to have Ms Chloë Downes as my guest. The CEO and Founder of SHFT, an influencer talent management agency based in the UK, she seeks to bring genuine inclusivity to an industry of smoke and mirrors. While many companies have an inclusive work culture on paper, Ms Chloe has seen...
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Richman Neumann from Modumate and Yelp
It was a pleasure to have Mr Richman Neumann as my guest. An architect, a businessman, an acapella singer, a mathematician, a man of many hats – some have been led to call him a human podcast. Mr Neumann got his start at Carnegie Mellon University where he studied architecture – the art of…
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Valentin Meaux from Raisers Partners
I was excited to have Mr Valentin Meaux as my guest, for his first podcast experience!! The Co-Founder and Managing partner of Raisers Partners, a Fundraising/M&A advisory firm for African startups, they’re based out of Paris, France. Mr Meaux started his career in a program called Classes...
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Alexia Cooper from 1Solar
I was honored to have Ms Alexia Cooper as my guest. The Senior VP of One Solar, she used to be the CEO of Bell Solar until it was acquired. Starting her career at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she started in air conditioning before moving to Bell Electrical. Initially a sales…
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Liam White from Dr Will's
Unlucky 13 wasn’t unlucky at all – I was fortunate to have Mr Liam White as my guest. CEO and Co-Founder of Dr Will’s, a condiment and beverage brand centered in the UK that focuses on a healthier – but still great tasting – alternative to traditional condiment brands such as Heinz, Hellman’s…
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Alexander Harmsen from Global Predictions
I was excited to have as my guest Mr Alexander Harmsen. The CEO and Founder of Global Predictions, their flagship model is portfolio pilot, your personal AI financial advisor. A Loran Scholar, Mr Harsem decided to attend University of British Columbia for his degree in engineering physics. After...
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Misha Vitels from Earth Brands
Entering into the double digits now, a big milestone for the podcast, what better way to celebrate than to have a big man with an even bigger dream: Mr Vitels, with Earth Brands, and his goal to take down the plastic, red solo cup that plagues college campuses across the nation. Mr Vitels and his...
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Oscar Walter from Stockly
Joining me all the way from Paris, for the eleventh episode, is Mr Oscar Walter. The co-founder and CTO of Stockly, a retail technology company that creates a network of shared inventories for partners to sell items they don’t have in stock. The company was conceived in 2016, albeit slightly...
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Ahana Banerjee, CEO of Clear: Skin Social
I was honored to have Ms Banerjee as my guest. The CEO and Founder of Clear: Social Skincare – a free skin care routine tracking app – Ms Banerjee has always had one goal in mind: to bring a positive value to the world. A never ending pursuit, it started from the culture shock she experienced...
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One The Come Up is a weekly podcast where I (a high school student) interview founders, builders, and Wall Street denizens. The name of the podcast comes from the term on the come up, which means (according to Urban Dictionary): [something] on the vurge [sic] of blowin' up or makin' some serious noise. Of course, this podcast is located around the corner from all seminal happenstance. For my listeners who take their lexicon from Webster's, this podcast is chic, urbane, and eclectic. The unifying thread? (this podcast does not consider itself a series of odds and ends): all my guests are at the start of their careers--their especially auspicious careers. And it's from this latter fact, that on takes the extra e, simultaneously commanding itself at the front of the cardinal numbers and becoming a homophone for won. Ibidem, One the Come Up.
No professional recording equipmen
HOSTED BY
dannyijdo
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