Research Labs Podcast by SundayPyjamas
by SundayPyjamas
With the Research Labs Show, we want to build a show that can help people develop a framework for themselves to evolve, learn, and impact change in their communities.Stories of Entrepreneurs, Designers, Developers, Researchers, and Leaders sharing their perspectives to help us create a new vision for ourselves and our communities. Just this time, a more informed one.Learn more: sundaypyjamas.com/podcast
Episodes
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#83 Michal Gondar on Embracing the Chaos: How to Ship, Pivot, and Scale SaaS
Featured Guest: Michal Gondar, Founder & CEO, Appio.so📍Scotland, UK... In this episode of the Research Labs Podcast, we sit down with Michal Gondar, the founder of Appio, to discuss the messy reality of building and shipping software products. Michal draws on over twenty years of experience to...
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#82 Alison Canning on Reviving Laptops, Reusing Tech, Reconnecting Communities
In this episode, Alison Canning, founder of Let's Get Together, shares the story behind her organization's mission to tackle Canada's digital divide. Learn how her dedicated team of volunteers takes donated laptops, revives them with open-source software like Ubuntu, and provides them to those in...
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#81 Dr. Majid Fekri on Building AI RAG Systems, Vector Databases and Information Theory
Featured Guest: Dr. Majid Fekri, Co-Founder & CTO, Edge AI Innovations 📍Toronto, Canada ... In this episode, Dr. Majid explores the intersection of edge AI and information theory. He shares his vision of running AI efficiently on small devices while preserving privacy and reducing energy...
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#80 Hon. Leela Aheer on BioTech, Government Policy & Life in Politics
Featured Guest: Hon. Leela Aheer, Sr. Director of Strategy, BioAro Inc. and Former MLA of Alberta 📍Alberta, Canada Episode Overview: Our episode features Hon. Leela Aheer, whose career spans music, politics, and now senior leadership in biotech and investment. She shares her current work as…
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#79 Gabe Dublin on War, Drones, AI & Defense Tech
Featured Guest: Gabe Dublin, Co-founder & CEO, Psycraft 📍 Toronto, Canada ... In this episode, Gabe discusses the current state of global defense and emerging trends in defense technology. He shares his insights on the historical context of World War I, the role of Canadian defense tech, and the...
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#78 Jasmeet Singh on Physical AI, Robotics & Understanding North America's VC Ecosystem
Featured Guest: Jasmeet Singh, Founder, JMoon Ventures https://jmoon.ventures/ ... We explored the fascinating world of physical AI with Jasmeet, a robotics expert. Key highlights: Diverse Canadian Incubator Ecosystem: Canada offers specialized incubators across various fields, promoting...
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#77 Opher Brayer on Decoding Human Nature and Leveraging Conversational AI to Unlock Human Potential
Featured Guest: Opher Brayer, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Impro.ai 📍Toronto, Canada ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas® Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright…
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#76 Vidhi Kankaria on Fractional Real Estate Investing, Life in Boston as a Trader & Building Vaar
In this episode, we sit down with Vidhi Kankaria, Founder & CEO of Vaar, to explore the transformative world of fractional real estate investing and ownership. Vidhi shares her unique insights from her experience as a trader in Boston and her hands-on analysis of over 120 properties across the US...
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#75 Robert Wood on Enterprise Software, Developer Productivity with Copilot AI
Featured Guest: Robert Wood, Area Solution Architect, Microsoft Canada 📍Toronto, Canada ... In our latest podcast episode with Robert Wood, a Solution Architect, based in Toronto, Canada, with over 26 years at Microsoft, we explored the dynamic world of enterprise software and his distinguished...
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#74 Richard Nilsson on Raising $3.7M for Pet Tech, Longevity, Insights on Hardware Manufacturing & Building Product for Gen Z
Featured Guest: Richard Nilsson, Founder & CEO, MyPetGo 📍Barcelona, Spain ... Links: https://mypetgo.com/ Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/mypetgo-pet-wellness-monitor/id1569965171 Get it on Google Play:...
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#73 Gavenraj Singh Sodhi on Personalized Drug Discovery through AI & BioGenetics
Featured Guest: Gavenraj Singh Sodhi, Co-Founder & CEO, Maddie BioGenetics 📍San Diego, California, USA ... Links: https://maddiebio.com/ ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas® Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi...
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#72 Brent Pohlman on Leading a Team of 400, Building a Multi-Generational Business, & Writing a Book as a Reflection Tool
Featured Guest: Brent Pohlman, CEO, Midwest Laboratories 📍Omaha, Nebraska ... Links: https://ceoofyourheart.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Look-Within-Heart-Gratitude/dp/B0C22WP5DT/ https://midwestlabs.com/ ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas…
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#71 Philippe Noël on Building a Streaming Browser, Getting into Y Combinator, Pivoting & Solving Big Problems
Featured Guest: Philippe Noël, Co-Founder & CEO, ParadeDB (previously known as Retake) - YC S23 📍 New York, USA Links: https://www.paradedb.com/ https://philippemnoel.notion.site/What-I-Learned-Building-Whist-Phil-245f4490466846beb61a5655d433411d ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs…
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#70 Michael Mills on Running a Hedge Fund, Macroeconomics, Government Policy & SaaS
Featured Guest: Michael Mills, Principal & CEO, Infinitary Fund 📍New York, USA ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas...
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#69 Dr Marco Besier on Problem Solving in Academics vs Startups, Rationalization Questions & Particle Physics
Featured Guest: Dr. Marco Besier, Founder, Web3 Developer Academy 📍Hesse, Germany ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday...
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#68 Scott Curry on Building a Platform Business and Hardware Products for the Blockchain Ecosystem
Featured Guest: Scott Curry, Co-Founder, FlexCube 📍 California, USA ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private...
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#67 Daniel Steeves on The Evolution of Tech & Startups, FTX Saga & Project Planning
Featured Guest: Daniel Steeves, CEO, Advance Advisory 📍 Switzerland ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private...
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#66 Madhurima Sappatti on Burnout, Toxic Workplaces & Transforming Personal Struggles to Strengths
Featured Guest: Madhurima Sappatti, Host, The Soul's Conquest Podcast 📍 India ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas...
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#65 Anton Huestegge on Being a Digital Nomad, German Culture, Growing a Painting Business, Trading Cards and NFTs
Featured Guest: Anton Huestegge, Digital Nomad & Entrepreneur 📍 Germany ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas…
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#64 Bradford Carlton on Elder Law, Fatherhood, Politics and Building Businesses
Featured Guest: Dr. Bradford Carlton, Owner/Founder, Carlton Family Corporation 📍 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Message from Dr. Carlton: Author, scientist, marketer, entrepreneur, husband, and father, Dr. Bradford Carlton is an accomplished businessman who makes dreams come true for his...
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#63 William Cook on Growing Online Communities
Support today's episode sponsor Hyperskill: https://hyperskill.org/tracks?utm_campaign=comarketing&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=sndpj ... Featured Guest: William Cook, CEO & Head of Growth, Advertise Your Server 📍 Melbourne, Australia ... Will is an online community manager who runs one of…
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#62 Arcui Usoara on Embracing Neurodivergence with Grace
Dive into this podcast episode for a relaxed yet fascinating conversation with Arcui who has triumphed over ADHD, dyslexia, and emotional challenges to become an up-and-coming brand strategist. Listen in as he shares his journey, revealing how he turned these unique attributes into assets for...
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#61 Shmuel Eisenberg on Navigating Multiple Product Businesses, Startup Scene in Israel & Hungary
Featured Guest: Shmuel (Sam) Eisenberg, Co-Founder @ Design for Decks, Founder @ Read With Love 📍Budapest, Hungary ... Links: https://www.designfordecks.com/ https://readwith.love/ ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel...
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#60 Dijana Vetturelli on Organizational Change Through Conversation
Featured Guest: Dijana Vetturelli, Founder & CEO, qohubs 📍Zagreb, Croatia Links: Dijana at TedxZagreb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfJDwHKwXu8 Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi...
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#59 Oriol Bedia on UX Research, Conducting Customer Interviews | Typeform
Featured Guest: Oriol Bedia, Principal Product Designer, Typeform 📍Barcelona, Spain ... Message from Oriol: Hi! I’m Oriol 👋 I have 9+ years experience designing useful & delightful products end-to-end. I'm a Principal product designer @Typeform, prior to that I worked w/ scale-ups @Zalando,...
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#58 Abhishek Dutta on Building a Design Agency, Team Management, Product Validation & Monetization
In this engaging podcast conversation, Abhishek shares his personal journey of self-discovery and entrepreneurship, offering valuable insights and inspiration. The episode begins with the importance of trying new things and persisting until one's true passion is found. Abhishek recalls a school...
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#57 Serhii Leschenko on Startups in Ukraine, Business & Communication
Featured Guest: Serhii Leschenko, Communication Coach, Beverly English 📍Kyiv, Ukraine 📜 Message from Serhii: 'If you play with matches - you get burned.' - a quote from 'Pulp Fiction' I memorized over 10 years ago, around the same time when I was obsessively learning English to make up for...
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#56 Rushabh Shah on Financial Management for India | Ticmarc backed by CIIE, IIM-Ahmedabad
Featured Guest: Rushabh Shah, Founder & CEO, Ticmarc 📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India About Ticmarc: Recognized as one of the Top 4 Startups at CIIE, Ahmedabad, Ticmarc is a personal finance and expense management for groups and people in India. Links: https://ticmarc.com/ Credits: Designed by the...
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#55 Stephane Nasser on Mastering Your Fundraising Game | OpenVC
Featured Guest: Stephane Nasser, Co-founder, OpenVC 📍 France Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas Private Limited 2023
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#54 Arun Nijhawan on Chronic Pain Treatment | Menda Health
Featured Guest: Arun Nijhawan, Founder, Menda Health 📍 New York, United States Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas...
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#53 Jaco Koenig on Web 3 for Kids, Overcoming Depression | Doshi App
Featured Guest: Jaco Koenig, Founder & CTO, Doshi App 📍 London, United Kingdom Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy & Production by Nishi Panchal Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday Pyjamas...
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#52 Shemmy Majewski on Diabetes Care with AI | Diabetes Lab, ex- CERN
Featured Guest: Shemmy (Przemysław) Majewski, Co-founder & CEO, DLabs.ai 📍 Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland ... Links: https://diabeteslab.org/ https://dlabs.ai/ ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by Prathamesh Patel Podcast Strategy &...
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#51 Swapnil Puranik on Creativity in the Generative AI Era
In this episode, we hear the story of Swapnil's journey from childhood to becoming a successful marketing entrepreneur. Swapnil shares how college was a turning point for him, where he discovered his passion for brand building and advertising. After working in advertising for some time, he…
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#50 Jessica Ingrassellino on Notes & Nodes: The Story of a Violinist Engineer | HashiCorp, Anleiten
In this episode, Jessica shares her experience starting as a violin & viola player from a very young age to becoming an engineering manager for the lingua franca of cloud - HashiCorp. Along the way, Jessica and Prathamesh also highlight how working across different professions across industries…
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#49 Nick Linck on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Research | Founder @ The Residency, ex-IBM Research
In this episode, Nick walks us through his process of understanding AGI, which has become so much more relevant with the latest release of GPT-4 by Open AI. He also shares examples of how human-level AGI is considered to be achieved like the Coffee Test (Wozniak) or Turing Test. Prathamesh and…
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#48 Emil Lamprecht on Female Health & Accelerator Programs
Featured Guest: Emil Lamprecht, Researcher, Founder & CEO, Growth Mechanics 📍 Ljubljana, Slovenia ... About Emil: Emil is the CEO of Growth Mechanics, a portfolio of small companies he and his team have developed with a specific eye on research, impact, and the enjoyment of doing business for…
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#47 Spencer Shulem on The Art of Building Venture Backed Product Companies
From an early age, Spencer recognized the value of using and building high-quality products. With this spirit, he has built and scaled multiple successful apps and websites. BuildBetter, his current venture, helps product operation teams with product research and AI insights. He shares his...
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#46 Thorsten Höger on Multi-Cloud and Building Serverless Architecture (AWS Hero)
In the episode, Thorsten explains that multi-cloud adoption can be challenging due to the many moving parts involved. However, he emphasizes that the biggest challenge lies in ensuring compliance and governance across multiple clouds, especially in highly regulated industries. To achieve...
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#45 Scott Howard on Revenue Engines for Web3 Startups & Projects, Living through The '08 Crisis
Featured Guest: Scott Howard, Revenue Engineer, Factorchain AI 📍 Toronto, Canada ... 📜 Message from Scott: Scott is passionate about working with emerging innovative projects to drive value. Focused on go-to-market and shared value creation, Scott designs, builds, and delivers Revenue Engines....
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#44 Cadence Lam on Product Cultures across Singapore & the US (ex- Meta, Twitter, Airbnb)
Featured Guest: Cadence Lam, Product Manager, Gojek 📍 Singapore ... 📜 Message from Cadence: I am a Product Lead who works on data-driven frontend tech products and is currently based in Singapore. I have 7+ years of Product, Ops and Growth experience. Currently at Gojek. Formerly at Meta…
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#43 Ramkumar Venkataraman on Building Risk Management Systems (Arda, YC W22)
In this episode, Ram shares his story with Arda Finance. Ram and his co-founder started out building a complete fintech suite for crypto exchanges, but pivoted to focus on risk management after the Terra Luna crash. They're building a platform that includes data on potential risks and issues in...
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#42 Brad Bethell on Creating Hardware Products
Featured Guest: Brad Bethell, Chief Marketing Officer, FlexCube 📍 California, United States ... Credits: Designed by the Research Labs Platform Produced by SundayPyjamas Created & Hosted by PrathameshRR Directed by Nishi Panchal & Bhavin Patel Music: Ukiyo - Calling (EP) Copyright of Sunday...
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#41 Esther Yip on Empathy Driven Design
Featured Guest: Esther Jingxin Yip, Product Designer, Shopify 📍 Singapore 📜 Message from Esther: Esther believes in the value of design as a facilitative force for good. Coming from a background in social design, systems engineering and analytics, her design philosophy is grounded in humility…
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#40 Kshitij Patel on Life & Startups at IIT Kharagpur
Featured Guest: Kshitij Patel, Co-Founder, Rogan & Student, IIT Kharagpur 📍Ahmedabad, India Message from the Guest: A student at IIT Kharagpur, A serial entrepreneur building a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the beauty and wellness industries. Previously worked on start-ups in the travel, fashion,...
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#39 Patrick Prioletti on Psychedelics & Microdosing
Featured Guest: Patrick Prioletti, Founder, Psily About the Guest: I'm a former ML engineer, cybersecurity/privacy researcher and energy policy researcher turned app builder. My goal is to increase access to novel health and therapeutic tools and build products that can make a real impact in...
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#38 Samantha Balajadia on Pursuing UX Design | University of Toronto
Featured Guest: Samantha Balajadia, Product Design Intern, Dialogue About the Guest: Samantha is a Product Designer completing her Master of Information at the University of Toronto, specializing in User Experience Design. She is currently a Product Design intern at Dialogue, Canada’s leading...
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#37 James Carleton on Enterprise Design Systems | Sr UX Designer at PayPal
Let's take a deep dive into enterprise-level design systems - how they're built, maintained and organized for a team of 100+ designers globally. You can learn more about frontend libraries and their usefulness to develop and launch MVPs fast, yet, knowing when your design system needs…
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#36 Shaun Gold on Connecting Startups & Investors, Roasting Pitchdecks and Mental Wellness
As you dive deeper into the minds of a polymath, through this episode, find out more about how Shaun manages to do - screenwriting, helping startups with venture capital connections, building a 23K subscriber mental health newsletter - all at once. ... Featured Guest: Shaun Gold, The Polymath,...
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#35 Umang Jasani on Climate Change
A high-level conversation and thinking on the climate change phenomena, what it really means and what can be done on the individual level to contribute to a more sustainable future. Going deeper, we understand how net zero buildings work and also how a Bangalore-based startup called Smarter…
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#34 Matthew Burrell on Building Clipchamp and Making Video Creation Easier within Microsoft
In the landscape of complex video creation and editing tools, we talk with Matthew about how user-centric and intuitive products are built. Ease of use enables more people to create through a faster learning curve. If you're into product, also look for Matthew's story from inclination in UX and...
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With the Research Labs Show, we want to build a show that can help people develop a framework for themselves to evolve, learn, and impact change in their communities.Stories of Entrepreneurs, Designers, Developers, Researchers, and Leaders sharing their perspectives to help us create a new vision for ourselves and our communities. Just this time, a more informed one.Learn more: sundaypyjamas.com/podcast
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