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One of my favorite parts in talking to innovators is that their pathways are rarely linear.

Jorge Torres is one of those innovators.

Jorge has always been around innovation, but it’s looked different in different stages of his career. He started out studying science at Yale, became a patent attorney, then a venture capitalist aka a VC, and eventually found himself back at Yale teaching venture capital 101.

There’s a lot of good discussion in this episode. We talk about how people have affected every step of Jorge’s journey, diversity in venture capital, and how impactful Jorge’s teaching is.

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That’s Cat Mulvihill. Cat, as you’ll get to find out in this episode, is the definition of a multi-passionate person and entrepreneur.

Cat is someone that I’ve gotten to know a little bit through Notion and meeting her in person at the Craft & Commerce conference by ConvertKit. I admire Cat for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is that a lot of multi-passionate innovators can learn a ton from Cat.

She’s someone who has studied and experienced so many different areas and puts them all together in ways that only Cat can. I don’t know any other people who are an expert in Notion, can present incredibly well virtually, and would could up with the idea to knit on Twitch while talking about pop culture??

In this conversation Cat, we talked about her journey as a multi-passionate entrepreneur, why a company should consider using Notion, and why she’s thinking a bit bigger these days.

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Mark Johnson is the Co-founder & Managing Partner at Michigan Software Labs, a software agency that builds custom software for Fortune 1000 companies. To date, they’ve built over 100 different products, have a team of about 50 people, and have built software for companies like the United Way, Caterpillar, and HarperCollinsPublishers.

Contrary to what you might assume at first, Mark isn’t a software developer. He would be considered what many might call “the business co-founder”. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand the tech or can’t do a little bit of coding himself, it’s just not his strong suit or focus.

Mark actually created his first app after his wife told him she wanted an app to listen to the radio while running. I’ll let him explain that in the episode.