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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.

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As someone who’s a diehard Detroit sports fan, it’s been pretty easy to notice that Caitlin Clark would be a great add to the Detroit Pistons at this point.

If you don’t know, the Pistons play basketball and are historically awful this year.

Caitlin Clark, on the other hand, is incredible at basketball and just broke the NCAA all time women’s scoring record.

It’s been all over the headlines and Caitlin Clark, for good reason, has been right in the news cycle alongside the NBA all star game.

To understand the future of women sports and what innovations are happening in it, I had the privledge to talking to Fielding Kidd Jamieson, who has been at the forefront of all of this.

Fielding was a college athlete at Yale, ended up finding her way to helping to lead innovation at NBCUniversal and Comcast, and most recently, was a Managing Director at R/GA Ventures where she led a venture studio that was focused on women & sports.

Fielding’s passion for this space is incredibly noticeable and one of the things I appreciate about her.

Thankfully, you get to see that passion in this interview.

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I’ve been in the no-code space for over three years now and the tools have changed dramatically since then. Even if you look at my own YouTube channel and some of the older Airtable videos, Airtable is quite a bit different than it is today.

When I was first starting, Gareth Pronovost was someone I admired from afar because he had been creating content on YouTube for several years at that point about Airtable. I appreciated his work and everyone I talked to that knew Gareth always said, “he’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet”.

In this conversation with Gareth, I think you’ll see a glimpse of that and how knowledgeable he is about no code tools. Gareth has been working with no code tools since almost the beginning and his entire business is built around them. If you’d like to learn more about Gareth after this interview, check out his YouTube channel or his company here.

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Preeti Adhikary is someone that I admire for so many reasons. She’s an innovator that has taken a non-linear career path, she’s someone who builds in public on LinkedIn, and it’s obvious that she’s enjoying the journey, not the destination which shows up in her impact driven career path. A concept that is easy to imagine, but incredibly difficult to accomplish at times.

Preeti is the founder of The Great Nepali Diaspora, a community that connects immigrants from Nepal in a professional manner. As Preeti puts it, immigrant communities can have very strong social ties, but not always strong professional ties. With The Great Nepali Diapsora community, Preeti has been able to connect Nepali talent by having over 2,000 members, 47 chapters, and over 75 events.

Before becoming a founder, Preeti was in all sorts of roles. She’s been in banking, leadership roles in startups, and a scout in venture capital. She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in economics and eventually found her way to graduating from the Yale School of Management aka Yale SOM with a Master in Advanced Management. Like many innovators, Preeti has worn many different hats throughout her career.

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How do you measure the impact of innovation?

Every innovation has different timelines. It might be an innovation that has immediate impact. It also might be an innovation that takes generations to truly see the full impact.

In my conversation with Jason Kehrer, we talked about these different timelines of innovation and how organizations of all sizes measure the impact of innovation.

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If you’re like me, AI is a topic that you’re seeing too much content for in your LinkedIn feeds, but at the same time, you think to yourself, wait, let me see that…

Once you’ve sifted through the generic, bad, non-human AI responses and content, you do see that there are a lot of benefits to AI and it’s changing how we all operate, especially for knowledge workers.

One of the people that I’ve found after sifting through the bad AI content on LinkedIn is Isabella Bedoya. Isabella, or Izzy (because we’re friends now as she says 🙂), has used AI in ways I didn’t know were possible and put a human touch into AI.

Izzy isn’t using AI for automating responses on her LinkedIn posts or any of the other crappy ways to use AI. More on that in a bit.

What she is using it for is for video editing, for LinkedIn content ideas, and for helping her create first drafts of LinkedIn posts. All ways that help lessen time on work she doesn’t necessarily want to do. That then increases Izzy’s time to, as she puts it, build relationships because “people buy from people”.