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  • Mart is the analyst known as Yellowbull (@Yellowbull11) on Twitter. He writes a biweekly newsletter covering relevant news in the uranium sector, coverage of uranium companies, sample portfolios and much more.

    Mart’s Twitter: @Yellowbull11

    Mart’s Newsletter: https://www.patreon.com/contrariancodex

    Vasanth’s Twitter: @NextVasanth

    Vasanth’s Newsletter: https://nextbite.substack.com/

    Time stamps:

    00:34 - Approach to researching companies

    04:45 -Jurisdictional impact on investing

    07:15 - Getting exposure to the Chinese market

    10:24 - Seasonality/contracting

    13:37 - EU Taxonomy

    17:01 - Public sentiment in Europe

    18:33 - Kazatomprom

    22:25 - How do Uranium ETFs determine which mining companies need to be sold and which ones need to be bought?

    24:54 - Interest rate yields

    27:15 - Impact form retail traders

    30:02 - Keys to writing a successful paid newsletter

    32:15 - What’s a topic in this field that you feel isn’t discussed enough?

    34:24 - Strongest bear case against Uranium

    Intro Music: "Pain is the Essence" remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

    Disclaimer: The contents in this episode is for informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

  • Justin Huhn is the analyst and writer behind Uranium Insider, which is the leading authority in uranium market news, analysis, & identifying the best companies in the space.

    Justin’s Newsletter: https://www.uraniuminsider.com/

    Justin’s Twitter: @uraniuminsider

    Vasanth’s Newsletter: https://nextbite.substack.com/

    Vasanth’s Twitter: @NextVasanth

    Time stamps:

    00:42 - What got Justin into Uranium.

    02:51 - Are we in the middle of another squeeze?

    04:48 - How transparent is supply?

    08:18 - Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (SPUT) and their influence on the market

    15:04 - Hedge Funds purchasing physical uranium

    16:50 - CRDN and jurisdictional risk

    19:31 - Nuclear provisions in the US infrastructure bill

    20:54 - Social media and it’s role in the uranium markets

    26:07 - What piece on the demand side is not being widely recognized?

    29:13 - What will signal the top of the bull market?

    31:41 - Is there seasonality? Is Justin a buyer right now?

    35:18 - What is a topic in this filled that isn’t discussed enough or hasn’t gotten enough exposure?

    38:31 - Can Thorium be a substitute to Nuclear?

    Intro Music: "Pain is the Essense" remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

    Art Hyde (Segra Capital) - https://www.segracapital.com/commentary/you-say-you-want-a-revolution

    Disclaimer: The contents presented in this episode is for informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.


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  • York Zhang, a propulsion engineer at Blue Origin, joins us again for a deep cut on Space. We discuss some of the future innovations we can expect and other topics of relevance currently affecting the space industry.

    Time Stamps:

    00:54 - How many space companies can the market accommodate?

    03:00 - Future market segmentation in space

    04:31 - The disconnect between marketing and reality

    08:09 - Varda

    15:31 - Varda deep cut

    16:08 - Will SpaceX derive significant revenue from delivering payloads for external parties?

    17:28 - Minimum financing required in order to contract with SpaceX?

    20:32 - Bidding for future payloads

    21:24 - Regulation around satellites

    23:24 - Can we expect cooperation between the US and China on future space innovation?

    28:04 - Other players focused on space innovation

    29:00 - Is SpaceX really going to put advertisements in the sky?

    30:49 - How will space factor into the classic academic disciplines?

    35:31 - Traditional media and space

    41:31 - Blue Origin and HLS

    44:28 - The Blue Origin Brand

    46:18 - Incentive misalignment between management and employees

    48:47 - Why did NASA go with SpaceX and not Blue Origin?

    50:35 - Should we be skeptical of the promises being made by SpaceX?

    53:36 - Did Bezos going to space help Blue Origin’s brand?

    55:37 - How important is external validation for Blue Origin?

    Find Vasanth on Twitter - @NextVasanth
    Find Faraz on Twitter - @fzfromcupertino

    Intro Music: "Pain is the Essence" remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

    Disclaimer: The content presented in this episode is for informational purposes only, you should not countersue any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial or other advice.

  • Durable Investments tells us about the current/future state of the cloud business and AWS’s interesting positioning over the next 10 years.

    Show Notes:

    01:12 - What is AWS?

    03:40 - What did people do before AWS?

    06:52 - How is AWS different compared to Microsoft/Google?

    12:18 - How are Microsoft and Google competing with AWS considering AWS has a significant head-start?

    16:23 - Google and Microsoft’s strategy for acquiring customers

    20:36 - Market capitalization of the total cloud market

    26:08 - How will the cloud business look in 2030/2035?

    27:17 - Biggest constraint to AWS growth

    29:34 - AWS is recession proof

    33:44 - Future upstarts and disruption

    42:24 - How to approach finance as a technologist?

    Find Durable Investments on Twitter - @retaox

    Find Vasanth - @NextVasanth

    Find Faraz - @fzfromcupertino

    Intro Music: “Pain is the Essence” remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

    Disclaimer: The content presented in this episode is for informational purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

  • Dr. Naveed Sherwani is a serial entrepreneur and technical leader in the world of semiconductors. As a professor at Western Michigan University, he wrote several books and hundreds of articles about chip design and manufacturing. He was the founder of Open Silicon, PeerNova, and was the CEO of SiFive. Currently he’s the Chairman of the Silicon Federation, which aims to democratize chip design.

    Dr. Sherwani’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveed-sherwani-2a789/

    Timestamps:

    2:11 - An explanation of the semiconductor shortage

    5:37 - Roadmap of chip design to final product

    9:25 - Semiconductors are a human right

    11:41 - Semiconductors are the new oil

    17:10 - How do we get semiconductors into the poorest countries?

    20:08 - Silicon Federation (https://www.linkedin.com/company/siliconfederation/about/)

    21:59 - How do you incentivize corporations to open source semiconductor technology?

    24:49 - Will a new era of hardware lead to a Cambrian explosion in startups?

    27:12 - The next two decades of chip development

    30:25 - Getting young people excited about hardware

    38:27 - Is China ahead of the US in artificial intelligence?

    43:11 - To what extent is ML a hardware problem?

    45:13 - Building a global education infrastructure

    50:00 - How do you democratize education opportunities for the world?

    53:19 - In your opinion, what is the best piece of software ever built?

  • Jeff Moore is a real estate and stock market investor. We discuss information asymmetry in the capital markets and how to leverage them, the ongoing technological disruption and how it can dramatically improve small and medium sized businesses around the country, and the intangible things that prevent business owners from changing their operating behavior.

    Twitter: @ragnarisapirate

    Blog: Ragnarisapirate.blogspot.com

    Timestamps

    01:03 - Thrive ($THRY)

    05:55 - Risk/benefits of investing in small cap stocks

    08:45 - Information asymmetry and arbitrage

    14:18 - Zero fee trading and liquidity in small caps

    19:30 - Softwares for SMB’s

    23:56 - What’s stopping SMB operators from adopting new technology?

    26:59 - Do SaaS companies have a responsibility to educate their potential customers?

    32:12 - How accurately do we know the total addressable market for SMB SaaS companies?

    34:56 - What are SaaS companies not understanding about their customers?

    35:37 - Jeff’s real estate business

    39:04 - Blackrock and institutional buying in real estate

    44:56 - Interesting stocks over the next two years/ Caveat Emptor stocks

    53:10 - What is something Jeff wishes more people knew about?


    Intro Music: "Pain is the Essence" remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

  • Elisabeth Bik, PhD, is a science integrity consultant who specializes in finding image duplications in scientific papers. After receiving her PhD in Microbiology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, she worked 15 years at the Stanford University School of Medicine on the microbiomes of humans and marine mammals. From 2016-2019, she worked at two microbiome startup companies. In March 2019, she left her job to become a science integrity volunteer and occasional consultant. She can often be found discussing science papers on Twitter at @MicrobiomDigest, writing for her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest or searching the biomedical literature for inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarized text. She has reported over 4,000 papers for issues with image duplication or other concerns. Her work has been featured in Nature, Science, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, and The Times (UK). In April 2021 she was awarded the Peter Wildy Prize by the UK Microbiology Society for her contributions in science communication.

    Twitter: @MicrobiomDigest

    New Yorker Article - https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-sharp-eyed-scientist-became-biologys-image-detective

    Favorite Study - "Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales" by Lawrence David - https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/gb-2014-15-7-r89.pdf

    If you would like to support Dr. Bik's work, consider becoming a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik

    Timestamps:
    00:51 - Biology's image detective
    01:59 - The scope of fraud in science
    03:37 - What is motivating scientists to commit fraud?
    04:46 - Dr. Bik's early work with plagiarism
    08:54 - Incentive structures that lead to fraud in science
    12:09 - Peer review and the role of editors at science journals/newspapers
    14:44 - How can we change the system?
    16:07 - How can non-PhD's approach reading scientific papers?
    18:27 - Are pre-publication sites good for science?
    21:14 - Hydroxychloroquine
    24:49 - Ongoing cases against Dr. Bik
    30:12 - Public perception of scientific integrity
    35:24 - Algorithmic fraud detector
    38:43 - Dr. Bik's ultimate mission
    40:40 - Dr. Bik's favorite paper

    Hosts:
    Vasanth Thiruvadi - @NextVasanth
    Faraz Abidi - @fzfromcupertino

    Intro Music: "Pain is the Essence" remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

  • Jenil Thakker is the founder of Coinvise - an open platform that enables creators to mint social tokens and build economic incentives around it.

    Coinvise - https://coinvise.co

    Twitter - @0xjenil

    Timestamps:

    00:59 - Coinvise

    02:03 - The significance of DAO’s

    9:11 - Importance of decentralization

    12:19 - Level of crypto awareness in India

    15:10 - Level of support from the Indian government

    19:30 - How does Coinvise make money?

    20:20 - NFT’s

    24:31 - Turning fans into superfans

    28:24 - First 100 users

    30:18 - What is the biggest challenge ahead for Coinvise?

    31:16 - Competition in the crypto space

    33:58 - Design choices at Coinvise

    35:18 - Favorite piece of technology


    Intro Music: “Pain is the Essence” remix by @AdiSoundsGood on Twitter

  • Nikhil Vimal is an AI Consultant, Startup/Product Advisor + Angel, and the Co-Owner of Team Meteor. He's been in the technology/startup space for over 8 years and has been focused on different projects + ventures in the world of open source, conversational ai, customer experience, and more. He is also a frequent speaker at different tech/startup-focused events around the United States, and has been featured on VentureBeat, LinkedIn, and Business Insider. He is also currently an Independent Innovation Consultant for the National Football League.

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikvimal

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilvimal/

    Company Website: Chatmode.io

    Personal Website: https://nikhilvimal.com/

    Team Meteor: https://twitter.com/TeamMeteorGG

    Timestamps:

    00:51 - Co-owning an e-sports team

    04:27 - How do you build an engaging community around e-sports?

    06:32 - Leveraging experience gained in e-sports into other areas

    09:04 - Building partnerships and being scrappy

    11:36 - Operating in a space that’s still developing

    13:58 - What’s most challenging about leveling up in e-sports?

    16:44 - Do athletes in e-sports have to have personas outside of the sport in order to be marketable?

    22:02 - Biggest lever yet to be unlocked in the e-sports space?

    24:27 - Value of experimentation

    27:23 - Partnerships and experimentation

    32:19 - How to implement experimentation and convert users?

    36:25 - Building Chatmode.io

    44:28 - Angel investing

    46:47 - What is something that you wish more people knew more about?

    Music by - https://twitter.com/AdiSoundsGood

  • Seemi Kazmi is currently an executive director and global lead for Digital Health Solutions at Novartis. In this role she is responsible for developing technology solutions that help patients and physicians diagnose, treat and manage disease. Seemi started her career as a nuclear physicist and in her pursuit of the cool and innovative, has explored everything from telecommunications to augmented reality at leading companies like Nokia, Qualcomm, and Amgen.

    Timestamps:

    1:37 - Sleep technology
    5:11 - User experience's role in changing human behavior
    6:45 - How do you change human behavior?
    11:17 - How do you incentivize people to care more about their health?
    14:02 - The role emotion plays in human behavior
    16:24 - Habit forming
    19:09 - Apple's consumer healthcare products
    25:01 - Is it possible for a small startup to take on big pharma?
    29:02 - Is innovation easier in countries with government provided healthcare?
    31:06 - Interesting consumer healthcare companies
    32:40 - Is the evidence burden too high?
    34:47 - Is America the best place to start a healthcare company?
    36:56 - Is digital healthcare just for the rich?
    39:51 - Will tech companies ever take over digital health completely?
    42:58 - How can someone in software break into digital health?
    45:24 - Seemi's favorite piece of technology

    Music by - https://twitter.com/AdiSoundsGood

  • Josh Ogundu is currently a product operations lead at TikTok, previously worked in consumer product across media and communication tools. Outside of product he has an affinity for entertainment as well as college sports. Shoutout to The Big Ten & PAC 12.

    Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/JoshuaOgundu

    Most recent article feature: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/11/tech-comedians-poke-fun-at-employers.html

    Time Stamps:

    00:50 - Josh’s most non-consensus opinions

    3:06 - How to make engaging content on TikTok?

    5:32 - The value of 100 true fans

    7:50 - How important is distribution?

    10:06 - How can non-technical people recruit technical people to join their startup?

    13:38 - Launching distribution for a new startup

    16:47 - How to leverage new media for startups?

    24:11 - How do you amass social capital?

    27:04 - The value of a college education in tech

    31:39 - What challenges are Black and Latinx people facing in tech that others are not?

    36:36 - Best piece of technology according to Josh




  • York Zhang is a propulsion test engineer at Blue Origin. York thought propulsion was cooler than being a chemical engineer, but completed his degree anyways. He too believes humanity should be a multiplanetary species and the path to transhumanism is inevitable. He spends his time binging video essays and visiting universities.

    Time Stamps:

    00:15 - What does York do?

    1:05 - What does the future of space exploration look like for humans?

    3:05 - Anti-fragility

    4:19 - Chaos monkeys

    5:47 - Augmenting the human body for space

    7:05 - Abundance and untapped potential on space

    12:31 - Advances in neurotechnology

    14:20 - What is the size of the neurotechnology market?

    15:51 - What is the difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin?

    19:35 - Why should environmentalists be rooting for Jeff Bezos?

    23:09 - What will the second generation of space technology look like?

    26:07 - How much of the public’s resources should we allocate to space innovation?

    30:41 - Lowering cost of access to space

    33:44 - What is the rest of the world doing in regards to space?

    34:18 - Rocket reusability

    39:07 - How long will it be before we’re taking commercial space vacations?

    40:55 - Can we experience space while sitting at home?

    46:31 - York’s favorite piece of technology



  • Courtney Greer is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Commercial Software Engineering team. She is also a Black LGBTQ woman in the tech industry with insights on diversity, inclusion and what more can be done within the tech industry to support people from all backgrounds.

    Timestamps:
    1:41 - Diversity in tech compared to other industries
    4:01 - Retaining people of color in tech
    6:33 - What topics should people be allowed to discuss at work?
    13:27 - How much innovation are we missing out on by excluding certain groups?
    16:00 - What is covering?
    21:25 - Does the majority group within a population ever cover?
    24:22 - Allyship
    27:33 - Kaizen and inclusion
    30:03 - How can executives better affect change?
    33:19 - Black Venture Institute
    34:50 - Bias in tech hiring
    36:31 - Checking unconscious bias
    39:52 - Should companies impose standards to increase representation?
    42:28 - Conversations on diversity on Clubhouse
    49:07 - Book recommendations

  • Sree Chadalavada is currently a product executive at Cisco. Before that, he was a managing partner at Gartner where he helped companies lead digital transformations. Prior to Gartner, Sree worked in various leadership roles in telecom, technology consulting and start-up related companies.

    Timestamps:

    3:48 - Software eats the world

    7:43 - Are we in a bubble today?

    10:31 - Are we in the early or late innings of software?

    15:31 - Shift in software education

    19:15 - What is digital strategy?

    20:00 - How do non-tech companies think about digital strategy?

    21:45 - What is digital transformation?

    23:49 - Walking a company through digital transformation

    28:31 - Navigating the human side of digital transformation

    31:15 - How do you create a learning organization?

    33:18 - How do you get buy-in from non-technical leaders?

    35:41 - Communicating plans with public markets

    42:24 - Earnings manipulation and transformation narratives

    45:44 - Innovating at Cisco

    50:09 - Sree’s favorite software

    52:17 - Vasanth and Faraz state their favorite software



  • Dr. Aart Bik is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he works on MLIR, a compiler architecture project that uses extensible compiler infrastructure alongside LLVM to build better compilers for Machine Learning.

    Timestamps:
    1:10 - An explanation of MLIR and LLVM compilers
    2:30 - Compilers are more than just translating high level code to assembly
    6:00 - Progressive Lowering in LLVM and MLIR
    7:40 - MLIR is largely agnostic of hardware
    9:00 - TPUs
    9:40 - AlphaZero, the ML and TPU powered chess engine, explained
    13:00 - The ML behind language translation
    16:30 - Will the future advancements in ML come hardware or from software?
    20:39 - Performance improvements with MLIR
    22:43 - Using fuzz testing to build better software including compilers
    31:00 - Code up a hobbyist project based on LLVM if you want to learn more about compilers
    32:28 - In your opinion, what is the best piece of software ever built?

  • Vasanth Thiruvadi describes in detail why Amazon, and other tech companies, pay so little in taxes. Vasanth has degrees in finance and accounting and until most recently worked as an accountant for start-ups, venture capital firms and other entities located around the United States.

    Amazon's statement: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/job-creation-and-investment/amazons-economic-impact-in-the-u-s

    Vasanth's newsletter: https://nextbite.substack.com/

    Vasanth's twitter: @NextVasanth

  • Himan Abdollahpouri is currently a postdoc at Northwestern University. Most recently, he received his PhD in the area of machine learning and recommender systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His particular area of focus is the multiple stakeholder recommendation paradigms.

  • Ardavan Farahvash is a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying theoretical and computational chemistry. His research involves the fields of statistical mechanics and machine learning applied to chemistry.


    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardavan-farahvash-512a85bb/