ZZ Top vs David Bowie – La Futura vs Heroes - It's crunchy, blues thin string playing Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top taking on David Bowie and Brian Eno's experimental music. La Futura locks up with Heroes. Will Bowie's, a music industry darling, brilliance and risks, knock the life out of ZZ Top? Or will the relentless jab of simple chords and gravely voice authenticity be too much for the art school rockers? Today's judges are Dan White, Tony James, and Dr. Tim Furnish. Artwork and Ring announcing by Phil Green. Richard Lackie does pre/post-fight analysis and Pete A Turner hosts the whole thing.   #Albumfight #BIDS #Podcast #music Similar episodes:  U2 vs The Doors Madonna vs Sheryl Crow  The Clash vs The Kinks 

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ZZ Top vs David Bowie – La Futura vs Heroes AlbumFight

At inaugural event of Blockchain on the Beach, we speak with Anu Bhardwaj, Founder of Qrypto Queens and Women Investing in Women Digital. The event showcased world-class programming around the state of the blockchain, as well as highlighted  kids in a big way with the Krypto 4 Kids programming aimed at empowering children's unheralded ability to drive the global digital economy.   Similar Episodes Jamie Finn, Securitize Jeremy Gardner, Ausim Ventures Miko Matsumura  

Crypto is a Family Affair at Blockchain on the Beach and Krypto4Kids

On this episode of Popping the Bubbl, we dove into the world of video gaming with the incredible Seanna Cavanagh, Product Marketing Manager for Video Games with Major League Baseball. Seana is a rare breed as a woman in the world of gaming, tech and sports, being that all of those sectors are so male dominated. As a child Seana loved sports and gaming and was interested in pursuing a career in entertainment. She got her start interning for Interscope Records and eventually landed at 7th Empire Media which where she learned the nuts and bolts of video production. Seana later went to work a small video game startup called Life Gamer where she began her career in the video game industry. Similar episodes Vanessa Camones, Any Context Neil Cohen Andy Wiedlin

Hitting a Home Run as a Woman in Sports and Gaming

Surviving as an artist in SF today is no small feat. Flourishing as an artist and getting quality work that is globally recognized yet another impressive accomplishment. Krystal Lauk has managed to do both, as an illustrator that helps tech companies tell their stories through the power of illustration. As the founder of her own SF based boutique agency Krystal Lauk Studios she specializes in tech-orientated illustration and visual design, and has worked with a multitude of tech companies including Facebook, Uber, Google, Intercom, and The New York Times. Her work has been recognized by American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators, and 3×3 magazine. Similar Episodes:  Amber Case Brian Solis  Arvind Gupta

Krystal Lauk - Humanizing Tech Through Illustration

Jamie Finn Co-founder and President of Securitize joined us at the recent Start Engine Summit in LA to share his thoughts on digital securities and the mission of Securitize. Jamie has an impressive record of managing and spotting innovative trends in tech. Prior to founding Securitize, he ran innovation and data for numerous large global Telco’s and led the acquisition of several companies for Sequoia Israel. His track record led him to work with a global advertising mobile network. The nature of the advertising business is such that you are exposed to new businesses coming to market and looking to reach new audiences. He noticed that blockchain was becoming a huge phenomenon and many blockchain companies were looking to reach new audiences through the advertising platform Similar episodes:  Miko Matsumura Micha Benoliel Richard Titus

Innovating on Asset Securitization with Jamie Finn

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Ori Brafman author of The Starfish and the Spider and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s business school.  The book has been a big influence on the new wave of blockchain businesses inspired by the unique differentiators a decentralized organizational structure can offer. The name of the Starfish Mission, where we recorded our conversation is even inspired by his book, which is a collaborative workspace for SF based companies in the blockchain space. When Ori wrote The Starfish and The Spider in 2006, he wrote it as a metaphor for business decentralization, meaning an organization without a top-down structure. If you liken a traditional corporate structure to a spider, if the head is chopped off - the organization like a spider will die. A starfish, however (or decentralized organization) does not die if one of its arms is chopped off, as it has no head and can regenerate, its arm will simply grow back.

Ori Brafman Starfish and the Spider

On the latest episode of Popping the Bubbl, we had Jeremy Streich, the founder of Podsource on and got all meta talking about podcasting, while on a podcast.  Apparently, we also have a fan in Jeremy, who is building out the world’s first search engine for audio, starting with podcasts. Jeremy’s founding story is quite interesting. Fresh out of college, he knew that he wanted to take the entrepreneurial route and start his own company, but had only inklings of an idea when he took a trip out West to move to the epicenter of tech innovation, San Francisco.

Jeremy Streich - Search for Sound with Podsource

Miko Matsumura - Pete and I had a fascinating conversation with crypto pioneer, founder of EverCoin Exchange and General Partner of Gumi Cryptos, Miko Matsumura with whom we met up at Start Engine Summit.   Since our first time visiting Start Engine Summit event last year, the blockchain market has changed significantly fromfast-movingg ICOs bringing in millions for yet to be built technology platforms to one that is now adhering to a more regulatory value set in the form of STOs (Security Token Offerings). #podcast #crypto #Blockchain #Malta #StartEngineSummit

Open Source Money Maximalist Miko Matsumura

Anu Bhardwaj is a serial entrepreneur, blockchain influencer, speaker, and founder of various organizations including Women Investing Women Digital, and Qrypto Queens. We were excited to meet up with Anu while at the amazing StartEngine Summit in Santa Monica, which is a favorite blockchain gathering of ours. She joined us to talk about her passion for blockchain technology and how she came to focus on empowering women to start investing in cryptocurrency. Anu’s ingenuity and determination paved her path to an extensive, global education with scholarships and grants to live, work and travel abroad, and pursue her master’s degree in communication, culture and technology, an M.B.A at the Stockholm School of Economics and yet another Fulbright scholarship in India. Wow, listen in as we pop the Bubbl with Anu. 

Anu Bhardwaj is Changing the Game for Female Funding

Jeremy Gardener is a serial entrepreneur and investor who work and invests primarily in the blockchain cryptocurrency space. Always outside of the box in college, Jeremy created his own major with designs on becoming a political operative. The best-laid plans however rarely survive first contact. Gardner had his moment when the Mt. Gox story broke after he'd started an organization called the Blockchain Education Network. The network was ready when college students flooded into the marketplace looking to learn more about how blockchain was changing the world.   

Jeremy Gardner - Disentrepreneur

During our recent visit to Starfish Mission, we spoke to some of the most impressive and innovative blockchain startups coming to market today. One of those was Lumeos.IO whose founder and CEO Ali Ayash gave us the scoop on how the company plans to use its blockchain technology to allow individuals to protect and monetize their own data and earn Lumeos tokens in the process. This conversation was another enlightening view into the future and  infinite possibilities blockchain technology offers. Ali’s mission to empower us to own and monetize our own data has the power to truly revolutionize the way people make passion income. Have a listen here and you can check them out on their site and social channels, Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.

Ali Ayyash - Lumeos

We spent some quality time recently at Starfish Mission, and got to speak to co-founder Matt Quinn and core team member Jon Connors about their work. Starfish originally opened as a coworking space to serve the blockchain community, but it has quickly evolved into an innovation hub for blockchain projects of all kinds. This was one of the more colorful conversations we’ve had with the juxtaposition of Jon Connors, a proud and self-proclaimed Anarchist (he even has a tattoo!) with the more diplomatic and soft-spoken Matt Quinn. Starfish’s other co-founder Alicia could not join us, but we look forward to bringing her on at a future date.

Matt Quinn and Jon Connors

Paul Hainsworth, CEO of Open Garden joined us on this episode of Popping the Bubbl to talk about his vision to completely change the game in communications by disrupting traditional mobile networks and introduce a new way to connect to the internet using blockchain technology.   Paul’s story is quite fascinating. He worked in the mobile communications world for approximately fifteen years where he honed his product management skills at different traditional mobile operators such as Blackberry and Sprint. During his time at Blackberry, he became unsatisfied with the manner traditional operators conducted business, which sparked a desire to try something different, something that would alter the communications business and completely disrupt the established centralized approach.

Paul Hainsworth - Open Garden

Anyone who has been following this podcast knows that Pete and I are fascinated by all things Blockchain, so it was a wonderful treat to chat with Chelsea Rustrum, Founder of Blockchain for Good and Blox 7 and David Sneider, CEO of Deconet on this very topic. Together, they are moving the needle when it comes to evangelizing blockchain technology and paving the way for a more sovereign entrepreneurial system.   We know Chelsea from her work and advocacy with Blockchain for Good, where she has created a community that values the important societal changes blockchain technology can actualize. She met David who is also an entrepreneur, friend, and client at a blockchain event where they started discussing the topic of collaborative ownership and distributed value. Chelsea was immediately swept up by the idea and they decided to come together and collaborate on this project.

David Sneider and Chelsea Rustrum

Pete and I spent a day at The Vault SF interviewing some of the most promising up and coming startups of Silicon Valley. John Singleton, COO and cofounder of Watchful.io is a charismatic guy that comes across as fearless and fun. He has the entrepreneurial spirit through and through and shared his non linear path from studying biotech at the University of Texas, to founding a Fin-tech startup to moving to India and suffering the blows of startup failure.

John Singleton - Watchful IO

Sandra Ponce de Leon, a tech founder and investor, interviews guests from the world of technology, including founders, developer, architects, and investors about what they see in the ever-changing landscape.

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