Entrepreneurship Episodes

204
Oct. 22, 2024

Indoor Solar Futures

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Giovanni Fili, Founder & CEO of Exeger Sweden AB. They discuss the future of indoor solar and his vision to remove all the disposable batteries in the world. Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau) is a futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. He is cur...
Guest: Giovanni Fili
201
Aug. 13, 2024

Futuristic Encryption

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Rand Hindi, an entrepreneur and deeptech investor who is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company. They discuss the future of encryption, its use cases, and especially the role of open source cryptography in a world with increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a concept long considered to be the optimal yet impossible holy grail of cryptography, enables comp...
Guest: Rand Hindi
196
May 21, 2024

Serendipity Networks

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ken Stanley, CEO & founder of Maven, a new online social network focused on following interests, not people. Stanley is the author of Why Greatness Cannot be Planned (Sp...
154
April 26, 2022

Taking Antiques into the Future

In episode 154 of the Futurized podcast, the topic is: Taking Antiques into the Future. Our guest is R.T. Custer, CEO & co-founder of The Vortic Watch Company.  In this conversation, they talk about the rich history of manufacturing in the US, combining ...
Guest: R.T. Custer
136
Feb. 8, 2022

Teen Entrepreneurship

Today, Anjalee Naranthiren, the 19-year-old speaker, founder and Program Director at Startup Dojo and host of the YoungPreneur podcast is our guest on the Futurized podcast (@futurized2). In this conversation, we talk about teen entrepreneurship, how to ...
129
Dec. 14, 2021

How Executives Handle Crisis

In episode 129 of the podcast, the topic is How Executives Handle Crisis. Our guest is Stephynie Malik (@stephyniemalik), Host, Spin It podcast, Founder, Smalik Enterprises. In this conversation, they talk about how Stephynie came to do what she does and...
128
Dec. 7, 2021

The Future of Policing

In episode 128 of the Futurized podcast, the topic is: The Future of Policing. Our guest is Rahul Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO at SPIDR Tech. In this conversation, they talk about police reform, law enforcement technology, politics, and how entrepreneurship...
Guest: Rahul Sidhu
130
Nov. 23, 2021

Future Bestsellers

In episode 130 of the Futurized podcast (@futurized2), the topic is: Future Bestsellers. Our guest is Vikrant Shaurya (@VikrantShaurya), CEO & founder, BestsellingBook.com. Futurized is hosted by Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, author, investor,...
133
Sept. 7, 2021

The Future of Entertainment

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. Join ...
Guest: Brimstone
114
July 20, 2021

Sustainable Norway

Kristian Bye, Director Innovation Norway San Francisco and Palo Alto, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about sustainable entrepreneurship, and the recent systemic innovation polic...
Guest: Kristian Bye
96
May 18, 2021

Practicing Multimodal AI

Slater Victoroff, CTO and founder of Indico, the enterprise AI startup, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about how Slater was picking trash off of the Wellesley dump for school engineer...
95
May 11, 2021

Seed VC Trends: Founder Obsession

Tyler Norwood, Partner at Antler, the global early stage venture capital firm, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about how Tyler got into venture. We discuss betting on founders, teams a...
Guest: Tyler Norwood
91
March 30, 2021

Gig Mobility

Ryan Green, CEO & co-founder, Gridwise, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about whether gig mobility services (MaaS) become the standard for how to move in cities? What does the future o...
Guest: Ryan Green
86
Feb. 10, 2021

Future tech as a disruptive force

In episode 86 of the podcast, the topic is: Future Tech: Disruptive technology forces. Futurist Trond Arne Undheim talks about Chapter 2 of his forthcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, which is about how science...
74
Jan. 26, 2021

AI Talent Diversity

Taniya Mishra, Founder of SureStart, the diverse AI training platform, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about why STEM or STEAM is not enough. They discuss pre-college and post-college--the leaky inflection poi...
Guest: Tanyia Mishra
79
Jan. 14, 2021

Futuristic AI

Ben Goertzel, CEO and founder of SingularityNET and Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about Futuristic applications of interoperable AI. Sophia- the robot. ...
Guest: Ben Goertzel
78
Dec. 31, 2020

The Next Generation Marketplaces

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about  the results from building and investing in 1st...
77
Dec. 28, 2020

How To Fix Fake News?

Sebastiaan van der Lans, founder of WordProof, the startup using blockchain to authenticate content on the internet, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about How to Fix Fake News? Players in the Internet content i...
61
Dec. 22, 2020

The emergent Arabian startup scene

Gary Sheynkman, a first generation immigrant (to the US) from Kiev, Ukraine living in Dubai who runs Leyden Ventures, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about Arabian Tech. The Arabian startup scene. Accelerators...
73
Dec. 17, 2020

The Future of Social Learning

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth, CEO and co-founder of CanopyLAB, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about empowering learners, and about blended learning, moving beyond screen time to Virtual immersionm AI/AR – how to use ...
58
Dec. 10, 2020

Building the Southern California of Tomorrow

Bill Carpou, CEO at OCTANE, the accelerator in California and General Partner at Visionary Ventures a growth stage fund is interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about how the newly formed Innovation Network of South...
Guest: Bill Carpou
57
Dec. 8, 2020

Future of Family Office Investing

Sidney Wheatley, CIO, Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Salman bin Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Kingdom of Bahrain, is interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim, host of the Futurized podcast, and author of Future Tech (2021), Pandemic Aftermat...
64
Nov. 30, 2020

Startup Mentoring in UAE

Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talk about startup mentoring in the ...
Guest: Wafa Omar
52
Nov. 24, 2020

The Future of Peer-to-Peer

Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance betwee...