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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // POLICY, POLITICS, POLLS
This is the fourth of five (4/5) from our “Experimental Series by A.I.”. The machine talks about policy, politics and the upcoming election.. We gave NotebookLM a few disparate inputs and the machine created this great conversation.
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SETH LEVINE
Seth is co-founder and general partner at Boulder-based Foundry. He and his firm have invested in hundreds of companies and funds around the world. A driving force for Seth has always been the power at the intersection of community and business. He co-founded Pledge 1%, a global network of companies who have pledged equity, time, and product back to their local communities. He is on the board of StartupColorado, which promotes entrepreneurship in areas of Colorado outside of the front range and is a Trustee of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he helped found their entrepreneurship program as well as a popular student hackathon. Seth also sits on multiple boards of his portfolio companies. He has been involved with Techstars from the start and helped grow from its very first accelerator in his home town of Boulder.
In addition to his day job working with companies and funds at Foundry, Seth spends time as an advisor to venture funds and companies around the globe – especially in the Middle East and Africa – to help promote entrepreneurship and economic development. In 2021, he released The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business, a book he co-authored with Elizabeth MacBride about the increasingly diverse future of entrepreneurship in America. He is currently in the process of writing his second around the theme of the evolution of capitalism and its future.
RELATED LINKS
Foundry
The Final Fund and Techcrunch take
The New Builders
VC Adventure
VC Evolve Podcast
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BISMARCK LEPE
Bismarck is Founder and Executive Chairman at Wizeline. He is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He founded Wizeline in 2014 with the mission to help companies build better products faster by making innovation accessible to all organizations. Bismarck is Mexican-American and the son of two immigrants from a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. He left a successful career path as an early employee at Google to start his own online video platform company, Ooyala, which sold for $400M to Telstra in 2014. For more than a decade, Bismarck has pioneered Mexico-Silicon Valley cross-border collaboration with Ooyala and now at Wizeline. Bismarck is passionate about driving economic growth in the global communities where Wizeline operates. In 2015, he founded Startup GDL, a non-profit organization committed to making Guadalajara a leader in innovation.
He is passionate about driving economic growth and developing careers in the communities where Wizeline has operations through the investment in education and development of technology infrastructure. Bismarck has been credited as having contributed to the transformation of Guadalajara into a technology hub through StartupGDL and Wizeline Academy. He has generated over 1,500 jobs and attracted hundreds of millions in investments for companies with operations in Mexico and Silicon Valley.
His newest project is Hispanics in Tech: Almanac, a publication that showcases the positive contributions Hispanic technology founders are having on the broader industry and society. In his free time, Bismarck enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid runner. Bismarck graduated from Stanford with a BA in Economics.
RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia
Wizeline
Hispanics in Tech: Almanac
Nexus2024
Crossing Borders Podcast
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // FOOD & WORLD CUISINES
This is the third of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” The machine talks about different cuisines and dishes from around the world and why it’s so hard to pick a favorite, but it tries its best to digest all the articles and perspectives. We gave NotebookLM the inputs below and A.I. created this great conversation.
RELATED LINKS
100 Best Foods in the World -Delish
Most Popular Cuisines in the World- TimeOut
22 Best Dishes in the World - Holidify
100 Best Cuisines - TasteAtlas
14 Countries w/Best Food - Delish
These Countries have Great Food - USNews
NotebookLM
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This is the second of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” It is particularly interesting because it’s an A.I. generated conversation about A.I., the promise and peril of our relentless march towards AI → AGI (general) → eventually ASI (super). Top Of The Game fed Google’s NotebookLM five documents, links to the White House, MIT, Time, AEI and Google documents are below. The tool synthesized the conversation and it produced the podcast you are listening to. In fact, it is two different renditions of the inputs, you will notice where the first rendition ends and the second begins.
We gave NotebookLM the inputs and the machine created this remarkably nuanced conversation. It is a primer at the intersection of technoethics + artificial intelligence + society + public policy + technology disruption.This conversation, or a version of it, is something almost everyone is thinking and talking about today.
RELATED LINKS
Our Life with AI - Google (Public Policy)
Uncontrollable AI Risks - Time Magazine
AI Risk Repository - MIT
AI BIll of Rights - White House + OSTP
The Case for Optimism - American Enterprise Institute
NotebookLM
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // CAPITALISM
Top Of The Game (TOTG) fed Google’s NotebookLM a few documents, one of them: Milton Friedman's September 1970 essay, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.". We also fed it a few published recently looking at the viability of the profit maximization a.k.a. shareholder primacy premise in the context of capitalism evolving and the tension of the stakeholder/shareholder push and pull. The jaw dropping synthesis NotebookLM produced is the podcast you are listening to. We gave it the inputs and the machine created a conversation, the future is happening now in other words.
NotebookLM is a Google AI experiment that allows users to upload content - PDFs, text files, websites, YouTube video links, copied text, Google Docs and others. to a “notebook.” Each notebook is a folder that can contain dozens of discrete content items that you choose and control and of which one can ask questions, write new content based on the inputs, summarize and synthesize, basic but compellingly powerful inference analysis.
One of things NotebookLM can produce as an output is an “audio overview”, essentially a conversational style podcast-like dialogue between a male and a female rendered personas. The summaries aren’t weird or artificial, nor robotic fact recitations. They are conversations, human sounding. The subjects pause, hesitate, summarize and conclude, use “ummms and ahhhs”, natural and eerily human interventions and interruptions. It’s in equal parts amazing and halting. This conversation about capitalism is the output of one such NotebookLM.
Note: Our production company will continue to employ Javier to host the podcast. We are renegotiating his contract and hope to reach an agreement in the near future. Fans, stay tuned.
RELATED LINKS
NotebookLM
Friedman’s NYT 1970 Essay
The Value of Corporate Values Booz Allen
Long Term Capitalism McKinsey & Co
Make your Vakues Mean Something HBR
Business Roundtable Statement
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TOM SOTO BIO
Tom has been in the impact investing game for a long time. He was born and raised in East LA to two of the state’s most well-respected Latino Civil Rights leaders. His dad was Assemblyman Phil Soto, the first Latino elected to the state legislature in 1962. His mom was Nell Soto, she too served the last ten years of her life as a member and leader in the California State Senate. Impact runs through Tom’s blood.
Tom has owned four PE funds, one of which, Craton Equity Partners, he sold to T.C.W., and leads his family investment office, Latimer Partners, LLC with his husband of 19 years, Todd Soto. The focus has been at the intersection of energy, climate tech, carbon monetization, renewable energy, and other Fourth Industrial Revolution driven platforms.
He previously served as Chairman of the New America Alliance, founding Vice Chairman of the LA Clean Tech Incubator, Trustee of the California Science Center, Trustee of the NRDC, and Board Member of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation.
Tom is also a former member of the board of trustees of the Redwood Mutual Fund, owned by Aspiration, the neo bank. He is a former appointee of President Clinton and served on Obama’s Presidential Transition Team focused on the Council on Environmental Quality.
RELATED LINKS
D4IR
LA Dodgers Foundation
California Hydrogen Convention
LA Times OpEd
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ILEANA MUSA BIO
Ileana is Morgan Stanley’s Co-Head of International Wealth Management and the Head of International Banking & Lending. In these roles she leads the segment and strategy that focuses on Morgan Stanley’s International Client Advisors and international clients to ensure they have access to strategic solutions, services and thought leadership to address both sides of a client’s balance sheet. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley she was the Global Client Segment and Strategy executive for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.
She has held leadership roles at the Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA), Cherie Blair Foundation, Florida International University and Zoetic Stage. In 2017 and 2018, she was identified as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Latinas in the U.S. by Fortune Magazine. On the Advisory Board of the Florida International University Honor’s College where students gain access to an education from one of the Top 100 Public Schools in the country. Ileana was recently named to ALPFA’s 2019 Most Powerful Latina list for a third year in a row and to Morgan Stanley’s 2019 MAKERS class.
Ileana received her BBA degree, with a concentration in finance, from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Florida International University.
Note: Happy Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) to all. This is the first episode released during HHM 2024 and Ileana is a remarkable member of the Hispanic community in America.
RELATED LINKS
Morgan Stanley Profile
100 Latinas 2024 Latino Leaders
The 500 Most Influential Bloomberg
Podcast A La Latina
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GARY ACOSTA BIO
Gary Acosta is an entrepreneur, public policy advocate, and investor. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP ), one of the largest Hispanic business organizations in the nation. He also created the Hispanic Wealth Project, co-founded L’ATTITUDE, and is a general partner of its fund, L’ATTITUDE Ventures.
A self-described serial entrepreneur, Mr. Acosta has founded several mortgage, real estate, and technology companies, including New Vista Asset Management, which, between 2009 and 2013, managed and marketed more than 10,000 real estate assets for banks and other financial institutions, CounselorMax, a web-based process management system for non-profit housing counselors, and RealEstateEspanol.com, an online real estate portal for Spanish-speaking Americans, which eventually sold to a publicly traded company.
Gary served on the inaugural consumer advisory board (CAB) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and was a member of the boards of directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and Stewart Title Company of California. He writes a weekly blog about business and current events at garyacosta.com. Gary grew up in Montebello, California and attended the University of California, at San Diego and Pomona College, where he played varsity basketball for Hall of Fame Coach, Gregg Popovich.
Note: Our first episode was released one day before last year’s L’Attitude with Gary’s co-founder as our guest, Sol Trujillo.
RELATED LINKS
Blog
NAHREP
L’Attitude
Profile NBC
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EDUARDO PEÑALVER BIO
Eduardo M. Peñalver is President of Seattle University and previously served as the Dean of Cornell Law School. A coming home of sorts given his formative years were spent in Puyallup and Tacoma.
Professor Peñalver’s legal scholarship focuses on property and land use, as well as law and religion. His work explores the way in which the law mediates the interests of individuals and communities. His writing on property has appeared in numerous leading law journals. His book, Property Outlaws (co-authored with Sonia Katyal), published by Yale University Press in February 2010, explores the vital role of disobedience within the evolution of property law. His most recent book, An Introduction to Property Theory (co-authored with Gregory Alexander), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
Professor Peñalver received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Between college and law school, he studied philosophy and theology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford. Upon completing law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and at the Supreme Court for Justice John Paul Stevens. Professor Peñalver previously served as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School (2012-2014) and taught at Cornell Law School (2006-2012) and at Fordham Law School (2003-2006). He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.
RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia
Seattle University
Property Outlaws (book)
On Palestine stance (article)
Remembering Justice RBG (article)
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Cesar was a civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate. In 1968, Chavez gained attention as leader of a nationwide boycott of California table grapes in a drive to achieve labor contracts. He fasted for 25 days in 1968 to affirm his own personal commitment and that of the farm labor movement to non-violence. He fasted again for 25 days in 1972, and in 1988, at the age of 61, he endured a 36-day "Fast for Life" to highlight the harmful impact of pesticides on farm workers and their children.
Cesar's life as a community organizer began in 1952 when he joined the Community Service Organization (CSO), a prominent Latino civil rights group. While with the CSO, Cesar coordinated voter registration drives and conducted campaigns against racial and economic discrimination primarily in urban areas. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cesar served as CSO's national director.
Cesar's dream, however, was to create an organization to protect and serve farm workers, whose poverty and disenfranchisement he had shared. In 1962, Cesar resigned from the CSO to found the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America.
For more than three decades Cesar led the first successful farm workers union in American history, achieving dignity, respect, fair wages, medical coverage, pension benefits, and humane living conditions, as well as countless other rights and protections for hundreds of thousands of farm workers. Against previously insurmountable odds, he led successful strikes and boycotts that resulted in the first industry-wide labor contracts in the history of American agriculture. His union's efforts brought about the passage of the groundbreaking 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act to protect farm workers. Today, it remains the only law in the nation that protects the farm workers' right to unionize.
The significance and impact of Cesar's life transcends any one cause or struggle. He was a unique and humble leader, in addition to being a great humanitarian and communicator who influenced and inspired millions of Americans to seek social justice and civil rights for the poor and disenfranchised in our society. Cesar forged a diverse and extraordinary national coalition of students, middle class consumers, trade unionists, religious groups, and minorities.
His motto in life – "Sí Se Puede!" (it can be done!) – embodies the uncommon and invaluable legacy he left for the world's benefit.
Source: FreedomArchives.org; audio samples
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This episode is the first dual release show for Top Of The Game. It was produced by and originally released on Evan Epstein's podcast, Boardroom Governance, on August 26, 2024. Our host enjoyed the tables being turned on him and being a guest, The conversation covers a broad range of topics: leadership, capitalism, boards, technology (AI), macro dynamics and the future. Original 🔗 here.
ABOUT EVAN
Evan is a corporate governance expert and has advised founders, executives, directors and investors for over 17 years in Silicon Valley and internationally. He has also been retained as an expert in corporate governance litigation both in the U.S. and abroad, and has deep experience with executive and director education. In 2023, Evan was named one of the most influential leaders in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as part of the 2023 NACD Directorship 100™, an annual list of leading corporate directors and governance advocates. He was included among the top 50 governance professionals "who exemplify the knowledge, leadership, and excellence that our organization promotes." In 2020, Evan was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Business Law, and Adjunct Professor of Law, at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).Also in 2020, Evan launched the Boardroom Governance Podcast, an in-depth interview podcast with leading corporate governance experts (boardroom-governance.com), and the Boardroom Governance Newsletter, a monthly newsletter including some of the latest trends and developments in corporate governance (evanepstein.substack.com). The Boardroom Governance Podcast has been rated the #1 corporate governance podcast by Feedspot "from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness."Since 2017, Evan has been the Founder & Managing Partner of Pacifica Global, a corporate governance advisory firm. Before founding Pacifica Global, Evan was the Executive Director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative between Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also served as a Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School since 2011.
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This bonus episode is President John F. Kennedy's first state of the union address to Congress on January 30, 1961, 10 days after his inauguration. It is also 13 days after President Eisenhower gave his farewell address and which this podcast released two weeks ago on August 7, 2024. It will be interesting for listeners to hear the two speeches back to back.
In the speech President Kennedy discusses his concerns regarding the economic recession, the depreciation of the American dollar, the need for federal aid in education and scientific research, and Congress’ duty to respond to domestic issues, such as civil rights and clean water supplies. The President also discusses the possible spread of communism in Asia and Latin America, the need to restore peace in the Republic of Congo, and his plan for Cold War diplomacy, which focuses on the use of new military, economic, and political tools to meet potential challenges from the Soviet Union or Communist China.
Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Archives
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LUIS MIRANDA BIO
Luis Antonio Miranda Concepción is a political strategist, philanthropist, advocacy consultant and author, his latest book: "Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America” with a foreword by his son, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Luis was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to NYC at 19 when he received a scholarship from NYU. In the 1980s, Miranda was a special advisor for Hispanic Affairs to the Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, serving as Director of the Mayor's Office for Hispanic Affairs. He also served on the Board of the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation during the Koch, Dinkins (and as Chairman) during the Giuliani administration.
He has served as a political consultant on several high-profile political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton. Miranda is a founding partner of the MirRam Group which focuses on political and advocacy consulting. Miranda was also a founder and first president of the Hispanic Federation in 1990 and served as director of field services and research at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. He also held leadership positions at the Community Service Society, the NYC Department of Employment, the NYC Board of Education, and Aspira of New York. He is chairperson of The Broadway League's Latino audience development program, Viva Broadway. and the vice-chair of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and a member of the advisory boards to Nielsen, board chair of the Latino Victory Fund and as a board member of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and NYC & Company.
Siempre, Luis, a documentary directed by John James, is centered on Miranda and his years of activism. The film was a 2020 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection and premiered on HBO on October 6, 2020.
RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia
Relentless (book)
Reflections on the Arts
Latino Majority (pod)
About Siempre, Luis (NPR)
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This bonus episode is President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961 - three days before JFK's inauguration.
When the United States entered WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Chief of Staff for the Third Army. Less than four years later, he was a 5-star general who commanded millions of soldiers, sailors, and airmen from a broad Allied coalition becoming one of the most influential generals in American history. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in North Africa and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
Following the German unconditional surrender, Eisenhower was appointed military governor of the American-occupied zone of Germany. Upon discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, he ordered camera crews to document evidence for use in the Nuremberg Trials.
In 1948 he became President of Columbia University in New York City. In 1951 President Truman sensed a broad-based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, and pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat in 1951. But Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican. In 1952, Eisenhower won the election with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years and won re-election in 1956.
Under his watch, the Interstate Highway System was established, the Space Race kicked-off, we fought the Korean War which was a manifestation of the Cold War stance in the bi-polar world that served as a backdrop for the foreign policies of his administration.
Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas and raised in Abilene, Kansas. He graduated from West Point in 1915. During WWI he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews.
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STACIE OLIVARES BIO
Stacie Olivares structures and optimizes funds and innovations for scaled impact. She is a board director and chief investment officer for best-in-class funds and innovative companies with oversight of $1.4 trillion in retirement funds, $29 billion of insurance industry sustainable investment, and more than $3 trillion bond issuance. Stacie is a Senate-confirmed member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board which oversees the $900 billion Thrift Savings Plan, the largest defined contribution plan globally with best-in-class performance for the benefit of 6.8 million participants. She previously served as a board member of CalPERS, the largest defined benefit pension fund in the United States.
Stacie also serves on the board of credit rating agency KBRA and previously served as audit committee chair for Core Scientific and Mission Advancement Corp. She serves on the nonprofit boards of the California Endowment, Latino Community Foundation, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science.
Previously she was chief investment officer of Lendistry, chief investment officer of COIN, finance professional at Morgan Stanley, and business development director for Palm. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard University. She is an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
STACIE RELATED LINKS
Aspen Profile
FRTIB Profile
Bloomberg Profile
CalPERS Appoinment
Latino Community Foundation Profile
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MICHAEL'S BIO
The Honorable Michael Montelongo, a former presidential appointee and Senate-confirmed official, is a board governance and audit committee financial expert serving on the boards of Civeo Corporation (NYSE: CVEO), Conduent Inc (NASDAQ: CNDT), Palmex Ltd., and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He has a broad industry, sector and functional experience which includes government service in the military, the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and The Aerospace Corporation. He is a national security, geopolitics, and public policy expert, and a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Michael serves on the Harvard Business School faculty and is president and chief executive officer of GRC Advisory Services, LLC, a private firm specializing in board governance, risk management, and compliance matters. He served as chief administrative officer and senior vice president, public policy and corporate affairs and previously, as chief strategy officer for Sodexo, Inc.
Previously, President George W. Bush appointed him as the 19th assistant secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller and the first Latino in that role, and concluded his tenure at the Pentagon as acting Secretary of the Air Force. He was also an assistant professor teaching economics and political science at West Point.
A native of New York City’s Lower East Side and the first in his extended family to attend college, Mr. Montelongo holds a B.S. from West Point and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Adam Mendler Leadership Blog
Inside America’s Boardroom
Hispanic Executive Article
NACD BOD Press Release
HBS Faculty Profile
Latino Leaders Maestro Award Video
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JAKE + AMANDA = TRNDSTTRS
This episode is a remarkable master class on all things Gen Z from the Founder & CEO (Jake Bjorseth) and Chief TikTok Officer (Amanda Johansen) of the largest independent marketing agency in the world focused on Gen Z → Trndsttrs. The agency was founded in 2018 and its team has some of the best GenZ content creators, social media managers, influencer marketers and strategists in the world. 25 billion impressions and 4000+ influencer partners redefining how brands and companies reach, interact and create connective tissue with consumers.
Jake is an entrepreneur and a doer with deep insights into what makes his generation tick. He dropped out of college while a freshman enrolled in business school, “why learn about making money, maybe it’s best to go make some”. Trndsttrs is the manifestation of his desire to create and build. Amanda (1.8M followers, 33.7M Likes) had the first ever TikTok video to go massively viral when the platform was called Musical.ly and eventually became TikTok. The video on her TikTok was of her and her mom dancing in their Kansas home’s kitchen. She played softball on a scholarship in college and dropped out of school to join the agency.
They are a very dynamic team and their insights, perspectives and ideas help the world’s largest companies (worth tens of trillions) and most prominent and valuable brands thrive, grow and evolve. You will enjoy this conversation immensely and the wide range of topics we cover are head spinning.
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Trndsttrs website
Exploring Life & Business w/ Jake
Amanda’s TikTok
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|Show Notes| This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at The Alumni Society’s Leadership Summit in Brooklyn, NYC on June 13, 2024. It marks our show’s first ever live recording and the audio level is lower than studio quality. Also, today (July 9, 2024) happens to be our guest's birthday - happy birthday Gus!
GUSTAVO’S BIO
Gustavo Alberelli (Gus) is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sunstone Partners, a growth oriented private equity firm that focuses on investments in technology-enabled services and software businesses. Founded in 2015, Sunstone Partners is headquartered in San Mateo, CA and has +$1.7 Billion of committed capital under its first three funds. He is one of a few Latinos in the country that have raised over $1 billion in capital and allocating it to high growth companies.
Prior to co-founding Sunstone Partners, Gustavo was a Managing Director at Trident Capital. Before Trident Capital, Gus was a Director at Kennet Partners where he led or participated in growth equity investments across the technology sector. Gustavo began his investment career in 2003 at Trinity Ventures, where he primarily worked with early-stage technology companies. Prior to becoming an investor, Gus held several business development and marketing positions at Saltare, a venture-backed enterprise software company. He started his career as an analyst in the technology investment banking group of Robertson Stephens in San Francisco.
Raised in Miami, Gus earned a BA from Swarthmore College, where he was a Swarthmore Scholar, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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Sunstone Partners
Alumni Society Leadership Summit
Big Cybersecurity 15X Win
Fund I Closing
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Yvonne Liser is a 4th generation DC native that has been researching genealogy since the mid-1990s. Over the years of research she has met new cousins, travelled, and found how her families lived in history. Yvonne is the historian for 5 families and leads 3 genealogy DNA groups.
She has discussed her remarkable family history on the PBS series African American Lives 2 and Nightly News with Lester Holt and her research led her to two free African American ancestors that assisted during the Revolutionary War which led her to joining Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 2011.
Since joining DAR Yvonne has held many positions within her chapter including regent, recording secretary, registrar, historian, and corresponding secretary. She has also served as chair of various chapter committees including Bylaws, Women’s Issues, Chapter Achievement Award, and Historic Preservation.
On June 30, she became the state regent of the nation's capital's, District of Columbia's DAR. In the past she has served DCDAR as State Organizing Secretary, State Registrar, Chapter Development and Revitalization Committee member, Scholarship Advisory Commission member, Long Range Planning Committee member, DAR Scholarship Committee Chair, and Membership Committee Vice Chair. Always finding something new to enjoy in DAR, Yvonne also served as president of the Chapter Regents Club and is a life member of the State Officers Club.
Positions and activities at the national level allows Yvonne to learn more about the organization and bring those skills, knowledge, and opportunities back to DCDAR and her chapter. She currently serves as national chair of the Americanism Committee, Specialty Research Committee member, and Long Range Planning Commission member. In the past, she served as National Membership Committee Chair, Chapter Development and Revitalization Commission member, America 250! Membership Task Force member, National Vice Chair of DAR Scholarships, and National Vice Chair of the Lineage Research Committee.
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