In this episode: 

• What is Web3
• The motivation for Web3 and the ownership economy
• What is an NFT and what is the role of an NFT in Web3
• How are NFTs are being leveraged in the Metaverse
• How are brands like Nike and McDonald's are using NFTs and staking out their own space in the Metaverse
• How the early evolution of the Internet led us to blockchain and the new Web3 world

You can watch the full video of this episode and the ride in Edwin Marcial's 2015 Porsche 911 GTS at https://techrides.io/episodes/41

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So come along for the ride and get to know Ganesh and NIO, Inc. as we roll in a 2021 NIO ES8 and discuss:

• The future of EV driving
• Proprietary built in artificial intelligence (AI)
• Battery swap stations
• Battery as a Service (BAAS)
• The NIO ES8
• Autonomous Driving
• The NIO EP9 (featured in the Xbox game Forza Horizon 5 and now on display at the Peterson hypercar museum in Los Angeles)
• The EP9's autonomous world speed record set at COTA in Austin, TX

Go to https://techrides.io to watch the full episode, see pictures of our guests and cars, and watch short highlight clips.
 

Today on Riding Shotgun, Edwin and Ebbie discuss:

• Ebbie’s career path, and how his desire to make a difference in the lives of underserved minorities led to his founding Yardstick
• How corporate culture impacts diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
• How the killing of George Floyd and the Great Resignation have changed the DEI landscape in Corporate America
• Advice for minorities seeking to break into corporate leadership positions and corporate boards
• The biggest lessons Ebbie has learned as an entrepreneur 
• The launch of the Yardstick Management Institute

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Join Edwin and David as they ride in David’s 2017 Acura NSX and discuss

• David’s early career in entrepreneurship including starting a software business in High School and building another Hannon Hill while a student at Duke.
• Founding and selling Pardot for $100 Million
• Why he built the Atlanta Tech Village, one of the largest startup work spaces in the US
• What he looks for in the companies he is looking to invest in
• The characteristics he thinks make a successful founder
• Key mistakes that lead to startup failures
• How startups should think about raising money
• How Atlanta’s startup ecosystem has changed post pandemic
• Advice he has for those just getting started in entrepreneurship or thinking about getting started
• The Atlanta startups companies he is most excited about

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• Dropping out of college and going back to focus on his passion - Computer Science
• Navigating through rejection early in his career
• Why he left a large engineering company, and chose to work for a startup
• Transitioning away from an individual contributor to a manager/leader and CTO
• How ICE built a culture of high performance including
  • Setting big goals
  • The importance of giving employees equity in a young company
  • Emotional intelligence - understanding the people you manage.
  • Getting the ‘right people on the bus’, motivating them and removing your worst performers
  • Managing your culture, not your people
  • Innovating by thinking differently
  • Developing a process to identify and recruit the very best people
  • Competing as a team vs competing against each other
  • Building a diverse team through a focus on skills
• Emerging tech industries he is most excited about
• Competing with Enron
• Leadership in one word

• The nursing shortage inspired the origin story of SnapNurse
• SnapNurse answered the bell of the COVID-19 battle, and put its business into hyperdrive in the process
• How SnapMedTech has pivoted to offer payments and a SaaS platform to it's offerings
• Technology has enabled SnapNurse to leverage its growth
• A nurse strike in California led to a tremendous opportunity and response
• SnapNurse grew their business despite being turned down by just about every VC they spoke to
• The tenacity of the founders has put SnapNurse into a position to succeed
• Their journey has led to key entrepreneurship lessons

• The history of the DeLorean DMC-12
• The trouble and mistakes of founder John DeLorean that led to the demise of his company
• How Pull-A-Part got its start as a side business that grew into 25 locations across 12 U.S. states
• What makes the Pull-A-Part business model so unique
• How Ross got his start in the business, how he handles company culture, and his vision for leadership for the company
• How Ross sees his company playing a vital part in the self-repair industry even after electric cars overtake traditional combustion engines
• And more!

• How Adam got his start in Tech
• Why Adam dropped out of high school and how that helped him launch his company
• Opinions on Tesla and the future of EVs and self-driving trucks
• How ridesharing is changing travel as we know it
• The importance of data security and the Equifax Data Breach
• How AI could eventually write and build its own software
• What brain data backup could mean for the future of humanity and consciousness as we know it
• And more! 

In this podcast episode, host Edwin Marcial interviews three alumni from Year Up Atlanta: Carmen Buezo, Emanuel Romero, and Kevin Ngunjiri. Learn their background, their challenges, and obstacles within the traditional education system, and how Year Up Atlanta was able to provide them incredible opportunity for the future of their careers!

Come along for the ride as Edwin and the gang discuss a few topics including:

• The importance of Year Up as it prepares students to enter corporate environments and empowers them to effect change in their own lives 
• How companies like Aaron’s, Autotrader, Cox Automotive, and more are investing in Year Up through in corporate partnerships and are offering internships to alumni

You’ll also get to hear specifics about each of the three alumni: 

• Carmen: left Honduras after political unrest and is starting college soon. 
• What Carmen is learning through Year Up:
  • Impact of working in a corporate environment
  • Improving consumers’ ability to obtain products through data analysis and automation
  • Building reports to send to partner companies 
• Emanuel: learning how to code and develop software as a DACA recipient from Mexico
• What Emanuel is learning through Year Up:
  • Learning how to project confidence when speaking in front of other people 
  • Can now speak in front of larger groups in business settings
• Kevin: an immigrant from Kenya is driven by a desire to understand web development
• What Kevin is learning through Year Up:
  • Learning how to build and maintain websites and has a knack for accomplishing the features that customers request
  • Understanding how to work with teams when conflict arises

Come along for the ride as Edwin and Gil West discuss a few topics including:

• Gil's passion for cars particularly the spectacular 2020 Ford GT
• Delta’s industry-leading response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• The safety of current aircrafts and how Delta has led the charge to make airplanes as safe and sanitary as a hospital operating room
• Gil's thoughts on Boeing’s issues with the 737 Max
• Innovative startups working with Delta to transform the flight experience
• The future of aviation including electric planes and hypersonic flight
• Keys to Gil's tremendously successful career
• And more!

Come along for the ride as Edwin and Ed Bolian discuss a few topics including:

• What makes the Ferrari 430 Scuderia so unique
• Ed’s crazy story of being put in handcuffs during a rally race
• How Ed launched his first business from his college dorm
• How Ed’s first company made a killing by renting Lamborghinis and Ferraris during the 2008 financial crisis
• What prompted Ed’s idea to crowd-source vehicle history and how that led to the birth of the VINwiki app
• How the VINwiki app doubled the value of every Lamborghini Murciélago on the market
• How the power of stories helped launch Ed’s wildly successful YouTube channel

After retiring from pharmaceuticals, Don took his innovative mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to the automotive world.   Along with his son Dan, Don created Panoz cars which makes limited edition custom sports cars. Don also got into motor sports racing, and founded the American Le Mans series. He founded the 10 hours petit Le Mans race in 1998 which is a major even held every fall at Road Atlanta in  Braselton, GA. His race cars have won the 24 hours of Le Mans, Sebring and the petite Le Mans . At one time Don owned race tracks including Road Atlanta and Sebring. 

In this episode we talk to Don about his start in pharmaceuticals, his transition to motorsports racing, getting the 1960 World Series champs to invest in his first company, the time he thought he killed Mario Andretti and his philosophy with regards to business and entrepreneurship.  You can watch the video, and get more information about this and other episodes at https://techrides.io. Subscribe to our member list to stay in touch with all of our content. 

Don Panoz passed away a few months after the recording of this episode. On the day we filmed he said he was not feeling well, but gave us no indication of his battle with pancreatic cancer at the time. Don Panoz was a family man, a true innovator and a kind and remarkable person. Don will be remembered for leaving this world much better than he found it.
 

Come along for the ride as Edwin and George discuss a few topics including: 

• George's tenure as the Chief of Staff for NASA
• The united States move to privatize low earth orbit travel which gave rise to companies like Virgin Galactic, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
• Spaceport America, the White Sands Missile Range and New Mexico's history and role in today's commercial space program
• The potential for life on other planets

Come along for the ride as Edwin and Dean Abernathy discuss a few topics including: 

• The University of Florida’s (UF) response to COVID-19 and their plans for the fall semester
• Research that UF is doing in the battle against  COVID-19
• How the university is adapting to more online distance learning
• UF’s move up the national rankings of top public universities
• The college of engineering's new Artificial Intelligence Initiative
• The work UF is doing to improve diversity in engineering
• The challenge traditional universities face from skills based training platforms and bootcamps
• How students can best prepare to study and be successful in engineering
• Gator Football!