2018-06

Disrupting the V.C. Model with Keith Koo and special guest Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund.
Jonathan shares his story of how growing up in a missionary family in Honduras eventually led to him becoming a nurse and then founding Hackers and Founders which then led to becoming a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist running a portfolio valued at $600 million USD. Jonathan personalizes his desires to "tokenize" the Venture Capital model using blockchain technologies in order to bring Silicon Valley Capital to the unreached in emerging countries.
Jonathan discusses expansion plans into China, Dubai, Latin America and Africa
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A Greener Planet One Meal at a Time with Keith Koo and guests Sanjeev Ukhalkar and Cem Yildirim of Bigzpoon

Listen to Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and special guests Sanjeev Ukhalkar CEO and CEM Yildirim COO, of Food / Restaurant innovation startup Bigzpoon as they pursue a "Greener Planet, One Meal At a Time!" with a unique approach to the ever growing problem of food waste.
BigZpoon is dedicated to reducing restuarant food waste and helping the environment by creating a new, profitable channel for restaurants to sell their surplus food through win-win-win situations for restaurants, consumers and Planet Earth. BigZpoon platform enables restaurants to instantly connect with value seeking consumers. This results in increased revenue for restaurants and affordable, delicious food for customers. Bigzpoon's scalable, cloud based, location-aware mobile application platform and powerful analytics enable restaurants to publish real time offers to a very targeted set of consumers and enables consumers to order food from any device.
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EOS goes Live! with Keith Koo and special guests Jim Harris author of "Blindsided" and Patrica Parkinson of Blockchain Babes

In this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and co-founder of the Tulip Emerging Technologies conference tulipconf.com descibes the dramatic events leading up to the EOS Mainnet launch. EOS as a fully decentralized blockchain that has a consittution, goverance system and arbitration built into the blockchain required a majority vote of block producers (akin to a board of directors but not exactly). How the conference became a focal point for the worlds leading block producers to vote on approving the launch (after a week of "no-votes").
Also, Keith was able to interview on location at the Tulip Conference with Aussie Patricia Parkison, founder of Blockchain Babes and finished the show with futurist and author Jim Harris of "Blindsided". Patricia shares her own blockchain journey leading up to the formation of blockchain babes which is dedicated to empowering women to learn more about the technology. Jim and Keith speak on future advancements of technology and reminiscing how former technology titans often get disrupted by not adapting to technology shifts like blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Blockchain continues to go Mainstream with Keith Koo and special guest Dr. Vanila Singh, Chief Medical Officer of the USA, Department of Health and Hu...

Blockchain continues to go mainstream. In this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is with special guest Dr. Vanila Singh, Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health who discusses the US governments interests in blockchain technology.
The show then features several other guests and their views and use cases for blockchain technology.
Musab Saleh, architect at Ebay discusses what Ebay is doing with make transaction easy on their platform without blockchain technology.
Greg LeBlanc, FinTech education Director at the Berkeley institute discussing how he and the university are producing blockchain content for students.
Ibrahim Alhusseini, Full Cycle Energy - Clean tech investors who uses blockchain technology to demoncratize investing.
Sriram Srinivasan, CEO of SkuChain a Supply Chain blockchain
Maryanne Morrow, CEO of 9th Gear discsusses her extensive knowledge of regulations related to blockchain
Jeremy Almond, CEO of Paystand talking about "Words of Wisdom" as he mentors startups and his view of the current state of blockchain startups and their use cases.
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Why EOS will Change Ethereum Forever - Keith Koo in London with Special Guest David Packham, CEO of EOS42 - London's EOS Block Producer candidate

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo reports from London where he was attending the finals of the 2018 Techstars/Barclays FinTech finals and where Crowdz.io was one of the top finalists. Crowdz and their revolutionary supply chain blockchain was featured on a previous show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-4-13-18-podcast
Keith sat down with David Packham, CEO of EOS42 which is London's leading EOS Block Producer candidate to talk about the EOS MainNet launch that will occur on June 2, 2018. EOS will change Ethereum forever as EOS potentially solves for many of the inherent challenges within Ethereum itself. Keith and David cover many topics such as different economic models, EOS block production, wallets and the fears that EOS can be misused or manipulated.
David and Keith will also be speaking at the 2018 Tulip Emerging Technologies Conference in San Francisco June 7th-8th that has a full list of prominent speakers and influencers from the government, academia, enterprises and the developer community. Over half (11 of the 21) of the leading EOS block producers will be in attendance as well.
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Full Schedule:
June 7th-8th - Next Generation Blockchain Conference and EOS Block Producer Summit
June 9th-10h-First North American EOS Hackathon post MainNet Launch
June 11th-13th First North American EOS Developers conference post MainNet Launch
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