Macro Micro Michael Marco & Startups at the Edge (M4Edge)

Jan 19 2023 64 ep. 47 mins 3

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Conversations with startup CEOs with technology that can change how the economy functions.Hosted by Marco Annunziata and Michael Leifman

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Part 2 of Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems

Jan 19 2023 33 mins

This is part 2 of our great discussion with Mallory Dwinal Palisch. If you've not yet listened to part 1, please do so before listening to this second half. In this part of the conversation about Reach University and Craft Education System we discuss student-centered technologies, professional capital, labor mobility of teachers, remote learning, teacher credentialing, data aggrega

Tackling Teacher Shortages with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch of Reach University & Craft Education Systems (part 1)

Jan 03 2023 21 mins

There is arguably nothing more important to our future economy than the quality of our education system, and there is nothing more important to that than the quality and availability of teachers. But as anyone who's followed the news in the last couple of years knows, we are currently facing something of a crisis in the availability of qualified teachers. Here are some stats to put

Can AI make the mortgage market easier for lenders and borrowers? Matt Sanchez of Cognitive Scale explains how..

Dec 08 2022 22 mins

With interest rates rising and the economy slowing, the world of credit is getting a lot harder for both lenders and borrowers — and that’s especially painful in the mortgage market, given how high house prices are. Matt Sanchez, Founder and CTO of CognitiveScale thinks that Artificial Intelligence can help: it can help loan officers identify potential borrowers ahead of time,

Renewable Heat as one solution to Europe's Energy Crisis: KraftBlock's Martin Schichtel

Oct 28 2022 13 mins

Developing Clean Energy Solutions With KraftBlock’s Martin Schichtel Across the world, a huge amount of energy is wasted in the form of heat. In industries like glass and steel, manufacturing processes require extremely high temperatures, and those processes generate a lot of wasted heat. That heat is usually blown directly into the atmosphere. But what if there was a way to capt

We're baaaack

Oct 18 2022 2 mins

Miss us? M4Edge is coming back soon, with a new format. Stay tuned! Stay curious!

Bonus: The Future According to M4Edge Guests

Dec 08 2021 18 mins

In the 3+ years that M4Edge has been around, we've aired over 50 episodes and, as listeners know, we usually ask our guests to give us their view of the future 20 years hence. Sometimes the answers are somewhat expected, sometimes they're a little humorous, and sometimes they're deeply thought provoking. As a holiday present, this episode offers a compilation of some of our favorit

Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks on his driven journey and our driverless future

Nov 11 2021 52 mins

This is the final M4Edge episode of 2021 an we are finishing this year with a bang, Our guest is Alex Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Embark Trucks; he is a Forbes 30 under 30, and more importantly, at the tender age of 26 he has just brought Embark public through a SPAC deal valuing the company at over 5 billion dollars. Embark is right up the M4Edge alley, where we look at technolo

Dror Tamir of Hargol FoodTech explains why eating grasshoppers is better for you, better for the planet, and how he gets you to get by the "yuck" factor.

Sep 24 2021 56 mins

After a long absence, we’ve returned with a very fun episode and right in line with the M4Edge theme. The startup we focus on today is really micro, in the weeds, you might say, with some very macro aims, and it’s about as edgy as can be. You probably know that we’ve done several episodes on ESG or impact investing, and we’ve also done quite a few food-tech and ag-tech epis

Michael Sachse of Dandelion Energy on Decarbonizing your Home with Geothermal

May 20 2021 54 mins

It’s not often that a small startup has ties to Google and Bill Gates. Our guest today, Michael Sachse, the CEO of Dandelion Energy inhabits that rarefied atmosphere. Dandelion Energy was originally part of Google X, Alphabet’s so-called moonshot factory. And very recently, Dandelion received substantial series B funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which is the VC arm of

Nathaniel Jackson of TrueAlgae explains how he can help your strawberries taste better, last longer, while improving farmers profits and reducing GHG

Mar 25 2021 50 mins

We seem drawn to Agtech and impact investing. And good-tasting fruit. We kicked off our 2021 season with a discussion on impact investing or socially responsible investing, including with a startup (EcoRobotix) that produces solar-power farming equipment for AI-based precision application of herbicide. We've done a few episodes in the Agtech space, including with a startup (Strella