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Smart Humans explores the world of alternative investments. From Venture to Collectibles, NFTs to Real Estate, Art to Debt and beyond - we discuss a new world of investment opportunities and the catalysts that impact their demand.
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Smart Humans: Chef Robotics Founder/CEO Rajat Bhageria on the present and future of Physical AI and Robotics (opens the original)
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Rajat is the Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics. Prior to Chef, Rajat was Founder and Managing Partner at Prototype Capital, a pre-seed venture capital fund investing in founders who apply new technology to old industries. Before that, Rajat was the Founder and CEO of ThirdEye, where he led a team to build a product that empowers the visually impaired by recognizing what’s in front of them; ThirdEye was ultimately sold. Rajat has written a book about education reform, published a scientific paper
Smart Humans: The Champion Fund's Marques Colston on his journey from NFL star to fund manager and investing across the sports ecosystem (opens the original)
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Marques Colston is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of The Champion Fund. Operator and executive with more than a decade of leadership across the NFL, emerging sports leagues, and private capital. Co-owner of three Arena Football League franchises. Advised Arena Football League on strategic partnerships with DraftKings, CBS, William Hill, and Facebook. Strategic Advisor to NFLPA One Team Collective and NFL Players Inc. Advised on $350M+ in client assets as a financial advisor at Janney Montgome
Smart Humans: Investor Briefing on IPOs after SpaceX w/ Sacra's Jan-Erik Asplund (opens the original)
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Recorded 8/4/26 Slava Rubin and Jan-Erik Asplund explore the recent IPO of SpaceX, its market performance, and the potential upcoming IPOs of major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks.
Smart Humans: Entrepreneur and Investor Shane Neman on startup failures, successful investments, and the future of AI and innovation. (opens the original)
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Shane Neman is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He founded and successfully exited two technology companies, JoonBug and EZ Texting, before moving to the investing side. Today he is the Manager of Neman Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on frontier technology, including AI, robotics, defense tech, quantum computing, and longevity. Separately, he runs the Neman Family Office, which holds direct investments and commercial real estate. He is the author of "Nightlife Lessons" and writes ab
Smart Humans: Corner Ventures & Aurite AI co-founder John Cadeddu on 25 years in VC, incubating AI startups and investing into farmland (opens the original)
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John Cadeddu is the founding and managing partner at Corner Ventures. John brings 25 years of venture capital experience to this role and is a generalist with domain expertise in machine learning and artificial general intelligence. Prior to Corner, John co-founded DAG Ventures in 2004 and was Key Man for Funds I-V. As a venture investor, John has led investments in over 60 companies, including Bloom Energy, FireEye, Ambarella, Yelp, Pacific BioSciences, Jasper Technologies, Xoom, Eventbrite, Ne
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