Today I am here with the University of Pittsburgh’s 18th chancellor, Pat Gallagher. He oversees a community of more than 34,000 students and 13,000 faculty and staff members across five distinct campuses, all working to advance Pitt’s mission to make the world a better place through knowledge, learning and scholarship. Chancellor Gallagher holds a …

Today I am here with the super insightful, former Microsoft employee turned Entrepreneur in Residence, Ryan Philips. I met Ryan as a University Innovation Fellow back in early 2017 and caught up for the first time since then here on episode 11. I am excited to have Ryan on the podcast to discuss career moves, the balance between a deep understandin…

Today I am here with Alex Lee , who has joined me at the Nissan Research Center in the bay area as a fellow intern. Alex is a summer associate for the Alliance Venture capital group, a former Boeing engineer, and now turned MBA student at Columbia. On this episode we talk about our first impressions of silicon valley, the nuances within startups in…