The Next Great Thing
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How AI Has Generated Trillions in Value Long Before ChatGPT and the Future of AI, with Konstantine Buhler, Partner at Sequoia Capital
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Next Great Thing, we sit down with Konstantine Buhler, a Sequoia Capital partner and AI pioneer, to explore the transformative ...
Building a relationship advice app you can actually trust, with Renate Nyborg, Founder & CEO, Meeno
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Renate Nyborg has been building consumer-focused apps for as long as the App Store has existed. She’s held senior leadership roles at Apple and Head...
Creating the world’s most accurate weather forecasts & fighting climate change, with WindBorne Systems Co-Founders John Dean and Kai Marshland
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the planet warms, we're experiencing more frequent and destructive extreme weather. Yet, 85% of the world lacks critical atmospheric data for ...
LIVE from SXSW 2024: The Paradox of Loneliness and Technology
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Technology connects us more than ever. Yet, we feel lonelier than ever. Worldwide, one in four adults (more than a billion people) feel lonely. And 36...
From Google Search to solving enterprise search, with Arvind Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Glean
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arvind Jain, Co-Founder and CEO of generative AI workplace search startup, Glean, has an impressive, 25-year career in Silicon Valley. It’s safe to ...
AI is transforming the recruiting game, with Moonhub Founder & CEO, Nancy Xu
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Named to TIME’s inaugural AI 100 list, Nancy Xu is an AI innovator who worked on early foundation models at Stanford’s AI Lab before founding Moon...
From producing Kanye to building the future of smart video, with Adventr Founder & CEO, Devo Harris
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Devo Harris isn't your typical tech founder. He’s a builder. A creative visionary who’s most comfortable at the intersection of media and tec...
Full-stack generative AI means business with Writer Co-Founder & CEO, May Habib
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is booming, but transforming industries still requires custom models that most companies can't build, customize, and deploy themselves. That&a...
Storytelling and the art of persuasion in the age of AI with Tome Co-Founder & CEO, Keith Peiris
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI like ChatGPT and DALL·E 2 is raising important questions about human creativity. Will AI one day replace us as creators and storytellers? Keith Pe...
Making sense of the world through design, with Georg Petschnigg, Head of Product Design, The New York Times
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the 171-year-old Gray Lady stay so innovative? Design, technology, and storytelling. Georg Petschnigg, Head of Product Design at The New York...
Scaling Fast and Compounding Success with Brex Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of fintech startup Brex, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi are true “friendpreneurs” – and they’re not e...
Post News Founder & CEO Noam Bardin on combatting misinformation in a new era of social media
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noam Bardin is drawn to working on world-changing ideas. As the former CEO of Waze, the popular traffic crowdsourcing app, he got the chance to do tha...
Marissa Mayer on the AI revolution and why she wants to clean up your contacts
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marissa Mayer is one of the most successful and influential women in tech. As employee #20 at Google, she played a lead role in building the iconic pr...
Summer 2023 Hype Episode! - Just Start (Up) book drop & vote for us at SXSW
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re off for the summer, but stopping by with a quick update on a few cool happenings at The Next Great Thing! Now through August 20th, vote for ‘...
Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder & CEO, Eight Sleep - The tech optimizing our sleep fitness
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re constantly looking for ways to track, goal-set, and optimize our physical fitness. Why don’t we do the same with sleep – something we spen...
RJ Pittman, CEO, Matterport - Creating digital twins of our built world
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine exploring inside any building or space, right down to the tiniest details, from anywhere on the planet. That’s exactly what 3D “digital tw...
James Reinhart, Co-Founder and CEO, thredUP - Solving (and Scaling) the Hard Problem of Secondhand
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in a clothing waste crisis, buying more clothes than ever but tossing them out twice as fast. Americans trash 11.3 million tons of textiles an...
Leslie Witt, Chief Product and Design Officer, Headspace Health - Designing for Healthy Outcomes (Not Just Engagement)
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is in the midst of a mental health crisis. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in five adults in the U.S. expe...
Brennan Spellacy, Co-Founder & CEO, Patch - Simplifying Carbon Markets to Unite Climate Action
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re at a global climate tipping point. Along with policymakers, public-private partnerships, and political will, technology is central to solving ...
Jeff McGregor, CEO, Truepic - Authenticating what’s real in a deepfake, synthetic world
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before the decade is out, over 90% of all the content on the internet will be artificially generated. From deepfakes of famous faces to flattering (or...
Aaron Easterly, CEO, Rover - Lessons in Building the World’s Largest Pet Care Marketplace
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our pets aren't just furry friends, they're family. And the pandemic brought this bond into focus for millions of Americans, with one in fiv...
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Global Head of Product, Grammarly - The Rise of AI Communication Assistants
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The robots are coming! Actually, they’re already here. Every day there’s a new story in our newsfeeds about how AI technology is disrupting everyt...
Jenny Arden, Chief Design Officer, Zillow - Designing the Housing Super App
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Buying a home ain’t easy. It can be a fragmented, frustrating, often downright painful experience. You scour the market for your dream home, only to...
Dorothy Li, CTO, Convoy - Building Elastic Capacity in Freight (And Saving the Planet, Too)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Look around you. Chances are, most of what you see has, at some point, been shipped on a truck and driven around by a truck driver. Trucking is a mass...
Eddie Martucci, CEO, Akili Interactive - Software that is the medicine
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if software could actually treat a disease? That’s the question that Eddie Martucci, a biochemist and biophysicist whose focus is in drug desig...
Fabrice Sergent, Managing Partner, Bandsintown - Turning live music discovery up to 11
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seeing your favorite band or artist in concert can be a life-changing experience. Live music bonds us to one another in a way that no other art form c...
Jasmine Crowe-Houston, Founder & CEO, Goodr - Solving food waste and hunger (with the same app)
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every year we throw away nearly 40% of our nation's food supply – perfectly edible – leaving it to rot in landfills and release harmful green...
Shravan Goli, Chief Product Officer, Coursera - Online learning is the future of work
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 100 million new digital jobs are projected to emerge in the next five years, while another 85 million will be displaced. But with a global shor...
Zak Lefevre, CEO, ChargeLab - Charging past the EV tipping point
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s official. Electric vehicles are out of the R&D and early adopter phase and racing towards mainstream adoption. In 2022, EVs account for abo...
Kyle Rand, Co-Founder & CEO, Rendever - Virtual reality (and smiles) for seniors
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Social isolation has a profound negative effect on our mental and physical health. Many of us experienced the effects of this first-hand during the he...
Nima Ghamsari, Co-Founder and Head of Blend - Going “all in” on the future of proactive finance
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a former professional poker player, Nima Ghamsari learned that poker is a game of psychology and understanding how people make decisions. That you ...
Michelle Zhou, Co-founder & CEO, Juji - Chatbots get more human
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know what it’s like talking to a chatbot. Or, dealing with an automated customer service phone assistant (and ending up yelling, “Represent...
Donna Boyer, Chief Product Officer, Teladoc Health - The virtual doctor will see you now
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of Americans struggle to afford and access health care. Some delay seeking care because they lack transportation or child care. Others are si...
Josh Lessing, CTO, AppHarvest - AgTech farming (and the robot picking your produce)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change, a growing global population, and land degradation are depleting the natural resources we rely on to grow our food -- causing massive v...
Human-centric Healthcare Innovation with The McClennan Group
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we ensure a focus on the human element, well-being, and a better health state in a world of exponential technology? In this episode, Andrew Gr...
The Science Behind Innovation at Hopelab
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Greenstein welcomes Chris McCarthy, VP of Strategy and Design at Hopelab, a social innovation lab focused on designing science-based technologi...
Biohacking Our Brains with Humm
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Iain McIntyre, founder of humm, the biotech company that developed a wearable patch to accelerate learning and other cognitive funct...
Transforming the Healthcare Construct
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Greenstein welcomes Andrew Smith, the Chief Operations and Innovation Officer at Vituity—a physician-owned-and-led partnership and leader in ...
Hype Cycles in Deep Tech
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Eric Redmond, the best-selling author of Deep Tech. He’s a 20 year veteran technologist who always happens to show up wherever...
"Sticktuitiveness"
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Gonzales joins The Innovation Cookbook to speak with Andrew about innovation in the skies. Glenn is the Founder and CEO of private jet company, ...
Most Companies Think They're Innovative
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew interviews Scott Kirsner, CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader, an online resource helping change-makers at large organizations deliver real...
The Future of Healthcare with Mayo Clinic's Mark Wehde
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Make Wehde, the Chair of the Mayo Clinic division of engineering. Mark is the executive leader of a team of engineers, software dev...
Demystifying Cryptocurrency
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Patrick Baron learned about cryptocurrency from a colleague at a retail bank in 2013, his intrigue sparked a timely exploration of the technology...
Designing Workspaces for Innovation
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew welcomes Kayte Compton and Kelley Naylor, creative strategy designers at Insidesource, a global furniture dealer and workplace innovator reimag...
Governments, "Net-States," and Digital Nations...
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew speaks with Alexis Wichowski, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Innovation for the City of New York, and author of The Information Trade: ...
Never Ask Permission to Innovate
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Shashi Jain, an Innovation Manager at Intel who explores new applications for Internet of Things and Machine Learning. While Sha...
Let's Talk Fintech
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Benjamin Maxim, the Assistant Vice President of Digital Strategy and Innovation at MSU Federal Credit Union who started his career in inn...
Finding the Wheel at Disney
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Simpson, former influential technologist at The Walt Disney Company, joins us for a conversation about how he used his ten-year role to make s...
Rapid Prototyping at West Elm
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Luke Chatelain, former VP of Innovation and Digital Product at West Elm, about the agile approach and adaptive mindset he's u...
Recipe: Startup Innovation with Erick Hachenburg
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erick Hachenburg is a serial entrepreneur who's been at the helm of several big acquisitions, most recently that of Tenor by Google. We sit down ...
What is Innovation?
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Andrew Greenstein, CEO and Head of Production at SF AppWorks, about how he defines innovation, as well as his agency's experience i...