Poppi is a fashion brand that happens to be soda. Stephen Ellsworth, Co-founder of Poppi, joins us to walk through the operating choices behind turning a vinegar problem into a modern soda badge. It’s how you build, scale, and exit a consumer brand. It’s another signal that Austin’s flywheel is…
From the episode "Autonomy’s Moment Is Now. Austin Is the Autonomy Capital | Jeff Cavins, Outdoorsy Group" #AutonomousVehicles #RoboTaxi #Austin #innovation
From the episode "Autonomy’s Moment Is Now. Austin Is the Autonomy Capital | Jeff Cavins, Outdoorsy Group" #AutonomousVehicles #RoboTaxi #Austin #innovation
From the episode "Autonomy’s Moment Is Now. Austin Is the Autonomy Capital | Jeff Cavins, Outdoorsy Group" #AI #innovation #autonomousvehicles
From the episode "Autonomy’s Moment Is Now. Austin Is the Autonomy Capital | Jeff Cavins, Outdoorsy" #AutonomousVehicles #RoboTaxi #Austin #innovation
Autonomy’s moment is now as the operating stack goes live across software, hardware, availability, and insurance. Outdoorsy Group CEO Jeff Cavins joins the show to unpack how RoboTaxis integrate with marketplaces, city systems, and the consumer experience. Austin’s talent, technology, and risk appetite are making it the Autonomy Capital. Highlights…
A clip from our episode "Reading the Global Rankings | Austin’s Momentum vs the Incumbents" #AustinNext #Austin #StartupEcosystem #Innovation #Startups #VentureCapital
Rankings aren’t just a scoreboard. They’re a map. Dealroom’s Yoram Wijngaarde and StartupBlink’s Eli David Rokah join the podcast to unpack ecosystem momentum, enterprise-value growth, and the business-environment factors that move founders, corporates, and capital. We read the global rankings with Austin as a live case study, setting its momentum…
From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO" #Austin #Innovation #Startups #innovationecosystem
From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO" #LegalTech, #GenerativeAI, #ProfessionalServices
From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO"
How do 100X engineers, cheap development, and AI-everywhere workflows flip slow-moving industries and legacy business models? AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong joins to discuss how vertical fintech and generative AI reshape professional services, power the next small-business software stack, and accelerate Austin’s climb into the top five tech cities. Highlights 00:00…
A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #EcosystemDesign #InnovationNarrative #StartupCommunities #CityBuilding #IntentionalDesign #AustinNext
A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #DesignThinking #InnovationStrategy #IntentionalDesign #StartupCulture #UXDesign #AustinNext
A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #GenerativeAI, #Design, #Creativity, #DesignThinking, #AI, #AustinNext
We live in an age of unprecedented creative tools, from generative AI and design platforms to open access to code, capital, and talent. Joining this episode is John Roescher, Founder and CEO of Raw Materials, the design firm behind the public-facing strategies of Anduril, Saronic, and Meta, to explore why…
Get a sneak peek of our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #Design #StartupCulture #InnovationEcosystem #GenerativeAI #AustinNext
A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #AustinNext, #CPG, #Biotech, #StartupFunding, #VentureCapital
A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #Fungi, #Biotech, #NatureTech, #AustinNext, #EnvironmentalInnovation
A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers| Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #AustinNext, #CPG, #TechEcosystem, #ConsumerBrands, #StartupCulture
Mushrooms, coffee, and diapers. It’s not the start of weird joke, but the the innovation arc of Tero Isokauppila, one of the most uniquely disruptive founders at the convergence of bio and consumer goods. From building the $2B mushroom coffee category at Four Sigmatic to launching HIRO, the world’s first…
Tero Isokauppila (@ImTero ) helped create a $2B mushroom coffee category. Now he's building fungi that can digest plastic. And he joins the next episode of Austin Next. #AustinNext #Biotech #CPG #FungiTech #mushroom
A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #InnovationCulture #FounderMindset #AustinFrontier #BuildOutsideTheSystem
A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #PreventiveHealth #DigitalHealth #BioTech #PublicHealth