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
A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #AustinTech #BioInnovation #HealthTechEcosystem #FutureOfHealth
A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #InnovationPolicy #HealthcareReform #FutureOfRegulation #HealthTech
A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #FutureOfHealth #InnovationEcosystem #AustinNext #BuildTheFuture
What does it mean to build the future of Bio & Health at the frontier, and why is Austin the place to do it? Recorded live at Health Supernova, this episode explores the deep structural shifts underway in bio, health, and tech. From trillion-dollar ambitions to FDA bottlenecks, from digital-first…
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#Austin #Innovation #AustinNext Austin is rising. Austin Next chronicles and amplifies the region's transformation into the next mythic innovation ecosystem. This isn't a news show. I'm not a journalist. We're exploring, theorizing, and shaping the future through tech, innovation, capital, and culture. Subscribe to see What's Next! #TechPodcast #StartupEcosystem #InnovationEcosystem
A clip from our episode "Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms" #Texas #Bitcoin #Bitcoinming #Energy #AI #AustinNext
A clip from our episode "Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms" #Bitcoin #NationalSecurity #DigitalInfrastructure #Geopolitics #Resilience #AustinNext
A clip from our episode "Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms" #Bitcoin #EnergyPolicy #InnovationStrategy #USDebt #DigitalAssets #AustinNext
Is Bitcoin just a financial instrument, or is it a wedge into the future of energy, policy, and power? Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms, lays out how mining is becoming critical infrastructure and why the US can’t afford to fall behind. From sovereign wealth strategies to…
A clip from our episode "How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC" #VerticalAI #AILeadership #FutureOfWork #GTM #StartupHiring