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Barak Turovsky is Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, a leading Enterprise venture capital firm. Barak spent 10 years at Google as Head of Product and User Experience for Languages AI and the Google Translate teams, focused on applying cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to deliver experiences across Google Search, Assistant, Cloud, Chrome, Ads and other products.

My guest today is Lara Abrash, Chair and CEO of Deloitte. She is a true leader and I really enjoyed our time together. We discussed her personal journey and path, particularly an impressive trajectory in her career and how she has navigated it from a perspective of constantly evolving. Curiosity is a driver for being willing to evolve and an important tenet for any leader.

My guest today is Alan Patricof, founding father of venture capital and author of a new book entitled, "No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone." Alan and I dig into the book and we also cover a potpourri of topics that had me feeling inspired for many days after our conversation. Among other areas, we discuss his love of music and how he started a disco tech in the 60's, why he missed Woodstock, and the fact that he attended Burning Man a few weeks ago (I'm still awaiting photographic proof!).

My guest today is Amir Hemmat, Co-Founder and CEO of Welcome Technologies (Welcome), the “Digital Ellis Island” and future operating system for immigration. I was introduced to Amir by a mutual friend, Samer Hamadeh, who is Co-Founder and CEO at Zeel, with whom I recorded a podcast a couple of years ago, alongside Venus Williams. Amir and I covered a lot of ground and I came away from our conversation being genuinely impressed by his deeply rooted vision.

Today’s podcast is a roundtable discussion focused on the topic of compassionate leadership, which is top of mind for nearly every executive, whether you’re running a large or small business or for-profit or not-for-profit organization. Leading the roundtable is Donato Tramuto, author of a new book entitled, The Double Bottom Line – How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results. The book is at the top of its category on Amazon.

My second guest of the new season is Ken Goldman, who currently serves as President of Hillspire, which is Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s family office. Eric, of course, being the former executive chairman of Google and its parent company, Alphabet. Ken is widely known in Silicon Valley and the broader business world, as well, having served as CFO of Yahoo, Instinet, Siebel, and currently sits on a number of corporate, startup and non-profit boards.