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Maddie Wang is the founder of Founders Cafe, an online support network made up of founders from Y-Combinator, Harvard, Stanford and more. She has a bunch of cool accolades including making $60,000 as a 13 year old off of a MineCraft server she ran, or making $120,000+ as a 19 year old off of her own Amazon store. Maddie worked on many startup projects through college and ended dropping out Stanford to work on Founder Cafe. As of this recording, Maddie travels around the world working on Founders Cafe as a digital nomad. Follow Maddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lesbianbezos Contact Maddie: Maddie@founderscafe.io Check out Founder Cafe: https://founderscafe.io/ _________ Follow Matt: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/support

Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures where they invest in the future of work and the future of play. She has a background in mechanical engineering, computer science, and building dope sh*t! She’s based out of San Deigo. Behind Genius Venture’s Website: https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/ Follow Paige on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paigefinnn   _____ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Nait Jones is an expert on the intersection of technology and culture. Nait was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz for 8 years where he led TxO, the Talent Opportunity Initiative. TxO is A fund that invests in and searches for cultural geniuses and founders with unconventional backgrounds. Nait Jones also helped create Royal, partnering with Nas and various other musicians to use NFTs to invest in music. Having no degree and living out of his car Nait moved to Silicon Valley where he rose the ranks and launched his own successful business. Nait has deep roots in the culture of Hip-Hop. Nait mentors many young founders, is close friends with Ben Horowitz, ran a show on ClubHouse where he garnered over 4M followers, lived in England and Germany as a child, and many other cool stuff you’ll hear in this episode. Follow Nait on… Twitter (best): https://twitter.com/NaithanJones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naitjones/ ________ Follow Matt on… Twitter (best): https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt Instagram: https://w

SoloCelo is a recording artist from Chicago now based in LA and very close friend of Matt’s since elementary school. Within the past year Solo has gone from a few 1000 to over 190,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. He’s built a small but growing loyal fanbase at the intersection of hip-hop, rock, pop, and rnb sound. He’s been featured in Gary Vee’s Monday to Monday playlist of upcoming artists to watch. He’s won the Rising Artist showcase hosted by Social Works in Chicago and performed at Summer Smash.  Follow Solo:
 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@solocelo_?lang=en   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/28iF2lSSdTB7jwUNQuh497   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solocelo_/   Follow Matt: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Sonny is a recording artist and creative based in Chicago. He holds over 15 million streams on Spotify, been named an artist to watch by Lyrical Lemonade, featured in Vogue, opened up for Pusha T at Radius in Chicago and more. He's a part of a creative collective called High Life and is generally very tapped into the network of underground creatives and artists in Chicago. ____ Follow Sonny Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3KDKJ7Z0kgJrQS1CH43PM4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7ZJ5xgLS5/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hatesonny _____ Follow Matt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hatesonn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Jeff Osuji is the founder of Eventnoire. The company has been the ticketing platform for Hyde Park Fest, Chance The Rapper Night At The Museum, Techrise, NBA Allstar Weekend Events and more.  Jeff has a background in advertising, marketing, and hosting many events. Jeff & Eventnoire have been recognized and won pitch competitions with Google for Startups, Mountain Dew, P33, and more.   Contact & follow Eventnoire:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eventnoirehq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/eventnoire   Email: Jeff@eventnoire.com   ---  Follow Matt: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Claude Cimeus is an an entrepreneur, Director of Platform At P33, and has lead a new wave of tech events in Chicago post-covid. Most noteablely, Claude led Tech Week Chicago, a 3 day long series of panels, networking, after-parties, and even brought Pusha-T to the club! Claude only eats out so we talked restaurants in Chicago, sports, growing up in Haiti, working with political figures in Illinois and much much more! Follow Claude: on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClaudeCimeus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claudecimeus/ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claude-cimeus-37550874/ Check out Tech Week Chicago: https://gotechchicago.com/week/ ____ Follow Matt: on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Senite is a singer and song-writer based out of Chicago, IL. Within a year and a half she went from a very modest audience & performing in backyard stages to filling concert venue halls and pulling in over a million streams. She’s very connected to the hive-mind of super talented rising Chicago creatives and artists of all kinds. Learn more about Senite  Senite's Website: https://www.senite.co/home   Senite's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_senite/ Senite's Twitter: https://twitter.com/seniteb  -----------  Follow Matt  Matt's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Matt's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Andy and I both share Bi-Polar disorder and being an entrepreneur in the midst of struggling with episodes. Andy and I explore the complexities of Bi-Polar disorder and describe the shared experiences someone with Bi-Polar ends up going through. We talk improve the cost of support for mental health, selling his company for $300M, his book Burn Rate: “Launching A Startup and Loosing My Mind.” And his new venture and app Pumpkin Pie, a new social media platform to make platonic friendships. Learn more about Andy: Burn Rate Book: https://www.burnratebook.com/ Pumpkin Pie: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pumpkin... Bonobos (former owner): https://www.instagram.com/bonobos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dunn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dunn/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyrdunn/ Follow Matt: Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dog

Jewel Ifeguni is an associate producer at Decoy Games, a black-owned video game studio where only 2% of the gaming industry is made up of black people. She's the founder of You Matter Studios, a media studio with a focus on improving representation in media. And she has worked at Minecraft at Mojang at Microsoft as a Technical Project manager.   Follow Jewel here: https://www.instagram.com/jewelzofthenile/ Learn more about Decoy Games: https://www.decoygames.com/ --------------  Follow Matt... on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Baco is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago, mainly focused on music. Follow Baco on Instagram: @lovebaco —— Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @nonstop.matt Twitter: @nonstopmatt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Landon Campbell is an early stage investor at Drive Capital, a podcast host where he has interviewed the likes of Steve Wozniak, he’s a frequent event host in Chicago for technology and venture capital, and he’s a TedX speaker! Reach out to Landon on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn (Landon W. Campbell) Follow Landon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/landon20s Follow Landon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landon20s/ Learn more about Drive Capital: https://drivecapital.com/ Listen to Landon’s podcast: https://www.intheir20s.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Makafui Searcy is the owner of Fourtune House, a creative empowerment workshop and event space on the South Side of Chicago in Bronzeville. At 22 years old, Makafui has lead a way for empowering the creative development of young artists to access reassures and opportunities. Makafui’s inner circle consists of some of Chicagos most talented rising artist from musicians, to film makers, to visual artists and more. Makafui has a well-rounded mind and is an avid explorer from many counties to many disciplines. Learn more about Fourtune House: Follow Makafui on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makafuikofisearcy/ Follow Makafui on Twitter: https://twitter.com/makafuisearcy —— DM the Intersection on Instagram to contact us: https://www.instagram.com/the.intersection.pod/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Aaqib Usman is the founder of Light Pong, the world's first 1-Dimensional game console or you could say the world's first connected toy company. As of this recording, I happen to work for Light Pong! Aaqib is an entrepreneur with an extensive background in bringing together the physical and digital worlds. He's previously the founder of Midwest Immersive, a tech installation and tech-based experiential company where he did work for Verizon, Progressive and many other companies. You can connect with Aaqib via... Instagram: @immersive.aaqib Twitter: @itsaaqib Learn more about Light Pong at: playlightpong.com or on YouTube: youtube.com/playlightpong --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Gabe Tavas is the founder of Symmetry Wood. At Symmetry Gabe has developed Pyrus, a material made from bacteria that closely mimics wood to prevent deforestation.  Gabe and Symmetry won the national James Dyson award and have been featured in the World Economic Form.    Gabe is a long time friend of mine and we worked as co-founders for 3 years on and off on different projects.  Gabe is an avid maker-of-things, sustainability specialist, and materials specialist.   Learn more about Symmetry here: http://symmetrywood.com/ ---- The Intersection YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheIntersectionPod The Intersection Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0MXARDdPTmyuJra6uo1k3d The Intersection Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection/id1317620369 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Mirza Baig is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He's the creator of an app called Monk Mode to help you stay on track of your desired habits, he created an event discovery tool for Muslim events at mosques around your area, and is building a coaching/therapy platform. He's also a founding engineer at Cash Drop.  Follow The Intersection on Instagram: The.Intersection.Pod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Ruben Flores is the founder and CEO of CashDrop. He’s on a mission to create as much generational wealth for Latinos world wide as possible. He’s a serial entrepreneur and I’ve actually had the pleasure of interviewing him two other times in the past. @the.intersection.pod / all socials @cashdrop.biz to follow CashDrop DM me on Instagram for podcast inquiries @nonstop.matt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dogoodpodcast/support

Jonah is an amazing artist in graphic design, film, fashion, modeling, and music who has done work with large molding agencies including Photogenics LA and Anti-Agency as a model and media creator. Jonah has worked along side Tyler The Creator for GOLF (but didn’t wanna talk about it cause he’s tired of being recognized for that). Jonah has made various short films on his own and for large brands. Jonah has made a lot of amazing drawn and graphic art as stand alone works, for his clothing, and for various clients. Check out Jonah’s work at: http://www.jonahtwallach.net/ Follow Jonah on Instagram @Jonah_of_arc Email Jonah: jonahtwallach@gmail.com This episode included conversation around: freeing yourself from being self-obsessed, what is truth & ego mascaraing as truth, going to college at USC, the culture of LA, status, making normal vs weird art, taking your art seriously vs playfully, not losing faith in your efforts, dressing intentionally, why privileged people should always be uncomfortable, empathy

Matt finally interviews a couple of his best friends after years and years of working along side them and watching them grow… Ra Gordon and Emmanuel Isreal (GoldenBoyMnny) are two underground Chicago hip-hop legends in-the-making. Ra is an 18 year old producer who went from making beats in his family’s basement to working in professional studios all around Chicago and has managed to create songs with artists that have garnered millions of plays and is currently being mentored/managed by Chicago icon Freddy Burton AKA Supa Bwe. GoldenBoyManny has gone from making music videos for his friend’s YouTube gaming channel as a young teenager to securing a performing spot and official poster listing for Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash 2021. Manny is the founder of a hip-hop collective called Exit The Premises (ETP) that both Ra and Matt are members of. The three discuss Ra and Manny’s journey in the music industry, being genuine and using their authenticity to connect with other creatives in the music industry who hav

Sir Trevor James is a producer, creative director, and entrepreneur and AM (Amin Mashadi) is a music artist, both part of the “Collected” collective. We sat down and discussed their most recent fully self-product event “Collected As One.” We talked about their experience going to music-focused colleges in Chicago such as Columbia and SAE. We discussed best practices in the music industry, Trevor and Amin’s growing-up stories (including Amin moving from Iran to Turkey to Chicago and being split from his family multiple times for years on end. We ended with how they want to evolve as creatives from creating music for movies to hosting events for fitness and car shows and much more. Follow Trevor and Amin: Sir Trevor James: Instagram: @sirtrevorjames Website: https://www.sirtrevorjames.com/ Amin Mashadi: Instagram: @its.amofficial Website: https://www.itsamofficial.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dogoodpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c