5 episodes

AI & Technology

How artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, creativity, and what we build.

EP 07: Toby CoreyEP 07

Toby Corey

Toby Corey: Zentrepreneurship, Tesla's Fake Solar Roof, and Building Trust in AI

Toby Corey has been at the center of three tech waves — the dot-com boom (USWeb, $3B valuation), the clean energy transition (SolarCity, Tesla Energy), and now AI. He testified under oath that Tesla's Solar Roof tiles were never connected to the grid, laid off 4,000+ people, and created Zentrepreneurship — a 21-principle framework for building companies with consciousness, taught at Stanford for 11 years. Now he's building BrandCapsule: verifying identity in an AI world where hallucinations are the default.

60 minSpotify
EP 06: Lilian KrengelEP 06

Lilian Krengel

Lilian Krengel: Space Traffic Management AI and Earth's Invisible Crisis

19-year-old Santa Clara freshman Lilian Krengel founded OrbitGuard AI — a real-time satellite collision prediction system — after 13 years of gymnastics, a stint arguing NATO AI policy in debate at 16, and a winter night crying, questioning whether engineering was right for her at all.

55 minSpotify
EP 03: Krish JajooEP 03

Krish Jajoo

The Y-Combinator Effect: How a High-Stakes Environment Shapes Success

Krish Jajoo — CS major at Santa Clara University and leader of AI Collaborate — on growing up in Silicon Valley's pressure cooker, why the best future leaders need both technical mastery and emotional intelligence, and whether AI will make learning to code obsolete.

25 minSpotify
EP 02: Michael YoshimuraEP 02

Michael Yoshimura

Still Human? The Bioengineer Building the Technology of Tomorrow

From a career-ending injury to the front lines of the AI revolution — Michael Yoshimura on the Execution Culture gap, 3D-printed healthcare, and why most great ideas die within two weeks.

31 minSpotify
EP 01: Sean WuEP 01

Sean Wu

College Entrepreneur Builds AI Startup After Winning Nvidia | Sean Wu | Still Human Podcast

A conversation with Varsity Wrestling Champion Sean Wu about his journey from high school wrestling to winning at Nvidia, and the art of staying sharp when everything feels overwhelming.

46 minSpotify