Episodes

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Most companies are blowing money on AI they don't need. Brandon built a multi-million dollar business by knowing exactly when to use it and when a human is still the smarter choice. After striking out on every job application he sent, Brandon spent a decade paying it forward, helping dozens of people land jobs for free. That led him to a discovery nobody else had figured out: there's a hid...

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. What if the single most critical piece of American infrastructure is something you've never heard of, and the people who know how to build it are nearly gone? When a $50 drone can take out the power grid and it takes seven years to replace the transformer that keeps the lights on, one founder is betting $500 million that AI and old-school manufacturing can save the day. In Season 1, Episode 6 of America's Angels, co-hosts Jenny Kaehms a...

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. Ever wonder how the tools powering today’s AI revolution were built, or how to empower the next generation to lead it? In this episode of America’s Angels, co-hosts Jenny Kaehms and Andrea Kalmans sit down with tech pioneers Peter Wang (founder of Anaconda) and Andy Terrel (lead of compute and open source at NVIDIA) to explore the future of technology and human potential. The guests share their inspiring journeys—from growing up in C...

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. What if the kid failing every class grew up to build one of the world's most successful satellite companies and then bet it all over again? Gabe Dominocielo went from straight Fs to straight As overnight, found his way to Chico State, and turned a summer job into a decade-long legal tech business that made him a multimillionaire by 30. Then he risked it all to co-found Umbra, a satellite company that captures the highest-resolution rada...

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. What if you could command a fleet of robots with nothing more than a flick of your wrist? A Stanford PhD pioneer and his former student-turned-CEO join us to reveal how wearable gesture technology is about to transform the way humans and machines work side by side. Professor Luis Sentis, one of the first in the world to earn an end-to-end PhD in humanoid robotics, and Heeyong Huh, founder of Suhwa, sit down with hosts Jennifer Kaehms...

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. What if the crypto kid mining Ethereum in milk crates next door is now the person Fortune 500 companies trust to keep their AI secure? That's exactly the journey Alex Mirran, co-founder and COO of Gridweave, shares in this episode and the skills that built a crypto mining rig in a parents' garage are now powering enterprise AI infrastructure. In Season 1, Episode 2 of America's Angels: Life Finds a Way, hosts Jenny Kaehms, Andrea Kal...

How do you go from handing out beverage samples at Costco to backing a nuclear reactor startup? In the premiere episode of America's Angels, Austin-based angel investors Jennifer Kames and Andrea Kelmans sit down with fellow investor Nick Travers to unpack the wild, winding journey of startup investing—from a $300 million bet on Bai drinks to the front lines of the nuclear energy renaissance. Nick shares the story of cornering Bai's founder at a Princeton street fair, riding that investment t...