Business Casual Morning Brew Podcasts

Nora discusses the shifting venture capital landscape and the future of digital security with media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and entrepreneur Hari Ravichandran, the founder and CEO of Aura, a digital security company. Katzenberg’s venture capital firm, WndrCo, backed Aura, which last fall reportedly raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Ben Lamm, founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, a company that is focused on using genomics and synthetic biology to prevent, and in some cases, reverse extinction. Ben discusses Colossal’s keystone projects – bringing back the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Eric Ryan, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Method, OLLY, Welly and Cast about building brands and disrupting DTC industries that are perceived as overly complicated or stagnant. He shares the successes and failures in building three billion-dollar businesses, and his approach to leveraging design and creativity. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Faisal Galaria, CEO of Blippar, a company that has been called an “augmented reality pioneer” by TechCrunch. Bippar productizes augmented reality and builds tools to allow companies and individuals to create AR for any environment. Their new platform has enabled brands including Pepsi, Rockstar, Hulu, and General Mills to bridge the physical and digital worlds. Faisal tells us why believes that AR will be essential to what he calls “the real world metaverse.” For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Eddie Hearn, the President of Matchroom Boxing. What began as a family business, Matchroom Sport now has an estimated valuation of over $800 million. Eddie explains why storytelling is at the core of his business, and why he believes that “sales is a transfer of emotion.” Source for the game: Atlas Obscura’s 18 Obscure Sports That Are Well Worth Rooting For. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Alex Ma, the CEO and co-founder at Poparazzi, an app that allows you to build your friends’ profile pages instead of your own… in other words, be your friends’ paparazzi. Alex talks about how his obsession with connection on social media led him and his brother, Austen Ma, to create something more authentic than Instagram. Poparazzi hit 5m+ downloads one year after it launched in June 2021 and shot to number 1 in the app store. This article from Exploding Topics served as some of the source material for the list of social media apps in "Bullish or Bearish." For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali
Producer: Olivia Meade   
Video Editor: Sebastian Vega
Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus
Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder
Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 
Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop
VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm