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Geek At Sea with Kirill Zubovsky

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GeekAtSea is a series of conversation with curious people about startups, science, economic and tech, their successes and challenges. Come hang out with us and be rewarded with knowledge you will not find anywhere else!

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

An important message from RadioPublic

Paul Davis - Second Employee at Amazon

October 17th, 2020

1:25:48

Paul Davis was once a 2nd employee at Amazon, on track to earn millions. Instead of sticking around to get filthy rich though, Paul decided he did …

Anthony Eden, Founder and CEO of DNSimple

September 15th, 2020

51:21

This is a story of how Anthony Edent founded DNSimple to become the fastest DNS management solution provider in the world. He built himself a company …

Paul Orlando - Unintended Consequences of Everyday Life

August 29th, 2020

36:29

Paul Orlando is a startup founder, entrepreneur, Director of USC Incubator Program & Adjunct Professor for the Lloyd Greif Center for …

David Woodland - A Management Consultant in Silicon Valley

July 13th, 2020

39:47

David Woodland is currently a Product Manager at Facebook, previously Head of Product at Palm.com and a Product Manager at Pebble. He is a father of …

Jason Calacanis - Entrepreneur turned angel Investor shares his insight about success, hard work, education, and the future.

March 23rd, 2020

1:06:46

Jason Calacanis is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was one of the early believes in Uber, Calm, Robinhood and many others. He is a host of the show This Week in Startups, and the author of Angel. If that …

Nathan Kontny

March 21st, 2020

1:08:14

Raising kids could be daunting, or it could ba lot of fun. Nathan is a startups founder and a dad who is making the best of every opportunity. We …

Code Story Noah Labhart : Startups and kids, paying the bills, work-life harmony, and how to have it all.

March 12th, 2020

29:20

Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. He is also the …

Roberto Gibbons Gomez. How to get paid to have fun!

February 26th, 2020

31:10

Roberto from the Expeditioners is the dad many wish they could be. Instead of holding a steady job, he and his family are busy traveling the world, …

Before and After of having a baby - Anthony Armendariz - Partner and Head of Design at Funsize

December 17th, 2019

1:09:43

Anthony Armendariz is a founder and partner at Funsize, a creative design agency which he started with his wife Natalie. They spent years being laser focused on business, working day and night, and now count Facebook, …

Jonathan Sposato challenges the meaning of the American Dream.

November 6th, 2019

1:04:57

Jonathan Sposato is a Seattle entrepreneur, investors, and a community activist. He is a chairman of Geekwire.com and Picmonkey.com

We talk about his childhood and what it was like to be growing up in a mixed family, in …

Stefan Weitz on the importance of travel, relationships, and the pursuit of happiness.

October 30th, 2019

52:47

How do you teach a child to learn a new language? You don't! Instead, you get her excited about learning, and one day she does it herself. The she goes to Yale.

Stefan Weitz is the founder of Jetson Seasonal Probiotics …

Mubs Iqbal. The man who launched 80 side projects and counting.

September 30th, 2019

38:46

Mubashar Iqbal is a developer, dad, and a maker who just cannot stop creating products on the internet.  

Mubs is the guy behind Pod Hunt, Product News, Practical MVP and quite literally, 80 other projects. Some of them …

Jason Schuller. Press75 and how a WordPress theme set an entrepreneurial journey in motion.

August 14th, 2019

53:58

Jason Schuller is a dad, a husband, and the founder of Press75, a WordPress theme company that he started in frustration, when a consulting client …

🧙‍♂️ Vin Thomas. Creativity and teaching children entrepreneurship from young age.

March 23rd, 2019

1:04:24

Vin is a dad of two girls, founder of a creative agency called Fixel, and when he is not busy doing those jobs, he is also a man's fashion model and entrepreneur, running a brand called Better Fellows where him and his …

Vlad Magdalin. Webflow and the future of software on the internet.

March 6th, 2019

1:14:51

Can you have a family, a successful company making millions of dollars in annual revenue, and do it all at your own pace, with a remote office …

Drew Wilson. How do get the most out of life?

February 5th, 2019

54:10

One day, needing a break from his entrepreneur endeavors, Drew rented an RV and took his entire family on a trip around the United States, for a …

Bryce Roberts. How Indie.vc is change the startup funding landscape for the better!

January 25th, 2019

1:00:47

Bryce Roberts is the founder of Indie.vc , an investment fund that is leading the new counter-culture startup movement, focusing on revenue and …

Jason Preston on startups, kids, and making a Dent in the universe.

January 14th, 2019

1:06:29

Jason is a co-founder of Dent, a company that creates and supports a community of entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives who are driven to “put a dent in the universe.” He lives in Seattle with his wife Monica Guzman, …

Roel Williams. Surviving foster care.

November 21st, 2018

1:09:14

When he was six years old, Roel lost his mom to cancer and ended up in the foster care. Abuse, drugs, physical violence and the entire system that is …

Emily Campbell. Joys and challenges of raising a family in rural America.

November 8th, 2018

1:08:08

Emily Campbell is a product designer based out of Moab, Utah where she lives with her husband and three kids. She makes the money, he plays with the kids, and together they are having an adventure of a lifetime.

In this …

Michael FitzGerald. A novelist turned tech CEO.

October 20th, 2018

1:51:18

Michael FitzGerald is a prolific American writer and the founder of Submittable.com. He lives and works in Missoula, Montana with his wife and two …

Adam Lisagor. How to start the world's best video production company in LA.

September 12th, 2018

1:04:57

One day a film student from NYU changed advertising forever. In a few short months Adam became the man who did it all - he was producing, casting, directing and starring in for the ads of the most recognizable names in …

DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) on why it does not have to be crazy at work.

September 6th, 2018

1:22:55

David Heinemeier Hansson is the founder of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. He is an outspoken defender of living a fulfilling life, …

Dan Shapiro. How a childhood obsession with lasers led to the founding of Glowforge.

July 12th, 2018

47:34

How do you enable your kids to create rather than consume? If you are a serial entrepreneur like Dan Shapiro, the answer is clear - make a device that can cut through any material with lasers, then put it in every …

Aubrey Johnson. Homeschooling in the way of the future.

July 6th, 2018

48:48

Aubrey is a full-time designer living in Charleston, South Carolina. He was named one of Business Insider's Top 75 Designers in Technology and has …

Greg Gottesman. How one person started a dog-hotel revolution (Rover.com)

July 2nd, 2018

52:05

Family life with three kids, the rising costs of education and where AI and machine learning will take us. Venture Capitalist Greg Gottesman shares business stories, as well as tips on parenting and education. It's a …

John Cook. Joys and challenging of starting GeekWire.

June 10th, 2018

53:54

Eight years ago John co-founded GeekWire.com and had a kid at the same time - Although life hasn’t always been easy, the only thing he regrets is not …

Zack Onisko. How do you build a company around quality of life?

June 1st, 2018

49:29

A Bay Area native, Zack is a successful entrepreneur, wizard of all things growth, and currently the CEO of a company called Dribbble. While some of …

Sean Grover. Tantrums, whose fault is it?

May 18th, 2018

50:36

Sean Grover is a psychotherapist from New York City, dad of two children, and an author of the book When Kids Call The Shots. For 25 years Sean has been teaching parents how to embrace their challenges and to create a …

Geoff Ralston on the future of education and technology.

April 29th, 2018

1:02:15

Geoff Ralston is a successful investor and entrepreneur, living in the heart of Silicon Valley. He founded Yahoo Mail, invested in hundreds of …

Aviel Ginzburg on raising a newborn baby while selling your company.

April 22nd, 2018

45:09

Aviel Ginzburg is a Managing Director of the Alexa Accelerator here in Seattle, Partner at Founders Co-op and Co-founder of Simply Measured. We talk about the founding of Simply Measured, what it’s like to be a new dad, …

Giri Sreenivas on the kind of world do we want to create for our children.

April 4th, 2018

1:02:42

Son of an Indian immigrant family, Giri is a Stanford graduate and a co-founder of Privacy Labs, a local Bellevue Washington startup. We talk about raising two kids in the new world filled with devices, what his company …

Parker Thompson (aka StartupLJackson) on doing startups and raising a family in the most expensive city in the world.

February 21st, 2018

1:08:23

Parker Thompson is a Silicon Valley founder turned VC, known to many in startup circles for his anonymous personality of Startup L. Jackson. Hear Parker’s story and advice on raising three kids in a fast-paced world of …

Caspar Babypants (aka Chris Ballew) on finding your true self.

February 3rd, 2018

50:34

Caspar Babypants is an adored Seattle-based musician and a songwriter. Previously known as the lead singer of The Presidents of the …

Eric Koester. This professor dares you to publish a thousand books!

January 29th, 2018

1:10:21

How do we make sure that when our kids grow older, they're happy and successful in life? To help answer this question my guest today is Professor …

Mike Folden. Business, life and adventure with a newborn.

January 15th, 2018

39:53

We are joined here by Mike Folden and his son River. Mike is a filmmaker, photographer, and now a dad. Mike and his wife Priya are avid explorers of …

Matt Wallington. Dad's journey through a divorce.

January 3rd, 2018

43:34

In this episode we talk to my friend Matt Wallington about his experiences of raising kids while at startups, then at Amazon, and how those impacted him, his kids and his marriage. We also talk about getting through a …

Oleksiy Kovyrin. Post-pardum depression in dads.

December 17th, 2017

36:57

When Oleksiy’s daughter was first born, he didn’t feel the love for his child. Quite the opposite, he felt that his daughter was a new source of …

Michael Parenteau. The Pursuit of Happyness

December 2nd, 2017

1:05:47

My guest today is my friend Michael Parentau, a dad of a teenage daughter and a rad human being. Michael is many things. He is an artist, a product designer, a developer, and a creative.

In this episode we will talk …

Galen Ward. Male-dominated world of tech entrepreneurship.

December 1st, 2017

54:17

Galen Ward is a CEO of a tech company and a father of two awesome girls. Listen and learn how to share the labor of parenting with your partner and how to set your kids up for success from the young age.

Do you want to …

Matt Shobe. Feedburner 2 Google and Beyond.

December 1st, 2017

55:38

Matt Shobe is a father of 3 boys, a serial entrepreneur, a private pilot and a rad dad, who came to the podcast to talk about startups and what it takes to have a happy family while you are busy building a rocket ship.

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