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Jared Asch and Josh Broward co-host a joint episode discussing how startups sell and scale in government (GovTech). Jared, a consultant helping cities and private companies with economic development, land use, and GovTec

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The East Bay's best podcast, the Capstone Conversation hosted by Jared Asch. The show interviews political, government, and community leaders in Alameda, Contra Costa, & Solano Counties. This is your news about what's happening in your city and how as a region we are tackling big items like transit, climate challenges, and growing our economy.
Jared Asch hosts Capstone Conversation by Jared Asch, a news show with 134 episodes published.

Jared Asch and Josh Broward co-host a joint episode discussing how startups sell and scale in government (GovTech). Jared, a consultant helping cities and private companies with economic development, land use, and GovTec

Host Jared Asch interviews Jonathan Bash, CEO of Locunity, about how local information is changing as Bay Area newspapers lost most of their journalists after private equity consolidation, creating gaps in coverage of co

Host Jared Asch discusses organ donation—especially kidney transplants—in the Greater Bay Area with advocate Maggie Jacobs and caregiver Bob. Maggie shares how her husband, diagnosed in 2018 with FSGS, needed a kidney qu

Host Jared Asch discusses gov tech with Civic CEO John Kokot and Legislaide CEO Roger Lin on how AI can improve government efficiency without replacing workers. Kokot, a former Navy pilot and Capitol Hill staffer, explai

Host Jared Asch discusses California’s summer fire season and how technology is changing wildfire preparedness, response, and recovery with Bowen Kyle (CTO/co-founder, Ladris) and Gadi Benjamini (co-founder, FireDome). K

Host Jared Asch interviews Assemblywoman Ana Maria Avila Farias about her background and priorities representing 13 of 19 Contra Costa County cities from Crockett to Brentwood. A third-generation resident based in Martin

Host Jared Asch interviews manufacturing engineer Gregory Theyel about the Bay Area’s biomedical and life science ecosystem and why it matters for long-term regional economic stability. Thao frames manufacturing as a “bi

Host Jared Asch interviews Mark Joffe, president of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association (Coco Tax), about taxes and government efficiency in the East Bay. Joffe describes Coco Tax’s 1937 origins and mission to advocat

Host Jared Asch interviews Jim Wunderman, head of public affairs for California Forever, about plans to develop roughly 70,000 acres of largely undeveloped land in south-central Solano County between Suisun City and Rio

Host Jared Asch interviews Danville Councilman Mark Belotz and Lafayette Councilman John McCormick, second-year elected officials from Central Contra Costa County, about what contributes to their towns’ success, includin

Host Jared Asch interviews Brandon Cardwell of the City of Livermore about the city’s economic development and innovation strategy. Cardwell describes Livermore as the easternmost Bay Area city, celebrating its 150th ann

Guest host Alex Greenwood records Capstone Conversations live at the ICSC Idea Exchange in Monterey, interviewing economic development leaders from five California cities about retail attraction strategies, successes, an

Host Jared Asch interviews procurement experts Ricardo Martinez, a former California Department of General Services chief procurement officer, and Oscar Garcia of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce about how co

Host Jared Asch interviews Marco Li Mandri of New City America about downtown economic development funded through special districts, including business improvement districts (BIDs), property-based BIDs (PBIDs), charter-c

Host Jared Asch interviews Deborah Levine, executive director of the Lesher Foundation, about changes affecting East Bay nonprofits and philanthropy. Levine explains the foundation’s 30+ year focus on Contra Costa arts a

Moraga Mayor Kerry Hillis back to the Capstone Conversation and discusses lessons from Hillis’s first four years in office, including that the role can be “as much or as little as you want it to be,” the need to read com

Host Jared Asch interviews longtime California political journalist Dan Walters of CalMatters, who recounts his career from 1960 through decades covering Sacramento and writing columns, and describes CalMatters’ nonprofi

In this episode of the Capstone Conversation podcast, host Jared Asch is joined by Dr. Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics to discuss an economic development blueprint for the Greater East Bay. Dr. Thornberg outlines the

In this episode of the Capstone conversation, host Jared Asch engages in an in-depth discussion with Tim Sobrante, a fifth-generation resident of Contra Costa and a representative of the Contra Costa Building and Constru

In this episode of the Capstone Conversation, host Jared Asch discusses the impact of AI on government efficiency with his guests, Manuel Lopez of Asignet and Erica Olson of Madison AI. The conversation covers various ap
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