Geeks Of The Valley

Geeks of the Valley connects with some of the brightest minds globally, who are leading their respective industries today. We discuss the hottest upcoming industry trends and how their work is affecting the global economy.

Geeks Of The Valley is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 89 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Geeks Of The Valley, a technology show with 89 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  How Physical AI Is Building the Kinetic Age with UP.Partners' Adam Grosser

  Sep 2, 202637 minS7

  Adam Grosser is the Chairman and Managing Partner of UP.Partners, an investment firm backing entrepreneurs building the technologies that help move people and goods faster, safer, and more efficiently. Before founding UP.Partners, Adam was a General Partner at Foundation Capital and a Managing Director at Silver Lake, where he led the Energy and Resources Fund. Shaped by early lessons from innovators including Steve Jobs and George Lucas. In this episode, learn why AI is moving from bits to atoms, how he evaluates high-conviction physical AI investments, why technical moats and supply-chain resilience matter, and why ambitious founders should seek meaningful problems. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgrosser Website: https://up.partners/

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  Gaming Drives as a Global Cultural Force with XSET’s Greg Selkoe

  Aug 18, 202654 min

  Greg Selkoe is the Co-Founder and CEO of XSET, a gaming lifestyle and media brand operating at the intersection of gaming, music, sports, fashion, and culture. Before launching XSET, Greg founded the streetwear e-commerce company Karmaloop and later served as President and Co-Owner of FaZe Clan, giving him decades of experience building brands around emerging cultural movements.At XSET, Greg is developing a creator-led media platform designed for Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences. In this episode, he discusses the lessons he learned from success and failure, the importance of resilience and choosing the right business partners, why gaming has become a defining force in popular culture, and how XSET is helping brands connect authentically with the next generation of consumers. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-selkoe-3b9964ab/ Website: https://xset.com

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  Episode #14

  Backing the Signal and Building the Trust with Entrepreneur Ventures’ Jonathan Hung

  Aug 2, 202636 minS7

  Jonathan Hung is the Managing Partner of Entrepreneur Ventures, an early-stage signal fund investing in a broad portfolio of promising startups through fast, conviction-driven checks. Before launching the fund, Jonathan invested more than $10 million across 250 companies and 50 venture funds, building an extensive view of what separates durable founders from short-term momentum.He is also the author of Your Emergency Contact, which explores why trust, reliability, and strong professional relationships are essential to building successful companies and investment partnerships. Earlier in his career, Jonathan helped operate his family’s international textile business, an experience that shaped his practical approach to entrepreneurship, leadership, and capital allocation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhung/ Website: https://www.entrepreneur.vc

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  Episode #13

  #130: From Building Facebook's Billion-Dollar Ad Business to Dog Food, with Get Joy's Tom Arrix

  Jul 20, 202636 minS7

  Tom ArrixTom Arrix is the founder and CEO of Get Joy, a Connecticut-based pet wellness company building what may be the first truly functional gut-health platform for dogs. Before pivoting to pet nutrition, he spent nearly three decades at the top of media, sports, and advertising — most notably at Facebook, where as VP of Global Marketing Solutions for North America he built and led the company's North American advertising business, growing it from roughly $18 million to over one billion dollars in revenue.Tom's career spans several of the defining media companies of the last 30 years. He began in banking before moving into media, holding senior roles at Turner Broadcasting and serving as SVP of Digital Sales & Marketing at CBS Sports, ahead of his landmark run at Facebook. In 2016 he co-founded Adjacency Partners, a business advisory firm helping early-stage companies scale faster — a bridge that kept him close to founders as he considered his own next chapter.That chapter became deeply personal. After his Golden Retriever, Cooper, was diagnosed with lymphoma, Tom immersed himself in canine nutrition, and the power of whole-food nutrition gave him and Cooper 18 more months together. That experience led him to found Get Joy, built on a gut-health thesis and its BellyBiotics line. Today the company has launched across 477 Sprouts Farmers Market doors nationwide, counts Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner as its wellness ambassador, is trusted by more than 30,000 pet parents, and runs much of its operations — from customer service to marketing analytics — on AI. Largely bootstrapped, Tom's vision is to make Get Joy for dog nutrition what AG1 has become for human health: a daily, foundational product pet parents never question. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-arrix-668a7771

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  #129 Designing Trust in Digital Money with Sentinel’s Sid Ramesh

  Jul 6, 202637 minS7

  Sid Ramesh is founder of Centennial , a New York based advisory firm specializing in fractional cybersecurity, product strategy, and M&A support for companies building across crypto, fintech, and artificial intelligence. He has spent more than a decade working at the intersection of digital assets, financial infrastructure, product development, and venture investing.Sid began his crypto career building and advising early-stage blockchain companies before joining Dharma Labs, where he worked on go-to-market strategy and partnerships during the early development of decentralized lending. He later worked across product and go-to-market at dYdX, helping develop crypto-native derivatives infrastructure, and held product roles at Valiu. He joined Coinbase as a Lead Product Manager, helping build its DeFi-powered crypto borrowing product and contributing to Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin, or cbBTC. His work focused on connecting decentralized financial infrastructure with the security, compliance, and distribution requirements of a regulated global platform.Today, Sid is an active angel investor and advisor to founders across crypto, fintech, and AI. He works with companies on cybersecurity, product development, go-to-market strategy, fundraising, and the design of trusted financial products. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidrmsh Website: https://www.centennial.systems

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