Founders500
Founders500
Podcast Description
This monthly series is for creative founders shaking up industries and redefining success. Expect intimate fireside chats and honest interviews with visionary entrepreneurs sharing the real stories behind their journeys—big wins, tough lessons, and everything in between. From funding to failure, it’s all on the table. Get inspired, get practical insights, and tune in for the full episodes that go deeper than the highlight reel.
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The podcast centers around themes of entrepreneurial success, personal growth, and industry disruption. Each episode highlights the journeys of creative founders navigating their unique challenges, such as Ed Leon Klinger's $38M funding story with Flock, Mae Yip's exploration of alternative funding for creative careers, and the insights from Lakechia Jeanne on empowering women in STEM. Topics such as real-time risk pricing in insurance, alternative funding methods, and community building in science are key areas of focus.
This monthly series is for creative founders shaking up industries and redefining success. Expect intimate fireside chats and honest interviews with visionary entrepreneurs sharing the real stories behind their journeys—big wins, tough lessons, and everything in between. From funding to failure, it’s all on the table. Get inspired, get practical insights, and tune in for the full episodes that go deeper than the highlight reel.
This isn’t your average fireside chat. It’s an unfiltered exploration of what it really takes to build bold ideas from scratch, the late nights, the turning points, and the moments of clarity that define an entrepreneurial journey. Featuring an intimate Heart-to-Heart with Marc Albert, an extraordinary founder reshaping how operational and market decisions are made in bulk shipping.
Marc Albert is an Entrepreneur in Residence at The Signal Group, where he’s building a digital twin of the bulk shipping market, a groundbreaking platform that helps industry stakeholders anticipate market movements and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
To understand Marc’s work is to appreciate the scale of the challenge: over 80% of global trade moves by sea, yet the shipping industry remains at the mercy of volatile freight rates and dynamic market swings. Marc’s mission? To bring clarity, stability, and intelligence to one of the world’s most complex supply chains, transforming how global trade decisions are made.
Before his current venture, Marc was part of the pioneering team at nuTonomy, an MIT spin-off developing self-driving cars, where he witnessed the full arc of a startup journey, from bold idea to acquisition and beyond. He’s now also pursuing a PhD at ETH Zurich, focusing on strategic decision-making and coordination in multi-agent systems.
Marc’s career has been anything but linear, and that’s exactly what makes his story so compelling. From engineering to entrepreneurship, academia to innovation, he embodies the resilience, curiosity, and courage that define today’s most forward-thinking founders.
Thank you to our founding partner Signal for making this event happen.
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