UPVESTOR
UPVESTOR
Podcast Description
You’re listening to Upvestor podcast which is about people who have decided to not settle for less and have committed to take responsibility of their lives and successes.Upvestor is a person with a growth mindset who is entrepreneurial, determined, inspiration to many, and is true to themselves.Upvestor hosts are Ilona Nurmela, PhD and Anne Veerpalu, PhDIlona Nurmela is a coach, a mediator, a lecturer and a writer. More about her here: https://ilonanurmela.mediator.ee/Anne Veerpalu is an attorney-at-law, a founder, a lecturer and a basketball enthusiast. More about her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneveerpalu/
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The podcast focuses on themes of personal responsibility, growth mindset, and the entrepreneurial spirit, featuring episodes that delve into life design, the challenges of pursuing a PhD, and the experiences of women in health tech startups. Specific episodes detail navigating PhD studies with insights from law graduates and the life lessons learned from health tech entrepreneurs.

You’re listening to Upvestor podcast which is about people who have decided to not settle for less and have committed to take responsibility of their lives and successes.
Upvestor is a person with a growth mindset who is entrepreneurial, determined, inspiration to many, and is true to themselves.
Upvestor hosts are Ilona Nurmela, PhD and Anne Adamson (previously Veerpalu), PhD
Ilona Nurmela is a coach, a mediator, a lecturer, previously an attorney and now a writer. More about her here: https://ilonanurmela.mediator.ee/
Anne Adamson is an attorney-at-law, a founder, a lecturer and a basketball enthusiast. More about her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneadamson/
Martin Rand is an entrepreneur, an investor, a pilot, a co-founder and the previous CEO of Pactum AI. After stepping down from his role as the CEO, he tripped around the globe observing, experiencing and learning, and ended up founding a First Flight Ventures to support the geniuses driving the global change.
In this episode we discuss with Martin how the world has changed due to AI and what is its impact on students and professionals like our podcast hosts Anne and Ilona, do degrees have any value anymore and how to build a moat.
Do join us in listening to his two or more cents on what you should focus on in order to survive the future and AI.
Some quotes from Martin:
“Traditional co-founder structure will no longer exist.”
“Experts will run the future, all support will be done by AI agents.“
“Degrees will no longer matter, skills will.”
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