Podcasts by Geek At Sea with Kirill Zubovsky

Matt Shobe. Feedburner 2 Google and Beyond. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.686375

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 ...

Galen Ward. Male-dominated world of tech entrepreneurship. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.682460

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 y...

Michael Parenteau. The Pursuit of Happyness from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.677975

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.

I...

Matt Wallington. Dad's journey through a divorce. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.671861

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 ...

Caspar Babypants (aka Chris Ballew) on finding your true self. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.662295

Caspar Babypants is an adored Seattle-based musician and a songwriter. Previously known as the lead singer of The Presidents of the USA, he now brings joy to families around town with his whimsi...

Giri Sreenivas on the kind of world do we want to create for our children. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.655219

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 ...

Zack Onisko. How do you build a company around quality of life? from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.647453

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 his peers are busy cranking 14-hour days in t...

Greg Gottesman. How one person started a dog-hotel revolution (Rover.com) from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.643897

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...

Aubrey Johnson. Homeschooling in the way of the future. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.640945

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 worked for companies like Twilio, Authy, Scienc...

DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) on why it does not have to be crazy at work. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.636165

David Heinemeier Hansson is the founder of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. He is an outspoken defende...

Emily Campbell. Joys and challenges of raising a family in rural America. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.628478

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 adventu...

Drew Wilson. How do get the most out of life? from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.617028

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 whole year. This is his story.

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Vlad Magdalin. Webflow and the future of software on the internet. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.612798

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 company, while having a life that you want to live?...

Jonathan Sposato challenges the meaning of the American Dream. from 2023-12-12T18:39:07.600601

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 g...

Paul Davis - Second Employee at Amazon from 2020-10-17T00:42:08

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 not want to wait for the life to pass him by. H...

Anthony Eden, Founder and CEO of DNSimple from 2020-09-15T23:25:20

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 that not only cares about their customers, b...

Paul Orlando - Unintended Consequences of Everyday Life from 2020-08-29T23:05:04

Paul Orlando is a startup founder, entrepreneur, Director of USC Incubator Program & A...

David Woodland - A Management Consultant in Silicon Valley from 2020-07-13T23:29:57

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 4, and a Management Consultant who found prod...

Jason Calacanis - Entrepreneur turned angel Investor shares his insight about success, hard work, education, and the future. from 2020-03-23T21:02:43

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 Listen

Nathan Kontny from 2020-03-21T06:18:18

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 talk about his family, his work, and how the two...

Code Story Noah Labhart : Startups and kids, paying the bills, work-life harmony, and how to have it all. from 2020-03-12T03:35:15

Noah Labhart is the CTO&Co-Founder of Veryable, an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. He is also the Founder&CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A d...

Roberto Gibbons Gomez. How to get paid to have fun! from 2020-02-26T04:00:29

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 ...

Before and After of having a baby - Anthony Armendariz - Partner and Head of Design at Funsize from 2019-12-17T23:00:50

Anthony Armendariz is a founder and partner at Funsize, a creative design agency which he started with his wife Nata...

Stefan Weitz on the importance of travel, relationships, and the pursuit of happiness. from 2019-10-30T17:25

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...

Mubs Iqbal. The man who launched 80 side projects and counting. from 2019-09-30T20:30:19

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, ...

Jason Schuller. Press75 and how a WordPress theme set an entrepreneurial journey in motion. from 2019-08-14T21:57:58

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 decided to skip paying the bills. That incident ca...

🧙‍♂️ Vin Thomas. Creativity and teaching children entrepreneurship from young age. from 2019-03-23T18:10

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 F...

Bryce Roberts. How Indie.vc is change the startup funding landscape for the better! from 2019-01-25T20:30

Bryce Roberts is the founder of Indie.vc , an investment fund that is leading the new counter-culture startup movement, f...

Jason Preston on startups, kids, and making a Dent in the universe. from 2019-01-14T21:19

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 i...

Roel Williams. Surviving foster care. from 2018-11-21T06:59

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 structured to keep the kids in it, instead o...

Michael FitzGerald. A novelist turned tech CEO. from 2018-10-20T22:35

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 kids. Although it isn't the easiest place to ru...

Adam Lisagor. How to start the world's best video production company in LA. from 2018-09-12T08:19

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 mo...

Dan Shapiro. How a childhood obsession with lasers led to the founding of Glowforge. from 2018-07-12T22:11

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, t...

John Cook. Joys and challenging of starting GeekWire. from 2018-06-10T13:33

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 doing both ealier in his life. Follow along ...

Sean Grover. Tantrums, whose fault is it? from 2018-05-18T19:30

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 cha...

Geoff Ralston on the future of education and technology. from 2018-04-29T23:05

Geoff Ralston is a successful investor and entrepreneur, living in the heart of Silicon Valley. He founded Yahoo Mail, invested in hundreds of companies, and has seen dozens of successful exists...

Aviel Ginzburg on raising a newborn baby while selling your company. from 2018-04-22T05:28

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 i...

Parker Thompson (aka StartupLJackson) on doing startups and raising a family in the most expensive city in the world. from 2018-02-21T04:13

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 ...

Eric Koester. This professor dares you to publish a thousand books! from 2018-01-29T21:54

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 Eric Koester.

Eric is an entrepreneur, a p...

Mike Folden. Business, life and adventure with a newborn. from 2018-01-15T14:45

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 the great outdoors. When their baby boy was b...

Oleksiy Kovyrin. Post-pardum depression in dads. from 2017-12-17T09:00

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 problems. Full of this difficult thoughts and bus...