In the Know with Amol Sarva

By Amol Sarva

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Amol Sarva's series with changemakers and innovators in longevity, tech, and ideas

Episode Date
PJ Parson, Northzone and Spotify
Feb 07, 2026
Kevin Ryan, Alleycorp + MongoDB ++ Doubleclick, Dilbert
Jan 30, 2026
Howard Morgan, First Round and BCap
Dec 28, 2025
*Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
Dec 28, 2025
Alan Patricof, APAX, Greycroft and Primetime
Dec 28, 2025
Ben Lerer, Thrillist and Lerer Hippeau
Nov 12, 2025
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare and Dodgeball
Oct 28, 2025
Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures
Oct 28, 2025
Owen Davis, Contour and NYC Seed
Oct 07, 2025
John Borthwick, Betaworks
Oct 07, 2025
Pablos Holman from Deep Future VC on “invention” vs. just innovation
Jul 05, 2025
AI x Bio x NY: highlights from our conference
May 01, 2025
What’s super-investor Jim Mellon thinking about?
Apr 22, 2025
De-growth, de-acceleration from the Slow Down manifesto by Shohei Saito, by Amolbot
Apr 13, 2025
Cyborgs! Our AI and Bio Future, by Amolbot
Apr 03, 2025
What’s Om Malik interested in these days?
Jan 26, 2025
10 x Trends for AI x Health + Bio in 2025 from LifeX dealflow analysis, courtesy of Amolbot
Jan 06, 2025
20 Trends for 2025 in Health and Biopharma from Wall Street, synthesized by Amolbot
Jan 06, 2025
Techbio 2025 predictions from Amol’s inbox full of reports, via Amolbot
Jan 06, 2025
Soluble and insoluble fiber, food and gut health and their role in overall health with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz from Zoe
Aug 18, 2024
How food becomes energy and the view from sports nutrition on metabolism with Professor Derek Huffman of Einstein
Aug 16, 2024
Food as medicine with physician and founder Jeff Alfonsi
Aug 16, 2024
Pro biotics, pre biotics, and what your digestive system knows with Maya Kaelberer, Ph.D.
Aug 01, 2024
Metformin, Rapamycin, the cellular mechanisms at the cutting edge of weight loss and longevity with Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
Jul 31, 2024
Bariatric surgery, the gut biome, and the interactions that create weight loss with surgery and nutrition professor Randy Seeley, Ph.D. at Michigan
Jul 30, 2024
Understanding blood sugar and insulin with world leader on diabetes Dr. John Buse of UNC
Jul 29, 2024
How weight loss works with Yale’s Dr. Waj Mehal
Jul 26, 2024
How Ozempic works and what else could revolutionize metabolic health with James Peyer, Ph.D. of Cambrian Bio
Jul 25, 2024
Alex Zhavoronokov from In Silico, the AI longevity drug discovery giant, on the revolution now and tomorrow
Aug 08, 2023
Kristen Fortney from a16z-backed BioAge Labs on how they’re reversing the molecular mechanisms of aging
Jul 10, 2023
Noah Davidson of Rejuvenate.bio on their gene therapy to reverse aging across the entire system
Jul 10, 2023
Joe Betts-Lacroix from Retro.bio on the power of AI to shorten the path to transformative longevity
Jul 10, 2023
Matt Kaeberlein on which longevity supplements might really work, and which don’t
Jul 10, 2023
Nir Barzilai on the genes of centenarians and some nuance on metformin
Dec 12, 2022
Jean Herbert on regenerating the brain in the lab
Dec 12, 2022
James Peyer from Cambrian Biosciences and Apollo Health Ventures tells us how to play longevity to win
Nov 29, 2022
Aubrey de Grey, the longevity OG, gives us a peek into the early days of the cult of living forever
Nov 10, 2022
Vincere Bio’s computer model for solving Parkinson’s with the cofounders Spring Behrouz and Andy Lee
Nov 06, 2022
Altos Labs’ Morgan Levine on how to measure biological age and why she left Yale
Sep 08, 2022
Bjoern Schumacher’s research on cellular damage, and that incredible longevity-busting work on worms
Sep 01, 2022
Professor Richard Miller’s experiments on all the life extending elixirs
Aug 25, 2022
Reason of Repair Biotechnologies on reversing cellular aging
Aug 18, 2022
Longevity VC Sergey Young on living forever and his book “Growing Young”
Aug 14, 2021
John Katzman on making digital education work and post-virus universities
Apr 26, 2020
Henrik Werdelin on the innovation factory that created BarkBox and his new book The Acorn Method
Apr 26, 2020
Saeju Jeong of Noom on helping people be healthier through an app
Apr 26, 2020
Anil Dash on the invention of social media and the responsibilities to society
Apr 26, 2020
Abdur Chowdhury, former Chief Scientist of Twitter and now founder of Aura Frames on the promise and dangers of social
Mar 29, 2020
Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack, talks to us about the future network protocol and blockchain
Mar 26, 2020
Jared Hecht on creating the serendipity behind GroupMe and Fundera
Mar 17, 2020
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on selling lightning in a bottle
Mar 09, 2020
Stacy Schiff on women in history: Cleopatra, the Witches of Salem, and Mrs. Nabokov
Mar 05, 2020
Bari Williams on diversity in Silicon Valley culture
Mar 05, 2020
ARUP, which designs whole cities, lends us their Deputy Chair Tristram Carfrae on the ways a huge creative organization stays great
Aug 22, 2019
Blue Apron founder Matt Salzberg on the ride from idea to IPO
Aug 22, 2019
Andrew McAfee, MIT author of The Second Machine Age and prophet of abundance previews his new book on doing more with less and his way of finding powerful new ideas
Aug 11, 2019
Robbie Carp of the early days of Microsoft, the invention of Product Management, and the once and once again Most Valuable Company in the World
Aug 08, 2019
Sheila Hood of the Difficult Conversations mega-bestseller, of the Harvard Negotiation Project, on the toughest stuff we do between people and in teams, plus how they figured it out
Aug 08, 2019
The inventor of Agile: Jeff Sutherland, on the way to do everything twice as fast
Jul 25, 2019
Josh Abramson, creator of CollegeHumor and BustedTees on hunting the biggest startup game
Jul 24, 2019
George Church, the synthetic biology superstar on reading, writing, and re-writing life and the way science does innovation
Jul 15, 2019
Innovation guru and IDEO’s biographer Jonathan Littman on the ways new things get invented
Jul 15, 2019
Legendary Geoffrey Moore on the canonical ideas: Crossing the Chasm, Th Bowling Alley, Inside the Tornado, and the theory of the evangelistic sale
Jul 09, 2019
DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor on building the biggest ad company in the world, and then all of it in reverse
Jul 02, 2019
My hero and guru Ronald Heifetz, Harvard Kennedy School professor and counselor to presidents, protestors and revolutionaries on: the hardest problems of leadership
Jun 27, 2019
Evangelist Guy Kawasaki of Garage Ventures, Apple, Canva and the true Silicon Valley religion
Jun 20, 2019
Philip Tetlock, the guru of Superforecasting, seeing the future, and the foxes and hedgehogs of decisionmaking
Jun 14, 2019
John Nesheim, the guru of Silicon Valley art and science, National Semiconductor, Venture Capital and Cornell professor
Jun 14, 2019
Warren Hatch, superforecaster, PhD Kremlinologist, hedge fund manager and President of Good Judgment Inc on the Fox and the Hedgehog
Jun 12, 2019
Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, evolution, foxes and hedgehogs kicks off my series on styles of thinking
Jun 04, 2019
David Klein of CommonBond on tackling the student debt apocalypse; $2.5bn down, $2 trillion to go
Apr 15, 2019
Heini Zachariassen, creator of the world’s largest wine platform (Vivino) and from one of the world’s tiniest states
Apr 15, 2019
Fabrice Grinda, 400X angel (Alibaba, Knotel, OpenDoor, Flexport) and manyX co-founder of Auclan, Zingy, OLX and company-builder FJ Labs
Apr 11, 2019
Alex Mashinsky, visionary founder of Arbinet, the proto-Lyft/Uber GroundLink, Transit Wireless and now a crypto bank talks about making things big
Apr 11, 2019
Will Herman, author of The Startup Playbook, 2x billion-dollar founder, 200x startup-advisor on how to lead people to greatness
Apr 06, 2019
Dane Madsen, wiseman of transformation who led YellowPages.com, on how to transform yourself and your people
Apr 06, 2019
Anthemos Georgiades, CEO of Zumper, classicist and first-time founder of Kleiner-backed apartment-leasing giant
Apr 06, 2019
Safi Bahcall, scientist, inventor, founder, CEO, policy advisor and author of “Loonshots”
Mar 30, 2019
Shira Atkins, cofounder of the Women Belong in the House series and Wonder Media Network
Mar 30, 2019
Martha Stewart, lifestyle icon, brand dealmaker, and omnimedia revolutionary
Mar 30, 2019
Money Mark, super-producer to the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and his own hits
Mar 18, 2019
Stephen Wolfram, yes the Stephen Wolfram, sits down to talk…management
Mar 18, 2019
Amol at SxSW talking cities of the future with Amy Nelson of Venture for America and more
Mar 18, 2019
John Gauntt, podcast superhost of TheAugmented.City and from Economist Group, teaches Amol how to podcast
Mar 18, 2019
Samar Birwadkar, People Genius, founder of Goodco (acq by Axel Springer), on People Metrics and Leading Growing Teams
Feb 27, 2019
Sophia Swire, Adventurer, International Development Expert and Radio Journalist
Feb 27, 2019
Hussein Kanji, Founding Partner of Hoxton Ventures
Feb 27, 2019
ShaoLan Hsueh, author of Chineasy, on Her Visions of The Future
Feb 27, 2019
Andrew Rasiej, Founder & CEO at Civic Hall
Feb 27, 2019
Ronda Carnegie, from The New Yorker, TED Talks, Sundance, and New Lab
Feb 27, 2019
Ryan Rzepecki of Jump (Acquired by Uber)
Feb 21, 2019
Kevin Ryan, founder of MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, and Business Insider
Feb 20, 2019
Amy Cuddy, the psychologist, power researcher, and TED superstar
Feb 17, 2019
German radio journalist Felix Zeltner
Feb 17, 2019