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How to Build a $4B Brand Through Authenticity with Vans Global Brand President Doug Palladini
How to Build a $4B Brand Through Authenticity with Vans Global Brand President Doug Palladini

Hear from the Global Brand President of the world’s most valuable action sports brand on the Our Future Podcast

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Do Public-safety apps might keep you informed?
Do Public-safety apps might keep you informed?

An interview with Andrew Frame - CEO of Citizen - about how their app keeps people safe and informed.

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Episode 7: The NFL and Sports after COVID-19
Episode 7: The NFL and Sports after COVID-19

In today’s episode, Michael Sikand talks with Josh Dzurlikowski, controller of the Buffalo Bills. Conversations cover the NFL during COVID-19, the Josh Allen draft pick, the infectious energy at a winning sports team, and advice to students who want to get into sports business.

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Episode 6: Opening Doors with Consulting
Episode 6: Opening Doors with Consulting

In today's episode, Michael Sikand chats with Chris Bierly, Partner and Director of the Restaurant, Music, and Education Practices at Bain & Company. We discuss Bierly's work with restaurant clients during coronavirus, his recruiting advice for the fall, and how he still manages to dominate in his fantasy football league. Chris earned his B.S. in commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Episode 5: Venture Capital & Data Privacy
Episode 5: Venture Capital & Data Privacy

In Episode 5 of Our Future: Looking Beyond with Michael Sikand, “Venture Capital & Data Privacy,” I talk business with G Craig Vachon, Founder at Chowdahead Growth Fund, Head of U.S. Operations at NextStage, and Author of Best-Selling Spy Thriller “The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley”.

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Episode 3: Hollywood in the 2020's
Episode 3: Hollywood in the 2020's

In Episode 3: Hollywood in the 2020s, I talk Movies & TV with Peter Jaysen, producer of American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story

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Episode 4: The Future of Retail & E-Commerce
Episode 4: The Future of Retail & E-Commerce

In Episode 4: The Future of Retail & E-Commerce , I bring on guest co-host Matt Kocsis to pick the brain of Ben Hassing, former SVP of Cross Border Trade at Walmart

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Episode 2: The Silicon Valley Supercar
Episode 2: The Silicon Valley Supercar

On today's episode I talk shop with Shiv Sikand, co-founder of Drako Motors, to discuss why he launched a supercar startup, the ludicrous specs of the 2020 Drako GTE,

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Remarkable People: Learn from the UCSC C19 Team
Remarkable People: Learn from the UCSC C19 Team

Learn from the UCSC Coronavirus team who are developing tests and vaccines. In the first week of May, UCSC release a C19 test with 24 hour turn around.

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Ep 1: The Future of I.D. with Susan Dworak
Ep 1: The Future of I.D. with Susan Dworak

Susan Dworak, Founder and CEO of Real Identities LLC, a disruptive Silicon Valley startup that uses technology to help businesses and government agencies verify identity.

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Your Child Is Already Using AI. Are They Ready for It?
August 20, 2026
Your Child Is Already Using AI. Are They Ready for It?
August 20, 2026

Children are already using AI, but true readiness means knowing how to question it, verify it and use it without replacing independent thought.

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August 20, 2026
Santa Cruz Is Building Housing. What Can It Learn From Cities Doing More?
August 20, 2026
Santa Cruz Is Building Housing. What Can It Learn From Cities Doing More?
August 20, 2026

Santa Cruz is making progress on housing. San Luis Obispo and Berkeley show how clearer rules, faster review and better planning could help it do more.

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August 20, 2026
The Boring Billions: Why Santa Cruz Ventures Just Backed Farmblox
August 20, 2026
The Boring Billions: Why Santa Cruz Ventures Just Backed Farmblox
August 20, 2026

Santa Cruz Ventures adds Farmblox to its portfolio — a Santa Cruz–headquartered farm automation company that began in maple syrup and now guards California irrigation pumps against a copper theft epidemic.

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August 20, 2026
Save The Waves: A Wave is Never Just a Wave
August 20, 2026
Save The Waves: A Wave is Never Just a Wave
August 20, 2026

Save The Waves Coalition's new peer-reviewed paper gives the "surf ecosystem," a term born partly in Santa Cruz, a rigorous scientific definition for protecting waves as whole, interconnected systems.

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August 20, 2026
Dive into the Depths of the 13th Annual Ocean Film Festival World Tour
August 19, 2026
Dive into the Depths of the 13th Annual Ocean Film Festival World Tour
August 19, 2026

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour, now in its 13th year, is set to make a splash across the globe in 2026, returning with a powerful and visually stunning line-up of films that celebrate the ocean from every angle — above the surface, beneath the waves, and deep into the stories that connect us all to the sea.

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August 19, 2026
First UCSC Student-built Satellite Just Deployed from the ISS
August 19, 2026
First UCSC Student-built Satellite Just Deployed from the ISS
August 19, 2026

A small satellite built by UC Santa Cruz students deployed from the International Space Station on July 2, 2026, making it the university’s first student-built satellite to reach space.

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August 19, 2026
MYNT Lands on Inc. 5000 for Fourth Consecutive Year
August 18, 2026
MYNT Lands on Inc. 5000 for Fourth Consecutive Year
August 18, 2026

Santa Cruz clean energy firm MYNT lands on the Inc. 5000 for the fourth year running.

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August 18, 2026
Versa Vascular Names Bill Shields New CEO, Tops Up Series C to $42M
August 17, 2026
Versa Vascular Names Bill Shields New CEO, Tops Up Series C to $42M
August 17, 2026

Versa Vascular, the Santa Cruz medtech company developing a transcatheter treatment for tricuspid valve disease, has named Bill Shields its new CEO.

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August 17, 2026
Santa Cruz County has only permitted 17% of planned homes. Why?
August 13, 2026
Santa Cruz County has only permitted 17% of planned homes. Why?
August 13, 2026

Santa Cruz County has planned for thousands of new homes, but only a fraction have reached permits. This article examines why.

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August 13, 2026

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