Jo Weinand, founder of Nutcase, joins Jon to share her unlikely startup story. During Canada’s COVID lockdown, boredom led her to Google how to make a delicious plant based chocolate milk. She blended cashews, cocoa, dates, and water, and accidentally launched a business. What followed: poker games, celebrity investors like Ninja and Steve Aoki, a reality show on X, and an upcoming live-streamed equity crowdfunding finale in June, with a waitlist already open for early access.

Mac Davis never planned on revolutionizing human health through gene therapy. A serial biotechnology entrepreneur, he founded Minicircle after developing a groundbreaking transient genetic enhancement platform. In this episode, Davis shares his journey from scientific researcher to innovative startup founder, discussing the potential of hormones like statin to optimize muscle health, reduce inflammation, and potentially slow aging. He explores the challenges of building a gene therapy company, early investor support from Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, and his vision of making personalized health interventions as accessible as a routine medical treatment.

NextSense CEO, Jonathan Berent, never planned on reinventing how we sleep. He was a successful Google X engineer until a fascination with brain-sensing technology pushed him to leave everything behind and found his company. Now, he develops EEG earbuds aimed at upgrading our nightly rest and well-beingbeing. In this episode, he talks about his leap from corporate engineer to entrepreneur, why going “all in” was non-negotiable, and how we can all shed self-imposed labels to unlock bigger possibilities.