Just Curious helps business leaders better understand the transformative potential of AI and connects them with AI subject matter experts who can help bridge the gap between inspiration and implementation.The Just Curious platform features profiles of and interviews with AI experts – SMEs, consultants, startup founders, and more – and allows customers to book calls and projects directly with these experts.Our mission with Just Curious is three-fold:Educate and Inspire ActionWe want to educate business leaders and professionals about the transformative potential of AI. Through interviews and real, step-by-step case studies shared by AI experts and business leaders, we aim to make AI concepts accessible, actionable, and directly applicable to organizations of all sizes.Promote and Support ExpertsWe want to showcase AI thought leaders by highlighting their expertise, achievements, and success stories. Just Curious provides a platform for them to gain visibility, inspire others to act, and importantly, monetize their expertise.Bridge the Gap Between Discovery & ImplementationWe seek to facilitate connection, dialogue, and collaboration between AI subject matter experts and businesses who need their support and solutions.

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Exsight is the only expert-led market research company that connects you with the minds shaping the future – experts not on other networks, no markups, transparent pricing, and customized insights tailored to your specific needs.Exsight combines an Innovation Expert Network – millions of domain, company, technology and business model experts not available elsewhere – with an AI-powered sourcing and synthesis engine that connects you with the right expertise and then delivers it in the form factor that works best for you.We offer three expert-led insights products:Expert CallsExsight finds startup and technology domain, company, and business model experts that match your needs, qualifies them, facilitates calls, remits payment, and shares a transcript and recording post-call.Rapid ResearchIn about the same time it takes a traditional expert network to schedule and facilitate an expert call, Exsight engages 5+ experts of your choosing to answer your question and then synthesizes their perspectives into a digestible custom market research report.We share transcripts post-call and make the experts available for follow-up calls with no markup.Expert PanelsExsight facilitates 60-90-minute sessions with 3-4 thematically relevant startup and technology leaders and/or venture capitalists to answer your questions, challenge your hypotheses, advise on your strategy, provide feedback on your concepts or approach, and educate you.

Radicle is the only expert-driven research organization focused exclusively on startups, new markets, and the innovation economy. (Spun out of Dow Jones in March 2020.)We help the world's leading companies and investors source future-focused insights and opportunities directly from the entrepreneurs and startup leaders shaping it. These experts power deep innovation research, with consulting rigor, in less time and at a fraction of the cost, and help our clients understand how markets are evolving, evaluate threats and opportunities, and answer critical questions. Through both Custom Research like deep dive landscaping and competitive intelligence and self-service insights through our Exsight platform, Radicle helps you identify and engage a deep pool of millions of startup leaders and their latent expertise to better understand the future.Radicle's clients love us. A few NPS responses: "Great work! Intelligent, responsive team.""Radicle are extremely collaborative, utterly flexible and bizarrely effective. They can work across multiple agencies set up, broad objectives, different Web 3.0 spaces, yet theyalways manage to deliver value. Besides, they are just great humans!!!!""Radicle was a pleasure to work with and had a great handle on not only data insights but on Web3 culture. They were able to work independently and collaboratively within our agency system seamlessly. I'd recommend Radicle for any type of analytical Web3 work and I look forward to working with them again in the future.""Radicle Goes beyond the expected.""Deep dive research and scenario mapping. Domain expertise."

Prehype is an incubator that helps entrepreneurs build new technology-enable businesses like BARK (Barkbox), Ro, Managed by Q, and Every. And of course, Radicle!

Co-founded ~$300MM AUM investment firm and played critical role in growing assets under management 400% from 2009 launch. Was actively involved in all aspects of business-building, both investing-related (ideation, sourcing, research and due diligence) and operations-related (marketing and hiring). Sought creative and differentiated investments across multiple industries with a focus on consumer-facing businesses in media, cable, entertainment, leisure (amusement parks, ski resorts), paper/packaging, food & beverage, consumer goods, and healthcare.

Invested in media, healthcare and consumer industries.

Invested in media, healthcare and consumer industries, with a particular focus on companies with highly-leveraged or stressed balance sheets.

Worked on over $1 billion in corporate finance and advisory transactions in the health care industry including for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, nursing homes, and REITs. In performance reviews, ranked at the top of my class globally and directly promoted from Analyst to Associate in 2002.

Performed economic and financial research for economic consulting firm. Received top-ranked performance reviews.