Geeks Of The Valley

Geeks of the Valley connects with some of the brightest minds globally, who are leading their respective industries today. We discuss the hottest upcoming industry trends and how their work is affecting the global economy.

Geeks Of The Valley is a technology podcast hosted by GeeksoftheValley, with 137 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

GeeksoftheValley hosts Geeks Of The Valley, a technology show with 137 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Backing the Signal and Building the Trust with Entrepreneur Ventures’ Jonathan Hung

  Aug 2, 202636 minS7

  Jonathan Hung is the Managing Partner of Entrepreneur Ventures, an early-stage signal fund investing in a broad portfolio of promising startups through fast, conviction-driven checks. Before launching the fund, Jonathan invested more than $10 million across 250 companies and 50 venture funds, building an extensive view of what separates durable founders from short-term momentum. He is also the author of Your Emergency Contact , which explores why trust, reliability, and strong professional relationships are essential to building successful companies and investment partnerships. Earlier in his career, Jonathan helped operate his family’s international textile business, an experience that shaped his practical approach to entrepreneurship, leadership, and capital allocation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhung/ Website: https://www.entrepreneur.vc

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  Episode #13

  #130: From Building Facebook's Billion-Dollar Ad Business to Dog Food, with Get Joy Food's Tom Arrix

  Jul 20, 202636 minS7

  Tom Arrix Tom Arrix is the founder and CEO of Get Joy, a Connecticut-based pet wellness company building what may be the first truly functional gut-health platform for dogs. Before pivoting to pet nutrition, he spent nearly three decades at the top of media, sports, and advertising — most notably at Facebook, where as VP of Global Marketing Solutions for North America he built and led the company's North American advertising business, growing it from roughly $18 million to over one billion dollars in revenue. Tom's career spans several of the defining media companies of the last 30 years. He began in banking before moving into media, holding senior roles at Turner Broadcasting and serving as SVP of Digital Sales & Marketing at CBS Sports, ahead of his landmark run at Facebook. In 2016 he co-founded Adjacency Partners, a business advisory firm helping early-stage companies scale faster — a bridge that kept him close to founders as he considered his own next chapter. That chapter became deeply personal. After his Golden Retriever, Cooper, was diagnosed with lymphoma, Tom immersed himself in canine nutrition, and the power of whole-food nutrition gave him and Cooper 18 more months together. That experience led him to found Get Joy, built on a gut-health thesis and its BellyBiotics line. Today the company has launched across 477 Sprouts Farmers Market doors nationwide, counts Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner as its wellness ambassador, is trusted by more than 30,000 pet parents, and runs much of its operations — from customer service to marketing analytics — on AI. Largely bootstrapped, Tom's vision is to make Get Joy for dog nutrition what AG1 has become for human health: a daily, foundational product pet parents never question. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-arrix-668a7771

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  Episode #29

  #127: The AI Investment Terminal Putting a Private Bank in Your Pocket with Barebone's Brian Tam

  Jun 8, 202643 minS6

  Brian is the Hong Kong-born founder of Barebone (barebone.ai), an AI finance research app. He grew up in Hong Kong (Diocesan Boys' School) and studied Economics at the London School of Economics. Before founding Barebone he came up through elite finance: a summer analyst stint at Warburg Pincus (2019), then Goldman Sachs — starting as an IB summer analyst (2020) and spending roughly three years on the Hybrid Capital team. He left that institutional track to build a consumer fintech company, splitting time between Hong Kong and San Francisco. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-yu-fung-tam/

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  Episode #28

  #126: Bringing Wall Street's AI Trading Brain to Main Street with Veyra's Peter Ashton

  Apr 6, 202630 minS6

  Peter Ashton is the Founder and CEO of Veyra, a trading technology company focused on redefining the future of financial intelligence and portfolio management through advanced predictive analytics, algorithmic systems, and next-generation financial software. A former Division I and professional football player, Peter has evolved into a visionary entrepreneur and investor operating at the intersection of finance, technology, and global impact. Throughout his career, he has advised, built, or invested in more than 60 ventures across multiple industries, including over 25 disruptive technology companies. He went on to consult for and strategically advise numerous companies, helping them secure more than $350 million in capital. In 2025, Peter launched Veyra with a mission to democratize institutional-grade AI trading technology for retail investors. The platform features a Multi-Agentic Trading Brain consisting of seven AI specialist agents that collaborate through a mathematical voting protocol on every potential trade. Veyra has begun integrating with Apex Trader Funding, the largest prop trading firm in the U.S. with 700,000+ traders, and is running a pilot with Equitable Advisors, a $1.82 trillion asset management firm. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-ashton-veyra/

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  Episode #27

  #125: From Tsinghua to Wall Street, Building a Six-Layer AI Investment Thesis with Quartus Capital's Afzal Tarar

  Apr 6, 202639 minS6

  Afzal M. Tarar, Chairman and Managing Partner of Quartus Capital Partners, joins us to share his extraordinary journey from studying AI at Tsinghua University in the 1980s to becoming a pioneer in AI-focused growth equity investing. We dive into Quartus's unique six-layer AI investment framework that separnfrastructure plays from vertical AI solutions in healthcare, logistics, and beyond. Afzal discusses why companies with $5M+ in revenue and defensible technology stacks are the sweet spot, what he learned from deploying Fund I across nine investments, and how 14 years living in China shaped his crossborder investing lens. We also explore the potential bubble dynamics in AI infrastructure, the most compelling opportunities in healthcare AI, and his hard-won lesson on building with people you know and trust. Afzal M. Tarar is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Quartus Capital Partners, an AI and technology growth equity firm based in New York with offices in Miami, Silicon Valley, and Asia. A former Head of AI at KeyBank (1991) and veteran of 25+ years in management consulting at firms including Deloitte, IBM, KPMG, and PwC, Afzal brings a rare crossborder lens shaped by studying AI at Tsinghua University in Beijing and 14 years of living and working in China.

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