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Most people think early-stage venture risk is about financial modeling or market sizing.
For Joe Spector, risk tolerance was built at age 10—sleeping in a refugee camp, arriving in the U.S. without knowing a word of English, and living on food stamps. Years later, navigating extreme uncertainty and startup chaos was second nature.
Now, he’s applying that same zero-fear mindset to challenge the entrenched veterinary establishment with Dutch. Listen to the full conversation now.

What does it take to turn $100 into a multi-billion-dollar playbook?
On this week’s episode of The Further, Faster Podcast Bob Rosin speaks with Joe Spector—co-founder of Hims & Hers and CEO of Dutch.
In this episode, Joe reflects on his journey from being on welfare and repeated startup firings to taking a company public—and why he walked away from comfort to challenge a broken, 100% cash-pay veterinary market facing fierce industry resistance. Listen to the full conversation now.

When does quantum computing actually start mattering to the real world?
Not when you get a quantum chip in your smartphone. As Chris Cassin puts it, "maybe the first time someone interacts with a quantum computer is when their bank gets hacked and they lose their savings."
Beyond the hype, the race to scale quantum is a race to reinvent our global digital infrastructure—starting at absolute zero.
Listen to the full conversation now on The Further, Faster Podcast.

Headlines love to celebrate quantum algorithms, but algorithms are useless without the physical infrastructure required to keep them alive. In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Shambhavi Mishra sits down with Chris Cassin, CEO of Zero Point Cryogenics, for an honest look at the hardware bottlenecks holding back the industry. They explore the engineering behind dilution refrigerators operating near absolute zero, Canada’s strategic manufacturing edge, and the hybrid architecture that will define near-future enterprise data centers.
Listen to the full conversation now.

"The sun is powered by fusion processes, and one could say that it's been a dream of humanity to bring the sun down to Earth..."
On this week’s episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Heike Freund (COO of @MarvelFusion) joins Christoph Klink to discuss how laser technology is bringing commercial fusion energy within reach.
Key takeaways from the conversation:
💡Solving fusion's product-market fit
💡Scaling deep tech in Europe & the US
💡Why fusion power plants could be on the grid in the next decade
Listen to the full conversation now.