Empowering America's Future Entrepreneurs & Leaders

Empowering America's Future Entrepreneurs & Leaders

Venture for America (VFA) is a nonprofit entrepreneurial career accelerator founded by Andrew Yang in 2011. Its mission is to recruit talented young people to become entrepreneurs and leaders in growth companies, creating new jobs and opportunities nationwide. Learn about VFA's new CEO, Carrie Murphy, and her unique approach to identifying and nurturing talent. Explore strategies for supporting the next generation of builders and leaders, and how VFA plans to address future challenges, like communities losing vital legacy businesses without succession plans. Have a question for Andrew? Send us your questions to mailbag@andrewyang.com to hear your question answered on the show! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pdsb35vqH64 Want to learn more? Check out VFA Pulse on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2q9oQeTvoe8kQ07iJhh1Ge Check out Generation Startup, which features VFA in 2016, available now on Amazon Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07WP6SD8T/ Follow Carrie Murphy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-murphy-8a8948a/ | https://ventureforamerica.org/ Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Annie Lowrey on America’s punitive safety net, and how we can fix it.

Annie Lowrey on America’s punitive safety net, and how we can fix it.

Annie Lowrey, author of Give People Money and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Andrew to discuss on-the-ground indicators of how the economy is doing, the multiplier effects of giving people cash, ...

28 Sep 20201h 47min

What do comedy, politics, & wrestling have in common? Nic Nemeth aka Dolph Ziggler joins.

What do comedy, politics, & wrestling have in common? Nic Nemeth aka Dolph Ziggler joins.

WWE champion wrestler and stand-up comedian Nic Nemeth joins lifelong wrestling fan Andrew Yang to talk about the intersection between comedy, wrestling, and politics. Watch this episode on YouTube: h...

24 Sep 20201h 17min

Why are progressives being sidelined? Marianne Williamson joins.

Why are progressives being sidelined? Marianne Williamson joins.

Author, spiritual leader, and former 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson joins Andrew to talk about media bias, the need for structural change, why Congress doesn't do anything, and why pr...

21 Sep 20201h 33min

The Passing of a Legend

The Passing of a Legend

Andrew and Zach reflect on the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and discuss how we can carry on her fight. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDDgbGKXDY0 Andrew Yang - https://i...

19 Sep 202025min

Is anything real? Nina Schick on the future of deepfakes.

Is anything real? Nina Schick on the future of deepfakes.

Nina Schick, author of Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse, takes us into the world of synthetic media, where videos and audio can be convincingly altered without us noticing. Nina and Andrew talk about th...

17 Sep 20201h 6min

Kumail Nanjiani on the big sickness in Silicon Valley

Kumail Nanjiani on the big sickness in Silicon Valley

Andrew and Zach discuss the latest news on Dr. Robert Hadden, unfair labor practices by the WWE, and the gender reveal wildfire in California. Silicon Valley and Big Sick star Kumail Nanjiani talks ab...

14 Sep 20201h 39min

Fixing the Machinery of Government with Ezra Klein

Fixing the Machinery of Government with Ezra Klein

In this crossover episode of Yang Speaks, Vox founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein and Andrew discuss the road to recovery from coronavirus, Andrew’s distinct approach to politics, the shifting medi...

10 Sep 20201h 31min

Can a $70,000 minimum wage work? Dan Price joins.

Can a $70,000 minimum wage work? Dan Price joins.

As CEO of Gravity Payments, Dan Price cut his own salary to establish a $70K minimum wage for all workers. Dan joins Andrew to talk about the market logic that controls America and why it's failing mo...

7 Sep 20202h 1min

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