Join us for an engaging episode of The Innovators and Investors Podcast, hosted by Kristian Marquez, where we explore the vibrant intersection of technology, investment, and entrepreneurship. This week, Kristian welcomes two dynamic guests: Kevin Weber, Managing Director at Amex Ventures, and Ayal Karmi, Co-founder and CEO of Nakuda. In this episode, Kevin shares his fascinating career journey, including his transition from corporate finance and M&A to venture capital at Amex Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage investments in sectors like fintech, AI, and cybersecurity. As Kevin describes his investment thesis, he emphasizes the importance of strategic partnerships and the alignment of their investments with American Express’s core business objectives. Our conversation then shifts to Ayal Karmi, who delves into the innovative solutions Nakuda is bringing to the market. As the company pioneers a system for AI agents to make seamless payments online, Ayal discusses the challenges and opportunities in automating the checkout process and enhancing transaction authenticity. Listeners can expect to gain valuable insights into the investment landscape, the evolving field of AI agents, and best practices for founders seeking to navigate the venture capital space. Furthermore, Kevin and Ayal offer advice on how to approach corporate venture capital, the significance of understanding investor expectations, and the future of agentic payments. Don’t miss this enlightening discussion that highlights the transformative power of technology and the shared mission of fostering innovation in today’s rapidly evolving market. Subscribe now to stay updated on the latest insights and trends in the world of innovation and finance! For more details, visit our website and read Ayal’s insightful blogs on Substack, https://substack.com/@nekuda? about autonomous payments to stay informed about the latest in AI technologies. Enjoy the episode! Learn more about Kevin's work https://www.americanexpress.com/us/business/american-express-ventures/ Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-weber-b77b8028/ Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply https://finstratmgmt.com/innovators-investors-podcast/ Want to learn more about Kristian Marquez's work? Check out his website at https://finstratmgmt.com/…
Kevin picks a movie because it has his family name in it, so he tells Patrick to pick a family movie, and that's how we ended up watching a Robert Altman film about prostitution and murder-for-hire in the Old West alongside the whimsical tale of a little bear in a big city. We're discussing MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971), starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and PADDINGTON 2 (2017), starring the beautiful and talented Sally Hawkins and a bunch of other British people who aren't Sally Hawkins. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support
Kevin picks a movie because it has his family name in it, so he tells Patrick to pick a family movie, and that's how we ended up watching a Robert Altman film about prostitution and murder-for-hire in the Old West alongside the whimsical tale of a little bear in a big city. We're discussing MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971), starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and PADDINGTON 2 (2017), starring the beautiful and talented Sally Hawkins and a bunch of other British people who aren't Sally Hawkins. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support
We're joined by special guest, comedian Dan Kapr, for part one of our junk january in which we review two of the worst movies we could find: Derek Savage's supposed anti-bullying (but very pro-Derek) PSA, COOL CAT SAVES THE KIDS (2015); and the first animated feature to come out of Scotland (though they may want to skip that in the tourism brochures), SIR BILLI (2012), featuring the voice talent of a retired Sir Sean Connery. Sure, they're both terrible movies full of problematic content. They sure are. Join us next time for part two when we talk about RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY and SGT. KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
We had some trouble getting this one out before 2019's end, but here it is. We're discussing mystery movies, with a popular one currently in theaters and just today nominated for a screenplay Oscar, Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT; and a documentary from a few years ago about one of the weirdest cases of identity fraud ever, Bart Layton's THE IMPOSTER. We have all new weird audio issues this episode, what with all the fairies flittering around Tom's head out there in Utah, so we hope you'll forgive us and wish us better luck in 2020. Speaking of 2020, join on us on our next episode, because it's our annual Junk January, and we once again will be reviewing some of the worst movies we could dredge up. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Our recording session was as WTF as the movies we watched. It's time for our annual WTF podcast, when we review the strange and bizarre--just in time for Thanksgiving! We kick things off with the O.G. WTF film, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's 1929 surrealist classic UN CHIEN ANDALOU. Next we jump to 2006 with Michael Arias' anime adaptation of Taiyō Matsumo's manga TEKKONKINKREET and discuss the concept of yin and yang. Then we bring back podcast favorite, Rubber writer/director Quentin Depieux, with his 2014 film REALITY. At the end, we look forward to a couple of movies about iconic artists Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Brian has first pick and chooses Don Bluth's wannabe Disney-princess film ANASTASIA (1997). Tom tears it to shreds and then switches to the opposite extreme to defend his pairing, THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER (1987). What makes both of these films terrifying fare for children? How does The Brave Little Toaster exemplify what's wrong with America? What does Nate's impression of a pissed-off Sylvester Stallone sound like? Find out on Buried Cinema as we ask the question: Wait... that's not Disney? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Our podcast this week consists of a college professor, a high school English teacher, a former science teacher, and a one-time substitute assistant pre-school teacher, but we all used to be high schoolers. Our movies this week are ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015) and HEARTS BEAT LOUD (2018), both featuring Nick Offerman, which mixed with a certain recent popular deep-fake video gave our sound editor literal nightmares. We talk about death. We talk about racism. We talk at length (no pun intended) about Superman's codpiece. We make revelations about our own high school experiences. Join us as Buried Cinema goes "Back to School." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Nate chooses 'Alien: Covenant' to kick things off this month, and gives us the theme "seconds." We're all still a little hazy on why. Nevertheless, Kevin dug deep and chose John Frankenheimer's 1966 psychological thriller 'Seconds' starring Rock Hudson (segment begins at 32:24). And join us next week as we discuss 'Songs from the Second Floor' and 'Once.' --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Brian chooses the alt-Superman origin story BRIGHTBURN, which just got released on home media. It's a movie about a little shit who discovers he has super powers and then turns into a little shit who kills people with his super powers. Next we discuss our first ever film submitted to us for review by a distributor (Rock Salt Releasing), Sonia Escolano's HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS, a Spanish horror flick about an isolated religious cult. It's an indie horror twofer this week on Buried Cinema. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Buried Cinema is nine years old. Usually we celebrate a milestone by reviewing some classic or tentpole of cinema. This year, we're going a slightly different route. We are reviewing classics, but each one of us picked a "classic" we hate. We begin with a delightful musical that musical fan Nate hates, 1954's WHITE CHRISTMAS. Next we discuss Brian's choice, one of the most egregious Best Picture Academy Award-winners ever, 1956's AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (segment begins at 19:15). Next up is another Best Picture winner, and a deserving one, unless you ask Kevin, who hates 1965's THE SOUND OF MUSIC (begins at 41:01). Tom picked a "fun" war movie that nobody else even knew of, 1970 Clint Eastwood vehicle KELLY'S HEROES (1:01:45). Last of our despised classics is self-professed "sci-fi guy" Steve's pick of 1982 (or 2007, depending on how you judge these things) tech-noir standard BLADE RUNNER (1:19:28). Finally we look forward to a couple of animated movies that are NOT Disney... we think. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
We said we'd be reviewing BRIGHTBURN, but that movie didn't burn bright so much as it did fizzle at the box office, so we're putting that one off till the home media release to try and be more timely. Instead, this week we're talking about Shirley MacLaine, because she's timeless! Tom picks MacLaine's 1966 film GAMBIT, co-starring Michael Caine. Nate, tasked with the theme of "'gambit' but it has to star either Shirley MacLaine or Michael Caine," goes with the broadest possible definition of the theme and picks the 1989 ensemble film STEEL MAGNOLIAS, starring Shirley MacLaine and five other women who aren't Shirley MacLaine. There is some confusion over members of our troupe disappearing and appearing throughout the podcast, and it's totally not because this is edited together from several different recording sessions. Our review of BRIGHTBURN will be out soon, along with our first review of a film submitted to us by an actual film company, HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Continuing with Nate's theme of "Seconds," Patrick chooses 'Songs from the Second Floor,' a Swedish film based on the works of a Peruvian poet, because sure. Brian pairs the 2006 musical 'Once,' because he likes to be contrarian. (Segment 2 begins at 24:11.) At the end we look forward to next month's heist movies. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
We review Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver' as well as other heist movies, Bill Murray's 1990 comedy 'Quick Change' (segment begins at 23:19) and David O. Russell's 1999 Gulf War film 'Three Kings' (38:28). After that we discuss David Mamet's 1988 Mafia buddy-comedy 'Things Change' (56:12). At the end we look forward to our 7-year anniversary podcast (1:14:52). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Steve has first pick and chooses Jordan Peele's sophomore effort US, starring Lupita Nyong'o. The theme is "impostors," and Brian once again goes classic and picks Billy Wilder's 1959 SOME LIKE IT HOT, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe. At the end, we look forward to watching the James Gunn-produced BRIGHTBURN and a special screening of a new Spanish horror film, HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
A little over seven years ago, in 2010, Nate, Steve, and Tom started this podcast. Along the way we picked up Brian, Kevin, and Patrick, and now we six have decided to honor our seven year anniversary by each choosing our favorite film of all time and letting the others pick it apart. (This goes better for some than for others.) We discuss The Great Escape, The Shawshank Redemption (segment begins at 17:17), City Lights (35:46), A History of Violence (53:33), Fight Club (1:15:39), and Chinatown (1:33:48). At the end we look forward to next month's podcast (1:55:22). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Kevin's all about fantastic finishes. Also, the MCU. So he picks AVENGERS: ENDGAME for us to review. Tom goes a slightly different direction with the pairing and chooses Nicolas Winding Refn's 2016 love letter to the fashion industry, THE NEON DEMON. Flickchart gives us Endgame vs. Citizen Kane, leading us into a surprising review of the nature of film criticism itself. Steve thinks Jena Malone is creepy, not just because she molests dead bodies. Nate destroys children's love of books. It all happens this week on Buried Cinema. (It's a long one, but hey, it's only half the length of one of the films we reviewed.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
Kevin had thematic control for the month of. . . September. . . so we watched. . . movies that came out when we were six years old. . . so we ended up with the 1979 (supposed) comedy 'Scavenger Hunt', 1979's 'The In-Laws', the 1988 remake of 'The Blob', and Jim Jarmusch's landscape-changing and divisive 1984 'Stranger Than Paradise.' There may be some name-calling. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buried-cinema/support…
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