Meet Kristin Slink, co-founder & Chief Product Officer of LoanHero which was just acquired by LendingPoint. In this episode we get to go into the trenches with an operator on the consumer finance tech industry and also learn how Kristin initially came to San Diego on accident. Kristin came to San Diego on accident. She thought she was visiting San Francisco and ended up touring San Diego and fell in love while going to school on the East Coast. Immediately after college she moved...

Meet America’s newest citizen, Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs, the organization that helps CTOs grow as world class leaders! Etienne and his wife, both South Africans, moved to San Diego from Germany in 2000. He was weighing Boston vs. San Diego and cnn.com/weather told him to make the move to sunshine. Luckily he chose the San Diego biotech scene which survived the 2000 dot com bombs whereas the Boston opportunity died immediately. Etienne takes us through the difference of doing...

I am excited to launch a new podcast series called the Tacos & Tech Podcast about the builders of San Diego companies, technologies, and the ecosystem with a local flair for our lifestyle as well. The goal is to build awareness to the great entrepreneurs and technologies we are building and what will put San Diego on the map as a great tech hub. The first episode is with the incredible Ashley Van Zeeland, PhD, MBA who we found out never left a 2 mile area in La Jolla over 10 years...