# Chris Lustrino

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Lumida Wealth CEO Ram Ahluwalia on the Future of AI-Powered Wealth Management

Lumida Wealth founder and CEO Ram Ahluwalia joins Chris Lustrino to discuss how the company is building an AI-powered wealth management platform for sophisticated investors. Ram frames Lumida as a next-generation investing platform designed to combine the best parts of brokerage accounts, financ ...

Hill Road Pictures on Film Investing, Creators, and Comedy

Hill Road Pictures’ Frank Peluso and Bob Vanech join Chris Lustrino to discuss So I’m the Crazy One, an upcoming R-rated comedy built around a creator-driven film finance model. Frank shares his Hollywood background, including work with Nick Cassavetes, while Bob explains how his experience in d ...

Influence Mobile CEO Daniel Todd on Building a $28M Mobile Gaming Rewards Business

Influence Mobile founder and CEO Daniel Todd joins Chris Lustrino to discuss how the company built Rewarded Play into a major rewards platform for mobile gaming. Influence Mobile helps game developers acquire and retain high-value players by offering rewards to users who discover, play, and spen ...

Avadain CEO Brad Larschan on Bringing Graphene to Commercial Scale

Avadain CEO Brad Larschan joins Chris Lustrino to discuss the company’s effort to commercialize one of the most promising materials in advanced manufacturing: graphene. Brad explains what makes graphene so powerful, why it has been difficult to manufacture at scale, and how Avadain is working to ...

Rejuvenate Bio CEO on Gene Therapy for Aging Pets and Humans

Rejuvenate Bio CEO Dan Oliver joins Chris Lustrino to discuss the company’s gene therapy platform for aging-related disease. A spinout from George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School, Rejuvenate Bio is developing therapies designed to change gene expression profiles associated with aging rath ...

HEVO CEO on the Race to Standardize Wireless EV Charging

Jeremy McCool is back on Inside Startup Investing, and a lot has changed since his last appearance. HEVO builds wireless charging for electric vehicles — hardware and software — and it's chasing that market from an unusual angle. Rather than selling a charging pad direct to consumers, HEVO is w ...

Farm to Pet CEO on Building a $5M Treat Brand

Jackson Jones spent his career in manufacturing and supply chain — Berkshire Hathaway's Marmon Group, then acquiring Duracell from Procter & Gamble. Then COVID gave him time at home, and he started making dehydrated chicken treats for his dog Rooney in the basement. Five years later, Farm to Pet ...

AutoCamp's Neil Dipaola on Getting 100 Million People Outdoors

AutoCamp founder and CEO Neil Dipaola joins Chris Lustrino to explain how a design-forward glamping brand became the "Marriott of outdoor hospitality" — nine locations, a Hilton partnership, and a plan to reach 100 properties without owning the real estate.   AutoCamp started in 2011 as a Santa ...

151 Coffee's Mark Wattles: Running the Hollywood Video Playbook on Drive-Thru Coffee

Mark Wattles opened the first Hollywood Video in 1988 and grew it to 2,000 company-owned stores. Now he's running the same playbook with drive-thru coffee. He joins Chris Lustrino to talk about 151 Coffee, the chain he founded in 2017, and his plan to take it from 15 stores to 1,000.   151 Coffe ...

bluShift Aerospace's Sascha Deri on Hybrid Rockets and America's Rocket Motor Shortage

Sascha Deri, founder and CEO of bluShift Aerospace, builds hybrid rocket engines that aren't explosive, can throttle, and can sit on a shelf ready to go. He joins Chris Lustrino from his test cell at a former Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine.   Before bluShift, Sascha spent 25 years buildin ...