# Neal Bloom

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Beyond the Blueprint

Episode Summary Neal sits down with Janine McMurdie, Chief Commercial Officer of Pictor, a proteomics platform company that expanded from New Zealand to Carlsbad. Janine explains why your DNA is only the blueprint - and why proteins, which change in real time as your body responds to a drug or an i…

The Connective Tissue

Neal sits down with Eric Weiss, a fellow longtime builder in San Diego’s startup ecosystem. Eric is a self-described “parallel entrepreneur,” founder coach, President of the Design Forward Alliance - which produces San Diego Design Week—and Vice Chair of Startup San Diego. Neal and Eric first cross…

Signals Before Symptoms

Neal sits down with Adam Jacobs, President of Xzōm, a San Diego company developing a near-patient platform for isolating and analyzing exosomes from a small blood sample in under 30 minutes. Exosomes are tiny particles released by living cells that carry proteins and genetic material. Researchers b…

Food for the People

Neal nerds out on tacos with Mauricio Velázquez de León - Mexico City-born writer-turned-publisher, founder of Duo Press, and author of An Illustrated Guide to Tacos and Burritos, a serious cookbook drawn like a comic book, out August 11. They trace tacos from 7000 BC southern Mexico to fine taquer…

A Different Person in Every Game

Cody Germain spent seven years at Riot - leading competitive games on League of Legends, with the Valorant and Legends of Runeterra launches in between - then moved to San Diego in 2022 for Psyonix and Epic. Now he’s co-founder and CEO of Bear Infinite Games, building Spark, a personalization layer…

Measure It at the Source

Max Darsonval spent twelve years in the SEAL teams, most of it as a combat medic, and left on what he calls a 50.01% decision. He’s now founder and CEO of Velocity AI, building a sensor and a coaching app that take velocity-based training - the tool every D1 and pro weight room already has - out of…

Thirst Is a Lagging Indicator

Dr. Debbie Chen found the water signal in her own PhD data around 2007, laughed it off, and did nothing with it for a decade. Then came years of amateur Muay Thai and cramping through every session, then a dehydration health scare of her own. She’s now founder and CEO of Hydrostasis, maker of the G…

Every Driving School Said No

Nigel Tunnacliffe and Matt Harvey spent years building a way to retrofit adaptive cruise control into old cars - a Raspberry Pi, a camera, and a turbocharged Miata that accelerated on its own down Carmel Valley Road. Then the customer interviews came back: nineteen out of twenty people would never …

The Biggest Lesson Entrepreneurs Learn After an Exit | Neal Bloom

Neal Bloom joins Shannon Robnett for a conversation about what “smart money” should actually mean. With roots in real estate and a background in engineering, Neal moved from working on major aerospace programs to building technology companies and investing in early-stage founders through Rising Tid…

Podcast: Motherhood Is Technology Barren

Tina John is a biomedical engineer who spent her career on hip implants, knee implants and drug delivery systems, then had her first child and discovered that the hardest job she had ever done had almost no technology pointed at it. Veera is her answer: a wearable device that sits in a nursing bra,…