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The Friday Nooner

The Friday Nooner is a weekly, live, half-hourish program in which the GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and cohost talk all things Triangle tech every Friday at Noon (ET). Each week, they also welcome a guest. You can watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or LinkedIn. Or, if you are more of an audio learner, you can listen to the podcast version. Episodes will appear on this feed a few hours after they premiere. You can read about past episodes or watch the full archive on YouTube:

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00:37:03

Dr. Rachel Draelos Shares Her Vision of AI in Healthcare

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/05/10

Following a few GrepBeat updates and reminders, this week’s episode of The Friday Nooner really got going with a “reintroduction” to GrepBeat Pete—who is both definitely real and definitely the actual Pete. Please feel free to reach out to him if you’d like to learn more about the native recipes and general lore of the remote island from which he hails. Which is Long Island, by the way. Following said check-in, Joe and Pete welcomed Dr. Rachel Draelos, Duke’s first-ever dual MD/CompSci PhD and

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00:38:07

The Chickens Come Home To Roost With Element451’s...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/05/03

It was a big episode of The Friday Nooner sponsored by Whitley Recruiting for those who had “Joe talking about his chickens” on your Friday Nooner bingo card. Surprisingly, the chicken talk made our guest feel nostalgic rather than run for the hills.It turned out that today’s guest—Ardis Kadiu, the Founder and CEO of Raleigh-based Element451—grew up on a farm in Albania that included some chickens. Though he wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t a “chicken farm” per se. Element451 is a CRM

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00:38:54

Dr. Jared Pelo On How To Make ‘Bionic’ Men And Women

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/04/26

Pete’s on vacation in Myrtle Beach this week, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t join the GrepBeat Godfather for this regularly scheduled episode of The Friday Nooner, sponsored by Whitley Recruiting. Pete’s mom even made a late cameo. This week’s guest was Dr. Jared Pelo, a, ER doc by training and a serial entrepreneur with a successful exit under his belt from his previous startup, iScribes, which is what first brought him to the Triangle from Lynchburg, Va. He is now the Co-Founder of

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00:37:15

Look No Further, It’s Givebacks CEO Will Bowen

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/04/19

Grammar nerds will especially enjoy this week’s episode of The Friday Nooner—sponsored by Whitley Recruiting—with its discussion of the difference between farther/further. (Pro tip: Think of the “far” in “farther” as indicating distance, as in “to run far.” That leaves “further” when you mean a difference of degree, not of literal distance.)After the break, Joe and Pete welcomed guest Will Bowen, the CEO of Raleigh-based Givebacks, a platform for schools and nonprofits to manage fundraising

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00:42:13

What’s In A Name With IDEA Fund’s Zakiya Alta Lee-Hill

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/04/12

It’s been a long and busy week in the Triangle tech startup ecosystem that we capped—as usual—with an episode of The Friday Nooner sponsored by Whitley Recruiting.This week’s guest was Zakiya Alta Lee-Hill, a Senior Associate at Chapel Hill-based IDEA Fund Partners. We talked about how her varied background—everything from dancing for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks to running a business to train aspiring dancers for pro teams—affects the way she evaluates founders and their businesses. We also

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00:41:28

Archie O’Connor Talks Raleigh-Durham Startup Week

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/04/05

This week’s Friday Nooner—sponsored by Whitley Recruiting—provided a look into the near future, at least once the GrepBeat Godfather finished talking about his chickens. (A new chick was allegedly eaten by a hawk.)Joe and Pete welcomed guest Archie O’Connor, the Co-Founder (with Chris Heivly) of Raleigh-Durham Startup Week. RDSW returns for Year Three next week as a four-day, all-free event from Tuesday-Friday, April 9-12. The first two days are in Durham before shifting to Raleigh for the

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00:34:54

Startup School In Session w/ DiffyQ’s Susan Mahlburg

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/03/29

Welcome to the Good Friday edition of the Friday Nooner—though in truth, any Friday with a new Nooner episode is a good one. This week, Primordial’s Jenn Summe sat in Joe’s chair (literally) because the GrepBeat Godfather is on a Spring Break trip with his kids to the nation’s capital.Our guest was Susan Mahlburg, the Founder and CEO of Durham-based DiffyQ, an edtech platform that helps teachers better focus on the needs of individual students. We first profiled DiffyQ last October, shortly

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00:38:49

MuukTest’s Ivan Barajas Vargas Helps Us Recap Venture...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/03/22

With this past week’s Venture Connect 2024 now in the books, it’s no surprise that we discussed it plenty on this episode of The Friday Nooner sponsored by Whitley Recruiting.That included with our guest Ivan Barajas Vargas, the CEO and Co-Founder of Raleigh-based MuukTest, which automates software testing for B2B customers; we first profiled them in August, 2019. Vargas was one of 120-some founders who pitched at Venture Connect. (See our Day One highlights stories from the morning session,

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00:37:42

The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling From MyMatR’s John...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/03/15

In a Friday Nooner first, this week’s episode featured a live concert. Sort of.MyMatR Founder and CEO John Starke (briefly) played the bagpipes, which he does as part of two groups. This is their busiest season with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and then various Highland Games. John also talked plenty about MyMatR, of course. The Raleigh-based startup (we first profiled them in June 2021) is putting the finishing touches on its next-generation version of its smart waste container that

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00:35:05

Nate Branscomb On How BCombs’ CRM Helps Nonprofits

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/03/08

Warning: Alexa owners might want to be careful watching this week’s episode, especially around 13-15 minutes into the show, when GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy may or may not instruct your Alexa device to play a specific song.Fortunately, guest Nate Branscomb popped in shortly after that to get this episode of The Friday Nooner—sponsored by Whitley Recruiting—back on track. Nate is the Co-Founder of Cary-based BCombs, which is a CRM (customer relationship management) software platform

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00:34:20

New Sponsor Lee Whitley Talks Talent Recruiting For...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/03/01

Pete and Joe welcomed guest Lee Whitley, the Founder of Raleigh-based Whitley Recruiting. Not coincidentally, Whitley Recruiting is the sponsor for the next 10 Friday Nooner episodes.Lee talked about how he first got into recruiting, then out of it, then back into it for good, as well as how his firm specializes in recruiting sales professionals for SaaS and technology companies in the Triangle and Southeast.

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00:36:13

Andrea Inokon On Cadence Cash Being A Family Affair

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/02/23

After talking Nvidia’s rocket-ship rise, Techstars changes and the newly redesigned Toyota Prius that the GrepBeat Godfather drove to the office today, Joe and Pete welcomed this week’s guest. She is Andrea Inokon, the COO of Raleigh-based startup Cadence Cash.The fintech helps small businesses—especially those owned by minorities and women—access capital quickly. The startup was founded by Andrea’s husband, Charles, and his two sisters, Angel and Cheryl.

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00:36:28

Peoplelogic’s Matt Schmidt On Using AI To Help...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/02/16

The GrepBeat Godfather is out of town so Pete is joined by guest co-host Melissa Crosby! On this week's episode, they spoke with Matt Schmidt, the Founder and CEO of Durham-based Peoplelogic. Typically selling into the HR departments of organizations with between 100-1,000 employees, the startup bills itself as the AI for more effective scaling. Matt was also a Co-Founder of Triangle-based DZone/Devada, where he spent 15+ years before leaving to start Peoplelogic.

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00:40:02

CliniSpan Health’s Dezbee McDaniel On Racial Health...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/02/09

This week’s episode had something for everyone. For viewers who tune in for the greatest hits, the GrepBeat Godfather brought up his Vespa unsolicited less than 10 seconds into the show. For those who like something new and different each week, guest Dezbee McDaniel more than fits the bill. He’s the Co-Founder and CEO of RTP-based CliniSpan Health, a 2022 GrepBeat Startups To Watch selection that we first profiled in March of the same year.

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00:38:01

Future of Tech Regulation with UNC's Scott Brennen

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/02/02

Pete and Joe today welcome guest Scott Babweh Brennen, the Head of Online Expression at the UNC-based Center on Technology Policy. It was an especially fitting time to discuss potential regulations in the tech world as four tech CEOs—including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg—were raked over the coals at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday. Before coming back to work at his alma mater, Brennen previously lead research about dis/misinformation concerning coronavirus, 5G and AI at the University of

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00:39:57

Arpio's Doug Neumann on Preparing for Disaster Recovery

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/01/26

On this week's Friday Nooner episode, the (post-Jackie) GrepBeat crew chatted with Doug Neumann, the Co-Founder and CEO of Arpio, a fully automated disaster recovery solution for workloads that run in AWS. The Durham-based startup was named to our 2023 GrepBeat Startups to Watch list. Before founding Arpio, Neumann previously worked for Cary-based Bandwidth and Microsoft. You can watch the full live episode on YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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00:41:14

The Future of Healthcare with CareYaya's Neal Shah,...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/01/19

This week, the GrepBeat crew chatted with Neal K. Shah, the founder and CEO of CareYaya. CareYaya is a health tech and homecare company that connects pre-health university students with families for on-demand care. This show is also, sadly, Jackie (Sizing) from GrepBeat's last, as she ventures on to the next part of her career. The GrepBeat crew misses her already.

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00:38:49

Nimble Energy's Jeff Soplop Talks Clean Energy & Surfing

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/01/12

This week, the GrepBeat crew chatted with Jeff Soplop, the CEO of Nimble Energy, on the Friday Nooner. Located in Pittsboro, Nimble Energy helps building managers lower utility bills, reduce operating costs, and improve occupant comfort and productivity with real-time data. Previously, Soplop worked at Brightly Software and Recurve. You watch the episode live on Facebook, Youtube and LinkedIn.

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00:42:20

SchedulePop’s Overnight Success A Decade-Plus In The...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/01/05

The Friday Nooner gang returned for 2024 with guest Ben Wingrove, who is the Founder and CEO of Raleigh-based SchedulePop, a scheduling software platform that was named to our 2023 GrepBeat Startups To Watch list. Designed originally for scheduling staffs at music venues and restaurants, just before the pandemic the startup found a niche with senior care facilities that it has leaned into fully and now accounts for about 80 percent of SchedulePop’s revenue. Ben’s career took plenty of twists

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00:31:03

The Last Show of 2023: Holiday Special

The Friday Nooner ·

2023/12/26

The Friday Nooner closed out its 2023 programming today with a holiday special. It included the world premieres of the soon-to-be-classic song Grep The Halls; and the new GrepBeat holiday mockumentary The Making Of: A GrepMas Carol. This is definitely a show to watch visually!! The GrepBeat team put a lot of work into these and really hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoyed making them. Or even more! You can watch the full episode on LinkedIn here or Facebook here.

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