The After School Podcast

We talk about growing up in Exeter, the challenges of adjusting to PEA, Lars’ interest in food, nature, reading, and more!

Showly Nicholson (Class of 2012) is a student at Harvard Medical School. We talked about medicine, basketball, homelessness, and race.

Zach Zelner is a serial entrepeneur who dropped out of college to found a cookie delivery company, and has since founded several 7-figure companies including PupSocks which did $8MM in its first 30 days. He tells great stories from his entrepreneurial ventures and opens up about his motivations and drive to succeed.

Ravi Bajaj is a mathematician who studied Theoretical Mathematics at MIT and went on to pursue a PhD in Mathematics at UCLA, but left to pursue medicine. He won the USA Junior Math Olympiad in 2010 while he was at Exeter. We discuss the philosophy of math and Ravi’s interests in the mathematics of life.

Jason Kang, class of 2012, is the CEO and co-founder of Kinnos, a company formed to improve disinfection in the fight against Ebola in West Africa. He studied Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University as an Egleston Scholar and graduated Tau Beta Pi. Jason has previously conducted research at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University, worked on automating life sciences research at Transcriptic, and served as the VP of Engineering at Jibon Health Technologies, where he brought a medical device to clinical trials in Bangladesh. For his work in global health, Jason has served as a two-time U.S. Delegate at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellow, Kairos Society Fellow, and AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. Jason is also on the Board of Columbia Engineering Young Alumni.