Warm Intro
Warm Intro With Chai Mishra
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The Best Conversation On The Internet. Made in San Francisco.
Founders, artists, politicians and chefs open up about their childhoods, hot takes and insecurities — with honesty, humor, and heart.
Warm Intro is what happens when you sit down at a dinner party and fall into the best conversation in the room. Not an interview. A conversation. Honest, human, and sometimes weird conversation with interesting people doing big things.
Hosted by Chai Mishra. Presented by Wefunder. Views are our own.
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The First Indian Chef with Two Michelin Stars
Chef Sri Gopinathan is the first Indian chef in the world to earn two Michelin stars and one of San Francisco’s most successful restauranteurs.This distinction arrives with an asterisk—because Indian…
The Activist Facing 31 Years in Prison for Rescuing Puppies
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The Bay Area's Unofficial Meme King
Abe Woodliff is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and the memelord behind @RealBayAreMemes—a project that has become the sharpest cultural mirror San Francisco has of itself. Abe grew up in Section 8…
The 25-Year-Old That Made an Oscar-Qualifying Film
Thomas Percy Kim is a 25-year-old filmmaker who's already won critical acclaim at Sundance, been selected for the Oscars, and raised $1.6 million from retail investors to fund his feature film. But…
The Founder Who Found Fashion’s Fit Problem
Isabella Sun gave up a job on Wall street to solve fashion’s fit problem — one hiding in plain sight — nearly half of American women are 5'4" or under, yet almost nothing is made to fit them.With no…
The World's Greatest Knot Artist
Windy Chien is one of San Francisco's greatest living artists. But that's just her most recent life.In a previous life, Windy owned San Francisco's coolest record store, Aquarius Records. In yet…
The Philosopher Sharing Indian Thought with the World
Professor Purushottama Billimoria is a philosopher, historian, and one of the people most responsible for getting the world of philosophy to take Indian and Eastern thought seriously, not as…
The Chinatown Local Running To Succeed Nancy Pelosi
Connie Chan is running for the most important house seat in the country. Her path here has been unlike anyone else's.Connie is an immigrant and a daughter of San Francisco's Chinatown. She rose…
The Woman Helping Create Superbabies
Noor Siddiqui is building technology that people call "designer babies"—and she's thought more carefully about the ethics than most of her critics. At 16, she decided she wanted to screen embryos for…
The Only Funny Man On LinkedIn
Jack Kuveke is a spitting image of the disgraced CEO Adam Neumann. At 20, he ran a 50 million dollar crypto fund in Belgrade, Serbia. His meme factory is called Jabroni Capital. All of this and…
The Immigrant Woman Who Sold A Million Sneakers
Sidra Qasim created the internet’s favorite sneaker. In getting there, she has lived a life that no one could have predicted.Born and raised in rural Pakistan, Sidra clawed her way out of a system…
The NASA Engineer Building America’s New Iron Dome
Sebastian Fischer is a different kind of Silicon Valley engineer. He’s not a coder. He builds physical objects that move fast, blow up and generally bring about shock and awe. Sebastian started by…
The 22 Year Old Building A Hotel On the Moon
Skyler Chan wants to make humanity intergalactic and he's not entirely sure why anyone would want to work on anything else. At 22, Skyler has already lived a life. He flew airplanes with the Canadian…
A Warm Thank You
A message from Chai.Warm IntroA conversation, not an interview. Warm, sometimes weird, conversations with interesting people doing big things. Warm Intro is a video podcast. We're available on every…
The Most Bipartisan Congressman in America
Congressman Mike Lawler holds a seat that no other Republican had held since the year he was born (he is a 39-year-old Republican from deep-blue New York).The reason he was able to win — and keep —…
Silicon Valley’s Most Effective Philanthropist
Matt Flannery’s work has uplifted over six million families across a hundred countries.That’s because Matt is one of the godfathers of microfinance. His creations, Kiva and Branch, have delivered…
The Founder Who Helped Startups Raise Over $1 Billion
Nick Tommarello has probably helped fund more American founders than almost anyone alive.But Nick’s not a businessman — he’s a founder. That distinction matters a lot to him and it defines everything…
The Startup Founder Running For Governor Of California
Ethan Agarwal is the youngest and strangest candidate running for Governor.Ethan’s not a politician, he’s a founder. And a very successful one. He grew his first company to $100M in revenue, and then…
The Tech Founder Who Became America’s Best Chocolate Maker
Todd Masonis makes the best chocolate in America—but he took an unexpected path to get there.Todd co-founded a startup with Sean Parker (yes, that Sean Parker from The Social Network). After selling…
The Street Artist Who Took Over An Entire City
fnnch is San Francisco's Banksy; the most loved and hated artist in the city. People who love him believe that he made the city a more joyous, beautiful place to be. His haters think he is an…
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Warm Intro has published 25 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Arts, Business.
Warm Intro is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 10m.
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