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Tacos and Tech Podcast

Mar 31, 2020

Gina Jacobs is the program manager of the San Diego International Airport (SAN) Innovation Lab, a program that works with startups innovating in the airport industry.

A San Diego native, Gina grew up in University Heights and attended San Diego State, where she pursued a degree in communications. She went on to...


Mar 24, 2020

Steve Beck is a managing partner at Serra Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on IT and agtech. The Illinois-founded fund has about 85 portfolio companies.

Steve grew up in the Bay Area, where he lived an adventurous childhood. After high school, he moved out to San Luis Obispo to pursue his bachelor’s...


Mar 17, 2020

Amy Chang is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and healthcare analyst. 

Amy grew up in West Covina and attended college at UC Berkeley. After residing in the Bay Area for nearly a decade, she made her way out to sunny San Diego, a place in which Amy and her husband saw themselves having careers.

When Amy first moved to...


Mar 10, 2020

[Talk of current happenings in the SD tech scene starts at 24:31]

Mike Krenn is the President & CEO of Connect w/ SDVG, which elevates innovators and entrepreneurs throughout their growth journey by providing educational programming, mentorship, networking events, and access to capital. 

Mike grew up in Mountain...


Mar 3, 2020

Pulkit Agrawal is the CEO and Co-Founder of The 5th Ingredient, a software startup that has developed a platform that breweries can use to track their data from grain to glass.

During his senior year at Harvard University, Pulkit was recruited to join Ballast Point as a process engineer. He started his role after...