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Pineapple Collaborative co-founders Ariel Pasternak and Atara Bernstein join Sam and Shahier to chat about the growth of their community group in D.C. and into new cities.  Also, we have some news.  Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

In March, 1776 brought 20 founders from around the world to The Anthem in SW D.C. and had them pitch their startups in just two minutes in front of a notable roster of judges. The prize? A $100K investment from Revolution.  This is how the competition went down.  Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Dockless bicycles. Autonomous Vehicles. Hyperloop? The District's transportation landscape is quickly changing, so we sat down with two experts in the local field to figure out where we're heading. Andrew Trueblood, chief of staff in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, and Ryan Croft, COO and co-founder of TransitScreen, join Sam and Shahier this week.  Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Dan Berger is behind Social Tables, one of the most well-known and fastest growing startups in the D.C. region. On top of building the event and hospitality tech startup, Berger also founded the Capital Tech Coalition, a D.C. tech advocacy group, that just wrote a letter to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser demanding the same incentives offered to Amazon HQ2. Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Meghan Gaffney Buck is at the helm of one of the fastest growing machine learning startups in the D.C. metro region. But tech startups weren't always her calling. We chat with Gaffney Buck about how she dove headfirst into AI and machine learning and what's she's learned from a year of intense fundraising. Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Archana Vemulapalli was D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer from 2016-2018 where her team focused heavily on smart city initiatives, cybersecurity efforts and showcasing the city's tech hub. Now, she's over at IBM. We chat with Vemulapalli about her tenure in the public sector and her decision to step down. Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Mark Ein is behind many of D.C.'s great success stories: Kastle Systems, Two Harbors Investment Corp, and more. Now, Ein is the owner of the Washington City Paper, one of the best alt-weekly newspapers in the country. We chat with Ein about his recent purchase and why he's stuck around D.C. for all of these years. Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC

Welcome to the first episode of District Download, presented by DC Inno and General Assembly DC. Today, we chat with Michelle Brown, CEO and founder of CommonLit, about how she's leading one of the fastest growing tech nonprofits in D.C. Let's put it this way: CommonLit reached 1M users at the same rate as Facebook, 11 months, and hired 17 people in 45 days. Enjoy the show? Connect on Twitter at @DC_Inno and @GA_DC