Onward, a Fundrise Production

Ben Miller

Booking Overview

Onward brings business-and-tech leaders into the same room as Fundrise’s CEO to unpack how emerging technologies reshape industries—especially AI and its downstream effects. Episodes are strong for PR pitching because guests are typically founders and senior executives who can speak to product strategy, regulation, and real-world implementation.

Metrics

Episodes: 59

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 6.5k subscribers

Instagram: 97.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

Onward@Fundrise.com

jcarden@fundrise.com

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Host

Ben Miller - Co-founder and CEO of Fundrise; hosts Onward and speaks with guests on how technologies and companies evolve, including implications for jobs, companies, and public policy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Senior technical leaders (e.g., model/language AI org staff), C-suite product/strategy executives, and founders leading healthcare/biotech or AI-adjacent companies; often with direct experience navigating regulation, product pivots, or commercialization.

Required Achievements:

Executive or technical leadership at a notable AI or healthcare company, Leading a major product or strategic pivot (e.g., AI customer service, lifespan drug program), Direct involvement with regulatory pathways (e.g., FDA-related milestones)

Recent Guest Discussions

Paul Adams - AI Pivot In Customer Service; Culture Change; Agent-to-database Risk; Implications For Knowledge Work; Public Policy/next Steps For AI

Celine Halioua - Preventative Medicine And Healthcare Incentives; Dog Lifespan Extension Drug Pathway And FDA Regulation; Scenario Planning; AI In Drug Development; Market/short-termism

Raza Habib - Artificial General Intelligence Definitions; Pace Of AI Progress; Job/company/public Policy Implications; Personal AGI Probability Evolution

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Biotech, Product, Public Policy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Onward, a Fundrise Production

59: Life after AI, with Kanika Bahl Founding Trustee at Anthropic

August 11, 2026

What happens if artificial intelligence becomes as capable as—or more capable than—human beings?Most conversations about AI stop at whether artificial general intelligence will arrive. In this episode of Onward, Ben Miller and Kanika Bahl accept that premise and ask the more difficult question: What happens after?Kanika is the founder and CEO of the AI Access Initiative and a former founding member of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust, an independent governance body created to help ensure t...

58: What we can learn from the first industry AI took over, with Paul Adams CPO of Fin (Intercom)

June 11, 2026

Days after ChatGPT launched, Intercom called it an “iPhone moment" and bet a $300 million ARR business that AI was the future of customer service. On this episode of Onward, Ben talks with Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer of Fin (formerly Intercom), about the pivot to AI customer service: why the decision was easier than you might think, why the culture change was brutal, and how the bet ended up strengthening the legacy business instead of killing it. Since Fundrise runs its own investor re...

57: This miracle pill could make dogs live longer, with Celine Halioua, Founder & CEO of Loyal

May 21, 2026

What if the biggest barrier to a longer life isn't science, but the economic incentives of corporations? In this episode of Onward, Ben sits down with Celine Halioua, founder and CEO of Loyal — the biotech company on track to earn the first-ever FDA approval for a drug whose only purpose is to extend lifespan. The catch: they're starting with dogs.Celine walks Ben through why the U.S. healthcare system is structurally incapable of building preventative medicine, why each dog-owner relationshi...

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jcarden@fundrise.com

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