This week, Liz is joined by Founder of EnvoyNow and Know Your VC, Anthony Zhang to discuss how a few moments changed the trajectory of his life and guided him toward entrepreneurial success. Anthony explains his experience pitching and selling a stake in that business to Mark Cuban while in college, an offer he took from billionaire Peter Thiel to drop out of college to become a full-time entrepreneur and how he overcame a tragic accident to continue pursuing his passion for business. Follow Liz...
Feb 24, 2021•35 min
This week, Liz is joined by CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli.com, Alex Adelman, to discuss how he created a Bitcoin rewards company looking to democratize the way people access, earn, and utilize Bitcoin. Alex shares what inspired him to start Lolli, the lessons he has learned along the way and where he thinks the future of cryptocurrency is headed. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Feb 17, 2021•38 min
This week, Liz is joined by the President and CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Chris McCann, to discuss how he and his brother, Jim McCann, grew their small New York flower shop into an industry leader in the floral and gift space. Chris shares the trials they faced in the early years of the company and how they have continued to innovate and evolve over the last four decades. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Feb 10, 2021•28 min
This week, Liz is joined by Founder and CEO of Hooked, Prerna Gupta to discuss how she cycled through many misses before finding success as an entrepreneur. She shares the impact of being a second-generation American in a small town in Oklahoma, how she experienced her first huge success with her app Songify, and her aspirations to adapt the stories from her most recent app, Hooked, to movies and television shows. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
Feb 03, 2021•28 min
This week, Liz is joined by Co-Founder and CEO of Bluemercury Inc., Marla Beck to share what changed her perspective and allowed her to follow her entrepreneurial spirit. Marla explains how she was inspired after hearing Jeff Bezos speak on the value of e-commerce, the innovations that sprung from working in the first Bluemercury retail location, how she navigated the position of CEO after selling the company to Macy’s and her advice for young entrepreneurs on achieving their dreams. Follow Liz ...
Jan 27, 2021•36 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by founder and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff. In early January, Bitcoin made headlines as its value peaked at over $40k, causing at-home investors and finance mavens alike to race to get their hands on the cryptocurrency. But ever since Bitcoin became available in the early 2010s, Peter Schiff has been skeptical of its worth. Today, he joins Liz to discuss how Bitcoin works, why he doesn't like the cryptocurren...
Jan 20, 2021•41 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman, is joined by the Founder and CEO of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, Cameron Mitchell. By the time he was 18 years old, Cameron Mitchell had run away from home, dropped out of school, and barely earned his degree. But one night while working in a kitchen in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio Cameron committed himself to making it in the restaurant industry. Today, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants boasts an impressive portfolio of favorites, including ...
Jan 13, 2021•32 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman, is joined by FOX News National Correspondent, Jacqui Heinrich. FOX's Jacqui Heinrich got her start in news after interning on Capitol Hill, as an intern for Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC. From working overnights at MSNBC, Jacqui went to KOAA in Colorado Springs, then KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, and then Boston 25 News before coming to New York City to work for the FOX News Channel. In this conversation, Jacqui and Liz discuss the winding climb that al...
Jan 06, 2021•31 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman, takes time to remember some of the most impactful moments of 2020, and her favorite interviews from the podcast. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2020•38 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman, is joined by the CEO & Co-Founder of NerdWallet, Tim Chen. In 2008, after studying finance at Stanford University, Chen found himself laid off from his Wall Street job in New York City. It wasn't until his sister asked him for credit card advice that Chen discovered the need for reliable financial information on the web, and NerdWallet was born. In this conversation, Tim discusses how his setbacks fed his entrepreneurial success, the co...
Dec 23, 2020•33 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the CEO & Co-Founder of Orca Security, Avi Shua. When Avi was 13 years old, he received his first computer and became interested in hacking and securing computer technologies. Thereafter, Avi went on to join Unit 8200, the elite Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces, where he held key positions. In this episode, Avi discusses how working in Israeli intelligence led him to found Orca, what listeners nee...
Dec 16, 2020•31 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Founder and Executive Chairman of Shutterstock, Jon Oringer. The son of two teachers, Oringer grew up with a hunger for learning. While still in high school, he started his own computer repair company and went on to develop his own security software company while in Undergraduate at Columbia University. After Columbia, Oringer began taking photos for his computer software company and was inspired to start the royalty-free im...
Dec 09, 2020•34 min
Host of FOX Business' The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Fox News Senior Correspondent and Anchor, Eric Shawn. Eric shares how he has prioritized facts and truth throughout his career, most recently, while covering the 2020 election and the resulting fallout. Liz and Eric also discuss how he rose through his career in broadcasting, his coverage and book about the United Nations and the principles that have guided him along the way. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about yo...
Dec 02, 2020•42 min
This week, Everyone Talks to Liz Claman revisits some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode features conversations with Peter Schiff, the founder and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Seema Bansal, the co-founder of Venus Et Fleur, and Cynthia Marshall, the CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 25, 2020•32 min
This week, Liz is joined the Founder of A-series Investments & Management and Co-Founder of DesiHits, Anjula Acharia to discuss her origins from growing up in a small suburb of London to becoming the epitome of the “American Dream” in Silicon Valley. Anjula explains how she first met record executive Jimmy Iovine and landed investments from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, the value she has found in investing in female-run businesses and her passion for changing pop culture by taking B...
Nov 18, 2020•32 min
This week, Liz is joined by the CEO of Kodiak Cakes, Joel Clark. When Joel Clark was just eight-years-old, he set out with his red wagon to sell his mother's pancake mix to their neighbors in Salt Lake City. By the mid-'1990s, Joel's brother, Jon, decided to reinvigorate the brand, stocking their mix in stores throughout the American West. Today, with Joel at the helm, Kodiak Cakes celebrates its brand's positioning as a fan favorite and the fastest-growing pancake mix in the United States. In t...
Nov 11, 2020•33 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Fox Business Network Senior Correspondent, Charlie Gasparino. Liz and Charlie walk through how Fox Business covered election night, the advantages each presidential candidate had going into Election Day and what the results of the 2020 Senate race mean for legislation in the next four years. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Nov 04, 2020•19 min
This week, Liz is joined by the first woman of color CEO of AT&T Business, Anne Chow to discuss how her background of hard work and personal experiences of being discriminated against continue to bolster her leadership style of empathy and equity at AT&T. As a child, Anne learned the importance of discipline and grit as her immigrant Taiwanese parents encouraged her to audition for the Julliard school of music at just ten years old. Throughout her life, education would continue to prove ...
Oct 28, 2020•40 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the founder of Bai and Crook & Marker, Ben Weiss. According to his mother, Ben Weiss has had a knack for creating products with a cult-following since he was a child. In 2009, Ben caught the entrepreneurial bug once again, and created the coffee fruit drink Bai out of his New Jersey basement. Today, Ben continues to innovate in the beverage space with his spiked beverage company Crook & Marker. Ben is also the a...
Oct 21, 2020•34 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Founder and CEO of LivePerson, Robert P. Locascio. In 2000, Locascio took his company, LivePerson, public at eight dollars a share. By 2001, the dotcom bubble had burst and LivePerson shares dropped as low as seven cents per share. In this conversation, Robert discusses how the challenges and pitfalls of his early career helped him as a leader and allowed his team to thrive through the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow Liz ...
Oct 14, 2020•32 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Hollywood Executive Producer, Founder of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and Founder and CEO of One Community Scott Budnick. After 16 years of executive producing blockbuster Hollywood films like The Hangover, Due Date, Project X, and War Dogs, Scott Budnick left his contract at Green Hat Films to embark on a new venture. In 2013, Budnick instituted The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), a non-profit committed to "[empower...
Oct 07, 2020•45 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the CEO & Founder of Better.com, Vishal Garg. This week, Vishal discusses how he came to start Better.com after having mortgage complications of his own. Vishal explains how Better.com is "making homeownership simpler, faster ... and more accessible for all Americans," and how he was inspired to leave his job as a Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst at Morgan Stanley to embark on his entrepreneurial journey. Follow L...
Sep 30, 2020•32 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Fox Business Network Senior Correspondent, Charlie Gasparino. In late July of 2020, President Trump announced his intention to "ban" the Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok within 24 hours. This week, Liz and Charlie discuss Microsoft, Oracle and other tech companies' bids to win the acquisition of TikTok and how the influence of Washington D.C. continues to impact the private sector and the stock market, as we head i...
Sep 23, 2020•26 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Co-Founder and CEO of OKTA, Todd McKinnon. In 2008, as the United States spiraled into recession, Todd did the unthinkable and left his prominent post at Salesforce to create his own cloud security company, Okta. Todd discusses how he grew his company to its nearly $29 billion market cap, how he transitioned from "engineering genius" to CEO, and how he and his wife plan to pay their prosperity forward in the coming ...
Sep 16, 2020•33 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Chairman of VaynerX and the CEO of Vaynermedia, Gary Vaynerchuk. After emigrating from Belarus to the United States as a child, Gary bagged ice, flipped baseball cards, and managed his own chain of lemonade stands. By sixteen, Gary began working at his father's liquor store; a business he would grow into a 60-million-dollar wine company. Today, Gary is the Founder of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia, where he and his ...
Sep 09, 2020•39 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the CEO of Feeding America, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. In 2018, after spending more than a decade as an executive at Walmart, Claire left the private sector to work on fixing our hunger crisis in the United States. Today, Claire joins the podcast from the road, as she visits foodbanks across the Texas panhandle, to discuss the $100 Million Dollar gift her organization received from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. She also weighs...
Sep 02, 2020•28 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Founder of Kind LLC, Daniel Lubetzky. Daniel discusses how he went from being unable to afford three square meals a day, to developing his company into the snack bar giant it is today, worth over a billion dollars. Daniel also explains how his father's survival of Dachau concentration camp and his family's eventual migration to the United States honed Daniel's commitment to the American dream. Follow Liz on Twitter:...
Aug 26, 2020•36 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Jersey Mike's Subs CEO & Owner, Peter Cancro. When Peter was just seventeen years old, his football coach gave him a loan that would allow him to buy the sub shop in Point Pleasant, NJ where he had worked since he was fourteen. Today, that shop has grown into the over one-thousand-location sandwich franchise, Jersey Mike's Subs. Peter discusses how his team maintains culture and excellence across all of their locati...
Aug 19, 2020•31 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Former NFL Defensive End & Founder of Oceans 97, Jarvis Green. Jarvis shares how playing football at Louisiana State University and for The Patriots in the NFL taught him the importance of perseverance, a lesson he would take into founding his own wholesale shrimp company, Oceans 97. Jarvis also discusses how the impact of COVID-19 led his company to pivot production to producing personal protective equipment (PPE) ...
Aug 12, 2020•36 min
Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Executive Director of Syrian Youth Empowerment, George Batah. George shares how his upbringing in Syria and love for the United States inspired him to found Syrian Youth Empowerment, a program that supports students from Syria and other conflict countries secure educational opportunities in the United States. George and Liz also discuss the impact of recent actions from the Trump administration on foreign students s...
Aug 05, 2020•21 min
