Analisa Goodin is the founder and CEO of Catch+Release , a venture-backed startup that supports brands in building authentic, award-winning ad campaigns, while ensuring the creators are being compensated for their work. Catch+Release is a collaborative creative platform that helps storytellers curate and license Found Content from anywhere on the internet, solving a specific problem that touches almost every creative, producer and content creator in the production industry today: making it easy ...
Aug 08, 2022•44 min
Herb Coakley is the Founder and CEO of Courial , a last-mile courier service that’s empowering gig workers nationwide with their people-first approach to technology. Created by gig-workers for gig-workers, their state of the art technology has modernized the courier industry by allowing any business or person to seamlessly connect with their community of on-demand couriers to deliver anything. They’re on a mission to change the on-demand gig economy paradigm. Better pay, true partnership, live d...
Aug 01, 2022•41 min
Josh Dorkin is the Founder, former CEO (2004 - 2018), former podcast host, and current board member of BiggerPockets , a complete resource for learning and succeeding in real estate investing, bringing education, support, and tools together in one place. Aspiring and experienced investors alike can tap into the knowledge of more than 2 million members, and learn from content spanning across podcasts, blog, webinars, videos, virtual bootcamps, and more. BiggerPockets’ mission is to help people fi...
Jul 25, 2022•54 min
Linda Lian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Common Room , the first and only intelligent community growth platform that gathers community engagement, product usage, and customer data into a single place. They use intelligence to surface insights from across your entire community and provide tools to act on those insights directly from the app. This allows teams to discover what’s most important, nurture key personas, measure the impact of their programs, and collaborate across their organization. Th...
Jul 18, 2022•26 min
Ryan Buick is the Co-Founder of Canvas , a collaborative data exploration tool for business teams to automate manual reporting, build dashboards, and answer ad-hoc questions without SQL. Growing up in San Francisco, Ryan watched the technology industry explode in his hometown and always wanted to be a part of it. He started out his career as a Marketplace PM helping SaaS vendors distribute their products through third-party channels at AppDirect. Then he joined Flexport as one of their first PMs...
Jul 11, 2022•26 min
Harry Campbell is the Founder & CEO of The Rideshare Guy : a blog, YouTube channel, podcast, course, and book for Uber and Lyft drivers and others in the gig economy, dedicated to empowering them and helping them earn more money by working smarter, not harder. His content reaches hundreds of thousands of drivers per month, with over 80,000 e-mail subscribers. Harry also works with start-ups and F500 companies on marketing, consulting, advising and more. He’s the only person to have driven fo...
Jul 04, 2022•55 min
Yassamine Ebadat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vityl , an employee engagement SaaS solution designed to foster a foundational culture of belonging and drive stronger business performance. Vityl leverages machine learning to connect survey data to automated goals and nudges that inspire greater feelings of acceptance, recognition and connection in the workplace. Vityl was founded by a team of human capital consultants with an acute understanding of their users' pain points. With experience guiding...
Jun 27, 2022•28 min
Justine Palefsky and Tas Amina are the Co-Founders of Kindred , a members-only home swapping network that unlocks your ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle for a fraction of the cost of a hotel or AirBnb. By exchanging homes with people they trust, renters and owners alike are able to take advantage of remote-work flexibility and explore new destinations without breaking the bank. Justine and Tas were both early-stage employees at Opendoor before deciding to start their own company during the...
Jun 20, 2022•31 min
Adam Nash is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daffy , a not-for-profit organization with the simple idea that everyone should put something aside for those less fortunate than themselves. The Daffy community is built around a new, modern platform for giving, one built around the commitment to give, not the amount you give. It empowers people to be more generous, more often through a seamless mobile experience that helps members set money aside, watch it grow tax-free, and donate to more than 1.5 millio...
Jun 13, 2022•29 min
Andrew Gazdecki is the Founder and CEO of MicroAcquire , a founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace. MicroAcquire aims to consolidate the fragmented acquisition market by giving founders and entrepreneurs a single convenient marketplace to meet, coordinate, and close acquisitions. MicroAcquire provides free and instant access to trusted and vetted buyers with total anonymity. They’re on a mission to turn founder journeys into success stories and foster the next generation of entrepreneur...
May 30, 2022•29 min
Sofiat Abdulrazaaq is the Co-Founder and CEO of Goodfynd , an on-demand marketplace for food trucks. Goodfynd enables pop-up retail and mobile vendors to connect with existing and new customers virtually by providing increased visibility and online ordering. Topics Covered by Sofiat Abdulrazaaq in this Episode How Goodfynd is supporting food truck owners and operators as a FinTech startup How the idea for Goodfynd was born out of the love of great food and wanting to find it again Shifting Goodf...
May 23, 2022•28 min
Eric Satz is the founder and CEO of Alto Solutions . Alto is the leading platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering traditional, Roth, SEP and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high...
May 09, 2022•31 min
Maika Isogawa is the Founder and CEO of Webacy , a platform for securing digital assets for the unexpected. Maika is a former professional acrobat and performer for the Cirque Du Soleil brand of shows. She is also a Stanford '20 alumnus with a special concentration in Symbolic Systems, a program which combines the study of Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Linguistics, Philosophy, and more. Maika was most recently a Cybersecurity Engineer for Microsoft. She has since founded Weba...
Apr 25, 2022•27 min
Alex Taub is the co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a no-code all-in-one DAO builder. Alex previously was the co-founder and CEO of SocialRank (acquired by Trufan). Prior to that Alex led business development and partnerships for online integrations at Dwolla, a payments startup based in Iowa. As well as for Aviary (acquired by Adobe), a NY-based startup that provides a photo editing API for web and mobile devices. Alex is active in the NY tech scene as the creator of the BD Meetup and an advisor ...
Apr 11, 2022•22 min
Jennifer Smith is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scribe , a software tool that makes it easy to learn from your most productive people without slowing them down by automatically generating step-by-step tutorials for any task, while they work. Scribe seamlessly captures how work gets done across your organization, enabling you to analyze, optimize, and standardize processes, in a way your employees will love. Founded in 2019, the Scribe team imagines a world where the best of what anyone knows how to ...
Mar 28, 2022•24 min
Max Zamkow is the Managing Partner at Third Act Ventures , an early-stage venture firm investing in AgeTech - technology for older adults and their caregivers. Third Act Ventures invests in founders revolutionizing aging, and is the only firm investing across the entire spectrum of AgeTech. A century ago we didn't expect to make it to 60, but now we're surviving well into our 80's and beyond. Surviving, but not thriving. Technology hasn't kept pace with the medical advancements that gave us 20+ ...
Mar 24, 2022•24 min
Brenton Howland is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Forum Brands , a platform of category-leading e-commerce brands built for the everyday consumer. They provide exit options to entrepreneurs, use technology to help scale small businesses, and build brands into household names that consumers know and love. Forum partners with owners of the best everyday products selling through Amazon FBA and other 3rd party marketplaces. As long-time investors, operators, and industry experts, Forum’s team represen...
Mar 21, 2022•23 min
Jonathan Anderson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Candu , the first no-code web builder for existing SaaS products. Candu is building a better way to activate users and release new features. The simple, drag-and-drop UI Editor empowers product and customer teams to create UI themselves, saving developer time and trimming technical debt. Unlike guide products, Candu enables customers to change the UI itself to drive user engagement. SaaS teams win when in-app experiences help users to adopt the feat...
Mar 14, 2022•25 min
Yoni Shtein is a technology entrepreneur and investor with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of technology and finance. Yoni brings his passion around data and impact into focus by helping to improve people's lives as CEO and co-founder of Laguna Health , a technology enabled recovery solution providing a dynamic member experience and integrative clinicians to shorten recovery times and reduce costly readmissions. Laguna aims to radically improve care experiences and care outcomes ...
Mar 07, 2022•24 min
Dejan Pralica is a sneaker enthusiast and entrepreneur with a passion for building community-first businesses that empower consumers. In 2018, DP co-founded SoleSavy to address the challenges and growing frustrations sneaker consumers face amidst a booming resale economy. SoleSavy provides community, tools, and technologies to help fans connect and buy sneakers at retail and has grown into one of the world’s largest paid sneaker communities. As SoleSavy’s CEO, DP leads a growing team of 50 peopl...
Mar 02, 2022•24 min
Meghan Jewitt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Uniform Teeth , a modern orthodontic startup that uses advanced technology to deliver a best in class experience. Meghan believes in making orthodontic care higher quality, more patient-centric and more affordable. After over a decade in the healthcare industry, Meghan’s past experience includes executive roles at DaVita Kidney Care and One Medical Group, and she holds a Biomedical Engineering degree from Columbia University and a MBA from Harvard Busin...
Feb 21, 2022•28 min
Abby Mercado is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rescripted and a mom of IVF twins. Rescripted is the #1 global social network for people interested in fertility topics, providing tech tools & resources for wherever you are on your journey to build a family. From a vibrant fertility community and trusted IVF content to a tech-enabled fertility pharmacy and mental health counseling, Rescripted brings together everything you need to feel fully supported on your fertility journey. Abby is a first-ti...
Feb 14, 2022•25 min
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest , a leading equity crowdfunding platform that provides individual investors with access to vetted startup investment opportunities. To date they have over 600,000 investors on their platform, through which founders have raised over $350M. SeedInvest sold to Circle in 2019. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed, and managed dozens of private an...
Feb 07, 2022•26 min
Cary Breese is Co-Founder and CEO of NowRx , a technology-leveraged pharmacy service using software automation, logistics, robotics, and micro-fulfilment strategy to transform retail pharmacy. Traditional retail pharmacy is broken, marked by inefficiencies and terrible customer experience. NowRx is on a mission to rebuild healthcare the way it should be – accessible, convenient, and affordable for all. Cary is a multi-time CEO with more than 15 years of experience leading companies that leverage...
Jan 31, 2022•29 min
Jordi Hays is the Co-Founder and CEO of investing platform Party Round . Party Round is building better tools for founders, starting with an automated fundraising tool. Generate & send docs, collect signatures, and receive funds, automating your raise from open to close. Previously, Jordi Hays founded Likewise and Branded Native. Topics Covered by Jordi Hays in this Episode How Party Round is simplifying the process of raising capital for founders How Jordi got inspired to start Party Round ...
Jan 28, 2022•25 min
Nhon Ma is the CEO and Co-Founder of Numerade , a venture-backed, high-growth education technology startup based in Los Angeles. Numerade is singularly focused on creating exceptional video and interactive content experiences for education, making the knowledge and skills of world class educators widely accessible and affordable to student audiences of all backgrounds. Their mission is to close the educational opportunity gap by unlocking and democratizing access to extraordinary educators and t...
Jan 24, 2022•25 min
Suman Siva is the Co-Founder and CEO of Marco , a platform for discovering, planning, and booking high-quality experiences. Marco is helping companies and teams up-level their next Zoom happy hour or offsite and do something collaborative and engaging via virtual experiences that evolve modern teams into thriving cultures. Suman has spent his career advising, operating, and investing in consumer tech companies and marketplaces, and now he’s excited to be working on building one! His experience i...
Jan 17, 2022•27 min
Vivian is the Founder and CEO of Rise (joinrise.co), a professional social network that enables companies to proactively build relationships with people. Rise connects members with the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking companies across roles and industries. They are a data-driven tech platform that provides access to impactful opportunities to those who want purpose, advancement, and equity. Prior to starting Rise, Vivian was an operator who built brands and products for high-impact b...
Jan 10, 2022•28 min
Sehreen Noor Ali is the Co-Founder of Sleuth , a childhood health recommendation engine, powered by crowdsourced insights and machine learning. The platform allows parents to share stories and information with each other to get essential perspectives on programs, treatments, therapies, tips and tricks, and outstanding specialists. Sleuth is backed by NewLab and Antler. Previously, Sehreen was an educative executive in technology with experience spanning across sales, business development, market...
Jan 03, 2022•26 min
Kirsten Baumberger is the Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships at minisocial.io , a User Generated Content platform that facilitates the production of UGC on-demand and at scale. mini works with top D2C brands and agencies including DoorDash, Sanzo, Native, JAJA, Pattern brands, and Olipop to generate fully-licensed UGC via micro influencer activations on TikTok and Instagram. Kirsten has been featured in Forbes, AdWeek, The New York Times, Thrive Global, and Business Insider. In her journey ...
Dec 27, 2021•29 min
