“Nothing is more powerful than the truth when you run a company.” — Emmanuel Schalit Emmanuel Schlit is CEO of Dashlane , the safe and simple way to store all of your passwords in one place. With over 12 million users and a recently finalized Series D round, Dashlane is growing faster than ever and well on the way to their next goal of 100 million users. (At which point, Emmanuel may or may not get a tattoo, a promise he made to the hardworking employees of Dashlane.) “The average citizen has ab...
Aug 20, 2019•49 min•Ep. 321
“I enjoy looking at companies, their futures, their strategies and how their financials work. It’s something I’ve always had a passion for.” — Jennifer Ceran How do companies make money? When do they choose to invest or pass? At what point in a company’s timeline should they IPO? What are the reasons to accept an acquisition? These are all questions many, even the business owners among us, don’t know the answers to. But they are all questions Jennifer Ceran has been obsessed with answering since...
Aug 19, 2019•50 min•Ep. 320
“I think that done properly, collaboration will come to be understood not just as an application or an app that you boot up for those five minutes when you need to use it, but a fundamental property of computation itself.” — John Underkoffler John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, has developed a new way to share ideas online with the Mezzanine platform, Oblong’s flagship product suite that is effectively the world’s first multi-user computer. Mezzanine allows for multi-content, multi-stre...
Aug 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 319
Bill Goldstein has always been attracted to a challenge. From his days in high school striving to understand theoretical physics problems, to his current work as the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , (LLNL), Bill is a magnet for tough problems. But the problems that he faces at LLNL today aren’t just theoretical. They are very real and account for the safety of the nation and of the world. See, LLNL isn’t just any old testing lab; LLNL is responsible for securing and maint...
Aug 15, 2019•45 min•Ep. 318
“Time is our most valuable asset and giving back time to consumers is transformative.” — Sergio Villasenor In 2017, Sergio Villasenor was a solo entrepreneur with a background as an engineer when he started Elliot , an early stage and venture-backed start-up based in NYC. Elliot is revolutionizing the online checkout process by enabling sellers with simple, one-tap checkouts across platforms. Sergio estimates that 80% of checkouts initiated online are abandoned in the checkout process. “Making c...
Aug 14, 2019•25 min•Ep. 317
“If you make a podcast that succeeds, you’ve helped to define what podcasting is. And in ten years, I don’t think that's going to be true in the same way.” — Jacob Weisberg Jacob Weisberg , co-founder and CEO of Pushkin Industries , makes podcasts for a living alongside his co-founder, Malcolm Gladwell. Jacob and Malcolm have been friends for over 30 years, first meeting in college while Jacob was working at Panoply, a podcast network produced by Slate. Soon after, Jacob and Malcolm launched Rev...
Aug 13, 2019•41 min•Ep. 316
Randi Zuckerberg is a true renaissance woman. Her long list of achievements includes working at Facebook in marketing for more than 6 years, producing shows on Broadway and founding Zuckerberg Media. She knows what it means to prioritize multiple projects at once and excel at each. Since leaving Facebook, Randi founded Zuckerberg Media, where her focus is bringing more young girls and women into the technology industry and STEM at large. “I knew once my work was complete with Facebook that the s...
Aug 12, 2019•22 min•Ep. 315
Square might have started as a simple point of sale app for business owners, but in recent years it has grown to be so much more. With an incredible range of products that offer business solutions of all kinds, Square has been infiltrating new markets every day. There are many reasons Square has been so successful, and one of them is excellent marketing. As the Global Head of Marketing for Square, Lauren Weinberg has had a lot to do with that. Most marketers will tell you that storytelling is on...
Aug 09, 2019•28 min•Ep. 314
Throughout the last few decades, the amount of data that has accumulated on the internet and in our systems has grown by orders of magnitude. Most believe that much of this data is useless. Logs, miscellaneous accounts and lines of code were just floating in the ether, and to many people, that was just fine. But Doug Merritt was not one of those people. Doug is the CEO of Splunk , which is helping people and companies turn “dark data” into usable, measurable analytical tools that can push a busi...
Aug 08, 2019•40 min•Ep. 313
“The big focus is driving transformation.” — Susan St. Ledger Susan St. Ledger , President of Worldwide Field Operations for Splunk , started her career as a major in computer science at the University of Scranton. From there, she was recruited to become a computer scientist at the National Security Agency, where she spent more than 6 years of her career. While at the NSA, Susan learned about Sun System’s hardware and software, and became familiar with the key players in the company. They recrui...
Aug 07, 2019•42 min•Ep. 312
“The heart of all great stories is people.” — Steve Clayton Steve Clayton grew up in Liverpool, England and fell in love with stories early on while observing people. He recalls being a child and watching his parents interact with gregarious friends and strangers, and Steve always wondered, what makes that person attract such attention?” Steve took a “weaving path” through his career before landing in this current role as Chief Storyteller at Microsoft . One of his first jobs was working in IT f...
Aug 06, 2019•44 min•Ep. 311
Gay Gaddis is Founder and CEO of T3 , an advertising agency dedicated to helping clients build useful brands and create meaningful relationships with their customers. T3 is now one of the largest, female owned advertising agencies serving the Fortune 200, but it wasn’t always this way... In the late 1980’s when the economy was suffering badly, Gay was working for an advertising agency and saw that things needed to be done differently. In order to save her job and the company, she decided to writ...
Aug 05, 2019•37 min•Ep. 310
Nitin Pachisia is a Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures , a venture capital firm investing in and helping immigrant founders to succeed faster. After Nitin moved to the U.S. in 2005, he was ready to make the leap and create his own company but was faced with confusion and uncertainty. He was determined to find the answers to starting his new company and so he sought out advice from over two dozen different immigrant attorneys - all of which told him not to leave the company he was currently ...
Aug 02, 2019•38 min•Ep. 309
“New rules, create new opportunities” - Austin Craig Austin Craig is a video producer, storyteller, and Bitcoin enthusiast focused on emerging technologies and finding loopholes in systems. Ten years ago, when Youtube was just becoming the go-to place for video ads, Austin was helping build a multi-million dollar business with the team at Orabrush by using fun, entertaining videos to sell their oral health products. Soon after - and at the dawn of the new technology - he and his wife, Beccy Crai...
Aug 01, 2019•36 min•Ep. 308
“Our ultimate goal is not to solve crime, it’s to eradicate it.” That mission sounds like something from Minority Report, but it’s the mission Garrett Langley has set for his latest business venture, Flock Safety. Flock Safety is Garrett's third company and one that is working to provide advanced security services to police departments and homeowners associations in over 30 states. Unlike other security systems, Flock Safety's cameras can "see" and save license plate information, and then use th...
Jul 31, 2019•34 min•Ep. 307
On today’s episode, Chad and Stephanie share two mental models for capitalizing on opportunities in your life. These two models are just the start of a ten model series we shared in our newsletter last week. Catch all ten here . You won’t have the ideas, the ideas will have you. The right ideas will attach themselves to and around you, and they’ll be impossible to shake off. “I did not have the certainty. The certainty had me .” –Carl Jung You might not be able to see where the ideas are leading...
Jul 29, 2019•8 min•Ep. 304
“A synchronicity is a meaningful event that leads to a set of experiences we want to have.” - Sky Nelson Isaacs Synchronicity: noun. The simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Sky Nelson Isaacs is a physics educator, speaker, and author of Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World , which uses scientific research to explain acts of synchronicity. Sky has studied synchronicity and flo...
Jul 26, 2019•53 min•Ep. 303
Nathan Resnick is currently the CEO of Sourcify , a job he’s been unknowingly working toward since his first day in middle school when he resold Livestrong bracelets at a margin. At Sourcify, Nathan helps companies manage and organize their entire production process within a single platform, helping them to say aligned and efficient. “Growing up, I was always entrepreneurial,” Nathan says. “I don't know if I learned it from anyone necessarily, but really a turning point or information and resour...
Jul 25, 2019•38 min•Ep. 302
“If we all started to serve on a more micro level, it would change a lot of things on a macro level.” – Ben Greenfield Ben Greenfield is many things including a biohacker, an athlete, an entrepreneur, and an author. He has found success thanks to a lifetime of building healthy habits that work for him, many of which he now teaches to others through coaching, podcasts, and his writing. Whether he’s teaching his kids how to be selfless or helping someone he’s never met achieve something new, Ben i...
Jul 24, 2019•49 min•Ep. 301
“The biggest secret going on in Silicon Valley right now is how much people are compensated for their capital allocation skills.” — Chad Grills As a follow up to last Monday’s episode, Communism, Capitalism and Technology , Chad and Stephanie dive deeper into capital allocation and the importance of capital hoarding, i.e. saving money. Learning how to save money first, before you start to allocate capital in stocks, companies, or individuals is critical to success. But, this is especially hard i...
Jul 22, 2019•17 min•Ep. 299
"We want to be exemplars of humanity at the end of the time." - Terence McKenna Erik Davis looks at the world in a different way. He’s a novelist, writer, podcaster, and speaker, and his writings have covered everything from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. His most recent book, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies is out now. Erik loves to analyze “the weird” and in High Weirdness , he dives deep into the ...
Jul 19, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 298
On yesterday’s episode of Mission Daily , we introduced you to Andrew Goldner , the co-founder of GrowthX , and we learned about his journey from lawyer to tech entrepreneur. Today, we have Part 2 of Andrew’s interview, in which he discusses some advice he gave to Mission co-founder, Ian , about being “coin-operated,” and his strategy when it comes to investing in new companies. He believes that investing all comes down to looking at a company’s revenue, the knowledge founders have about their r...
Jul 18, 2019•35 min•Ep. 297
Andrew Goldner is the co-founder of GrowthX , and while he had a passion for technology very early on in life, it wasn’t until later in his career that he decided to pursue his first love. After initially studying law with the idea of going into politics, Andrew was able to use his technical knowledge to his advantage and build a brand for himself in Internet-based law. Eventually, Andrew gave up life at the law firm and, after a quick detour in the restaurant business, he landed in the world of...
Jul 17, 2019•49 min•Ep. 296
“I think at an early age while some people dream of being Superman or Wonder Woman or a fireman or whatever it might be, I really dreamt of running a business.” Brian Scudamore started 1-800-GOT-JUNK more than 30 years ago with a single truck and a simple business plan. Today, he’s built his business into more than just a successful company. Rather, he’s created an entrepreneurial and franchise empire that empowers other business owners and partners to build their own franchises and succeed. “I'...
Jul 16, 2019•48 min•Ep. 295
“While communism and capitalism have been ostensibly battling for the last century or more, technology came along and ate everyone’s lunch.” —Chad Grills Today’s episode dives into economics and the philosophies behind them. If you are signed up for our newsletter, you know that we recently introduced this topic and are using today’s episode to dive deeper. (Psssst if haven’t signed up for our newsletter yet, you can do so here !) In the Mission Daily Newsletter, Chad asks “How high is high for ...
Jul 15, 2019•20 min•Ep. 294
“Don’t take any wooden nickels.” A depression-era saying that encourages people not to be cheated or duped, it was a phrase that Kmele Foster’s father told him a lot as a child - and one he never quite understood. But in today’s world of media overload, it can be hard to find the truth in the noise and even harder to tell when you’ve been misled. Having worked as co-host of The Independents , a daily news show on Fox, Kmele is intimately familiar with the pace at which journalists work. And whil...
Jul 12, 2019•51 min•Ep. 293
Sean Whiteley has been in the tech business since the internet was first taking off back in the 1990s. In fact, he was early enough to the party to snag the [email protected] email address. But a lot has changed since those early days, and Sean has been through plenty of highs and lows along the way. He’s loved his time in Silicon Valley, but he recognizes that life in the Bay Area isn’t all that the world has to offer. “Don't get too stuck here in Silicon Valley,” Sean cautions. “There's a lot of gr...
Jul 11, 2019•49 min•Ep. 292
“I think we are standing on the cusp of an explosion in creativity around media.” —Yves Bergquist As the Director of AI & Neuroscience in Media at the Entertainment Technology Center of the University of Southern California, Yves Bergquist is leading the charge to connect the fields of neuroscience and entertainment. At ETC, Yves and his team are pioneering a new way to test an entertainment project’s narratives, what audiences they will resonate with and why. Yves is thinking more broadly than ...
Jul 10, 2019•57 min•Ep. 291
Can you imagine growing up with 30 fish tanks in your room? That’s 30 tanks stock full of fish that each needed their own special care. Seems a bit excessive, maybe even a little weird, but that’s exactly the environment Brian Linton, CEO of United by Blue, chose to grow up in. Since Brian was a little boy, he’s engaged with the world in his own, unique way. “My parents allowed me to be a little bit weird and that definitely spawned the entrepreneurship spirit in me. I never thought about doing ...
Jul 09, 2019•40 min•Ep. 290
“You have to pick and get to the core of what makes you the most uncomfortable, what makes you cringe when you are sharing it, what makes your palms sweat - that is what you have to work on.” - Chad Grills Our greatest fears can become our greatest sources of strength if we are willing to face them… and facing them with friends by your side makes that transformation a lot easier. Unfourtantly, as hard as it is admitting a personal fault or problem to yourself, it’s even more difficult sharing it...
Jul 09, 2019•18 min•Ep. 289
