Kathryn Minshew. She's the CEO of founder of TheMuse.com, a career platform that is used by over 50M folks to find jobs, learn professional skills or advance in their careers. This platform is also used by hundreds of companies looking to grow their employer brand and to hire. Kathryn is a Harvard and Wall Street Journal contributor and she's spoken at MIT in Harvard along with the Today's Show. She's been named The Smart CEO's Future 50, INC's 35 under 35 and a Duke alum. Kathryn worked at Rwan...
Jun 26, 2017•28 min
Duy Huynh. He's the founder of Autonomous.ai which builds smart office products to help people work smarter. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? – Stewart Butterfield Favorite online tool? — Google Analytics How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Focus on and build something really helpful to people" Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:50 – Nathan introduces Duy to the show 01:20 – Subscribe to You...
Jun 25, 2017•22 min
Connor Gillivan. He's a 27-year old serial entrepreneur and published author. He started his first company out of his college dorm room and built it to sell over $20M in products on Amazon.com. After he became an expert on hiring online, he co-founded FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace focused on connecting the top 1% freelancers with business owners. He's the author of Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Shoe Dog What CEO do...
Jun 24, 2017•21 min
Dan Gamito. He now leads partnerships and B&D for a company called ManyChat. Formerly, he led the customer success team for ConvertKit. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Des Traynor Favorite online tool? — Calendly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Just chill out" Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:47 – Nathan introduces Dan to the show 01:16 – ManyChat is marketing automation platform for Fa...
Jun 23, 2017•28 min
Sam Caucci. He's the CEO of Sales Huddle, a training and development team that is using game technology to help organizations better prepare their people for the workforce. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Meditations What CEO do you follow? – Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — GrowBots How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Sam is a big believer that you have to over - network Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:52 – Nathan intr...
Jun 22, 2017•18 min
Scot Wingo. He's the CEO of Spiffy. He's also a 4-time serial entrepreneur and industry thought leader in ecommerce and on-demand economy realm. He's appeared on CNBC's Today's Show and contributed his expertise to The Wall Street Journal, New York Times along with many other publications. He previously founded Stingray Software which he sold to Rogue Wave Software, AuctionRover which was sold to GoTo/Overture, and ChannelAdvisor that went public in 2013, under the stock symbol ECOM. Famous Five...
Jun 21, 2017•27 min
Dimitris Giannoccaro. He founded IAMIP, in 2013, after an extensive career in engineering and intellectual property together with some of the strongest leaders and inventors at ABB. The urgent need for digitizing an intellectual property world and maximizing the potential of intellectual property successfully has been felt during his work at his company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – n/a What CEO do you follow? – Björn Lilja of Kundo Favorite online tool? — Slack How many hours of sleep do you g...
Jun 20, 2017•21 min
Rickard Carlsson. He's the CEO of Detectify, a Stockholm-based security startup selected as one of Sweden's super talents, in 2015, by the Swedish business publication, Veckans Affärer. He has lived and worked in Sweden, USA and India and holds an MSc of applied physics and electrical engineering. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Home Improvement Books What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — Google Calendar How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old self,...
Jun 19, 2017•19 min
Don Mal. He's the CEO and co-founder of Vena Solutions which was established in 2011 and is the fastest growing provider of cloud-based corporate performance management software. Prior to Vena, he's owned several executive tech positions along the way with companies like Clarity Systems and IBM. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Who Moved My Cheese What CEO do you follow? – Satya Nadella Favorite online tool? — Dropbox How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7-8 If you could let your 20-year old self, ...
Jun 18, 2017•18 min
Victor Levitin. He's the CEO of CrazyLister and last time he was at The Top was in late 2016. His company, Crazy Lister, has passed 2K customers, about 600K raised and about 30K in 2015 revenue. Each customer pays about $15 in monthly revenue. They've passed 25K in MRR with about 3% gross customer churn each month. They are based mainly in Tel Aviv with their team of 8. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About The Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool?...
Jun 17, 2017•22 min
Jon Ferrara. He's been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer service management category for many years. Prior to founding Nimble, he was the creator and co-founder of the award-winning customer management product GoldMine. In 1999, Goldmine got acquired by FrontRange and he left to pursue other interests. During those years, he continued to watch the CRM market grow. He saw that most CRMs in the industry that were serving small businesses moved up market and became way more expen...
Jun 16, 2017•25 min
Victor Rosenman. He's the CEO and founder of Feedvisor. Before founding Feedvisor, he was the founder of an innovative marketing startup and a senior R&D manager at Sun Microsystems. Victor holds a BSc in computer science and an executive MBA from Kellogg Northwestern. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Black Swan What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Whatsapp How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it ...
Jun 15, 2017•28 min
Scott Brinker . He publishes the chief marketing technologist blog known as ChiefMartec.com and is the program chair for Martech Conference Series. He's the author of the book Hacking Marketing published by Wiley. He's also the co-founder of Ion Interactive, a provider of interactive content marketing software to many of the world's leading brands. He has a degree in computer science from Columbia University and Harvard University and an MBA from MIT. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Innovator'...
Jun 14, 2017•18 min
Phil Nadel . He's the co-founder and managing director of Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners , one of the largest and most active AngelList syndicates where investors can invest alongside him and Barbara on the same terms in promising high growth startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Lean Startup What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Laughly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7.5 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "Savor the m...
Jun 13, 2017•21 min
Joseph May . He's the founder of the Breton Company . He launched his company in 2016 by running a Kickstarter campaign for a modern day briefcase. Prior to Breton, he worked as an attorney at a couple of different law firms and was director of operations and in-house counsel at a company called Freshly Picked. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Shoe Dog What CEO do you follow? – Steve Jobs Favorite online tool? — Grum How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5-6 If you could let your 20-year old sel...
Jun 12, 2017•23 min
Jeremy Ozen . He's the president and co-founder of Vistar Media . He was previously a Goldman Sachs European Special Situations in London monitoring a portfolio of venture investments. He also has a BS in Material Science Engineering and a BSc in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Sam Walton's Biography What CEO do you follow? – 3G Capital Founders Favorite online tool? — Gmail Calendar How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year o...
Jun 11, 2017•26 min
Dani Golan who oversees strategy, a go-to market, and overall company operations at Kaminario . Previously, Dani served as president and general manager of Performix technology which was acquired by Nice Systems in 2006. Prior to Performix, he served as an executive responsible for leading new ventures at EMC. He holds a BSc of electrical engineering, summa cum laude at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to...
Jun 10, 2017•30 min
Jay Jumper . He's the founder, CEO and President of SIGNiX . As a highly regarded entrepreneur, Jay has worked to establish the company as the leading cloud-based digital signature solution which is a hot space. He has more than 20 years in financial services and technology management experience. Additionally, Jay graduated from University of Tennessee in 1985 with a BS in marketing. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Trump: The Art of the Deal What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos , Warren Buffett an...
Jun 09, 2017•28 min
Niko Skievaski . He's the co-founder of Redox , a modern API for healthcare. He also used to do some work at Epic . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Moments of Magic What CEO do you follow? – Judith Faulkner Favorite online tool? — Calendly How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Niko would have asked himself to start something rather than working in a big bank Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:40 – Nathan introduces Niko to the s...
Jun 08, 2017•24 min
Felix Van de Maele . He's the CEO and one of the co-founders of Collibra which he took the idea of funding to more than years of record growth and industry leadership. He's responsible for the company's global business strategy. Prior to Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics of Technology and Applications Research Laboratory at a university in Brussels where he focused on the technology crawlers on the semantic web and semantic data integration. He holds a masters in computer s...
Jun 07, 2017•19 min
Vinod Muthukrishnan . He was first a sailor then a strategist and now an entrepreneur. He was fortunate and has worked in diverse and challenging environments starting with the Merchant Navy, a high energy mobile first financial technology startup where he had a strategy and global sales. Now, he currently serves as co-founder and CEO of a company called Cloudcherry , a tech startup based in Pleasanton, California with offices in Singapore, India and a new location Vinod will show. Famous Five: ...
Jun 06, 2017•20 min
Eduardo Gonzales . Two years ago, he started working on Instagram as a broke college student with a vision to become one of the largest influencers with literally zero dollars in investment. He learned the game and began growth hacking on different Instagram pages. Today, he stands with over 5M followers combined across multiple different niches on Instagram. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Think, Grow, Prosper and The Alchemist What CEO do you follow? – Jack Dorsey , Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerber...
Jun 05, 2017•22 min
Oleg Campbell . He was born in Ukraine and starting working as a programmer at the age of 19. He moved to Canada when he was 22 and founded his first startup at 24 successfully. Then at 27, he founded Reply.io and he's currently living between Ukraine and San Francisco building this company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Losing My Virginity What CEO do you follow? – Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — Chart Model How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-8 If you could let your 20-year old self, k...
Jun 04, 2017•22 min
Rob Emrich . He's a serial entrepreneur, currently involved in his latest venture as the founder and CEO of The Mobile Majority . He's founded and served as chief executive at 6 startups in social ventures including Road of Life, which distributed as $70M dollar curriculum; BULX , which was acquired by Dealyard in 2011; and Boundaryless Brands, which was acquired in 2011 along with SpeakerSite. Know more about Rob at his website . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Goal What CEO do you follow? – ...
Jun 03, 2017•22 min
Alessandro Biggi . He's the CEO at Zooppa , the first open-source creative agency. Previously, he was the CEO and founder of a company called 20lines , an app to share leading short stories acquired by HarperCollins Publisher, in January 2016. He's also worked for JP Morgan, The Boston Consulting Group, and as an adjunct professor in Venice. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? – Ricardo Donadon Favorite online tool? — Slack How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If ...
Jun 02, 2017•19 min
Gadi Shamia . He's the chief operating officer at Talkdesk , the world's leading call center software platform. It's backed by DFJ, Storm Ventures and Salesforce Venture. Talkdesk has grown 8x over the past 2 years and has over 250 employees along with their thousand customers including Box, Shopify, Dropbox and Weather.com. Prior to Talkdesk, Gadi founded a company that was acquired by SAP and now generates $5M in global business. He was also a senior VP at SAP and a general manager at ReachLoc...
Jun 01, 2017•23 min
Mike Winn . He's the CEO and founder of the company called DroneDeploy , the leading cloud-software platform for commercial drones and he's on the mission to make the sky successful and productive for everybody. The company focuses on the agricultural and construction industries, but its large customers are from almost every industry across 130 countries. He has collected more than 8M acres of aerial imagery. Prior to joining Deploy, Mike worked at Google and was a RC helicopters hobbyist. Famou...
May 31, 2017•27 min
Andrew Yates . He's the CEO and founder of Artesian and they want to make sellers more effective at engaging with buyers using smart data and new techniques to create the right impact. He's been involved in the sales and marketing for the past 25 years and is aiming to make a difference to people by creating software companies that make a meaningful dent in the universe. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Escape Velocity What CEO do you follow? – Godfrey Sullivan Favorite online tool? — Microsoft Out...
May 30, 2017•28 min
Ramin Sayar . He's currently the president and CEO of Sumo Logic , an industry-leading SaaS-based company backed by some great VCs and he has an impressive list of customers and partners. Previously, he was the senior VP and GM at VMware, where he developed the product and business strategy and led the fastest growing aspect of that business. Previously, he had multiple executive roles with leading companies such as HP Software, Mercury Software, Tibco software, iPlanet Software, AOL and Netscap...
May 29, 2017•33 min
Jeroen Corthout . He's the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare , the intelligent CRM that startups and small businesses love to use. Prior to Salesflare, he was helping companies to implement their new CRM, marketing and sales. Salesflare kicked off when he and his co-founder, Lieven , found a way to automate their CRM data. Salesflare's mission is to automate everything in sales, but the irreplaceable human contact. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Alchemist What CEO do you follow? – Jeroen has b...
May 28, 2017•22 min
