Ian Blair. He founded BuildFire while he was in college and has grown up to become one of the most successful app builders with 30 employees and close to 10K apps in the app store. His expertise is online marketing and growth hacking. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? – David Skok and Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — Ahrefs 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? – Ian wished he would...
Oct 24, 2017•23 min•Ep. 822
Jae Kwon . After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a BS degree in Computer Science, he worked as a developer at Alexa and Yelp and has co-founded iDonethis , a productivity service. He since worked on open-source projects including a CoffeeScript compiler and interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io , and a cryptocurrency exchange. He invented and refined The Tendermint Consensus Algorithm with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the cos...
Oct 23, 2017•18 min•Ep. 821
Mateo Munoz . He's the COO and managing director of the Americas for Duuzra or Duzzra Group. Mateo has been a crucial part of the management team that helped the company turnaround from group consultancy to its second series A and is leading it from its service-based model to a SaaS-based model. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Never Eat Alone What CEO do you follow? – Falon Fatemi Favorite online tool? — Glow Baby and Slack How many hours of sleep do you get?— 4.5 If you could let your 20-year old...
Oct 22, 2017•19 min•Ep. 820
Sandy Lohr . She's a mother, wife, dog lover and leader of one of the best advertising technology teams in Silicon Beach. Growing up in the industry, she transitioned from client side to tech provider over 2 years ago. Her team strives daily to help local businesses globally find the best customer with her company, MatchCraft . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Jab Jab Jab Right Hook What CEO do you follow? – Susan Wojcicki Favorite online tool? — Accompany How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5.5 I...
Oct 21, 2017•23 min•Ep. 819
Ben Kartzman. He's the CEO and founder of Spongecell , one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. Earlier, Ben worked at venture-backed Guidester (now Searchandise.net) in product and business development. He graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon with a dual BS in Human Computer Interaction and Information & Decision Systems. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Five Dysfunctions of a Team What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Mint How many hours of sleep...
Oct 20, 2017•21 min•Ep. 818
Chris Golec . He's built three, successful, technology businesses in the last 18 years. Today, he's the founder and CEO of Demandbase and his mission is to transform B2B advertising, marketing and sales through innovations and digital technology. Today, hundreds of blue chip enterprises across financial services, hi-tech, manufacturing, healthcare and telecom industries have adopted a demand based on the B2B marketing platform and account-based marketing technology to dramatically improve the wa...
Oct 19, 2017•22 min•Ep. 817
Ryan Taylor . He's currently the CEO of the Dash Core Team . Dash is an innovative digital currency that offers a number of improvements over bitcoin. Ryan is an expert in the payments industry with over 15 years of experience in financial services and technology. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Mastering Bitcoin What CEO do you follow? – Jack Welch Favorite online tool? — BitInfoCharts How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be?...
Oct 18, 2017•26 min•Ep. 816
Johnny Warström . He's the CEO and founder of Mentimeter . He's an engineer from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He's worked in 10 countries and visited over 60. He loves adventures and growing his company and he's getting married soon. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Sebastian Siemiątkowski Favorite online tool? — Intercom How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what w...
Oct 17, 2017•24 min•Ep. 815
Neha Sampat . She's the CEO of Built.io , a 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant Vendor and 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor that provides a digital business platform that helps organizations excel their digital transformation. She's a recognized industry leader and has led product marketing, cloud computing and online experiences for Sun Microsystems and VMware . She's a proponent of diversity and outspoken advocate for nurturing women leaders in her industry. She was named the San Francisco Business Times' 40 ...
Oct 16, 2017•21 min•Ep. 814
James Booth . He's the founder of Scoota and he founded it in 2008. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of a company that led Europe's rich media, providing infrastructure. He sold that to DoubleClick and Google back in 2007. He's won numerous awards for his service to online advertising, an active Angel investor and a non-executive to a number of startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Crossing the Chasm What CEO do you follow? – Joe Zawadzki , Jeff Green and Robert Grazioli Favorite o...
Oct 15, 2017•20 min•Ep. 813
Zooko Wilcox . He's the creator of Zcash and has more than 20 years of experience in open decentralized systems, cryptography and information security along with startups in general. He's recognized for his work in Digicash, Mojonation and many other things that he has worked on. He's also the founder of Least Authority . If you're following him on Twitter , you'll know that he sometimes blog about health science and is very active in Twitter and the crypto space. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – C...
Oct 14, 2017•22 min•Ep. 812
Maksim Balashevich . He's a former IBM software engineer and co-founder of a successful, hosting business in Belarus. He now manages the overall product and leads the Santiment team. He's a veteran leader, having spent more than a decade trading successfully using Santiment and Elliot Wave as analysis. He's also a guru in yoga and meditation. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Nick Szabo Favorite online tool? — Blockchain and Reddit How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6...
Oct 13, 2017•25 min•Ep. 811
Michael Litt . He's the co-founder and CEO of a leading video marketing platform called Vidyard . While he's not bringing leading video-based technologies to market, he serves as general partner at Garage Capital , a seed stage fund focused on supercluster companies looking to expand their networks in the Silicon Valley. He also sits as Communitech 's board of directors, a KW-based organization designed to help companies start, grow and succeed. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you ...
Oct 12, 2017•27 min•Ep. 810
Barry Clapp . He brings over 30 years of experience in sales and management to Centage . Beginning with IBM, he held successional positions with increasing responsibility on software and internet businesses. At DigitalGlobe, a satellite imagery company, he served as VP of international sales opening distribution in over 20 different countries. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Biography of Richard Branson What CEO do you follow? – Marcus Lemonis Favorite online tool? — Salesforce How many hours of s...
Oct 11, 2017•24 min•Ep. 809
Gustav Mellentin . He's the founder and CEO of Adform in the adtech space. Before that, he was an engineer in the banking world with an MBA, and was also doing consulting. He just recently came back from a European holiday. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Daring Greatly What CEO do you follow? – Jorgin Vig Knudstorp Favorite online tool? — Vivino Wine App 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? – Be bold and do what you think...
Oct 10, 2017•23 min•Ep. 808
Christopher Engman , the founder of companies like Vendemore , Retain24 , TaxiSystem and many others and he's also an active investor. One of his companies, which he's now active and an investor in is called Climeon . He's also involved with Proof Analytics , Trigger Bee and many others. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Inside the Tornado What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — LinkedIn How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what...
Oct 09, 2017•18 min•Ep. 807
Daniel Chait . He's the CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse , which designs tools that help create and navigate a new world of work. Daniel has been a technology entrepreneur in New York for nearly 20 years. Before Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49 , a global firm providing technology consulting solutions for the world's leading investment banks. He's a proud graduate of the computer engineering program at the University of Michigan. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Nudge What CEO do you follow? – Kim S...
Oct 08, 2017•21 min•Ep. 806
Todd Fisher . He's the co-founder and CEO of CallTrackingMetrics , a top rated call automation and lead management platform serving over 30K businesses around the globe. Todd developed the initial software and continues to be the driving technical force behind the company. He has also made a number of notable developments in the technical field, especially within the Ruby on Rails community. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk and Steve Jobs Favorite online tool...
Oct 07, 2017•21 min•Ep. 805
Maria Seidman . She is the CEO and co-founder of Yapp , the top platform for event applications. Prior to Yapp, she was the GM for mobile and VP for Warner Bros. Digital Distribution . She has her MBA from Stanford and her BA from Yale and resides in New York City. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – How What CEO do you follow? – Stewart Butterfield Favorite online tool? — FullStory and Slack How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5-7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it...
Oct 06, 2017•19 min•Ep. 804
Spencer Coon . He's the co-founder of HiBox.co and Joincube . He has over 5 years of experience in enterprise collaboration software and 7 years working internationally. He has managed teams across 3 continents and 5 countries. Previously, he was in investment banking at JP Morgan in New York City. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Black Swan What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Intercom How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one th...
Oct 05, 2017•23 min•Ep. 803
Spencer Bogart . He's a managing director and the head of research for Blockchain Capital , the premier venture firm for investing directly in the blockchain companies. Prior to joining Blockchain Capital, Spencer was a VP of Equity Research where he covered traditional software and internet stocks. He had his first industry report on blockchain technology and is the most active analyst covering bitcoin. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? – Balaji Srinivasan Favori...
Oct 04, 2017•29 min•Ep. 802
Jayesh Parmar . He's a serial entrepreneur with two decades of event industry experience. Currently, he's the CEO and co-founder of Picatic and is listed as one of the world's top 10 tech entrepreneurs disrupting the event industry. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Amy 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 be? – "Failure is just a dat...
Oct 03, 2017•19 min•Ep. 801
Ransu Salovaara . He's the CEO of TokenMarket , the leading token sale advisory and information hub based on Gibraltar. He's also an advisor for numerous blockchain startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Digital Gold What CEO do you follow? – Travis Kalanick Favorite online tool? — Coinbase How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Don't be so arrogant, don't think that you know it all. Listen more, talk less Time Stamped ...
Oct 02, 2017•30 min•Ep. 800
Olin Hyde . He's the co-founder and CEO of LeadCrunch.ai , an intelligent demand generation platform that accelerates sales with high precision analytics and content delivery. In less than 10 months since they've launched, the company has grown to more than 90 customers and are getting 300% higher sales conversion rates. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Humans What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Salesloft How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If you could let your 20-year o...
Oct 01, 2017•19 min•Ep. 799
Harry Kargman . He's a passionate entrepreneur who bootstrapped Kargo over 17 years into the leading mobile brand advertising marketplace. He's obsessed with art, design and New York and has been helping steward the ad council in a partnership for New York. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Only the Paranoid Survive What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Skype , Slack and other product tools How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one ...
Sep 30, 2017•21 min•Ep. 798
Irv Shapiro . He's responsible for the overall business strategy and corporate leadership as the CEO of DialogTech . DialogTech provides the industry a leading, actionable, marketing analytics platform for businesses that value inbound sales calls. The company was named an Inc 500 company in servicing close to 5000 businesses worldwide—ranging from emerging companies to the world's largest enterprises. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Purple Cow What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online ...
Sep 29, 2017•22 min•Ep. 797
Andreas Antonopoulos . He's a technologist and serial entrepreneur. He has become one of the most well-known and well respected in bitcoin. He's the author of Mastering Bitcoin , published by O'Reilly Media. Andreas is also considered the best technical guide in bitcoin and The Internet of Money —another term that he coined—is his book about why bitcoins matter. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Digital Gold What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite online tool? — Trello How many hours of sleep do you ...
Sep 28, 2017•31 min•Ep. 796
Alex Austin . He's the CEO and co-founder of Branch , a leading mobile deep linking platform with solutions that unify mobile user experience and measurement across devices, platforms and channels. He founded Branch back in 2014 while attending Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before founding Branch, Ale founded Kindred Prints, had engineering roles at NASA and holds many research papers under his name. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Mistborn Trilogy What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos ...
Sep 27, 2017•34 min•Ep. 795
Evan Liang . He's the CEO and co-founder of LeanData which he founded after managing a data cleanup project at his first company and felt the pain of cleaning Salesforce data by hand. Prior to LeanData, he was the GM and VP of products at Caring.com where he grew a small acquisition within the company's main business. Generally, he owned 50% of the company's revenue over 2 years. Before Caring.com, Evan worked at Shasta Ventures , a leading venture capital firm focused on end-user driven busines...
Sep 26, 2017•21 min•Ep. 794
Sandy Khaund . He's the CEO of Upgraded , a platform for tickets using blockchain technologies. Previously, he was the CTO at InStadium , a sports venue ad network and senior director at Turner Broadcasting along with CEO of Iryrnsoft , a video-based learning for mobile devices. He was also the COO of teen social network at Piczo and director at Microsoft . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The World is Flat What CEO do you follow? – Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg Favorite online tool? — OneNote ...
Sep 25, 2017•21 min•Ep. 793
