Zvi Schreiber , founder and CEO of Freightos – the internet marketplace for the trillion-dollar international freight industry. Zvi was previously the CEO for Lightech which was acquired by G.E. , and was also the founder and CEO of Unicorn Solutions which was acquired by IBM . Additionally, Zvi was the founder of G.ho.st , a predecessor of DropBox, which ended in a fire sale. He's spoken widely and was in many articles and patents. He has a PhD in Computer Science and he's the author of Fizz: N...
Jul 27, 2017•23 min
Stephen Stuut . He's the CEO of Jumio.com. He brings more than 25 years of experience fueling corporate growth and leading technology businesses. Before Jumio, he served as a CEO of TruePosition, a leader in location-based service technology. Prior to that, he was a president and CEO of Broadband Innovations delivering digital interactivity services to cable TV providers. During his 10 years, he has raised over $30M in equity from venture capital firms and strategic investors and ultimately sold...
Jul 26, 2017•22 min
Cam Miller and Akin Onal , the founders of MORI/BabyMori.com . Cam is the chief growth officer and co-founder at MORI. He is responsible for building out their essential babies' brand and the creative use of marketing and technology. This summer, he represented the brand as one of the 500 startups at Mountain View Accelerator. Prior to MORI, he studied an MBA at London Business School, had various roles in Australia, France and the UK, and studied engineering business development finance and eve...
Jul 24, 2017•22 min
David Dunne . He's the CEO and co-founder of Velocidi , a marketing intelligence company that harnesses data for leading brands and agencies. In the 7 years since founding Velocidi, it enables marketers to make data-driven decisions that optimize marketing spend. David is currently leading the firm's next chapter into artificial intelligence. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Selling the Invisible What CEO do you follow? – Richard Branson Favorite online tool? — Tidal How many hours of sleep do you ...
Jul 23, 2017•30 min
Aaron Klein . His career has largely been in the intersection of finance and technology. As co-founder and CEO at Riskalyze , he led the company twice to being one of The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance by Fast Company Magazine . Today, over 150 riskalyzers served thousands of advisors. Aaron has served as a Sierra College trustee and in his spare time, co-founded a school project for orphans and vulnerable kids in Ethiopia. Investment News has honored him as one of the indus...
Jul 22, 2017•33 min
Andrew Fischer . He's a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive business development and sales experience in digital media and enterprise software or SaaS. He's recently launched Choozle , a simple and digital marketing platform in the fall of 2012. Based in Denver, Colorado, Choozle is the world's fastest growing digital advertising platform. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Green Favorite online tool? — Evernote How many hours of sleep ...
Jul 21, 2017•13 min
Heather Marie . She's the founder and CEO of Shoppable , a technology company that helps media companies, brands and retailers bring the checkout experience to anywhere a consumer discovers or engages with their products. While with Shoppable, she won the 2013 Women in Digital Award from L'Oreal, was named 1 of the 10 Most Powerful Millennials in Manhattan by Gotham Magazine , and 1 of the 11 Tech Gurus Changing the Luxury Game by Refinery29 . The company was a 2014 Webby Award Honoree for Onlin...
Jul 20, 2017•23 min
Charlie Gaudet . He's the best-selling author of The Predictable Profits Playbook . He's a keynote speaker and creator of predictable profits methodology—the most reliable way to systematically generate predictable profits for small businesses. He's been an entrepreneur since the age of 4, creating his first multi-million dollar business at 24 and has helped others generate millions through his strategy. He's received a lot of awards, recognitions and has given business advice around the world i...
Jul 19, 2017•20 min
Colin Day . He's the chairman and CEO of a company called iCIMS which he founded in 2000 with a vision to deliver applicant tracking software, emphasizing easy-to-use, unparalleled, customer service. iCIMS is the largest stand-alone provider of talent acquisition software in the industry and stands among Forbes top 100 fastest growing private cloud companies in the country Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? – Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff Favorite online tool? —...
Jul 18, 2017•24 min
Scott Duffy . He's the co-host of Business & Burgers and a contributor at Entrepreneur.com . He's also listed as one of the top 10 keynote speakers of Forbes and Entrepreneur. He started working for bestselling author and speaker, Tony Robbins. He's been a part of early stage exits and worked with big brands like CBSSport.com, NBC internet, Fox.com. He sold his last company to Richard Branson 's Virgin Group . He's the best-selling author of the book called Launch! . Famous Five: Favorite Bo...
Jul 17, 2017•18 min
Michael Segala . He's the CEO and co-founder of a company called SFL Scientific , a data science consulting firm that specializes in big data solutions. He's for leveraging machine learning in analytics techniques to arrive at insights to numerous industries— from healthcare to stock market predictions. Before founding the company, Michael worked as a data scientist in some of the well-known companies such as Compete Inc., Akamai Technologies and he also holds a PhD in Particle Physics from Brow...
Jul 16, 2017•21 min
Owen Sadeghpour. A year ago, he was the technical employee or founder at an earlier company and has raised over $50M. Now, he's working at a successful company. He's also got a different project called You Exec . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Blue Ocean Strategy and How to Win Friends and Influence People What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Squarespace How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-10 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "T...
Jul 15, 2017•22 min
Steve Olsher . He's the chairman and founder of Liquor.com . He's a New York Times best-selling author of What Is Your WHAT?: Discover The One Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do . He's also hosted the number 1 radio show, Reinvention Radio , and is a national keynote speaker and creator of the New Media Summit . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The $100 Startup What CEO do you follow? – Giovanni Marsico Favorite online tool? — io How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7-8 If you could let your 20-year...
Jul 14, 2017•23 min
Stephan Goss . He's the entrepreneur and technology executive behind his first company, Zeeto , which he started at the age of 22 and is still running today. He's led the company in expanding from a team of 3 people to 70 in just under 5 years and with the launch of the ad network, he plans on continuing the company's growth story in 2017. Previously, he founded Samples.com & Getitfree.us , which is the biggest free samples property on the internet. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Power of...
Jul 13, 2017•27 min
Ran Korber . He's the CEO and founder of BreezoMeter . His ambition is to improve the health and quality of life for billions of people across the globe by providing accurate and actionable air quality data. It's truly the leading air quality analytic company and one of Israel's top 10 promising startups in 2015 with millions of daily users. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Slack and HubSpot How many hours of sleep do you get?—...
Jul 12, 2017•27 min
Emília Chagas . She's the CEO of Contentools.com , a company that helps over 700 companies plan, create, distribute and analyze content. As a content manager for over 8 years, she has led video, book and web-based strategies at both enterprises and SMBs. She's a 500 Startups entrepreneur and part of the Endeavor Promises Program. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Hooked and The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Eric Santos of Resultados Digitais/RD Station Favorite online tool? ...
Jul 11, 2017•21 min
Stu Sjouwerman . He's a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder and CEO of KnowBe4.com . He's a big Shark Tank fan. He's based in Tampa, Florida. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Positioning What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — SurveyMonkey 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? – "I wished that my 21 old self knew that Bill Gates was going to go into Windows server, in about 1995" Time Stamped Sho...
Jul 10, 2017•23 min
Ryan Sevey . He's the CEO of Nexosis , an artificial intelligence and machine learning startup focused exclusively on developers. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Aha! 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? – "Learn how to be true to yourself" Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:25 – Nathan introduces Ryan to the show 01:55 – Nexosis was laun...
Jul 09, 2017•20 min
Sheri Atwood. She's the founder and CEO of SupportPay . She's also a former Silicon Valley executive and a child of a bitter divorce who also went through her own divorce a few years ago. She's created SupportPay when a search for a better way communicate about child support systems with her ex-husband proved totally fruitless. SupportPay is the first-ever automated child support payment platform poised to transform the complex, time-consuming & stressful process that impacts nearly 300M par...
Jul 08, 2017•23 min
Ryan Hungate . He's the co-founder of Simplifeye , it's the number one technology experience for healthcare providers, patients and their businesses. The company's platform of software solution health care providers improve productivity, efficiency and profitability. Ryan is an orthodontist and previous Apple retail strategist and Zach is a previous founder and Wall Street alum with a background in Tech MNA. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Lean Startup (Zach) What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favo...
Jul 07, 2017•18 min
Seymour Duncker . He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called iCharts , the leader in cloud business intelligence and analytics and a seasoned entrepreneur who has been both a consumer and developer of visual analytics. Before founding iCharts, Seymour assisted SAP's senior management in driving the company's product strategy and was an early team member at 2 enterprise software startups before that. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Inevitable What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite on...
Jul 06, 2017•23 min
Daniel Fagella . He started a mixed martial arts gym when he was an undergrad and sold it after getting a UPenn graduate degree in cognitive science. He did turn his grad school thesis on skill development into an ecommerce business that grew for 4 years, reaching $4.2M in top line sales and recently sold it for a million dollars with 90% paid upfront. He's now using his funds for TechEmergence.com in order to influence global AI policy for the better. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Plutarch's Li...
Jul 05, 2017•23 min
Allan Willie . He's the co-founder and CEO of Klipfolio , a software-as-a-service dashboard company with over 8500 paying customers including Jet.com , Zendesk , Aviva and Ikea . He previously co-founded a company called Espial , an internet device software firm that is now publicly traded on TSX. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and 2 daughters. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Lead by Greatness What CEO do you follow? – Tobias Lütke Favorite online tool? — SEO Plus Chrome plug in and Owler How ma...
Jul 04, 2017•22 min
Blake Smith . He's the CEO and co-founder of Cladwell , a clothing company that doesn't sell clothing. His goal is to fight for sustainability and human labor practices by enabling people to buy fewer, but better clothes. Blake was at The Top a year ago where he articulated that they passed 11,500 customers with each customer paying $6/month; so, they were doing about $70K MRR a year ago. They were at about 5% churn, monthly spending and at $17 to acquire new customers. They're based in Cincinna...
Jul 03, 2017•21 min
Assaf Resnick . He's the founder and CEO of BigPanda , an algorithm-make IT operations platform that turns IT alert noise into insight, unifies fragmented operations and enables digital enterprises to attain dramatic or pretty high service levels. Prior to founding the company, he was an investor for Sequoia Capital where he focused on early stage companies across enterprise software, SaaS and the internet sector. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Goal What CEO do you follow? – N/A Favorite onli...
Jul 02, 2017•27 min
Manny Fernandez . He's a Stanford University educated Angel investor, serial entrepreneur and best-selling author featured on CNBC's Make Me a Millionaire Inventor premier episode. He's been successfully investing his own ideas as well as taking companies from startup to exit. Recently, he was named by INC magazine as one of the 33 entrepreneurs to watch in 2016. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Think and Grow Rich What CEO do you follow? – Steve Jobs Favorite online tool? — LinkedIn , Twitter and ...
Jul 01, 2017•20 min
Vinay Patankar . He's the CEO of Process Street , the simplest way to manage your teams' recurring processes and workflows. Vinay sets up new clients, onboard employees and manages content publishing with his tool. He also co-host the podcast Business Systems Explored where he deep dives into business systems with industry experts. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk , Zach Nelson and Marc Benioff Favorite online tool? — io How many ...
Jun 30, 2017•19 min
Scott Clark. He's the co-founder and CEO of SigOpt, a Y-Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz backed, optimization as a service startup. Scott has been applying after-learning technologies in industry and academia for years. He holds a PhD for applied mathematics and an MS in computer science from Cornell University and a BS degree in mathematics, physics and computational physics from Oregon State University. He was chosen as one of Forbes' 30 under 30 in 2016. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Ha...
Jun 29, 2017•21 min
Eric Dolan. He's the co-founder and CEO of Neutun. He has 5 years of startup experience and business management experience. He also has data science experience with a focus on product development and management. In 2014, his team received an award for Best Smartwatch App in the Hack the North Competition in Canada. Recently, Eric was named INC's 30 under 30, a list that recognizes the best young CEOs in America. He received his bachelor in business administration from University of Western Ontar...
Jun 28, 2017•20 min
Paul Tyma. He's the founder and creator of a tool called Mailinator which is an email system. He's also a startup veteran and has focused on 4 Silicon Valley startups including Preemptive Solutions, Manybrain Inc which owns Mailinator, Home-Account.com which was acquired by Bills.com, and Refresh Inc which was acquired by LinkedIn. He's a frequent speaker, writer and author of one of the original books on Java called Java Primer Plus . Dr. Tyma has received his PhD from Syracuse University focus...
Jun 27, 2017•23 min
