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Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission Podcast

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Welcome to the Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission podcast. My name is Ton Dobbe. I am the founder of Value Inspiration and the author of ‘The Remarkable Effect’. I envision a world where every B2B SaaS business succeeds because they're creating software their customers would miss if were gone 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆:  Research consistently shows 90% of all startups fail. That's bad.  What's worse however is that +75% of SaaS Scaleups fail - companies that are supposed to have product-market-fit. Far too few Scaleups create the traction they aspire for and fail for the wrong reasons I believe this should stop - and hence I started my business and this podcast The goal I have with this podcast is two-fold: to inspire new forms of value creation by sharing compelling ideas and stories about the potential we can unlock when technology and people blend in the right way. Share experiences from tech entrepreneurs like you about what it requires to create a remarkable software business and how to overcome the roadblocks to do so.

Episodes

Product Innovation: How a startup in identify Verification became the fastest growing provider in the industry

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that enables banks to grow faster by making communication with their customers easier, faster and more secure. My guest is Victor Fredung, CEO of Shufti Pro Victor Fredung, has many years in the payments field and has founded several successful fin-tech companies such as Ogion Consulting, GiroSwift LTD, Zensed and Stafftimer. Owning and operating several payment companies gave Victor a great insight into the troubles that a lot of Financial Se...

Nov 11, 201929 minSeason 2Ep. 90

Product Innovation: How a multi-billion$ software market can be disrupted by turning complicated into elegant

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to democratize possibly the most mature business software category of all: ERP. My guest is Jon Ruby, CEO of Jonar. Jon is a rare person who thrives at the intersection of business challenges, technology and people. As opposed to most, he relishes the opportunities that uncertainty provides. While working successfully in a variety of industries, he has always tried to learn from each and carry those lessons forward. Jon’s philosophy for both t...

Nov 04, 201946 minSeason 2Ep. 89

Product Innovation: How SMBs can boost top-line growth by leveraging AI for personalization

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around personalization that drives desired engagement and desired conversion. My guest is Stefan Eyram, Chief Revenue Officer at Youneeq Since 2000 Stefan has worked with top brands across a broad cross-section of industries to successfully deliver Cloud and SaaS solutions that achieve KPIs and deliver ROI. From marketing technology, to big data, analytics, AI and personalization, Stefan has helped customers achieve measurable results from the...

Oct 28, 201932 minSeason 2Ep. 88

Product Innovation: The shifting concept of Competitive Advantage in the age of AI

This podcast interview focuses on how competitive advantage is shifting in an age of automation. My guest is Josh Entsminger, Senior Fellow at Ecole des Ponts Business School in Paris. He’s an applied researcher in international affairs and the fourth industrial revolution, working on the global governance of technology. Josh serves as a fellow at the Public Tech Lab at IE's School of Global and Public Affairs, working on next generation public services. He also recently served as a research con...

Oct 21, 201941 minSeason 2Ep. 87

Product Innovation: The power of data: Fueling ingenuity as the core gauge of innovation

This podcast interview focuses on the fuel that drives today’s product innovation: Data. My guest is Auren Hoffman, CEO of SafeGraph Auren is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and author. He founded his first company, Kyber Systems, in his junior year at UC Berkeley, as a way to pay for school. He sold that company in 1997. From there he founded BridgePath (sold in 2002), became the chairman of Stonebrick Group, cofounded Rapleaf in 2006 and left in 2012 to run the Rapleaf spinoff called ...

Oct 14, 201942 minSeason 2Ep. 86

Product Innovation: The difference AI can add in making our meetings worthwhile

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to democratize the skills of great leaders and make every one of us more productive. My guest is Omar Tawakol. Omar Tawakol is Chief Executive Officer of Voicea which was recently acquired by Cisco. Prior to Voicea, Omar Tawakol was the founder and CEO of BlueKai which was the leading Data Exchange and Data Management Platform company in the marketing industry. Oracle acquired BlueKai in 2014. At Oracle, Omar was the SVP & G...

Oct 07, 201942 minSeason 2Ep. 85

The tough reality around AI adoption and what to do to actually succeed

This podcast interview focuses on what’s real and not real in the world of AI, and my guest is Daniel Faggella, founder and CEO of Emerj AI Research Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella helps business and government leaders navigate the competitive landscape of AI capabilities, and build strategies that win. His company, Emerj, helps governments and enterprises reduce risk and ma...

Sep 30, 201943 minSeason 2Ep. 84

Product Innovation: How the combo of People and AI can give us clear insights into the effects of our business and political decisions

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation focuses on the blended power of humans and AI to get clear answers to how their business or even the world might evolve years ahead of us. My guest is Bulent Ozel, Co-founder and CEO of LucidMinds Bulent is data science consultant, researcher and lecturer. He likes building bridges between business, technology, science, and policy making. He is a hands-on software architect and enjoys coding. He has provided data-driven business consultancy an...

Sep 23, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 83

Product Innovation: How HR increases the impact people can make by actually putting them first

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in HR that has the power to inspire growth and ignite culture. My guest is Ronni Zehavi, CEO of Hibob Ronni has over 25 years of experience in multinational, hi-tech companies. Prior to setting up hibob, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Silicon Valley based Bessemer Venture Partners. He's the strategic advisor and co-founder of Team8 Cyber Security, a powerhouse developing disruptive tech in the cyber security space. Ronni was also t...

Sep 16, 201940 minSeason 2Ep. 82

Product Innovation: How you can create your unfair competitive advantage by applying AI to lead targeting

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to accelerate sales cycle and reduce the costs of customer acquisition. My guest is Olin Hyde, CEO of Leadcrunch. He wrote his first line of code at age 12 on a home-built computer. Since then, he has started eight companies. Today he’s the CEO at LeadCrunch, a B2B lookalike marketing platform that uses artificial intelligence to find your ideal customer targets audience and then engage them with your content to accelerate t...

Sep 16, 201934 minSeason 2Ep. 81

Product Innovation: How blending AI with Audio boosts motivation and impact for all of us

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation with Audio Intelligence that has the power to impact human wellbeing on a global scale. My guest is Dagmar Schuller, Co-founder and CEO of AudEERING Dagmar has conducted applied research in the field of AI, machine learning and big data for more than a decade. Her passion is to bring trendsetting ideas into real-life concepts, thus enabling businesses to intelligently enhance their products and processes and – ultimately – personal lifestyles....

Sep 02, 201943 minSeason 2Ep. 80

Product Innovation: Achieve Support Inbox Zero by making people and AI work in combo

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around customer support that has the power to 10x your ticket response times. My guest is Rob May, Co-founder and CEO of Talla. Rob has a background in engineering, business development, and management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a MBA from the University of Kentucky. In October 2008, he co-founded and became CEO of Backupify which provided a secure second copy of cloud data. Their clients included companies l...

Aug 26, 201929 minSeason 2Ep. 79

How the synergy between AI and marketers can result in revolutionary effects on the businesses

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that’s transforming impact marketers can make in cross-channel marketing scenarios. My guest is Vijay Chittoor, Co-founder and CEO of Blueshift. Vijay has a wealth of experience in AI, marketing technology and e-commerce domains. He was an early team member and the director of product management at Kosmix which was acquired by Walmart to become WalmartLabs. In 2010 he co-founded Mertado and led it as the CEO for two years until it was acquired...

Aug 05, 201942 minSeason 2Ep. 78

Product Innovation: How AI helps Telco’s win the fight against Fraud and Revenue leakage while boosting their bottom-line

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to intelligently help the telco win the fight against fraud and revenue leakage. My guest is Rui Paiva, CEO of Wedo Technologies. Prior to co-founding WeDo Technologies in 2001, Rui Paiva was System Information Director and Deputy of Optimus Communications’ Executive Committee. Before that, Rui was the Consultancy Director at Hewlett Packard Portugal, following a career at Telecel, which then became Vodafone Portugal, headin...

Jul 29, 201941 minSeason 2Ep. 77

Product Innovation: To thrive in our constantly changing world we need a different type of AI

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around AI that has the power to adjust at the pace of business. My guest is Zehra Cataltepe, Co-founder and CEO of Tazi.AI Zehra co-founded tazi.ai together with her husband Tanju, and their focus was to develop continuously learning machine learning solutions for the banking, insurance and telco industries. Besides her role as CEO she’s also a professor at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Computer and Informatics. Zehra received her ...

Jul 22, 201944 minSeason 2Ep. 76

Product Innovation: How AI helps innovators get pro-active on hiring exactly the right people

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in Recruitment and my guest is Nachi Junankar, CEO of Avrio He’s got a passion for building long-lasting companies that build amazing technologies that change the world. He’s been an entrepreneur for over 20 years, and in that period founded five companies. It all started with Live Wire, where he successfully imagined and built an enterprise apps company before it was fashionable to do so. His second company, Retail IQ brought him into the opt...

Jul 15, 201938 minSeason 2Ep. 75

Product Innovation: Using smart technology smartly in cities, to make a dent in climate change challenges globally

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around water transportation that has the solve some significant climate change issues. My guest is Jean Francois Barsoum, Canadian Leader, Smart Cities, Water and Transportation at IBM. Since joining IBM, Jean-François Barsoum has provided strategy advice to a diverse set of clients: financial institutions, higher education, professional associations, pharmaceutical companies and telecoms. He has also been invited to speak at conferences on th...

Jul 08, 201946 minSeason 2Ep. 74

Product Innovation: How doing good and making a big bottom-line impact go perfectly hand-in-hand

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that boosts the return on investment of our advertising by turning every ad into an ethical one, and my guest is Amy Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Good Loop. Amy is an active member of the Women in Tech and Tech For Good communities. She was recently named by Forbes as one of the 30 Under 30 most influential people in media & marketing and has recently been listed in The Drum Digerati as one of the 100 outstanding individuals excelling in th...

Jul 01, 201937 minSeason 2Ep. 73

Why increasing trust, and removing bias is essential to increase the impact of AI

This podcast interview focuses on the responsibility for all of us to ensure the AI’s we invest in are ethical and deliver explainable, transparent output. My guest is Vikram Modgil, founder of TheGoodAI.org Throughout his career Vikram has helped his clients succeed in achieving their goals by truly leveraging the power of data that they already own using Machine Learning. To do so, he’s built an ecosystem company - Pi Square – that consists of employees, associates & partners located in US, Eu...

Jun 25, 201940 minSeason 2Ep. 72

Product Innovation: Democratizing access to AI beyond the world of tech giants

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation focused on democratizing access to AI across industries that haven’t got the connections and salary budgets of the Tech Giants. My guest is Naomi Goldapple, Head of product for transportation and logistics at Element AI. Naomi’s career combines technology and business consultancy and entrepreneurship. Her specialties are Business & growth strategies, product commercialization and marketing plans. She has an International MBA, specializing in d...

Jun 17, 201930 minSeason 2Ep. 71

Product Innovation: How AI helps bring your idea to life

This podcast interview focuses on [product innovation] that has the power to [xxxx], and my guest is Sachin Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai. Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and an advocate of enterprise software that touches lives and benefits the world at large. His profile is an unusual mix of experiences & serendipity. Sachin started his public foray very early in life. At the age of 12 he went on stage in front of 1200 people and the world media to demand something be done...

Jun 10, 201930 minSeason 2Ep. 70

Product Innovation: Using disruptive technology to turn ‘useless’ data into a competitive advantage

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around seemingly ‘ignored’ areas of data, and my guest is Danny Goh. Danny is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is the General Partner of G&H Ventures fund, which invests in early-stage start-ups primarily in Southeast Asia. G&H Ventures has invested in more than 20 portfolios in deep tech and is building its third fund to help start-ups into the growth stage. He has also co-founded Innovatube Frontier Labs (IFL), which lat...

Jun 03, 201942 minSeason 2Ep. 69

Product Innovation: Recruiting quickly, conveniently and cost effectively by disintermediating the middle-man

This podcast interview focuses on a product innovation that has the power to radically change the way recruitment is done. My guest is Tulika Tripathi, Founder and CEO of Snaphunt. Tulika has been in the recruitment space for almost two decades and has worked across many countries. She’s worked as a Managing Director for Michael Page in Singapore where she was responsible for South East Asia. Later on, she took on the responsibility for Michael Page’s entry strategy into India as well as setting...

May 27, 201940 minSeason 2Ep. 68

Product Innovation: How to obtain new competitive powers by using AI for entity resolution to tell you who’s who in your data

This podcast interview focuses on the power of entity resolution, and how this powerful technology has the ability to give any organization a competitive advantage. My guest is Jeff Jonas, Founder and CEO of Senzing. Jeff Jonas is an acclaimed data scientist. He is at the forefront of solving some of the world’s most complex business and big data problems for governments and organizations in a variety of industries. A former IBM fellow, Jeff is the leading creator of entity resolution systems. N...

May 20, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 67

Product Innovation: The promise of cognitive technology to enable the Self-Driving Enterprise

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the enterprise business software that has the power to turn average companies into disrupters in their category. My guest is Frederic Laluyaux, President and CEO of Aera Technology. He’s got more than 20 years of experience as a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management sector. Fred has built his career focusing on providing solutions that help organizations worldwide achieve financial and business excellence. Fred started his career ...

May 13, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 66

Product Innovation: How AI can make you more money in Marketing.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help marketers become best in class in marketing, and my guest is Parry Malm, Co-founder and CEO of Phrasee Phrasee uses AI to power email subject lines, Facebook and Instagram ads, and push notifications that outperform copy written by humans. Some of their global clients include Virgin, Domino’s, and The Times. Phrasee won 2017’s Most Innovative AI Company by CB Insights, and was one of the first AI companies in the wor...

May 06, 201937 minSeason 2Ep. 65

Product Innovation: How AI is shaping a better future for all of us by transforming the Utility industry

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the Utility industry, and my guest is Abhay Gupta, CEO of Bidgely. Abhay founded Bidgely, with the mission of leveraging data to transform the utility industry. Today, Bidgely is very well positioned with the technology and knowhow to not only help the utility industry go to market quicker, but also how to optimize their customer engagements. As the CEO of Bidgely, Abhay has led the company from concept to market leadership. Prior to Bidgel...

Apr 29, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 64

Product Innovation: How AI is transforming the Marketing space at scale

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the marketing arena, and my guest is Paul Roetzer, Founder of the Marketing AI Institute. Paul Roetzer is also the founder and CEO of PR 20/20. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint and The Marketing Agency Blueprint, and creator of the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference (MAICON). Paul is an international keynote speaker on the topics marketing talent, technology, strategy and artificial intelligence. He’s a grad...

Apr 22, 201930 minSeason 2Ep. 63

Product Innovation: How the ERP space is transforming fast, but slow

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the ERP space, and my guest is Vinnie Mirchandani Vinnie is the founder of Deal Architect - a Technology strategy and negotiation firm listed as a leading "boutique" by the Black Book of Outsourcing. Vinnie also founded IQ4hire, a projects marketplace and Jetstream Group, a sourcing advisory firm. Earlier in his career he had various technology consulting roles at PwC (now IBM) in the US, Europe and Asia, and worked as an industry analyst a...

Apr 15, 201944 minSeason 2Ep. 62

Product Innovation: How AI delivers the dream of every IT Operation: Self-healing-systems

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to deliver upon the promise of self-healing-systems. My guest is Mohit Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Opas AI Mohit has spent the last decade working on wide variety of interesting problems in Infrastructure, Big Data, and ML. He has run and managed infrastructure at massive scale and felt the pain of operating them first hand. This pain combined with his experience in Big Data and ML led to the incubation of Opas AI. Before f...

Apr 08, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 61
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