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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

#240 - Charlotte Melkert, CEO Equalture - on shaping the world of unbiased hiring

Leave a comment or a question for Charlotte or Ton This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to shape a world in which every single person has the exact same chance to get hired for a job. My guest is Charlotte Melkert, Co-founder and CEO of Equalture. Charlotte has been recognized among the top 8 most talented female entrepreneurs of The Netherlands, Forbes 30 Under 30, and Sifted's top 14 European Gen Z Founders. She's been on her entrepreneurial journey together ...

Nov 23, 202241 minSeason 5Ep. 240

#239- Ahmed Elsamadisi, CEO Narrator AI - on succeeding by being 'different' not just 'better'

Leave a comment or a question for Ahmed or Ton This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to answer any question in minutes. My guest is Ahmed Elsamadisi, CEO of Narrator. Ahmed started his career at Cornell’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory, building algorithms for autonomous vehicles and human-robot interaction. He then joined Raytheon to develop AI algorithms for missile defense, focusing on tracking and discrimination. In 2015, Ahmed joined WeWork as the first hire...

Nov 16, 202258 minSeason 5Ep. 239

#238 - Aleks Gollu, CEO of 11Sight - on creating a unicorn business

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to reduce the distance between customers and businesses to one click, convert 3x more qualified leads and boost sales team results. My guest is Aleks Gollu, CEO of 11Sight. Leave a comment or a question for Aleks or Ton Aleks is a veteran of the Bay-Area venture/angel start-up eco-system with two positive exits working on his third. He's highly experienced in automated highways, telecommunications - especially real-time vide...

Nov 09, 202250 minSeason 5Ep. 238

#237 - Maarten Tobias, CEO Dimenco - on becoming the norm

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to bring presence to things that can't be present. My guest is Maarten Tobias, Founder, and CEO of Dimenco. Maarten is an experienced Strategy and Business development manager with extensive knowledge and interest in entrepreneurial high-tech environments. He received his Master's in Strategic Management in 2006 and worked at several business development and strategic leadership positions within Philips. In 2010 He founded D...

Nov 02, 202240 minSeason 5Ep. 237

#236 - Sunny Han, CEO of Fulcrum on creating a generationally valuable company

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to power a new generation of production. My guest is Sunny Han, CEO of Fulcrum. Sunny is a serial entrepreneur. He founded Imperis in 2010 and Co-founded Terran Logistics in 2012. He's a prototype of a tech entrepreneur on a mission. He founded Fulcrum in 2015, which he leads as their CEO to build a manufacturing platform for forward-thinking manufacturers. Its mission: To deliver a connected future where frictionless manufacturing production ...

Oct 26, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 236

#235 - MG Gurbaxani. CEO Cuvama - on transforming Enterprise Software sales

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help B2B SaaS companies make faster, bigger, better sales- increasing win rate by +19%, deal size by +42%, and increasing the average selling price by +35%. My guest is MG Gurbaxani, Co-founder and CEO of Cuvama. MG has been obsessed with customer value for nearly 2 decades. Over the last 17 years, he's helped over 80 global B2B customers across manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and software realize their monetizati...

Oct 19, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 235

#234 - Dmitri Sirota, CEO BigID - on embracing scientific hypotheses to build a successful startup

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. My guest is Dimitri Sirota, CEO, and Co-founder of BigID Dimitri has over a decade of experience as a privacy expert and identity veteran and is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and strategist. He is also recognized as one of the leading authorities in startups and company team building, receiving numerous rec...

Oct 12, 202239 minSeason 5Ep. 234

#233 - Yair Levy, CEO Brain.Space - on enabling global-scale innovation

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to provide researchers, medical practitioners, and software developers the underlying foundation to interpret, analyze and build brain activity products and services. My guest is Yair Levy, CEO of Brain.Space. Yair is a tech entrepreneur with extensive experience in the international business development of technology-oriented companies. His tenure at Mul-T-Lock, where he was responsible for the development and introduction ...

Oct 05, 202246 minSeason 5Ep. 233

#232 - Dr. Patrick Oehler, Co-CEO Retorio- on niching down to drive momentum

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help us spot, hire & develop the right team for our performance culture … by amplifying the people characteristics that make our business remarkable. My guest is Dr. Patrick Oehler, Co-Founder, and Co-CEO of Retorio. Patrick Oehler was born in Munich, Germany. After graduating from high school, he studied information-oriented business administration at the University of Augsburg and Management & Strategy at the London Sch...

Sep 28, 202249 minSeason 7Ep. 232

#231 - Matt Barnett, CEO Bonjoro - on the power of being different, not just better

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to Software companies over 70% more trial conversions with personalized sales and onboarding videos. My guest is Matt Barnett, Founder, and CEO of Bonjoro. Matt is the founder and CEO of Bonjoro. He is a Britisch designer by trade and loves two things: building great products and building a great culture. He started as a designer, worked as a consultant, did his MBA in 2012, and then co-founded not-for-profit group XTech Syd...

Sep 21, 202247 minSeason 5Ep. 231

#230 - Gorish Aggarwal, CEO of Sybill - on providing Sales with a competitive advantage

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to empower GTM teams to understand their prospects and supercharge their processes. My guest is Gorish Aggarwal, Co-founder, and CEO of Sybill. Gorish is a self-made tech entrepreneur obsessed with solving hard problems. Throughout his career, he worked as a senior software engineer in the healthcare research team of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). He's an electrical engineering graduate from IIT Delhi and s...

Sep 14, 202246 minSeason 5Ep. 230

#229 - Justin Beals, CEO Strike Graph - on creating both value and resilience

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help Enterprise B2B SaaS vendors shorten their sales cycles by 50-75%. My guest is Justin Beals, Co-founder and CEO of Strike Graph. Justin Beals is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and governance. He organizes strategic innovations at the crossroads of cybersecurity and compliance and focuses on helping customers get outsized value. In every startup he started, he focused on setting a foundation...

Sep 07, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 229

#228 - Kirk Marple, CEO of Unstruk Data - on making data actionable

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to provide us a significant competitive advantage by leveraging unstructured data. My guest is Kirk Marple, CEO of Unstruk Data. Kirk Marple is a customer-focused technology leader. He has over 25 years of experience developing media management pipelines, leading DevOps at venture-backed companies, and structuring successful exits. He holds multiple patents and industry awards and has truly established himself as an industry...

Aug 31, 202241 minSeason 5Ep. 228

#227 - Shikhar Shrestha, CEO of Ambient.ai - On creating unique SaaS products that people desperately want

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to create a world free from security incidents. My guest is Shikhar Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of Ambient.ai. Shikhar is a tech entrepreneur on a mission. He builds and leads teams that invent new technologies that transform markets, all with the end goal of delivering magical outcomes for our customers. After several years of R&D in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in academia at Stanford and industry at Apple ...

Aug 24, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 227

#226 - Chris Dial, CEO of Salutare - on growing traction in Healthcare by creating pull.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to join up Healthcare and prevent people from having cancer, losing their mobility, or their lives due to errors and delays. My guest is Chris Dial, Co-founder, and CEO of Salutare. Chris started his career as an analyst at Forrester Research. He joined Microsoft in 2002, where - over a period of 18 years - he enjoyed several roles from Sr. Product managers all the way up to Microsoft's Senior Director of Cloud ISVs and Star...

Aug 17, 202245 minSeason 5Ep. 226

#225 - Harry Brundage, CEO at Gadget - on building better software faster

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help business app developers make the impossible possible. My guest is Harry Brundage, Co-founder, and CEO at Gadget Harry is a hard-core developer turned into a tech entrepreneur. He worked at Shopify in numerous capacities, building and scaling Shopify's backend infrastructure, frontend technology stack, big data platform, and engineering organization. Since leaving Shopify, Harry has built many other systems -- a note-...

Aug 10, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 225

#224 - Peter Fishman, CEO of Mozart Data - on the first principles to grow traction

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to make becoming data-driven easier than ever before. My guest is Peter Fishman, Co-founder, and CEO of Mozart Data Dr. Peter Fishman has over a decade of experience running data and data-adjacent teams at companies like Microsoft, Yammer, Opendoor, Playdom, and Eaze. He realized that he was building the same types of modern data stacks at each company. Taking a broader perspective, he saw many other companies building a dat...

Jul 20, 202248 minSeason 3Ep. 224

#223 - Ervin Draganovic, CEO of Layerise - on growing competitive advantage for your customers

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give consumer product manufacturers an edge in building customer relationships and growing continuous revenue streams. My guest is Ervin Draganovic, CEO and Co-founder of Layerise. Ervin has a proven track record in product development, leadership, and corporate governance and has the capacity to attract, build and lead top-performing teams. He calls himself a digital-product-driven corporate opportunist. In 2019 he co-fo...

Jul 13, 202231 minSeason 5Ep. 228

#222 - Lidia Vijga, CEO Decklinks - on how to win against the big brands

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable every B2B Sales person to gain trust and advantage even before the 1st meeting. My guest is Lidia Vijga, Co-founder and CEO of Decklinks Lidia started her career in the Adtech space where she gained sales experience with both PixFuture and StackAdapt. In 2018 she co-founded Briefbid, a two-sided marketplace where media teams can connect, plan and work together. The insights she got there sparked the idea behind her...

Jul 06, 202246 minSeason 5Ep. 222

#221 - Nemo D'Qrill, CEO at Sigma Polaris - on building products that people love, not like

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to solve the global talent problem. My guest is Nemo D'Qrill, CEO at Sigma Polaris Nemo has traveled many paths driven by a passion to discover, understand, and solve worthy problems. From Mathematician to Logician to Flautist for the Danish Queen to Entrepreneur. He was honored as the youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador of Denmark, presenting joint ventures of world-leading companies internationally such as Maersk, Vestas, Gr...

Jun 29, 202242 minSeason 5Ep. 221

#220 - Shay David, CEO of Retrain.AI - on Product Market Fit resilience

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help bring the global unemployment rates down. My guest is Shay David, Co-founder, and CEO of Retrain.AI Shay is a serial entrepreneur who brings many years of experience in dreaming up products and making them a reality: from concept to market, from slideware to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. He co-founded of Kaltura where he helped define the future of video - thereby taking responsibility as CRO, then GM, an...

Jun 22, 202253 minSeason 5Ep. 220

#219, Christine Tao, CEO at Sounding Board - on creating successful businesses

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to make 1-1 coaching approachable for all of us. My guest is Christine Tao, Co-founder & CEO at Sounding Board. Throughout her career, a central theme for Christine has always been leadership development. She uncovered the power coaching could have on people when she acted in her role as Senior Vice President of Developer Relations at Tapjoy, a mobile advertising platform, where she led the growth of Tapjoy’s network busines...

Jun 15, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 219

#218 - Firaas Rashid, CEO of Hook - on building defensible differentiation

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help customer success teams cut churn, boost revenue and grow faster. My guest is Firaas Rashid, Founder, and CEO of Hook. Firaas is a tech entrepreneur on a mission, and one of his passions is Customer Success. He was CTO and Head of Customer Success (EMEA) at AppDynamics and helped it scale from $170m to $550m Annual Recurring Revenue in 2 years. Prior to that, he was a Director of IT at Credit Suisse. Today Firaas is t...

Jun 08, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 218

#217 - Amir Konigsberg, CEO Pragma AI - on creating a SaaS business that's built to last

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to ace customer interactions and accelerate revenue. My guest is Amir Konigsberg, Co-founder, and CEO of Pragma AI Amir is a Tel Aviv-based tech entrepreneur with vast experience seeding, building, and leading technology-driven companies, taking products to market and growing them into multimillion-dollar revenue-generating global businesses. He's founded, led, and held leadership roles at Twiggle, Israel Brain Technologies,...

Jun 01, 202241 minSeason 5Ep. 217

#216 - Ariel Hitron, CEO of Second Nature - on winning the essential sales conversations

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to practice sales conversations without pressure. My guest is Ariel Hitron, Co-founder and CEO of Second Nature Ariel has held various executive positions including VP of New Markets and VP Sales and Customer Success at Kaltura, where he ran global sales teams with dozens of reps He's a tech entrepreneur drawing from experience in both the field and the lab. He's run global sales teams with dozens of reps; built playbooks an...

May 25, 202243 minSeason 5Ep. 216

#215 - Dan Hubert, Founder and CEO AppyWay - on making the impossible possible

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation enabling more electric, autonomous mobility to become a reality. That paves the way for automated compliance. Seamless transactions. And smarter, cleaner, more efficient cities. For everyone. My guest is Dan Hubert, Founder and CEO AppyWay Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born t...

May 18, 202244 minSeason 5Ep. 215

#214 - Tobias Konitzer Ph.D., CEO of Ocurate - on using LTV to solve profitability issues

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help B2C business spend their money right - to increase profitability. My guest is Tobias Konitzer Ph.D., CEO of Ocurate Tobias Konitzer is an academically trained entrepreneur who has a proven track record of turning research into technology and into a product that addresses ubiquitous pain points. He worked for Facebook Research and completed a Ph.D. in computational social science at Stanford University. In 2017 he co-...

May 11, 202245 minSeason 5Ep. 214

#213 - Baptiste Boulard, CEO Swapcard - on dominating a niche

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to connect business people in ways that are more engaging and drive more value. My guest is Baptiste Boulard, CEO of Swapcard He's an ex-lawyer who turned entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. This Henry Ford quoted what drives him the most: “Anyone who stops learning is old – at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Life is about keeping your mind young.” Today, Baptiste is CEO and Co-Founder of Swapcard. He ...

May 04, 202251 minSeason 5Ep. 213

#212 - John Hudson, CEO of Luma1 on making customers heroes

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to grow the success of every organization by enabling a fluid knowledge flow. My guest is John Hudson, CEO of Luma1 John is a global tech entrepreneur and investor. While he's worked in tech including retail, e-commerce, and real estate, the main focus has been based on his belief that training is the fastest way to move the needle in any organization and the right technology can make it move faster and be even more impactfu...

Apr 27, 202241 minSeason 5Ep. 212

#211 - Ilia Zelenkin, CEO of Bitskout on creating transformational change

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give us back the energy and power to do the things where human intelligence and imagination shine. My guest is Ilia Zelenkin, CEO Bitskout. Ilia spent close to 15 years of his career at Nokia, ultimately as head of product & service innovation, Global Services. He then co-founded SafeRoom, a control center for Encrypted Data. In 2020 he co-founded Bitskout which he's heading up as the CEO. He's passionate about technology...

Apr 20, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 211
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