Luke "the Dingo" Trembath is a one of a Kind personality whose fun loving spirit and contagious energy has made him a mainstay on television for years. The former pro snowboarder is a leading voice of the action sports world & beyond, where he has done everything from announcing high profile sporting events, The MTV MUSIC music awards to starring in 5 seasons of fuel TV's "The Adventures Of Danny & The Dingo". Once you've meet him, you'll agree – there’s only 1 Dingo A true social chamel...
Aug 27, 2020•38 min
GT Dave is the founder and CEO of the kombucha company GT’s Living Foods. In the late 1990s, he was the first to put kombucha on store shelves and his company currently owns 40% of the U.S. kombucha market. His first sale of kombucha (which he marketed as GT's Kombucha) was to Erewhon Natural Foods in 1995, when he sold two cases (24 bottles) which nearly sold out in the first day. From his bedroom, he would call buyers, distributors and store owners, using different voices to pose as different ...
Aug 25, 2020•32 min
Kevin Harrington has been a successful entrepreneur for over 40 years. He’s an original “Shark” on the Emmy-winning TV show, Shark Tank. He is also the Inventor of the Infomercial, As Seen On TV Pioneer, Co-Founder of the Electronic Retailers Association and Co-Founding board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Kevin got his start as a young entrepreneur in the early 80s when he invested $25,000 and launched Quantum International. This turned into a $500 million/year business on the New Y...
Aug 20, 2020•24 min
Peter Tuchman is a stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been called the "most photographed trader on Wall Street.” Tuchman's photo is widely recognized for its affiliation to market news. Tuchman has strong, emotional expressions of anguish, anticipation, desperation, and triumph which he says are genuine. His photo is often chosen for news about Wall Street particularly on days of market volatility. Some say that he resembles Albert Einstein and that this is what mak...
Aug 14, 2020•41 min
Farokh Sarmad is the CEO of Goodlife Media and has spent the past six years building an Instagram empire. He is best known for starting @goodlife and for helping the most recognizable entrepreneurs build their personal brands on social media. Follow Farokh Sarmad on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farokh/?hl=en Follow Goodlife on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodlife/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 11, 2020•34 min
Milan Kordestani is a serial entrepreneur whose most notable startups include Guin Records, The Doe, and Dormzi. Before the age of 19, Milan found himself building three startups across music, technology, and journalism, while simultaneously attending college full time. Milan attributes his success to his unwavering belief that a collective culture built on innovation, ethics, and hard work yields positive results and he is passionate about sharing those ideas with the world. Together with frien...
Aug 07, 2020•31 min
KidSuper is best known as Colm’s clothing label, he prefers to brand all of his creative ventures under that moniker. KidSuper is a creative collective that designs and makes clothing, paints and does art shows, records music, and makes music videos all out of Colm’s Brooklyn studio. KidSuper has racked up a passionate following on Instagram, which has led to opportunities like making ski goggles for A$AP TyY, becoming the breakout surprise of the Paris Menswear Fashion Shows, and exhibiting his...
Aug 05, 2020•26 min
Today on Rise of The Young we have Jose Montero. Jose is the CEO and founder of Blue Social, and they're on a mission to reinvent the name tag. Instantly share your social networks, contact information, payment information, music and weblinks with a simple tap. Learn more about Blue Social: https://www.blue.social/ (use the code CASEY2020 for 20% off) Follow Jose Montero on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jose_montero_/?hl=en Follow Blue Social on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blue_...
Aug 03, 2020•30 min
Darren Marble is the Co-CEO of Crush Capital, a fintech firm with a mission to democratize the IPO. Crush Capital is the creator of “Going Public,” a new original series that allows viewers to invest in IPOs. Apply for Season 1 today: https://goingpublic.com - Sign up for Catch now: https://www.catch.co/partners/rise-of-the-young Use the promo code CASEY2020 and get $10 after you save $100 in Catch! Today’s episode of Rise of the Young is brought to you by Catch, a free tax withholding and benef...
Jul 29, 2020•33 min
Kristen Anderson is a product leader in consumer FinTech and banking integration. Kristen is the Co-founder & CEO at Catch, a Y Combinator-backed startup combining savings, investment, and insurance for those without access to employer benefits. Early in her career, she worked with Commonwealth to design and scale innovative savings products that now serve more than 80 million consumers. Kristen also helped launch one of the first student loan repayment SaaS benefits platforms. Kristen has l...
Jul 27, 2020•34 min
Republic started as a crowdfunding platform with a mission to democratize fundraising and a vision to become a true marketplace for private investing. Republic’s family of companies now provides end-to-end fundraising, distribution, and advisory solutions targeting token and equity sales to retail and institutional investors. Republic is an industry leader in this effort through Equity Crowdfunding, syndicated investments, and direct VC introductions. Whether from Republic’s angel and family off...
Jul 22, 2020•35 min
Doug Ellin is a screenwriter and film and tv director, known best for creating the HBO television series Entourage. Ellin has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards, three PGA Awards and a BAFTA, and has won a BAFTA and a PGA award. Learn more about Doug Ellin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ellin Follow Doug Ellin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrdougellin/?hl=en Listen to "Victory The Podcast" now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victory-t...
Jul 20, 2020•33 min
Will Dzombak is one of the entertainment industry’s most prominent names in music management, best known for his role in growing the career of Grammy-nominated rapper Wiz Khalifa and his Taylor Gang Entertainment. In 2014, Dzombak partnered with Khalifa to officially launch Taylor Gang Ent., inspired by the loyal and organic fanbase Khalifa built over the years. In addition to running and overseeing the day-to-day operations of Taylor Gang Entertainment, Dzombak has built the company in to a mul...
Jul 17, 2020•29 min
Today on Rise of The Young I sat down with John Henry. Henry started his first business at 18, an on-demand drycleaning service for the Film and TV industry in New York City, with clients such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire, Power, and more. Henry led the company through its acquisition in 2014 -- founding and selling his first business by the age of 21. Henry later cofounded the diversity-focused Venture Capital firm Harlem Capital, raising $40.3mm and making 17 investments in Wom...
Jul 16, 2020•32 min
Today on Rise of The Young we sit down with the co-founder of Compound and now the Head of Republic Real Estate, Janine Yorio. Republic Real Estate is a digital investment platform that lets everybody, everywhere invest in global real estate in small dollar increments. Our mission is to fundamentally reshape the fabric of real estate ownership by bringing access to high-quality real estate investments to ALL investors. Republic Real Estate is part of the Republic family of companies, which has o...
Jul 13, 2020•33 min
Tim Draper is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates, and Draper Goren Holm. His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, and Focus Media. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from th...
Jul 08, 2020•28 min
Clinton C. Sparks is an American DJ, record producer, songwriter, radio personality, and marketer from Boston, Massachusetts. In 2012, he was nominated for a Grammy for his production work on Lady Gaga's Born This Way. That year, he also won a BMI songwriting award for writing Pitbull's "Shut It Down" and has since won several ASCAP Awards with DJ Snake as part of his Get Familiar Music publishing company. He has written and produced songs for a number of notable acts, including Akon, Ludacris, ...
Jul 01, 2020•42 min
Metta World Peace is an American former professional basketball player. He was known as Ron Artest before legally changing his name to Metta World Peace in 2011. He played college basketball for the St. John's Red Storm. He played for six teams in the NBA and gained a reputation as one of the league's premier defenders. He won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2004, when he was also named an NBA All-Star and earned All-NBA honors. He won an NBA championship in 2010 as a member of the...
Jun 27, 2020•36 min
Today on Rise of The Young we sit down with Dave Rubin and talk about the current political climate (June 2020). Dave Rubin is a stand-up comedian, talk show host, and television personality. He is the creator and host of political comedy talk show “The Rubin Report." Watch "The Rubin Report" on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/RubinReport Follow Dave Rubin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rubinreport... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 19, 2020•31 min
Cindy Eckert is an American entrepreneur who built and sold two pharmaceutical companies, notably Sprout Pharmaceuticals, creator of “female Viagra,” for more than $1B. She subsequently founded The Pink Ceiling which invests in companies founded by, or delivering products for, women. The Pink Ceiling's incubator - dubbed The Pinkubator - is based in Raleigh, NC. Eckert was featured on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine's Women to Watch issue in January 2016. In November 2017, Eckert re-acquired ...
Jun 14, 2020•40 min
On this episode I sit down with Loody Boy, the VIP manager of Taylor Gang. Over the past decade Loody has traveled across the world with Wiz Khalifa, Chevy Woods, and the entire Taylor Gang crew. Loody Boy is also the host of "Da Light Show" on Dash Radio, and does hip hop interviews. Follow Loody Boy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loodyboy/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 10, 2020•30 min
Harley Finkelstein is a Canadian businessperson, entrepreneur and public speaker. He is best known as the Chief Operating Officer of Shopify. He is a board member of CBC, and an advisor to both OMERS Ventures and Felicis Ventures. He is also a Dragon on CBC Dragons' Den, Next Gen Den. After completing his JD and MBA, Finkelstein worked at a law firm in Toronto for a year. In 2009, Finkelstein met with Tobias Lütke, the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, to discuss opportunities for the company. Fink...
May 28, 2020•44 min
Tosca Musk is a South African filmmaker. She co-founded the streaming service Passionflix. Passionflix is a premium streaming entertainment service for romance fans, creating original movies and other digital content from bestselling books, while licensing an impressive library of all-time favorite romantic movies. She is also an executive producer, and director of feature films, television programs, and web content. Her work includes K. Bromberg's Driven, Rachel van Dyken's Matchmaker's Playboo...
May 25, 2020•32 min
There’s only one person in the world who can say he’s an entrepreneur who does celebrity relationship development for Fortune 500 companies, created Beacher's Madhouse, owns dozens of businesses around the world and is dubbed the The Greatest Showman on Earth by Rolling Stone. That man is Jeff Beacher. Jeff’s road to success all began back in 2002 in New York City. His first of many claims to fame was bringing Vaudeville back to the city, where he launched Beacher’s Madhouse with a sold out run ...
May 22, 2020•31 min
Jon Oringer is an American programmer, photographer, and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media and editing tools provider, headquartered in New York City. Oringer started his career while a college student in the 1990s, when he created "one of the Web's first pop-up blockers." He went on to found about ten small startups that used a subscription method to sell "personal firewalls, accounting software, cookie blockers, trademark managers," and o...
May 20, 2020•36 min
Christopher R. King was raised by a single mother, dropped out of school in the tenth grade, and went on to build a real estate empire all before age twenty-six. After losing everything in the 2008 financial crash, his never-quit mindset built back his second fortune. He co-founded King of Clubs, an ultra-premium wine with Napa Valley legend, Robert Mondavi Jr., which they sold in 2017. He is the founder and creative director of Christopher King / CCCXXXIII the luxury Italian-made leather goods ...
May 13, 2020•41 min
Daniel Snow is CEO and Founder of the New Jersey based online/social media marketing agency, Snow Agency and Social Cadre. Prior to becoming a disruptor in the social media ecommerce landscape, Daniel Snow had massive success with two other social media based companies he founded while still in college, Snow Media and Caffeine Digital. Caffeine Digital is a self serve ad platform geared towards influencers on Instagram and Twitter to monetize their followings with. Founded in August of 2014 duri...
May 11, 2020•30 min
Nick Gross is an entrepreneur, musician and founder of the Find Your Grind education platform. He started a career as a drummer and in subsequent years was the drummer for bands Open Air Stereo and Half the Animal. With Open Air Stereo Gross took part in the reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. The band later signed with Epic Records. In 2009, Gross launched STRZ Enterprises, a record studio and record label. He is the founder of Find Your Grind, an education platform, and CEO of B...
May 11, 2020•40 min
Jason Wong is a Managing Partner @thewonghaus and the Founder of @doe.bby & @holymemebible. The "Holy Meme Bible" is a product created under the product lab Dank Tank, and is one of its flagship products. Holy Meme Bible is an annual edition coloring book for memes. Inspired by the constant changing digital trends and the Internet culture around us, Meme Bible is the yearbook to document the year’s most iconic memories. The Holy Meme Bible was one of Shopify’s fastest growing store in 2016. ...
May 07, 2020•39 min
Shams Charania is an American sports reporter for The Athletic covering the NBA. After several years of breaking increasingly significant scoops, Charania caught the attention of Adrian Wojnarowski, then working for Yahoo Sports, who described Charania as "the best young reporter in [the] business". After joining Yahoo, Charania began to break significant deals in the NBA. He was the first to break a number of high-profile signings in the summer of 2016, including Dwight Howard's move to the Atl...
May 06, 2020•14 min
