This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is our second episode coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxOs from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference, with top speakers from around the world, debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next. One conference speaker is IFFCO CIO Jaroslaw Pietraszko. The multibillion-dollar UAE leader is the most diversified m...
Mar 04, 2025•27 min
This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxO’s from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next. Most companies are frantically rebooting their growth plans to meet the realities of fierce AI enabled competition. Though many are focused on how to be more competitive, or pro...
Feb 23, 2025•29 min
As we head into the second half of the decade chock-full of massive change and innovation, The Reboot Chronicles wanted to know how higher education will reboot itself to not just meet our global challenges—but lead the way. While AI has broken the rules of growth and innovation, supercharging most business sectors whether they wanted it or not, most of our institutions are not riding the wave or even keeping up—except for a few. One of America’s top universities that is ahead of the pack, bucki...
Feb 13, 2025•34 min
There is a good chance that a cyberattack is happening while you are reading this or watching a Reboot Chronicles show episode. From phishing email attacks and ransomware threats to malware penetrating old security systems – bad actors are constantly looking for the next way to break through cybersecurity systems. These attacks can impact any of us personally, from identity theft to financial ruin – and they are costing corporations and governments (aka tax payers) billions of dollars every year...
Feb 04, 2025•31 min
Last week’s Reboot Chronicles episode helped people and companies determine where to invest—especially since President Trump announced approximately $1 trillion in AI and infrastructure investments in the U.S. On this episode we look ahead to where CEO’s need to invest to better prepare for the challenging demands and technology opportunities they will face in the second half of this decade. Rob Wolcott, founder of Clareo, the Kellogg Innovation Network, and Twin Global is a thought leader, stra...
Jan 30, 2025•33 min
With President Trump sworn into office again, over ½ trillion-dollars of AI infrastructure deals announced with Stargate and DAMAC, and markets up—business leaders and consumers are looking for the best guidance on where to invest in next. A top FOX Business portfolio manager/panelist and previous Bloomberg Television anchor, Adam Johnson unpacks it all on this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. A sought after investment guru, Adam manages the American Ingenuity Platform at Bullseye Investment Gr...
Jan 22, 2025•33 min
On The Reboot Chronicles Show we predominantly talk to organizations that have undergone or are currently going through a reboot to learn how leaders are adapting to an ever-changing world. Our audience learns best from leaders who take zoomed-out approaches to rebooting, and share the trends and disruptions they are seeing across sectors—with game plans they are formulating toward the future. Josh Bersin, started several companies, one of which he sold to Deloitte. Since then, he founded The Jo...
Jan 15, 2025•31 min
Here at the Reboot Chronicles, we have had the pleasure of talking with many disruptive brands shaking up the big dogs of industry. One that has had several disruptors globally has been Fintech with companies like Brex, Affirm (previous episodes) and many others changing how people can interact with their money. Today's guest Rodrigo Teijeiro is a disruptor on a mission to democratize financial services with his RecargaPay mobile app. It has been a long tough journey for Rodrigo to make RecargaP...
Dec 18, 2024•31 min
What combines a Nickelodeon Theme Park, Coco Melon-based attractions, an aquarium, hundreds of world-class retailers, including a Rent-The-Runway outlet, and what could be the largest indoor waterpark ever? If you are thinking major amusement park, like Six Flags or Disney World, future guests on the show—it may be a surprise to hear we are talking about a mall. THE MALL. The Mall Of America is the largest shopping and entertainment complex in North America, which just this black Friday weekend ...
Dec 10, 2024•31 min
The pet market is expected to be a half-a-trillion-dollar sector by 2030 with an ever-growing landscape of competitive growth opportunities serving consumers and their pets. PetSafeBrands CEO RobCandelino joins this episode of The Reboot Chronicles to share his personal journey and how he is rebooting his company and the industry. PetSafe’s portfolio includes leading brands with hundreds of patents—like Invisible Fence, Sport Dog, and Kurgo. With tens of millions of dogs protected by their fence...
Dec 03, 2024•32 min
One question on every industry leader's mind is “How do I stand out?” At least it should be if you are looking to remain a market leader or even a fast-follower. This is especially true in the competitive Beauty Industry, where competitors range form multinational corporations to Indi-brands and startups. How do you continue to stand out and not just be another best practice brand? Dermalogica CEO, Aurelian Lis , has figured that out—and joins us for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show—to...
Nov 20, 2024•33 min
If you are thinking about starting a company or have an idea for a product, chances are that it has come from a pain point you want to solve. Startups worldwide are doing this with the hopes of growing and even the big-dog titans are doing this with hopes of disrupting the disruptive disruptors. But what does that process look like for a leader of a private company? What pains come with making the transition to a public company? What does the scaling process even look like? Remitly CEO, Matt Opp...
Nov 13, 2024•32 min
Tech leaders have been in an AI marketing hype-cycle, while many of their employees have been dealing with a growing fear of lay-offs, and for good reason. Companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Dell, and Amazon have let go of thousands of employees collectively, due to the hiring craze that occurred during the pandemic. With all those people hitting the job market and plenty of other job searchers out there, how can you best prepare for the job hunt. Liz Ryan, joins this episode of The...
Nov 05, 2024•32 min
Amazon revolutionized the retail market with its online shopping and shipping, a revolution that caused companies to change drastically or go bankrupt. Even Walmart had to reboot itself to battle the e-commerce giant. Another industry that Amazon took a huge swing at, tied to its original founding purpose, was books, and then with its Kindle and e-books in 2007. Already on its heels, COVID-19 took a swing at retail when people weren’t allowed to visit stores to support the already struggling boo...
Oct 29, 2024•33 min
With cybercrime damages estimated to cost the world $15-20 trillion by 2028—none of us are safe from its impact. The Godfather of Israeli Cybersecurity, Shlomo Kramer - CEO of Cato Networks, joins us for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles to unpack why the next generation of cyber security will be SASE technology. Shlomo was a seed investor and board member of industry giant Palo Alto Networks, writing their first investment check. He co-founded both Check Point and Imperva, taking both compa...
Oct 22, 2024•32 min
Education is the cornerstone of every great nation, and it is through great education that world-class innovators and leaders arise to make changes where change is needed. Easier said than done but when done correctly, through a team of forward-thinking individuals who believe “there are no such things as unrealistic dreams” you can deliver a level of education that will shape generations. That is exactly what today’s guest on The Reboot Chronicles is passionate about—believing in the impact of ...
Oct 15, 2024•33 min
AI is one of the hottest topics in the tech world, with investors pouring billions of dollars into thousands of projects and companies—and no signs of slowing down. It’s predicted that the AI sector will receive another trillion-dollar boost over the next few years. What if there was a platform that would allow you to clone yourself, to broaden your reach, or interact with someone else’s clone to learn from? Would you do it if you could make money from it? While that might sound like the plot of...
Oct 08, 2024•32 min
Hyper-scaling in a highly competitive sector is not for the faint of heart. You need a team that is hitting on all cylinders—while adding new engines to increase horsepower and capabilities along the way. In the tech-world, you need to competitively unseat and outpace the other business-as-usual systems integrators—and help your clients build out next-generation systems that will allow them to transform their businesses too. After 17 straight quarters of growth, Persistent Systems, is one of the...
Oct 01, 2024•32 min
Many CEO's parachute in to reboot companies, but today’s guest has had to do it dozens of times. Founded by his father in a Red Barn in Waterloo Wisconsin, John Burke, President and CEO of Trek Bicycle, has been rebooting the company since he started working there as a teenager. A remarkably fun leader and author of three books, John has grown the company into the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the U.S. Now a $2 Billion global company with thousands of employees selling through a massi...
Sep 25, 2024•33 min
With Amazon and online shopping exploding in popularity, with new habits formed and accelerated during the pandemic, brick-and-mortar stores are at yet another turning point to regain relevancy. It is now a common sight to drive around towns in North America to see malls and outlet centers slowly hollowing out, becoming something else, or a place for mall walkers to get some steps in. One company rebooting the outlet mall experience in a big way is Tanger , a leading operator of upscale shopping...
Sep 17, 2024•32 min
With Apple going all in on AI to boost its next round of hardware and services with Apple Intelligence, data is needed now more than ever—massive data. More data than one company can provide, if they hope to make AI services quickly and efficiently do what’s asked, without getting bogged-down. Another California company attacking AI plumbing problems is Teradata, one of the largest cloud analytics platforms with a focus on harmonizing data. Starting as a hardware company, making things like the ...
Sep 09, 2024•35 min
We have reported about how India is becoming a global leader across industry sectors and interviewed dozens of top CEO’s who have been leading the charge. From Zoho, Cisco, and Juniper Networks to TTEC, H&R Block, Mphasis and many others, many CEO’s are shifting billions of dollars of investments from a dependence on China and Taiwan toward India. Another global leader driving this massive transformation is The Mahindra group, a $21 Billion Multinational Federation of Companies which employs...
Aug 26, 2024•32 min
Power tools are a staple of any garage whether you are a blue-collar worker, a hobbyist, or someone who has just bought a picture frame that needs hanging. Approximately 55 percent of Americans have at least five power tools in their possession, with a large portion of those people buying those tools during COVID-19, when we saw a spike in indoor and outdoor DIY home renovations. Many companies like, DeWalt and Milwaukee, experienced that big spike—as did STIHL, one of the world’s largest manufa...
Aug 22, 2024•32 min
Instant shipping is the new norm that continues to fuel America’s Amazon era shopping addictions. Approximately 350 billion packages shipped last year—projected to hit 500 billion worldwide by 2028. And in this brave new tech. enabled shopping revolution, consumers have moved beyond asking ‘what day’ will my package arrive to expecting real-time tracking with exact arrival times and proof of delivery. With FedEx and UPS enabling these trends, we took a look under the hood to see how UPS is empow...
Aug 08, 2024•32 min
Cybersecurity is a mess that will continue to impact all of us in the hyper-connected world we live in—and is estimated to cost the global economy $20Trillion by 2026. Whether it is fighting against government sponsored terrorist groups, gig-economy ransomware artists, teenagers holed up in their basements or AI drones, combatting cybersecurity is vital for anyone in charge of digital information. Fighting is the key word of this global war. The Honorable Eric Rosenbach , knows how to fight at s...
Aug 01, 2024•31 min
You can’t Reboot your business or your life with the old playbooks that got you to where you are today—you must redesign your approach to what’s coming next. Even though they were founded in the 40’s, Cannon Design is not your mothers design firm. One of the best examples of the ‘Build, Buy, Borrow’ growth-acceleration examples we’ve discovered outside of tech., they’ve grown into a diverse services and software platform through creative partnerships and acquisitions, across the globe. Bold acqu...
Jul 25, 2024•31 min
A serial entrepreneur and go-to-market pro, Andrew Amann has developed a bunch of patents and startups, with some successful exits along the way. A Nuclear Submarine Engineer turned CEO, he runs one of the fastest growing product design and engineering studios, building dozens of companies and hundreds of products, used by millions of people that have created over$ 1B in revenue. Listen in as we unpack how startups can better de-risk themselves and get help. From partnering with hubs like 1871 a...
Jul 18, 2024•31 min
The world's largest private equity firm acquired a majority stake in Mphasis—a $1.6 Billion multinational technology services company with 37,500 employees working with large enterprise clients around the globe. The deal was Blackstone’s largest tech. investment and biggest acquisition in India. With a long rough history, being owned by the likes of EDS and HP, Blackstone saved Mphasis by making it independent and agile once again. Since the deal Mphasis has been on a tear, securing some of ...
Jul 10, 2024•32 min
Personal reboots are the hardest, especially if you have been knocked down and kicked out of the industry and ecosystem of people that got you there. On this Episode of the Reboot Chronicles Actor, Producer, Director, and Author Kevin Sorbo openly shares his remarkable comeback story. Long before Marvel movies were everywhere, Kevin was known to millions around the world as Hercules. The hit series Hercules was beloved in 176 countries, surpassing even Baywatch as the most watched TV show on the...
Jun 27, 2024•31 min
Most all companies are going through some form of tech. reboot. From the 20-person start-up to organizations with 100,000 people—some who have been around for over 100 years. Though there is much to learn from big and small reboots, the business in question has roots back to the 1800’s when it was a small NYC accounting office. Today KPMG is one of the world's top professional services firms, serving 80% of the Fortune Global 500 with a broad spectrum of Audit, Tax, Advisory and Innovation s...
Jun 20, 2024•32 min
