The Brilliant Ones: Recent Episodes
Donnie Adams
A show about entrepreneurs and the companies they built. Listen to entrepreneurs share their experiences, pitfalls and keys to their success. Tune in every Thursday for New Episodes.
Faraz Hemani is the Founder & CEO of Pebble Ridge Capital. Pebble Ridge partners with investors to acquire and operate under-performing self storage facilities all across the US.
Faraz has been investing in real estate since the age of 22. After leaving his six-figure job at Google, Faraz went all in on his real estate investments.
In this episode, he shares his journey into real estate investing, why self storage facilities make good investments and how he grew Pebble Ridge to a $10M portfolio.
Jeevan Betigeri is the Founder & CEO of Fathom Software. Fathom Software builds custom software for clients ranging from startups to enterprises.
After spending years working in IT, Jeevan decided to start his own company. Jeevan has developed world class solutions from rapid prototypes to enterprise software integrations.
The journey wasn't easy. In this episode, he shares his story building Fathom Software to multi-million dollar company, growth hacks he learned along the way. We also look into his other business ventures revolutionizing the influencer and mobile ordering space.
Kristi Otto is the Co-founder and CMO at VClick3d. VClick3d is a proprietary sensory communication platform for video surveillance and IoT devices that reduces bandwidth and storage to zero while maintaining 100% evidentiary data at the edge.
Over the past decade, Kristi has helped bring technology solutions from idea stage to launch. She has brought new ideas to companies and helped bring them to market. Her contributions have been recognized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this episode, she shares advice for startups looking to scale during market uncertainty, working with innovators and building a smart sensing technology product in the pediatric space.
Roderick Hearn is the CEO and founder of Ironrod Steel Co. After spending 13 years in prison, Roderick founded Ironrod Steel Co and quickly grew it to over 2 Million Dollars in revenue in less than 5 years. Ironrod Steel Co is a steel distributor security fence and gate manufacturing company.
In this episode, Roderick discusses how he picked up the welding trade in prison, overcoming challenges building the right team and quickly expanding operations into their 42,000 square feet warehouse.
Jay Veal is the Founder and CEO of INC Education. Serving more than 10,000 students INC Education is a private, prescriptive tutoring company specializing in individual one-on-one tutoring that achieves results. Serving clients at all academic levels in math, science and standardized test preparation.
He has been featured in Black Enterprise, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Rolling Out, Business Insider and NBC.
In this episode, he sheds light on the importance of college readiness, private tutoring, building a tutoring business and his calling to help the youth.
Abu Sadeq is the founder and CEO of Zartech. Zartech helps companies improve their cybersecurity defenses, reduce business risk and meet regulatory compliance needs.
With over 20 years of experience in the security field, Abu has built and managed world-class teams, developed and implemented effective security strategies, and overseen the design and deployment of advanced security technologies.
In this episode, he discusses leaving his corporate leadership role to build Zartech, bootstrapping the company and cybersecurity attacks on SMBs.
Aaron McCloud is the Founder and CEO of Intervene K-12. Intervene K-12 is an tech enabled high impact online instruction company focused on revolutionizing how students learn and grow
Intervene K-12 uses data-driven instruction with online small group intervention programs to help K-12 schools improve students outcomes.
In this episode Aaron discusses his early struggles with learning, inspiration to build naval ships and the founding of Intervene K-12.
Zohaib Patoli is the Co-founder and CEO Lead Origin. Lead Origin is a digital marketing agency that helps businesses increase sales and build scalable marking campaigns.
At just 23 years old Zohaib build multiple multi million dollar businesses. Like most entrepreneur the road has not always been easy.
At the age of 13, Zohaib began his career by establishing an streetwear brand that he eventually sold. His journey as a young entrepreneur was established through a range of business operations, from dealing in high-demand footwear to running an iPhone repair shop.
In this episode he shares his early days of being an immigrant from Pakistan, building his first company, owning COVID testing centers, reinventing the vape industry and the future of digital marketing.