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Fuse Show
FUSE is a video and audio-based interview show where the founders of xFusion.io have conversations with entrepreneurs, business owners, and thought leaders of the startup world. The show’s mission is to feature founders and entrepreneurs through storytelling and experience sharing, and to share their wisdom with others.
Martin is a serial entrepreneur spanning three continents and 25 years Martin is the Co-founder & CEO of Gaine, the next-generation master data management platform specializing in healthcare and life sciences. specializing in enterprise data management, including co-founding Delos Technology which became Siperian and is now owned by Informatica and recognized as the leading enterprise MDM platform globally.
Book Recommendations;
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, by Geoffrey A. Moore
Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CEO of ConverSight.ai, empowering Supply Chain Leaders to gain timely insights using a simple natural language QA platform. Ganesh has spent over 20 years in the Data & Analytics space, led one of the fastest-growing $200M analytics business groups, and served customers in Manufacturing, Logistics, retail, and Hospitality.
Andrew is the founder of ForMotiv, a platform that analyzes end-user digital behaviour patterns. He's also the founder of Saigon A.I., a boutique AI agency.
Kevin is the co-founder of Spectora. He is a bootstrapper with a background in finance, real estate, and SEO.
Mitch is the CMO, and Bradoc is the CRO. Floorzap is a newly emerging CRM and business management software for flooring dealers.
Bryan Barbeau is the principal and founder of Your Digital Canvas. He has more than 20 years of experience in the management and entrepreneurship fields. As a consultant and entrepreneur, he has worked as a Principal or Partner in Software Development, Hospitality, Accounting and Finance, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Services, Professional Services, Construction, and SaaS.
John is a digital designer who builds products that empower human creativity. He's currently the founder and CEO of Lava, which is a mobile app that empowers you to create, share, and discover social audio
Book Recommendation;
Living Philosophies, By Albert Einstein
How to make wealth, By Paul Graham
Rebecca Krauthamer is the co-founder and CPO of QuSecure. She is passionate about Artificial Intelligence and ethics, connecting people who can make great things happen together, building cutting-edge technology that genuinely improves all people's lives, and bringing out the best in people and teams.
She is a Current Techstars Starburst 2021 Cohort member with QuSecure, and was named a top 12 woman in Quantum Computing.
Stanford Symbolic Systems 2013. Forbes 30 Under 30, 2020 in Quantum Computing. Global Futures council Quantum Computing – World Economic Forum.
Matt is the co-founder & CEO of Cumulus Digital Systems, a software company focused on digitizing manual work that is mission-critical, high volume, and difficult to automate. Cumulus was incubated within Shell and spun out in 2018; its technology now serves clients across a wide range of industries. Matt was previously the Head of Programs at Shell TechWorks, which he helped launch in 2013. Before joining Shell, Matt held commercial roles with early-stage and established companies in the biotechnology and aerospace industries. Matt lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he enjoys spending time with his family, scuba diving, skiing, and tennis.
Andy is the CTO and Co-founder of Civo, the first cloud-native service provider powered only by Kubernetes.
Book Recommendations;
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life). By, Thomas Erikson
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business. By, Josh Kaufman
George Boutsalis is, a Greek-Canadian who lives to learn, create and explore. At the age of 10, he started his first three businesses; which we'll get into later. It's now 2021, his passion project has turned into a startup, he chose to step down from his role as VP of Ops from the family business. His sole focus now is bringing honesty, objectivity, and transparency to social media.
Patrick Boyaggi is the co-founder and CEO of Own Up, a Boston-based company changing how people seek out, secure, and compare mortgages. Propelled by Boyaggi's belief that everyone should understand their mortgage, Own Up provides a combination of intelligent software and personalized advice from mortgage experts.
Book Recommendation;
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. By Marty Cagan
Pieter Luitjens is the CTO and co-founder of Private AI, a business building privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools to make privacy and GDPR compliance reliable.
Scott Orlinsky is the Co-Founder & COO of Everyware, a leading contactless payments and communications solutions company.
Book Recommendation;
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business; By Gino Wickman
Miguel is the CEO and Co-founder of Arex, a company with a vision to Power the best real estate investments, leveraging data networking effects. Due to his work applying technology for the Real Estate sector, he has been awarded and featured by institutions like Forbes, Colliers, Techstars, CBRE, and the European Commission. He's also actively involved as a speaker and working closely with institutions like FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain) and Real Estate Expertise as Regional Co-chair.
Brandon's journey spans leadership development for non-profits, flipping houses, building a soft-skills education company for teens, team member #1 at YC startup Searchlight.ai, and Zone of Genius Institute CEO/founder. This proprietary personality assessment helps people feel more aligned.
Brandon has a deep passion for teaching, coaching, and empowering others to become their most whole selves. His content has garnered over 17 million views and featured on media outlets like Inc.com, TIME, BBC, and HuffingtonPost.
John Keister is the co-founder and CEO of MixMode, an AI-based cloud-native threat & anomaly detection platform for high-volume data feeds. He has also co-founded two search and analytics companies that grew to $100+ million in revenue and went public.
Book Recommendations.
The Art Of War. By Sun Tzu
Ricardo is the co-founder and CEO of SellersFunding, the all-in-one financial solution platform designed for growing e-commerce merchants.
Arttu is the co-founder & CMO of Trustmary, a testimonial tool for lead generation.
Book Recommendations.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't. By Jim Collins
Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com. By Aaron Ross
Juan is the CEO of Humantelligence, where he leads the Miami-based culture and talent intelligence start-up. They were recently named a top start-up to Watch by the Miami Herald, whose solution helps organizations accurately measure and manage culture at every level of an organization, from individuals and teams to overall corporate culture. He founded Gonza Executive Search and served as a client partner for Korn Ferry International and Heidrick & Struggles. All of this has teed up his work for Humantelligence. Named a 2021 Top 100 Influencer in our space by HR Executive magazine, Juan is an expert in using the BMW methodology (Behavior-Motivator-Work styles) to manage and hire for culture fit. A cultural analytics approach to building teams leads to increased engagement and productivity.
Tim Williams is the founder and CEO of Index Engines, a data integrity solution provider based in New Jersey. Index Engines builds enterprise-class software for the Information Governance, Data Management, Compliance, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity markets. The company's software allows companies to manage petabytes of data across primary, backup, and archival storage classes.
Book Recommendation;
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future By Peter Thiel
Alexa is the co-founder and COO of Moeco, an IoT platform helping customers manage and monitor their physical assets’ efficiency in logistics throughout the supply chain.
Gerald is the CTO and co-founder of Brainome, and he teaches as an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of UC Berkeley. Before that, he was a principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab after being with the International Computer Science Institute for ten years.
Ivan is the CEO and the co-founder of MuukTest. He is a Computer Systems Engineer and holds an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where his specialization was Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Ivan is passionate about startups, strategy, and solving problems. He has advised and participated in a handful of startups and is the Co-Founder of MuukTest, a no-code Test Automation Acceleration Platform.
Book Recommendations.
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture. By Ben Horowitz
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. By Rob Fitzpatrick
Alice is the founder of Flock Marketing Collective. An entrepreneur at heart and a firm believer in the multi-hustle. She’s founded and run businesses and worked inside early and late-stage startups. She started her career in London in the early 90s and arrived in Silicon Valley just in time for the dot-com boom. She has a passion for marketing and communications and starting fires.
Mike and Adam are the co-founders of Pay Tgthr. Mike is a recovering lawyer turned entrepreneur with a passion for all things fintech. After graduating from the UC Berkeley School of Law and spending a decade advising startups throughout Silicon Valley, his best friend of 25 years, Adam Juhasz, recruited him to leap recommending to build. Together, They're setting out to revolutionize the way couples spend, save and invest together.
James Wagoner is the CEO & Co-Founder of Joule Case, a startup aiming to make advanced power systems simple. He built his first battery startup out of college and that resulted in a $1.2B contract with Spain, but unfortunately was canceled due to austerity from the Financial Crisis. James enjoys attending music festivals, long-distance cycling, backpacking, and skiing when not building battery systems.
Nikola is the co-founder and CEO of PolyAI, a leading supplier of Conversational AI for automated customer service. Before starting PolyAI, Nikola worked with the Apple Siri team in Cambridge and was the first engineer at VocalIQ, a dialogue systems startup acquired by Apple. Nikola did his Ph.D. at Cambridge, working with Professor Steve Young.
Book Recommendations:
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. By Chris Voss The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. By Max Weber
Rory is the founder and CEO of VERB Technology. He began his career as an attorney at a major NYC law firm, representing world-renowned entrepreneurs. Since then, Rory changed the telecom industry landscape through a tech company start-up called Telx, he became a partner and 'Entrepreneur-in-Residence' in an NYC-based private equity fund, and he and his team created VERB and have re-invented what sales software applications should be in today’s video-centric business and social environment.
VERB is the market leader in interactive video-based sales enablement applications. The Company’s Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, platform is based on its proprietary interactive video technology. It is comprised of a suite of sales enablement business software products offered on a subscription basis. Its software applications are available in over 60 countries and more than 48 languages to both large enterprise and small business sales teams that need affordable, easy-to-use, and quick-to-get-results sales tools.
Available in both mobile and desktop versions, VERB's applications are offered as a fully integrated suite and on a standalone basis. They include verbLIVE (Interactive Livestream eCommerce and Shoppable Video and Webinar applications), verbCRM (White-labelled Interactive Video-based Customer Relationship Management application), verbTEAMS (a Self Onboarding version of verbCRM with built-in verbLIVE and Salesforce synchronization for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs), verbLEARN (Interactive video and gamified Learning Management System application), and verbMAIL (an interactive video mail solution integrated seamlessly into Microsoft Outlook). With 200 employees, the Company maintains offices in Newport Beach, California, and American Fork, Utah.
Rory has been actively involved in many charitable endeavors. He founded the US Chapter of Innocence in Danger, a global organization dedicated to protecting and rehabilitating children who have been victims of trafficking. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Institute of Technology and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Shakespeare Center.
Brendan is co-founder and CEO of Fig (fig.io). Fig makes engineers more productive in the terminal. Brendan is originally from Australia and studied economics and computer science at Harvard.
Igor is the co-founder of Lightly.ai. an ETH Spin-Off that is working on a novel data curation platform. Before, he worked in the innovation lab of the Swiss stock exchange as a software engineer. He has a background in computer vision and machine learning with several successful publications.
You can also view and interact with lightly's work on GitHub.
Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of Delegate, a RevOps-as-a-Service company helping venture-backed startups accelerate growth across their Go-to-Market technology stack. Previously, Patrick led the first SMB sales team at Talkdesk, which became one of the fastest-growing global companies with 1,500+ employees and a $10 billion valuation. He has been involved with numerous early-stage companies - from ideation to execution - that have raised millions of dollars in funding or acquired by global companies such as Appen, Avalara, and BlackBerry.
Andrew is the Founder and CEO of Givz. Prior to founding Givz, Andrew spent six years in investment banking and was the treasurer of a nonprofit organization. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Hamilton College. He lives in New York, is a proud dad of a 2-year-old daughter and a newborn son, and still tries to make time for recreational sports.
You can download Givz's Shopify App here.
Wolfred is the Founder of Cryptominium; he has ten years of experience with a successful sales history in Enterprise Software. Microsoft Azure Solutions(IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Wolfred has Developed excellent working relations with IT and C-Level clients across different industries.
James is the co-founder of Clearfind. He is a serial entrepreneur & investor. He loves to catalyze innovation to change the status quo positively and currently disrupting the way we manage software. James has a passion for many sectors, from property to financial technology.
Kirsti is the CEO and founder of 20/20 Insights. Having built her career inside of tech start-ups, spending time as an executive coach, and then returning to found her successful start-ups, Kirsti is out to make companies great places for everyone to go to work at.
Other organizations and projects that Kristi is involved in are; Fit For Life - Uganda, Women Leaders for the World, SheEO, Project ABLE
James Kaplan is the Co-Founder and CEO of MeetKai, a conversational AI voice assistant and search engine shaping the next-gen of artificial speech intelligence. He founded the startup with his Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Weili Dai, after becoming frustrated with the limitations of current automated assistants. Kaplan has had a true passion for AI and coding since he was six. He wrote his first bot at only nine years old, wrote the first Pokemon Go bot, and many others. Now his pioneering work in AI Personalized Conversational Search puts MeetKai in competition with the largest names in tech. Kaplan studied Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
Angela is the co-founder of HelloGuru and is an executive with experience scaling hyper-growth companies, including Drift. She has vast expertise in Brand Development, using technology for marketing, and bringing products to consumers internationally and in the US. Angela’s last role as the Chief of Staff at Drift provided her the skills to lead cross-functional teams towards efficiency and selected objectives.
Amy is the CEO and founder of OfficeTogether, for companies who want to empower their employees with the flexibility to work how they are most productive while also honoring the magic of in-person time. They help teams schedule and plan time in the office together, whether you're coming in daily, weekly or monthly. Amy has been a software engineer for ten years and is building the founding engineering team.
Tim is the CTO of OneCause. He has 25 years of experience leading technology organizations from early-stage startups, scale-up, and acquisition. He is best known for his high-growth mentality and has a proven track record in building teams, designing architecture, and delivering valuable software solutions to customers. He previously held executive positions at Bolstra, 3DSIM, ZirMed, and Aprimo, and holds three patents for data-related algorithms. Tim holds a BS in Computer Science from Rose Hulman.
Dean is the CEO of Virtual Power Systems. Through his 30+ year career, Dean he has driven $10B in infrastructure projects across 3 continents. His extensive architecture, engineering, and operations experience spans Hardware, Network, Data Centers, and Infrastructure Software at Sun Microsystems, eBay, PayPal, Uber, and two startup companies. Dean is also the founder and chairman of Infrastructure Masons, a professional association whose members represent over $150B in infrastructure projects in more than 130 countries. Dean is a Digital Infrastructure industry executive advising startups, fortune 500 companies, and investment companies. He has produced numerous award-winning innovations in mission-critical facilities and compute environments and holds four US patents.
Book Recommendation;
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Anthem is a co-founder of HeraSoft, the first company to bring to market and commercially deploy a ransomware-proof cybersecurity suite based on blockchain and distributed web 3.0 technology. HeraSoft's technology is based on the in-house-built, public blockchain software stack called Hercules (herc.one). Anthem is also a multi-time founder and is passionate about teaching novices all things crypto, including how to manage their crypto portfolio.
Resources mentioned in the show; Bitcoin-paper
Saumya is the CPO and Co-founder of involve.ai, an AI-driven Early warning dashboard that helps companies predict churn and revenue growth opportunities using customer data. Before starting involve.ai, Saumya co-founded a startup right out of high school in New Delhi, focusing on using technology to reduce gender-based abortions in India. She did her undergrad in Computer Science and went on to earn her Masters in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on Natural Language Processing. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, winner of the Stevie Gold Entrepreneur of the Year award, recognized as the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, and is on the list of Top 100 Women in Technology IBM. Saumya is a strong advocate of more representation for women in tech and is the founder of Saakaar, a nonprofit in India for women empowerment. When not working, Saumya enjoys binge-watching Netflix, photography, and traveling.
Nora Sheils is the co-founder of Rock Paper Coin, the first software platform to bring together wedding planners, couples, and vendors into one system for managing and paying contracts and invoices. She is also the founder and lead wedding planner of award-winning firm Bridal Bliss.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-shei...
Learn more about her business here:
https://rockpapercoin.com
Dan is the co-founder of 401GO and he loves small businesses! Having started and been involved with over a dozen small businesses and startups, he has come to realize that business size is less important and that people matter. Culture is king!
Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, an entirely new kind of digital workplace savings platform transforming the way employers and employees are powering $33T in retirement savings for the benefit of everyone. Vestwell has built the backbone infrastructure engine removing the challenges financial services and payroll companies have had in providing high-scale, low-cost, flexible, modern workplace savings programs to smaller businesses and employees across the country.
Brad Hartman is the founder of BLC which stands for Bottom Line Consulting. Over the past decade, Brad has provided sports medicine consulting for professional athletes and members of the following organizations: U.S. Olympic Team, PGA, LPGA, NHL, MLB, NFL, and NASL. He also specializes in helping companies lower injury claims and the costs associated with them by providing content that focuses on the following: human kinetic durability, nutrition, ergonomics, and health psychology.
Ariel is the Founder & CEO of Microverse. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of TouristEye (which was acquired by Lonely Planet in 2013). He has lived in Argentina, Spain, San Francisco, Boston, Vietnam, Indonesia, and El Salvador and is currently based in Barcelona with his wife and chocolate lab, Luna.
Book Recommendations;
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer
The GitLab team handbook
Jeff is the Director of Technical Services at Badu Networks, a company dedicated to improving the way the world connects. Jeff considers himself fluent in sales speak and techno-babble, and he uses that ability to bridge the gap between sales and engineering.
One of our original white papers on our WarpEngine technology:
Badu_WarpTCP_White_Paper.pdf
10 reasons your network needs WarpEngine
Case study for a manufacturing company that installed WarpEngine:
case-studies/Infac.pdf
Oscar is co-founder of Nyckel: the lightning-fast ML platform for everyone. He is also the Senior Director of Machine Learning at Motional, where he works on ML products, research, platform for their fleet of autonomous vehicles. Before that, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Trevor Darrell's lab at Berkeley AI Research, where he worked on automated quantification of scientific image data using deep learning.
Previously, he was the lead developer at Hövding, where he created the algorithmic framework and hardware design for their invisible bicycle helmet. He has also worked on automated dietary logging systems for consumer applications and focusing algorithms for image-based cell analysis.
Oscar also manages and develops CoralNet, deploying deep convolutional neural networks to help coral reef ecologists mine image data.
Oscar got his Ph.D. in computer vision and machine learning at UCSD under David Kriegman and Serge Belongie, and his M.S. in engineering physics at Lund University under Kalle Åström.
Book Recommendation;
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship By, Robert C. Martin.
Frank Shultz is the Chairman and CEO of Infinite Blue. Frank founded Queue in the Cloud in 2012, which evolved into Infinite Blue in 2019. As the original architect and product manager of BC in the Cloud, the company’s flagship business continuity lifecycle application, Frank has overseen the growth of Infinite Blue to a global presence with over 500,000 users on the Infinite Blue Platform.
Recommended Resources;
Business Continuity Ebook
Kaj is the CTO of AstrumU, a company whose goal is to translate educational experiences into economic opportunities.
Jon is the CEO and co-founder of Openloop. From a rural Iowa native turned physician turned founder. He is democratizing healthcare and making it more accessible.
Sabari Raja is the co-founder of fast-growing EdTech company, Nepris Inc. Nepris is a cloud-based platform connecting industry and education to inspire students through real-world connections and career exposure. She has worked in education technology for 18 years, leading product and content strategy, business development, publisher relations, and emerging market growth strategies.
Book Recommendation;
Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks, by Julia Freeland Fisher.
Craig is the co-founder & CEO of Skore, a process improvement tool meant for everybody. He has spent the last 20 years helping businesses of all sizes unlock powerful knowledge in the heads of their people. Most of what an organization needs to transform and succeed are known to the teams already in place, and they need a simple way to articulate that and share it with others. He has been on a mission to make this a reality through process improvement tools that are truly scalable and not just for a few experts. Craig has worked with global enterprises through to startups as a consultant and now leads the team at Skore, a process improvement platform for everyone.
Daren is the Chairman and CEO of NowVertical. He's a serial Technology and Digital Media entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience founding and growing companies across Data Analytics, Fintech, and Media industries.
Anna Zam is the co-founder and COO of Ampjar. Moving beyond her previous life as a lawyer, Anna finally relented to the entrepreneurial pull after juggling her CODR, an online disputes resolution start-up to provide greater access to justice. Being Kiwi, she is passionate about independent businesses and helping local communities thrive.
We would love any companies or startups which are wanting to build community engagement and collaborate to sign up to the Ampjar platform! HERE If you use the referral code 'Fuse' you will get additional 60 days free trial period access to our platform.
Ilias is a Co-Founder and Head of Product of Celential.ai, a Series A startup in Silicon Valley offering AI-powered recruitment services. Celential created a talent graph of 100M+ profiles of working professionals, focusing on 4M software engineers in North America. The talent graph uses proprietary algorithms to map professionals across the web and derives deep insights about their roles, strength, career preferences, and many more. Before Celential, Ilias was head of product and growth at Good&Co (an HR startup funded by Norwest and acquired by StepStone.com) where he built the world's first quantitative culture graph of US companies. Prior Ilias held executive and PM roles at various startups and built hit games at Zynga and Scopely. Ilias is the first Harvard graduate from Kyrgyzstan.
Ariel leads all things Growth at MDI Health (including Business Development, sales, and marketing). Originally from Chicago, he now splits his time between the US and Tel Aviv, where MDI is based. Before joining MDI, he founded and was CEO of Pangea Medical. A health-tech startup focused on using social determinants of health to impact clinical outcomes for high-risk patients.
Abhishek loves solving problems related to tech recruiting. He is the CEO and co-founder of WeCP (We Create Problems), which is skill-based tech hiring software.
Book recommendation:
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
Fadl is the founder and CEO of Nexford University. He and his team are on a mission to solve the world's biggest challenge: education, by building a next-generation university that will positively impact millions of lives around the world. Fadl has 20 years of experience in building digital media and tech startups.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ftarzi
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.nexford.org
Brendan Playford is the founder and CEO of Pngme. Pngme provides mission-critical data infrastructure and machine learning, models for the next generation of financial services. Pngme provides developer-friendly data infrastructure, out-of-the-box machine learning models, insights, and data science tools. The platform gives anyone the building blocks to create innovative financial products and personalized user experiences.
Ariel Assaraf is the co-founder & CEO of Coralogix. He is a veteran of the Israeli intelligence elite unit 8200. Over ten years of Product and team management experience. A former product manager at the IDF. QA & Integration GL at Verint Ltd.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariel-assaraf-ab621896/
Learn more about his business here:
https://coralogix.com
https://coralogix.com/blog/series-c-funding-announcement https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coralogix/company_financials
Dr. Adrian E. Garcia is a published author, inventor, and CEO/Founder of FynCom. He has created and led lifestyle businesses, such as credit card manufactured spending, drop-shipping, and website flipping. His hobbies are based on arbitrage financial instruments and using digital currency to interface with everyday life.
Book Recommendation:
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, By Al Ries & Jack Trout
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianega...
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.fyncom.com/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/ECTA17674
Tom Mucklow is the co-founder of Superco and an angel investor in eCommerce and the technology that facilitates it. Tom has a broad background in sales, partnerships & film production. He's currently building, SuperCo, a Shopify design, and development agency, with purpose-built ticket management to provide agency service at scale.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommucklow
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.superco.io
https://www.auroramornings.com
Jordan and Max are the co-founders of Budge Technology and multigeneration in the food and restaurant. Now they hope to solve focal issues in restaurants with technology.
Feel free to connect with them on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-silverman-67a80214a
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxweiner
Learn more about their business here:
https://www.budge.tech.
Stephen Hoelper is the President, North America of Doceree, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic messaging. Before joining Doceree, Stephen was the VP of Innovation and Products at Comcast-NBCUniversal. Also, he was a founding member of Merck’s skunkworks digital solution division and Vree Health, a digital services start-up and subsidiary of Merck. Stephen has experience conceptualizing and realizing healthcare go-to-market strategies for start-ups and fortune 50 companies throughout his career. Furthermore, he is chairman of the board at Easterseals New Jersey, a large non-profit that helps people with disabilities live, work, learn and play.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/smhoelper/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://doceree.com
Félix Bélisle-Dockrill is the co-founder of Axya. With a background in mechanical engineering, Félix co-founded Axya in 2019. Having worked at Bombardier in supplier quality control, he witnessed first-hand the complexities of dealing with suppliers and managing global supply chains.
Since then, Axya has connected its network over 450+ buyers to 250+ local Axya suppliers specialized in metalworking parts. They have enabled numerous companies to localize portions of their global supply chains and mitigate the impacts of worldwide production delays— especially those caused by the unprecedented circumstances of the past year.
Axya is now a team of 30+ employees working from anywhere in the world. Aim to be data-driven and multifaceted in my management approach, and Félix is constantly looking for ways to improve his leadership and lifelong learner skills.
He was swimming at a competitive level while studying, and he did martial arts my whole life. Before launching his first business, he opened a martial arts school and taught for one year. He runs around 40km a week to stay in shape, and he looks forward to training again with partners.
Books recommended in the show;
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, by Gino Wickman.
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Erin Meyer
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, by John Doerr
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Timothy Lister & Tom DeMarco
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-adrien-belisle-dockrill
Learn more about his business here;
https://axya.co/en
https://ca.linkedin.com/company/axyaplatform.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grad4
Joe Saunders is the founder and CEO of RunSafe Security. Joe lead a team on a mission to disrupt hacker economics by immunizing software without slowing down developers. He also founded a non-profit, empowering survivors of child trafficking through educational scholarships. He and his wife have been married for 25 years, and they have two wonderful daughters.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesaunders
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.runsafesecurity.com
https://runsafesecurity.com/podcasts
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/runsafe-security-inc
https://childrens-voice.org
Piyush Verma is the co-founder and CTO at Last9.io, a site reliability engineering (SRE) platform that aims to minimize the toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) and decision-makers need to go through to reduce the time to make a decision. Earlier, he led SRE @ TrustingSocial.com to produce 600 million credit scores a day across four countries. In his past life, he has built oogway.in (exit to TrustingSocial.com), datascale.io (exit to Datastax), and siminars.com.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meson10/
Learn more about his business here:
http://last9.io
http://blog.last9.io
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/last9
Kamil is the CPO and co-founder of Climate X, which is a climate data & analytics tech firm. He's an econ-o-metrics wiz of the unquantifiable, with 15 years of experience in stress testing, loss, and capital modeling at tier 1 global institutions.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamilkluza
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.climate-x.com
https://www.climate-x.com/press/2021-07-dont-put-all-your-eggs-into-one-basket https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/climate-x/company_financials
Vedran Cindric is the founder of Treblle and a long-time full-stack developer. Before Treblle he used to run a development company with clients worldwide and more than 100 projects complete. He knows PHP/MYSQL/Laravel as well as HTML/CSS/JS.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedrancindric
Learn more about his business here;
https://treblle.com
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/treblle
David Stange is the co-founder and CEO of Beachy. Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, David started his own moving and storage company after graduating from The University of Alabama. The business thrived and grew exponentially across multiple cities before selling the business to the largest privately-owned moving and storage company. After the acquisition, David and his team quickly became the top-earning region, receiving multiple awards in recognition for their accomplishments. As a new dad, David had a stressful beach vacation and dreamt up the idea for his current venture, Beachy. Growing up in hospitality and being a ‘beach boy’ from ages 14-22 provided David with the insight and experience to modernize the beach vacation experience. Starting from the simple idea, “Why can’t I book my beach chairs, the same way I book an airline seat, at the same time I make my hotel reservation?” The company has evolved into a fully integrated ordering platform empowering recreation and food and beverage staff to deliver a better guest experience while increasing topline revenue by over 40% at hard-to-service outlets such as the beach and pool. Beachy has won numerous awards for their innovative platform and has been published in articles around the world, including last years Phocuswright and VRMA conferences:
Phocuswright: People’s Choice, Emerging Company Tech Innovation of the Year in 2019
Phocuswright: Runner up Emerging Company Tech Innovation of the Year in 2019
VRMA: People’s Choice Tech Innovation of the Year 2019
VRMA: Tech Innovation of the Year 2019
David’s accolades include being one of Nashville’s 40 under 40, the youngest award recipient at 28. David lives in Destin, Florida, with his wife, Jenna, and their two kids, Sophie and Jacob.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidstange/
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◘ https://www.beachyapp.com/
Brandon Hilkert is the CTO of Bark. He is a self-taught programmer that's helped start/lead software engineering organizations.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonhilkert/
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◘ https://www.bark.us
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◘ https://brandonhilkert.com
Veer Gidwaney is the Founder and CEO of Brella Insurance. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Maxwell Health, which Sun Life acquired in 2018. Maxwell Health was ranked #100 on Deloitte's 2017 Technology Fast 500™ list. Veer is a proven entrepreneur and insurance innovator whose energy and experience have long been devoted to solving the problems of our time. Veer lives with his family in the greater New York City area.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/veer-gidwaney-9a135/
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◘ https://www.joinbrella.com
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◘ https://open.spotify.com/show/2Hpz7dgzoUoXCw3tDWKsXD
Noosheen is the founder and CEO of January.ai, A seed-stage precision health tech company that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to predict, prevent, postpone, or manage chronic disease. She also manages a family office that includes diverse investments in over 100 companies and venture capital funds.
Noosheen is also the co-founder and president of HAND, a family foundation that provides financial, advisory, and advocacy support to hundreds of organizations and dozens of scholars and social entrepreneurs dedicated to protecting the young and promoting socio-economic growth and advancement of individuals.
Book recommendation.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness. By Morgan Housel.
Montana Butsch is the founder of Spotivity, a double-sided marketplace that supports after-school programs to increase enrollment and participation rates and enables kids and their parents to make the best decisions about using time outside of school hours. Spotivity removes key logistical barriers to entry and promotes positive networking opportunities. This self-sustainable dynamic app will ultimately evolve into a lifestyle/social tool and grow in importance as the user ages.
Before Spotivity, Montana was the founder and CEO of significant sports non-profit organization which has served thousands of inner-city children in Chicago and who has formed extensive ties with Chicago business, philanthropy, and government leaders
In addition to Spotivity, Montana runs Thin Edge Consulting – a business support firm that focuses on Strategic Initiatives that create opportunities for outreach enterprises in intrepid and thoughtful ways. Through this work, Montana launched the Tech / No Evil annual summit to discuss how technology brings wide-ranging positive impacts to people on a massive scale.
Montana has appeared on CBS Nightly News, been featured in the NYTimes, has twice been interviewed on iHeartMedia, and was a 2017 TEDx speaker (IE University). Montana has an elite sporting background (is a member of Oxford University Boat Club, was a participant in the annual Oxford Vs. Cambridge Boat race, and was a National Team trialist) and was once a radio DJ.
As a dual national – US and UK – Montana spent his formative years between Chicago and the UK (Isle of Wight and London) and is married to a Spaniard and has two beautiful twins (Bella and Theo). Montana is a Founders Institute graduate, holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (PPE Major), an MBA from IE Brown, and has attended programs at Oxford University (read Education Research) and the Kellogg School of Management (Executive Leadership)
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/montanabutsch/
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◘ https://www.spotivity.com/
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◘ https://www.spotivity.com/blog/
Jon Woodard is the CEO at Wolfram Blockchain Labs, where Jon coordinates the decentralized projects that connect the Wolfram Technology ecosystem to different DLT ecosystems. Previously at Wolfram Research, Jon worked on projects under the direction of Wolfram Research CEO Stephen Wolfram. Before that, he was a team member who worked on the monetization strategies for Wolfram|Alpha. Jon has a background in economics and computational neuroscience and enjoys cycling in his spare time.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlwoodard/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ http://www.wolframblockchainlabs.com
Follow him on Twitter:
◘ https://twitter.com/jonwoodard
John Beane is a serial entrepreneur, 7+ startups. Three co-founded companies have returned @ $1.5B to investors. After the last one, ecoATM sold for $350M, joined UCSD as an Entrepreneur in Residence, where he met the inventors of the MemComputing technology, Dr. Fabio Traversa and Dr. Max Di Ventra, together they co-founded MemComputing.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbeane/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://memcpu.com
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Ledge is a B2B sales expert and 13x founder. He's a Managing Partner at Add1Zero, which provides outsourced revenue and sales functions for tech-enabled B2B services companies looking to leap from 6- to 7-figures of annual revenue. He co-hosts the Leaders of B2B podcast and is a proud father of 5.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidledgerwood/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://add1zero.co/
Resources Mentioned:
Principles of Marketing -- 17th edition Kotler and Armstrong
Vishal Sunak is the CEO of LinkSquares. He is responsible for developing strategies to assist both corporate legal and finance teams with reviewing their contracts. He works to prevent his customers from having to read each contract one by one.
He founded LinkSquares to build great products to improve how businesses operate. Before founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. In 2020, Vishal was named an Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in recognition of his dedication to innovation and growth.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsunak/
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◘ https://linksquares.com/
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◘ https://bit.ly/3mh6OuO
Sandeep is the co-founder and CEO of Hipla Technologies, a cloud-native property technology company offering solutions for hybrid offices, intelligent facilities, and EHS management. He is a software engineer and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management. He currently lives in Singapore.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaulsandeep
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◘ https://hipla.io/
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiplatechnologies/
Arkadiy Baltser is the Founder and CEO of Plutoview Boston, MA. He is turning software into a collaborative experience.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadiybaltser/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://plutoview.com/
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◘ https://www.producthunt.com/posts/plutoview
Adrian King is the co-founder of Elements.cloud. He is an experienced software industry executive, in both permanent and interim roles, with strong leadership and operational capability aligned with a deep understanding of go-to-market issues for technology businesses. Extensive experience working with venture capital firms to realize value for investors, including being instrumental in the successful trade sale exit of two companies and multiple fundraising rounds. Over 25 years has developed deep insights into the strategic issues of growing technology companies and taking them into global markets in the US and the Far East. This is combined with hands-on operational management across all disciplines, including HR, IT, Product Engineering and Sales, and board-level responsibilities associated with fast-growing technology businesses.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianfking/
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◘ https://elements.cloud/
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◘ https://elements.cloud/category/time/
Sean Higgens is the CEO of BetterYou, a digital coach that helps people make the most of their day. They are using AI to map how we spend our time and help people make time for the things that matter. Sean has an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Entrepreneurship and Finance.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanm-higgins/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.betteryou.ai/
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◘ https://betteryou.ai/resources
Omar Hagrass is an experienced launch and expansion manager with a proven track record of success. He is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Trella. Trella is a Cairo-based trucking marketplace that connects shippers to carriers. Trella offers services and technology to empower drivers, improve their efficiency, boost their earnings and utilization, and create job opportunities.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-hagrass/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.trella.app/
Abby Verma is a three-time entrepreneur and immigrant. He started his first business at the age of 19, selling paint jobs to homeowners on the streets of Detroit while studying full-time at the University of Michigan. A former investment banker who loves to hustle and to prove naysayers wrong.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/abby99914/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.skillsoniq.com/
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◘ https://www.trustpilot.com/review/skillsoniq.com
Austin Graham is the CTO & co-founder of Respond Flow. He is an MS student at the University of Oklahoma under Dr. Christan Grant, studying deep learning focusing on human interactivity with lingering interests in quantum computing and quantum machine learning. While participating in academic activities, He also advises startups in machine learning/artificial intelligence technologies for business use.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinpgraham/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://respondflow.com
Ludwig is passionate about democratizing technology and making sure underserved communities can benefit from technological advancements. Having been in (social media) marketing for the better part of his career, Ludwig developed a deep understanding of its strengths, weaknesses, and challenges, both in large corporate structures and smaller startup environments. Ludwig came from an SMB family and experienced first-hand how difficult it can be for business owners to leverage and use social media in the right way. In the end, Ludwig wants to help!
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/Ludwigdumont/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.willow.co/
Manan Khurma has been a Mathematics educator since his college days. He founded Locus Education upon graduating from IIT Delhi in 2007 and trained over ten thousand students for IIT-JEE within the first few years of his career as an educator. This experience of teaching JEE aspirants helped him gain insight into how the country's youth perceives and studies Math.
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◘ https://in.linkedin.com/in/manankhurma
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◘ https://www.cuemath.com
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/company/cue-learn/
Rick is the founder & CEO of LaneAxis. His extensive knowledge of mobile technology, software development, and deep experience in and love for trucking and logistics inspired him to create LaneAxis. As a former partner in a trucking company, Rick spent a decade researching and developing a mobile-based platform that provides real-time tracking and data analytics over freight movements. His work culminated with designing a Shipper-to-Carrier direct optimization platform that was granted a complete U.S. Patent in March 2018.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-burnett/
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◘ https://laneaxis.com/
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◘ https://www.startengine.com/laneaxis
Ari has more than 20 years of experience in finance, corporate strategy, marketing, and public and private equity investing. Ari served as Chairman (2008-2020) and CEO (2011-2020) of Organica Water, a next-generation wastewater treatment technology provider that enables localized treatment and reuse. Under Ari’s leadership, Organica grew from less than $1M of Revenue and 30 reference facilities (mostly in Hungary) to a global business with more than 130 reference facilities in 20 countries that are recognized as a top “sustainable” brand in the water industry. Ari leads Organica to complete its Series A through Series D financing rounds, attracting large institutional investors to the company such as International Finance Corporation, Invesco, CITIC Capital, and Idinvest Partners. During his time with Organica, it grew its customer base to include many of the top global water companies and municipalities, including Veolia, BEWG, Manila Water, Metito, Adani Infrastructure, Shanghai Water, Beijing Capital Group, and Maynilad Water.
Previously Ari was Head of Water Private Equity Investments for RNK Capital, a pioneering environmental investment firm with ~$800M in assets under management. Ari leads a team responsible for transaction sourcing, due diligence, structuring, divesting, and working with portfolio companies’ management teams. Ari served on the Board of various other RNK portfolio companies in the water sector. In addition, Ari has an extensive network of contacts throughout the software & water industry and related financial communities.
Prior to RNK, Ari worked at Bank of America Securities, most recently as a VP and Senior Research Analyst. Previously, Ari spent four years working in corporate strategy, finance, and marketing roles at two venture-backed enterprise software companies, Verticalnet and Prescient Systems, and as the co-founder of his own company, a technology services business that enabled small retailers to sell their products to students through the Internet. Ari holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the George Washington University and an MBA degree from Yale University’s School of Management.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-raivetz-966515/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.transcendh2o.com/
Ben Hale is the co-founder of Brite. he lives in Salt Lake City, UT. he has three beautiful children and loves to ski in the mountains close to his house, ride mountain bikes, and vacation in Lake Powell.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hale-48881141/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://getbritehr.com/
Andrei Stoica is the CEO of Brunch and has been an entrepreneur or freelancer for a while. He'll mix building things, marketing, design, development, and other skills every day. He's come to accept himself as a generalist and loves the pursuit of combining multiple skills. In addition to Brunch, he's building stoica.co as a digital marketing agency for B2B clients focused on creating helpful content, web design, and inbound marketing for better lead generation.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stoicaandrei/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://usebrunch.com
Gweilo grew up in Singapore, lived all over Asia, and is now back home in Singapore, Married with two boys, 1 has C.P 48yrs old and in a hurry. Confused by the state of America and Europe against the backdrop of an expansionary China.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: ◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fergusson... Learn more about his business here: ◘ https://www.hugosave.com/
Taha Dar is the founder and CEO of SearchSmartly, an award-winning prop-tech startup backed by Founders Factory. SearchSmartly transforms the property search experience by helping renters, and buyers save hours searching for their ideal home while providing estate agents with high-quality, pre-qualified leads. Taha has a diverse background in technology, strategy, and finance and previously worked in the world of Formula 1 at the Red Bull Racing F1 Team. Taha holds an MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from the London Business School.
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◘ https://linkedin.com/in/tahadar
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◘ https://www.searchsmartly.co/
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◘ https://www.instagram.com/searchsmartly/
Amon is the Co-Founder & CEO at Ophelos, a FinTech startup reimagining the debt collection industry by focusing on improving financial health. Before founding Ophelos, Amon worked at high-growth startups ASAPP and Moat. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown University.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amonghaiumy/
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◘ https://www.ophelos.com/
◘ https://content.ophelos.com/post/introducing-ophelos
◘ https://twitter.com/opheloshq
Bharath Krishnamoorthy (you can call him “B”) is a lawyer and venture-backed entrepreneur. Together with his high school best friend, Shawn Vo, Bharath founded Axle, a carrier payments and factoring platform for freight brokers. As the CEO of Axle, his goals include attracting a diverse team of highly talented and highly motivated individuals and building a workplace environment that allows them to thrive. In addition to his work with Axle, he serves as a board advisor to JMU’s Center for Entrepreneurship.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnbx
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◘ https://www.axlepayments.com/
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/26/axle-raises-10m-series-a-to-advance-its-freight-financing-services/
Check their blog.post here: Wait but why
Austin Rosenthal heads operations and sales for Lionize. He can conceptualize workflows and dissect market demands, resulting in the development of Lionize’s simplified process.
Sam is from a small town in regional Australia but always knew he wanted to build a tech company (since eight years old, genuinely). Found his way to San Francisco, by way of London with Bain & Co, advising on Software GTM and product strategy. Over time, he identified a gap in the market and is now the CEO and co-founder of TestBox, re-designing how software is bought and making it genuinely customer-led. Nowadays, he lives in Boulder, CO, and is always out there riding bikes, trail running, or marveling at the incredible landscape.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn and learn more about his business and company links here
Don't miss out on this article Sam's team wrote. It includes a full transcript.
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He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management with a minor in Finance & Marketing from Purdue University, USA.
Bit by the entrepreneurial bug in 2017, JD founded Trukkin—a technology-driven enablement platform that revolutionized the transportation industry in the Middle East and Pakistan. In Dubai, JD realized that the transportation industry in the Middle East was still waiting for their Industry 4.0 moment where a technology-driven platform would step in to revolutionize the way transporters and shippers do business.
With JD at the helm, Trukkin did just that—solving problems faced by transporters, brokers, drivers, and shippers, bit by bit. Guided by JD’s vision of a technology-empowered world, Trukkin aims to be the regional leader in commercial transportation.
JD is a well-regarded and highly experienced finance professional actively involved with the organization and investment of capital for private equity and VC deals. Backed by his years of global corporate finance experience and strategic expertise, JD brings this value addition and mindset to the growth of Trukkin.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdalmia/
Learn more about his business and company links here
https://trukkin.com/
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/trukkin-raises-7m-to-boost-growth-and-tech-infrastructure-1.1237813
Heinz is a tech lover with more than 8 years of experience creating and developing tech products. Heinz is a co-founder of Famosos.com, a fast-growing startup with more than 5M USD in funding. Famosos.com is a marketplace where fans and businesses can buy personalized video messages from Latin Celebrities.
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◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/heinz-sohm/
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◘ https://www.famosos.com
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David Henzel is the CEO of Upcoach and a veteran entrepreneur who has been building in the saas and e-com space for over 20 years. He had multiple exits, including MaxCDN.
His passion is to help individuals and their organizations reach their full potential.
Aside from Upcoach (Coaching Delivery System), he has a small portfolio of companies including LTVplus, (Outsourcing for e-commerce & saas), TaskDrive (Sales Development), Shortlist.io (Digital Marketing Agency), and his passion project, Managing Happiness (Peak Performance Group Coaching for entrepreneurs).
Resources mentioned:
The Family Board meetings by Jim Sheils
Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Jonathan is an entrepreneur and student of go-to-market. As the CEO and co-founder of goDerecho, Jonathan is on a mission to make buying software easy. He drives the company’s vision, strategy, and long-term growth. Jonathan understands first-hand the challenges companies are facing when selling software in a digital world. Jonathan is on a mission to make software accessible and buyable with click-to-purchase. Before goDerecho, he led go-to-market operations at several a16z funded companies and has managed over 2 Billion dollars worth of software sales contracts.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-festejo-59233b23/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
goderecho.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGD7vQOwl8
Mike Barreiro is an experienced technology executive with a demonstrated history of working in numerous sectors of the industry. He's skilled in software development, databases, agile methodologies, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). He's a strong information technology professional with a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.
Jovan Stojanovic is the CEO & co-founder of Anari.AI. He is a serial tech entrepreneur with 12 years of experience in Tech with a focus on AI. He’s co-founder and CEO of Anari AI, a company building the hardware AI industry from scratch by delivering a new way of designing and using AI chips in the cloud. Anari AI is part of the Wonderland AI ecosystem - a worldwide community of 30.000 AI practitioners, enthusiasts and researchers, also founded by Jovan. Besides Anari AI, the ecosystem includes four more organizations dedicated to promoting and developing artificial intelligence: Wonderland AI Summit, Serbian AI Society, CITY AI, and Angellico.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jovan-stojanovic-artificial-intelligence/?originalSubdomain=rs
Learn more about his businesses and company links here:
https://anari.ai/
https://wonderlandai.com
https://serbianaisociety.com
50M people earn a living online today. How do you become a revenue-generating creator?
Larry is the Co-founder & CEO of Cquence, a video creation platform for creators to produce video content 10X faster. Before starting Cquence, Larry worked in technology and ran small video production companies for the past decade.
Siam Choudhury is the founder of Pliance. Product manager turned founder, with a background at Facebook, and Swedish startups Acast and FundedByMe, before starting Pliance together with two co-founders in 2018.
Rich Kahn is the co-founder and CEO of Anura.io. With over 28 years of digital marketing experience, He has been recognized as one of the most notable security experts in the digital marketing space. He is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient for technology. He has been named a finalist in the American Business Awards for Best Executive of the Year. Rich sold his first company, an ISP, in the late ninety’s. Shortly after that, he co-founded Paid for Surf, which reached $1 million in revenue within five months of operation. With its success, Rich then co-founded eZanga.com, a digital marketing company. Within eZanga he launched an internal ad fraud solution called Traffic Advisors to pre-filter clients’ traffic. This later led to the stand-alone ad fraud platform, Anura.io, to tackle ad fraud in any environment. In his spare time, he spends time with his wife and four children. Rich also a private pilot and enjoy flying small planes and traveling.
Jon's the co-founder of Ringpin, which helps companies reach customers in innovative and meaningful ways. In addition, he's a relationship builder with significant sales leadership experience. He lives in San Diego with his wife and young kids.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonstern
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://www.ringpin.com
https://www.ringp.in/jon
Charlotte is the CEO, founder of WeTal - a matching platform between developers and jobs. Since ten years back, she is originally a JavaScript developer and has worked in different cities like London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Stockholm.
Two years ago, she founded WeTal in Stockholm. She recently raised 5m SEK and has plans to expand globally.
Shreesha Ramdas is SVP and GM at Medallia-Strikedeck. Previously he was the CEO and Co-founder of Strikedeck, a customer success automation company. Before Strikedeck, Shreesha was the GM of the Marketing Cloud at CallidusCloud, Co-founder at LeadFormix (acquired by CallidusCloud) & OuterJoin, and General Manager at Yodlee. Prior to that, Shreesha led teams in Sales and Marketing at Catalytic Software, MW2 consulting, and Tata. Shreesha is also active in the startup community as an advisor/investor- Workato, Enact, RevvSales, Elastica (Symantec), DX Continuum (ServiceNow), EmpInfo, Fullcast, ObeoHealth.
Find Shreesha on Twitter @Shreesha.
Julia Regan is the CEO & Co-Founder of RXLightning. Health tech innovator with a proven track record bringing solutions to market that help remove friction for healthcare providers, patients, payers, and pharma. Julia designed and launched the first real-time benefit check and price transparency solution at the point of prescribing
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-crouse-regan-mba-150aa712/
Learn more about her business and company links here:
https://www.rxlightning.com https://vimeo.com/479067376
Erkang Zhang is the CEO & Founder of JupiterOne. He is a hands-on leader in cybersecurity, an engineer by trade, and an entrepreneur at heart. He is passionate about technology and solving real-world challenges. He's building a cloud-native security platform — JupiterOne — to deliver knowledge, transparency, and confidence to every digital operation in every organization, large or small.
Nestor is Co-Founder and CEO of Sigo Seguros. An inclusive insurance provider focused on providing affordable access to car insurance. He founded Sigo while at business school after seeing family members struggle to buy auto insurance. Before his graduate studies, Nestor spent most of his career investing in inclusive financial institutions in emerging markets during his time at Developing World Markets and Creation Investments. He began his career in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. Nestor earned a BS in Finance from Penn State, an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute, and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he attended as a Howard E. Mitchell Fellow. He's fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and began his studies at the Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay. Nestor has dedicated his career and volunteer efforts to help underserved populations, educating young people, and increasing diversity across the industries in which he works.
Misha Episov is the CEO of Nova Credit, which he co-founded with Nicky Goulimis and Loek Jannsen when they met as graduate students at Stanford University. The company began as a research project in 2015 and has since evolved into the premier cross-border credit reporting agency. Before founding Nova Credit, Misha was a private equity investor at Apollo Global Management, a $232 billion global alternative asset manager. Misha started his career at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute more than $10 billion in corporate financing, mergers, and acquisitions. Misha was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Finance from New York University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Reference Mentioned:
Mastery by Robert Greene (Book)
Verl brings 20+ years of experience helping brands transform digitally while at Ancestry, Omniture and Adobe. During this time, he helped accelerate the emergence and growth of SaaS applications within the enterprise while leading strategy and corp dev at Omniture and Adobe Experience Cloud. In 2018, he joined Claravine to address the emerging opportunity to support these same brands to address the growing challenge of data quality that limits their ability to realize the promised returns from their software and other digital investments. Today he serves as CEO at Claravine, working with hundreds of the leading global brands using Claravine's Data Standards Cloud to address enterprise data integrity.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/verl-allen-b83175/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://claravine.com
https://www.claravine.com/claravine-under-armour-customer-story/
Sean De Clercq is the CEO of Kickfurther. The world’s first online inventory funding platform. Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Sean’s driving goal has been to create a solution to one of the most challenging problems that growing businesses face: Overcoming funding the production of their inventory. Fittingly, Sean started Kickfurther to support inventory for direct-to-consumer and major store brands such as Target, Amazon, Aldi, and more. A native of Watchung, New Jersey, De Clercq studied philosophy at Rutgers University before. Beginning his career in a supply-chain management company and later growing a merchandising firm where he encountered the financing issues that would inspire founding Kickfurther, which took him to Boulder in 2014 to attend the Boomtown Accelerator. In addition to running Kickfurther, Sean also works as an Entrepreneur Mentor at Rutgers Business School.
With Kickfurther, your payment obligation only begins once your sales are made. This alleviates the cash-flow pinch that lenders cause without customized repayment schedules. Free up capital to invest in scaling your business without impeding your ability to maintain inventory.
Philippe Humeau graduated in 1999 as an IT security engineer from EPITA (Paris, France). He founded his first company right after school and dedicated it to red team penetration testing and high security hosting. He was also deeply involved in Magento’s community creation & animation in France and versed in eCommerce (wrote four books on the topic). After selling his previous company (NBS System), his eternal crushes for Cybersecurity and entrepreneurship led him to create a new company in 2020. CrowdSec was born, an open-source software editor behind the eponymous massively multiplayer firewall, leveraging both IP behavior & reputation to create a community and tackle the mass scale hacking problem.
Michael Coates is the CEO & Co-Founder of Altitude Networks. A disruptor in cybersecurity, bringing the first cloud-native data loss prevention solution for Office365, Google Workspace, and other cloud collaboration platforms. Michael has worked in the information security space for the past 15 years leading security at global organizations such as Twitter and Mozilla, protecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Michael was previously the Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter, where his organization worked to protect users, systems, and data for nearly 300 million users. Before Twitter, Michael was the Director of Product Security at Shape Security, acquired by F5 in 2020. Prior, Michael was head of security for Mozilla, where he built and led the security assurance program to protect nearly half a billion Firefox users, Mozilla web applications, and infrastructure. Michael has also served on the global board of directors for OWASP, the largest non-profit application organization in the world. Michael was a member of the board for six years, three of those years as the chairman. Before building and leading security programs, Michael assessed, compromised, and secured applications and networks for some of the largest banks, governments, and enterprises worldwide. Michael is an early-stage investor and advisor to multiple startups and was also honored to be selected as an SC Magazine Influential Security Mind. Michael is based in San Francisco with his wife, two children, and a dog.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcoates/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://altitudenetworks.com/
http://altnet.to/CISO
Sunir Shah is the founder and CEO of AppBind. They've made it easy for service companies to purchase and manage subscriptions to software and ads without taking on the financial risk of being between clients and the recurring billing. SaaS companies are doubling their service channels' activation rates by fixing all the problems service companies have. He's also the President and founder of the SaaS partnership network, the Cloud Software Association; formerly head of partnerships at FreshBooks and CMO at Olark live chat; dad, and a bad dancer.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://linkedin.com/in/sunirshah
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://www.appbind.com
https://www.cloudsoftwareassociation.com
Surbhi Rathore is the CEO & Co-founder of symbl.ai. Working to create a de-facto standard of analyzing and using conversation data at scale. She's from India and currently lives in Seattle and loves building the company and increasing their Symbl fam-jam. She's also a travel junkie when possible and a food lover.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/surbhi-rathore/
Learn more about her business and company link here:
https://symbl.ai
Reference Mentioned:
docs.symbl.ai
Martin is the Head of Operations at CreativeX. A b2b marketing software company that makes it easy for the world's largest companies to audit their creatives. Martin was previously at Uber - working on the early days of Uber Freight in Quality, Risk, Compliance, and Fraud, and managing the Pennsylvania Uber Rides market. Before that, Martin was in the nascent days of Amazon's home improvement and automation space. Also, a lover of corgis.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinrufo
Learn more about his business here: https://creativex.com/
Scott Barrows is the CEO and Co-Founder of BluePallet. With nearly 20 years of entrepreneurship under his belt, Barrows brings a proven history of launching landscape-disrupting platforms to the industrial trade industry. He is the founder of Epic Inventory Management and Symbiotics, an online suite of applications designed for the ticket industry. Scott found the ticket reselling platform, ZeroHero, acquired by Ticketmaster and is now employed by the NFL. Seeing similarities in peer-to-peer commerce and B2B trade, Scott launched EchoSystem alongside a team of chemical industry veterans. In 2020, Scott led the merger of EchoSystem with the FinTech platform, Velloci to meet the compliance and regulatory demands of the industry - relaunching as BluePallet in 2021.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-barrows-0ba4341/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
◘ http://bluepallet.io
◘ https://bit.ly/3xJBGX8
◘ https://bit.ly/3lZsNWZ
Srikrishnan Ganesan is the co-founder of Rocketlane. He's on his second start-up journey, previously built a SaaS product from 2012 to 2015, acquired it by Freshworks, and had an amazing 4.5yrs FW, continuing to develop the business. He's passionate about all things CX and Onboarding and now building Rocketlane since April 2020.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://rocketlane.com
https://preflight.cx
https://open.spotify.com/show/0d01ISIGZp6MPei2PAvIYY
https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-market-trumps-all-else-5e016972dc0f
Michael Young is Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Photon Commerce. Photon Commerce accelerates customer acquisition for fintech leaders by automating invoicing and payments using AI. Partnered with First Data, Stripe, Microsoft, and Nvidia, it processed $11B in purchases. After dropping out of a Stanford PhD, Michael led advanced R&D programs funded by the Department of Defense, created hundreds of jobs, raised $50M across his venture-backed startups, and took them to acquisitions.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/myoung88/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
http://photoncommerce.com
Tom has always been an entrepreneur. Having built multiple small enterprises in his formative years, Tom founded and managed a successful venture in telecommunications and technology for more than five years before selling the business. Tom co-founded LOKE in early 2012, getting an exit from his telecommunications business to help start LOKE. Tom combines his operational experience and natural business acumen with a passion for technology in his role as Managing Director, and is devoted to the company’s strategy for scale.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-booth-a148004/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
http://loke.global/
https://loke.global/case-studies
Konark Sharma is the CEO & Founder of Free Stand Sampling Solutions, the trial marketing platform for fast-moving consumer goods. He started his journey as a student entrepreneur as an undergraduate student pursuing computer science and pursued building technology ventures. He's also a consultant at the Future Army Officers Academy, an EdTech startup, and was formerly involved with an IoT product startup and short-film production startup.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/konarksharma/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://freestand.in/
It's clear that traditional prospecting is heading towards a cliff, what should you do about it?
Pete Ryan is currently the Co-CEO at CoSell, a venture-backed startup in Austin, Texas. CoSell is a network for B2B sales teams to uncover relationship intelligence with partners in key accounts. Formerly, Pete was Head of enterprise sales at Trello, CEO at Gogohire ($1m ARR / $220M GMV), and an early sales rep at LinkedIn.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteryanprofile/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
http://cosell.io
How an AI will help you to identify your Ideal Customers
Julien started doing business at an early age. He has experience in various industries; think of fashion, networking, tech, and more. In addition, Julien often speaks about AI and Entrepreneurship, often as a guest lecture at a university and as a speaker on the main stage of the AI summit. He found out how difficult it was to find the right companies to sell and market laser targeting. There his new adventure began. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Aithena. Aithena uses AI to find ideal clients based on current clients. Julien lives in Amsterdam; he is partly Dutch and partly French, and as a hobby, he advises wildlife conservation projects.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienwinkel/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
http://aithena.ai/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/getaithena
Yes, you can invest in bitcoin with an Alto CryptoIRA.
Eric is the CEO of AltoIRA and has been in the investing space for many years.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-satz-0b02781/
Learn more about his business company link here:
http://www.altoira.com/
Piper Foster Wilder is the Founder and CEO of 60Hertz Microgrids. The company develops software to maintain microgrids — from village infrastructure to remote industrial sites to resiliency microgrids on critical infrastructure. The company has won more than seven national and international awards for its work. In 2020, Piper became a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow. Foster Wilder came to Alaska to serve as Deputy Director of the Renewable Energy Alaska Project in Anchorage. There she became acquainted with the opportunity and challenges of project development, financing, and maintenance of remote power grids. Foster Wilder was previously the Vice President of Amatis Controls, an Internet of Things company. She was named in Aspen Magazine's Ten Women of Aspen. Foster Wilder is a Humboldt Fellow who worked at Ecologic Institute in Berlin for several years and authored several papers on utility-scale renewables. She lives in Anchorage with her husband and 3 yr old daughter.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/piper-foster-wilder-323a3710/
Learn more about her business and company links here:
http://www.60hertzenergy.com
https://blog.60hertzenergy.com/?_ga=2.32026295.826665670.1621385076-1862972299.1621119749
MarTech is ripe for disruption and marketing agencies are bringing a macro shift to the industry.
Ryan Born is the CEO and co-founder of Cloud Campaign. Cloud Campaign is building the operating system for marketing agencies, helping agency owners run marketing campaigns, grow their business books, and monetize their clients.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-born-61757639/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
http://cloudcampaign.io/
https://ryanaborn.medium.com/
References mentioned:
Reid Hoffman - Apple Podcast
Jason Calacanis - Apple Podcast
The Indie hackers community - https://www.indiehackers.com
Can software and AI help make carbon neutral buildings a reality in time to meet Biden's ambitious climate goals?
Leif Elgethun, the CEO, is an engineer by trade and serial clean energy entrepreneur by choice, including taking five companies to profitability with two exits. He's a community and thought leader and loves gravity sports.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leifelgethun/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
http://retrolux.com/
https://www.notion.so/Leif-s-Startup-Resources-d5893d8d1072464b873d95c66b843a4d
https://leifelgethun.medium.com/
Kyle is the Co-founder and VP of operations of Tone. In 2014, Kyle was the #1 employee at Riide Bicycles, a 500 startups-backed eCommerce company. There he built out all operations, digital marketing, and he opened and managed the flagship retail store in DC. He joined fortified bicycle in 2015, launched their retail store in downtown Boston, and built the SMS sales process there that eventually became Tone. He's since built the human agent acquisition, training, and incentives system that powers their 3-minute response time. He enjoys being in the outdoors every day. He spends a small part of each day running, cycling, surfing, skiing, or golfing.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-weidman-95b06623/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://tonemessaging.com/
https://apps.shopify.com/personalized-sms-marketing
https://tonemessaging.com/blog/
https://tonemessaging.com/case-study-usual-wines/
How Property Managers are using SaaS to improve efficiency, communication, and maintenance
Dave Spooner is a co-founder of Innago, a property management software designed to simplify life for small to mid-sized landlords. He has been involved in the real estate technology space since 2013, working to enhance the way landlords and tenants communicate. In addition to his expertise in content marketing, Dave utilizes his experience with entrepreneurship and management to help landlords achieve sustained success.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-spooner-a9a54762/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://innago.com/
James Avery is a Founder and CEO of Kevel, the API platform for building ad platforms. Founded and exited TekPub. Former software engineer and O'Reilly and Microsoft Press author.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyj/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
http://kevel.co
Resources mentioned: https://www.oreilly.com/
Hasan is the CEO & co-founder of Diggipacks.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasanjaba...
Learn more about his business here:
https://www.diggipacks.com/
Aaron Smith is a long-time student loan expert and an advocate with over a decade of experience in the intersection between higher education and financial technology. Currently, Aaron is the co-founder of Savi, the leading student loan repayment and forgiveness social impact fintech startup. Formerly, Aaron co-founded and served as the original Executive Director of Young Invincibles, one of the largest and most impactful youth advocacy and policy non-profits in the country, focusing on engaging 18 to 34-year-olds. Aaron started YI in 2009 while still a student at Georgetown Law School (from which he still has substantial student loan debt). Through his work at YI, Aaron worked with the Department of Education, the White House, and Congress to make concrete fixes to higher education funding and the student loan process. Aaron was featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-smith-77bbb89/
Learn more about his business and company link here: http://bysavi.com
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVrTDpnHf-TIlsXy1ezJtMw
Let's focus on building a more inclusive society before we invite AI to be a part of it
Raj Sahu is the founder and CEO of Utobo Inc., headquartered in California, USA. His Mission statement is to craft the future of education where learning will be economical, collaborative, intuitive, and fun. He has developed over 25 pieces of software with a combined user base of over 10 million. He's also a Founder Insitute Alumni and a Member of Founder Lab and AWS EdStart.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajutobo/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://utobo.com
Understand how regulations around the world are transforming privacy and security
Matt is the co-founder of BreachRx, a dynamic privacy incident readiness & response SaaS platform. He is a 23-year innovator in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, cyber warfare, and information operations. Prior to founding BreachRx, he was a Senior Vice President of Engineering at FireEye and Vice President of Product at iSIGHT Partners.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmhartl/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://www.breachrx.com
$1B a Week is spent on Workplace Injuries in the US. Can AI solve this problem?
Saurav Agarwal is Co-Founder and CEO of SIERA.AI, an Austin, TX-based industrial mobility automation company. He received his Bachelor’s in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2010 and then went on to get an MS (Cranfield University, UK 2011) and Ph.D. (Texas A&M, 2017). He has 11 years of Robotics and Autonomous Systems experience and has filed 10+ patents in related research. Saurav worked at Qualcomm R&D in 2015, where he won the Qualcomm Padovani Fellow. Saurav has won a National Innovation Award for his research into navigation technologies and has worked on self-driving cars and self-flying drones. He enjoys making music, cooking, and building new technologies.
The world’s fastest growing businesses all share the same superpower: they understand, in a data-driven way, how customers use and buy their products. How can the rest of us build this superpower?
Ryan is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and data scientist. He’s a co-founder and CEO of Zenlytic, a tool that helps eCommerce businesses understand and improve their changing KPIs. Prior to Zenlytic, Ryan was a VC with London’s AGC Equity Partners, and a consultant with McKinsey’s “Fuel by McKinsey.” Ryan has masters degrees from Harvard and Oxford.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janssenryan/
Learn more about his business here:
https://zenlytic.com/about
How audio and video content are shaping the future of sales and marketing
Lindsay Tjepkema is the CEO and co-founder of Casted, the first amplified marketing platform and only B2B podcasting solution. With more than 15 years of experience in B2B marketing, she’s a dynamic leader who’s had tremendous success building and growing marketing teams on a local and global level. After launching a podcast for a global Martech SaaS enterprise, Lindsay saw the immense opportunity for brands in podcasting and a huge void in the tech landscape with the lack of software to support marketing teams in leveraging these shows as part of their content marketing efforts. This led her to start Casted to help marketers unlock the full potential of their content by harnessing the power of podcasting. The company has gained rapid traction among brands that wish to create a greater connection with their audiences through authentic conversation.
Today, with Casted, marketers can access, amplify, and attribute their brand podcasts while engaging their audience, increasing sales alignment, and quantifying podcast value with metrics that matter.
Learn more at casted.us and engage with Lindsay on Twitter @CastedLindsay
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaytjepkema/
Learn more about her business and company links here:
https://www.casted.us/
https://twitter.com/CastedLindsay
Anne Fauvre-Willis is the COO at privacy-focused Oasis Labs where she is focused on growing the usage and adoption of the network's tokenization and data privacy APIs (Parcel). Prior to joining Oasis Labs, Anne worked on worldwide product marketing for the Apple iPhone.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annefauvre/
Learn more about her business and company links here:
https://www.oasislabs.com/
https://medium.com/oasislabs
The Killer Application of Blockchain
Saeed is the Founder of Sheesha Finance, Managing Director of Alphabit Digital Currency Fund, Chairman of eGovern blockchain consultancy company, and Managing Director – MENA for CasperLabs. He was also previously Managing Director at Binary Financial. He sits on boards of DEX, RealEx, MENA Fintech Association, BeMobi, Jahani & Associates, LEAD Ventures, Royale Finance, Artha, TeraBlock, DeFi11, and Kenzi Wealth. These roles have given him tremendous insight into the crypto/blockchain space and enabled him to develop a key network of contacts which has helped him grow his knowledge of the market exponentially. Saeed started his career at ADIA in October 2009 as an Operations specialist, then from May 2013 became a Fixed Income & Treasury specialist. In June 2018, he decided to leave ADIA to focus on the crypto/blockchain industry.
Sharel Omer is an Israeli entrepreneur whose passion for personal connections and building relationships has made him dedicated to bringing the consumer voice's power to brands and organizations. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Affogata, a leading Consumer Intelligence Platform that enables brands to be truly customer-obsessed by bringing their customers' voice to the right teams in the organization. Previously, he was CEO & Co-Founder of Communit360, social media management and intelligence platform, which helped thousands of marketers and small businesses increase their ROI from their social media activities.
Why, despite the general hype, influencer marketing is still in its embryo state?
Brybe, Inc. was co-founded by Igor Fedenkoff, a serial entrepreneur with a decade-long history of successful startups in healthcare and hospitality verticals, improving brand image and revenue by 10x. Fedenkoff holds Master's degrees in Business Administration (MBA) and Applied Linguistics (MA), is also a business instructor/trainer, a marketing specialist, a public speaker, and an investor.
Resources Mentioned:
The Gary Lee Show on Apple Podcasts
Casey Adams : Rise of The Young on Apple Podcasts
Simon Sinek - https://simonsinek.com/podcast
Joe Rogan on Youtube
TEDx
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorfedenkoff/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://brybe.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brybe-inc
https://www.linkedin.com/company/brybemarketplace
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/09/08/five-marketing-tips-to-attract-more-customers-to-your-business/?sh=4c1065827aeb
How can marketplaces unlock scalability and growth for any company?
Xander Oltmann is the founder and CEO of Scope. Scope is defining the implementation as a service category by allowing companies to connect their customers with the perfect expert. Companies like Square, Plaid, Nylas, and Argyle choose Scope to expand the economic bounds of their organization and their customers.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xanderoltmann/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://www.scopeinc.com/
Is Multicloud really an issue or is it about integration?
Mark has a long history in emerging technologies and open source. Before co-founding TriggerMesh, he was the Executive Director of the Node.js Foundation with membership including Microsoft, IBM, Google, Intel, PayPal, and other industry leaders. Previously, he was the VP of Marketing at The Linux Foundation. Mark joined the Linux Foundation from Citrix, where he became the Head of the Citrix Open Source Business Office.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrhinkle/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
http://www.triggermesh.com/
https://thenewstack.io/author/markhinkle
https://thenewstack.io/stop-talking-about-multicloud-and-hybrid-cloud-and-start-talking-about-integration/ https://www.triggermesh.com/product-overview
https://www.triggermesh.com/product-overview
https://twitter.com/mrhinkle https://twitter.com/triggermesh
Can an industry in flux keep up with the recent acceleration of innovation?
Matt Giffune is a co-founder at Occupier, a transaction and portfolio management software helping commercial tenants and brokers manage their real estate footprint.
He previously was an early-stage employee at VTS, a leasing and asset management software provider, and a broker at JLL.
Related Article: Startup Occupier Raises $5M for Tenant-Focused Leasing Software
They are also hiring.
The Challenge and Opportunity of creating a new business category (Personal Experience - PX), why it's necessary, and how it addresses the "Big Why."
Greg is a serial entrepreneur and founder, and CEO of Alyce. He is on a mission to fundamentally change the way people invest in business relationships using corporate gifting, swag, and experiences. The mission is to help everyone create personal bonds with everyone they do business with.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsegall/
Learn more about his business and company links here:
https://www.alyce.com/
https://www.alyce.com/personal-experience/
Mr. Owen is a business founder and entrepreneur with experience in management and ownership of enterprise operations with a passion for systems development, business operations, product delivery, and client service. Shawn became involved with blockchain technology through his advocacy of bitcoin in early 2011. He frequently speaks and writes on Blockchain technology and digital currencies.
Paul Salcedo moved to Napa Valley in 1976 with his family. He left the place in 1997 when he took a job in tech at Sony in Silicon Valley and has been there since. His passion for wine, drink, food, and tech is what started his company BottleVin.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsalcedo/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://bottlevin.com/
A 6x team leader at seed, Series A, and publicly traded B2B SaaS companies, carrying roles central to the growth, operations, and development during early stages. A trusted and respected executive with over twenty years of experience defining and maintaining revenue strategies, architecting and integrating revenue systems, and designing and launching revenue-generating programs. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerparikh/
Learn more about his business and company link here: https://www.ioaudio.io/
Sherisse Hawkins CEO/Founder Pagedip
She's a builder, learner, risk-taker, motivator, rainmaker, speaker, and corporate escapee.
Creative-minded CEO with a strong engineering background. Proven record in meeting impossible deadlines, delighting customers, and re-imagining how things can be done. Believes anything is possible in the digital world.
Sherisse, an engineer and technologist, has a passion for driving the evolution of digital narrative content and believes she has the best job ever as founder and CEO of Pagedip.
As an award-winning business owner and accomplished international speaker, Sherisse loves helping others on their life journey. She has appeared in Vanity Fair and on ABC's Shark Tank. Sherisse's background includes working as a Walt Disney Imagineer building theme parks around the globe as well as joining Time Warner Cable, where she served as the vice president of software development.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherissehawkins/
Learn more about her business and company link here:
http://pagedip.com/
Resources mentioned: (Books)
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz
The Art Of Impossible by Steven Kotler
(Audiobooks)
Audible
OverDrive
Sonny Tai is the CEO of Actuate, a New York-based AI Tech Startup. He was born in Taiwan and grew up in South Africa, then moved to the US with his family to get away from gun violence in South Africa a year before 9/11.
Galvanized by the attacks on his adoptive country, Sonny joined the Marines and served for nearly a decade in the reserves and active duty before leaving the Marine Corps to attend business school at the University of Chicago before starting Actuate.
Learn more about his business and company link here:
https://actuate.ai
Sean Sanders is CEO and Founder of Revix. This crypto-focused investment platform recently raised over $4m to expand into Europe and launch a variety of crypto and theme-based investment products. Sean is a CFA Charter holder and comes from an investment banking background. Before founding Revix, Sean founded three start-ups, including Sataya, a proprietary trading firm, Blocktree Capital, a digital asset advisory firm, and Application Portal, a multi-purpose online university application system. He graduated Magna Cum Laude when completing his Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance at the University of Cape Town.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanandrewsanders/
Learn more about his business and company link here:
www.revix.com
Sam Xia is the Co-founder & CTO of WikiPro Inc. Prior to joining WikiPro, he worked at a few technology companies where he enjoyed solving real problems on a big scale. He is the co-inventor of about a dozen US patents.
Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here:
◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiongwu/
Learn more about his business here:
◘ https://www.wikipro.us
Making sure developers are always ready to code.
Sven is a co-founder and CEO of Gitpod. He has been working on developer tools his entire career, building IDEs, frameworks, and programming languages.
He's a father of two boys and lives at the coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Germany.
Putting data and tech in the hands of the small business owner.
A Serial Entrepreneur who loves to lead and empower his teams with an inspiration to succeed in the game of life. Where we work and who we work with eventually becomes our second family.
Ricardo has Founded 3 companies in the Facility services industry. A visionary who wants to genuinely impact the cleaning industry and world with positivity.
He walks in the shoes of the customers he built Route for and Leads with passion and a relentless work ethic.
Innovating the industry with technology and processes is the key for small business owners to compete with the bigger companies.
What's the best workplace model to attract and retain top talent in 2021?
Christelle founded Codi during her Master’s in City Planning at UC Berkeley in 2018. She was also a fellow at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, specialized in the circular economy.
Christelle applies her skills as a city planner and entrepreneur to provide an economically and socially beneficial work-from-home alternative. It earned her to be honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner in 2020, and her work with Codi has been recognized by Fast Company, the San Francisco Business Times, and other high-profile publications.
Her mission goes far beyond just providing space -- Codi is a way to revitalize residential neighborhoods by developing strong circular economies.
Have a look at how Codi is Revolutionizing the way people work on their YouTube channel
Can a completely wireless system work reliably to make a building smarter?
Rohin is the CEO and Co-founder of Spintly and started Spintly as his first entrepreneurial venture in 2018.
He started his career in India as a scientist working in the field of RF technology and moved to the US in 2005. He spent 12 years working for major corporations like Motorola, Nokia and Broadcom.
Rohin started Spintly with a goal of solving the problem of wiring and cabling in smart building installations. He targeted the physical security space as he found that this was a neglected space for the last 4 decades.
Spintly has now grown from a small start-up with 4 Employees in 2018 to a 40 member team with 150 customers and 20k+ users on their ACaaS (Access control as a service) platform.
AI and Software as a pathway to driving Insurance Inclusion in Africa.
Henry Mascot is a growth and product executive, who has experience working in the finance, education, and healthcare industries.
He is passionate about driving massive social development using technology.
Yasir Ali is the founder of Polymer -data governance platform for SaaS.
He has a background as an engineer, a bond trader on wall street, and a founder of an enterprise tech consulting business. He is based in NYC and has started commuting to Austin frequently where his team is based.
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Anubhav Jain is the Founder of Rupifi, India’s 1st Embedded Lending Fintech for SMEs.
He has built Consumer Lending and Ed-Tech businesses in the past and with successful exits from both. He is an expert in Credit Risk, Lending, Analytics, and Underwriting.
Why every startup needs to be a virtual-first business now.
Gaurav Tripathi is a 3x entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Superpro.ai, a SaaS startup. It is helping businesses offer a better and consistent customer experience by giving them the workflows, templates, and data around video communication. Their vision is to power a sustainable and fulfilling Future of Work.
He studied at IIT Bombay and has 16+ years of experience across multiple startups working in web, IoT, Cloud, Big Data, Blockchain, and AI. His last venture Innoplexus is now known as the “German AI champion in Life Sciences” and was amongst the first startups to be featured in a case study by Google Cloud Platform.
There as a co-founder and CTO, Gaurav filed more than 30 patents, and the team he led filed over 100 patents across the US and Europe in areas around AI. He helped it reach revenues of multi-million dollars and raised more than $30M in investments.
Gaurav enjoys trekking, traveling, reading, and mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and emerging startups.
How NFT based digital Identities bring superpower to luxury goods.
Luc is the co-founder of Arianee, the digital identity protocol that enables an augmented ownership protocol.
After starting his career as a Business Analyst in a Fortune 500 company, Luc co-founded BUYECO, a Renewable Energy Marketplace in Switzerland.
It was while working on energy traceability solutions at BUYECO that he discovered blockchain technology.
Exploring why it’s more important than ever to stay connected to your team via real-time conversation.
Patrick is the co-founder of Commons.so, a venture-backed startup building the future of enterprise audio. Their product enables remote teams to talk as if they’re in the same room — and in the process, break down barriers that inhibit connection.
Patrick and his co-founders came together in May 2020 when they realized the way we work was changing before their eyes. Seemingly overnight, remote work became the new normal for millions around the world. Yet there weren’t collaborative tools made for this paradigm, and it felt like we were still in the “cubicle era”.
To solve this problem, Commons enables teams to have interactions you’d have in the physical office, without needing to step foot in it — starting with drop-in conversations. Together, the Commons team has 40+ years of engineering and product experience and has developed products at Snap, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and their own startups.
We couldn't imagine a world where we could access a property in the same way as we get an Uber. What if we could extinguish the friction and access to furnished apartments in a few clicks?
Thomaz Guz is the founder and CEO of Nomah, a next-generation real estate technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil, that offers apartments for rent with flexible durations.
All apartments on the platform are fully furnished, uniquely designed, and tech-enabled, reducing any friction from the rental to the staying process. On the owner side, Nomah provides a full property management solution, generating revenue and ensuring higher profits than conventional rentals.
Its services have presented a surging demand, with a huge volume of new investors coming into the Brazilian residential-for-rent market. Nomah was acquired by Loft in 2020, one of the 10 top proptechs in the world and the most valuable outside China and the US.