Living On Purpose podcast: Recent Episodes
Tosin Oyenola
Wade Foster is the CEO and Co-founder of Zapier, the multi-billion dollar software company that helps people automate things on the internet.
We dive into his full story on how he started Zapier at a Techstars Startup Weekend and was accepted into Y Combinator before raising a seed round from many prominent investors. After the seed round, his company grew organically through its customers without needing any additional capital. We discuss hiring and how startups can build their team culture.
Prior to Zapier, Wade worked as a customer development lead for The Idea Works, Inc. in Missouri. He has degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Yong Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Wonolo, an on-demand staffing app that has raised over 50 million. In this episode we discuss the future of work, staffing and flexible remote work.
After attending the University of Chicago and Harvard Business School, he spent several years as an investment banker. He co-founded and ran the Coca-Cola accelerator. He is a scout for Sequoia.
This episode was recorded live on Entre’s Future Of Work Club on Clubhouse.
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Ben Zises, aka The Super Angel… is an angel investor, advisor, syndicate lead and fund manager. Ben is known for being the first investor and founding advisor to Quip, Caraway, and Arber (among others).
Ben shares his professional background, his own founder journey, how he got started as an angel investor and what he looks for when investing in founders through his new fund, SuperAngel.Fund.
You can find Ben on twitter @bzises, learn more about him at SuperAngel.vc or view his fund deck at SuperAngelDeck.com.
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Simon Squibb is a purpo-entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor, podcast host, founder and Chief Purpose Officer at The Purposeful Project. He has started 18 companies, invested in over 60 startups, and mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs!
He's mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs, having sold his award-winning branding and digital agency Fluid to PwC. Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating, and guiding both budding and experience entrepreneurs by sharing his experiences, insights, ideas, and tips.
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Diane Prince is a serial entrepreneur who has started more than 7 companies (one of which sold for $28M), had 5 exits, and has hired over 2,000 people. As a founder coach, on this episode Diane shares how you can start a business, hire/fire people, bootstrap/raise capital, and the tools that entrepreneurs need to grow a successful business!
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Geoff Cook is a serial entrepreneur and currently the CEO and co-founder of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and live streaming company. You may have heard of some of their platforms, like MeetMe, LOVOO, Skout, Tagged, and Growlr. He recently sold the company for $500 million in September of 2020.
He started his first company from his Harvard dorm room and sold it for millions of dollars at the age of 24, he sold his second company for a hundred million dollars in 2011, he's done a ton of stuff in the entrepreneur space, the dating space, and in the live streaming space.
We discuss both how to acquire companies, and how to get acquired as an entrepreneur!
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