253: How Refinery29 Defied Critics and Became a Digital Media Pioneer, With Co-Founders Christene Barberich and Piera Gelardi
“I think about how little we knew, but how—I believe—how courageous we were,” says Christene Barberich, reflecting on the early days of Refinery29. Before she and co-founder Piera Gelardi were the wom...
4 Jun 201949min
243: The 5 Traits That Help Founders Go From Dreamer to Doer, With Kim Perell of Amobee
When Kim Perell landed a job at a hot new internet startup in 1998, she thought she had hit the jackpot. She loved her job and learned a lot, but when the dot-com bubble burst, the startup went bankru...
26 Mar 201946min
240: How to Use Excellent Customer Support to Stand Out in a Crowded Market, With Ross Paquette of Maropost
When Ross Andrew Paquette founded email service provider Maropost in 2011, he never expected it to take off. “The plan was to have 10 customers and maybe sit by the pool a little more often than not,”...
5 Mar 201953min
239: The Importance of Being Bold in Business, With Real Estate Mogul Dottie Herman
You don’t become the richest self-made woman in American real estate by playing it safe. Dottie Herman has proved time and time again that bold moves pay off. In the 1980s, in a maneuver that solidifi...
25 Feb 201943min
237: Find Your ‘Talk Trigger’ to Spark Powerful Word-of-Mouth, With Jay Baer of Convince & Convert
Jay Baer was born to be in business. As a seventh-generation entrepreneur, he always knew he’d start his own company one day. Over the years, his ventures have run the gamut—from an early internet com...
12 Feb 201954min
236: Bootstrapping a $300M Cinema Company, With Grant Petty of Blackmagic Design
“I don’t think CEOs should be able to be CEOs if they can’t code,” says Grant Petty, founder and CEO of Blackmagic Design. That’s a bold statement, but Petty is a bold guy. Working as an engineer in t...
5 Feb 201958min
235: Sell Like Crazy: Psychology, Sales Funnels, and Paid Ads, With Sabri Suby of King Kong
These days, Sabri Suby reigns supreme as the founder of King Kong, Australia’s fastest-growing digital marketing agency. But he’s come a long way since his first job, selling ink cartridges over the p...
30 Jan 201943min
232: Create a Company Culture That’s Healthy and Profitable, With David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp
Eighteen years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson was a college student sitting in his little apartment in Copenhagen when he stumbled across a blog post by 37signals (which would later become Basecamp), a...
10 Jan 20191h 2min
