51 - Aaron Levie, Box CEO: A College Dropout Builds a Billion-Dollar Cloud
It’s a familiar story in tech history: college friends stumble onto a big idea, drop out to pursue it, build a company, make mistakes, and eventually take that company public and make millions of doll...
5 Nov 201746min
50 - Troy Carter, Atom Factory founder and Spotify exec: The Man Who Helped Shape Gaga, Trainor, Legend
When he was 14 years old growing up in West Philadelphia, Troy Carter started promoting parties at a neighbor's house and charging for entry. He did the DJing himself to save money. Today he's one of...
28 Okt 201728min
49 - Rachel Carlson, Guild Education CEO: A Startup Betting on Human Intelligence
In case you haven't noticed, there are some big challenges facing the American worker. Unless you're in the top 20 percent salary-wise, if you've kept the same job, chances are you haven't gotten a bi...
21 Okt 201739min
48 - Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital CEO: The Beauty of a Calculated Risk
Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the most sought-after investors in Silicon Valley. It's because he has a knack for figuring out how things work. At Facebook, he led the team that studied our online beh...
14 Okt 201745min
47 - Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing founder: Tech's Explainer-In-Chief Tackles the Future
Tim O'Reilly had never come in contact with a computer until after college, when a friend asked him to help write a technical manual. It's quite a turn, then, that he has become a promethean figure ...
7 Okt 201727min
46 - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: Hit Refresh with the Power of Empathy
Satya Nadella is the third CEO of Microsoft. He's also a husband and a father of special-needs kids. He's an immigrant. And he's pretty close to doing something that, until he took the job just over t...
30 Sep 201737min
45 - Louis Hernandez, Jr., Avid CEO: The Storyteller's Dilemma
Louis Hernandez Jr. is the CEO of Avid Technology, a company that makes tools for editing video and audio, and writing music. Avid is facing hard times as rival Adobe grows stronger with Premiere and...
23 Sep 201733min
44 - Rachel Drori, Daily Harvest founder & CEO: Never An Easy Time to Do A Hard Thing
Rachel Drori comes from from a long line of entrepreneurs – her immigrant grandparents started a business when they got to the United States. Even more unique: Her mother started a business too, so sh...
16 Sep 201730min
