35 - Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, The Skimm cofounders: Millennial Mavericks
This week on the podcast: Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, co-founders and co-CEOs of the Skimm. Their core product? The Daily Skimm, a newsletter targeting millennial women that keeps you up to dat...
10 Jul 201752min
34 - Mike Tuchen, Talend CEO: A Teen Adrift Becomes A CEO
Mike Tuchen is the CEO of Talend, a company with a billion-dollar market value. It helps customers take advantage of their data and apply it effectively. But before kicking off a career that's include...
2 Jul 201727min
33 - Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm chairman: Building a Powerhouse for the Smartphone Era
It's been about 10 years since the debut of the modern smartphone, when Apple's iPhone first went on sale. One of the companies that has most defined this decade? Qualcomm. Leading the charge at Qualc...
25 Jun 201743min
32 - Uber's Wake-Up Call for Leaders: Deirdre Bosa, Mike Isaac, Vivek Wadhwa
It's a story of ambition, innovation, management gone wrong: Uber. It's been a ride-hailing game changer, but also a cautionary tale, so this week on Fortt Knox Live, I brought together an expert pane...
18 Jun 201732min
31 - Steve Ballmer, L.A. Clippers owner: Living Large After Microsoft
There's a story about former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer throwing a chair across his office and hitting a table with it. This story has become a piece of Silicon Valley lore. Now, Microsoft is not in ...
10 Jun 201720min
30 - Tom Siebel, CEO of C3 IoT: Billionaire vs. Elephant
To say Tom Siebel has had an interesting life would be putting it mildly. He’s a billionaire, a tech visionary, and the survivor of an elephant goring eight years ago that, by the odds, should have ki...
3 Jun 201740min
29 - Nicole Eagan, Darktrace CEO: Riding Out the Boom/Bust Cycles
Today she sits at the helm of a promising cybersecurity company. But first Nicole Eagan had to survive the dotcom bust. Eagan is CEO of Darktrace, a startup that battles hackers using software that g...
29 Mai 201745min
28 - Kevin Busque, TaskRabbit co-founder & Guideline CEO: Married to the Game
You've probably heard of TaskRabbit – the online service lets you pay a contractor to run an errand, clean an apartment, put together an Ikea bookshelf – any number of odd jobs. Before there was Uber ...
21 Mai 201742min
