43 - Njavwa Mutambo, Musanga Logistics CEO: Orphan to Entrepreneur
Njavwa Mutambo is the CEO of Musanga Logistics, a delivery company in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. Technology has the potential to transform economies in Africa, empower small businesses, lower...
10 Sep 201740min
42 - Ben Chestnut, MailChimp co-founder: A Layoff Pushed Him to Success
Seventeen years ago, life gave Ben Chestnut the push to start the company that became MailChimp. He was in web design. He got laid off. His employer offered him another job, but he knew: this was his ...
2 Sep 201723min
41 - Reid Hoffman, investor & entrepreneur: How a Master of Scale Climbed to the Top
There is no one in Silicon Valley who's more connected than Reid Hoffman. That might be because he plays all of the connector roles, sometimes at once. He's a venture capitalist, at Greylock. He's an ...
26 Aug 201725min
40 - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO of North America: The Beauty of Reinvention
This is a conversation about reinvention. Not just once, but over and over. Julie Sweet leads the North American business at Accenture, a global consulting giant that employs more than 400,000 people ...
12 Aug 201750min
39 - Tristan Walker, Walker & Company Brands founder & CEO: A Black Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley
Tristan Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker and Company Brands. He's 33 years old. In this episode I somewhat jokingly say that growing up, he was an odd kid, because of the surface contradictions...
6 Aug 201752min
38 - Jason Calacanis, investor: The Brooklyn Kid Turned Angel
Brooklyn in the 70s and 80s. Today, he says, his net worth is somewhere north of 100 million dollars. That's not because he's an entrepreneur, though he has started a handful of companies. Jason got r...
30 Jul 201730min
37 - Brad Smith, Microsoft president: If You Change the World, You Change the Law
Brad Smith has been at Microsoft for nearly 25 years, and has been the top lawyer there for 15. He now holds the title of president, also running corporate affairs and working alongside CEO Satya Nade...
24 Jul 201738min
36 - Anil Chakravarthy & Bruce Chizen, Informatica: Even CEOs Need Mentors
Think of this as getting to audit a little bit of a leadership master class. Bruce Chizen has the kind of unique executive experience that would fill a book of business school case studies. As the CEO...
17 Jul 201727min
