67 - Oren Jacob, PullString cofounder & CEO: Teaching Alexa to Be a Better Conversationalist
Oren Jacob saw Star Wars as a kid, and fell in love with the idea of bringing together technology and storytelling to create something entirely new. Today, he’s the cofounder and CEO of PullString, ...
3 Mar 201822min
66 - Matt Meeker, Bark co-founder: Super-Serving the Pet Economy
Boutique treats and toys for dogs, it turns out, are a big business. Bark was co-founded by Matt Meeker, who's now its CEO. It's the seller of the subscription BarkBox. And it expects to do a quarter ...
24 Feb 201838min
65 - Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa CEO: Saving Your Way to Success
Frugality is baked into Rob Bernshteyn’s life experience. His family immigrated from Russia when he was a kid, and he used savings from a paper route to start a baseball card business … which helped p...
17 Feb 201833min
64 - Ron Shaich, Panera founder: Raise the Minimum Wage, Build for the Long Term, and Other Heresies
Who doesn't like to eat? Maybe my seven-year-old … he'd rather talk at the table … but the rest of us, when we're hungry, want something right now, and something that's not going to induce a lot of gu...
10 Feb 201853min
63 - Kaz Hirai, Sony CEO: Leading a Japanese Company With Global Challenges
Kaz Hirai has been the CEO of Sony for six years, and the company just announced that he'll be stepping aside and taking the title of Chairman in April. That means he's been the CEO at Sony for much ...
3 Feb 201817min
62 - Adena Friedman, Nasdaq CEO: Build A Career With Smart Adjustments
You don’t have to be playing the markets every day to know that stocks have been doing very well lately – and not just lately, for about nine years now. That means you might be hearing a bit more ab...
27 Jan 201833min
61 - Al Kelly, Visa CEO: Career Shifts, Bitcoin, and the Future of Money
Imagine you've worked 23 years at a company, up to the top. You're being groomed to be the next CEO. And then the current CEO tells you – actually, he's not leaving anytime soon. That's the position ...
20 Jan 201828min
60 - Daymond John, investor & entrepreneur: From FUBU to Shark Tank
Daymond John grew up in Queens, New York. He wasn’t the best student – he would later be diagnosed with dyslexia – but he did have an eye for fashion and a talent for connecting with people. Today, y...
13 Jan 201840min
