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
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
