68 - Abe Ankumah, Nyansa cofounder & CEO: Building on a Legacy of Entrepreneurship

Nothing is forever. Especially when it comes to running a multi-billion-dollar public company. This week, in a Fortt Knox podcast special, we're going to do a little retrospective … interviews with CE...

9 Jul 201820min

Digital fraud is a big business. The same trends that are powering the cloud computing era – global brands, pay-per-use pricing, open-source collaboration – are making thieves rich, too.  Michael Reit...

2 Jul 201832min

Tobi Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, a public company worth $17 billion. The shopping landscape is changing fast, with new tax laws, same-day delivery, in-store pickup and mobile payments add...

23 Jun 201828min

Q-Tip. The Abstract. He’s not going to say it about himself outside of the the playful banter of a rhyme, so I’ll say it: He’s one of the most recognizable voices and influential minds in the history ...

16 Jun 201846min

Few companies have gone through the kind of image transformation GoDaddy has over the past decade.  Back in 2005, GoDaddy launched its first commercial that used women in revealing outfits and sexuall...

3 Jun 201820min

Today it's a $4-billion publicly-traded company. It's synonymous with streaming video, going head-to-head with Apple, Amazon, Google and lately Netflix, in the cord-cutting era. But Roku's been around...

26 Mai 201831min

A little more than 40 years ago, there was a live event that changed television forever. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. A boxing match: "The Thrilla in Manilla." But the men in the ring weren't the onl...

19 Mai 201834min

Sometimes Plan A doesn’t work out. You’ve got to be ready to improvise.  That’s one of the themes in Bastian Lehman’s story. He had a different career path in mind, but ended up settling for entrepren...

14 Mai 201832min