CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind
Touch The Top CEO Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, climbs hundreds of mountains every year. And he’s learned over the years that sometimes, the smartest thing to do in...
15 Aug 20221h 10min
Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times
After rescuing his first startup BigMachines from the brink of bankruptcy and building it to positive cash flow, Godard Abel thought the express lane of life was opening up to him. But after the board...
8 Aug 20221h
Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling
Mark Roberge’s first anxiety attack hit him six months after 9/11, and his second hit him in the middle of a big speech while he was an executive at HubSpot. And Roberge, who now lectures at Harvard B...
1 Aug 20221h 9min
CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation
Canva CMO Zach Kitschke was the company’s fifth employee, joining right before the product launched to the public — or, that was the plan anyway. Emerging technologies like HTML5 and negative feedback...
25 Jul 20221h 5min
CMO Riot Games, Jason Bunge: Change Is Inevitable, Get Used To It
Riot Games CMO Jason Bunge knows you might roll your eyes when he says this, but he doesn’t care, because it’s the truth: Marketing doesn’t get enough respect. Although many companies have convinced t...
11 Jul 20221h 2min
Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”
Before Peter Reinhardt started his current company, Charm Industrial, he was the CEO and co-founder of the customer data platform Segment, which almost died in its first year. Why? He was afraid to as...
4 Jul 20221h 10min
Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
Clari CEO Andy Byrne says he never wants to look back and see that he put more into his work than his family. But that doesn’t mean he can’t learn a thing or two from running a 600-person multi-billio...
27 Jun 20221h 2min
