#171 Founder & Former CEO Drift, David Cancel: Never Trapped
Guest: David Cancel, founder and former CEO of Drift; founder of ReyAfter HubSpot acquired his company Performable in 2011, David Cancel became his acquirer’s Chief Product Officer — and didn’t give a...
1 Jan 20241h 13min
#170 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors (Encore)
Guest: John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner PerkinsAfter Kleiner Perkins chairman John Doerr first invested in Google — $12.8 million for 13 percent of the company — he told co-founders Larry Page and Serg...
25 Des 20231h 6min
#169 CEO & Founder Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer: The Burden of Persona
Guest: Shlomo Kramer, founder and CEO of Cato NetworksShlomo Kramer has founded three companies to date — Check Point, Imperva, and most recently Cato Networks — and taken the first two public, with p...
18 Des 20231h 2min
#168 CEO & Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook
Guest: Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, and Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner Perkins“I’m an engineer, so I have doubts about everything,” says Glean founder and CEO Arvind Jain. Well ... almost ...
11 Des 202345min
#167 CEO StockX, Scott Cutler: Detroit’s First Unicorn
Guest: Scott Cutler, CEO of StockXWhat’s the point of climbing a mountain, or heli-skiing in the Swiss Alps, or biking in the Tour de France? StockX CEO Scott Cutler has done all three, and for him, t...
4 Des 202355min
#166 Executive Chairman & Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting
Guest: Brian Long, former CEO of Attentive and author of Problem Hunting: The Tech Startup TextbookBrian Long’s most recent company, Attentive, was originally designed to help clients communicate with...
27 Nov 20231h 4min
#165 Former CEO & Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism
Guest: Spencer Rascoff, co-founder and former CEO of Zillow + co-founder and general partner at 75 & Sunny When terrorists attacked the US on 9/11, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff and his colleague...
20 Nov 20231h 11min
#164 CEO & Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"
Guest: Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of DuolingoWhen Luis von Ahn wanted to go to college in the United States, he had to take a standardized test called the TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign ...
13 Nov 20231h 3min
