Solve the Problem, Win the Market
Michael Jacobson joined his uncle’s flower shop to help close it down. Instead, he uncovered industry-wide problems like outdated tech, inefficient supply chains, and reliance on costly middlemen. By...
18 Aug 202529min
Is "Being A Jerk" Good For Business?
The myth of the genius jerk founder has shaped startup culture for decades, but it’s wrong. Dr. Richard Hagberg and Tien Tzuo, co-authors of Founders Keepers, have the data to prove it. In this episod...
11 Aug 202523min
How Eventbrite Found A New Customer Base
Julia Hartz is the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, the platform built to help anyone host and sell tickets to an event. But after years in the business, Julia and her team realized something surpris...
4 Aug 202541min
How TaskRabbit Solves for Endless Human Variables
Ania Smith, CEO of TaskRabbit, has spent her career building marketplace businesses. She shares the operational challenges of matching people who need tasks done with people who can do them and how Ta...
28 Jul 202529min
How to Turn Fear Into a Superpower
Eynat Guez, co-founder and CEO of Papaya Global, shares how a single contract clause nearly bankrupted her first company and why confronting that worst-case scenario changed everything. Instead of pan...
21 Jul 202529min
They Turn Video Games Into Movies & TV — Here's How
How does an old video game get reborn as a modern entertainment behemoth? Just ask the producers behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Tomb Raider, and more. Their names are Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, ...
14 Jul 202544min
How Sonic Drive-In Solved Its Identity Crisis With Two Guys
Remember the Sonic “Two Guys” commercials? That simple marketing campaign transformed the brand — but creating it wasn’t simple at all. In this episode, Cliff Hudson (former Sonic CEO) and Craig Mille...
7 Jul 202528min
Why Many Companies Fail, and How to Avoid It
Do you want to learn to predict what your competitors will do next and prepare for it? Arjan Singh, author of Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, joins the show ...
30 Jun 202535min
