This Founder Sold His Company for $500 Million then Started a Different Kind of Incubator
Carey Smith is the founder of Unorthodox Ventures and Big Ass Fans, a company that he built to $250 Million in revenue and then sold for half a billion to a private equity firm. We asked Carey Smith h...
29 Sep 202030min
Does Social Impact Produce Better Business Results? Cotopaxi CEO Talks Shop
Davis Smith is the CEO of Cotopaxi, a company that sells a premium line of outdoor gear. Before founding Cotopaxi, a B-corp that has been a subject of a Harvard Business School case study, Smith had f...
3 Sep 202031min
Almost Too Good to Be True: Preventive Healthcare for $149/Month
Adrian Aoun is the CEO of Forward, a preventive healthcare company which he co-founded with former employees of Google and Uber. Aoun is also the founder and former CEO of Wavii, which he sold to Goog...
27 Aug 202032min
Fritz Lanman: The Man Behind This $1 Billion Fitness Class Sensation
Fritz Lanman is the CEO of ClassPass, one of the fastest growing online fitness startups. ClassPass recently joined the Unicorn Club after getting an valuation of one billion dollars. Lanman is also a...
12 Aug 202030min
How Elan Lee Created and Sold 10 Million+ Copies of Exploding Kittens (the popular card game)
Elan Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Exploding Kittens, the popular card game that sold over 10 million copies and set a crowdfunding record by raising 9 Million from 220,000 backers. In this episode...
29 Jul 202033min
How Crowd Cow Got Celebrities Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana as Investors (w/ Joe Heitzerberg, CEO)
The interesting story behind the idea How Joe got Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana to invest Why they've managed to maintain a 4.99/5 star rating on Google reviews for five years How Joe acquired t...
22 Jul 202030min
How Dan Shapiro Set a Crowdfunding Record ($28 Million) and Is Transforming How We Make Stuff
The specific tactics Dan used to set a crowdfunding record and raise $28 Million Why Glowforge has one of the lowest customer acquisition costs in the industry Glowforge’s secret to attracting a ...
30 Jun 202045min
