259: Taking on Google, with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of Privacy Browser DuckDuckGo
Taking on Google Gabriel Weinberg has made it his mission to protect internet privacy, and his scrappy Google competitor DuckDuckGo is leading the charge. Everything we do online is tracked. Searching...
18 Jul 201950min
258: The Story Behind Game-Changing Travel Brand Away, With Founder Steph Korey
Selling Luggage and a Lifestyle How Steph Korey and Jen Rubio co-founded a luggage company for the modern adventurer that is taking the world by storm. Jen Rubio called her friend Steph Korey to vent ...
9 Jul 201935min
257: How Ryan Hoover Grew Product Hunt From Humble Email List to Tech Trendsetter
Hunting for the Next Big Thing: How Ryan Hoover established an online home for tech geeks that changed the way makers get inspired, recruit, and launch their products. When he wasn’t overseeing the gu...
2 Jul 201946min
256: How The Meet Group CEO Geoff Cook Built An Empire Based on Human Connections
A Digital Meet Cute How Geoff Cook linked up dating apps and live-streamed video to form a happy and profitable relationship. Geoff Cook has built a small empire of successful meeting and dating apps...
25 Jun 201944min
255: How Jim’s Group CEO Jim Penman Went From Mowing Lawns to Being a Household Name in Australia
Great service is hard to come by. This eternal problem is what Jim Penman set out to solve when he started his part-time lawn-mowing business—and even though his business has since grown into a multim...
18 Jun 201937min
254: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at How Foundr CEO Nathan Chan Built A Global Brand
Success doesn’t happen overnight. This is something Foundr CEO Nathan Chan knows all too well. Before he started his business, Nathan was in a common predicament: he hated his job and he had no idea w...
12 Jun 20191h 12min
253: How Refinery29 Defied Critics and Became a Digital Media Pioneer, With Co-Founders Christene Barberich and Piera Gelardi
“I think about how little we knew, but how—I believe—how courageous we were,” says Christene Barberich, reflecting on the early days of Refinery29. Before she and co-founder Piera Gelardi were the wom...
4 Jun 201949min
252: The Refinery29 Story—From Bar Napkin Sketch to Media Empire, with Philippe von Borries and Justin Stefano
Media, Refined How four founders turned a sketch on a cocktail napkin into an iconic digital media brand. One night in 2004, in a bar in New York City, three ambitious entrepreneurs huddled around a c...
29 Mai 201934min
