243: The 5 Traits That Help Founders Go From Dreamer to Doer, With Kim Perell of Amobee
When Kim Perell landed a job at a hot new internet startup in 1998, she thought she had hit the jackpot. She loved her job and learned a lot, but when the dot-com bubble burst, the startup went bankru...
26 Mar 201946min
242: How Tony Fernandes Bought an Airline for Under $1 and Made it a Leading Carrier
Tony Fernandes has worn many hats over the course of his decades-long career. And if the Group CEO of AirAsia (and former host of The Apprentice Asia) ever finds himself dissatisfied with a signature ...
21 Mar 201944min
241: Mastering Behavior-Based Email Marketing, with Jimmy Kim of Sendlane
Life in the Fast Lane From washing cars, to selling them, to building businesses, Sendlane CEO Jimmy Kim credits focus as the key to his rise to the top. Like many children of Asian-American immigran...
13 Mar 201956min
240: How to Use Excellent Customer Support to Stand Out in a Crowded Market, With Ross Paquette of Maropost
When Ross Andrew Paquette founded email service provider Maropost in 2011, he never expected it to take off. “The plan was to have 10 customers and maybe sit by the pool a little more often than not,”...
5 Mar 201953min
239: The Importance of Being Bold in Business, With Real Estate Mogul Dottie Herman
You don’t become the richest self-made woman in American real estate by playing it safe. Dottie Herman has proved time and time again that bold moves pay off. In the 1980s, in a maneuver that solidifi...
25 Feb 201943min
238: Juggling Multiple Projects and Knowing When to Step Away, With Grasshopper Founder David Hauser
David Hauser’s life changed forever the moment he taught himself how to code. Like so many other nascent entrepreneurs, the power of computer programming set him on a lifelong path as a tinkerer, alw...
20 Feb 201946min
237: Find Your ‘Talk Trigger’ to Spark Powerful Word-of-Mouth, With Jay Baer of Convince & Convert
Jay Baer was born to be in business. As a seventh-generation entrepreneur, he always knew he’d start his own company one day. Over the years, his ventures have run the gamut—from an early internet com...
12 Feb 201954min
236: Bootstrapping a $300M Cinema Company, With Grant Petty of Blackmagic Design
“I don’t think CEOs should be able to be CEOs if they can’t code,” says Grant Petty, founder and CEO of Blackmagic Design. That’s a bold statement, but Petty is a bold guy. Working as an engineer in t...
5 Feb 201958min
