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[Replay] A Parade of Terribles: Founder Legal Traps to Avoid
A fan favorite episode -- The FunCast spends an hour with Kirkland & Ellis partner Ryan Harris (formerly of McDermott Will & Emery LLP) talking about the legal traps founders fall into when setting up...
17 Mar 202051min

The Second City, "Yes AND," and Private Equity
Jim and Jimmy are joined by Marla Caceres and Nelson Velazquez, improvisors at Chicago's famous Second City Theatre. They discuss how ParkerGale has leveraged the Second City Works to provide professi...
10 Mar 20201h 12min

What is Customer Success? And why should you care about it?
On this episode, Jay Nathan (Founder of Customer Imperative) joins Paul Stansik to share how companies can be more intentional in building intimacy and delivering value to their customers. We talk abo...
3 Mar 202042min

Interview with Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech
Jimmy sits down with Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech. Dean discusses his upbringing in a military family, his education in Industrial Psychology, the serendipity of a career, his love of products and pro...
24 Feb 20201h 1min

Why does the PE firm care about your product roadmap?
In part 3 of a 3 part series on Product Strategy, Jim and Cici continue the discussion of how product strategy ties into value creation, and how specifically as a PE firm, we monitor our portfolio com...
14 Feb 202042min

How we link Product Strategy to Value Creation
In part 2 of a 3 part series on Product Strategy, Jim is joined by Cici to discuss the private equity investor's perspective on how and why products get built. Living in a world of limited resources, ...
5 Feb 202041min

How we think about Value Creation - Risk Mitigation, Cost Reduction and Revenue Growth
In part 1 of a 3 part series on Product Strategy, Jim is joined by Cici to discuss the three levers of value creation - risk mitigation, revenue growth, and cost reduction, and how we think about the ...
27 Jan 202030min

Building Effective Teams and Healthy Organizations
On this episode, Keith Hadley from the Table Group joins Paul Stansik to chat about how we build aligned C-suite teams and healthy portfolio companies. We cover what healthy organizations do different...
14 Jan 20201h 2min




















