Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer Turned His Amateur Photos Into a $3 Billion Business
Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional stock agencies were still stuck in the world of print, so he took the...
12 Apr 202159min
Curative founder Fred Turner’s fast pivot into COVID-19 testing
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA. He was interested in sequencing his own genome, but he soon discovered there were othe...
29 Mar 20211h 2min
How DRY Soda founder Sharelle Klaus pioneered the culinary soda category
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we dip back into the archives for my 2005 interview with Sharelle Klaus, founder and CEO...
15 Mar 202148min
How Amanda Hesser cooked up success with Food52
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to my early days in the New York startup community. Listening to her tell the story of her entr...
1 Mar 202155min
How Mike McDerment grew FreshBooks
Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a small web design agency when he accidentally saved over an old invoice. Frustrated and looking for a better way t...
15 Feb 20211h 10min
How journalist Steve Hindy started Brooklyn Brewery
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s career journey, both as a foreign correspondent before he took the ...
1 Feb 202145min
How Mark Wilson built his success by building up others’
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by a strong work ethic and desire to make an impact. But when Mark found...
18 Jan 202155min
How Evan Williams turned side projects like Twitter into huge successes
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, as well as Blogger and Medium. But back in 2005 when this episode was recorded, Twitter hadn’t even been concei...
4 Jan 202139min
