Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”
Before Peter Reinhardt started his current company, Charm Industrial, he was the CEO and co-founder of the customer data platform Segment, which almost died in its first year. Why? He was afraid to as...
4 Juli 20221h 10min
Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
Clari CEO Andy Byrne says he never wants to look back and see that he put more into his work than his family. But that doesn’t mean he can’t learn a thing or two from running a 600-person multi-billio...
27 Juni 20221h 2min
Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
In the early days of Okta, co-founder Frederic Kerrest was courting a 3,000-person company in Louisiana, which was considering Okta and one other vendor. When he learned who he was up against, he said...
20 Juni 20221h 19min
Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer
In April, a young girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Yakima, Wash., and later told police she was picked up by a stranger in a car. The case might have gone cold there, if Yakima hadn’t just...
13 Juni 20221h 9min
COO Ironclad, Leyla Seka: More Equal Is Always Better
Leyla Seka has a clear idea of “what makes me great” as the COO of Ironclad: She’s incredibly direct with her team. Although many people are not comfortable with getting direct feedback, she says, “I ...
6 Juni 20221h 12min
Chief Freemium Business Officer at Spotify, Alex Norstrom: The Power of Setting Impossible Goals
When Alex Norstrom started working at Spotify in 2011, CEO Daniel Ek told him there were three goals: Growth, growth, and growth. But Alex — now the Chief Freemium Business Officer — argued that his t...
30 Maj 20221h 23min
#87 Founder & CEO Thrive, Arianna Huffington: Life Is About More Than Money and Power
Thrive CEO Arianna Huffington is best known for the pioneering online publication she founded, the Huffington Post, which she left in 2016. The experience of running the site awakened her to the most ...
23 Maj 20221h 1min
CMO Airtable, Archana Agrawal: Success Is Not a Formula
Archana Agrawal started her job as CMO of Airtable on March 18, 2020 — the same week that the US began to “shelter in place” as cases of the novel coronavirus rapidly rose. With kids who would be stay...
16 Maj 20221h 3min
