How to Tell Your Brand Story, from the Storytelling Master

Michael Jacobson joined his uncle’s flower shop to help close it down.  Instead, he uncovered industry-wide problems like outdated tech, inefficient supply chains, and reliance on costly middlemen. By...

18 Aug 202529min

The myth of the genius jerk founder has shaped startup culture for decades, but it’s wrong. Dr. Richard Hagberg and Tien Tzuo, co-authors of Founders Keepers, have the data to prove it. In this episod...

11 Aug 202523min

Julia Hartz is the co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, the platform built to help anyone host and sell tickets to an event. But after years in the business, Julia and her team realized something surpris...

4 Aug 202541min

Ania Smith, CEO of TaskRabbit, has spent her career building marketplace businesses. She shares the operational challenges of matching people who need tasks done with people who can do them and how Ta...

28 Juli 202529min

Eynat Guez, co-founder and CEO of Papaya Global, shares how a single contract clause nearly bankrupted her first company and why confronting that worst-case scenario changed everything. Instead of pan...

21 Juli 202529min

How does an old video game get reborn as a modern entertainment behemoth? Just ask the producers behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Tomb Raider, and more. Their names are Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, ...

14 Juli 202544min

Remember the Sonic “Two Guys” commercials? That simple marketing campaign transformed the brand — but creating it wasn’t simple at all. In this episode, Cliff Hudson (former Sonic CEO) and Craig Mille...

7 Juli 202528min

Do you want to learn to predict what your competitors will do next and prepare for it? Arjan Singh, author of Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, joins the show ...

30 Juni 202535min