How Not to Die as a Company
Problem Solvers8 Sep 2025

How Not to Die as a Company

What do you do when your company is running out of money, your industry has collapsed, and even you think your idea is dumb? That’s the situation Siqi Chen, now founder and CEO of the finance platform Runway, faced in 2016 when he became CEO of Sandbox, a VR startup. Yet through a bold move, Chen managed to get the right people to believe, securing funding for a product that was a stupid good time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How Eventbrite Found A New Customer Base

How Eventbrite Found A New Customer Base

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...

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How TaskRabbit Solves for Endless Human Variables

How TaskRabbit Solves for Endless Human Variables

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

How to Turn Fear Into a Superpower

How to Turn Fear Into a Superpower

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

They Turn Video Games Into Movies & TV — Here's How

They Turn Video Games Into Movies & TV — Here's How

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

How Sonic Drive-In Solved Its Identity Crisis With Two Guys

How Sonic Drive-In Solved Its Identity Crisis With Two Guys

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

 Why Many Companies Fail, and How to Avoid It

Why Many Companies Fail, and How to Avoid It

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

Do You Have “Founder-Market Fit”?

Do You Have “Founder-Market Fit”?

In a space evolving as fast as AI, how do you build something that stays relevant? According to Misbah and Farah Uraizee, co-founders of Nectar Social, the answer starts with founder-market fit. Solve...

23 Juni 202531min

The Most Strategic Networking Strategy Ever?

The Most Strategic Networking Strategy Ever?

In a high-tech world, old-school relationships still win. So take a cue from Hollywood: Film producer and financier Matthew Helderman, cofounder and CEO of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo8, shares ho...

16 Juni 202532min

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