Episodes
The leaders shaping our world.
Video Optimizely CEO Alex Atzberger: Leadership, AI, and $400M growth
Optimizely's CEO on 14 years with Bill McDermott, why he still talks to a customer a day, and what a private equity roll-up teaches you about speed.
Video Distributional CEO Scott Clark: Focusing on AI confidence
Distributional raised from a16z and Two Sigma, ran term sheets through to close, and became a company of one.
Video SmartMedia Technologies CEO Tyler Moebius: From early ad-tech partner to Web3 entrepreneur
The SmartMedia Technologies founder on tokenized loyalty, the Paris Olympics, and why he got out of stablecoins before they got big.
Video GoTo CEO Rich Veldran: Balancing the integration of new products while preserving innovation
GoTo's CEO on why more than a third of his resources now go to AI, and why a human still hits send.
Video Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith: Matching supply and demand publicly
Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith opens up about scaling a two-sided marketplace, using AI to power better matches, leading through remote and hybrid work, and the mentors who took a chance on her along the way.
Video SonarMD CEO Beth Houck: Patient data and analytics
SonarMD's CEO on the coach who asked when she'd stop, the comment that took the air out of her head, and the disease nobody cures.
Video Vantage Discovery Co-Founders Lance Riedel & Nigel Daley: AI-powered SaaS platform
One founder in Austin, one in San Jose, a team from Hawaii to Eastern Europe, and a daily meeting neither of them skips.
Video Talented Learning CEO John Leh: Independent global research and analytics
John Leh, founder of Talented Learning, reveals how he built an 11-year independent LMS research business through pure thought leadership—and explains why AI is about to upend instructional design as we know it.
Video Pluri CEO Yaky Yanay: The biotech company based in Israel
Twenty years, $461 million in accumulated losses, and a man who still wakes at 5 a.m. certain he's right.
Video Frec CEO Mo Al Adham
Frec's founder bypassed financial advisors, kept his team under 20, and reached $1 billion in customer assets on word of mouth.
Video DayCloud Studios CEO Liz Hunt: An unconventional path to entrepreneurship
The DayCloud Studios founder on the firing that started it, the six-year experiment that almost derailed it, and why the company got better as it got smaller.
Video Stella & Chewy's Founder & CEO Marie Moody
The founder of Stella & Chewy's on ice cream freezers, an SBA loan, and why the person who starts a brand is rarely the best one to run it.