Best Startup HandMeDowns Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 96: A Different Approach to Saving the Planet and Why Plastic Water Bottles are the New Cigarettes with Rich ‘Raz’ Razgaitis - CEO of FloWater 1:48:45

3+ y ago1:48:45

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Today Philip Kasumu had the pleasure of speaking with Raz who's vision is fueled by wanting to leave a better environment for his children and the next generation, Rich ‘Raz’ Razgaitis is tackling a problem most people don’t even know they have: toxic drinking water. As Co-Founder & CEO of FloWater, which is the world’s most advanced water refill s…

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Episode 95: It's Not Enough to Build Something You Have Think About Distribution with Amir Salihefendić of Doist 1:13:01

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Today's interview was with Amir Salihefendić the CEO and Founder of Doist and Twist. Amir has viewed life a little differently ever since his family fled war-torn Bosnia for Denmark. He began to see the world becoming borderless and that worldview has influenced his mission to shape the future of work as Founder and CEO of Doist, a fully distribute…

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Episode 94: Creating a New Way to Shop Online with Girish Ramachandra Co-founder & CEO, Shopalyst 45:03

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In this episode, Philip spoke with Girish the co-founder & CEO at Shopalyst. Prior to Shopalyst, he was a Vice President at Infosys where he was responsible for their Retail Industry Solutions Business. An author of four patents that he helped commercialize, he is passionate about how data and technology are shaping our world. Besides adoption by g…

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Episode 93: Why you Need to Build your MVP End to End with Serial Entrepreneur Peter Yared CEO of InCountry 1:05:19

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Peter Yared is the founder and CEO of InCountry, a regulatory technology company that is providing data residency-as-a-service worldwide. Peter is also a 7x founder with more than $500M in exits, A Silicon Valley veteran, Peter founded six enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Oracle, Citrix, VMware and more. Previously, Peter wa…

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Episode 92: How I Sold a Company Before I Went to College and Building Amazing Consumer Focused Startups - Kal Vepuri - Founder of Hero and Serial Angel Investor 1:06:49

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In this episode, Philip speaks with Kal Vepuri, serial investor and founder and CEO of Hero, the IoT-connected device that automatically dispenses medication when you need it, was inspired to build his company after his mother, who's an M.D., admitted herself to the hospital for quadruple bypass surgery. The surgery was successful, but it was what …

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Episode 91: We Were Selling One Car Per Month When I Joined Tesla - JOhn ROkos - Angel Investor and Entrepreneur 1:41:52

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John is the Founder, CEO, & Product Architect of Enemy Tree, a California, USA based technology startup whose products are wide-reaching experiments in hardware, software, and services that positively impact peoples lives. Previously, John spent nearly 6 years at Tesla Motors leading teams and internally innovating in areas like operations, sales, …

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Episode 90: Austen Allred Founder and CEO of Lambda School - Transforming Education and How We Learn 47:37

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(Rerun) This week we sat down with Austen Allred of Lambda School, Fit Marketing, Grasswire, and Lendup. On this episode we discuss: - Growth marketing galore - The free upfront model - When to invest Austen Allred has a super interesting origin story, having dropped out of university himself, he went on to co-found his own school and pushing the e…

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Episode 89: Marketing Mistakes Startups Make with Gaston Tourn - CMO Appear Here, Ex-Googler, Ex-Badoo 47:27

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(Re-run) This week on Startup Handmedowns, we sat down with Gaston Tourn, CMO of Badoo which for those of you who don’t know is a dating app that is most popular in Europe and South America. Gaston describes himself as a writer and a poet, creating the narrative of the customer and integrating their stories into the product in question. Like many o…

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Episode 88: How to crowdfund £1million in 4 days with Alex Stefani CEO of Beam 23:49

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In this repeat episode, Philip speaks with Alex about how you should approach investors or attempt to raise money from the crowd? We talk to the founder of Beam and JustPark's Ex-Ceo Alex Stefani about what it took to raise the largest Crowdfunding campaign of its time and to lead JustPark to become a household name. We discuss 1. Tips and tricks t…

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Episode 87: You Don't Need More Processes with Ryan Walsh Chief Product Officer at Splice and Formally Beat by Dre and Floodgate VC 1:12:12

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(Re-upload) In this week’s episode of Startup Handmedowns, we sit down with Ryan Walsh who is currently a partner at Floodgate. Ryan has had a very rich career history, from starting out as a performing DJ in San Francisco to co-founding his own startup, and working as the VP of product at Beats by Dre. His origin story is wild, as Ryan got his sta…

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Episode 86: Hope is Not a Strategy - With Ian Chambers CEO of Mind Candy and Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness 47:12

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Ian the CEO of Mind Candy the creators of Moshi Monsters and more recently Moshi Sleeps. Ian's wealth of entertainment experience comes from his time at Ubisoft and Electronic Arts, which led to his role as International Managing Director at IGN where he was responsible for its global expansion and making IGN the #1 video games and entertainment me…

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Episode 85: Does Money Buy Happiness and Effective Content Writing with - Morgan Housel, Partner at The Collaborative Fund 57:53

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Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative VC an investment fund focused on supporting and investing in the shared future. The fund centers around two macro themes which are the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Now, Morgan has a unique role at the fund because he's not actually an investing partner, he's a…

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Episode 84: The Importance of Having a Startup Mindset within Multinationals - with Zack Weisfeld General Manager and Head of Ignite, Intel's Startup Mentorship Program 58:45

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Tzahi (Zack) Weisfeld is a seasoned executive and a serial entrepreneur, with 25+ years of experience in tech consumer and enterprise markets. General manager and head of Ignite, Intel's Startup Mentorship Program. President of ASN (Accelerating Startup Nations), Zack was one of the founders of Microsoft Israel R&D site as well as a member of its m…

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Episode 83: Build a Team of Curious People to Achieve Success with Haymo Meran - Serial Entrepreneur and Investor 51:56

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In this episode Philip spoke with serial entrepreneur and investor Haymo Meran. Haymo is currently the head of product at Usersnap which provides SaaS companies with feedback collection tools so that they can become more customer-centric and truly make use of the voice of the customer to improve their service. But before this, Haymo built and sold …

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Episode 82: Why All Founders Have to be Great Sales People with Dan Bowyer - Co-Founder and Partner at SuperSeed VC 49:56

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Dan Bowyer co-founder and invest at Superseed VC. Dan invests in technical founders building smart B2B tech startups (SaaS/health/data), with a mission to help them to find global market fit. It's Dan's job to help them get out of startup mode using scalable, repeatable and profitable sales models. Ensuring they get the right people on the bus, cre…

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Episode 81: Not All Businesses Need Venture Capital Funding with Andrea Hippeau Principal Investor at Lerer Hippeau VC 44:49

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In this episode Philip spoke with Andrea Hippeau is a Principal on our investment team. Prior to joining Lerer Hippeau, she held management and business development roles at portfolio companies. Andrea worked in corporate development while at Advance Publications and managed client relationships for Thomson Reuters. After studying French and busine…

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Episode 80: Creating the right culture starts with leadership - Melissa Daimler Founder of Daimler Partners 1:07:47

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Melissa has been an executive at high-growth companies for over twenty years. She is now Principal of Daimler Partners, working as an advisor, facilitator, and executive coach. Her primary focus is on helping leaders define and operationalize culture. Prior to starting Daimler Partners, Melissa was an executive who experienced multiple leadership v…

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Episode 79: Angel investor by day world-class DJ by night with Mick Batyske Investor and DJ 46:46

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Mick is a Brooklyn-based multi-talented creative with influential footprints internationally – from New York to LA, London to Tokyo. He is a DJ, style influencer, tech investor, inspirational speaker, music curator and brand consultant. He's also a pretty cool dad from what I hear also! In this episode, we talk about Mick's approach to becoming the…

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Episode 78: Peter Rojas - Partner at Betaworks Ventures - How We Built Multiple Media Brands Without Paying for Traffic, Acquisitions, Venture Capital and More. 1:01:48

4+ y ago1:01:48

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Peter Rojas is a founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund based in New York and San Francisco. He is also the co-founder of several startups, including Weblogs Inc. (acquired by AOL in 2005), where he created and was editor-in-chief of both Engadget and Joystiq; Gizmodo (formerly Gawker Media, now part of Univision)…

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Episode 77: What's your startups moat? Branding Isn't enough with Hadley Harris - Founding Partner at Eniac Ventures 54:10

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Hadley has done a little bit of everything on the path to co-founding Eniac. Starting as an engineer and development team lead at Pegasystems, he later took on roles as a product manager at Microsoft and strategist at Samsung, where it became clear that big companies were not for him. In 2007 he was very fortunate to join a very talented AI team ou…

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Episode 76: I lost everything in 2008 so I was more prepared for COVID-19 with George McGehrin - Founder of The McGehrin Group 1:05:25

4+ y ago1:05:25

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For close to 20 years, George has run a national executive search firm mostly dealing with executive search and leadership at the C-Suite level such as CEO, CFO, CTO roles throughout the US, Europe, and South America. He's worked with small startups to some household named organizations. Besides managing his recruiting firm, he also works with simi…

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Episode 75: From Drug Addiction to Successful Tech CEO and Leadership Coach with Michael Brody-Waite Co-Founder of InQuicker 1:10:12

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Episode 74: The Worse Thing You Can Do is Live With Regret - Patrick Drake Co-Founder and Former Head Chef - HelloFresh UK 56:44

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Episode 73: Self Awareness Helped Us Grow Our Direct to Consumer Business - Abhi Lokesh CEO of Fracture (Rebroadcast) 53:27

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Episode 72: What I've Learned as An Investor For The last 11 Years with Rodney Appiah Founder and Chairman of Cornerstone Partners and Director at Foresight Private Equity 1:25:31

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Episode 71: How I Sold My Startup for $45m and Why I Started my Next Startup the Following Day with Jude Gomila Founder of Golden 1:30:19

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Episode 70: Lo Toney Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital. Formerly eBay, Zynga Google Venture Partners 1:06:18

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Episode 69: Your Life Should Have a Theme, Don't Just Do One Thing with Anthony Frasier Entrepreneur and Strategist 49:49

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Anthony Frasier is a digital strategist, tech entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. A Newark, NJ native, Anthony has a long history of mentoring, advising startups & community infrastructures, to solve real problems and build solutions. Before joining Newark Venture Partners as their entrepreneur in residence, Anthony was one of the founders be…

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Episode 68: Building B2B Products and Why You Shouldn't Get Sucked into The B2C Game with Andrew MacGill, VP of Product at Pager 1:02:22

5y ago1:02:22

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Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Andrew MacGill who’s an entrepreneur and product director. Andrews has been through 2 exits where the ideas have been in their early stages of development so he knows a thing or two about building meaningful products. Andrew is currently the VP of product at Pager, a New York-based startup that’s transformin…

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Episode 67: How I Grew Traffic to Millions of Views and Sold My Blog for $9m with Serial Entrepreneur Ramon Van Meer 1:04:41

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Ramon is a serial entrepreneur and in my opinion a serial hustler. He’s a different kind of entrepreneur, not a tech startup tech-savvy kind of guy but more of a methodical "how do I drive traffic and monetize" it kind of guy. In this episode we discuss how to create engaging content and drive huge amounts of traffic to your site and also, how Ramo…

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Episode 66: Why Startups Need to Get Good at Telling Stories With Tammy Nam COO of PicsArt 48:02

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Re-run - This week we're sharing our interview with Tammy Nam, COO of PicsArt, a photo-editing platform with over 100 million monthly users. Tammy has worked at tons of cool companies such as Slide, Scribd, and Viki, and has earned quite a name in the consumer-facing tech world. In this episode we discuss: How to deal with different founders The at…

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Episode 65: How I Built the App Vivino to 36 million Users and Raised over $57m with Heini Zachariassen Founder of Vivino Wine App 52:40

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In today's episode, Philip spoke with serial entrepreneur Heini Zachariassen Founder of Vivino. Vivino is currently the world's largest online wine marketplace with over 36 million users and attracting 20 thousand new users per day. Boosting a very impressive database of over 10 million wines from over 200 thousand producers around the world Heni k…

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Episode 64: Stop Taking Programmatic Approaches to Systemic Issues with Ben Hecht President & CEO at Living Cities 48:50

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This was a slightly different type of interview as I did not interview a serial entrepreneur who’s built multiple tech companies and sold it for millions or a venture capitalist but instead, I spoke with a different type of entrepreneur. Ben Hecht, Ben is an unusual type of entrepreneur because he actually focuses on philanthropy and more specifica…

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Episode 63: How to Build Successful Tech Companies and Market Them with Dan Sutera, Serial Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor and Investor 1:08:28

5y ago1:08:28

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In this episode, Philip had the pleasure of speaking with serial entrepreneur, advisor, and investor Dan Sutera. Dan Sutera has started a number of tech companies which he’s either sold or, has created so much meaningful value that it'll eventually sell at some point. When you have a look at Dan Sutera's entrepreneurial resume it looks as if everyt…

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Episode 62: From raising over £200m to becoming a VC and trying to solve the "pipeline" problem with Ezechi Britton Principal at Impact X Capital and Co-founder of Neyber 1:41:19

5y ago1:41:19

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In this episode Philip sat down with Ezechi Britton Principal at Impact X Capital and Co-founder of Neyber to talk about his journey so far. From growing up in Lewisham with his parents who were teachers to finding his way into investment banking and later as a co-founder to a startup that would go on to raise £200m. Ezechi touches on moonlighting …

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Episode 61: Why The Best Way to Learn is by Doing with Kai Bond, Serial Entrepreneur and VC at Courtside VC 34:29

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Re-run: This episode originally aired in March 2018 but Kai's lessons in entrepreneurship are timeless. In this episode Philip spoke with serial entrepreneur and now venture capitalist Kai Bond. Kai is the lead investor at Catalyst Fund which is a seed fund based in New York City. Catalyst Fund is an extension of Comcast Ventures and it serves as a…

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Episode 60: Investing in Diverse Founders with Eric Collins Founder and CEO of Impact X Capital 2:04:12

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Sticking with the theme of Black History Month, Philip sat down with Eric Collins who's the founder and CEO of Impact X Capital which is a venture capital firm based in the UK. They invest in diverse, underserved –– or what Philip likes to say "underestimated"–– founders in the UK and across Europe. On this longer than usual episode, Eric talks abo…

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Episode 59: The Importance of a Strong Brand and How to Create One with Alain Sylvain Founder of Sylvain Labs 42:48

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Alain Sylvain is the founder and CEO of Sylvain Labs, an innovation and brand design consultancy. They have offices in New York, Amsterdam and Richmond, VA. The company serves as a strategic planning resource for product developers and marketers. They have some of the biggest names as clients including Google, Airbnb, Spotify, General Motors, Samsu…

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Episode 58: Why I wouldn't want to be a startup founder again with Charles Hudson Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor VC 38:07

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On this episode, Philip spoke with Charles Hudson. Charles is a serial entrepreneur and is the Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures. Precursor is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. They recently closed their sec…

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Episode 57: We Raised $1m and Sold our App for $48m in Less Than 2 years with Jordan Fliegel MD of TechStars Sports and Serial Entrepreneur 51:43

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Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Jordan Fliegel who’s an early-stage investor and serial entrepreneur with a focus on sports tech. Before Jordan started investing he co-founded a number of successful startups, including Draft, a fantasy league app which he started with his best friend and went on to be acquired by Paddy Power. At the time o…

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Episode 56: (Re-run) Why you don't need to burn the ship to be an entrepreneur - Tom Bilyeu Co- Founder of Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory 39:15

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This was one of my first interviews when I was still getting into podcasting. This interview was first aired in 2017 and you can hear just how bad of an interviewer I was! But luckily, I was interviewing an OG! Tom Bilyeu brought that fire regardless of my poor interviewing skills! SO many great insights and killer pieces of advise for startup foun…

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Episode 55: Sales Masterclass with Adam Liebman - VP of Sales at Seated 52:35

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Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Adam Liebman who's currently VP of Sales at Seated who is known in New York City as one of the top sales executives in the tech ecosystem. Adam has built and grown sales teams for some of the largest tech startups in New York City such as Yext (YEXT) which is now a publicly traded company where Adam was sal…

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Episode 54: Nathalie Molina Niño- Founder of BRAVA Investments and Author of Leapfrog: The New Revolution For Women Entrepreneurs 53:35

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Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Nathalie Molina Nino. Nathalie is an impact investor targeting high-growth businesses that economically benefit women and the planet. A confessed but recovering serial entrepreneur, Nathalie launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty and like most of us got hooked. She's the co-founder of Entrepre…

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Episode 53: Why You Don't Need Another Book with Angel Gambino 1:09:35

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Angel Gambino is a WIRED Top 100 executive who has built companies on three continents. She's also an urban regeneration pioneer, a visionary investor, a passionate environmental lawyer, and a dedicated and loving mother. The technology phase of her career has included co-founding investment partnership Prehype Partners, senior roles at the BBC and…

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Episode 52: (Re-run) How to build amazing products - with Ian White of Business Insider and Co-founder of Sailthru 49:50

6y ago49:50

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This week is a repeat episode with Ian White who’s the co-founder and former CTO of Sailthru. Recorded June 2017On this episode, we discuss:- How to build a product- The importance of talking with users- Speed to marketIan White was the CTO and Co-Founder of email service provider Sailthru. They’ve raised over $48m and now staff over 200 people in …

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Episode 51: Transforming Education and How We Learn with Austen Allred Founder and CEO of Lambda School 47:37

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This week we sat down with Austen Allred of Lambda School, Fit Marketing, Grasswire, and Lendup.On this episode we discuss:- Growth marketing galore- The free upfront model- When to investAusten Allred has a super interesting origin story, having dropped out of university himself, he went on to co-found his own school and pushing the envelope for t…

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Episode 50: Tony Conrad - Serial Entrepreneur and Partner at True Ventures with over $2bn AUM 1:40:17

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This week we're interviewing Tony Conrad of True Ventures, Sphere, about.me, Wordpress and many other great startups. On this episode we discuss: - The turning point of modern startup culture - Expert level networking - The emotional intelligence necessary to excel in the startup landscape The theme of this episode is networking, networking, networ…

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Episode 49: The One Thing All Successful Startups Have in Common With Tammy Nam COO of PicsArt 52:43

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This week we're sharing our interview with Tammy Nam, COO of PicsArt, a photo editing platform with over 100 million monthly users. Tammy has worked at tons of cool companies such as Slide, Scribd, and Viki, and has earned quite a name in the consumer-facing tech world.On this episode we discuss:How to deal with different foundersThe attributes of …

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Episode 48: Just Do What You Love and It'll Work Out with David Jamilly Co-Founder of Theme Traders 41:27

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This week we've interviewed David "DJ" Jamilly, co-founder of Theme Traders, a creative event production business (emphasis on the creative) which grew to the impressive from his party entertainment gig as a teenager!On this episode we discuss:The social aspect of doing businessSetting client expectationsKindness (both the not-for-profit organizati…

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Episode 47: (Re-run) Why Brands Need Personality with Mat Braddy Former CMO of Just Eat and Founder of Updraft 44:59

6y ago44:59

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Ok I know last week we promised a new episode but you're going to have to wait one more week... this week we're playing a rerun of one of our favorite interviews with Mat Braddy, former CMO of Just Eat and current mentor extraordinaire.On this episode we discuss:- Why Mat Braddy ran for office- Eating the Big Fish by Adam Morgan- The importance of …

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