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Suthen's take on the future of work, building businesses and financial independence. He'll be sharing information ranging from personal development, investing to building resilient businesses. This podcast will also feature conversations with people from a variety of backgrounds.
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Every week we'll be featuring the CEO / founder of a vertical software business. We'll talk about how their journey, how they've grown their company and where they see the future of their industry. We'll also be featuring senior operators within FOG Software Group, a portfolio company of Constellation Software (ticker: CSU), to explain how we buy and operate vertical software businesses around the world.
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Magnus Sandberg - Building a Smart Manufacturing Platform
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We cover a number of topics including: Working at Constellation Software Why do owners want to work with Constellation Software? What have you learned from your peers as you've managed Shoplogix for 3+ years? Shoplogix and The Future of Smart Manufacturing What makes you excited about Shoplogix? In a lot of ways COVID-19 has accelerated the change …
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Ralph Dangelmaier - The Payment Platform Built For Growth
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Ralph's Story What’s your story? Tell us about your journey for the past 7+ years at BlueSnap as the world embraced the concept of e-commerce. In addition to your role at BlueSnap, you sit on the board for a number of leading companies in the finance/accounting software space. What have you learned from serving on the board of companies such as Min…
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Adam Unger - Building the Digital Community Bank
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As a second-generation CEO, Adam saw a void in the wealth management space and keeping up with modern technology. With the thought of making their clients successful not just in the moment, but for the future, Accutech has now grown to be an industry leader serving community banks across the U.S. Adam's Story What was it like to take over the busin…
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In this episode of the Vertical Software Podcast, we're joined by David Wadler, the CEO/Co-Founder of Vendorful. From being the co-founder of Twistage to the GM of Rich Media and Cloud products at Lexmark, David stops by to talk about rejoining the startup world with Vendorful. David's Story 1) You have an interesting combination of experience with…
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Levi Morehouse - Building an Accounting Software for Franchises
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Levi's Story You went from working as a Chartered Accountant at small to mid-sized companies to building a software company. What was that transition like? Tell us about Ceterus. What pain points were you first trying to solve? How has that evolved? Accounting software is a relatively competitive space – and yet Ceterus continues to grow quickly. H…
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Jean Souliere - Building A Smart School Bus
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Jean's Story Your background is fairly unique where you didn’t start off in the space of smart city/vehicle technology. How did you go from studying philosophy, to becoming a sales leader, then building a logistics business and now starting BusPatrol? How would you compare and contrast the business models of Nuage, CV Logistics and Bus Patrol? Did …
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Stephany Lapierre - Leveraging Supplier Data
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Stephany's Story It’s hard to imagine the likelihood of someone without an engineering background to starting one of the most innovative supply chain technology companies today. What got you interested in learning about supply chain? How did you become an expert? You went from building and running a consulting company to creating a software company…
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Justin's Story What’s your story? What got you interested in the space and led you to co-found FR8nex, and more recently, Rose Rocket? Tell us about Rose Rocket’s platform as a service and how is this technology a game-changer for the trucking industry? Why is it an exciting time to currently be innovating within the freight/trucking space? The Fut…
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This week we're excited to interview Pankaj Malviya from Pulpstream. Here are some of the topics we go through: Pankaj's Story Starting a business is equivalent to having kids in my mind. You’ve managed to start three different businesses and exited 2 of them. What did you learn from each company? What does bootstrapping mean to you? What kind of f…
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Scott Wolfe Jr - Rethinking Construction Payments
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This week we're excited to interview Scott Wolfe Jr. from Levelset. Here are some of the topics we go through: Scott's Story How did your family shape you as an entrepreneur? What did you like and dislike about family-run businesses? Why did you decide to raise capital (vs. bootstrapping)? Where is Levelset headed next? The Future of Construction T…
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Last week, I talked about the idea of building your own personal bundle/monopoly. The reality is that this starts at a very early age when most of us didn't view the world this way. This leads to the question of how do we help future generations build their personal monopoly. This is where I've been paying attention to the work of Ana Lorena Fabreg…
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Throughout history, there are moments in time where we witness remarkable accomplishments from a group of individuals. A little known example: The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, England. “Patrons of The Eagle and Child wrote three of the five best-selling fantasy series of all-time within an eighteen year period - The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,…
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Platforms like Teachable have made it easier to create online courses. With schools around the world being shut down, we’ve essentially forced ourselves to learn online. As with anything else on the internet, there’s a lot of poor courses and a few great ones. Will Mannon manages a couple of courses that I’ve taken including Building a Second Brain…
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I'm really excited to have Austin Lieberman on the podcast today. I have been following him on Twitter for the past 6 months. He's served as a Captain in the Air Force for ~7 years and taught himself how to invest. You don't need to have a business or finance background to be a great investor. The biggest thing that stood out to me is Austin's tran…
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I had the pleasure of working with Will during the early days of GrowthGenius. He's the founder of GrowthGenius and previously started Bitmaker (Canada's first coding school). You may have noticed that a lot of my posts featured my former colleagues at GrowthGenius. I think that goes to show the type of team he's been able to put together. On that …
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Over the past couple of years, I've done growth-related work for two startups - GrowthGenius and Knowledgehook. I don't consider myself to be an expert. However, I have paid attention to what kind of tactics work and what doesn't. Today, we have a number of channels available to us including email, LinkedIn, calling, direct mail, podcasts, video se…
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Over the past couple of years, I've had the fortune of working for Duncan McCall. He's a co-founder of Bitmaker and Brainstation and founding member at GrowthGenius. He's also easily one of the smartest people I have worked with and the best manager that I've had. He's learned everything from sales to coding to audio engineering to education and ha…
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Our Speakers Mayu Thava He’s a close friend of mine and someone who’s been passionate about real estate for several years. Of the past six months, he’s made several investments in the GTA and Windsor areas. He’s also shared his investment process as he’s gone along this journey. Check out his work here! Jacob Perez Jacob Perez has been investing ag…
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During my time at GrowthGenius, I had the fortune of working with Liam Redmond. I saw him grow from being a business development rep to an expert on generating leads on LinkedIn. His approach toward business development and growth teaches lessons that go beyond sales. In our hour-long conversation, we cover the following questions: What's the role …
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A Conversation on Dealing With Loneliness #32
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A brief introduction to Nizar and Api. Nizar Hasan - He's a former colleague of mine at GrowthGenius and someone who is incredibly passionate about helping people achieve their maximum potential. He's an engineer by trade, worked in the construction space, did his MBA in Spain and was amazing at building client relationships for GrowthGenius. He's …
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