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Our goal is to breakdown how legends and leaders achieved their success so you can become the greatest version of yourself! The path of each individual will be discussed highlighting the steps taken towards their achievement. We desire to simplify success, making it relatable, for you to take one step forward towards achievement.
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Denny's is nearly 100 years old and has been an important part of American dining helping to shape the way that all restaurants think about catering towards kids and families as a whole. The Denny's model became incredibly widespread, which includes a family friendly build, menu that reflects all ages, and an environment that feels welcoming to anyone. Kelli talks about what lead her to be in the restaurant business, what makes Denny's such a beloved destination, and how Denny's will continue to be that go to family spot. She also shares insights into the future of the diner, how the 24/7 operation works well, and her thoughts on the benefits of restaurant tech!
Jordy realized there is an immense opportunity to build a platform for sports teams to run their stadium operations on, which will in turn give fans a better more streamlined experience. Jump has already partnered with the Timberwolves and the Lynx to debut the technology and plans to scale the all in one system further! Jordy has been building the business alongside Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, both of whom compliment him with the sports team access and the marketing prowess. After finalizing a $23M Series A, Jordy talks about the goal of the funding, how the Timberwolves partnership is progressing, and his vision for the future of the company!
Chris realized that the opportunity to connect the region properly with stablecoin payment technology was immense, so he launched Yellow Card which has quickly become a go to method for transacting. Yellow Card has made cross-border payments much easier, enabling 20 different African countries to send and receive local currencies without a hassle. Chris talks about how he became interested in cryptocurrency, what lead to him building a blockchain platform, and how the particular idea to focus on Africa originated. He also talks about the potential of the technology long term!
ACC has always been about doing more than traditional marketing, building elevated campaigns that are thoughtful and targeted at multiple areas. The approach has lead to an incredibly successful business and attracted many of the most notable brands in the world to work with ACC including Google, Whataburger, EA, Delta and others. Monica has been an instrumental leader in ACC's traction, guiding strategies for household name brands ensuring they are creative and bringing out innovative ideas in activations and experiences. She talks about how her interest in this category began, what makes ACC different, and more!
Economist Ben Zweig, PhD, has been studying the data behind how to optimize the placement of people in organizations at the corporate level. Stemming from an issue with the data collected and how that data is processed, Ben has been focused on giving companies a new lens to look at what is happening in their organization. In his book Job Architecture: Building a Language for Workforce Intelligence, Ben discusses how the job market can become more transparent via data processing and why that will be beneficial to all. He talks about his findings here and gives suggestions to companies!
As the tax season is approaching, tax technology leader TurboTax has multiple substantial innovations they are bringing out this year to make your filings easier! Mark has been involved in shaping Intuit's consumer products for many years and joins the podcast to share more on how AI is going to help you with your taxes. Mark also talks about what the company culture at Intuit is like, how he innovates within the organization, and how your financial technology will become more intuitive. He shares insights into how Intuit thinks about new products and what has enabled it to grow to the industry wide leader it is today!
As the world moves to taking countless meetings online as a primary form of communication in the workplace, taking notes can become burdensome. Richard realized this and with his design and development background, was able to build a technology that seamlessly integrated into calls to summarize them and enable you to focus best! Fathom has gained so much traction that in their Series A round 1,300 of the users decided to put money into it. In this episode, Richard breaks down how the idea came about, what the integration into meetings took to technically achieve, and his plan to scale!
Lindsay has fundamentally changed the way women's racing is viewed today, bringing immense awareness to the sport through her content and unique perspective. With a passion for racing, Lindsay has achieved wins in multiple leagues including the prestigious IndyCar viewed as the American Formula 1.As a part of the Rafa Racing team, Lindsay is racing on incredible tracks alongside many of the most accomplished drivers in the world. She has been competing at the highest level in the racing world yet managed to build an incredible digital content presence that has lead to Motorsport.com naming her the most influential female race-car driver globally! Lindsay talks about how her passion for racing originated, how she began to race competitively, and what she aspires to do with the sport at this stage!
Adam has been pioneering a new form of advertising, placing ads on rideshare vehicles, enabling a significant new revenue stream to be provided to drivers that wasn't present before. Stic serves as a connector between drivers with advertisers and has technology able to track what is happening!Adam is changing the way that advertising is done, opening up a significant new vertical of exposure for brands while helping out delivery, rideshare, and other drivers that could benefit greatly from the income. In this episode, he shares the vision for the company and his long term ambitions!
Eyal pioneered a primary way that data center servers communicate with each other which became the most respected technology for long lasting and strong connectivity. The success of the technology lead to Nvidia purchasing the business for around $7B, a historic acquisition by Nvidia, that provided an incredible validation of Eyal's around 20 years of hard work. In this episode, Eyal talks about how the idea for Mellanox came about, what went into the company's technological edge, the acquisition, and more. Eyal also shares insights into what he is investing in today, his thoughts on AI, and other ambitions!
Elisa knows that a younger generation needs career exposure sooner rather than later so they can prepare right away with all the industry changes due to technological advancements. So she started WIN-NextGen, a nonprofit that is focusing on providing not only more purpose to new workforce entrants but a better recruitment tool for employers!In this episode, Elisa talks about how her business and army experience helped shape her career and what it will take to guide a younger generation through the biggest technological change the world has yet to experience!
After struggling with addiction himself, Scott decided to take more control over his life and through exercise and will power overcame drugs and alcohol addiction. From that experience, Scott knew there was more that could be done to help others going through what he did so he launched The Phoenix. The Phoenix has had a core element around wellness and physical activity because it requires full focus and being drunk or high impairs that ability. The approach Scott has brought out, a prioritization of exercise, has changed the lives of over 1 million people and his Ted talk is a great explainer of how it all works! Scott talks about the decisions that lead him to creating The Phoenix, how he is scaling the program yet maintaining the high quality standards, and what the long term vision is to help the millions of people that need it!
There has been an immense amount of harm caused by excessive smoking and Max has been a leader in pioneering an alternative that is cleaner and better for you. Max has had his own journey with smoking and was able to overcome an unwanted habit so wanted to bring out a different system to the market that he was confident would help others! Sesh has gained great traction as a nicotine product alternative that is cleaner, well designed, and helps with controlling cravings. With well known investors such as Diplo and Post Malone, Sesh has become apart of culture and a beloved alternative that has helped countless people!Max talks about his journey with smoking, how the idea for Sesh was born, and what it took to design the pouch to the state of quality it is in now. He also discussed the roadmap and next phases of growth!
Sebastian is taking his incredible learnings in the crypto space as previous President of Coinbase Asset Management and working hard to make crypto as accessible as possible to traditional stock market investors! ReserveOne is building a vehicle for investors to get exposure to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other currencies with a simple purchase of a stock and not having to go through the usual buying crypto process. The concept of ReserveOne is based on the idea of not changing the fundamentals of purchasing assets while giving access to a new asset class. A simplification in a space that may be complicated to many, while providing great exposure. In this episode, Sebastian talks about how he became interested in building the ReserveOne system, the impending listing, and the positives of the approach! He also touches on the plan to scale, marketing of the listing, and more.
Kim has a unique background in understanding marketing hardware and software products which has come into play quite importantly at Meta with Wearables! Meta's Wearables have lead the way in providing a new technology medium and with Kim's creative storytelling and organic viral moments, the products are reaching the masses! Kim talks about how her interest in marketing began and what lead to the opportunity to be at Meta and help shape marketing for such an exciting category without a playbook! She also shares some of her long term goals and dives into the recent Wearables announcement.
Adam has taken his financing talents to help the Cannabis industry get the funds they need to build high quality and long lasting businesses. With an extensive background in the traditional financial world, he understands how to navigate the hurdles. With FundCanna, Adam has deployed over $20 billion dollars to back promising ventures with a lending model that enables growth with lower risk for the companies. The companies like his model and continue to gravitate towards a partner that truly understands this newer industry! He explains how the FundCanna approach works, what lead him to the idea, and how he sees the industry scaling!
Joanna realized there is an immense need for vetted drivers to drive kids to school and there wasn't a solution to hire one on demand like an Uber. So she set out to build it for her own kids and now over 13,500 schools across the country are using her technology! HopSkipDrive also is great for anyone who wants to hire an vetted "CareDrive" and many elderly people have benefited from the company a lot. Joanna shares how the system works, what it took to build the technology, and her plan to take this to more schools!
Yung Lan has produced for many of the most admired names in music worldwide and achieved incredible success. He is able to understand each artist's musical direction and match it when it comes to production. Having been in the industry and developed a great reputation, Yung Lan has branched out to creating a management and publishing company that has many of the brightest young stars in the industry part of it. In this episode, he shares how he got into the music space, what it took to have success, the vision for his production company and more!
Lofted Spirits has become a top 10 distiller by volume in the US under Mark's leadership, where he took skills learned as a former Chief of Staff of Army Special Operations Command and implemented them for a sophisticated leadership approach in the spirits business! Lofted Spirits not only has its own brands with great fans, like Bardstown Bourbon, it produces for others and has earned a reputation of trust and admiration. Mark talks about how his journey in the army began, what lead him to come to the business world, and why he wanted to make whiskies! He also shares more on the company roadmap, how the business model of their own brands vs producing for others works, and the upcoming growth trajectory.
Justin has seen all the changes of DeFi and has been a significant contributor to the Katana chain's ecosystem development. Katana is a recently launched project that has incredible backers in Polygon Labs and GSR. Justin has been tasked with bringing awareness to the unique benefits of this blockchain. With Katana there is consolidation of liquidity and reinvesting fees for further growth. In addition to this, there are other mechanism that give it a competitive advantage. In this episode, Justin talks about what it will take for DeFi to help the masses and why Katana is the best path forward!
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