Ross Buhrdorf, Jim Eckes | Office Hours #778
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Ross Buhrdorf
Ross Buhrdorf is the co-founder and CEO of ZenBusiness which offers business products and services that help business owners in starting, running, and growing a business. The company has raised over $70 million from top-tier investors, drawn backing from investors like Mark Cuban, and grown to help more than 850,000 business owners. Prior to ZenBusiness, Ross was the founding CTO of HomeAway which was acquired for $3.9 billion.
Jim Eckes
With decades of experience in telecom, Jim Eckes is the leader of TieTechnology, where he focuses on building custom VoIP phone solutions to help businesses better serve their customers. He has built a career on creating meaningful partnerships and leveraging his expertise to bring legacy telecom systems into the future. Jim is also reinventing the customer experience by integrating telecom with AI in a way few have considered. His approach challenges long-standing industry norms, emphasizing that AI is only effective when the foundation—the phone system itself—is modern, reliable, and built to support innovation.
United States
