Pete Wilkins, Managing Director at Hyde Park Angels and author of Purpose + First Entrepreneur, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Over the course of his career, Pete has worked with all kinds of business leaders, young founders and everyone in between. One of the main drivers of success (and failures) he’s observed in his…
Former NBA basketball player turned investor C.J. Watson joins the show to talk to Scott about his business pursuits after basketball. C.J. talks about how his parents were entrepreneurs and having the “entrepreneur gene” was always interested in things outside of sports and started getting into angel investing halfway through his playing career. C.J. shares…
Lisa Carmen Wang has learned a lot as an accomplished Olympic-gymnast, founder and investor. And after getting her first company SheWorx acquired by our friends at equity crowdfunding platform Republic, she’s on a mission to democratize investing and financial freedom to those typically kept outside of start up investing. Besides her current role as Head…
Megan Blu joins the podcast to talk with Scott about her American Dreamhouse property, Boeing Ave, that’s an investable property that has already sold out on Republic Real Estate. Originally a designer, Megan began fixing up and selling homes in California 6 years ago and has made a career out of flipping. She talks about…
Founder of Narrative Advantage. Bryce Conlan and Scott share something of a kindred spirit, cleverly termed the “unemployable”. That’s not to say anyone is actually unemployable, but there’s a certain type of a person that naturally gravitates towards new ideas, better ways to perform a service and work independently to do so that doesn’t always…
White Sox fans have an especially close connection to Guaranteed Rate — the company that purchased the naming rights to the team’s stadium in 2016. The company’s founder, Victor Ciardelli, is happy to keep it that way. Victor grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. Back then, classmates wouldn’t have predicted Victor would…
For more than 150 million paying subscribers, Netflix is a beloved content provider, offering access to hit shows like “Stranger Things” and “Narcos” and many others. But in fact, the company’s backstory rivals the kind of suspense-filled dramas that streaming sensations are made of. Today Netflix is a household name. But back in 1997, streaming movies…
Utter the name “Malnati” and every Chicagoan in earshot will immediately sit up a little taller. And Will Malnati is, indeed, from that Malnati family. His great-grandfather Adolpho ‘Rudy’ Malnati, Sr. was a deep dish pioneer at Pizzeria Uno, and his grandfather Lou opened his eponymous restaurant in 1971 — the first in a chain…
At any moment, my wife Jen could text me and tell me she’s in labor. I’m a bit anxious, to say the least. Fortunately, Monica Royer, Co-Founder and CEO of Monica + Andy, understands. She’s in the newborn-baby business. When she delivered her daughter in 2010, like many new parents, she didn’t know…
Heather Baker, VP of talent at InContext Solutions, and Joe Wegreke, Director of human capital consulting at TriNet, join Scott in-studio at WGN Radio in downtown Chicago to discuss mixed reality and human resource services. Mixed reality, a combination of virtual and augmented reality, is a futuristic, Jetsons-esque idea that will soon be the…