Chicago Blend survey confirms VCs are, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly white and male. It’s no secret that tech and venture capital, like most industries, are suffering from a lack of diversity within their ranks. Insiders and outsiders alike have been exposing the negative consequences of that homogeneity, from Susan Fowler’s memo on Uber’s toxic culture, to…
Earlier this year, WeSolv founder and CEO Stella Ashaolu was asked during an interview which tech mogul she’d most like to have in her corner: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos. Understandably, Stella didn’t love the premise of having to choose her hero from one of three white guys (she eventually settled on…
“We’ve got to find our own story, leverage our own strengths, and be Chicago about this.” “What I’ve really specialized in is working on big, enterprise, core information technology problems and solving them. And what I’ve found is that there are inherent advantages to doing that here in Chicago,” says Chris Gladwin, founder…
How a platform for customized celeb video messages is making the Internet a nicer place, one shout-out at a time Today we have a returning guest on the podcast. I spoke with Steven Galanis, the co-founder and CEO of Cameo, a platform where fans can book personalized video messages from pop-culture stars.…
On the latest episode of the Technori Podcast, host Scott Kitun talks to returning guest Julie Novack, CEO and Co-Founder of PartySlate, the first two-sided digital event-planning platform to connect users directly with local event planners, venues, caterers and other party pros. The PartySlate concept was a direct response to Novack’s own frustrating…
Scott Walker, Chief Marketing Officer at cloud solutions company Unitas Global, is on the podcast to help us better understand our options when it comes to the cloud. In conversation with Technori Host Scott Kitun at WGN Radio, the two discuss when is the right time to start thinking bigger about your company’s…
“When I started, there were no black female founders in Chicago that readily came to mind, to whom I could go to for advice,” said Stella Ashaolu, founder and CEO of WeSolv. Her three-year-old Chicago-based startup is reducing hiring bias by providing opportunities for MBA students to solve real-world challenges for top companies.…
This past year has turned a lot of average Joes into less-than-average investors, and we can thank the crypto surge for this. So you bought a share of a company, and then the stock dropped 60%… what do you do now? That’s what keeps people away: the constant ups and downs of the market. Rapunzl…
When Todd Unger was working for AOL many years ago, people told him he was nuts. “You’re crazy! This is all a fad!” Well, who’s nuts now? Media has come so far in the last couple decades, and Todd is no stranger to it. Old institutions are becoming digitized to keep up with the advancement…
FanHome founder Lucas Pasch joins Scott in-studio at WGN Radio to talk about the rising world of eSports. FanHome brings people together to watch live eSports just like live sports: in bars with beer! Millions of fans tune in to watch Overwatch, Dota 2, and CS:GO championships. If you’re one of them, and you live…