Sam Yam

Co-founder and CTO of Patreon a platform that fosters deeper connections between artist and fan, building communities where artists can create purer content and fans can directly support them. In recent years, Patreon has seen its average pledge amount increase by 20 percent. Patreon’s first successful artist was co-founder and musician, Jack Conte, who raised…

John-Isaac Clark

Founder and CEO of Arturo. Looking at famous people’s houses is not the most productive use for the tech in Google Maps. Insurance company Arturo is using it to determine quotes. A spinout of American Family Insurance, Arturo uses artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning to evaluate images of buildings and assess risk factors. The…

Yong Kim

Yong Kim, the founder of Wonolo (stands for “Work Now Locally”), set out to create a platform to bring power back to today’s workers. After closing a Series C funding round of $32 million in November 2018, his company is set to lead the wave, empowering freelance and project workers. Yong joined the podcast to…

Carson Goodale

CEO of FanFood. The only thing more delicious than watching your team win live is watching them win live while you eat a hot dog. FanFood will bring it right to your seat. Five years since he came up with the idea in a college bar, FanFood has become what founder Carson Goodale describes as…

Matt Kunkel

CEO of LogicGate. Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software is deeply unsexy, extremely important and mostly unexplored — until now, thanks to LogicGate. Matt Kunkel, co-founder and CEO of LogicGate, understands GRC has a dreary reputation — and he’s happy to be part of the team working to make it easy. He and his co-founders…

Colleen Sullivan

CMT Digital CEO Colleen Sullivan says it’s time for U.S. regulators to join the cryptocurrency party. CMT Digital One branch of proprietary trading and financial services firm Capital Markets Trading (CMT), it focuses on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. At first CMT Digital only worked on the regulatory side. A few years later, in 2016, the…

John Higginson

Groupon’s new CTO, John Higginson, explains why his job is less about coding and more about people, plus how to be the kind of leader your team respects. Becoming CTO has meant putting people before machines. “This is more a people role than a technology role,” John says. “Figuring out how to get the right…

Vous Vitamin Co-founders

Dr. Levitan and Dr. Block. Not all vitamin products are created equal — and some aren’t vitamins at all. Meet the doctors setting their own high standards in an unregulated industry. If you’re now wondering what the bleep you should be taking or not, Dr. Levitan and Vous Vitamin co-founder Dr. Romy Block get it.…

Jason VandeBoom

Founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign. Some businesses immediately chase investors, looking to monetize as quickly as possible. Others, however, bootstrap for as long as possible, investing all their energy into building the best product. Jason VandeBoom, CEO and Founder of ActiveCampaign, spent 17 years building his product. He and his team created the category of…

David Feherty

Legendary golf pro joins the podcast. The laser focus required of a professional athlete doesn’t leave room for a plan B. But when golfer David Feherty retired in 1997, he found success in multiple new careers. After David put down his clubs, he picked up a microphone and returned to the green as an on-course…