Alex Giannikoulis

Alex Giannikoulis, founder of Ivee, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Ivee is a “mobility as a service (MaaS)” platform that adds a suite of apps and experiences that elevate your time as a passenger in commute. The Ivee dashboard connects your phone to a 10″ tablet in the backseat to access services like Netflix,…

Pek Pongpaet

Pek Pongpaet, founder of impekable and longtime Technori alum, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Impekable provides UX design services to tech companies, including work with  Adobe and Twilio  among many others. Pek talks about his journey from Chicago to the Bay Area (and back again), how design has been mainstreamed into tech, comparing the…

Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and well-known as @alex on Twitter, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Alex share their feels being able to talk to so many founders and struggles keeping up on email. They run through Alex’s Chicago roots and Technori nostalgia – Alex talks about how Technori events helped…

Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle, co-founder of new glamping resort Off Map, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Fresh off his previous business Rent Like A Champion, Mike took his expertise from the rental markets and got right to work on a new company focused on the outdoorsy, increasingly popular glamping experience. Mike shares his honest thoughts on…

Jimmy Odom

Jimmy Odom, co-founder of Bit Capital Group, longtime friend of the program, entrepreneur, crypto-expert and business leader joins the show to catch up with Scott on everything from business to babies (and having the right mindset for adoption). They dive into tendencies of VC to play kingmaker on founders in the trenches, working inside and…

Jake Goldstein

When gyms big and small closed down over the past year, most people are confined to continuing their exercise routines with body weight workouts and name-your-stationary-bike routines. But finding a place that resembled anything like the gym experience, gear and all? Almost impossible to find. This sparked and an idea for Jake Goldstein, a Chicago-local…

Nick Hamburger

Quevos co-founder Nick Hamburger has taken his company he started out of his college class and kitchen to the stage of Shark Tank in a few short years. And won! Nick comes back on the show to talk about what’s changed with Quevos, leadership lessons that no one prepares you for, how he got a…

Dagan Xavier

Label Insight co-founder Dagan Xavier joins the show to talk with Scott about the how his company is providing better, clearer information to consumers to find products that match what they need (or eliminate what they can’t have). Simultaneously they empower brands with better data on their core consumers. A win-win, imagine that! Dagan shares…

Ben Forgan

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is often trotted out without much explanation much like “AI” or “machine learning”. But if you take IoT as the the ability for your devices or your company’s devices to communicate with each other – Hologram is the SIM card that allows that connectivity to occur efficiently. Hologram.io uses…

Brian Fritton

When we think cybersecurity, we tend to think big data breaches like Target or your parents setting their passwords as “password”. We skip over the the prime target for many attacks – small businesses. Attacks against SMBs make up almost half of all cyber crime, and has seen gigantic spikes with the pandemic in 2020.…