Pete Wilkins

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…

Sahil Lavingia

Sahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad and author of the new book “The Minimalist Entrepreneur” joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Sahil share their passion for the changes coming to investing such as equity crowdfunding and retail investor movement. Sahil earlier this year raised $5 million in one of the fastest filled…

Phil Libin

Phil Libin, founder of video communications app mmhmm, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Previously the founder of Evernote, Phil shares his thoughts on how timing is everything in entrepreneurship – it certainly was the case with Evernote (the iPhone changed the game for digital note-taking) and has taken hold with mmhmm. After mmhmm’s $5…

Candor Ventures

When Noah Berkson and Raul Henriquez started their business together helping young companies with tech development and resources, they quickly realized how many issues founders were commonly facing, particularly prioritizing decisions on what aspects of the core product to focus on and building the core team. They launched Candor Ventures to invest in companies with…

John Roa

Entrepreneur. The last time we had John Roa on the show, he was dressed for success and brimming with confidence. He had recently sold Akta to Saleforce, was launching his VC firm Roa Ventures and appeared living what universally could only be considered “the good life.” Turns out, the reality was far from the perception.…

Bryce Conlan

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…

Erik Severinghaus

Author of SCALING YOUR EVEREST. The cult of entrepreneurship has taken on many ideals and practices over the years, some that are more toxic than others. The commercialization of networking events, “struggle porn”, idolizing a handful of successful tech founders are a handful of examples that have fueled an unhealthy relationship with our work and…