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#1842 YEC Founder Series: Trainual

I’ve been fascinated by YEC since the beginning. I’ve known them for a long time but I admire them much more so as the years have gone on. So, I wanted to interview some entrepreneurs who are part of...

Oct 16, 2019

#1841 YEC Founder Series: Kvantum

I’ve been fascinated by this organization called YEC and I want to get to know the entrepreneurs who are part of it. YEC does a big screening process and then they work with those entrepreneurs to hel...

Oct 14, 2019

#1840 A founder who’s bringing the technology of cooking into the future

Today I have a founder whose business model I’m really excited about. I’m not into cooking and I don’t understand people who really are, but this solution he came up with is something I can get excit...

Oct 11, 2019

#1839 Shazam: How it was built and sold to Apple in 2018

I remember when I first got my iPhone, one of the coolest apps to try was called Shazam. With Shazam, if there was music playing somewhere and you wanted to know what song it was, the app would tell y...

Oct 09, 2019

#1838 Building an eHarmony for the manufacturing industry

One thing I’ve noticed over recent years is more and more entrepreneurs selling physical products. And if you’ve heard any of my interviews with those founders, you know that it’s really tough to find...

Oct 07, 2019

#1837 How JustCall founder built a cloud-based phone system for your CRM

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who built a company and sold it. He is now running a company that’s super intriguing to me. I want to ask him how he came up with this idea because he was kicking arou...

Oct 04, 2019

#1836 Building big business off of an existing platform like WordPress

The idea of plugins for WordPress being a business has been around for a while now. Joining me is an entrepreneur who’s been in this space. He’s got plugins that had been downloaded millions of times,...

Oct 02, 2019

#1835 How to build agencies that scale

Joining me today is Chris Martinez. He is the founder of DUDE. They work with digital agencies to give them the people and processes that will help them make take on more projects and scale profitably...

Sep 30, 2019

#1834 Marathon Series: The co-founder of Skype joins me in Estonia

Joining me is one of the co-founders of Skype, formerly known as Skyper. Ahti Heinla is, among other things, the co-founder of Kazaa, which I remember as one of the first ways of getting music and mov...

Sep 28, 2019

#1833 Exclusive interview with the founder of a $1.9 billion dollar cyber security company

Joining me direct from Israel is the CEO and founder of Israel’s largest publicly traded company, a billionaire who’s self-made. He did it by helping companies protect themselves. Gil Shwed is the co...

Sep 27, 2019

#1832 SupportNinja founder opens up about mental health

We’re going to find out about an entrepreneur who has done so well for so long but has gotten screwed a little bit. Cody McLain is the founder of SupportNinja which offers support as a service. You...

Sep 25, 2019

#1831 Entrepreneurship in a highly regulated industry

Joining me today is a woman who sold wines in Manhattan. Then she decided to import wine herself. But she ran into a problem. Instead of closing down she figured out how to make things easier for peop...

Sep 23, 2019

#1830 Marathon Series: Bolt and the Estonian founder with a billion dollar valuation at age 25

When I arrived in Estonia it was clear to me that I was in Bolt country. The logo was on cars everywhere and even on taxis! Joining me today is the founder of that company. Markus Villig is the founde...

Sep 21, 2019

#1829 You asked, I listened; Here’s my interview with a founder in the cryptocurrency space

Joining me is an entrepreneur who’s in the cryptocurrency space. It is a space that’s been full of potential and opportunity, and I wonder if there are profits and real businesses being built there....

Sep 20, 2019

#1828 How Meredith Hill brought the travel agency back to relevancy

I thought that once online travel booking became a thing that needing to hire a travel advisor or travel agent would just be a thing of the past, but it’s not. Today’s guest discovered that not only...

Sep 18, 2019