Ben Lee is a tech influencer, one of Inc.’s 30 Under 30 Most Brilliant Entrepreneurs, and cofounder of Rootstrap, a digital creative studio that helps clients including Fortune 100 companies and early-stage startups with strategy, development, and growth.
In this episode I talked to Rener Gracie, Head Instructor at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy and co-creator of Gracie University, about the benefits and costs of doing business with family, how lessons from Jiu-Jitsu can easily be applied to business and life, and why he decided to make the best hoodie on the market.
This week I talked to Eddie Lee (Podo Labs) about what what he wishes he knew before his first Kickstarter campaign, how he got the idea for his first product, and why he’s been able to be successful on Kickstarter (over $3 million total raised with over 50K pledgers) with three different products.
I interviewed Andres Izquieta about lessons learned from founding (and selling) the super-successful fashion subscription service Five Four Club, our shared interests and passion for Latin America, and his new podcast (only in Spanish, sorry guys!) Latinos Unidos.
This week I talked to Carl Smith about how he’s building community with Bureau of Digital, the loneliness that goes hand-in-hand with entrepreneurship, and why he keeps running marathons.
This week I spoke to Jeremy Ryan Slate about his burgeoning podcast business, the time he was given last rites after a surgery gone wrong, and then we took a deep dive into the murky world of digital PR.
This week I spoke with entrepreneur Trevor Koverko about transitioning from the NHL to entrepreneurship, his adventures in VR, and how he's building new kinds of business in the crypto space.
Seth Winterroth is a full stack technology investor and partner at Eclipse Ventures in Silicon Valley. We had a wide-ranging conversation, discussing everything from the misconceptions about artificial intelligence and the huge growth opportunities in machine learning to learning about some of his favorite health and fitness hacks and habits
This week I spoke to podcast host/producer Ari Andersen about how he started out in the podcasting world, why millennials don't suck, and how politics is seeping in to everything we do.
