Best 1105 Media Podcasts (2023)

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Being an “only” in the room, with soloprenuer and former Microsoft leader Gavriella Schuster 44:01

5d ago44:01

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“I actually think that’s the case with a lot of women...you just get used to bad behavior and you normalize it.” - Gavriella Schuster This week, our host Carol Schultz sits down with a renowned figure in the tech industry, Gavriella Schuster. Now a solopreneur, Gavriella was formerly a longtime leader at Microsoft and continued into an extensive ca…

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Supply Chain & Team Building 101 with ProcureAbility’s Conrad Snover 51:47

20d ago51:47

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We are back! For the official return of Authentically Successful, Carol sits down with the CEO of ProcureAbility, Conrad Snover. His company leads the industry in supply-chain solutions. "I see so often in business... (businesses) don’t create a strategic plan, they don’t have operating principles, and they don’t use it as a road map and manage to …

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Why It’s Time to Examine Institutional Strategy for a Multi-Modal Future 34:57

3M ago34:57

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Since 2016, the Changing Landscape of Online Education Project, also known as CHLOE, has been surveying chief online officers at colleges and universities across the country about the current state of online learning in higher ed as well as institutions’ strategic vision for the future. A joint effort between Quality Matters and Encoura Eduventures…

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Company Acquisitions: ‘You're not as important as you thought you were.’ – Sudhir Bhojwani 46:08

4M ago46:08

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, host Carol Schultz interviews Sudhir Bhojwani, co-founder and CEO of a procurement technology company named ORO Labs. Sudhir opens up about his journey as a software engineer and his first startup which opened the door to three more. He reflects on projects that failed and also shares successes, such as …

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Educating the Next Generation in AI 26:41

5M ago26:41

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What skills will students need for the workforce of the future in an age dominated by artificial intelligence? In addition to basic computer science, data competencies, and the mathematics and statistics behind AI and machine learning, there are a range of social impacts to consider: AI risk, ethics, privacy, questions of bias, etc. All of the abov…

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Business strategy after success: The Simple Company’s Tobias Dahlberg 45:29

4M ago45:29

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, Carol Schultz is joined by Tobias Dahlberg, the founder and CEO of The Simple Company. As the title displays, his business works with organizations of many sizes to simplify, refocus, and hone their operations. He calls these companies “maxed-out operators” and aims to transform them into “wealthy busine…

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The Power of Partnerships: The Wall Printer’s Paul Baron 47:51

5M ago47:51

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, host Carol Schultz interviews Paul Baron, the founder of The Wall Printer. Paul's printer technology transforms images into wall art. In this episode, you’ll learn about Paul’s winding journey through business, including his experience in retail and manufacturing, and what later lead him to retire. He al…

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Leading three companies at once: Jonathan Baktari 46:04

5M ago46:04

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, we dive into the world of healthcare and the importance of vaccinations with our guest, Dr. Jonathan Baktari. Jonathan leads three organizations: e7 Health, a platform aimed at streamlining adult vaccinations, eNational Testing, offering nationwide access to laboratory tests, and lastly, U.S. Drug Test C…

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The Mechanics of Digital Transformation at National University 30:11

5M ago30:11

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At National University, the role of the data officer has shifted from the capture and analysis of data to a broader focus on digital transformation. As the institution's chief digital officer, Alex Chimon leads both the digital and the data realms, with the strategic goal of improving student outcomes and the student experience. Chimon comes from a…

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Pivoting in the Age of Chat GPT and Generative AI, with 1105 Media’s Rajeev Kapur 52:39

5M ago52:39

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“I think there's a lot of disruption coming, and that disruption has started with the advent of Chat GPT and all these generative AI tools. And I think if you ask me if there's anything that's going to keep me up at night is, how do we pivot as a company to understand and appreciate these tools that are coming. And what does that mean to our workfo…

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An Insider's Take on the Automotive Industry: ActivEngage’s Ted Rubin 54:30

5M ago54:30

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, host Carol Schultz sits down with guest Ted Rubin, a highly successful CEO in the automotive tech industry. They discuss topics such as the importance of evolving conversations, messaging solutions, and how to succeed in the automotive industry. Ted’s company, ActivEngage, aims to help automotive compani…

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Transforming the Real Estate Industry with Carbon Data: Carbon Title’s Trevor Dryer 51:45

6M ago51:45

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On this episode of Authentically Successful, host Carol Schultz invites the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Title, Trevor Dryer, to share his journey in Fintech and later co-founding his organization in the climate tech space. Carbon Title offers transparency into the carbon emissions of all buildings, empowering stakeholders to understand, manage, an…

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Nonprofit burnout: Make-A-Wish Alabama’s Tracy Smith 48:43

6M ago48:43

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"I feel like men think— and a lot of people think— oh, nonprofits are just nice and they're all volunteer ran and it's this nice, fluffy thing over here. But we are really meeting a need." - Tracy Smith On this episode of Authentically Successful, we hear from Tracy Smith, the CEO of Make-A-Wish Alabama, a nonprofit organization that grants wishes …

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Transparency breeds appreciation: VEG’s David Glattstein & David Bessler 1:04:27

6M ago1:04:27

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“By bringing customers to the back along with their pets, they were able to see everything that was going on. And so we did that for transparency reasons. What we discovered then is when the pet owners we call customers were able to see the caregivers, what they were doing, they were really appreciative. It added value in their eyes to the work tha…

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Founders Beware: What You Need to Know Before Taking VC Money, with Foundry Group’s Seth Levine 58:53

6M ago58:53

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Should you take venture money? "You really need to be up for growing a business, growing it relatively quickly, and finding an exit." — Seth Levine On this episode of Authentically Successful, Carol interviews Seth, the managing director and co-founder of Foundry Group. The venture capital firm was formed in 2007 and has now grown to 75 employees. …

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A Security Operations Center Powered by Students 29:25

7M ago29:25

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Growth in the cybersecurity industry is quickly outpacing the number of skilled workers available to fill the need, with estimates putting the global cybersecurity workforce gap at more than 3 million people. That shortage of IT talent is particularly acute in higher education, where salaries and benefits often can’t compete with the corporate sect…

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Trusting your team: Benekiva’s Bobbie Shrivastav 50:28

7M ago50:28

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“Don’t invite me onstage because I’m a female.” Bobbie Shrivastav says, “Invite me onstage because I have something valuable to add to the conversation.” Bobbie, co-founder, and COO of Benekiva, is a second-time founder. She and her husband first created Docsmore, a document manager, and later moved on to join Benekiva, a platform that transforms t…

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The hard truths of raising capital, with Circa’s Leslie Hyman 43:25

7M ago43:25

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“The true answer in the startup world is those who are successful are almost always white men who have exited before.” Leslie Hyman says, “In order to compete particularly in the payment world and then in the multifamily world, it takes a fair amount of money. That is not easy, and I just want to call out, it’s hard, I mean women still get 2-3% of …

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Make new mistakes: MarketMuse’s Chuck Frydenborg 49:32

7M ago49:32

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“I want to hear people acknowledge that they have failed,” Chuck Frydenborg says, “What I ask of my people is to make new mistakes. Don’t make the same ones over and over again. Then we got a problem. Make new ones. Learn from them.” MarketMuse, an AI platform for content creation and strategy, began as a personal science project. The original foun…

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Being the adult in the room, Field Agent’s Rick West 52:18

7M ago52:18

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“I think we’ve learned pretty quickly that we can do work remote. (But) It is difficult to lead and it is difficult to be the leader you need to be without being around the leaders you’re going to replace,” Rick West says, “I think you’ll have a whole wave of people upset that they’re not the next partner…because they were in California on a beach …

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How Generative AI Will Enable Personalized Learning Experiences 31:15

8M ago31:15

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Imagine a learning environment that, much like a Star Trek Holodeck, changes based on a user’s individual requirements. It understands the learner’s strengths and weaknesses, anticipates next steps, recommends the best learning content, moves at the learner’s pace, and removes unnecessary friction within the mechanics of learning. With today’s adva…

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Recruiting at the dinner table, with Premier Claims’ Melissa Hurrington 54:56

7M ago54:56

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“You take care of your people and your people take care of your company every day— on personal levels, professional levels. I know without a doubt that they have my back.” - Melissa Hurrington As CFO of Premier Claims, a public adjustment firm that advocates on behalf of the customer, Melissa leads with a people-first approach. Melissa says her com…

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Grant seeking: Cynthia Adams of GrantStation 50:49

8M ago50:49

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“What we’ve done is we’ve really tried to take peoples’ skill sets and use them so that they’re not only doing what they’ve been hired to do but they’re doing what they love to do.” - Cynthia Adams Cynthia and two others started GrantStation in a one-room cabin in the woods of Alaska. The organization was created to connect nonprofits with grantmak…

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Transferring knowledge using AI, with UptimeAI’s Jagadish Gattu 50:19

8M ago50:19

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Jagadish Gattu (Jag) came to the US from India to get his master's and stayed here ever since. After working at many companies, he realized that many customer needs could be better fulfilled through AI. In 2019 he founded UptimeAI, an artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance software provider for companies in heavy industries. Since its…

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Work-life integration, with Ovation’s Dan LaBroad 52:27

8M ago52:27

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“I’m sorry– there is no balance. Some people can separate the two, you know, but overall it’s integrating and how do you bring it all together and make it work harmoniously together,” Dan LaBroad says. Dan’s company, Ovation Health and Life Services, is an employee benefits firm aimed at helping employers create better health plans. Dan began his c…

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AI and the Future of Writing Instruction 26:25

8M ago26:25

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Much has been made of plagiarism concerns around the use of ChatGPT in education, and there’s no doubt that generative AI technology will impact the role of writing both in higher education and in society in general. But as our guest Mark Warschauer points out, the use of AI for writing and communication presents an inherent contradiction: Those wh…

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Smart people learn from their mistakes, geniuses learn from others: Brent Williams of Benekiva 54:50

9M ago54:50

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“We made a big mistake. We configured the platform where—luckily it never saw production because it was caught in testing– but we had where we pointed the system to the wrong logo,” Brent Williams tells Carol, “We owned it. We said ‘This is us, we did this.’” Brent founded Benekiva, a SaaS technology platform that aims to transform the end-to-end i…

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Passion is infectious: Credible’s Jitesh Shetty 49:13

9M ago49:13

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“You get this feeling of happiness when you do this,” Jitesh Shetty tells founders, “If that’s not happening, it’s almost like your system internally telling you: change something! Maybe that’s not the right idea for you, the right problem space…I think if that is not happening it will be very hard to succeed.” Jitesh, a three-time founder, most re…

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Casting a long shadow, with PADT’s Eric Miller 45:10

9M ago45:10

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“You’ve got to cast a long shadow,” Eric Miller tells Carol. “We look a lot bigger than we are to our clients. They are always a little surprised that we are less than 100 people because we pack a bigger punch than these 4,5,600-person companies that we compete with.” Eric is a co-owner and Principal at PADT, a provider of tools and services that h…

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Forming companies within a company: VIC Tech’s Calvin Goforth 44:54

9M ago44:54

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Calvin Goforth founded VIC Tech in order to help commercialize new technologies invented by university researchers. VIC Tech began as a consulting firm for tech startups. After noticing that many professors with new technologies didn’t want to quit their roles to develop them, Calvin decided to shift. The company screens new technologies brought to…

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Where does HR come in? With BentoHR’s Matt Burns 53:52

9M ago53:52

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“There is a financial responsibility that exists in every organization. Traditionally HR is not a part of those conversations. They’re the conversation that happens after that decision has been made, and they’re left to reconcile the reality that’s been created when they weren’t in the room.” - Matt Burns Matt founded BentoHR, an HR operations cons…

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AI in Education: Will We Need Humans Anymore? 26:08

10M ago26:08

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ChatGPT is groundbreaking, but it’s also merely the first in what will likely be a series of innovations built on foundational developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing that are going to change the world. Higher education is already feeling the impact of generative AI technology in terms of plagiaris…

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The No-Code Revolution, with Base64.ai’s Ozan Bilgen 47:28

10M ago47:28

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“Sometimes when people spend too much time in corporate life, they kind of are taught to not think. Don’t think just do. And that is really like the opposite of what we want people to think,” Ozan Bilgen says, “We want people to be critical about the process and come up with their solutions as well, if possible.” Ozan founded Base64.ai, an artifici…

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Health over work, even as a CEO, with Shahed Islam of SJ Innovation 49:47

10M ago49:47

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“She (Shahed’s wife) would go to a stakeholder meeting and tell me that ‘You haven’t done that properly…”” CEO Shahed Islam tells Carol. “Our team members have learned that. We have become a good example. Now they are arguing.” Shahed co-founded SJ Innovation, an IT solutions company, with his wife almost two decades ago when they were two travelin…

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“Take me out, coach!”: DevStride’s Phil Reynolds 58:17

10M ago58:17

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“I learned over time the value of just getting everyone to get on the same page and move in a direction, albeit imperfect– because you can course correct. You can inspect and adapt as you go,” Phil Reynolds says, “It wasn’t about me being right, it was more about building alignment in the team.” Phil first founded BriteCore, a cloud-native platform…

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The key to founding many successful businesses, with Phil Tee, co-founder of Moogsoft 51:15

10M ago51:15

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“You manage engineers in a completely different way to how you manage salespeople, in a completely different way to how you manage finance people, and so on and so forth. And you have to be able to shapeshift your management personality into a context that is relevant to that point in time.” - Phil Tee Phil has founded several successful software c…

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How CSU Global Designs for Inclusive Online Education from the Start 27:35

10M ago27:35

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Campus Technology recently published 14 technology predictions for the coming year, based on input from higher education and ed tech industry experts across the country. A key statement on that list was this: Digital accessibility will be central to an inclusive campus culture. As Brian Fodrey, assistant vice president for Business Innovation at Ca…

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If you don’t need to be in the Zoom meeting, why be there? Prioritizing time with Diffco’s Vadim Peskov 54:25

10M ago54:25

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“I’ve asked people to stop doing any multitasking— because this is a freaking illusion. It doesn’t work,” Vadim Peskov tells Carol. Vadim co-founded Diffco, an app development company. Diffco helps tech startups build their software and, in some cases, also build out their business model. In order to make his days as CEO as efficient as possible, V…

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Pioneering cannabis law, with Bob Hoban of Clark Hill’s Cannabis Industry Group 55:39

11M ago55:39

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“I think most lawyers, they go for comfort. Maybe not comfort in the subject matter of what they’re doing, but comfort in their repeatable patterns. They go to the office, they do the same type of work each day. The cannabis industry was anything but that,” Bob Hoban tells Carol. Bob founded Hoban Law Group, which Clark Hill’s Cannabis Industry Gro…

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Mastering vulnerability and transparency as a CEO, with Get Well’s Michael O’Neil 52:21

11M ago52:21

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“I was laying there so uncomfortable, afraid, anxious, confused, just clamoring for information to understand what all of these crazy acronyms were,” Michael O’Neil tells Carol about the genesis of his idea. After being treated for Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Michael founded Get Well, an organization that aims to empower patients to take an active role…

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Entrepreneurship through the lens of a 1st-gen American, person of color, and a woman: GoodFynd’s Sofiat Abdulrazaaq 57:54

11M ago57:54

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“People think once you raise money, that it gets easier. No. You only have more to prove.” - Sofiat Abdulrazaaq Years ago, Sofiat wanted to check out a food truck a friend had recommended and was unable to find it. This catapulted her and her friends into a journey to create GoodFynd, a way to connect customers to mobile businesses, helping food tr…

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The truths behind SEO marketing, with SEO Optimizers’ Brandon Leibowitz 35:55

11M ago35:55

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“If you’re just promoting yourself, you’ve lost people right there. You have to give back. The more you give back, the more people are going to be receptive to you and know that you are an industry leader.“ - Brandon Leibowitz Brandon founded SEO Optimizers, a digital marketing agency that helps companies gain online traffic through search engine o…

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Disrupting the global health space: Insured Nomads’ Andrew Jernigan 46:17

12M ago46:17

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“The future of work is changing, but also the future of travel,” Andrew says, “People are staying gone longer, they’re seeing that things are actually better in another place potentially for them, they don’t have to wait until they retire.” Andrew co-founded Insured Nomads, an insurtech and travel-tech platform aimed at helping travelers, ex-pats, …

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Saying no to business, with thoughtbot’s Chad Pytel 51:24

12M ago51:24

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Chad Pytel began freelancing as a developer in high school and continued throughout college to make ends meet. Later he joined a startup that failed quickly and led him to form a new company with the team he built. He founded thoughtbot, an end-to-end product development and design consultancy. thoughtbot aims to bring a company’s idea to life and …

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The rise of the QR code, with Beaconstac’s Ravi Maddimsetty 49:21

1y ago49:21

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When Ravi Maddimsetty began his start-up he had a vision of connecting the physical with the digital to help businesses engage with customers – not necessarily through QR code technology. But after trial and error, Ravi and his co-founder Sharat knew QR codes were the technology they had been looking for. Today their company, “Beaconstac” employs o…

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Reimagining Courseware from an Equity-First Perspective 38:28

1y ago38:28

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Earlier this year, Lumen Learning announced a partnership with Howard University to help develop equity-centered learning solutions for a new statistics course and platform. The goal: to develop more effective and culturally relevant courseware for minority and low-income students and improve outcomes in gateway courses. Howard faculty and students…

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“Putting it on the table” with Scott Snider, president of the Exit Planning Institute 52:16

1y ago52:16

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Scott Snider began his entrepreneurship journey in high school when he started mowing lawns. His side gig quickly turned into a full-blown operation with several employees. With mentorship from his dad, he grew the business and strategically sold it seven years later. Scott now uses his dad’s same methodology to help other businesses. As the presid…

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What do people value more: culture or salary? with XOi Technologies' Aaron Salow 51:48

1y ago51:48

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In an effort to solve the growing issue of service technicians leaving the field, Aaron Salow co-founded XOi Technologies to help the workforce by providing much-needed data. XOi Technologies is an all-in-one communication tool connecting field service technicians, offices, and customers. His company now has over 90 employees. Aaron says a large pa…

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Working in a new space: Yotam Segev, co-founder and CEO of Cyera 45:04

1y ago45:04

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Yotam Segev aims to lead the way in the new and expanding cloud data security market. The space is part of the larger cyber security market and is growing quickly as data security becomes more and more complicated, Yotam says. Yotam’s company, Cyera, is a cloud data security firm that, while only being a year-and-a-half old, has already raised a la…

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Balancing Data Insight with Data Governance, Privacy, and Transparency 33:07

1y ago33:07

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Ravi Pendse is passionate about data privacy. As vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Michigan, he has worked to ensure that privacy is a part of every technology decision on campus. At the same time, he is committed to fostering a robust data culture that democratizes the use of data to infor…

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