The Jonathan Herzog Podcast

Welcome to the podcast CEO Cohort Founder Dr. Khatija Ali, CEO of BioSapien! Khatija Ali, founder and CEO of Biosapien, a biotech company on a mission to treat cancer through its flagship product is the MediChip, a 3D-printed biodegradable implant, placed directly at the site of a tumor that releases chemotherapy slowly and locally over weeks instead of flooding the entire body through an IV. Rais...

Goldman Sachs got branded a "vampire squid" in 2009 — an image that stuck because Goldman is transparent about what it is: a bank that trades against clients, prices deals to its own advantage, with conflicts of interest. Everyone assumes Goldman is optimizing for Goldman. That assumption is priced into every interaction with them. VCs runs the same playbook - portfolio-construction, LPs as the re...

Two Words: Boca Chica. The 400 sq-ft rental that Elon lives in. Why make the money? Why 10x your money? If it's not to get the stuff? If it's not to build the next thing? Consider: making something that helps people - the money is the strategic byproduct - and why 10x? To blow your own mind. To evolve. To become more of who you are. To be an example of what's possible with the Algorithm. Capital i...

Why is it taking your enterprises so long to onboard, uptake, integrate, transact? Because you're doing something wrong in your closing process. This podcast tells you how to fix it. Book your free CEO Cohort kickoff today at kickoff.theceocohort.com To 1000x your life and venture — book your free cohort kickoff today at https://kickoff.theceocohort.com ********** This information is for education...

It matters what you DECIDE TO DO NOW. Let go of the f*cking past. With love. It all happened perfectly. It was meant to happen that way. Because it did. It's like signing up for the gym, working with a personal trainer, university, or anything - and not showing up to the workouts, the classes, or the course at the start. No one cares. Don't double down on the doubt, the fear, the insecurity, the n...

Welcome back to the podcast CEO Cohort Founder Solon Angel, Founder & CEO, Remitian, the Stripe for tax payments! Solon has spent two decades building and scaling companies in fintech, accounting, and financial infrastructure. In Solon's words: "I am the 1000x case study of your work - I literally 1000x'd my revenue and fundraising (and life) thanks to you." He founded and led MindBridge, whic...

Welcome to the podcast CEO Cohort founder Saumya Sanjeev, Founder & CEO of TachyonLeap, the AI based healthcare company centered in Princeton Automating Healthcare demand through Intelligent Care Pathways. A state of the art Agentic AI enabled ubiquitous care delivery marketplace to ‘Stitch & Distribute’ healthcare companies algorithmically to automate 80% of ‘Low to Medium’ risk health de...

Welcome to the podcast CEO Cohort Founder Denyelle Bruno is the founder and CEO of The Wweb, which connects the systems a multi-unit brand already runs into one picture of its customers, so operators can see where to open next and how each location performs. She has spent more than 25 years building brick-and-mortar businesses. At Apple, she was one of a seven-person team that created Apple's reta...

Welcome to the podcast CEO Cohort Founder Joseph Joey Asal is the founder of Integral Affinity, a leader in AGI coherence, and sensory design working at the intersection of frontier technology, sustainability, and human experience. He is currently focused on carbon, agriculture, circular economy, and supply chains. Previously, he directed technology and innovation at LOLIWARE and has spent more th...

Back by popular demand, it'sLife or Death: The Secret to Closing Fortune 100s Your closing process in a nutshell: Think of yourself like an ER doctor where the patient presents He’s got cardiac arrest, a sprained ankle, a broken toe, a gash in his right arm, and bleeding from his forehead. Triage. Focus on the High-Variance shit first, then everything else. You know it’s life or death - the patien...

Back by popular demand, the Information Paradox - Solved! To 1000x your life and venture— book your final CEO Cohort Kickoff today at theceocohort.com/finalkickoff ********** This information is for educational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any investment or financial product. Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be tak...

Goldman Sachs got branded a "vampire squid" in 2009 — an image that stuck because Goldman is transparent about what it is: a bank that trades against clients, prices deals to its own advantage, with conflicts of interest. Everyone assumes Goldman is optimizing for Goldman. That assumption is priced into every interaction with them. VCs runs the same playbook - portfolio-construction, LPs as the re...

The Upper Limit Problem (ULP) - the evolutionary hard-wired default mode of the brain which says we can only have a limited amount of success. Have you hit an upper limit? E.g,: Getting sick before an important pitch. Starting a fight with your spouse after raising a round. Yelling at your kids after closing a customer. Signing a terrible term sheet and giving power away to a board member or misal...

Autotelic: The Work Is the Glory Autotelic (adj.) - having its purpose in itself; done for its own sake; done simply for the joy of it. Is that how you'd describe a Tuesday in your business? If you only enjoy business when it’s up and to the right, you’re doing it wrong. If your work isn't autotelic, someone else's is. Someone, somewhere is doing the unsexy work and actually loving it. Not endurin...

Back by popular demand, The Secret that Runs the World. There is a simple process to leverage it. To 1000x your life and venture— book your final CEO Cohort Kickoff today at theceocohort.com/finalkickoff ********** This information is for educational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any investment or financial product. Please note that the content here is for inform...

If your sex life as founder sucks (most do), it will limit your business growth. There is a simple process to fix it. To 1000x your life and venture— book your final CEO Cohort Kickoff today at theceocohort.com/finalkickoff ********** This information is for educational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any investment or financial product. Please note that the conten...

Back by popular demand it this weeks MVP! To 1000x your life and venture— book today your final CEO Cohort Kickoff at theceocohort.com/finalkickoff ********** This information is for educational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any investment or financial product. Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, bus...

1. Thesis: "Don't Sh*t Where You Eat" 2. Antithesis: "The Hard Thing about Hard Things" 3. Synthesis: Enroll your wife in your vision. Learn the Power Couple Process. Master the Marriage MBA and share a common language by working together - save your marriage and your venture through The CEO Cohort. To 1000x your life and venture— book today your final CEO Cohort Kickoff at theceocohort.com/finalk...

1. Thesis: The Kenneth Arrow Information Paradox Inversion (1962) 2. Antithesis: Nadella's "Reverse Information Paradox" (2026) 3. Synthesis: There are no Paradoxes, Solving the Information "Paradox" is the fundamental distribution engineering skill gap - that The CEO Cohort solves. To 1000x your life and venture— book today your final CEO Cohort Kickoff at theceocohort.com/finalkickoff **********...

Life or Death: The Secret to Closing Fortune 100s Your closing process in a nutshell: Think of yourself like an ER doctor where the patient presents He’s got cardiac arrest, a sprained ankle, a broken toe, a gash in his right arm, and bleeding from his forehead. Triage. Focus on the High-Variance shit first, then everything else. You know it’s life or death - the patient’s life or death is in your...

Objections are bugs your investor / customer / employee’s / wife’s codebase. It is your job to refactor them. Reflect the thought error back to them. And help them get what they want. One of the biggest lies is “I have to talk to the team.” All objections - time, money, talk to someone - are euphemisms for “I haven’t been compelled to see the value - yet.” Today: learn how The Decision Tree Role-P...

The founders who apply to The CEO Cohort aren’t just chasing a short-term exit. They’re the most ambitious, long-term positive-sum founders who want true durable scale. That’s why we commit to the Three-Year-Plan: Your biggest Step-Function Transformations come from compound growth. We overestimate what we can get done in 30 days and underestimate what we can get done in 3 years. Without the Three...

Who is the Errol in your life? The dad you said you’d never amount to anything, who sided with the bully, or the mom who made her love conditional? The reason most founders sell and you never hear of them again - or they become some empty VC or tweeter - is because they Never learn to harness or leverage their trauma. Who is the Errol in your life? Some learn to transmute that into love and give t...

When it feels scary, gag and go. The fear is not a stop sign. That is the go signal. That feeling means you are at the exact threshold that matters. The threshold where the next step function transformation lives. Every part of the 94x SpaceX multiple is a receipt for what happens when the founder refuses to stop at the threshold. Imagine yourself after three failed rocket launches, after burning...

Feeling successful but not getting the married sex you want? What if you could have the best sex of your entire life with your life partner? This week's MVP pod reveals the alpha method for how to do just that. Apply today to 1000x your life and venture - join the CEO Cohort at apply.theceocohort.com ********** This information is for educational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy,...