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Rohan D'Souza recently joined us for a conversation to share the story behind Avante – an AI-native platform transforming how employers manage employee benefits. Tune in to hear how Rohan, Nick Cecil, Dr. Carly Eckert, and Kabir Shahani are helping employees become healthier and more engaged with their benefits, all while helping employers reduce costs. Hosted on...

Today, I'm joined by Yash Wagh, co-founder and CEO of Gone. Gone is building the infrastructure for the $100B+ global recommerce market, offering free pickup for used items and turning them into curated inventory for a tech-enabled resale marketplace. It’s a seamless way for consumers to declutter while keeping quality goods in circulation and out of landfills. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast....

Today, I’m joined by Ezra Feilden, co-founder and CTO of Star Cloud (Formerly Lumen Orbit). In light of massive energy requirements for AI and data processing workloads, Lumen is pursuing a big vision: putting data centers in space. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features Karthik Jagannathan, CEO of Gallabox. In our conversation, Karthik shares compelling perspectives from his experiences as a first-time founder and longtime business leader serving SMBs. Learn about how it all led to starting Gallabox - which is helping businesses automate their customer conversations on WhatsApp – which now has over 2B users worldwide. Let's get started!...

Today you’ll hear from Sadee Gamhewa, Founder and CEO of Velou. Join us to learn about how Sadee’s personal experience with ecommerce shopping led him to create Velou and how the company is enriching brands’ product description pages, optimizing their data for search engines, and ultimately aligning more accurately with customer search behaviors. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Today I am joined by Luke Arrigoni, Founder and CEO of Loti. Join us as we discuss how Loti is changing the game for artists and talent in managing their digital image and likeness by finding and removing unwanted real and deepfake content within hours of it appearing online. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I am joined by Martin Ramirez, Co-Founder and CEO of Signify. Join us as we discuss Martin’s path from MSFT, Pharma, multiple early stage startups, AI Voice – and how it all led him to a focus on regulatory compliance for manufacturers with Signify. Also prepared to soak up some great insights on customer obsession and finding product-market fit as well. Let's get started!" Hosted on Acast....

Today you’ll hear from Kyle Roche, Co-founder and CEO of Griptape. Join us as we discuss Kyle’s 15-year journey driving software innovation at AWS and his prior startup 2Lemetry, and how Griptape is lowering the barrier to entry for AI usage at SMBs and Enterprises alike. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today you’ll hear from Nate Hamet, Co-founder and CEO of Quindar. Join us as we discuss Nate’s path to discovering his passion for SpaceTech, meeting his five co-founders, and how Quindar is becoming mission-critical – pun intended – for satellite operators and beneficiaries of their data like you and me. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today you’ll hear from Doug Logan, Co-founder and CEO of Aerial. Join us to learn about Doug’s prior experience serving startups and midmarket M&A at K&L gates, and how the pain from masses of clerical work inspired his vision for Aerial. Speeding up financing rounds and creating legal cost savings for founders is what inspired his mission from the start.  Let's get started! Hosted on Aca...

Today's Operational Excellence episode features Mike Bignold, the Founder and CEO of CostCertified.   In this conversation he sits down with FUSE GP Brendan Wales to share about how he leverages a numbers-driven approach to operating, and how it's helped CostCertified to grow by more than 10x in the last two years.    Let's get started!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

In this episode we sit down with Leif Magnuson , Co-Founder and CEO of TipHaus . In this conversation he is joined by FUSE GP Brendan Wales to discuss some of his creative tactics for operating leanly and efficiently -- and how it's helped TipHaus 10x its revenue in two years. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's Operational Excellence episode features FUSE Operating Partner John Connors. John has been a partner at Ignition (FUSE’s Alma Matter) since 2005 and also served as CFO and CIO of Microsoft. Throughout his career he has served on many public, private, non-profit and civic boards, some notably including Nike and Splunk.   In this conversations he sits down with FUSE GP Cameron Borumand...

Today I am joined by Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, the founders of Quandri. Join us as we discuss how these two brothers teamed up to build an RPA platform to automate workflows for insurance brokerages. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's Operational Excellence episode features Paul Mikesell, the current Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Prior to Carbon, Paul co-founded Isilon Systems, which went public in 2006 and was subsequently acquired by EMC for $2.25 billion in 2010. Paul also served as Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, where he grew the team and opened the company’s engineering office in Seattle. Pau...

Today you’ll hear from Benji Barash, Co-founder and CEO of Roboto. Join us to learn about Benji’s experience helping run the drone program at Amazon – and how it paved the way for starting Roboto. This business is transforming the way engineers can access and analyze multimodal hardware and sensor data. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month's Operational Excellence webinar features FUSE LP and  Attentive  VP of Sales,  Gavin Hewitt . In this discussion, Gavin and FUSE's  Brendan Wales  discuss sales best practices. Topics include: how to best serve big and small ACVs, how to build comp and capacity models for SDRs/AEs, how to drive top rep performance, and more. With Gavin's experience leading team...

Today I am sitting down with Leif Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of TipHaus. Tune in as Leif shares about his journey in the restaurant industry and some key insights into the ever increasing importance of proper tip management strategies. He’ll also share why major restaurant brands are turning to TipHaus to improve employee retention and satisfaction. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Today FUSE GP Brendan Wales sits down with Ryan Fink, Co-founder and CEO of Digs. Ryan has started 3 companies before the age of 35. He scaled his first two to successful exits – and has a big vision for company number 3: Digs. In today’s conversation he shares key insights from his journey about how to grow and lead teams effectively – and what it takes to build great businesses. Hosted on Acast....

Today you'll hear from Vikram Chalana, Co-founder and CEO of  Pictory . Join us as we discuss the making of the product, the generative AI landscape, and why Pictory can turn anyone into a video editing pro in minutes. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this Operational Excellence episode we sit down with FUSE LP Eric Johnson. Eric was the CEO of Nintex for 5 years and was CFO prior to that. Nintex generates $250M+ ARR and was recently valued at $2B. He knows what it takes to build an execution machine.  Listen in as he and FUSE GP Brendan Wales discuss how to apply operating tactics from a profitable, high-growth software business to ear...

Today we continue with our Operational Excellence series. This week's episode features a conversation between FUSE GP Brendan Wales and FUSE Operating Partner Bobby Wagner.  As an All-Pro linebacker Bobby continues to be at the top of his game, having recently completed his 11th NFL season. He leads with humility yet continues to perform at the highest level. In this session, Bobby will...

Today you’ll hear from David Rhodus, Founder and CEO of Flostream. Join us as David discusses his prior experiences in blockchain, including his time at Ethereum, what led to him create SUMI, and how the product is revolutionizing storage. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back! Today we're are wrapping up this portion of the Operational Excellence series focused on the hiring journey. I'm joined once again by FUSE Operating Partner Satbir Khanuja, to talk about hiring an early stage VP of People and Culture. With learnings gathered throughout his time as a startup leader, advisor, and mega cap operator, he's truly seen it all. Join us as he shares insights...

Today, we continue with our Operational Excellence series focused on the hiring journey. I'm joined again by FUSE Operating Partner, John Connors, to talk about hiring an early-stage technical leader. With learnings gathered throughout his time as a startup investor and advisor, and his past life as an operator, namely his time at Microsoft, he's going to have some tremendous wisdom to share. Let'...