Laser Focused

Quint Boa built Synima from a two-person operation in his daughter's bedroom into a 50-person video and animation agency across London, New York, LA, and Amsterdam, serving Fortune 500 clients including JP Morgan. Then Brexit killed his biggest client overnight. The European Commission couldn't have a UK company making videos about how great Europe is while Britain was leaving. Cash flow collapsed...

Bob Stewart is a serial CTO and founder of Apex Velocity Catalyst. He served as CTO at Dell EMC's Global Security Group and Motorola's Internet & Networking Group, was elected Chairman of the Board at ACRES overseeing $140M in clinical research technology, built the world's first blockchain-based online voting platform at Votem, and led biometric security at Sonavation. He also ran tech due di...

Aviel Ginzburg is General Partner at Founders Co-op and the founder of Foundations Seattle, the invite-only community shaping the next generation of Pacific Northwest startups. Before that, he founded Simply Measured, scaling it to 150 people. Aviel talks about a leadership lesson that took him years to learn: stop telling people what to do. As a founder, he powered through decisions himself. As a...

Rebecca Norlander is a renowned technology leader and Chief Product Officer at Verific. AI . Rebecca tells her story from when she was a Group Manager running the release of Windows XP SP2 during a white-hot security crisis. A senior executive demanded she withhold the update from millions of users. She said no - in a room full of people who outranked her, with her job on the line. Rebecca talks a...

Laser Focused is a podcast for founders and tech leaders navigating the hardest moments of leadership—the ones you can't talk about with anyone. Host Mark Alcazar sits down with operators who've been through the fire to share what they actually did when everything broke. 30 minutes or less. No frameworks, no theory—just honest conversations and practical wisdom. New episodes coming soon.