Smart Venture Podcast

061 Gautam Gupta is a Partner at M13 Ventures where he invests in consumer tech companies. M13's portfolio includes Pinterest, SpaceX, Snapchat, Lyft, just to name a few. Prior to M13 Gautam was the founder and CEO of NatureBox, and an early stage investor at General Catalyst. He invested in more than 30 companies including BigCommerce, Honest Company, Grammarly and many others. He is also on the...

060 Rebecca Minkoff is the founder of a global fashion brand named after herself, Rebecca Minkoff. The brand has retail stores in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Korea, and is distributed in over 900 stores worldwide. Beyond fashion, she hosts The Superwomen Podcast With Rebecca Minkoff with guests like Jessica Alba and many other successful women. She is the founder of...

059 Dylan Casey is the Chief Product Officer of the Engineering Division at Goldman Sachs. As a professional cyclist he competed in the Olympics and rode alongside Lance Armstrong on The USPS Pro Cycling Team. Then he pivoted his career to lead product teams at tech companies like Google, Path, Yahoo and Fair. He's also an LP at  Next Ventures, and has co-founded the media company, WEDŪ Inc, with...

058 Dan Kimball is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Yelp. Prior to Yelp, he was the SVP of Global Marketing at Eventbrite, where he led marketers in 8 different countries. And before that he led many marketing teams in various sectors such as real estate, banking, and healthcare.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube:  https://bit.ly/g...

057 Jim McKelvey is the Co-founder of Square. Prior to founding Square he was a glassblowing artist, recovering computer scientist, Twitter and Square's co-founder Jack Dorsey's former boss and long time friend. Currently he is the founder of Invisibly, LaunchCode and Third Degree Glass Factory and Co-founder and General Partner at FINTOP Capital. He also serves as the Deputy Chair of the Federal...

056 Nicole Quinn is the General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. She invested in companies like Calm, Cameo, Lunchclub, HAUS, Zola, Girlboss and many others. Her investments are among the most competitive deals to get into, and a few of her portfolio companies are started by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Lady Gaga. Prior to venture she spent nearly a decade at Morgan Stanley, where s...

055 Sam Levy is the COO of Hinge, he joined Hinge when there were only 6 people. Under his leadership, Hinge has grown significantly and is one of the most popular dating apps in the US and Internationally. He led a team to rebuild the Hinge App from the ground up, and the amount of conversations users were having in the new product 9x-ed as compared to the previous app. Prior to Hinge, he was an...

054 Mike Cassidy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Apollo Fusion. He previously founded and had successful exits from 4 other high tech companies, namely Ruba (acquired by Google), Xfire (acquired by MTV for $110 million), Direct Hit (acquired by Ask Jeeves for $500 million), and Stylus Innovation (acquired by Artisoft for $13 million). Before starting his current company Apollo Fusion, he served as th...

053  David Glick is the CTO of FLEXE, a logistics technology company focused on reinventing warehousing and fulfilment to optimise the global delivery of goods for enterprise-class retailers and brands. Prior to FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon's fu...

052 Dennis Miloseski is the co-founder of Palm, a palm sized smartphone focused on being connected, but not consumed with technology. He brought on 3-time NBA champ and MVP basketball star Stephen Curry as a strategic investor and advisor. Prior to Palm, he was the Global Vice President of Samsung Electronics and former Head of Design, Special projects at Google.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com...

051 Domenic Perri is a Partner at Vertex Ventures US where he invests in early stage enterprise startups. Prior to Vertex, he worked on M&A and business development at companies like Tesla and Dropbox. When he started his career, he worked closely with Robert Herjavec, the "nice shark" from ABC's Shark Tank.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter / FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTub...

050 Iris Choi is a Partner at Floodgate, where she sits on board of portfolio companies, makes investments and helps them build strategic corporate relationships and financings. Floodgate's portfolio includes Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, and many others. Prior to Venture she was a VP at Goldman Sachs where she directly worked with CEOs of top companies like Disney, SanDisk and Yahoo!  https://www. Smart...

049 Shellye  Archambeau is one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs. She serves as a board member at Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies and Okta. She was the former CEO of MetricStream, where she turned a struggling Silicon Valley startup to a global leading compliance software company. Prior to becoming the CEO she was an executive at IBM and CMO at two other public companie...

048 Shellye  Archambeau is one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs. She serves as a board member at Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies and Okta. She was the former CEO of MetricStream, where she turned a struggling Silicon Valley startup to a global leading compliance software company. Prior to becoming the CEO she was an executive at IBM and CMO at two other public companie...

047 Lucinda Newcomb is the Chief Product Officer at WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers. She leads the WW member experience across all digital channels. Prior to WW she was a VP at Walmart and Sephora, where she led product management for all of online shopping and was responsible for the entire portfolio of omni-channel digital experiences across product management and design.  https://www. Sma...

046 Lucinda Newcomb is the Chief Product Officer at WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers. She leads the WW member experience across all digital channels. Prior to WW she was a VP at Walmart and Sephora, where she led product management for all of online shopping and was responsible for the entire portfolio of omni-channel digital experiences across product management and design.  https://www. Sma...

045 Monty Moran is the former co-CEO at Chipotle Mexican Grill. He took a Denver-based burrito company to Fortune 500 status. To build a successful culture, Monty spent most of his time having one-on-one conversations with more than 20,000 employees at Chipotle. The result was a culture of empowerment where each person was rewarded (and promoted) for how effective they were in making the people ar...

044 Monty Moran is the former co-CEO at Chipotle Mexican Grill. He took a Denver-based burrito company to Fortune 500 status. To build a successful culture, Monty spent most of his time having one-on-one conversations with more than 20,000 employees at Chipotle. The result was a culture of empowerment where each person was rewarded (and promoted) for how effective they were in making the people ar...

043 Michael Hyatt built and sold 2 very successful software companies. He is an investor on the hit podcast "The Pitch" and host of the new "Business Unplanned" podcast. He sits on the Board of Advisors of Georgian Partners, one of Canada's leading venture capital firms. He is a recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award and a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. https://w...

042 Michael Hyatt built and sold 2 very successful software companies. He is an investor on the hit podcast "The Pitch" and host of the new "Business Unplanned" podcast. He sits on the Board of Advisors of Georgian Partners, one of Canada's leading venture capital firms. He is a recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award and a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. https://w...

041 Dawoon Kang is the Co-founder and Chief Dating Officer of Coffee Meets Bagel. She started the popular dating app with her two sisters. They turned down a $30 million dollars offer from Mark Cuban, which was the largest offer ever made on Shark Tank. Prior to creating the popular dating app, she was a VP at JP Morgan.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter /FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@Grac...

040 Dawoon Kang is the Co-founder and Chief Dating Officer of Coffee Meets Bagel. She started the popular dating app with her two sisters. They turned down a $30 million dollars offer from Mark Cuban, which was the largest offer ever made on Shark Tank. Prior to creating the popular dating app, she was a VP at JP Morgan.  https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/ Twitter /FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@Grac...

039  Robert Rosenberg is the former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts. He took over as the CEO of Dunkin' Donuts at age 25 from his father, who was the founder of Dunkin'. In his 35 years run, he grew the company from $10 million in sales to over $2 Billion, with more than 3000 outlets. He served on the board of Domino's Pizza and SONIC Drive-in. https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG Lin...

038  Robert Rosenberg is the former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts. He took over as the CEO of Dunkin' Donuts at age 25 from his father, who was the founder of Dunkin'. In his 35 years run, he grew the company from $10 million in sales to over $2 Billion, with more than 3000 outlets. He served on the board of Domino's Pizza and SONIC Drive-in. https://www. SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG Lin...

037 Julien Codorniou is the VP of Workplace at Facebook. Under his leadership, Workplace serves more than 5 million paid users from companies including Walmart, Spotify, Nestle, Chevron, Grab, booking.com and many others. Prior to joining Facebook, he was the Director of Business Development at Microsoft, where he created and launched the BizSpark program. He has served on the board of the French...