Mission Daily

Today, Chad sits down with Dan Helfrich, Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting. With 56,000 employees, Deloitte Consulting has grown from a small but vibrant agency to one that generates billions in revenue each year and has a global influence. In this episode, Dan and Chad discuss: What mindset has laid the foundation for Dan's success Deloitte's values and culture How Dan views his role as a l...

Retail wholesaling has been notoriously slow in adopting new technologies. Despite many advancements in other areas of retail, particularly with B2C services, wholesale has continued to rely on Excel spreadsheets and carbon copy notepads. One platform, JOOR, is looking to transform the wholesale retail space, and its CEO, Kristin Savilia, is our guest today!  In this episode, Chad and Kristin disc...

Today’s guest is a super friend of the Mission and all-around great human, John Underkoffler.  John is the CEO of Oblong Industries turned CTO of Glow through a recent acquisition. Maybe you’ve seen the new UI/AR tech in Minority Report or Iron Man ? That vision for the future of technology is thanks, in part, to John.  In this episode, we talk philosophy, collaboration, technology, human teams, a...

Today, we are joined by Maeve O’Meara, the CEO of Castlight Health. From finding the right insurance plan, to understanding what that plan covers, to finding a doctor you trust, making healthcare decisions is difficult, and that's where Castlight comes in. Castlight uses machine learning to provide consumers with deeply personalized guidance so they make better health decisions which ultimately re...

On this special episode of Mission Daily, we are joined by two amazing women doing amazing things in the world of social impact investing. Joining Chad on-site at Salesforce Tower are Claudine Emeott from the Salesforce Impact Fund and Madeline Duva the CEO of Fluxx. Chad, Claudine, and Madeline discuss: The current landscape of impact investing Some of their personal stories, perspectives, and ho...

On the show today is Stuart Lombard, co-founder and CEO of ecobee. Ecobee is a Canadian home automation company that makes thermostats for residential and commercial use. They are on a mission to create a more sustainable world by simplifying everyday life.  In this episode, we learn about: Stuart’s background and journey into entrepreneurship How making canoes with his father as a boy inspired hi...

Joining us today is Gay Gaddis, Founder of T3.  Gay started T3 using $16,000 taken out of her IRA during a downturn in the economy. It was a big risk, but thirty years later, it's one that has paid off several-fold. Today, T3 is helping clients build useful brands that reach consumers around the world. Chad and Gay talk about: The importance of being an early adopter of tech and how this gave T3 a...

Today’s guest is Karsten Temme, CEO and Founder of Pivot Bio.  Pivot Bio is at the cutting edge of the AgTech world and is working hard to fight things like pollution and climate change. Chad and Karsten discuss: Pivot Bio's goal of replacing the current form of fertilizer with a synthetic microbe they’ve created in their labs. Pivot Bio’s first product, PROVEN. Tips for building company culture a...

The student loan crisis in America is a generation-defining problem, and joining us today is a man looking for a solution. Robb Granado is the President of CommonBond, a company helping redefine what it means to get, and pay for, a college education. In this episode, Chad and Robb talk about: The work that CommonBond does to fight the student loan crisis. What motivated Robb to join the Air Force....

Chad sits down with Nick Elprin, the CEO of Domino Data Labs. You may think data science is all the rage, but it wasn't when Nick got started. In this episode, Chad and Nick discuss: Nick's career, some of his early times at Harvard and Bridgewater, and the lessons he learned through it all. How Nick got started doing what he's doing today. What it's like to build a company in a space that is emer...

In today's episode, we sit down with Mathilde Collin, the CEO of Front.   If you'd like to imagine a bright future for email - better correspondence, being more effective - Front is working on it.   Today, Mathilde and Chad talk about: How to become more happy at work Getting the balance right between your personal identity and your business identity What email would be like if it was designed tod...

Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, joins Chad. They cover principles of capital allocation from one of their favorite books,  The Outsiders .  The Outsiders  looks at eight hugely successful CEOs who have extraordinarily high returns on capital. In today’s episode, Chad and Wade discuss the 5 central strategies these CEOs use and how they can be applied in business and life.  Grab a notebook, grab a pen,...

Chad interviews Evan Goldberg, Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite. Evan grew up in Massachusetts and moved out to Silicon Valley in the 1980s to work for Oracle, where he was able to pursue a life long dream of working in computer software. He joins us today to talk lessons learned, mistakes, opportunities, successes, and some of the best advice he has for entrepreneurs… as well as what he’s learn...

On today's episode, Albert sits down with newly anointed Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar. Stack Overflow is the largest online community for developers to share their knowledge and build their careers. Tune in to learn how Prashanth and Stack Overflow are planning to serve the developer community for years to come.  — Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our tea...

On this episode of Mission Daily, Hilary is joined by Eugenio Pace, co-founder and CEO of Auth0, a company that provides authentication and authorization services for app developers. Eugenio discusses Auth0’s core values, what he learned in Argentina that kickstarted his entrepreneurial journey, and how Auth0 is changing the game for innovators. — Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created...

“If you're not willing to be curious, not willing to be a student of innovation and a student of disruption, this is probably not the right industry for you.” – Ed Scott Today we talked with Ed Scott, CEO of ElectrifAi, a company that is revolutionizing the artificial intelligence and machine learning space. On this episode of Mission Daily, Stephanie and Ed discuss how he turned ElectrifAi into t...

"Imagine if eBay and FedEx had a baby. That's what we can do for consumers." Albert is joined by Ari Mir, Co-founder and CEO of Clutter, a tech-heavy, on-demand storage and moving company. Clutter allows consumers to affordably store their belongings without lifting a finger. Prior to Clutter, Ari founded Gumgum, the world's largest image ad network in the visual AI space, and PocketChange, a star...

“Every time somebody gets a job, there's a little shred of me that's like, ‘Wow, this really works. This is crazy.’” With a 93% employment rate across 11 campuses, Adam Enbar and Flatiron School are on a mission to get people great jobs. Today, Adam discusses how Flatiron School was created, why its curriculums outperform traditional education, and how Flatiron’s model is disrupting the education...

“The one thing that I always made sure we did, is to never have a month or a quarter that was lower than the quarter before.” Today, we are joined by Joe Chura, CEO of Dealer Inspire, a leading automotive platform developing innovative, mobile-first technologies. Joe co-founded Dealer Inspire in 2013, and the company has since grown to a team of over 600 employees and has partnered with over 4,000...

“To me it's about pragmatism. It's about iteration, it's about listening and it's about striking out a way forward." - Andy Hovancik Today, Albert speaks with Andy Hovancik, CEO of Sovos, a company that safeguards businesses from the burden and risk of modern tax. Andy has more than 25 years of experience growing technology companies, 15 years of which have been in regulatory and compliance softwa...

Henry Schuck is the Co-Founder and CEO of ZoomInfo, formerly known as DiscoverOrg. Henry and his close friend Kirk Brown bootstrapped ZoomInfo into the massively successful tech company it is today. Funding the project with nothing but their own money, Henry and Kirk chose what many would consider the harder, but smarter, path to starting a business. Today, ZoomInfo has won hundreds of awards with...

On this special, mid-week episode of the show, Chad Grills, CEO of Mission, sits down with Kamal Ravikant. Kamal has done it all; trekked through the Himalayas, walked across Spain, served our country in the US Army Infantry, written several bestsellers... and today, he is a partner at Evolve. VC, a seed and A round investment firm. On this episode, Chad and Kamal talk about Kamal's experience in...

When Joel Peterson agreed to teach a real estate course at Stanford in the early 1990s, he thought he was just helping the school out for a couple of semesters. More than 25 years later, Joel is still a professor at Stanford and maintains relationships with many of the students he’s taught throughout the years. “For me, it's all about the students,” Joel says. “I love rubbing shoulders with these...

“Technology should be viewed as your friend and as a support tool for you.”— Brent Lang  Brent Lang , CEO of Vocera , has worked hard to achieve his long list of accomplishments. He started his career as a star athlete in college winning an Olympic gold medal in 1988, and it was only after he graduated from the University of Michigan that he began diving into the world of technology. Brent eventua...

“Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. People ask though, what does that mean? Our customers are Internet property. Anything connected online can use Cloudflare and we help make sure we protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks.” — Michelle Zatlyn Michelle Zatlyn , COO of Cloudflare , founded Cloudflare in 2009 and has since grown the company from start-up to multi-billio...