PROCO360 | Best Podcast for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

"If I’d known then what I know now, I think I could have accomplished what I accomplished with a little more EQ.” Dan Caruso, Caruso Ventures & Author of Bandwidth

“I think we were one of the inventors of the breakfast burrito.” Carmen Morales, Founder & Owner, Santiago’s Mexican Restaurants

"If this works, we might be able to solve the biggest health epidemic of our generation.”  Sami Inkinen, Founder & CEO, Virta Health 

"This is the time for us to strike while the iron’s hot.”  Rick George, Athletic Director, University of Colorado  

"We are doing something that may not have been done before in this country: almost doubling capacity while remaining open.”  Phil Washington, CEO, Denver International Airport 

"We bypass our lawmakers and put our pet issues on the ballot...”  Dave Tabor, host, ProCO360 

"I am a very strong person... If you think that I am done because I lose one business, just wait!”  Dana Rodriguez, Chef and Restaurateur, Carne, Work & Class, Casa Bonita Executive Chef 

"A lot of brands are shipping from a ping-pong table out of their garage...”  Irene Scharmack, CEO, QuickBox 

"Actually, there was a light bulb moment where the combination of chemical reactions to make the whole process occurred to me...”  Laura Lammers, Founder & CEO, Travertine Technologies 

"Even before we had a business, we talked some people into letting us do some catering for them – just on our good word.”  Jeff Kennedy, co-founder, Moe’s Original BBQ 

“I reached $17 million before I hired my first employee.”  Leah Garcia, Founder & CEO, Nulastin 

“We fix attitudes all day with better golf swings.”  Joe Assell, CEO, GOLFTEC 

“An automotive company would have hundreds or thousands of people to build an entirely new vehicle – we're doing it with 75.”  Toby Kraus, co-Founder, Lightship RV 

“Changing the trajectory of someone’s life is the most contagiously happy thing you can imagine doing.” Helen Young Hayes, Founder & CEO, ActivateWork

“When you empower physicians with those test results you really are playing a pivotal role in the treatment going forward.” Scott Hutton, CEO, Biodesix

“Consumers have the hardest job here – they are carrying the guilt of what to do with the package...”   Ian Jacobson, Eco Products 

“...and those are the times when you go all in... what’s portrayed in the media, in TV shows – that's REAL.”   John Nellen, Founder & CEO, Todyl     

“People are willing to ignore security policies in order to gain the productivity benefits (of AI).”   Steven Walchek, CEO & Co-founder, Liminal 

“Owning the stratospheric data layer is where the majority of our revenue will live.”   Andrew Antonio, Co-founder & CEO, Urban Sky   

“Our goal is to flatten the methane curve, and we can actually achieve it.” - Craig Rieker, Co-founder & CTO I had no idea how exciting this episode would become while I was preparing for it. LongPath is the story of a company that emerged from Nobel Prize winning technology developed at NIST and University of Colorado.  You may have never cared about what a “frequency comb” is, and you WILL a...

“We wanted to change the company from a closure system to a high-performance fit system to change the way athletes perform – and prove it scientifically.” Shawn Neville, CEO, BOA Most guests on ProCO360 cut me some slack.  Not Shawn Neville of BOA, and not even in front of a live audience at BOA’s world headquarters.  From the start Shawn showed how determined he is that the world recognize that B...

“Give someone who wants to work hard a chance and they will give you everything they’ve got.” Jamie Repenning, CEO, R&R Head Labs

“The default for most manufacturers and retailers before we came along was to destroy returns.” Kristin Langenfeld, Co-founder and CEO, GoodBuy Gear My expectations were completely wrong entering this episode with Kristin Langenfeld.  I’d expected she would tell me the story of a woman who started selling her own used baby gear, then slowly expanded the activity into a basement enterprise, and so...

“I sent them an article, Vangst raises $2.5M from a Tier 1 VC in New York, and people started to not laugh at me as much.”   Karson Humiston, Founder and CEO, Vangst   

“If you love a band that’s coming to Red Rocks and you’re 21 years old, I'll find a way to give you that time off.”   Tom Luersen, President, CoralTree Hospitality    This episode came together because a longtime friend, Dani Stern, now an executive at CoralTree told me over beers recently that he quit his last job to come to CoralTree.  In fact, that he’d told his prior employer, before taking th...