The Multiplier Effect

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-founder of Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad, Fitz, and Clerisy Growth Fund, shares her secrets to scaling and exiting successfully. Gain insights into the mindset and strategies needed to build three successful companies, lead two to exits, and create a growth fund that focuses on helping companies scale, moderated by Claudia Duran, Managing Director at Endeavor Miami.

How companies can improve their hiring, culture, and training to fill the most in-demand positions. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a shortage of one million software developers in 2020 and expects the demand for software developers to grow 22% per year through 2030. In today’s funding environment, technology companies are growing faster and paying more than ever. But most of us are...

For many growing companies, processes fine-tuned for a small team can start showing cracks as the companies undergo rapid transformation, leading to misalignment of business operations and organization design and sometimes preventing teams from reaching their strategic goals. Diana Callaghan, Managing Director of Endeavor Detroit, sat down with Anontio Ortiz, CEO/Co-Founder of Connect Assistance,...

Today, Scott Miller, Managing Director of Endeavor Colorado sits down with Kent Thiry, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DaVita Inc. to learn how he was able to cultivate a distinctively engaged culture that has a global reputation for developing well-rounded general managers and leaders so much so that his techniques have been the subject of leadership and culture case studies writte...

Today, Aaron Hurst , Managing Director of Endeavor Atlanta , sits down with Dawn Whaley , President, Chief Marketing Officer of Sharecare, to get her insights on how to design healthcare programs for high-growth companies and the best metrics to track when building an inclusive employee healthcare and wellness strategy to retain top talent. Sharecare is an Atlanta, Georgia-based health and wellnes...

Today on the show, Scott Miller , Managing Director of Endeavor Colorado sits down with Liz Giorgi , co-founder, and CEO of soona to discuss implementable strategies to prioritize diversity throughout the hiring process, and how a diverse workforce is not just a social obligation, but also a real advantage in the scaling of a business. After the successful acquisition of their first business, Migh...

Chris Coy and Joshua Stanley , cofounders of Cartwheel Studio , share how leaders, employers, and benefits providers can make benefits equitable for all employees, enhancing culture connectivity among essential workers and remote working teams.  Cartwheel is a startup studio that creates B2B SaaS (software as a service) companies. Their focus is on essential workers and distributed teams, cho...

In today's episode, Jay McHarg , CEO of Aerosafe Global joins us with Alan Rosenhoch from Endeavor Western New York to share how Aerosafe's talent acquisition strategy has shifted to attract the best talent during the pandemic. He also speaks to future strategies for physical space and how this compliments his plans for growth as Aerosafe is nearing completion of a significant expansion of their R...

Claudia Duran, Managing Director of Endeavor Miami sits down with Sion Tesone , Founder and CEO of Tissini to discuss his strategies for managing 24,000 independent salespeople and how his passion for empowering women led him to launch Tissini as his second venture.

Today on the show, Lynda Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, sits down with Diana Callaghan , Managing Director of Endeavor Detroit to share what high growth companies should do when scaling their leadership team and how founders can preemptively solve some of the most common growing pains in the face of significant industry, technological, and regulatory turbulence....

Competition for top talent in today's market remains a key challenge for scaling companies, and few founders understand how to bridge the gap between the skillsets needed and flaws that currently exist in the hiring process. Ankur Gopal , Founder and CEO of Interapt , believes we have the opportunity to ignite human potential. And today on the show, Ankur sits down with Jackson Andrews , Managing...

Rory Guinan , Managing Director of Endeavor Ireland , sits down with Fiona Mullan , Chief People Officer at Ding , to discuss how companies can continue to revise and reimagine inclusion in the workplace, how to maintain cultural cohesiveness as a company scales, and some of the unique opportunities the people function has on building and growing great businesses in the next five years. Prior to h...

Endeavor Atlanta's dynamic leader in fintech, Lynne Laube, CEO and Cofounder of Cardlytics , shares employee retention strategies, tips for hiring your c-suite, and recruitment tactics for developing a healthy culture with Managing Director, Aaron Hurst . Lynne was featured as an Inspiring Women to Watch by Inc. Magazine. She received The Women of the Year Award from Georgia’s Women in Technology...

Today on the show, we're joined by Todd Simmons , CEO and Vice Chairman of Simmons Foods . Todd talks about how he has cultivated a diversified talent recruitment strategy at Simmons as the company requires so many different skill sets with over 8,000+ employees and counting. Todd and the team have also built a profound healthcare program for employees which has created a no-cost structure to cove...

SQUIRE developed the first all-in-one technology-enabled point-of-sale and business management system specifically designed to cater to men’s barbershops and salons. Co-founded by Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon in 2015, the team has seen incredible growth and certainly knows a thing or two about talent acquisition, developing a high productivity team and building a sustainable community starting fro...

This week we’re excited to be sharing an amazing interview with our Endeavor Louisville office — Managing Director, Jackson Andrews sits down with Stacy Griggs , President and CEO of El Toro to discuss how he has scaled his team through strategic employee development and training programs, ultimately building an iconic employer brand for the region.

We are privileged to have Jason Borschow , founder and CEO of Abarca Health with us on the show. In 2019, he was selected as Endeavor Puerto Rico's first Endeavor Entrepreneur and in 2018, EY named him Entrepreneur of the Year for the financial and insurance services segment in the Florida region. He started his career at Borschow Drug, which was founded by his grandfather in 1951 and acquired by...

In this episode, Federico Robbio speaks to how his experience in strategy, finance, human capital, and recruitment was a key factor to help Belatrix to grow from 0 to 800 employees in 5 countries, with their own cash flow, having a continuous growth of 35% and solid profits. He also played a key role in developing the innovation culture through the creation of teams, human capital, and recruitment...

According to HBR, hiring talent remains the number one concern for the entire executive suite and views talent and skills unavailability as the biggest threat to their business. Employers also spend an enormous amount on recruitment—an average of $4,129 per job in the United States, and many times that amount for managerial roles— and the United States fills a staggering 66 million jobs a year. Hi...

After featuring over 20 organizations with meaningful solutions to strengthen our entrepreneurial ecosystems and foster inclusive community and economic development practices, Season 2 has come to a close! We wanted to spend our last episode speaking about what we know best here at Endeavor, supporting scaling entrepreneurs with Endeavor President Adrian Garcia-Aranyos. He shares how Endeavor unlo...

Today we are joined by Anna Mason , Managing Partner at Rise of the Rest. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest® Road Trip with Steve Case is a nationwide effort to work closely with entrepreneurs in emerging startup ecosystems. She shares her unique perspective on how the most compelling investment opportunities in the next decade will emerge from startups in cities based outside the coasts. 

Through a diverse coalition of public and private partners, led by  George Kaiser Family Foundation  (GKFF), Tulsa Innovation Labs is creating economic development programs that seek to make Tulsa the nation’s most inclusive tech community. They focus their efforts on five specific areas: energy tech, drones, cyber, analytics, and virtual health. As innovation moves more into America’s h...

Robin Wallis Atkinson , CEO of INTERFORM , shares how art and innovation intersect, promoting the thriving economic development we see across the world and how her team at INTERFORM supports designers and artists in Northwest Arkansas by providing education and resources needed to create a self-sustaining design-led fashion and arts industry.

Devon Laney is a tech entrepreneur and also has over 15 years of experience in building thriving entrepreneurial & innovation ecosystems. Devon has also spoken in both the U.S. and internationally on entrepreneurial development, business incubation, and innovation, and currently serves as the Board Chairman of the International Business Innovation Association. And today, Devon talks with Canem...

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) is on a mission to create economic opportunity by attracting higher-paying jobs, expanding and diversifying our state and local economies, increasing incomes and investment, and generating positive growth throughout the State. And today, Katherine Holmstrom shares with us how her team has managed projects resulting in millions of dollars invested...