The VentureFizz Podcast

Welcome to Episode 74 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Les Yetton and Tom Hazel, Co-Founders at CHAOSSEARCH. If there’s one thing to say about today’s guests, it’s that you’d be hard-pressed to find two more qualified people to run a startup like CHAOSSEARCH than these...

Welcome to Episode 73 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Jared Hecht, Co-Founder and CEO at Fundera. Jared is a serial entrepreneur who credits his success to the combination of a lot of hard work and yes, a bit of luck. He was a co-founder of GroupMe, a group messaging...

Welcome to Episode 72 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Tom Eisenmann, Professor at Harvard Business School. What do the companies Rent the Runway, Birchbox, ThredUp, Cloudflare, Evertrue, and InsightSquared all have in common? Well, they are all companies that you may...

Welcome to Episode 71 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Steve Sarracino, Founder and Partner at Activant Capital. Steve has several years of experience as an investor in disruptive technology companies. He launched Activant Capital in 2012 to focus on growth stage busin...

Welcome to Episode 70 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Nate Walkingshaw, Chief Experience Officer for Pluralsight. Nate is widely known as a pioneer in technology product development and his Directed Discovery methodology. He is a master in the craft of building and de...

Welcome to Episode 69 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Caroline Klatt, CEO and Co-Founder at Headliner Labs. Besides eating, breathing, and sleeping, there is no activity that American adults do more than mobile messaging. That is a staggering statistic, and it is no s...

Welcome to Episode 68 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Pat Kinsel, Founder and CEO of Notarize. You know, some of the most successful tech companies have triumphed not only because they have a great technical solution, but also because they had to totally disrupt an an...

Welcome to Episode 67 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Dan Sommer, Founder and CEO at Trilogy Education, a workforce accelerator that has raised $80M in funding. Trilogy partners with some of the world's leading universities to help companies bridge the digital skills...

Welcome to Episode 66 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Andy Cook, Co-Founder & CEO of Tettra, a knowledge management system for high-performance teams. This could be my most transparent interview ever. When you ask most startup founders how things are going, the majori...

Welcome to Episode 65 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Hadley Harris, Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures, a seed stage investment firm. Hadley has an engineering degree from Penn and an MBA from Wharton. He has a proven track record as an operator holding execu...

Welcome to Episode 64 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Chris Jones, the CTO of iRobot. It’s likely that you are familiar with iRobot and the Roomba, which is the product they are best known for. I actually recently made my first Roomba purchase, that being the i7, and...

Welcome to Episode 63 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Rick Braddock, a highly accomplished executive and investor. Although most people are familiar with William Shatner of Star Trek fame, there are certainly lots and lots of people who also remember him as the pitchm...

Welcome to Episode 62 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Aaron Feuer, Co-Founder and CEO of Panorama Education. Education has always been a passion for Aaron and what ended up being the inspiration behind Panorama actually began when he was in high school. As a student o...

Welcome to Episode 61 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Dennis Mortensen, CEO and Founder of x.ai in New York City. Dennis is a serial entrepreneur who has helped start a number of companies over the course of his career with multiple exits. We talk in detail abo...

Welcome to Episode 60 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Shimon Elkabetz, Co-Founder and CEO of ClimaCell. After 11 years in the Israeli Air Force, it was multiple near-death experiences that prompted Shimon’s passion for the weather. This passion ultimately led h...

Welcome to Episode 59 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Steve Kokinos, CEO of Algorand. Steve is the definition of a serial entrepreneur, and one who has seen tremendous success. His company-building roots go back to when he was in college where he launched a com...

Welcome to Episode 58 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Ryan Smith, Co-Founder & CEO of LeafLink. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and has been recognized by Forbes as a member of their 30 Under 30 list for enterprise tech. Prior to co-founding LeafLink, he successf...

Welcome to Episode 57 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Jules Pieri, Co-Founder & CEO of The Grommet. The Grommet is a community that has reshaped the way people discover, share, influence, and buy products online. The company’s mission is rooted in what they cal...

Welcome to Episode 56 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! On this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Eric Groves, Co-Founder & CEO at Alignable. Alignable is a venture-backed social network for small business owners. The company has over 2.5 million small businesses on their platform across almost 30,000 com...

Welcome to Episode 55 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! On this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Ben Hindman, Co-Founder and CEO of Splash, an end-to-end event marketing platform that executes, measures, and scales your event programs. Ben is the kind of entrepreneur that reminds you that it’s up to us t...

Welcome to Episode 54 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! On this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Mike Phillips, Co-Founder and CEO of Sense. Mike is a serial entrepreneur and a pioneer in speech recognition technology. What was so interesting about my interview with Mike is that it was basically a histor...

Welcome to Episode 53 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Jodi Goldstein, Executive Director at Harvard Innovation Labs. The Harvard i-lab is an incubator and ecosystem to help Harvard students build their startups and gain valuable connections. Since starting seve...

Welcome to Episode 52 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Allison Page, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at SevenRooms in New York City. SevenRooms is an all-in-one reservation, seating and guest management platform that is used by customers ranging from neighb...

Welcome to Episode 51 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Nilanjana Bhowmik, General Partner at Converge, an early stage venture firm based in Cambridge that she co-founded with her partner Maia Heymann. Nilanjana has 23 years of experience as a venture capitalist,...

Welcome to Episode 50 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Ben Nye, CEO at Turbonomic, which is an anchor company in the Boston tech scene that has raised over $100M in funding. Ben has been successful in the tech industry from both sides of the equation. As an exec...