Top Founders

Mike Cook . He founded XOR Data Exchange to bring privacy and accountability back to data management. Today, his organization works with the nation's largest financial institutions to fight fraud and manage risk. You might have never seen Mike presenting the newest consumer tech, but rest assured every digital entity in America is safer under his watchful eye.     Famous Five: Favorite Book? – How...

Alex Fishman , the founder and CEO of Bugsee , a bug reporting tool for iOs and Android. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? –   Henry Worth Favorite online tool? – Gmail Do you get 8 hours of sleep?—I wish If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – "You want start playing in the startup ecosystem as early as possi...

Magnus Åström . He's the CEO and founder of Now Interact , a machine-learning, SaaS platform for omni channel optimization. He's also the founder of InLead, a business consultant and operations company which was sold in 2010 and prior to that, he was founder of Primelog, a transportation management SaaS platform which was sold in 2006. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Blue Ocean Strategy What CEO do...

Zach Supalla . He's the CEO and co-founder of Particle , a venture backed startup that's making it easier to build internet connected hardware and other things. Particle is the most, widely used IoT platform with a developed community of a hundred thousand users and is listed as one of Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in 2015, of the Internet of Things. Zach has been featured on CNN...

Craig McLuckie . He's the founder and CEO of Heptio , a startup focused on making Kubernetes accessible enterprises. Prior to starting Heptio , Craig was a product manager at Google where he founded the Kubernetes project, launched Google compute engine and created The Cloud Native Computing Foundation that he also shared. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Influence What CEO do you follow? –   Andrew...

Aner Ravon . He's the co-founder and chief product officer of his new company called Zirra . Zirra 's mission is to solve the education and entry pain of the retail investors when it comes to equity investments. Before this company, Aner spent his time at Celltick as a VP of media and head of business unit. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Tipping Point What CEO do you follow? –   Steve Jobs Favo...

Martijn de Kuijper , founder of Revue . He's a product guy and his company's focus is to get your thoughts to people's inboxes via newsletters. He previously founded Fosbury and Yunoo. Martijn is also a Techstars alum. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? –   N/A Favorite online tool? — Intercom Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20-year old self, k...

Charles Thiede . He's the co-founder and CEO of the knowledge network platform called Zapnito . Zapnito helps organizations create privately, branded, expert communications and networks. He calls this "experts as a service". Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Lean Startup What CEO do you follow? –   Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Product Hunt Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— I try to If you could let y...

Raviv Turner . He's the co-founder and CEO of CaliberMind – the first marketing, technology platform to apply machine learning in human language analysis to build detailed psychographic profiles. He has more than 10 years of experience leading products and development for high growth B2B SaaS companies. His previous roles include Director of UX at FullContact and VP of product at TapInfluence . Ra...

Lauren Sullivan . She's the co-founder of Flightfox , a site which Nathan recently used to book multi-country travel. Flightfox helped him understand the best way to leverage his points from his Chase Credit Card for travel purposes. Flightfox helps you search flights, manage your trip, and leverage your loyalty points, to help ease your trip planning experience and it is growing fast. Famous Five...

Aseem Badshah . He's the founder and CEO of the company called Socedo . Before that, he built his own full-service marketing agency called Uptown Treehouse that leveraged social media and digital channels to reach current and potential customers. He's upgraded and improved that initial business model with his current company, Socedo . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Crushing the Cashman What CEO do...

Calvin Correli . He's the CEO of a holistically focused, multi-million dollar, online, all-in-one solution driven software company called Simplero . This company exists to reduce the stress associated with figuring out software systems and how to join them together. He's passionate about helping online business owners do exactly what brings them the most life. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – There I...

Russ Heddleston . He's the CEO and co-founder of DocSend . Previously, he was a product manager for Facebook. He arrived at the B2B acquisition of the product Pursuit.com. Russ also had roles in Dropbox, Greystripe and Trulia. He received a BS in Computer Engineering and MS Computer Science at Stanford along with an MBA from Harvard. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you foll...

Pietari Suvanto , cofounder of the company, Vainu . Vainu was founded recently and is a tool that defines piles of data from the web and turns into fact check and actionable company information. His vision is to understand more organizations around the world more than anybody else and his company currently has about a thousand customers in Europe, including FedEx and Santander Innoventures . Famou...

Drew Canole . He's a nutrition specialist, transformation specialist, and national spokesperson for the benefits of juicing vegetables for health and vitality. He is the founder of Fitlife. TV where he shares educational, inspirational, and entertaining videos and articles about health, fitness, healing, and longevity. More recently, his company, Organifi , is getting directly into the green juici...

Andrew Myers . He grew up in Denver, Colorado and recently left Yale before the start of his senior year to pursue Ripple Recruiting , full-time. He now serves as a CEO in a fast growing, 12-person startup. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Anna Karenina What CEO do you follow? –   Kevin Ryan and Reid Hoffman Favorite online tool? — PersistIQ and Slack Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let...

Aditya Tulsian . He launched and led multiple small business focused software service and mobile offerings at Intuit India . He's also a management consultant at Diamond Consultant which is now PWC. He's a product manager. He's got an MBA and he's doing very big things especially in the SMB SaaS space. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? –   Brad Smith Favorite onli...

Rode Luhaäär . He's an enthusiast and entrepreneur who has years of experience as an e-marketer and digital strategist. During his career in the digital field, he's been overseeing execution and delivery of activities such as digital concept, e-business concepts, creative solutions design, software development, SEO, social media marketing, and global solutions. Over the last few years, he's been a...

Laurence Girard . He's the CEO and founder of Fruit Street . He was a pre-med student at Harvard University Extension School for three years before he decided to pursue Fruit Street full-time and move to San Francisco. In high school, he played soccer for the New York Red Bulls Academy as a goalkeeper, which sparked his initial interest in health. Later, he decided to pursue a career focused on so...

Luke Stronach. He's spent the last few years raising money for his farmland fund. He's got one single family office as an investor. He's currently 44, he's taught finance, and most of his background is in low-income housing. He's really looking forward to coming to the show and he's a listener. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Fish That Ate the Whale What CEO do you follow? –   Stewart and Lynda...

Sean Moss-Pultz . He's the CEO and founder of BitMark , the property system for the digital environment. It enables an individual to claim ownership of personal data and digital assets akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – High Output Management What CEO do you follow? –   Andy Grove and Yvon Chouinard Favorite online tool? — S...

Phil Town . He's a two-time New York Times' best-selling author, hedge fund manager, and founder of Rule One Investing . He's teaching individuals how to take control of their financial futures so they don't have to find a fund manager or financial advisors. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Intelligent Investor What CEO do you follow? –   Warren Buffett Favorite online tool? — Evernote Do you get 8 h...

Neil DeSena . He's one of the founders of SenaHill Partners . He was previously at Goldman Sachs , where he really led the creation of a pioneering and institutional training technologies system which has been used worldwide for over 20 years. He was the Managing Director, Global Head of REDI Products at Goldman Sachs from 2000 - 2006. Neil's leadership helped build a leading, global, multi-asset...

Slater Victoroff . He's the CEO and founder of Indico Data Solutions . He's a poet, a coder, MMA fighter, vegan Buddhist, and Red Letter Christian. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – n/a What CEO do you follow? –   n/a Favorite online tool? — Stack Overflow Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Slater hoped he had realized how much...

Bryn Jones . He's the co-founder and CEO of GrowSumo . GrowSumo graduated from Y Combinator in the summer of 2015, and they're building a marketplace for influencer programs. Prior to building companies, Bryn was also a member of a swim team. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? –  Favorite online tool? — Slack Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If y...