Top Founders

Dinesh Kandanchatha . He's a founder, mentor, speaker, and above all, an entrepreneur. He encourages founders to ask all questions, navigate challenging decisions, and find the right answer that is sometimes difficult to face. He has bought, built, sold, lent, and/or invested in over 13 companies. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Essentialism What CEO do you follow? – Steve Jobs Favorite online tool?...

Joseph Walla , CEO and co-founder of a San Francisco based startup, HelloSign . The company launched in 2012 and it provides the easiest way for businesses to sign and collect legally binding documents online. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph's first successful product alongside his co-founder, Neil O'Mara, of HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2010 after attending the prestigious start...

Max Altschuler , CEO of Sales Hacker – a rapidly growing media company focused on the future of B2B sales. Max wrote the book Hacking Sales: The Playbook for Building a High Velocity Sales Machine which was recently published by Wiley. Aside from sales hack and angel investors, Max advises startups all around the globe. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The 48 Laws of Power What CEO do you follow? – N...

Chad Rubin . He builds e-commerce businesses. He owns a direct consumer e-commerce business called Crucial Vacuum and grew it from zero to a $20 million valuation in 7 years. He happens to be a Top 250 Amazon Seller. He co-founded Skubana with DJ Kunovac and built one of e-commerce's hottest operational software. Skubana is the only software that you'll ever need to manage and accelerate the growt...

Alexander Graubner-Müller . He's the current CEO of Kreditech and started off as their CTO. He was a senior business development manager at Groupon and he was very active in the financial space such as an internship at Equity Derivatives in UBS. Alex is now in the Fintech space and running Kreditech . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Lean Startup What CEO do you follow? –   Elon Musk Favorite onl...

Bart Lorang , a proven entrepreneur executive and manager in the global technology industry. He's very active in the startup community as an angel investor, strategic advisor, and speaker at many industry events. In fact, he supports entrepreneurs in his co-founder position and is managing director at V1.vc , a $5 million dollar, seed-stage fund dedicated to help crazy entrepreneurs change the wor...

Henry Schuck , CEO of DiscoverOrg . He's a leading entrepreneur in sales intelligence and lead generation. Under his leadership, DiscoverOrg built the industry's most accurate, highest quality, contact database through a mix of technology and a team of live researchers who continually call into thousands of IT, marketing, HR, and finance departments. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good Boss, Bad Bo...

Ian Cullen , a demand generation expert and the co-founder of Leadiro , an account-centric data platform designed to enable account based marketing and sales development efforts at named accounts. Ian was previously the co-founder of Internal Results , which was acquired by Madison Logic in May 2016. He started his first business, Target 250 in 2001, grew it to a team of 130 staff and it was a lea...

Yoseph West . He dreams of a world where accountants and bookkeepers never have to ask their clients for documents—that's why he joined HubDoc to lead growth. He previously co-founded Vuru , a stock analytics platform for retail investors and led it into its acquisition by Wave Accounting in 2012. Listen as Yoseph shares his experience with Vuru's acquisition and how he ended up now with HubDoc ....

Wyatt Jozwowzki , co-founder and CEO of Demio , a smart, webinar platform on a simple mission. He's passionate about creating a great customer and user experience. Listen as Wyatt shares about Demio; from its inception to a Wyatt creating a working, webinar platform that is earning a revenue from only a few days on the market.  Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CE...

Gerry Colyer , head of growth at Siftery . He was previously the VP of growth at HealthSherpa and co-founder of two startups. He's a graduate of Yale and Stanford. The CEO of Siftery was convinced there was a better way for companies to discover, select, and make better use of their software and so began their journey into filling this particular need in the market. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – H...

Abhimanyu Godara , founder and CEO of BOTTR.me . He previously managed portfolio investments at TLabs where he worked with over 40 startups around strategies and things similar to that. He's very well educated and now sitting on a platform that he thinks is going to be very exciting for him coming up. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? –   Steve Jobs Favorite online...

Allan Wille , co-founder and CEO of Klipfolio – a SaaS dashboard company headquartered in Ottawa. He's focused on making it easier and faster for SMBs (small to medium businesses) to monitor the health and performance of their businesses and they're taking an interesting approach. It is self-served, in the cloud, right to business users, eliminating them the need to work with IT procurement or mak...

Johnny Reinsch of Qwil which is a company that provides instant pay for the growing freelancer segment of the work force. He's the co-founder and CEO and also a cryptocurrency nerd. Listen as Johnny shares how he shifted his career path and why Qwil is different from most startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? –   Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Toptal Do you...

Lars Steiger , the co-founder of Mailplane . Nathan found Lars when he was searching in the Gmail space. Listen as Lars shares how he ended up managing Mailplane solo and the reason why he would never sell is company. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? –   Jason Fried Favorite online tool? — Basecamp Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— Yes If you could let your 20-year old self, k...

Alex Saidani, founder and CEO of Indemand . Alex is a developer who started coding at the age of 11.   He started his first business at the age of 13 and was the youngest founder of a team to participate in the DotForge accelerator program with Hashtrack.   Indemand supports businesses with providing online ordering software and an hourly delivery network.   On top of this, Alex also finds time to...

Andrew Keene , president and CEO of AlphaShark Trading which is originally founded as KeeneOnTheMarket.com in 2011. Prior to that, he grew up working as a proprietary trader at Chicago Board Options Exchange. He began his career on a trade program and would eventually co-found the KATL group. He currently actively trades future equity options, currency options present in commodities, and was a reg...

Pritesh Vora . He has over 10 years of experience specializing in building and growing innovative technology products. He was a formerly a partner at 1000Lookz and the business head at NotiPhi. He has also worked at TCS, one of India's biggest IT service companies across US, Europe and India. He has a Bachelor in Technology from MSIT. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follo...

Matthieu Jost , who founded his first company when he was 17 and exited it when he was 21. Most recently, he started Misterb&b in 2015 and has become the world's largest gay hotel brand in the world. Listen as Matthieu shares how he managed his first business at an early age and how Misterb&b grew exponentially in less than 4 years. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – N/A What CEO do you follow? – Brian...

Sunil Patro, founder of SignEasy, a technologist, product thinker and entrepreneur. He has a decade of experience as a member of multiple early stage product team at Microsoft, Juniper Networks and Tokbox. Putting enterprise communication apps to carrier great routing system to consumer focused video conferencing software. After facing many problems to sign an important job offer while traveling i...

Andy Rachleff, president and CEO of Wealthfront. He served as a member of the board of trustees and vice chairman of the Endowment Investment Committee for the University of Pennsylvania and as a member of the faculty for Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches course on Technology Entrepreneurship. Prior to Wealthfront, Andy co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital, w...

Elie Khoury, co-founder and CEO of Woopra – a customer intelligence platform that helps businesses essentialize customer engagement across all channels. He studied Computer Science in Lebanese American University where he booked the first generation of Woopra in 2007. In addition to Woopra, he co-founded YallaStartup, a non-government organization establish to proper entrepreneurship in the Middle...

Camilo Acosta , CEO of Pay By Group , which is based out of San Francisco. Their team is working with global brands to make it easier for people to minimize the cost of any purchase at the online checkout.   One of their customers expresses their gratitude for the company by saying that their "family reunion [wouldn't] happen without Pay By Group ." Listen as Camilo shares how Pay By Group 's reve...

Gary Guseinov , an investor, operator, and advisor in various technology companies including Business Hangouts , InCast , Playsino and Revenue.com . During his career, he has over $100 million in growth capital and structured complex financial transactions. He's also acquired over 300 million users for global technology product and services. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Power the Mind What CEO do...

Boris Shakhnovich , president of PDF Filler . He manages the daily operation and marketing campaigns but he is also responsible for the mission and vision of the company. Prior to his work at PDF Filler , Boris earned a PhD in Bioinformatics and he's a Bioinformatics Professor at Boston University. He later moved to Harvard University to work with Systems Biology. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Gue...