Top Founders

After receiving his MBA from Stanford, Steven Benson worked in Sales at IBM, HP and Google where he was Google Enterprise's Top Sales Executive in 2009. In 2012 Steven founded Badger Maps, the #1 Sales App in the Apple App Store, which helps Field Sales People be more successful. How do you put touch on such a low price point? The sales cycle is quick, about 3 weeks, so we're able to put touch on...

I really enjoyed this interview with Dave for two big reasons: He's playing in a space that is not typical for B2B SaaS He's using freemium consumer adoption to drive enterprise leads at a very low CAC of $80 which he makes back in well under 12 months. Dave is the CEO of TeamSnap. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology leadership positions. He was previously CEO of SANRAD, a ventur...

Rob Frohwein . Back in 2008, he recognized that companies like eBay offered automated access to small business transactional data via APIs. He also realized that small businesses could simply share this data to allow underwriters to make better, faster credit decisions and provide a great user experience. Because of that, he co-founded  Kabbage  in Atlanta, Georgia, to leverage the power of real-t...

Tom Coburn . He's the cofounder and CEO of  Jebbit . He left Boston College to pursue the company and is currently in the Forbes 30 under 30 list. He's also the cofounder of Enjoy Life Education, a non-profit that empowers teens to be the best versions of themselves, and SSC Ventures which invests in Boston College entrepreneurs.

  Zach Benson . He's the cofounder and CEO of  Assistagram  and he's one of the standouts in the world of online entrepreneurship, especially, influencer marketing. He's a TedX speaker, social media trainer for international brands like The 4 Seasons, Ritz Carlton and Vice Roy. He was a past participant on "So You Think You Can Dance". He doesn't only manages his own Instagram network of millions,...

Nadim Hossain . He has over 17 years of experience in building marketing and selling cloud applications. Prior to founding  BrightFunnel , he was VP of marketing at Power Reviews, paving the way for a $170M exit. He was also the marketing executive at Salesforce from 2007-2010. He has a BA from Cornell and an MBS from Stanford.

Greg Harris. His company is Quantum Workplace and he started with a vision to create tangible measures for leadership strength inside of companies. His company surveyed tools for measuring employee engagement and recognizing the best places to work. It's grown into an engagement platform that talent-minded companies use now to accelerate performance.

Harpreet Singh. He's one of the cofounders of Kvantum. He's in a lot of positions based in data science including big companies like Target and Sapient.

Garrett Moon. He's the CEO and founder of CoSchedule, the web's most popular marketing calendar and the fastest growing startup in North Dakota. As a thought leader, Garrett has been blogging and speaking about content marketing, social media marketing, and startup businesses for more than six years.

Max Percherskyi. He's a passionate SaaS entrepreneur whose mission is to connect professional SaaS companies and startup hubs to help them form long-term relationships and good, win-win partnerships. Currently, he's connecting angel institutional investors, cofounders, exceptional talent and partner companies across three different countries to make the PromoRepublic ventures succeed at a global s...

Sravish Sridhar . He's the VP and General Manager at Kinvey Progress and was previously the CEO and founder of Kinvey before it was acquired by Progress. He's also an angel investor in multiple startups with successful exits. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Crossing the Chasm What CEO do you follow? – Matt Barbey Favorite online tool? — If This Then That How many hours of sleep do you get?— 7 If you...

Chris Savage . He's the CEO and cofounder of Wistia , a leading video platform that enables business teams to harness the connective power of video. They help over 400K businesses connect better with their customers using video as the medium. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Masters of Doom What CEO do you follow? – Ben Chestnut Favorite online tool? — Quip How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 If y...

Roy Mann . He's a career entrepreneur, artist and 3D printing enthusiast. His experience is in the field of product development and marketing and before co-founding dapulse , Roy was part of Wix 's senior management team, which is a big, runway success. Prior to joining Wix, he founded the online social game, Save an Alien. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do...

Mark Organ . He's the founder and CEO of Influitive , helping companies mobilize their advocates to produce massive increases in referral leads, reference calls, social media participation and more. He revolutionized B2B marketing and the founding CEO of Eloqua , the world leader in marketing automation software, which was acquired by Oracle for $871M. In between, he was the go-to marketing consul...

Naveen Gupta . He's an entrepreneur with experience building startups and growing a hundred million dollar profit and loss statements. Before cofounding BirdEye , which is his current company, he held executive positions at RingCentral , Monster and Yahoo . He's launched industry-leading products across advertising, consumer search, social media and monetization. He lives in Sunnyvale, California...

David Barrett . He started programming at the early age of 6 and has been aspiring to become an expense report magnate ever since. He attended the University of Michigan where he worked in a virtual reality lab before moving to Texas to render 3D graphics engines for the video game industry. Next, he moved to California to join Travis of Uber in building a peer-to-peer file transfer technology cal...