Top Founders

Jessica Lee . Nathan met Jessica a few months ago and Jessica toured Nathan in 500 Startups' office in San Francisco. She's the founder of Bitesize . She helps companies drive revenue with text message conversations. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – #GIRLBOSS What CEO do you follow? – Sophia Amoruso Favorite online tool? — Trello How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-8 If you could let your 20-year...

Bo Jiang . He's the co-founder and CEO of Privacy.com , a new way to transact online without showing your credit card number or pin. He previously worked on mobile products with Hatch Labs, which is the venture studio that incubated Tinder and Pixie TV , which was acquired by Samsung . He holds a BS in Mathematics in MIT. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – High Output Management and Who What CEO do you...

Amanda Newman . When she was 26 and working as a relator in Liberty, Toronto, she created a website for local deals, events, and news. Soon, other realtors were approaching her about the website, and she realized it had the potential spread all across North America. Today, Park Bench , her company, has grown from a fun little marketing idea to help a struggling realtor, into a multi-million-dollar...

Todd Johnson , a serial healthcare information technology entrepreneur committed to building great products, teams and companies. Todd has a track record of cultivating great ideas and great business that offer incredible company cultures and attention-grabbing brands. Before his current company, HealthLoop , Todd was the founder and CEO of Salar , a Baltimore, MD-based provider of acute care phys...

Chau Nguyen . He's the founder and CEO of Hirewire , an on-demand hiring app for hourly workers. In his previous venture, Chau hired over 20K people only to realize his hiring process was broken—and that's when he got the idea for Hirewire. To date, Chau has raised $4.1M in funding. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? – Elon Musk Favorite online tool? — Slack How ma...

Mathilde Collin . She's the CEO of Front , a SaaS company working on redesigning email for teams. She started with Y Combinator in the summer of 2014, and today has 20 employees and 1700 customers. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Zero to One What CEO do you follow? – Patrick Collison Favorite online tool? — Slack How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8 and a half If you could let your 20-year old sel...

Mariano Suarez-Battan . He's the founder and CEO of MURAL , a digital whiteboard for exploring complex challenges visually. Global 2000 companies like IBM , Intuit , Steelcase , and Autodesk have deployed MURAL at scale to enhance collaboration in their digital workplace. A former startup in residence at IDEO , Mariano also founded Three Melons , a game studio that designed and published online ga...

Patrick Bosworth . They launched in 2012 with 3 co-founders and are now at 105 people. They help hotels—specifically, they help hotel locations better optimize their pricing. They raised $51 million serving over 3000 individual hotel locations paying on average 17 grand per year. They will very soon be doing about a $50 million run rate, 75% gross margin which they tripled over the recent future....

Sunil Thomas . He's had a ton of experience working in tech companies and decided in 2013 to take the plunge himself and go all in with his 2 co-founders. They've since raised a total of $9.6 million – $1.6 million seed and $8 million in series A. They launched revenue in 2016, broke $1.5 million in total sales and this May 2017, broke $400,000 in MRR out of about $5 million ARR. He wants to doubl...

Keegan Peterson . Keegan is a technology entrepreneur blazing a trail in the legal cannabis industry. He has worked for many software and services companies. He founded Wurk which helps cannabis businesses pay their employees while adhering to the Federal and State Regulations . Keegan is also a former division one athlete from Florida Atlantic University . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Stealing F...

Tye Schlegelmilch to the show. Tye is the founder of Hinged following a 16-year career in finance, and most recently as co-CIO for Fortress Investment Group which has about 70B assets in their management. Prior to that, Tye was with a variety of different finance firms including Goldman Sachs . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Snowball What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezo s Favorite online tool? —...

Zvi Schreiber , founder and CEO of Freightos – the internet marketplace for the trillion-dollar international freight industry. Zvi was previously the CEO for Lightech which was acquired by G.E. , and was also the founder and CEO of Unicorn Solutions which was acquired by IBM . Additionally, Zvi was the founder of G.ho.st , a predecessor of DropBox, which ended in a fire sale. He's spoken widely a...

Stephen Stuut . He's the CEO of Jumio.com. He brings more than 25 years of experience fueling corporate growth and leading technology businesses. Before Jumio, he served as a CEO of TruePosition, a leader in location-based service technology. Prior to that, he was a president and CEO of Broadband Innovations delivering digital interactivity services to cable TV providers. During his 10 years, he h...

Cam Miller and Akin Onal , the founders of MORI/BabyMori.com . Cam is the chief growth officer and co-founder at MORI. He is responsible for building out their essential babies' brand and the creative use of marketing and technology. This summer, he represented the brand as one of the 500 startups at Mountain View Accelerator. Prior to MORI, he studied an MBA at London Business School, had various...

David Dunne . He's the CEO and co-founder of Velocidi , a marketing intelligence company that harnesses data for leading brands and agencies. In the 7 years since founding Velocidi, it enables marketers to make data-driven decisions that optimize marketing spend. David is currently leading the firm's next chapter into artificial intelligence. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Selling the Invisible Wha...

Aaron Klein . His career has largely been in the intersection of finance and technology. As co-founder and CEO at Riskalyze , he led the company twice to being one of The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance by Fast Company Magazine . Today, over 150 riskalyzers served thousands of advisors. Aaron has served as a Sierra College trustee and in his spare time, co-founded a school proj...

Andrew Fischer . He's a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive business development and sales experience in digital media and enterprise software or SaaS. He's recently launched Choozle , a simple and digital marketing platform in the fall of 2012. Based in Denver, Colorado, Choozle is the world's fastest growing digital advertising platform. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard T...

Heather Marie . She's the founder and CEO of Shoppable , a technology company that helps media companies, brands and retailers bring the checkout experience to anywhere a consumer discovers or engages with their products. While with Shoppable, she won the 2013 Women in Digital Award from L'Oreal, was named 1 of the 10 Most Powerful Millennials in Manhattan by Gotham Magazine , and 1 of the 11 Tech...

Charlie Gaudet . He's the best-selling author of The Predictable Profits Playbook . He's a keynote speaker and creator of predictable profits methodology—the most reliable way to systematically generate predictable profits for small businesses. He's been an entrepreneur since the age of 4, creating his first multi-million dollar business at 24 and has helped others generate millions through his st...

Colin Day . He's the chairman and CEO of a company called iCIMS which he founded in 2000 with a vision to deliver applicant tracking software, emphasizing easy-to-use, unparalleled, customer service. iCIMS is the largest stand-alone provider of talent acquisition software in the industry and stands among Forbes top 100 fastest growing private cloud companies in the country Famous Five: Favorite Bo...

Scott Duffy . He's the co-host of Business & Burgers and a contributor at Entrepreneur.com . He's also listed as one of the top 10 keynote speakers of Forbes and Entrepreneur. He started working for bestselling author and speaker, Tony Robbins. He's been a part of early stage exits and worked with big brands like CBSSport.com, NBC internet, Fox.com. He sold his last company to Richard Branson 's V...

Michael Segala . He's the CEO and co-founder of a company called SFL Scientific , a data science consulting firm that specializes in big data solutions. He's for leveraging machine learning in analytics techniques to arrive at insights to numerous industries— from healthcare to stock market predictions. Before founding the company, Michael worked as a data scientist in some of the well-known compa...

Owen Sadeghpour. A year ago, he was the technical employee or founder at an earlier company and has raised over $50M. Now, he's working at a successful company. He's also got a different project called You Exec . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Blue Ocean Strategy and How to Win Friends and Influence People What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Squarespace How many hours of sl...

Steve Olsher . He's the chairman and founder of Liquor.com . He's a New York Times best-selling author of What Is Your WHAT?: Discover The One Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do . He's also hosted the number 1 radio show, Reinvention Radio , and is a national keynote speaker and creator of the New Media Summit . Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The $100 Startup What CEO do you follow? – Giovanni Marsi...

Stephan Goss . He's the entrepreneur and technology executive behind his first company, Zeeto , which he started at the age of 22 and is still running today. He's led the company in expanding from a team of 3 people to 70 in just under 5 years and with the launch of the ad network, he plans on continuing the company's growth story in 2017. Previously, he founded Samples.com & Getitfree.us , which...