Prerna Gupta is a serial entrepreneur who entered the tech spotlight when her Songify app hit #1 in the app store. She’s gone on to co-found several startups focused on music, dating, and short stories, and in 2011 Fast Company named her one of the most influential women in technology. She hasn’t slowed down since.
Gupta is currently the CEO of Telepathi ... Show More
Nov 20
607: How I Built a $120M/Year Cookie Business From My Appartment | Loren Castle
Loren Castle turned a life-threatening cancer diagnosis at 22 into the spark that built Sweet Loren’s, a $120M-a-year clean food brand now sold in over 5,000 supermarkets nationwide.
In this interview, Loren shares how she bootstrapped her way from baking cookies in a tiny Ne ... Show More
51m 14s
Nov 13
605: He Bought an Airline for $0.30 (and made BILLIONS) | Tony Fernendes (Best of Foundr)
Tony Fernandes turned a failing airline into a billion-dollar business and built AirAsia into one of the most recognized brands in Asia. In this interview, Tony explains how he bought AirAsia for just 30 cents and $10M of debt, scaled it into the fourth largest airline in Asia, a ... Show More
41m 21s
Apr 2023
How Barbara Corcoran Turned $1,000 Into $66 Million
<p>#26: I sat down with businesswoman and investor, Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran to discuss her story and rise to success, from real-estate queen to reality TV star. With $1,000 she started a company that became a real estate empire. Today, she shares the top thing she looks for ... Show More
40m 3s
Jan 2022
826. How To Know If Your Business Idea Is A Good Idea With Stephanie Biegel, Founder of Key
Today, I’m sitting down with Stephanie Biegel, Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of Key, a Fan Relationship Platform that gives control back to talent, to own their data and drive incremental revenue. Steph and I get real about entrepreneurial hardships, navigating different bus ... Show More
55m 46s
Dec 2020
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story
Today’s episode is with Dave Girouard, the CEO and co-founder of Upstart, an AI-powered lending platform that recently went public. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business.
Here at F ... Show More
1h 3m
Feb 2023
Asking a Self-Made Billionaire Investor How To Build Wealth
<p>#21: Self-made billionaire investor and philanthropist David Rubenstein teaches us his life lessons to protect your time, and how to build wealth, success, and happiness. David went from a family with nothing to co-founding the Carlyle Group, one of the most successful private ... Show More
59m 54s
Jan 2022
328. From Taking the Leap from Adoption Journey to Business Growth with Erin Port of Simple Purposeful Living
<p>Our female founder this week is Erin Port, the Founder of Simple Purposeful Living, and one of our Masterminders. She took her engaged readers as a blogger, and her informed background as a teacher, and created a product that would give her audience value.</p><p>Erin represent ... Show More
32m 55s
Feb 2023
SPI 651: Top Lessons from Interviewing Billionaires with Jess Larsen
<p>#651 Connecting with your audience through podcasting can be a game-changing strategy for any brand. As you know, we're already helping many entrepreneurs take advantage of this opportunity. But what is the other, less often talked about, benefit of creating a show in your nic ... Show More
36m 39s
Dec 2022
Adapt and Overcome: How to Tactically Evolve for Success with Karim Hijazi
Karim Hijazi is a spy-turned-spy hunter, serial cyber security entrepreneur, podcast creator, and host. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1You do not need to know what you will do right off the bat to have a clear path to success. 2The pursuit of perfection limits progress. Get to it even if it ... Show More
25m 20s