Paul English is a perpetual founder. Since high school, he's started 3 philanthropies and 8 companies—ranging from e-commerce, to gaming, to GetHuman, a site that helps users access human customer support. His best-known venture is probably KAYAK, a travel website launched in 2004 over two gin-and-tonics with co-founder Steve Hafner. Using a simple interface ... Show More
Oct 23
Business Daily meets: Pinterest CEO Bill Ready
Bill Ready started his working life in his parents' auto repair shop. Now, his world looks very different as CEO of the social media platform, Pinterest. It's an app where you can search for things like recipes, home decor, and fashion.Pinterest has enjoyed strong growth since th ... Show More
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Oct 2
How to sell a billion dollars of snacks, with the founders of Chomps
<p>Chomps co-founders Rashid Ali and Pete Maldonado had an unusual side hustle: selling meat sticks online. The co-founders join host Jeff Berman to reveal the phone call from Trader Joe’s that changed everything, how they used lessons from failed startups, and how they built Cho ... Show More
32m 10s
Apr 2025
#806: How Rich Barton Built Expedia and Zillow from $0 to $35B — Audacious Goals, Provocation Marketing, Scrabble for Naming, and Powerful Daily Rituals
<p><strong>Rich Barton</strong> is the co-founder and co-executive chairman of <a href="https://www.zillow.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Zillow</strong></a>, a company transforming how people buy, sell, rent, and finance homes. Before Zillow, Rich founde ... Show More
2h 25m
Feb 2025
Building a network of mentors, with Cadre’s Ryan Williams
<p>Ryan Williams thinks it should be easier to invest in real estate. He founded Cadre in 2014 to address this problem, and scaled it to impressive heights before an acquisition last year that sources say was valued at north of one billion dollars, combined. Williams talks with h ... Show More
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Nov 9
"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel
Jen Abel is GM of Enterprise at State Affairs and co-founded Jellyfish, a consultancy that helps founders learn zero-to-one enterprise sales. She’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met on learning enterprise sales, and in this follow-up to our first chat two years ago (coveri ... Show More
1h 21m
Nov 2022
Bain Capital, David Humphrey and Devin O’Reilly – Partnering, Merging, and Growing at Zelis (S1, EP.6)
Dave is the Co-Head of Bain Capital’s North America Private Equity business and a Managing Director in the TMT vertical. Devin is the Head of the firm’s North America Healthcare vertical. Bain Capital manages $180 billion, about half of which is in private equity. Its CEO, John C ... Show More
44m 45s
Sep 10
Ariel Kelman (Salesforce) | Leading the Charge in AI Innovation
<p>Fall is here, which means back to school, football season, crisp apples, and the world’s biggest blend of tech conference and music festival: Dreamforce. Now in its 22nd year, Dreamforce 2025 returns to San Francisco on October 14th to the 16th, featuring headline speakers lik ... Show More
51m 54s