Dec 2025

Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity

In the early 2000s, the cybersecurity industry was dominated by incumbents focused on high margins, not innovation. Nir Zuk tells the story of how, frustrated by this stagnant culture, he set out on his own with a radical idea: the Next-Generation Firewall. His vision was to unif ... Show More

47m 3s

Nov 2025

Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility

At 19, Markus Villig borrowed €5,000 from his parents to fix Estonia's broken taxi system. What happened next defied every conventional startup playbook. Markus started by making fleet dispatch software for local taxi companies. But when it became clear they weren’t embracing t ... Show More

42m 40s

Nov 2025

Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen - How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’

Founder and CEO Ilkka Paananen set out to create a different kind of game company—one where the game development teams would have decision-making power, not upper management. Ilkka recalls the early decision to scrap their first game and the entire cross-platform strategy that ha ... Show More

43m 2s

Jun 2025

How I built a $100M startup after losing EVERYTHING | Aydin Mirzaee

Aydin is the co-founder of Fellow and he's today's guest on Startup Strategies with Juliana Hahn. From losing everything in the dot-com crash at age 13 to building a $30+ million SaaS platform, Aydin has navigated multiple pivots and a strategic exit that shaped his approach to A ... Show More

53m 10s

Jan 2022

20VC: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality, Why Every CEO Should Feel Anxious, Why Performance Reviews are BS & How to Unleash the Best People in Your Business

Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at <a href= "https://www.snowflake.com/">Snowflake</a> and has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Prior to Snowflake, Frank served as ... Show More

35 m

Aug 2023

Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better

Frank Slootman doesn’t start companies. But no CEO has a better track record for turning the ideas of others into jackpots. On this episode of the Knowledge Project, Slootman dives deep into the no-nonsense, results-based strategies that have made him a leading executive, includi ... Show More

58m 56s

Jun 2020

Introducing Foundering

Adam Neumann had a vision: to make his startup WeWork a wildly successful company that would change the world. He convinced thousands of other people -- customers, employees, investors -- that he could make that dream a reality. And for a while, he did. He was one of the most suc ... Show More

3m 34s

Sep 2023

Business Daily meets: Mohit Lad

From losing his job in the 2008 financial crash, to a billion dollar idea.We speak to Mohit Lad, who teamed up with his old college friend Ricardo to trawl through the trash cans of shuttered businesses in Silicon Valley to get the first server for their tech start-up, ThousandEy ... Show More

18m 19s

Mar 2022

From 7 Figure Consulting Business To Software CEO With Stuart Leo: Podcast #229

Making the transition from a 7-figure consulting business to software CEO seems like a difficult pivot. This is one pivot that <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartleo/?originalSubdomain=au">Stuart Leo</a> has made with great success. In this episode, Michael Zipu ... Show More

47m 14s

Feb 2022

Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 265]

My guest today is Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of cloud platform Snowflake. Frank has become one of the most revered CEOs in business. Over the past twenty years, he has three times taken over emerging enterprise software businesses – first Data Domain, then ServiceNow, and m ... Show More

53m 51s

Jan 2025

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement softwar ... Show More

24m 31s

Nov 2025

How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)

Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first healthcare clearinghouse. After bootstrapping a wildly profitable auto-parts business, he sold it to tackle "the most complicated problem" he'd ever encountered: business-to-business transaction exchange. He spent years bu ... Show More

1h 24m

Jun 2022

Business Daily meets: Tech entrepreneur Frederic Kerrest

Tech entrepreneur Frederic Kerrest tells Sam Clack how he helped to build the multi-billion dollar tech company, Okta, from scratch.He goes through the life and business lessons he’s learned along the way – and explains the importance of listening to great advice at every stage o ... Show More

18m 43s

ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred L...