Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing family in Japan, Akio eschewed the traditional path to forge his own legacy in electronics.
In post-war Japan, Akio joined forces with Masaru Ibuka to found Sony. They started in a burned-out department store wit ... Show More
Aug 14
#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews, and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers a window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In these pages, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and ... Show More
2h 1m
Jul 2023
2450: Ahad Khan, CEO of Kajabi Discusses The Power of Knowledge Entrepreneurship
I host Ahad Khan, the CEO of Kajabi, a revolutionary all-in-one platform designed for knowledge entrepreneurs and creators to build, market, and sell educational content. In the age of the "Great Resignation," millions of people are breaking traditional employment chains to start ... Show More
28m 42s
Jun 2022
The Co-Creator of the iPod and iPhone on Radical Innovation (with Tony Fadell)
How do you talk about a product before anything like it exists? How do you guide the engineers building it and the marketing department who has to sell it?
As co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of the learning thermostat Nest, and with over 300 patents to his name, Tony F ... Show More
45m 53s
Jul 31
Tech Founder: From 0 to 15 Million Users. Here's What We Learned
Maximiliano Neustadt, CTO and co-founder of Polarsteps, shares the incredible journey of building a travel app from 5 people to over 15 million users. From surviving as a travel company during the worst possible timing to scaling without hustle culture, Maxi reveals the key decis ... Show More
45m 43s
Jul 6
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Maor Shlomo is the founder of Base44, an AI-powered app builder that he bootstrapped to an over $80 million acquisition by Wix in just six months. As a solo founder (with severe ADHD), he hit $1 million ARR just three weeks after launch and grew the product to more than 400,000 u ... Show More
1h 31m
May 21
CEO Diaries: LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman: The Truth About Elon, Zuck, & Building Great Companies!
Over the next six weeks, we’re bringing you the most unmissable moments from The Diary of a CEO, a masterclass in work, business, and entrepreneurship. These are the lessons that built some of the most iconic companies in the world, shared by the visionary CEOs behind them. We be ... Show More
10m 21s
Jun 2024
2925 Unlocking Startup Potential: Driving Product Adoption and Retention
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for insights on how to navigate the tech startup world? In our latest episode of Tech Talks Daily, I had the pleasure of interviewing Luke Diaz, the founder of DBT Ventures, an angel investment fund dedicated to supporting underrepresent ... Show More
25m 13s
May 13
Royce Yudkoff & Rick Ruback - Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition - [Invest Like the Best, EP.423]
My guests today are Rick Ruback and Royce Yudkoff. Rick and Royce are Harvard Business School professors who teach their students how to search for, acquire, and run small business directly after graduation. It has been almost a decade since our first conversation, and unlike man ... Show More
1h 27m