This week, Jim welcomes Grace Kao, Chief Marketing Officer of Snap Inc. Founded in 2011 by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, Snap has grown from a simple idea about visual communication into a global platform reaching more than 940 million monthly active users and generating nearly $6 billion in annual revenue.Grace joined Snap in late 2024 and was promoted to ... Show More
Jun 10
Omer Waysman (Michelin) | Trust at 70 Miles Per Hour - Tires, Dining, and 24 Hours of Le Mans
For 24 straight hours every June, the world's greatest endurance race pushes drivers, machines, and engineers to their limits at Le Mans. For Michelin, it's more than a race, it's a proving ground for innovation, performance, and one of the most enduring brands in the world.This ... Show More
58m 35s
Jun 3
Melissa Grady Dias (Measured Wellness) | From CMO to CEO: Using AI and Human Connection to Transform Health
The role of the CMO is evolving. Increasingly, it is becoming a pathway to the CEO's office.Jim's guest this week, Melissa Grady Dias, first joined the show in 2020 as Global Chief Marketing Officer of Cadillac, where she helped transform one of America's most iconic brands into ... Show More
51m 38s
Dec 2024
Behind the founder: Marc Benioff
<p><strong>Marc Benioff</strong> is the co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, the second-largest software company in the world. He started programming at age 15, selling his first program for $75, and went on to build Salesforce into a company worth more than $300 billion that also o ... Show More
57m 18s
Aug 2023
376: The Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, Tiffani Bova — The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 376, an interview with the author of <em>The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth</em>, Tiffani Bova. This book details exactly how your company can adopt an Experience Mindset, at scale. It's not enough to kn ... Show More
45m 40s
Apr 2025
SAP CEO: European Tech Leadership, Cloud Innovation, and Performance Culture
How does SAP build and scale the systems that global companies rely on every day? In this episode, Nicolai Tangen speaks with Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, Europe’s largest technology company and one of the world’s leading software providers. They explore SAP's cloud transformatio ... Show More
58m 22s
Aug 2024
Special Episode - Rah Mahtani on Wizards of Ecom: Navigating CoCreate 2024
<div>Inside this episode of the B2B Breakthrough podcast, we are sharing our Head of Marketing, Rah Mahtani's, interview on Carlos Alvarez' Wizards of ECOM podcast about the upcoming Alibaba Co-Create conference. They explore the conference’s unique value, catering to both establ ... Show More
31m 55s
Sep 2024
From Crystal Pepsi to Cool Ranch Doritos: Lessons from David Novak
David Novak, co-founder and former CEO of Yum! Brands, joins host Jeff Berman to share lessons from scaling one of the world’s largest restaurant companies. Hear how his focus on listening, team recognition, and taking big swings helped grow a fast food empire to a $32 billion ma ... Show More
32m 4s
Sep 2025
How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business, also, Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI
On Thursday, Google Cloud announced it added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS ... Show More
8m 10s
Oct 2024
720: How to "Think Like Amazon" (with John Rossman)
Welcome to an interview with a seasoned business strategist and operator respected for his pivotal role in Amazon's early days, John Rossman. In John's book, Think Like Amazon, he provides 50 ½ answers drawn from his experience as an Amazon executive―and shows today's business le ... Show More
43m 54s