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Yesterday
Michael Kempner, founder of MikeWorldWide on the PRmoment podcast
In this week’s show Ben Smith and Michael Kempner discuss the current US political climate. Michael Kempner talks us through the organic growth of MikeWorldwide from a garage in 1986 to a “$70 million turnover”, crediting early success to "intentional serendipity," a strong netwo ... Show More
41m 55s
Mar 3
The PR News Review: Zack Polanski’s winning style and the language of war
Ben Smith, Angie Moxham, and Mark Borkowski discuss the Greens' bi-election win in Gorton and Denton, attributing the success of the candidate, Hannah Spencer, and Zack Polanski's effective communication campaign that provided a message of hope, local authenticity, and leveraged ... Show More
11m 39s
Mar 2
The February PR Pitch & MA Review
Ben Smith and Andrew Bloch reviewed the UK PR pitch and M&A market in February, noting that the pitch market was "steadier" with clients taking longer to decide, while agency M&A was "booming" with high demand and competition driving up prices for agencies around the £20 million ... Show More
42m 23s
May 2024
20VC: Fundraising Wisdom that is Total BS; Dilution, Meeting Associates, Taking the Highest Price, Always Be Raising | Why Second Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College with Dan Siroker, CEO @ Limitless
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder and CEO @ <a href= "https://www.limitless.ai/">Limitless</a>, a personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, or heard. For his latest funding round, Dan took an unusual approach resulting in 1,000 preliminary off ... Show More
1h 16m
Oct 2022
#629: Aryeh Bourkoff — Media's Hottest Dealmaker on How to Negotiate, Rejecting Constraints, Mastering the Calendar to Create More Time, and How to Play the Long Game
1h 47m
Sep 2019
#384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD)
1h 43m
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
Mar 2024
How Neil Patel Spends $200K a Month
<p>There was a time when <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkpatel/">Neil Patel </a>said a $15k/month burn rate was all he needed. But now his monthly burn is $200k. Roughly. He’s not completely certain… because he doesn’t budget. So what changed in his life to make his bur ... Show More
31m 13s
Jan 2022
“He threatened to kill my parents and I had to get a restraining order” - the real Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 1
Cocaine, £1,000 on roulette, sleeping with the client, a boss demanding bail out of a Malaysian prison, a restraining order - and that’s just one of the stories in this special episode where we turn the microphone on our host, Dan Murray-Serter. This is the start of a semi-regula ... Show More
47m 16s
Sep 2021
#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)
What I learned from reading The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Arthur W. Schultz.
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Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of hi ... Show More
1h 36m
Feb 2023
Dan Rose - How Stunning Founders Operate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.316]
My guest today is Dan Rose. Dan is the chairman of Coatue Ventures and has one of the most interesting collections of experiences of anyone I’ve talked to. He spent 20 years at Amazon and Facebook in their early days, working closely with Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, Mark Zuckerberg, ... Show More
1h 14m
Jan 2021
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
40m 50s
Sep 2023
David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343]
My guest today is David Senra, the creator and host of Founders Podcast. With an incredible appetite for biographies, David has delved into the lives of over three hundred entrepreneurs, extracting invaluable wisdom that he shares with his audience each week. Throughout the conve ... Show More
1h 26m
This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Dan Neale, co-founder and MD at Alfred. Alfred is an independent PR shop in London focusing on the consumer, entertainment, technology and gaming markets. It has a fee income of circa 1.3m and about 15 employees. Alfred was founded in 2013 by Dan Neale and Gemma Pears. Gemma moved to the ... Show More
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<p><strong><em>"Your head's for having ideas, not for holding them." </em></strong><em>— David Allen</em></p><p><strong>David Allen</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/gtdguy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gtdguy</a>) is one of the world's most influential thinke ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Alfred_Lin">Alfred Lin</a> is a Partner @ <a href="https://www.sequoiacap.com/">Sequoia Capital</a>, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Google, Airbnb, ... Show More
