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After a long career as a VP at Microsoft in the 80s and 90s, Laura Jennings had a big vision for eCommerce. After founding Knack, her masterplan didn't play out exactly as designed. She was working out of a basement, shipping boxes, and learnin
No technical co-founder, no domain expertise, and entering a market that nobody believed would buy tech. Julian didn't look so hot to VCs. Everyone said to pivot. Fast forward to 2021 and Logixboard was growing 30% M/M, raised a $13M series A l
Being a founder wasn't in Jessica's plan. After 15 years of climbing the ladder and checking off her goals, she was looking for a new definition of success. Instead of writing a new life plan, she starting opening to possibilities and "winging
Gordon co-founded Outreach in 2013. Now a multi-billion, 1000+ employee company, he's reached rare air. But he's starting again with Spot.xyz... all the way back to the ground flood. That means writing code, recruiting, and establishing a cultu
Laura Clise didn't intent to be an entrepreneur. She spent most of her career running corporate social responsibility programs at bigger companies as a self-described "intrapeneur." But she saw the need for Intentionalist after developing a str
Katie was SVP at Zillow where she had an 11-year career building their data-driven PR and brand strategy. Now she's Founding Partner at KMG (kingstonmarketing.group). Her story goes from small town Illinois to journalism and ends up landing he
After starting his career at Microsoft, Dave was the first marketer at Bizible. As the company grew, Dave scaled to VP and then took on marketing leadership roles at Marketo and Adobe via acquisitions. He's now founder and CEO at Inflection - a
Routable's growth and $30M Series B are impressive headlines. But their customer discovery process really stood out. Omri interviewed over 300 customers before writing a single line of code. After learning from past pivots and mistakes, he was
Highspot has reached a $2.3B valuation, 500+ employees, and $397M raised just 9 years since founding. What's made that possible? Robert Wahbe (Co-Founder & CEO) is a strategic thinker who has found many non-obvious strategies and frameworks to
OwnTrail is a platform that advances women by helping members share their *real* paths through career and life. With seed funding and an all-star team, OwnTrail is growing fast. CEO and co-founder, Rebekah Bastian, is a role model for staying o
Joe.Coffee went from 15%/month growth to 3x in a month when the pandemic hit. They have raised $3.5M to help local coffee shops run digital ordering. But it was a long and winding road just to get started. Nick Martin (Co-Founder & CEO) shares
Stackline grew to 10s of millions in ARR with $0 funding. After getting profitable with over 2,000 customers, they raised $50M from Goldman Sachs to go bigger. Michael Lagoni (CEO and Co-Founder) goes behind the scenes on profitable growth, liv
Flying Fish Partners is a venture firm focused on AI, machine learning, and robotics. Heather Reman is an operator turned investor who co-founded Flying Fish. Her mantra is about community. And she applies this across domains - from startup inv
We all know Starbucks today. But it was just a startup when Howard Behar joined in 1989. As the President of North America, he grew from 28 regional stores to over 15K stores around the world. Even at scale, he was often seen in the stores talk
Detlef Schrempf is an NBA Legend, community leader, and Director of Business Development at Coldstream. He played 16 years and over 1,000 games in the NBA. He was 3x All-star, 2x Olympian, and a key player on the dominant SuperSonics teams in t
RealSelf is a growing team of 170 people that's raised $42M. James Coyle went from Amazon to startup executive and now CEO at RealSelf. He's made unconventional career choices that got him leadership roles all over the world, access to great me
TUNE grew to $80M ARR and 350 people over the last 7 years, resulting in two acquisitions. They raised $36M from top VCs, but it wasn't the typical VC-backed startup. Peter Hamilton started as a marketer when he responded to a Craigslist post a
Syndio just raised a $17M series B to help companies fix gender and racial pay equity problems. It's a big, complex, and new category. They already have 100+ customers like Nordstrom, Salesforce, and Adobe. Maria was previously co-founder at Sm
[Cross-Post] Me on Revenue Diaries with Kyle Lacy - habits, ice cream, tidiness, and managing stress
Happy Holidays! I will be back with more interviews of Seattle's top entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders in 2021. This episode is a cross-post of a conversation I had with Kyle Lacy on The Revenue Diaries podcast. We talked about my ice cream
Salesforce paid $15.7B to buy Tableau. Elissa was Tableau's long-time CMO from startup to IPO and over $1B in revenue. Now she's helping other high-growth companies as an advisor and board director. She goes behind the scenes on her journey, hi
In just over 5 years, Convoy has reached a $2.75B valuation, 1,000+ employees, and $665M raised to change the big and very complex trucking industry. What's made that possible? Grant Goodale (Co-Founder & CTO) went behind the scenes on his stor
Happy Thanksgiving week. 🦃🙏Thank you to everyone who has supported this project! I tried something different on this episode. I didn’t have a guest. I looked back at 30 interviews and shared my take on the biggest themes. This was a solo epi
Estately grew to profitability with just over $1m raised and got acquired by Realogy. Galen Ward, CEO & co-founder, said he had no business starting the business. But he and his team made it work. He goes behind the scenes on Estately's journey
Kristen is a 2x founder, startup executive, and board member. She co-founded Onvia in 1997 which went on to IPO. Recently co-founded at Koru which sold in 2018. Now an SVP at Guild Education.But through 25 years of building start-ups she was "
Investors laughed at the original idea for Crowd Cow. But consumers wanted to buy right away. Now they've raised $25M, grow to 90 employees, and went from selling crowd-funded cows to a complete marketplace.Joe Heitzeberg, co-founder & CEO, go
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