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The War Room

Each episode our guest, a founder of or exec in a successful company, will talk about a big oh-shit moment they've experienced running their company and the play-by-play of how they recovered from it.... Read more

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"We lost that contract in the last yard" with Joe Jordan

"We lost that contract in the last yard" with Joe Jordan

Joe talks about oh-shit moments from the life of an early stage founder and what he learned from his days as a wrestler ... Read more

10 Aug 2023

20mins

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"We told the team: we have 6 months of runway" with Immad Akhund

"We told the team: we have 6 months of runway" with Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund is a serial entrepreneur (though he doesn't like this moniker, something we discuss in this episode) and ha... Read more

2 Aug 2023

20mins

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"I was going to close the company down. Then we signed CoinBase" With Trisha Kothari

"I was going to close the company down. Then we signed CoinBase" With Trisha Kothari

Trish Kothari is CEO of Unit21. Here she discusses the early days of her company, becoming an Enterprise Account Executi... Read more

26 Jul 2023

22mins

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"Shortly after starting the company my husband was diagnosed with aggressive cancer" Sara Mauskopf, Winnie

"Shortly after starting the company my husband was diagnosed with aggressive cancer" Sara Mauskopf, Winnie

Sara Mauskopf, CEO of Winnie, joins us to talk about stepping back as a co-founder, building a company for the long haul... Read more

19 Jul 2023

19mins

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"He sat me down and told me: 'I think you need to leave'" with Jake Gibson

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"By that afternoon, 15% of our clients called in to cancel their contract" with Eli Portnoy

"By that afternoon, 15% of our clients called in to cancel their contract" with Eli Portnoy

Eli Portnoy is SVP at Medallia after it acquired his company. Sense 360. Sense 360 was working with restaurants and doin... Read more

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"We got some cell signal and my phone blew up. We had been hard-down for 90 minutes." with Bill Clerico

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Bill Clerico founded, headed, and sold WePay to JP Morgan. After wrapping up 12 eventful years with a successful exit, h... Read more

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"He told me: what are you doing here? Go home. No one's going to talk to you." with Oded Zehavi

"He told me: what are you doing here? Go home. No one's going to talk to you." with Oded Zehavi

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