World Class MAD

Howard Lerman is a visionary entrepreneur and pioneer. He is the Founder & CEO of Yext, a data technology company he took public in 2017 that reached more than $3B in Market Cap at its peak. Howard ran Yext as a Public CEO for 22 quarters, before returning back to his roots as startup founder. After experimenting with a number of ideas, Howard stumbled upon his next big venture. With a rampant increase in remote work and distributed workforces, Howard saw an opportunity to create the office of the future – a cloud based virtual office with the power to transform company culture and productivity. Today, we’re diving into his mindset, strategies and tactics on how to be a high performing entrepreneur and create legendary companies.

In today’s episode I sit down with my friend Steven Galanis. Steve is the Co Founder and CEO of Cameo, in my opinion one of the coolest technology companies in the world that he built to a $Billion Dollar Business in just 5 years. Cameo is a platform that allows fans to purchase personalized videos from their favorite celebrities. It’s my go to gift for birthdays and Holidays, and some of my favorite presents have been Cameo videos. In this conversation we follow Steven’s journey from a student at Duke, hustling and building random businesses to finally discovering and executing on his big idea. We also discuss how to find your confidence, overcome adversity and how to build a billion dollar network.

Today’s conversation is with my friend, Jack Abraham. Jack is a legendary entrepreneur, investor & pioneer in the technology space. He’s co-founded over a dozen companies, including Replicant, OpenStore and Hims & Hers which became one of the fastest multi billion dollar public companies in history. Jack is the Founder & Managing Partner of Atomic, a wildly successful venture studio that incubates and and invests in its own companies. He’s also an early investor in tech giants like Pinterest, Postmates and Uber. In this conversation, Jack demystifies the art and the science of coming up with ideas and turning them into billion dollar businesses.

Today’s episode is with legendary executive and operator, Emil Michael. Emil was the former SVP at Tellme Networks, a company that he helped sell for over $600 million in the early 2000s. Shortly after, Emil joined Uber as the Chief Business Officer alongside Travis Kalanick, and helped this startup grow into one of the greatest tech juggernauts in the world, a company that's now worth $160 billion. In this conversation, we dive deep into what it takes to build an iconic organization that changes the world, how to build winning cultures, and the negotiation secrets that Emil used to close multi-billion dollar deals.

Chris sits down with Keith Rabois as he lays down his internal workings to master stress, overcome obstacles, and to invest in countless multi-billion dollar companies.