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We cover all topics related to the entrepreneurial journey from ideation to execution to optimization and to reaping the rewards of a well-run business

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We cover all topics related to the entrepreneurial journey from ideation to execution to optimization and to reaping the rewards of a well-run business

    Global Leader in Data Movement: Fivetran’s Taylor Brown

    Global Leader in Data Movement: Fivetran’s Taylor Brown

    In this episode, we speak with Taylor Brown, the Co-Founder and COO of Fivetran, a platform that helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads.
    In 2012, Fivetran was founded by Taylor Brown and George Fraser.  They participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2013.  By responding to the needs of customers, Brown and Fraser found their product market fit in 2014 and continued to grow from there.
    Today, thousands of global brands, including Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation.
    I am your host RJ Lumba.  We hope you enjoy the show.  If you like the episode click to follow.

    • 24 min
    Mastering Workforce Automation: Legion Technologies’ Sanish Mondkar

    Mastering Workforce Automation: Legion Technologies’ Sanish Mondkar

    In this episode, we speak with Sanish Mondkar, the Founder and CEO of Legion Technologies, an industry-leading workforce management platform that maximizes labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously.
    The Company was founded in 2016 and led by Sanish to create The Legion WFM platform. With this easy-to-use app, employers maintain efficiency and productivity while hourly employees get gig-like schedule flexibility and control, modern communication tools, and greater pay autonomy.
    Sanish is the former Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President at SAP and Ariba.
    I am your host RJ Lumba.  We hope you enjoy the show.  If you like the episode click to follow.

    • 23 min
    Freight Management Simplified: Loadsmart’s Felipe Capella

    Freight Management Simplified: Loadsmart’s Felipe Capella

    In this episode, we speak with Felipe Capella, the Co-Founder and CEO of Loadsmart, which leverages cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to deliver optimized, reliable, and transparent freight services and solutions.
    Loadsmart was founded in 2014 and went on to gain capital backing from investors like Maersk, Ports America, TFI, CSX, BlackRock and Softbank. From day one, Felipe has been responsible for all product strategy and development.
    Previously, Felipe was an attorney at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC and before that an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
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    • 28 min
    Bringing Efficiency To Residential Real Estate Investing: Avenue One’s Bill Martiner

    Bringing Efficiency To Residential Real Estate Investing: Avenue One’s Bill Martiner

    In this episode, we speak with Bill Martiner, the Co-Founder and CTO of Avenue One, a technology service platform and investment marketplace for institutional owners, buyers, and sellers of residential rental real estate.
    With deep experience in driving growth and innovation for the financial services industry, Bill co-created Avenue One in 2020. The company’s platform connects local experts to institutional capital, making investing in housing debt and equity more efficient for institutions, while also supporting local businesses.
    With a highly impressive technical background, Bill was previously Head of Enterprise Technology at Compass, CTO at York Capital Management, a Founding Partner at VenturePM, and the Head of IT and Operations Strategy for Nomura Securities.
    Bill supports Electronic Frontier Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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    • 24 min
    Simplifying The Art Investing Process: Masterworks’ Scott Lynn

    Simplifying The Art Investing Process: Masterworks’ Scott Lynn

    In this episode, we speak with the Founder and CEO of Masterworks, Scott Lynn. Specializing in the art investment market, Masterworks securitizes blue-chip artworks between $1-20 million per painting and sells shares to over 200,000 investors via their site.
    Blue-chip art has historically retained its value and appreciated in times of high inflation. Masterworks was founded in 2017 by Scott to make the art market more accessible to investors.
    Scott is an early Internet entrepreneur with a focus on online advertising, martech, and fintech. Over the past 15+ years, he’s founded, acquired, sold, or remained a controlling shareholder in over a dozen tech companies. Prior to Masterworks, Scott founded Payability, V2 Ventures, and Virtumundo.
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    • 24 min
    Best in Road Analytics: Cambridge Mobile Telematics’ Hari Balakrishnan

    Best in Road Analytics: Cambridge Mobile Telematics’ Hari Balakrishnan

    In this episode, we speak with Hari Balakrishnan, the Founder and CTO of Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s leading telematics and analytics provider for insurers, rideshares, and fleets.
    CMT was founded in 2012 based on research at MIT.  It subsequently received significant backing from SoftBank Vision Fund.  CMT’s platform uses innovative mobile sensing, statistics, AI, and behavioral science to accurately measure driving quality, improve driving behavior, and help people in car crashes with real-time assistance.
    Hari has been a professor at MIT since 1998.  He also co-founded StreamBase Systems, which was acquired by TIBCO.
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    • 24 min

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