World Class Chris Vasquez

In this episode, we talk with Matteo Franceschetti, the cofounder and CEO of Eight Sleep which is a revolutionary sleep fitness technology company. Eight Sleep is used by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world and endorsed by people like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Andrew Huberman. In this conversation we dive deep into Matto‘s journey building Eight Sleep. We talk about his philosophies and tactics on sleep, health, fitness, stress management and everything that goes into becoming the ultimate high-performance human.

In this episode we sit down with one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs ever. Elliot Bisnow is the cofounder of Summit Series, an iconic global events company for entrepreneurs, visionaries, and world leaders with attendees including Sergey Brin. Richard Branson, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos. He's also a prolific investor and an early investor in companies like Uber, Coinbase, and Warby Parker. Elliot is also the former owner of Powder Mountain Ski Resort in Utah which recently sold to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. He’s the author of the incredibly powerful book 'Make No Small Plans'. In this conversation we talk about Elliot going from college dropout to business icon, finding your purpose overcome imposter syndrome, and building dreams.

Today we have a conversation with Luke Schoenfelder, the founder and former CEO of Latch, a security technology company in which he took public in 2021. In this episode we dive into Luke’s journey from growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania all the way to building a multi-billion dollar technology company. We have a vulnerable discussion about how to turn your pain into your superpowers, the mindset required to be a World Class entrepreneur, and how to build incredible businesses while fulfilling yourself at the same time.

On this episode of the World Class Podcast, we sit down with one of the most ambitious entrepreneurs of our generation and the world‘s first "space drug dealer”. Delian Asparouhov is a partner at Founders Fund, as well as the cofounder and chairman of Varda, a revolutionary company building pharmaceuticals infrastructure in outer-space to advance humankind here on earth. In this conversation, we discuss how to accomplish Elon Musk-level moonshot goals, how to assemble World Class teams to make those goals reality, and Delian's advice on how to be fulfilled along the journey.

Today’s conversation is with the legendary Executive & Crypto pioneer, Brad Garlinghouse. Brad is currently the CEO of Ripple, a leading blockchain based payment solutions company with a current valuation of $11B. Prior to Ripple, Brad was the CEO of Hightail, President at AOL, and Sr. Executive at Yahoo. In this conversation, we really dive into his turbulent story leading Ripple through lawsuits into success. We talk about how to build a World Class team and company culture, the importance of taking risks, as well as Brad's predictions for the crypto market in the future.

This week we sit down with Jan Bednar is an immigrant from the Czech Republic, who moved to the US at 16 years old to pursue his American Dream. In 2014, he Founded Shipmonk, with a vision to revolutionize the way e-commerce companies manage their supply chains & ship products to their customers. In less than a decade, he built Shipmonk into a $1B enterprise with thousands of employees around the world. Today, we’re going to dive into how to turn your ideas into Billion dollar companies and how to have a lot of fun along the way.