Going Deep with Aaron Watson
567 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsThe Going Deep with Aaron Watson podcast is a forum for having meaningful, deep conversations about the passions, fears and problems of people from all walks of life. Guests talk about entrepreneurship, sports, finance, comedy and lifestyle design.
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477 Duolingo's Evolution w/ Chief Product Officer Jorge Mazal
May 17, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 42.4 MBJorge Mazal is the Chief Product Officer for Duolingo. Duolingo is a free language-learning website and mobile app with over 500 million downloads, 40 million monthly active users, and a valuation of over $1 billion. Jorge previously worked on the product for Zynga, MyFitnessPal, and Kleiner Perkins. Today he blends skills in design, gamification, and leadership to manage a product team that has 10xed in size since he joined the company. In this episode, Jorge and Aaron discuss h...
476 Geopolitical Alpha w/ Marko Papic
May 10, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBMarko Papic leads the strategy team at Clocktower Group, an alternative investments firm. Clocktower offers long-term strategic investment strategies to their clients, investment managers and institutional allocators. Marko brings his constraints framework, outlined in his book Geopolitical Alpha, to analyzing the geopolitical trends of the day. His ability to accurately forecast major political events has enormous ramifications for portfolios. In this episode, Marko and Aaron di...
475 Cognitive Immunology w/ Andy Norman
May 03, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 46.4 MBAndy Norman is a researcher focused on studying how ideologies short-circuit minds and corrupt moral understanding. His studies have led him to develop a toolkit of methods for improving reasoning and share them in his book, Mental Immunity. His hope is that a collection of academic research can be lassoed together to serve as the foundation of a new scientific field, Cognitive Immunology. Cognitive immunology would explore the ability of researchers to develop a mind vaccine to ...
474 Selling Companies, Making an Impact, and Having Fun w/ Geng Wang, Civic Champs CEO
April 26, 2021 05:30 - 40 minutes - 41.5 MBGeng Wang is the CEO and co-founder of Civic Champs, a software startup focused on creating s seamless and rewarding volunteering experience for both volunteers and service organizations This is Geng’s third commercial venture. He’s previously co-founded two companies; RentJungle.com, an apartment search engine that sold in 2014 to The Rainmaker Group, and Community Elf (rebranded as Cosmitto), a social media management firm which we sold in 2017 to a PE firm, Topanga Partners. G...
473 Flying Cars and the Future w/ Sanjiv Singh & Near Earth Autonomy
April 19, 2021 05:30 - 53 minutes - 59 MBSanjiv Singh is CEO and cofounder of Near Earth Autonomy, a technology company focused on autonomous flight. Sanjiv has 25 years of experience working on autonomous ground and air vehicles. He came to Pittsburgh 30 years ago to participate in the DARPA challenge and has spent decades exploring different applications for self-driving and self-flying robots. Near Earth Autonomy started by developing self-flying technology for the United States Government and has expanded to bring ...
472 Hidden Forces w/ Demetri Kofinas
April 12, 2021 05:30 - 58 minutes - 60 MBDemetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and host of Hidden Forces, a podcast devoted to exploring the underlying forces driving the most powerful changes we see in the world. His show covers a wide range of topics, including culture, philosophy, economics, technology, social science, and the hard sciences. Demetri has previously co-founded Guerilla Gaming Concepts, an interactive entertainment company focused on the middleware of gaming. He has also reported on financial news and...
471 Black Tech Nation Ventures and Career Strategy w/ David Motley
April 05, 2021 06:00 - 53 minutes - 54.2 MBBlack Tech Nation Ventures is launching its first flagship venture fund in Pittsburgh, PA. The firm is founded by three managing partners, Kelauni Jasmyn, Sean Sebastian, and David Motley have come together to form an investment thesis focused on investing in black and other minority founders who have historically missed out on opportunities to raise venture capital. As David outlines in this podcast, these represent an underutilized asset capable of creating outsized returns, not a ch...
470 Sports Gambling, Venture Capital, and FanDuel w/ Paul Martino
March 29, 2021 05:30 - 37 minutes - 37 MBPaul Martino is a venture capital investor and has raised 5 funds totaling over $350 million in capital. That money has been deployed into FanDuel, Grove, Ipsy, and SpotHero. Before forming Bullpen, Paul was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy. Prior to his investing career, Paul founded four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust) and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data adver...
469 Free Bitcoin for Shopping? w/ Aubrey Strobel & Lolli
March 22, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 35.2 MBAubrey Strobel is the Head of Comms for Lolli, a free browser extension that lets users earn free bitcoin when shopping online. The platform’s mission is to help make cryptocurrency more accessible to the average shopper. Founded in 2018, Lolli has over 1,000 retail partners including Expedia, Nike, and Glossier. In this episode, Aubrey and Aaron discuss stacking sats, bringing women into crypto, and how Aubrey has modeled the Lolli brand and marketing off of Barstool Sports. ...
468 Mike Green: Index Funds, Bitcoins, and Telling the Truth
March 15, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 55.2 MBMike Green is the Chief Strategist at Logica Funds and has spent nearly 30 years studying markets. These days, he calls on that experience and his proprietary research to educate the public, the Federal Reserve, the BIS, and the IMF about the shift from actively managed portfolios and investment funds to systematic passive investment strategies. Previously, Mike has served as the portfolio manager for Thiel Macro, an investment firm that manages the personal capital of Peter Thie...
467 Conservation Labs founder Mark Kovscek
March 08, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 23.4 MBMark Kovscek is a mathematician, inventor, and entrepreneur. His company, Conservation Labs, builds and sells a smart water meter that provides consumption insights, custom conservation recommendations, and leak detection. At the cutting edge of Internet-of-Things and conservation, Mark uses his experience from a career building products and delivering solutions to address multi-billion dollar challenges. He has spent time using his mathematics skills in marketing analytics, fina...
466 How to Become a Venture Capitalist w/ Matt Harbaugh (Mountain State Capital)
March 01, 2021 06:30 - 44 minutes - 45.3 MBMatt Harbaugh is a co-founder and Managing Director at Mountain State Capital. The 20 million dollar fund has invested in over 16 firms in the greater Appalachia region. Prior to founding MSC, Matt served as CEO of a machine learning-based software company that was acquired by Facebook and was the Chief Investment Officer at Innovation Works, one of the most active seed funds in the United States. Across his career, Matt has invested in, managed, and advised more than 100 private...
465 $250k Revenue in Year One Selling Saas Companies w/ Andrew Gazdecki (MicroAcquire)
February 15, 2021 06:30 - 41 minutes - 43.9 MBAndrew Gazdecki is the solo founder of MicroAcquire, a marketplace for buying and selling small Software-as-a-Service companies. He has previously started two companies, Bizness Apps and Altcoin.io, which were both acquired. MicroAcquire has reached $250,000 in annual revenue in just one year, by collecting fees from buyers in exchange for connecting with the entrepreneurs selling their business. Andrew is applying lessons that he’s learned from past successful companies to *hope...
464 Computer Vision and Company Spin Outs w/ Chris Anderson
February 08, 2021 06:30 - 25 minutes - 27 MBChris Anderson is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Innotescus. He leads a multi-functional team of machine learning scientists, software architects, and engineers that are innovating in the world of image annotation software. Prior to founding Innotescus, Mr. Anderson was the Director of Software Engineering and IT for ChemImage. Here he oversaw the core innovative software products for hyperspectral data acquisition, analysis and visualization. These products range in appli...
463 Deflation, the Internet, and Entrepreneurial Resilience w/ Jeff Booth
February 01, 2021 06:30 - 44 minutes - 45 MBJeff Booth led BuildDirect, a technology company he co-founded in 1999, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption. BuildDirect aimed to simplify the building industry and graduated from online catalog to logistics network to artificially intelligent platform. Last year, Jeff released his first book “The Price of Tomorrow – Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future” where he outlines the current stat...
462 Blockchain Projects, Interoperability, and Harmony w/ Stephen Tse
January 25, 2021 06:30 - 34 minutes - 35 MBStephen Tse, is founder and CEO of Harmony.one. Harmony is a blockchain-based open source development project with its own cryptocurrency. Stephen has been obsessed with protocols and compilers since high school. He reverse-engineered ICQ and X11 protocols, coded in OCaml for more than 15 years, and graduated with a doctoral degree in security protocols and compiler verification from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to founding Harmony, he has worked a researcher at Microsof...
461 Ghostwriting and the Business of Books w/ Joshua Lisec
January 18, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 39.8 MBJoshua Lisec has been a ghostwriter for a decade. Public figures hire him to write compelling books, newsletters, and tweets in their voice, so that they can build their media platform. He has helped to write best selling and critically aclaimed books and teaches the best practices publicly online. Joshua coaches his clients to offer higher-ticket services, courses, and products in conjunction with book sales to build a sustainable business. In this podcast, Joshua and Aaron disc...
460 How a Refounder turned a Failing Business into a Massive Success w/ Patrick Colletti (Net Health)
January 11, 2021 06:30 - 36 minutes - 39.3 MBPatrick Colletti is the founder of Net Health a $100M+ cloud-based provider of specialized software that serves specialized medical facilities like wound centers, senior care, and occupational therapy. When Patrick began his tenure as company president in 2001, Net Health was experiencing significant financial turmoil resulting in laying off all but 2 employees. By utilizing a Refounder mindset as a framework for success, Patrick was able to spur rapid business growth and cultiv...
459 Cold Emails, Big Tech Censorship, and Delegating Effectively w/ Alex Berman
January 04, 2021 12:20 - 38 minutes - 40.7 MBAlex Berman is an actual serial entrepreneur. Before the age of 30, he has built a 7-figure agency, completed multiple movie projects, and built a 50,000 subscriber YouTube channel. Most folks feel content to throw that title in their bio as a way to summarize some half-finished projects. Alex, on the other hand, builds systems in a focused and brutally efficient way. He has delegated leadership of his agency, Experiment 27, to someone else and has now set about acquiring more co...
458 $100 Million Turnaround in the Oil and Gas Industry w/ Mark Marmo of Deep Well Services
December 28, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 33.5 MBWhen Mark Marmo took over as the CEO of Deep Well Services, the company was losing $2 million per year on $9 million in revenue. Six years later, Deep Well Services was making $30 million in net income on $110 million in revenue. Mark accomplished this by focusing on bringing an innovative & efficient service to the market, building a healthy company culture, and trusting his data analysts to make good decisions. In this conversation, Aaron and Mark discuss the standard he has im...
457 ILLEGAL apparel and endless hustle w/ Frank Augustine
December 21, 2020 06:30 - 35 minutes - 39.7 MBFrank Augustine is the founder of ILLEGAL apparel. Frank and his brother created the brand, and associated company, in their parent's basement back in 2013. He has spent the last 7 years scaling production, opening a store on the South Side of Pittsburgh, and learning many lessons about entrepreneurship. He’s gotten the business off the ground via a relentless commitment to sales and a willingness to experiment with designs. Not bad for someone still in his early 20s. In th...
456 Peter DeComo Raised Over $100 Million to Develop Artificial Lungs
December 14, 2020 07:00 - 45 minutes - 45.7 MBPete DeComo is the chairman and CEO of ALung Technologies. ALung is developing an artificial lung for patients suffering from Acute Respiratory Failure and has raised over $100 million to bring their product to market. ALung’s Hemolung Respiratory Assist System is a dialysis-like alternative or supplement to mechanical ventilation that works by removing carbon dioxide directly from the blood. The medical device, which has been approved for use in 35 countries outside the U.S., has pro...
455 Bottomless Coffee and the Future of Ecommerce w/ Michael Mayer
December 07, 2020 06:30 - 50 minutes - 50.8 MBMichael Mayer is the co-founder and CEO of Bottomless, a company that uses wifi connected weight sensors to do automatic home restocking. Their first, and only, offering is fresh roasted coffee. Every customer pays an annual fee (like an Amazon Prime membership) and receives a coffee scale. The scale measures the amount of coffee remaining in your bag and automatically sends you the next one when you’re running low. Over time, Bottomless learns your coffee preferences and sends ...
454 Drug Development & Cytokine Storms w/ CytoAgents CEO Teresa Whalen
November 30, 2020 06:30 - 34 minutes - 35.9 MBTeresa Whalen is the CEO of CytoAgents, a startup focused on the development of solutions to combat persistent and potentially deadly strains of Influenza, COVID19, and other viruses. Teresa’s career spans 20 years in the healthcare industry, including health technology executive, life sciences investor, and clinical pharmacist. She has brought multiple successful life-changing healthcare products to market. She currently leads a team of clinical drug development experts and scie...
453 $8 Billion in Loans Issues to Save Small Businesses w/ Brock Blake, Lendio founder
November 16, 2020 06:30 - 44 minutes - 45.6 MBBrock Blake is the founder and CEO of Lendio, a marketplace for small business loans. Lendio offers borrowers access to loan options from more lenders than any other marketplace in the industry. Brock has been building his company for nearly a decade and raised more than $100 million in venture capital. 2020 has stretched his team and tech to new heights, as they’ve facilitated over 100,000 PPP loan approvals and the issue of $8 Billion in funds. In this conversation, Aaron and ...
452 Thrasio, a Profitable Unicorn in Less than 3 Years w/ Casey Gauss
November 09, 2020 06:30 - 39 minutes - 43.6 MBCasey Gauss is the VP of Amazon SEO at Thrasio. Thrasio is one of the most interesting companies I’ve come across in years. Thrasio was founded in 2018. It has gone on to raise $520.5 million and be valued at over $1 billion. The companies has acquired more than 70 businesses that sell products on Amazon. By bundling the companies together, they aim to build the CPG powerhouse (think Unilever or Procter & Gamble) of the digital age. Casey leads the team’s efforts in optimizing Th...
451 Wiz Khalifa’s Manager Will Dzombak talks Hotbox by Wiz, Artist Management, and Taylor Gang
November 02, 2020 06:30 - 36 minutes - 40.9 MBWill Dzombak is a Pittsburgh native and one of the entertainment industry’s top music managers. He’s helped guide the career of Grammy-nominated rapper Wiz Khalifa and cofounded Taylor Gang Entertainment. As a student at Penn State, Will co-founded an events company, where he booked Wiz Khalifa will he was still just a rising Pittsburgh rapper. After the first show’s turnout exceeded expectations, Khalifa sought out Dzombak’s help with booking more shows for him. Within a few ye...
450 Save the Environment AND Healthier Plants w/ Better Soil (Brian Scott, PittMoss)
October 26, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 59.2 MBPlanting soil hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years. Brian Scott wants to change that. Brian is the CEO of PittMoss, a Pittsburgh startup that creates a recycled/upcycled substitute for peat moss. Pittmoss has been proven in greenhouse trials to outgrow all current peat-based potting soil products when mixed with these products or when plants are grown in nutrient-enriched Pittmoss alone. He is currently leading a company pivot to the retail market. Brian originally in...
449 Setting Safety Standards for Driverless Vehicles w/ Michael Wagner, CEO of Edge Case Research
October 19, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 43.5 MBMichael is the CEO and co-founder of Edge Case Research, a company focused on making autonomy safer. Edge Case Research’s ECR’s products and services are geared for customers who build autonomous systems. The company’s offerings include software that tests for gaps in computer vision systems and consulting focused on prioritizing safety into an engineering department’s culture. Michael’s experience with autonomous vehicles started twenty years ago at Carnegie Mellon University w...
448 How to Sell a Midsize Digital Agency w/ Amanda Dixon (Barney)
October 12, 2020 05:30 - 39 minutes - 40.3 MBAmanda Dixon is the cofounder of Barney, a mid-market M&A firm that helps entrepreneurs buy and sell digital businesses. They boast a database of more than 15,000 buyers and a dynamic portfolio of past mergers and acquisitions. Before starting Barney, Amanda had previously started and sold two businesses. After successfully selling both businesses, Amanda became painfully aware of the challenges associated with selling a business worth less than $20 million. Now, Amanda leverage...
447 Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder & Equity Crowdfunding w/ Dawn Dickson (PopCom)
October 05, 2020 11:36 - 34 minutes - 34.9 MBDawn Dickson is a serial entrepreneur that has launched four successful cash flow positive companies since 2002. Most recently, she splits her time between Flat Out of Heels (rollable flats for women to get relief from painful heels) and PopCom (a software solution to make vending machines more intelligent). Dawn has an expertise in raising traditional and non-traditional business capital. In 2019, Dawn became the first female CEO globally to raise over $1 million using equity crowdf...
446 Raised $2 Million for Paid Podcast Membership Platform Glow.fm w/ Amira Valliani
September 28, 2020 06:00 - 31 minutes - 31.9 MBIn 2017, Amira Valliani created Backyard Cambridge, a podcast about the City Council election in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She interviewed the candidates, produced the episodes, and built a small audience. When she attempted to turn the show into a viable business, she found that there was no easy solution for collecting subscription revenue from listeners willing to pay for content. So, she founded Glow. Glow makes building podcast memberships easy and has raised more than $2 mi...
445 Record-Setting Crowdfunder Building Tech Platform for Truck Drivers w/ Pierre Laguerre (Fleeting)
September 21, 2020 05:30 - 46 minutes - 46.6 MBPierre Laguerre is the founder & CEO of Fleeting, a startup building a digital platform to increase flexibility, dynamism, and efficiency for trucking companies and commercial truck drivers. Pierre previously built two successful trucking companies operating trucks and staffing for other trucking companies. He’s been involved in trucking for nearly two decades and has learned the industry inside and out. Since launching Fleeting in June 2019, Pierre and the team have generated o...
444 Refugee Builds $10 Million Business w/ Gene Leyzarovich (JetStor)
September 14, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 37.7 MB25 years ago, Gene Leyzarovich came to Pittsburgh as a refugee from Russia. Within two years, he founded Advanced Computer & Network Corporation to build data storage systems for clients. Decades later, AC&NC has installed their JetStor RAID (redundant array of independent disks) systems for over 4,000 clients around the world. Those clients include NASA, the US State Department, and a majority of the United Kingdom’s police force. Now, ACNC does over $10 million in annual revenu...
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443 Oxygen Tanks for Pets w/ Blake Dube
August 24, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 41.9 MBBlake Dube is the founder and CEO of Aeronics and the inventor of Pawprint Oxygen. Pawprint Oxygen is the world's first rescue oxygen supply for pets. Blake studied oxygen as a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh and expected to develop products for human medical applications. However, a chance encounter with his landlord revealed an exciting market opportunity to bring an oxygen tank product to market for animals. Now, his tanks are manufactured in the US and sold ...
442 Building a Multimillion-Dollar Web Design Agency w/ Mike Cleary (Huemor)
August 17, 2020 05:30 - 36 minutes - 84 MBMike Cleary is the co-founder and CEO of Huemor, a Web Design Agency that helps B2B and DTC brands communicate more clearly, connect with their target audiences, and generate revenue. His company has helped some serious brands, including Revlon, Live Nation, GEICO, United Nations, Centivo, Net2Phone, Briogeo, Glow Recipe, Square One Justice. Mike has been in business for nearly a decade and has learned a lot about the systems of business and how to implement them as you grow. In ...
342 Building a Multimillion-Dollar Web Design Agency w/ Mike Cleary (Huemor)
August 17, 2020 05:30 - 36 minutes - 84 MBMike Cleary is the co-founder and CEO of Huemor, a Web Design Agency that helps B2B and DTC brands communicate more clearly, connect with their target audiences, and generate revenue. His company has helped some serious brands, including Revlon, Live Nation, GEICO, United Nations, Centivo, Net2Phone, Briogeo, Glow Recipe, Square One Justice. Mike has been in business for nearly a decade and has learned a lot about the systems of business and how to implement them as you grow. In ...
441 Large Firms Need an Ethical Intruder to Test Cybersecurity w/ David Kane
August 10, 2020 05:30 - 33 minutes - 37.6 MBOver a decade ago, David Kane realized that there was a painful gap in cybersecurity. He built Ethical Intruder to fill that gap. Today, Ethical Intruder helps clients across financial services, DoD, healthcare, and nonprofits reproduce vulnerable paths a hacker may take, so they can shore up their defenses. David’s ethical hacker teams conduct simulated malicious breaches of a wide variety of business applications and web-accessible entry points. David has built his firm to be ...
440 Brent Johnson explains Dollar Milkshake Theory for Entrepreneurs
August 03, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 43.8 MBBrent Johnson is a wealth manager at Santiago Capital and a General Partner of the IceCap Strong Dollar Fund. Brent has had a multi-decade career in finance and has been responsible for managing billions of dollars. Brent is well-known for his Dollar Milkshake Theory, where he expects a rapidly appreciating US Dollar over the next few years, relative to other world currencies. Because the world is completely run by fiat currencies, cash whose value is not backed by some physical ...
439 Mortgage Master Dan Green is building HomeBuyer.Ai
July 27, 2020 05:30 - 56 minutes - 53.9 MBDan Green is the founder and CEO of HomeBuyer, a mortgage lender designed for first-time homebuyers. It’s his 3rd company he’s built in the mortgage industry. Dan previously founded the consumer-friendly mortgage education company "The Mortgage Reports", which was later acquired in 2014 by Full Beaker. Dan Green is a 17-year mortgage lending veteran and was a multi-year, number-one loan officer before starting HomeBuyer. His current company utilizes intelligent personalization to...
438 How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Consultancy w/ Ben Wilson of Rivers Agile
July 20, 2020 05:30 - 39 minutes - 40.7 MBBen Wilson founded Rivers Agile in 2008, in the eye of the Great Financial Crisis. The software consulting firm started focusing on advanced quality assurance and expanded to offer custom software development. Now, Ben is leading his team through the pandemic, an office change, and a shifting marketplace for software solutions. He believes he’s poised to take advantage of a trend of onshoring and digital reinvention that the circumstances will demand. In this podcast, Ben and Aa...
437 First Generation High School Grad to Top Financial Advisor, The Mindset of Tyrone Ross
July 13, 2020 11:37 - 39 minutes - 37.1 MBTyrone Ross is a financial consultant, community builder, and entrepreneur. He has been named to Investment News 40 under 40 (2019) and a top ten advisor set to change the industry by WealthManagement.com. Tyrone has focused on pushing a conservative, stodgy industry forward by focusing on young professionals, embracing financial technology startups, and acknowledging the role crypto assets play in a portfolio. Aaron and Tyrone talk about fighting financial jargon, why advi...
436 Deploying $750 Million into Established Businesses w/ Stephen Gurgovits of Tecum Capital
July 06, 2020 05:00 - 38 minutes - 42.3 MBStephen Gurgovits is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Tecum Capital, a $750+ million private investment firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. Tecum’s committed capital is deployed as mezzanine debt, subordinated notes, and private equity into lower middle market businesses across the US. During his career, Stephen has been directly involved in over $1 billion of aggregate financial transactions, both public and private. Prior to spinning Tecum Capital out of First National Bank, he...
435 Juneteenth, Retaining Diverse Talent, and YNGBLKPGH w/ Brian Burley
June 29, 2020 05:30 - 45 minutes - 46.8 MBBrian Burley is the founder of YNGBLKPGH, a book and community of talented black professionals in and around the city of Pittsburgh. Brian came on Going Deep to discuss the absolute necessity of cities and corporations adopting more empathetic and diverse approaches to attracting and retaining talent. He has a distinct perspective that he has earned through writing his book profiling over 100 black professionals, working in economic development for the Pittsburgh region, and lead...
434 Billionaire Henry Schuck just IPO’d ZoomInfo during a Pandemic
June 22, 2020 05:30 - 48 minutes - 46.6 MBHenry Schuck founded his company, originally named DiscoverOrg, in 2007 at the age of 23. The company IPO’d on June 4th, 2020. After acquiring ZoomInfo in 2019, they took the new name and consolidated their position as one of the leading sources of business information and now drive the go-to-market initiative of over 15,000 companies worldwide. Henry sees ZoomInfo changing the way every company goes to market, the way sales reps engage with buyers, the way marketing targets, an...
433 Upgrading Legacy Financial Technology w/ Joe Hipsky of iraLogix
June 15, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBJoe Hipsky’s long career in financial services have allowed him to identify and develop a solution to the pipes of the financial system. His company, iraLogix, is aimed at reducing the administrative burden placed on financial service providers. In this conversation, Joe and Aaron discuss fundraising, why the financial services industry has been slow to adapt, and the regulatory climate for fintech. Pittsburgh’s best conference to Expand your Mind & Fill your Heart happens...
432 Bringing Tech to Waste Management w/ Charlie Dolan
June 08, 2020 05:30 - 38 minutes - 44.8 MBCharlie Dolan is the founder of Sequoia Waste Solutions, a technology company aimed at modernizing waste management. When Charlie first looked at the waste management industry, he saw business still being run on paper with enormous inefficiencies needing to be addressed. So, he started building. Today, the firm employs more than a dozen people and offers a suite of software and hardware solutions that drastically reduce costs associated with billing for and hauling away garbage. ...
431 Augmented Reality will Unlock Human Creativity w/ John Feghali (Toaster Pets Cartoons)
June 01, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 57.6 MBJohn Feghali’s technology startup blends augmented reality, digital media, and animation to enable a new style of storytelling. Most animated videos take thousands of hours of work and come with hefty price tags. For example, Frozen 2 cost $150 million and Toy Story 4 cost $200 million. John’s company, Toaster Pets Cartoons, allows children and adults to make their own animated cartoons by recording cardboard cutouts and using artificial intelligence to translate the live action ...
430 Tapping into the Billion Dollar Market of Land Rights w/ Luke Glass & RealX
May 25, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes - 37.9 MBLuke Glass is building a digital marketplace for land rights in the US. That means that any property owner can list their property’s rights to timber, solar, wind, or oil & gas for sale. Luke’s company, RealX is aiming to unleash the trends of digitization, globalization, and virtualization on a marketplace that still operates on postcards and paper contracts. As vice president and general manager of ListHub, which was purchased by Move in 2010, Luke Glass grew the platform into ...