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Bumo: Joan Nguyen, Co-founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - May 17, 2024 18:39 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJoan Nguyen is the Co-Founder and CEO of bumo, a brand that provides outstanding on-demand childcare for families and employers. Bumo considers itself in the business of 'parent care' and today you can learn all about the TLC she and her Co-Founder put into crafting the bumo brand very hands-on...
Dirty Dough: Bennett Maxwell, Founder & Chairman
Hitting The Mark - April 26, 2024 21:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBennett Maxwell is the Founder and Chairman of Dirty Dough, one of the fastest-growing restaurant concepts in the US with 70 locations and another couple hundred in development. In this episode, we get to hear how Bennett’s authentic reaction to a lawsuit that could have taken the business out ...
Squared Away: Michelle Penczak, CEO & Founder
Hitting The Mark - April 05, 2024 21:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMichelle Penczak was my assistant for 3 years. Today she runs a 400-people strong brand employing military spouses that made #297 on the Inc 5000 last year. Squared Away is rooted in a mutual bond between people and philosophies and is doing what I keep advising most everyone to be doing: The br...
Ostroy: Alex Ostroy, Co-Founder & Creative Director
Hitting The Mark - March 15, 2024 23:24 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAlex Ostroy successfully combined his passion for cycling and art into a beloved brand that creates eclectic clothing for cyclists who crave self-expression in an industry known for the opposite. Coming from a graphic design and Creative Direction background, Alex’s story and advice will resona...
Omsom: Kim Pham, Co-Founder
Hitting The Mark - February 23, 2024 22:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKim Pham is a first-generation Vietnamese-American, the daughter of refugees, and, together with her sister Vanessa, the Co-Founder of Omsom, the loud and proud Asian food brand of noodles and sauces. This episode already ranks very high on my top favorite HTM interviews ever. When founders st...
Thumbtack: Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - February 02, 2024 22:11 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMarco Zappacosta built Thumbtack, the marketplace for home services, over the last 15 years. In 2021 Thumbtack had a $3.2 billion valuation and the highest number of professional listings, followed by Yelp. In this episode, we dive into how Marco’s background from having entrepreneurial parent...
Norwegian Wool: Michael Berkowitz, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - January 05, 2024 22:38 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMichael Berkowitz was a commodities trader who switched to the fashion world after taking on coat-making as a hobby. Yes, you heard that correctly. So he shifted to what in plain sight could be seen as yet another commodity: making coats. But there is more to this story than meets the eye as he ...
Norwegian Wool: Michael Berkowitz, Founder and CEO
Hitting The Mark - January 05, 2024 22:38 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMichael Berkowitz was a commodities trader who switched to the fashion world after taking on coat-making as a hobby. Yes, you heard that correctly. So he shifted to what in plain sight could be seen as yet another commodity: making coats. But there is more to this story than meets the eye as he ...
Toneoptic: Fabian Geyrhalter, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - December 08, 2023 19:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHitting The Mark is back from its hiatus with guest host Kara Ebel interviewing Fabian Geyrhalter. We wanted to do something special for episode 101, and here we go! You know Fabian Geyrhalter as the host of this show, but today we spin things around and have Fabian in the hot seat talking abou...
Toneoptic: Fabian Geyrhalter, Founder
Hitting The Mark - December 08, 2023 19:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHitting The Mark is back from its hiatus with guest host Kara Ebel interviewing Fabian Geyrhalter. We wanted to do something special for episode 101, and here we go! You know Fabian Geyrhalter as the host of this show, but today we spin things around and have Fabian in the hot seat talking abou...
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach, Founder
Hitting The Mark - July 07, 2023 21:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThis is episode 100 of Hitting The Mark and we worked for months to ensure we have the founder of an iconic brand for you. One most probably all of you know and many of you own a piece of the brand. To say we succeeded would be an understatement. Travis Rosbach founded the world’s most used wa...
Best Day Brewing: Tate Huffard, Founder
Hitting The Mark - June 16, 2023 22:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsTate Huffard launched Best Day Brewing last year, an alcohol-free range of craft beers for the fun-loving, hard-charging, adventure-seeking thirsty souls for whom good is just not good enough. Packed with relentless optimism, a distinctive brand design, and a powerful ethos, Best Day sees its ...
Cheddar Up: Nichole Montoya, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - May 26, 2023 21:22 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNichole Montoya, together with a designer, co-founded Cheddar Up ten years ago. The platform helps over 100,000 groups and organizations collect payments and information to support and grow their communities. Nichole and I talk about how important design was to the success of the brand, how, as...
Popup: Matteo Grassi, Co-Founder
Hitting The Mark - May 05, 2023 22:51 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMatteo Grassi went from breakdancing in Italy to traveling with a circus across Australia, then overseeing 7 e-commerce brands and lately launching Popup, a no-code online store-building platform that provides flexibility in customers' journeys. All of this said, Matteo also holds a Masters in P...
Pattern Brands: Suze Dowling, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer
Hitting The Mark - April 14, 2023 21:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSuze Dowling is the Co-Founder of Gin Lane, where she helped launch over 50 D2C challenger brands like Harry’s, Hims, and Sweetgreen. She closed shop and the same founding team started Pattern Brands which now acquires and nourishes brands in the home goods space. Pattern's current portfolio of ...
Staff: Charlie Weisman, Founder
Hitting The Mark - March 25, 2023 00:58 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsCharlie Weisman created a company that started by selling plungers, yes, the toilet ones, that are actually desirable. The brand is called Staff and it is quickly growing into a beloved suite of household essentials with bold colors, unique materials, and characters that are eager to help. At H...
Cadence: Steph Hon, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - March 03, 2023 23:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSteph Hon is the Founder and CEO of Cadence, the product innovation brand that brought you the modular collection of magnetic, sustainable, TSA-compliant, and leakproof Capsules that lets you store your must-have items from your medicine cabinet, jewelry box, and cosmetics bag so you can move th...
ShopWorn: Larry Birnbaum, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - February 10, 2023 23:16 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsLarry Birnbaum is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShopWorn, the e-commerce platform for customers who want to be the first to own authentic, unused luxury products while doing good for the environment. This a fascinating proposition, one that challenges luxury brands as well as consumers to do somet...
Noshi (For Kids): Tomo Delaney-Lethbridge, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - January 21, 2023 01:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsTomo Delaney, despite coming from a family of advertising, decided very early on that he wanted to work for Vogue, which he subsequently did and he spent his entire career in the fashion world in London and NYC. Up until the point where he decided to become a stay-at-home dad. Now he is selling ...
Better & Better: Vladimir Vukicevic, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - December 10, 2022 01:52 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsVladimir Vukicevic founded Meural and Rockethub, both companies that have been successfully acquired. Now with his third startup, he joined 2,000+ toothpaste brands in the marketplace. To an outsider, it may seem like an overly competitive area to jump into and perhaps a bit random given his s...
Parachute: Ariel Kaye, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - November 18, 2022 23:47 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAriel Kaye founded Parachute in 2014 to disrupt the bedding space by creating a brand people actually remembered and loved. And that is exactly what Parachute has very quickly turned into: a beloved home lifestyle brand with 20+ retail locations. In this episode, we talk about how Ariel’s brand...
Dutch (and formerly Hims): Joe Spector, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - October 28, 2022 22:39 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJoe Spector wholeheartedly believes in the immense power of branding, if done right and from the get-go. And he would know as he co-founded Hims, the D2C prescription and over-the-counter drugs brand that started off by selling erectile dysfunction and hair loss treatments and has since exploded...
Three Wishes: Margaret & Ian Wishingrad, Co-Founders
Hitting The Mark - October 07, 2022 20:20 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMargaret and Ian Wishingrad come from the advertising industry and took a plunge into the food business. Three Wishes is their brand of better-for-you cereal that wants to be liked and purchased by literally everyone from young to old. How they set the brand up to be on its way of accomplishin...
East Fork: Alex Matisse, Founder
Hitting The Mark - September 16, 2022 22:26 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAlex Matisse, who made it a strategic point not to name his brand after his famous last name (yes, he is the great-grandson of one of the most influential artists to ever live, Henri Matisse), co-founded East Fork, a pottery brand I cherish and study from the outside for a lot of reasons, all of...
Terra Kaffe: Sahand Dilmaghani, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - August 27, 2022 00:12 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSahand Dilmaghani founded Terra Kaffe, an innovative at-home espresso-brewing machine that seeks to upend the environmentally disastrous use of 'pods.' Inspired by European coffee culture and the Bauhaus design movement the TK-01 machine is a beautiful piece of design simplicity and Sahand and...
Eat JUST: Josh Tetrick, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - August 05, 2022 20:41 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJosh Tetrick is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Eat JUST company, a 1.2 billion dollar food startup founded 10 years ago, which is, according to Forbes, "providing justice for animals while addressing food scarcity and the climate crisis." If you enjoy a tough branding challenge, if you appreciat...
Eat Just: Josh Tetrick, Co-Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - August 05, 2022 20:41 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJosh Tetrick is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Eat Just company, a 1.2 billion dollar food startup founded 10 years ago, which is, according to Forbes, "providing justice for animals while addressing food scarcity and the climate crisis." If you enjoy a tough branding challenge, if you appreciat...
BackMarket: Vianney Vaute, Co-Founder & CCO
Hitting The Mark - July 15, 2022 21:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsVianney Vaute is the Co-Founder and CCO of Paris-based BackMarket, a marketplace that fights against planned obsolescence. 6 months ago the startup was evaluated at 5.7 billion and driven by their brand DNA of 'sabotage' the company keeps old tech devices around for longer hence positively impa...
Schiit Audio: Jason Stoddard, Founder
Hitting The Mark - June 24, 2022 18:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJason Stoddard founded an improbable made-in-the-US product company in the HI-FI space that is putting out high-quality, inexpensive units while innovating on many fronts. Fueled by the name Schiit his company has become a beloved brand. Schiit is only 12 years old yet 7 years ago Jason alread...
Foundersuite: Nathan Beckord, Founder & CEO
Hitting The Mark - June 03, 2022 23:11 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNathan Beckord founded Foundersuite, a brand that pretty much every founder heard of, used, or referenced. Nathan and I discuss if infusing brand into early-stage startup pitch decks is of importance, if a catchy or descriptive tagline suits a startup better, the power of community in brand bu...
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