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Moving Up
Hear directly from business leaders. Secrets to success, struggles along the way, optimal career paths and life in general.
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- E168: Larry Yatch - How Leadership Actually Works
- E167: Gabe Nelson - the Solopreneur’s Money Manifesto
- E166: Sunny Bonnel (Motto) - A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different
- E165: Melisa Tokmak (Scale AI) - Growing a company and career
- E165: Melisa Tokmak (Scale AI) - Growing a company and career
- S E164: E164: Barry Magliarditi - Sex, Drugs, and Radical Self-Expression
- S E163: E163: Robert Towle - Don't Be Dumb
- S E162: E162: Frederik Mijnhardt (Secfi) - Understanding Equity
- S E161: E161: Darshan Mehta - Getting to Aha
- S E160: E160: Fabrice Testa - Becoming a Super-Entrepreneur
- E159: Travis Holoway (Solo Funds) - Social Loans
- E158: Arad Levertov (Sunbit) - the future of consumer credit
- E157: JC de Swaan - Seeking virtue for a career in finance
- E156: Ian Bentley (Parker Clay) - Made in Ethiopia
- E155: Search funds with Orlan and John
- E154: Joel Schwartz (Double Check) - The journey of an entrepreneur
- E153: Eric Rachmel (Brace) - IB to VC to startup founder
- E152: Amira Valliani (Glow) - From the white house to podcasting
- E151: David Chan (Farmtogether) - Investing in farmland
- E150: Nick Velasquez – Learn, Improve, Master
- E149: Mandy Cavanaugh - F*ck the Glass Ceiling
- E148: Mandy Gilbert - Just go with it - How to navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship
- E147: Adii Pienaar – How to live Life Profitability
- E146: Ross Richmond (Arrive Outdoors) - The future of the sharing economy
- E145: Kate Miller (Miss Grass) - Building a cannabis brand
- E144: Joel Milne (Repair Smith) - Reinventing car repair
- E143: Eoghan McCabe (Intercom) - Insecurities and ego in business
- E142: Everett Cook (Rho Business Banking)
- E141: Chris Hutchins (Wealthfront) - Automating your financial life
- E140: Doug Foley the Breakout Blueprint
- E139: Rob Petrozzo (Rally Rd) - Investing in your passions
- E138: Jessica Jackley - Dream big but start small
- E137: Justin Nguyen (Declassified college podcast) – Differentiating yourself
- E136: Scott Painter (Fair) – Disrupting the car business
- E135: Marcus Whitney - Create and orchestrate
- E134: Paul Faust (Ringboost) - Cool guy Paul
- E132: Taylor Nieman (Toucan) - Micro-moments of learning
- E131: Max Hellerstein (Extra) - Do you like steak?
- E130: George McGehrin - The mindset of an entrepreneur
- E129: Jack Shannon (Recess) - Building an ad network for live events
- E129: Jack Shannon (Recess) - Building an ad network for live events
- E128: Bryce Paul Cypto 101 – Everything you need to know about Bitcoin now
- E127: Rachel and Kristen - Clarity on Fire
- E126: Carol Cohen – Relaunching your career
- E125: Scott Barlow - Happen to your Career Podcast
- E124: Martin Senn (Davinci Virtual) - Creating an Airbnb for offices
- E123: Tracey (CEO Money 2020) - Food, coffee, content
- E122: Brandon Krieg (Stash) - Solving real problems
- E121: Turner Novak (Gelt VC) - Never stop hustling
- E120: Gil Beyda (Comcast Ventures) - Always taking risks
- E119: Jason Brown (Tally) - Automating your financial life
- E118: Nima Ghamsari (Blend) - Focusing on impact
- E117: Tim Chen (Nerd Wallet) – The trust equation
- E116: Kristen Tyrrell (Catch) – Do the stuff
- E115: Norm Cappell (Savvyy) - Going from law to banking to distressed debt to fintech
- E114: Anu Schultes (CEO LendUp) - Always an optimist
- E113: Chris Villenueva – How to get your dream job (the actual steps you need to take)
- E112: Stephen Warley – Life skills that matter
- Kyle Westra - The science (and art) behind pricing
- Hussein Fazal (Snap Travel) – Working hard and a bit of luck
- Immad Akhund (Mercury) – The biggest risk in not capturing the upside
- Colin Walsh (Varo Money) – Building a delightful bank
- Bryce Galen (Zero) – Challenging the status quo
- Khaled Hussein (RedDoor) - Trust the network
- Frank Rotman (QED Investors) - Getting to yes
- John Jonas (OnlineJobs.ph) – Free up your time
- Raj De Datta (Bloomreach) - What’s the cost of being wrong?
- Joseph Woodbury (CEO/Co-founder of Neighbor) – The startup journey
- Adam Dell (Clarity Money acquired by Goldman Sachs) – Run towards what you’re good at
- Ben Gilbert (Pioneer Square Labs / Acquired Podcast) – Keep tinkering
- James Beshara - The other side of startup success
- Michael Rangel (Bank Novo) - Putting things into perspective
- Jon & Alex (AgentRisk) - The future of money management
- Alex Cohen (Even Financial) – Opening doors
- Camille Holden - How to be time rich
- Ryan Darnell (Max Ventures) – Transitioning from PE to VC
- Adam Shaw - The business of sports
- Marlon Nichols (MaC Venture Capital) - When to make the jump into entrepreneurship
- Alda Dennis (Initialized) - The appeal of tangible investments
- Henrique Dubugras (Brex) - Building a billion-dollar business in less than 2 years
- Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst) - Talent is universal opportunity is not
- Paul Kesserwani (Cushion) – Starting a fintech business from scratch
- Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures) – A technical approach to investing in business and yourself
- Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund) – How to Hustle
- Niki Pezeshki (Felicis Ventures) - Attitude and passion
- Lisa Wu (Norwest) – Going for glory
- Greg Isenberg (Islands) - Confident but humble
- Lauren Kolodny (Aspect) - Relationships, luck and providing value
- How to be a leader today - Dan Schawbel
- Arjan Schutte (Core VC) - Investing for the good of society
- Dan Ciporin (Canaan) - Don’t agonize just go do it and learn from it
- Disrupting the jewelry business
- Kevin Zhang (Upfront Ventures) Going from analyst to partner
- Andrew Kortina – The story of Venmo
- Gaurav Jain (Afore Capital) Don’t wait – go do it
- Daniel Scrivner – The importance of design
- David Sica (NYCA) – Not taking no for an answer
- Farhan Ahmad – Focus on people
- Austin Arensberg (Scrum Ventures) Building an international career
- Dave Berkus - Smiling at success laughing at failure
- Dave Samuel - Having no failures
- Jeff Solomon - The startup journey
- Alex Pessala (Middleland Capital) - If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward
- Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures) – Starting over at 30
- Vica Manos (Anthemis) - Getting to the buyside
- Michael Berolzheimer (Bee Partners) - Unlimited risk tolerance
- Living your ideal – 6-part framework
- Mark Peter Davis - A passion for entrepreneurship
- Peter Brack (Mucker) – Chasing Growth
- Ben Narasin (NEA) - Taking rational risk in exchange for ridiculous reward
- Mark Goldberg (Index Ventures) - The transition from finance to tech
- Jean Denis (head of engineering at Plaid)- The prestige trap
- Disrupting the bra business with 2 Wharton MBA’s
- Brian Garrett (Crosscut) - Having conviction and no plan B
- Jeff Clavier - There's no shame in failure
- David Hornik - Inside the job of a VC
- Mark Mullen - Wash your own glass
- Steve Martocci - Co-founder of GroupMe, Splice and Blade
- Mr. Opportunity - Keith Wasserman
- Andrew Mccollum (Co-Founder of Facebook) - Being flexible and choosing the harder path
- Sheel Tyle – Driven by mission
- Sheel Mohnot - How to get from BCG to venture capital at 500 Startups
- How Billionaires set goals
- Fabrice Grinda - Lay out the options
- Howard Lindzon - It’s all about getting equity
- How to become a VC - Ali Hamed
- Hack the entrepreneur
- Be a doer
- There is no success without compassion
- Gotham Gal - Pioneering investing, blogging and women in tech
- Urs Cete - Corporate VC and an analyst job offer!
- Making a career out of what makes you happy
- Bryan Birsic CEO Wunder Capital - Building something that matters
- How to make money on the side in real estate
- Discovering what you want – learnings from McKinsey, Bridgewater and now venture investing
- Disrupting the GMAT Business
- Leadership principles from the military (entrepreneur edition) with Kelly Perdew
- What to focus on
- Brendan Wallace - Disrupting real estate
- Opportunity in Crisis
- Dropping out of Wharton for YC - Behind the Curtain
- IB Survival Tactics and a Job Offer!
- How to become an entrepreneur from the founder of Google Voice
- Leaving banking to become a film director
- Drugs, fear, focus and taking a punch – leaving RBC to be a MMA fighter
- Sales and trading at Merrill to software engineer
- How to get into Harvard Business School and then start a business
- IB to PE to Headhunting
- From Beauty Queen to Private Equity - Fear of Failure
- The Path from Banking to Google
- Advice to become CEO and Big Company’s vs. Small
- CEO Coach who Left Goldman Sachs and Carlyle Breaks Down the Playbook for How to Win
- More Tips for How to Break into Wall Street – Andre Bueno
- From an Extreme Non-Target to the Head of Trading at Lehman
- Why I Left Private Equity to Start a Business and Live on the Beach
- From the Army to Investment Banking
- Hedge Fund Investor and Happiness Guru
- The Definition of Persistence - Andre Bueno
- From Media to Venture Capital and Back Again (Dennis Miller)
- How to Trick Yourself Into Being Happy - Entrepreneurship Coach Eddie Weinhaus
- Sales & Trading vs. Investment Banking, but Now Hedge Funds
- Transitioning from a Pilot to a Private Equity Associate – Managing Director at Google
- Becoming CEO – Mike Hopkins CEO of Hulu
- Don’t ask for permission just go make it happen (Professor and Entrepreneur)
- How to make the most out of B-School – 2017 MBA Candidate
- 2-3-2 – Moelis, Brentwood, MBA Candidate
- Trying to impress others vs. trying to do what’s right for me (Andres Engel, Strategy at MeUndies)
- From Banking to Consulting and Back Again – Shahzad Khan VP Moelis
- Leaving Finance to Start an Online Business - Patrick Curtis Founder Wall Street Oasis
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