Best Steven Galanis Podcasts (2025)

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How Squire Built the Ultimate Brand Experience - Dave Salvant Co-Founder and President 43:52

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Barbershop to Billion. Dave Salvant, President and Co-Founder of Squire, built a platform that’s processed over $1B in payments — but it all started with a bad haircut experience. When we sat down for the podcast, Dave told me how he and his co-founder got so frustrated waiting hours in chaotic barbershops that they decided to fix it. But here’s th…

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How We Built Chomps Into a $1B Snack Brand - Co-Founder & CEO Rashid Ali 1:22:48

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Rashid Ali, Co-Founder & CEO of Chomps, he told us something I can’t forget: 👉 “Our moms were our best customers.” That’s how Chomps started. A frozen steak business that couldn’t scale. No traction. Just moms buying to keep the lights on. Then one day — Trader Joe’s calls. At the time, they were doing only ~$400K in sales. The order was so big the…

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I Built BetMGM & Rocket Mortgage Into Cultural Phenomena (Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM) 1:40:27

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What does it take to turn a mortgage company and a sports betting app into cultural icons? Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM and the marketing mind who helped Rocket Mortgage break into the Super Bowl spotlight, reveals the unfiltered truth about building brands that people obsess over. In this conversation with Cameo co-founder Steven Galanis, Casey sha…

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Four Loko's Jaisen Freeman (The Brand Too Bold To Break) 1:05:25

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They tried to cancel Four Loko. It didn’t work. This is the untold story of how one of the most hated, hyped, and misunderstood brands in America refused to die. Jaisen Freeman — co-founder and co-CEO of Phusion Projects — takes us behind the scenes of Four Loko’s rise, rebellion, and resurrection. From a bootstrapped college hustle to a billion-do…

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America's Youngest Woman CEO (Lifeway Foods' Julie Smolyansky) 1:33:58

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Kefir...from $116 to Billion-Dollar Brand...CEO Lifeway Foods, Julie Smolyansky. Julie Smolyansky is the CEO of Lifeway Foods, shares her incredible and inspiring story! Imagine arriving in America as an infant with nothing but one suitcase, $116 in cash, and parents who didn’t speak a word of English. By age 27, she was the youngest female CEO of …

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Bourbon Just Became Currency - Unicorn's Phil Mikhaylov 1:09:02

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From Uber to Unicorn: Reinventing the $100B booze biz. He started with a Google Sheet and a whiskey collector who didn’t know he was sitting on a million dollars. Phil Mikhailov is CEO and Co-Founder of Unicorn Auctions, the largest wine and spirits auction platform in the U.S., managing $100M+ in inventory and doing $1M in digital bottle trades mo…

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Dude Wipes, Chief Executive Dude & President, Sean Riley 1:05:13

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What do a Shark Tank smack down and a life-sized foam butt on MTV have in common? They built Dude Wipes—a $200M empire that turned baby wipes into a pop culture phenomenon. In the premiere of Zeitgeist, Cameo co-founder Steven Galanis sits down with Dude Wipes CEO Sean Riley, who didn’t just break the DTC mold—he set it on fire. Armed with frat-boy…

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Rachael Horowitz, Comms Executive from Coinbase, Twitter, FB, and Google 45:00

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Rachael has played a pivotal comms role at the biggest consumer internet companies of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Coinbase, where she was recently VP of Comms. And she's just taken her next leap, joining the crypto team as a partner at A16Z! We talk with Rachael about the often misunderstood role of comms at a start-up…

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Brianne Kimmel, Founder of Worklife VC 34:15

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Brianne Kimmel launched her first fund for Worklife in the fall of 2019 and has quickly broken out as a new emerging fund manager. She funds companies building the future, in her own words: “Where work is more creative and anyone can start something. Where life is more flexible and not tied to an office. Where everyone is a triple threat.” She’s ba…

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Steven Galanis, CEO and Co-Founder of Cameo 49:53

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Steven Galanis, CEO of Cameo, has built one of the most fascinating companies in the creator economy and Jana and Katie sit down with him to hear how he did it. They explore his early entrepreneurial roots of running a party business in college, how he overcame the cold start problem of getting a marketplace flywheel going, and how he founded the c…

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Merci Grace, Advisor, Investor & Product Builder 42:49

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Today’s episode is full of real talk with Merci Victoria Grace. Merci is an investor, advisor and product builder. She was previously a venture capitalist at Lightspeed, Director of Product at Slack, and started her career as a founder of a social gaming company after pursuing a degree in fiction writing from USC. Jana, April and Merci talk about t…

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Ep. 49. Marianne Bulger - Meet the Team at Drive 11:36

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In this episode, Chris interviews our new Toronto-based Talent Partner, Marianne Bulger. Last year, while we were all working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chris interviewed everyone on the team for their own episode of Differential. Today, we're back in the office, but we decided to continue the "meet the team" season with our rec…

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Ep. 48. Isabel Chirase - Meet the Team at Drive 16:04

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In this episode, Chris interviews our VP of Finance, Isabel Chirase. Last year, while we were all working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chris interviewed everyone on the team for their own episode of Differential. Today, we're back in the office, but we decided to continue the "meet the team" season with our recent hires.…

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Ep. 47. Annie Dunn - Meet the Team at Drive 17:56

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In this episode, Chris interviews our new Denver-based Talent Partner, Annie Dunn. Last year, while we were all working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chris interviewed everyone on the team for their own episode of Differential. Today, we're back in the office, but we decided to continue the "meet the team" season with our recent hi…

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Varsha Rao, CEO of Nurx 35:21

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Varsha Rao is the CEO of Nurx, a leading telehealth platform focused on women. Through Nurx, you can get prescriptions, like contraception, acne treatment, migraine treatment, and at-home testing delivered to your door. Jana invested in Nurx’s seed round in 2016 and introduced Varsha to the company as an angel investor and, years later, Varsha was …

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Jessica Ewing, CEO and Founder of Literati 39:27

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Jessica Ewing has an infectious energy and unstoppable determination to create a business at the intersection of literature and consumer software. She and Katie overlapped in their early careers at Google and when we heard she was starting a company, Literati, Katie and Jess jumped at the chance to be early investors. Katie sits down with Jessica i…

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TLC Collective (Terri Burns, Lauren Stephanian, and Casey Caruso) 43:42

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We started #ANGELS (“Hashtag Angels”) six years ago as an investment collective to collaborate, pool our expertise and networks, and learn and grow as investors together. Over the years, we’ve often been asked the collective model and how it works. On today’s episode, Jess dives into this topic with the TLC investment collective, to learn from co-f…

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Claire Hughes Johnson, COO of Stripe 50:14

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For our latest episode, we welcome Claire Hughes Johnson, the COO of Stripe. Claire has been an executive at Stripe for more than 6 years, joining when the company was ~160 people. She’s overseen an incredible growth cycle for the company, which has most recently been valued at nearly $100Bn+ April and Jana talk with Claire about her path into tech…

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Tammy Sun, Co-Founder and CEO of Carrot 47:07

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For our latest episode, we welcome Tammy Sun, the co-founder of Carrot, a tech centric fertility benefits company that we've backed at #ANGELS. Carrot is making it cheaper, simpler and easier for employees to get access to fertility services through their platform. Tammy started her career in politics and made the leap to tech when she joined Evern…

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Adrian Aoun, Co-Founder and CEO of Forward 52:59

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For our latest episode, we welcome Adrian Aoun. Adrian is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company as a teenager, sold his second - Wavii - to Google, and is now building the tech-centric healthcare company, Forward. Jessica and Jana talk with Adrian about lessons from selling his company, how he ended up on the founding team of Sidewalk…

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Avichal Garg, Co-Founder of Electric Capital, a Crypto Hedge Fund 59:04

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Avichal Garg is a serial entrepreneur who started his career working on search quality at Google, had a tour of duty at Facebook (after his company, Spool, was acquired), worked with start-ups at YC and jumped full time into crypto in early 2018. Jessica and Jana talk with Avichal about the promise of crypto—imagine a future in which Taylor Swift a…

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Amy Chang, Founder and CEO of Accompany and Board Director at P&G 50:30

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For our latest episode, we welcome Amy Chang. Amy is a legend in the tech world. She has served on the Boards of some of the largest companies on the planet, like P&G and Cisco, after starting her career at McKinsey, eBay, and Google. She’s also been on the ground floor and in the trenches of a startup, having founded Accompany, which went on to be…

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Maia Bittner, Fintech Engineer and Co-Founder of Rocksbox and Pinch 33:20

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For our latest episode, we welcome Maia Bittner. Maia’s journey as an entrepreneur started as a kid when she was selling used cameras on the internet and learned HTML to customize her eBay page. She fell in love with computers and technology as a way to solve problems, but resists the notion of building software for software’s sake. As she shares, …

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Sima Sistani, CEO and Co-Founder of Houseparty 44:46

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For our latest episode, Sima Sistani joins us for a conversation that brings to light the personal side and vulnerable truths of trying to run a company, be a present parent, and deal with life changes and societal expectations of how to do it all. We share different perspectives on how to try and raise kids with a strong internal sense of self and…

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Claire Cormier Thielke, Managing Director - Hines Asia Pacific, Board Director at Zillow 41:08

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For our third episode, Claire Thielke joins us from Hong Kong, where she is based, having just completed 21 days of quarantine after a visit to the US. Claire shares how her path into a global career in real estate development started with an interest as a kid in throwing on her roller blades or running shoes and checking out all the houses in her …

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Heather Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv Health 55:14

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On our 2nd episode, Jessica and April catch up with Heather Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv Health and Board Director at Atlassian. Heather started her career working on the McCain presidential campaign before finding her first job in Silicon Valley at a PR firm. In her own words, “it’s ok to be non-linear! I think there's this meme in tech t…

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#ANGELS Introduction 47:42

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Welcome to the #ANGELS Podcast, where we bring you conversations about the latest tech trends with the people inventing and shaping them. Hosted by Jessica Verrilli, April Underwood, Jana Messerschmidt, Chloe Sladden, Katie Stanton, and Vijaya Gadde, the co-founders of the #ANGELS investment collective. For our first episode, we share our own journ…

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Ep. 46. Steven Galanis is disrupting Hollywood from Chicago 35:34

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Our guest this episode is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Chicago startup, Cameo. If you haven't heard of Cameo, you really have to check it out. It's a marketplace for personalized celebrity shout outs. You can pay Brett Favre a few bucks to tell your dad "happy birthday" or hire Gilburt Gottfried to announce you're having a baby. Cameo is an exciti…

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Ep. 45. Steve Case is fighting to change the geography of tech 40:49

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Our guest this episode is Steve Case. Steve is the Co-Founder and former CEO of America Online. He's currently the Chairman and CEO of the venture capital firm Revolution, the Rise of the Rest seed fund, and many, many philanthropic efforts. Steve and Chris cover everything in this conversation from AOL, to investing between the coasts, to life dur…

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Ep. 44. Cathy McDonough - Meet the Team at Drive 11:09

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 43. Van Jones - Meet the Team at Drive 12:09

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 41. Robert Hatta - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 16:11

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 40. Zach Boerger - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 15:27

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 39. Nick Solaro - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 19:48

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 38. Masha Khusid - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 18:31

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 37. TJ Dembinski - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 8:45

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 36. Ashton Sullivan - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 19:15

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 35. Molly Bonakdarpour - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 19:22

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 34. Nils Root - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 11:44

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 33. Brandon Mills - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 12:16

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 32. Levi Boulis - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 12:51

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 31. Andy Jenks - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 20:40

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 30. Caitlin Fiordirosa - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 20:25

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 29. Yasmine Lacaillade - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 19:25

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 28. Sarah Good - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 19:20

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 27. Drew Wadkowski - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 22:40

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Ep. 26. Heather Crider - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 25:09

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!

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Ep. 25. Holly Revels - Meet the Team at Drive Capital 23:18

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We're a close-knit bunch at Drive, but the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to remain socially distant from one another. As a fun way to stay connected, Chris is interviewing each member of the team. That way we can continue to learn about each other. Enjoy!By Drive Capital

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Indochino - Drew Green 32:16

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In this episode of 'Making the Brand', Billy interviews Drew Green, CEO of Indochino. Indochino is an online suiting company based in Vancouver, Canada. Drew talks about taking the helm amidst some company turmoil, restructuring, and building upon what was already there. Fun one, enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Hims - Andrew Dudum 49:01

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In this episode of Making the Brand, Billy talks to Andrew Dudum, Founder and CEO of Hims and Hers. Andrew talks about his time at Atomic, the inception and early tests for the Hims concept, and taking on a massive behemoth healthcare industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…