Jacob Shapiro is a geopolitical analyst who helps investors and businesses navigate the complexities of a multipolar world. Jacob oversees geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments and hosts the Jacob Shapiro podcast. In this episode, we question longstanding alliances, explore the intricate balance of power in the Middle East, and contemplate…

Alan shared an hour of his time to explain how he was able to retire at 35 and lays out the principles by which he lived. Alan’s three core principles Keep your spending in check so you save a lot - preferably by automating your savings Seek out ways to increase your income through education, hard work, and challenging careers Implement a sound inv…

Shane Parrish is the founder, curator and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street. He is also a bestselling author and entrepreneur known for his popular podcast The Knowledge Project and Brain Food newsletter. Originally a personal blog where Shane could explore the discoveries made by others about decision-making, purposeful living, and the mechanics …

David McCormick is the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He has also previously worked in the Bush White House and as President of FreeMarkets, a Pittsburgh-based startup from the early 2000s. He accomplished the sale of FreeMarkets to Ariba in 2004 for an estimated sum of $500 million and ensured that hi…

Chris Powers is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Fort Capital. Fort Capital is a Fort Worth, Texas-based Real Estate Private Equity firm. In 2016, Chris made the decision to focus on Class B Industrial full time and that is where the firm has dedicated the majority of its resources since. After graduating in 2008, Chris started a leasing and pro…

David Tobin is the Founder and Managing Partner of TobinLeff, where they help clients convert business value into family wealth. David is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, grown, and sold four companies. David has worked with over 100 businesses to build value, retain key employees, and achieve profitable exits. TobinLeff is an M&A advisory an…

Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired magazine in 1993, served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years, and was a pioneer from the early days of the internet. He is an author of several bestselling books and is a return guest on this podcast. Kevin’s book Excellent Advice for Living is a small book of wisdom, in a pocketable format with 450 tweeta…

Jason Wolfe is the definition of a serial entrepreneur. He sold MyCoupons.com for roughly $23 million in 2000, shortly before the DotCom bubble burst. Jason rolled over his proceeds into successive wins with his companies Direct Response Technologies (acquired by Digital River for $22 million), Jambo Media (for $15 million) and Giftcards.com (by Bl…

Lyn Askin is the founder and CEO of Raxxar Digital Marketing, a leading digital marketing agency based in Louisiana. Lyn has over 20 years of experience in digital marketing and has expertise in SEO, PPC, social media, and content marketing to create comprehensive campaigns that drive results. Recently, Lyn’s agency has hit a new level, thanks in l…

Jordan Ross is the founder and CEO of 8 Figure Agency. He is a systems expert with over 15 years of experience advising startups, mid-sized companies, and Fortune 500 organizations. 8 Figure Agency is a consultancy specializing in helping agencies scale their revenue and profitability. He and his team help agencies specializing in search engine opt…

Simon Huntley is a farmer and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping small farmers succeed. He is the founder and CEO of Harvie, a company that helps farmers sell their products directly to consumers through a customizable subscription service. Harvie is a software platform that connects small farmers with consumers in their communities. The …

Spencer Krause is founder & Director of Product Development for SKA Custom Robots and Machines. With over twenty years of experience in executing electrical and mechanical projects, Spencer has worked on some of the hardest problems in the world of technology and led teams tackling novel and thrilling projects. SKA Custom Robots & Machines is a con…

Andy Berman is the co-founder of Vowel, a software that allows dynamic remote teams to inject artificial intelligence into their calls. In 2021, Vowel secured a venture round of $13.5 Million to pursue the goal of making meetings more useful. Their virtual meeting platform has an embedded set of tools that aid in the planning, preparation, executio…

Anthony Constantino is the co-founder of Sticker Mule, one of the most popular custom sticker websites in the United States and Europe. Sticker Mule was founded after Anthony was asked by his 72-year-old friend, his cofounder, how to use the internet. More than a decade later, Sticker Mule is one of the most popular custom sticker websites with ove…

Adriane Schwager is the co-founder and CEO of GrowthAssistant, a global talent solution helping marketing teams focus on brand, strategy and results. They help startups and direct-to-consumer brands accelerate the growth of their businesses by offering full-time offshore employees to handle the manual tasks of marketing campaign management, design …

Daniela Osio is the Founder and CEO of the procurement-focused start-up Kloopify. Daniela is a former supply chain specialist for DuPont and was a CPIM certified and ISM 30 under 30 rising corporate start. Today, she uses her expertise in logistics procurement, supply chain management, and risk management to run Kloopify, a data platform aimed at t…

Steve Jobs was deeply influenced by Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He took many of the top strategies that Land employed and used it to build Apple. If you're interested in this video essay, watch the full video by clicking on the link provided: https://youtu.be/1byJCn3sPhc

John Jonas is the Founder of OnlineJobs.Ph. His company has helped more than 100,000 companies successfully hire Filipino talent by simplifying the outsourcing experience. John was extremely early to the trends of remote work, international hiring, and niche job boards. His reward has been more than 15 years in business and a day-to-day in the pres…

Kevin Gibbon is the CEO and cofounder of Airhouse, an end-to-end operations and logistics platform for modern e-commerce companies. Airhouse works with companies to make distribution of their consumer goods products easy. They use a platform that is an all-in-one, cloud-based warehouse that maintains itself, helping direct-to-consumer companies get…

Tucker Brown is the 6th generation rancher of the R.A. Brown Ranch. He has grown his followers on TikTok to 199k+, and garnered 3.7 million likes on his videos. He went viral overnight by sharing a video on TikTok of him lassoing a cow. Since then, he’s been constantly sharing tidbits of their ranch operations content in the said platform that help…

Shawn Allen is the co-founder of M@C Discount. Previously, he was President and GM of Asset Auctions, COO of AssetNation and Senior Product Manager of Giftcards.com which were all successful internet marketplace businesses. M@C Discount stands for Merchandise at Cost. The company buys truckloads of closeouts merchandise and customer returns from ma…

Justin Welsh is a solopreneur that has made more than $3 million running from a collection of digital products. He has leveraged a large boutique advisory firm for entrepreneurs and creates digital products for creators. He has a decade of experience building two $50M+ ARR businesses, teams of 150+, and helping raise over $300M in capital from VC f…

In 2019, Joe Cardosi founded Free Market Health to tackle the complicated specialty pharmacy marketplace. In less than four years, the firm has raised over $13 million, grown to 50+ team members, and scaled revenue into the millions. Free Market Health is a healthcare technology platform focused on fixing the company dedicated to improving the spec…

Austin Rief is the CEO and cofounder of the Morning Brew. In 2020, the Morning Brew was majority acquired for a $75 million dollar valuation, just five years after being founded by two University of Michigan students. Morning Brew is a media company with an email list of over 3 million people. Their content informs, educates and empowers readers on…

Dr. Shiv Rao is the CEO and cofounder of Abridge. He was previously a senior executive at UPMC Enterprises and serves as a cardiologist at the Heart and Vascular Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Abridge is an Artificial Intelligence app that listens to the doctor-patient conversations, provides a transcription, and categori…

Bill Hauser is the CEO of SMB Team, the Fastest Growing law firm growth company in the US. The firm currently has more than $20 million in annual revenue and a team of 60 full-time employees. SMB team uses digital marketing, staffing, and coaching, to help law firms grow. Their mission is to help 10,000 law firms double their revenue and grow to $2…

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Po-Shen Loh is the Founder and CEO of Expii, a free personalized learning website with thousands of math and science lessons. Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the national coach of …

Andrew Herr is the founder and CEO of Fount, a health and performance advising platform trusted by the world’s top performers. He started Fount to make cutting edge performance insights more widely available and change the quality of health outcomes for all. Fount is backed by Founders Fund, Elysian Park, and Allen & Co to apply, and scale, their e…

Jacob Hanchar is the CEO of Digital Dream Labs. He is a neuroscientist by training who loves entrepreneurship,video games, and learning. Jacob started out as an angel investor for Digital Dream Labs,an ed-tech company founded in 2012. They are the makers of AI robotic companions such as Cozmo, Vector, Puzzlets, InfiniDrive, and Butter Robot. They l…

David Brumley is the founder and CEO of ForAllSecure, a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, that has raised over $36 million. The company provides cutting edge cybersecurity solutions to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, including the Department of Defense. Straight out of college, David Brumley worked in IT at Stanford Uni…

JT Garwood is the CEO and cofounder of bttn – a healthcare product distribution platform. Bttn has modernized the healthcare distribution system, to provide doctors easy, reliable access to high-quality, brand-name medical supplies. JT has scaled the company quickly due to their ability to save medical offices lots of money. In this episode, Aaron …

Wesley Gray is the founder and CEO of Alpha Architect, an investment platform for building custom, low-fee ETFs. Wes is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Economics at The Wharton School, served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, has an MBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago. His interest in bridging the research gap between …

Ali Moiz previously founded and sold Streamlabs and Peanut Labs, for a combined enterprise value over $180 million. Currently, Ali is the founder, CEO, and meme Dealer at Stonks, which aims to help founders save time in fundraising so they can focus on the business. Stonks is a platform for virtual Startup Demo Days. It has quickly become popular i…

Jim Shorkey built his family’s auto business into more than 9 dealerships, over 800 employees and 15,000 new & used car sales per year. This podcast explores how he did it. In 1996 Jim Shorkey Jr.’s father died and left him the Jim Shorkey Auto dealership. With his experience as a sales manager, Jim Shorkey was arrogantly sure he was going to be su…

Scott Heeter is the CEO of Heeter, a third-generation commercial print firm that has been running for 75 years. Heeter is one of the largest commercial marketing firms in the country, with over 140 full-time employees in Pittsburgh and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Duke Print and Graphics, in Cleveland. Heeter has evolved from the commercial print c…

Sara Makin has built Makin Wellness into one of Pennsylvania's top online therapy platforms in just five years. She started Makin Wellness in 2017 on a mission to help millions of people heal and become happy again by providing excellent mental health care. Today, Makin Wellness has over 50 employees and a goal of becoming a national provider of a …

Justin Moore is a Sponsorship Coach & Founder of CreatorWizard, a training program that teaches creators how to find & negotiate brand deals. With his wife April, Justin has been a full-time creator for nearly a decade and has been running an influencer marketing agency for over 5 years. Justin and April started creating content back in the days be…

Josh Caputo founded HumoTech in 2015 as a spin-off from his CMU research robotics department. His passion is focused on developing and commercializing cutting-edge robotics technology that addresses current societal needs like prostheses and exoskeletons. Josh and his team have built a platform to enable the world’s top researchers to more rapidly …

After years as a chef in the fast-paced world of fine dining, Chad Townsend decided it was time for a change. He purchased an expensive Swiss-made food processor that would finely puree frozen foods such as ice cream or sorbet. His wife, Lauren, allowed him to make this purchase under one condition: he had to have it paid off by the end of the summ…

Dr. D. Lansing Taylor is the Director at the University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute and an expert on Computational Biology. He has translated that expertise into more than 29 patents and multiple successful startups His companies include Biological Detection Systems (now owned by GE Life Sciences), Cellomics (acquired by ThermoFisher), a…

Brett Randall is the President and CEO of Aliner, a manufacturer of folding campers and travel trailers. After selling a family business, Brett was brought in to consult on turning around the 30+ year old RV company. Eventually, his experience in manufacturing optimization, market channel development, and growth led to him being recruited to run th…

Aarthi Ramamurthy has had a long and successful career in technology. She has lead product teams at Microsoft, Facebook, and Netflix. Aarthi has also built two startups, including Lumoid which went through YC Combinator. In the midst of the pandemic, Aarthi started a show w/ her husband Sriram on the social audio app, Clubhouse. On the show, they’v…

Tony Greer, editor of the Morning Navigator, filters a chaotic global landscape through 30 years of macro trading experience and his own analysis to provide regular insight and risk/reward for each trading day. Tony Greer’s Challenge; Explore the difference in the fundamentals of oil and tech. Connect with Tony Greer Twitter Website…

Tyler Denk is the cofounder and CEO of Beehiiv, a newsletter platform company that recently raised $2.6 million. Tyler was the 2nd employee at Morning Brew, where he worked on engineering, product, and growth. He was responsible for building the renowned referral program and bespoke tech ecosystem that facilitated the company to scale to a successf…

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, author, and speaker who makes bold and startlingly accurate projections on the basis of geography, demography, and global politics. He has authored 5 books about geopolitics; A Crucible of Nations, The Accidental Superpower, The Absent Superpower, Disunited Nations, and his latest, The End of the World Is Jus…

Jon Shanahan is the cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer for Stryx, a cosmetics and skincare company focused on serving men. Jon has helped the company earn over 120 million organic views on TikTok, scale to millions in revenue, and launch in major retailers including Target, Nordstrom, and CVS. Prior to founding the company, Jon built a brand and…

Jake Thomas is an expert at writing YouTube video titles. He has parlayed his experience writing more than 4,000 titles into his company, Creator Hooks. Prior to founding Creator Hooks, Jake helped build a channel from 70 to 200k subscribers After leaving to start his firm, he landed clients that include Hubspot cofounder Dharmesh Shah's personal c…

Listen to Adam Haritan, founder of Learn your Land, discuss getting lost in a bog and hearing your calling.

Adam Haritan is the founder of Learn Your Land, as well as a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager. He is launching a new course, Trees in All Seasons. He learned the value of wild food foraging while studying nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh, where he discovered just how beneficial wild foods could be in optimizing human health. W…