Episode 1: Sal Calvino | You Don't Climb a Mountain in One Push

In the debut episode of The Growth Seat, Dhani Jones sits down with serial entrepreneur and investor Sal Calvino, Founder of Equivu Capital, to unpack what it really takes to build, scale, and survive businesses over decades.Sal grew up around airplanes, started his first company at age 26, navigated 9/11, the financial crisis, Covid, and volatile markets, and has built a global workforce of 5,500 people.  In this episode, Sal shares the hard-earned lessons you don’t learn in a classroom — only by being in the seat when the pressure is on.This conversation cuts through theory and gets practical: leadership under stress, calculating risk, building businesses that don’t collapse when challenges arise, and why people — not spreadsheets — ultimately determine outcomes.No playbooks. No shortcuts. Just lessons learned the hard way.