PODCAST · business
CorpDev.Ninja with Andreas Penna
by Andreas Penna
Wisdom and truths from the trenches. All things business from seed stage to public companies with Entrepreneurs, CEOs, VC, Corporate Development Gurus, M&A Advisors and more.
Episodes
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21. Sara Clemens - COO @ Twitch
Sara Clemens is COO of Twitch and the former COO of Pandora! She has over 20 years of leadership experience in the broadcast, technology, and entertainment industries. Prior to Twitch Sara was COO at Pandora, where she worked to transform the internet radio pioneer into a personalized music…
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20. James Glasscock - Founder & CEO of GoodHuman
James Glasscock is the CEO of GoodHuman, an immersive mobile app for all things sustainable and ethical. Glasscock has spent much of his career as a leader of media and new product businesses. He has worked for media giants like Warner Bros, Machinima and Turner Broadcasting, and as an analyst…
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19. Veronica Juarez - VP @ Lyft & Lightspeed Scout
Veronica Juarez is the VP of Social Enterprise & Government @ Lyft. She is also a Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout looking to invest in companies that address societal inequities, and under-represented founders / operators. Veronica is a 5th generation Mexican-American from Houston, TX, and a…
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18. Brian Goldfarb - CMO/SVP BD @ Chef (M&A)
Brian Goldfarb was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Business Development at Chef Software, which was sold to Progress Software in October 2020. Prior to joining Chef, Brian was the Chief Marketing Officer at Splunk from 2016 to 2019, leading that business through a major…
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17. Charlie Newark-French - COO @ Hyperscience
Charlie Newark-French is the COO @ Hyperscience. The company just raised a $80M Series D with Tiger Global Management & BOND! Hyperscience modernizes mission-critical processes and operations for Global 2000 organizations and governments. Previously, Charlie was an Investment Partner @ Fusion...
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16. Secretary Carlos Gutierrez: Former U.S. Commerce Secretary
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez is the former WhiteHouse U.S. Commerce Secretary, CEO of Kellogg, Vice-Chairman @ Citi, Chair @ Albright Stonebridge Group & now Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of EmPath, a SaaS tech platform that uses machine learning to transform the way talent is managed and grown...
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15. Ben Smith: From YouTube to CorpDev Ninja
Ben Smith is a serial entrepreneur and the managing partner at Chancebending Ventures, Inc, a digital media investment firm, as well as a full-service digital consulting agency servicing early stage startups to Fortune 500 clients. Ben previously founded Blayze Inc. (acquired by Vobile in Feb...
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14. Paul Murphy: Microsoft to Startup Founder to VC
Paul Murphy is a General Partner at Northzone, based in London, and focuses mainly on companies in the consumer, entertainment, and enterprise applications spaces. Paul was Founder and CEO of Dots that recently sold to Take-Two Interactive for nearly $200M... His portfolio includes TIER, Hopin,...
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13. Will Chucawat, M&A, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Will Chuchawat is the Managing Partner of the M&A Practice. He also has led the firm’s A&D Team and the Life Sciences Team.
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12. Sam Hodges, Vouch Insurance
12. Sam Hodges, Vouch Insurance
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11. David Moricca: Founder & CEO of Socialive
David Moricca is the founder & CEO of Socialive, an enterprise video creation and live streaming SaaS platform. Trusted by organizations from startups to the Fortune 100, Socialive brings unprecedented ease and scale to high-quality video content creation for teams across the enterprise. With 15...
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10. Sonia Weymuller: Middle East VC
Sonia is a Founding Partner of VentureSouq, a UAE-based investment platform focused on global early-stage tech-enabled businesses. Previously, she worked with Microsoft, Viacom and Turner in London and Dubai. She is a Charter Member & Board Director for TiE's Dubai chapter, serves as the UAE...
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9. Robin Chan: Internet Entrepreneur & Investor
Robin Chan is an internet entrepreneur & investor. Robin was the CEO & Co-Founder of XPD Media, which sold to Zynga in 2010 to become Zynga China before their IPO. He was CEO & Co-Founder of Operator. Robin is General Partner of Goat Capital with Justin Kan. Robin was an angel investor of…
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8. Aryan Rashed: Founder and CEO of Tremble
Aryan Rashed is the founder and CEO of Tremble, a chain of boutique Pilates studios in South Florida and growing. Aryan focuses primarily on strategy & vision as well as oversight on operations in the Company.
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7. Ben Pasternak Founder of Nuggs
Ben Pasternak is 20 years old and well known for being the youngest tech entrepreneur to receive VC funding from Silicon Valley, when he was just 15. After his first company Monkey was acquired in 2017, Ben turned his attention to the nutrition space, launching NUGGS, a chicken nugget simulation....
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6. Raaja Nemani: Finance Ninja to Entrepreneur Business Ninja
Raaja Nemani , a certified Business Ninja, is Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of MarketerHire, a talent marketplace with a mission to make expert marketing accessible to everyone. MarketerHire has scaled rapidly with hundreds of clients from early stage startups to Fortune 100 companies in...
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5. Emil Michael: From White House to Uber & More
Emil Michael is the former Chief Business Officer of Uber. He raised the most amount of funding in history for a private company $15B! Emil is a true Business Ninja having also built three successful companies: Tellme (sold to Microsoft), Klout (sold to Lithium Tech) & Uber. At Uber he built $10B...
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4. Ravi Sarin: Private Equity Guru
Ravi Sarin, a verified Business Ninja, is Founder and Managing Partner at ROCA Partners, a Los Angeles-based growth equity investment firm focused on tech-enabled services and healthcare services. Ravi previously was a Principal in the Private Equity Group at Ares Management. At Ares, Ravi helped...
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3. Patrick Bosworth: From White House to Founder and CEO!
Patrick Bosworth, a verified Business Ninja, is the CEO of Royalton Investment; the firm focuses on start-up businesses within Royalton related to new business models in yachting, and developing hospitality and wellness projects. Patrick is also an advisor to Duetto Research, which is a company…
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2. Fritz Lanman: Managing a Unicorn Fitness Tech Company during a Pandemic
Fritz Lanman is the CEO of ClassPass; the largest pre-IPO, health & fitness tech startup. He’s also a prolific Angel investor with investments in: Square, Pinterest, Wish, Flexport, Formlabs, etc… 100+ investments over the past decade! Fritz started his career @ Microsoft after getting his...
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1. Eric Engineer & VC
Eric Engineer is really an Engineer (Computer Science) by background. He’s worked in Product Management at Microsoft, then went to Harvard Business School graduating to pursue a VC role at Sevin Rosen Funds. He joined one of his portfolio companies, Invodo, where he went from VP of Product &...
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